LFS Today Mar 9, 2021

Teaching Theory Tuesday

“Assign concept maps to help students see the connections between ideas. 
Let them decide whether to create their map online or on paper. Students submit a link to an online map or a photo of a physical one.”  
– Darby & Lang, 2019, Small Teaching Online, p. 197

Brought to you from the Learning Centre.

LFS Scholar Series with Dr. Jean-Loup Rault

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 – 9:00-10:30am (includes Q&A)
Click here to register.

Guest Seminar Topic: Be kind to others: prosocial behaviours and their implications for animal welfare
Guest Speaker: Jean-Loup Rault, Professor and Head, Institute of Animal Welfare Science, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria

Dr. Jean-Loup Rault leads the Institute of Animal Welfare Science, which conducts research into social behavior, positive human-animal relationship, new technologies (PLF and neuroimaging), and the impact of housing and husbandry practices on animal welfare. Dr. Rault’s research focuses on the benefits of social behavior and positive human-animal relationships for animal welfare, with a particular interest in the hormone oxytocin.

If you have any questions, please contact Shelley Small at shelley.small@ubc.ca.

Lunch & Learn Series – EDI, Affect, and STEM Classrooms with Will Valley

This session will be held on Friday, March 12, 2021 at noon.

Classrooms are affective spaces and our disciplines have affective cultures; STEM-related fields are no exception. Students expect to have very different emotional experiences in women’s studies than they do in courses related to soils, nutrition, or animal biology. When bringing in Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and de/anti-colonial content into a course, we need to unpack social problems in their complexity, emphasizing and confronting painful topics associated with historical and on-going forms of oppression and injustice. The affective load, emotional labour, and potential for re-traumatization that result from engaging in these topics in a STEM classroom is unequally distributed along students based on race, gender, sexual orientation, and class (and other forms of social oppression and discrimination). We need to be more intentional about curating the affective dimensions of our classrooms so that we can stay generative when encountering tensions and discomfort in our classrooms. 

In this session, we will:

• Define key terms and concepts associated with affect in post-secondary classrooms, such as affective load, affective circulation, and affective curation
• Critically analyze the historical and current norms and practices related to affect in STEM and health sciences
• Discuss strategies for developing students capacities to be safe, self-aware, accountable, and intellectually generative when engaging with EDI and de/anti-colonial content 

Suggested reading: Fawaz, R. (2016). How to make a queer scene, or notes toward a practice of affective curation. Feminist Studies, 42(3), 757-768.

To register for the session, please visit https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5cscumsqDwrG9OI5NHXco_FeqnmI0pzdWM1

SOIL 500 Graduate Seminar Series

Date: Friday, March 12, 3:00pm
Title: Analyzing water use patterns in an extractive frontier
Speaker: Parisa Rinaldi
Abstract & bio available here.

Register in advance for this seminar: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5codeiqqzksGNdAwk5PH3y9cDt4b2IrCrBM  

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. All are welcome!

Register Now for Keynote with Dr. Ivette Perfecto

On Friday, April 9 at 9:00-9:40 a.m. PST, join Dr. Ivette Perfecto from the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, as she discusses the importance of integrating ecological, social, and political factors for generating a more holistic understanding of the risks of pandemics. This will be framed in the context of the Pandemic Research for the People, a working group of the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps. This working group consists of academics, farmers, activists, who collectively take action to develop a critical analysis as well as agroecological alternatives to achieve healthy landscapes for the environment and for the people.

This online keynote is free and open to the public, with registration required.

Dr. Perfecto’s talk is brought to you by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and the UBC Diversified Agroecosystems Research Cluster a as part of the invite-only Diversified Agroecosystems Research Cluster Symposium.

Register Here.