Indigenous Knowledges and the Environment - Video-stream. (November 19, 2007). These video streams feature panels and speakers for the Day-Long Indigenous Knowledges and the Enviroment Symposium. In these presentations, panelists offer perspectives on the global environmental crisis from the lens of Indigenous Knowledges. The Shifting Tides: Indigenous Responses to Climate Change video features Indigenous individuals from the Pacific Peoples' Partnership, Vancouver Island and the Koutu Nui of the Cook Islands. The Indigeneity, Environmentalism and the Disciplines video and the More Environmentalisms video feature UBC Faculty, visiting scholars, UBC Environment Caucus and graduate student representatives.

• Shifting Tides: Indigenous Responses to Climate Change
• Indigeneity, Environmentalism and the Disciplines - Coming Soon
• More Enviromentalisms

Hello Kitty: the Work of Nature in the Age of Digital Communication - Video-stream. (November 19, 2007). The featured speaker is Dr. jody Berland, York University. In this presentation, Dr. Berland addresses the increasing visibility of animals in contemporary image culture and how such images are so closely aligned with the signs and practices of technoculture.

Creating a Multicultural Nation: The Educational Role of Media - Video-stream. (October 30th, 2007). The featured speaker is Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney. In this presentation, Professor Ang explores the constructive role that media can play in promoting the creation of a multicultural nation.

Youth and Media: Literacies Old and New - Video-stream. (May 31, 2007). The featured speaker is Dr. Michael Hoechsmann. In this lecture, Dr. Hoechsmann addresses how changes in access to technology have facilitated both new conditions and new challenges for the reception and conception of youth voice and expression. Coming soon.

Integrative Anti-Racism - Video-stream. Keynote Address at the “Multiculturalism With(out) Guarantees: The Integrative Anti-Racism Alternative” University of British Columbia, Vancouver. (April 2, 2007). The keynote speaker is Professor George Sefa Dei. In this keynote address, Professor Dei offers offers some critical points in theorizing “integrative anti-racism," as well as draws attention to the pressing need for new questions in the field of anti-racism. Coming soon.

Changing Nature of Australian Multiculturalism and its Implications for Ethnic Minorities and Education: Critical Reflections  –Video-stream. (October 11, 2006). The featured speaker is Dr. Siri Gamage, University of New England, Australia. In this lecture, Dr. Gamage focuses on how Australian multiculturalism and associated political discourses and policies have undergone substantial changes in emphasis and direction in the last decade compared to the previous decades under the liberal-nation federal government. 

Clear words from a Lion - Video-stream published on YouTube from the HIV/AIDS Grassroots Initiative Symposium. (Oct. 24, 2006).  The featured speaker is the Lesotho High Commissioner to Canada, Ms. Motseoa Senyane.   In this video-stream, High Commissioner Senyane welcomes symposium delegates and speaks to the pressing need for a clearer and much more unbiased image of Africa.

Interview with Handel Wright – Interview featured on BC BUZZ show "In the Spotlight," conducted by Dave Garb. (February 19, 2007). In this interview, Dr. Handel Wright discusses some of the differences between Canadian and American multiculturalism, as well as talks about a vision of Canada that is not grounded upon a mere celebration of difference, but upon a deeper and more sustained conceptualization of equity.

H.M. Tory Chair in Cultural Studies Invited Lecture Presentation – University of Alberta (Edmonton), October 2005. In this lecture, entitled "Cultural Studies as Praxis," Dr. Handel Wright ‘takes cultural studies personally’, drawing on experience, identity and the personal to indicate how and why the author is proponent of and is working on developing a model of cultural studies as social justice praxis despite the constraints academia in general and of the university as an institution in particular. The paper travels roughly from the author’s student and teacher days in Sierra Leone through his graduate student days in Canada to his current role as university teacher in the USA. He selectively concentrates on his experience as a teacher of literature (and African multi-role utilitarianism), education and cultural studies (using one of his cultural studies courses and students’ questions about the utility of cultural studies as example), his shifting and overlapping racial/ethnic identities (African/black) and the politics of identity, and his thoughts on the place of theory in cultural studies and a black approach to theory (black ambivalent elaboration) as contributory factors. While this account acts in its own way as an argument for conceptualizing cultural studies as praxis, the primary focus is more modestly on my own autobiographical account as a specific case. In fact, an autobiographical approach is employed precisely to be specific and in the attempt to avoid the pitfalls of over generalization and the authority of authenticity.

Handel Wright Guides CCIE – Interview quoted in Link, a semi-annual newsletter put out by the Network of Centres and Institutes in Education at UBC (NCIE). Interview with Dr. Handel Wright, conducted by Carole Wallace (March 4, 2007). In this interview, Dr. Handel Wright sits down with Link editor, Carole Wallace, to discuss his work at CCIE and the path that lead him to found CCIE and take up a Canadian Research Chair at UBC.

Interview with Handel Wright – Interview quoted in Equity Matters is a newsletter published Equity Office at the University of British Columbia.  Interview with Dr. Handel Wright, conducted by Senior Equity Advisor, Margaret Sarkissian. (November 2006).  This interview provides an overview of Dr. Wright’s academic and activist contributions. The interview can be found on pages 2-3 of the newsletter.

The Face of Asian Mixed Marriages in BC – Interview quoted in The Tyee, an independent alternative daily newspaper.  Interview with Dr. Handel Wright, conducted by Chow, Amy. (December 27, 2005). In this interview, Dr. Wright provides a historical perspective of mixed race relationships in BC, as well as delves into some of the complexities surrounding this topic.

Creating a Multicultural Nation: The Educational Role of Media – These photos were taken at Prof. Ien Ang's talk, Creating a Multicultural Nation: The Educational Role of Media." The talk was organized by CCIE and the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. A full summary of the talkcan be found under events.

Teaching Whiteness in a Multicultural Context and Color-blind Era – These photos were taken at Dr. Zeus Leonardo's talk, "Teaching Whiteness in a Multicultural Context and Color-blind Era." The talk was organized by CCIE and the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education. A full summary of the talk can be found under events.

Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference (ACLALS) – These photos were taken at the Triennial ACLALS conference, which was held at UBC in August 2007. The pictures, which were taken by conference photographer, Justin Cathcart, feature CCIE Director and David Lam Chair, Dr. Handel Wright, with acclaimed African writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who gave one of the keynotes at the conference. Dr. Wright was the respondent for Professor Thiong'o's paper. The conference was co-sponsored by CCIE and the David Lam Chair. A full summary of the conference can be found under events.

Youth and Media: Literacies Old and New – These photos were taken at Dr. Michael Hoechsmann's talk, "You and Media: Literacies Old and New. The talk was organized by CCIE and the David Lam Chair for Multicultural Education. A full summary of the symposium can be found under events.

Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul, 2006 – This photo features CCIE Director, Dr. Handel Kashope Wright with CCIE Associate and Director of the Audiovisual Media Lab for the Study of Cultures and Societies, Dr. Boulou Ebanda de B'béri. Go to Links to find out more about Dr. de B'béri's Media Lab.

African Education: Worldviews, Ways of Knowing & Pedagogy – These photos were taken at the day-long symposium, which brought together leading and emerging scholars and experts who have undertaken research in areas that in one way or the other lend to understanding of the African learner. The symposium was organized by Drs. Samson Nashon, David Anderson and Handel Kashope Wright. A full summary of the symposium can be found under events.