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Project Title: Navigating research quality and independence while retaining equity, diversity, inclusion, and
decolonialization in the face of different and changing sociopolitical environment

Inflection Point
June 9 to 11, 2026

Edmonton Convention Centre, Edmonton, Alberta

Abstracts Due: November 17, 2025

"The (Necro)Politics of Framing Terrorism in Countering Separatist Movements: Strategies and Human Rights Implications in Quebec, Kashmir, and Xinjiang"

Research Chair in Transgender Studies
Tenure-track
Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Social Sciences

Application Deadline: November 15, 2025

CIFAR is now accepting applications for the 2026-2028 cohort of the Global Scholars Program.

Applications due: November 5, 2025

Webinaire international intitulé « Les enjeux politiques du travail d’encadrement intermédiaire en éducation : approches comparées »

octobre 2025 - novembre 2026

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This series currently highlights recent work by four scholars in UBC’s Department of Sociology:

• Making Friends, Making Homes: How Cosmopolitan Associations Connect Diverse Immigrants, Sean Lauer (August 2025)
• Love and Belonging: How Immigrants Find Romantic Partners in Canada, Yue Qian (June 2025)
• Making Health Disparities Visible: The MENA Category and COVID-19, Neda Maghbouleh (April 2025)
• Statelessness by Design: Myanmar’s Bureaucratic Methods of Erasing the Rohingya, Amanda Cheong (February 2025)

Annual General Meeting Motion approved by remote ballot August 7, 2025

Création d'une liste de diffusion pour membres francophones ou francophiles