Activities

What are we up to?

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Research Creation: Undisciplined Map of UBC

Project members Ella Zhang and Yar Stav are at work on the initial stages of an undisciplined interactive map of the UBC campus — one that calls attention to how the land use, the layout of buildings, names of buildings and streets etc., and the physical environment generally, telegraphs information about what is valued here and why, how knowledge is divided, where disciplinary proximity/connection is expected and where distance is acceptable, etc.. The map will evolve as a collaborative art/knowledge project that can continue to be built upon over time. This project will involve documenting and observing, learning and unlearning about the interactions between knowledge and the land.

Teaching: PHIL 518, Iris Murdoch’s Fiction and Non-Fiction

An Undisciplinary graduate course at UBC, focusing on twentieth century Anglo-Irish novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose life and work raise many questions about the purported borders of her discipline(s).

Reading Group: Indigenous Philosophies Through Fiction and Story

Co-convened with Alison Wylie at UBC.

In-Person Book Club: Iris Murdoch NRG (Novel-Reading Group)

An in-person reading group for monthly discussions of Murdoch’s philosophical novels.

Online Book Club: Iris Murdoch NRG (Novel-Reading Group)

An online reading group for monthly discussions of Murdoch’s philosophical novels.