Activities

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Research Creation: Undisciplined Mapping of UBC
Project members Ella Zhang and Yar Stav are at work on the initial stages of creating undisciplined maps of the UBC campus. Maps that intentionally call attention to how land use, the layout of buildings, names, divisions, and the physical environment generally, telegraphs information about what is valued here and why, how knowledge is divided or connected, where proximity/connection is encouraged and where distance/disconnect is expected. This work involves documenting and observing, learning and unlearning.

Reading Group: Indigenous Philosophies Through Fiction and Story
Co-convened with philosopher Alison Wylie at UBC.

In-Person Book Club: Iris Murdoch NRG (Novel-Reading Group)
An in-person reading group for monthly discussions of the novels of twentieth-century Anglo-Irish novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose life and work raise deep questions about the borders of her discipline(s).

In-Person Book Club: Simone de Beauvoir NRG (Novel-Reading Group)
An in-person reading group for monthly discussions of the novels of twentieth-century French writer-feminist-activist Simone de Beauvoir, who claimed she was not “a philosopher” and is now classified as one.

Online Book Club: Iris Murdoch NRG (Novel-Reading Group)
An online reading group for monthly discussions of Murdoch’s philosophical novels.

Supporting The Speaker’s Café and The DTES Writers’ Festival
Organized by Carnegie Learning Centre, in collaboration with project Network member Michelle Stack.