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No full textStudents presenting lectures: please check in at the Registration Desk when you arrive; the desk will be open all day.
If you\u27re attending the event as an audience member, the conference is free and pre-registration is not required; just come and support the student presenters and take in as many of the talks as you wish. We appreciate your support
SESSION 1.1: Eating Our Feelings: Cultural Loss and Reclamation in the Context of Cultural Domicide
No full textIn this paper, we offer a multi-generational auto-ethnography of food. As mother and daughter, we explore and theorize our experiences of cultural loss that resulted from the internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II. Two theoretical concepts, domicide and memoricide frame our paper. Domicide, or the destruction of physical spaces of the home, results in memoricide or the loss of cultural memory (Eileen, 2001, 3). To this framework, we add the concept of cultural domicide. Here, we argue that domicide resulted in both spatial and affective consequences due to loss of culture. For our family, relocation meant not only the (re)making of physical homes, but also the cultural un/making and cultural re-imagining of home. The affective component of home-making has had effects on how we have experienced our own cultural identities. Culture infuses the creation of both physical and affective spaces of home, while the home itself (how it is created and experienced) re/produces culture. In this paper we take three parallel trajectories in order to mine the intersections of culture and space (physical and affective) through an exploration of our relationships with food. The first trajectory is to examine the multi-generational impact of the loss of physical spaces (home) due to the internment. The second trajectory is the examination of resulting cultural memoricide, especially as it relates to cultural home-making and food. The third trajectory examines our cultural (and culinary) losses and our own journeys toward cultural reclamation through food
SESSION 2.2: Present but Hidden: An Alternative Tourist\u27s Guide to Nanaimo Parks
No full textThe parks of the Nanaimo Regional District are a highly marketed aspect of tourism on Central Vancouver Island, with the area often being highlighted for its classic, West Coast natural beauty. The ideological understandings that much of Western society has of nature, such as what we see in the marketing of parks, has been heavily influenced by 18 th century Romantic poets--beautiful, but separate. Despite our reverence for natural beauty, there is also a history of humanity’s misconduct towards the land, as seen in the effects of capitalism expressed through industrial agriculture and damaging resource extraction practices. These are stories that are readily available, either visible or thinly veiled, but normalized within society. In an attempt to unearth some of the stories--from those of Indigenous people to pestilence houses--this action-based research project, presented through a tourism map, is an invitation to “explore” different aspects of the landscape and society you are experiencing. Rather than objectifying landscapes as static viewpoints, this project hopes to create a living, story-laden narrative for you with the goal of encouraging a greater community discussion about landscape uses, as well as guiding conversation towards conservation and the way stories are told, or not, by the park system. It offers a general foundation to ask: “how could the stories told by parks change or enhance not only visitor experience, but also address larger political issues within the realm of reconciliation and decolonization?” These maps were placed at tourism sites and on BC ferries for public accessibility
SESSION 1.2: Mapping Moss: Crossidium seriatum
No full textOn a Sunday morning in May, I’m on my hands and knees, loaded with collecting gear, searching for an endangered moss, Crossidium seriatum, that can’t be seen—or at least not with the naked eye. Instead, perched on the silt cliffs above Okanagan Lake in southern BC, I scan for tiny microsites where it might live—what biologists call its “potential habitat.” In ecology, mapping other species dates back to Alexander von Humboldt, but as the sun looms higher I worry about its implicit limitations. All plants—but especially tiny mosses and liverworts—test our imagination. What does it mean to live anchored in place by tiny threads of cellulose? What’s touch for organisms that live with no epidermis? How does time beat when you curl dormant for decades, before the gift of water plumps you awake again? By the time I’m back at my car, I understand that if describing the habitats of others is a mountain to be climbed, the real goal lies not in the summit but the maps we make enroute. For in the Anthropocene, it is in the moment of uncertainty, of figuring—here, not there; on this slope, not that one—that we come to know the world, to taste its blood and silt. This creative reading will use my experience hunting for an endangered moss to argue that, today, our greatest challenge lies less in what we can measure and more in how we allow ourselves to be shaped by the more-than-human world
Hey Google: The Business Case of Environmental Sustainability in Developing Corporate Social Responsibility
Get PDFWhat Google wants is to power the world with technology, namely their technology, and in doing so make the world’s information universally accessible and useful (Google, 2017). With a lofty goal of empowering four billion global citizens (adding to the existing three billion) with the benefits of information, their business case strategy has become one of sustainability (Google, 2017). The company realizes that the necessary resources for their technology, energy and water, are becoming increasingly scarce (Google, 2017; Hensel, 2011). Additionally, Google acknowledges the impacts and externalities of the creation of technologies on the environment, specifically its contributions to of climate change. By entrenching major sustainability practices within their corporate structure, Google increases their triple bottom line while satisfying shareholders and stakeholders simultaneously (Slaper and Hall, 2011). This is seen through food waste reductions, renewable energies, and investment in efficient infrastructures (Google, 2017; Richey and Taylor, 2018; Gunders, 2012). Their initiatives do not go uncriticized, pegging Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a self-interested marketing tool and corporate monopoly, which affects market prices and individual agency. However, the aim of this work is not to focus on whether Google is just “another bad corporation,” as critics emphasize, but rather to delve deeper into the good they leverage into daily accountability. Therefore, using direct examples of Google’s sustainability initiatives and drawing upon theory, the capacity of CSR to foster ingenuity and innovation growth within multinational corporations is shown, highlighting the benefits to profits, people, and the planet
Adventures in Academic Integrity
No full textAdventures in Academic Integrity by Wayne Singular, Elizabeth Rennie, Nancy Flood, Marian Anderberg & Andrea Sullivan Thompson Rivers University The filing of an Academic Integrity Report can be challenging. Is the case worthy of a report? What type of evidence is required? How do I convince a diverse group of faculty and students that this case is an academic integrity violation? How do I use the academic integrity reporting process as a teaching moment for students? In our proposal, we plan to present a 40-minute session focusing on an interactive group activity. After a brief introduction, participant groups will each be given one of a variety of fictitious scenarios of potential academic integrity violations. The challenge for each group is to put together an Academic Integrity Report that is concise, complete and contains the appropriate documentation. Following this activity, we will facilitate discussion and present on key areas including: 1) strategies for preventing academic integrity violations 2) discussing academic integrity with students 3) the appropriate evidence required 4) steps involved in the filing of report including student interactions Our presentation will conclude with strategies for using academic integrity violations as a teaching opportunity with students
Cheating on Tests: The Adventure Continues
No full textAccording to recent studies, when an exam is administered at a post-secondary institution in North America, approximately one in five students may be cheating during the exam. Although the most common methods of cheating are traditional, such as copying from another student or using cheat sheets, technology has introduced a more advanced cheating medium. Since cheating undermines the validity of the assessment, it is critical faculty and staff are aware of the culture of cheating and how best to deal with. In this session, the presenter will provide an overview of cheating in higher education and why some, but not all students cheat. An outline of the most common ways in which students cheat, along with some high tech and unusual cheating methods will also be presented. Finally, some solutions to prevent cheating will also be shared with the audience. During the presentation, participants will be encouraged to share their stories of cheating and any solutions they have to offer
Adventures in One-Shot Teaching!
No full textInformation literacy skills are crucial to participation in the 21st century knowledge economy, but there are few formal structures to aid students in developing these skills. Too often for our Digital Native students, the relative ubiquity of information is conflated with the tools to navigate it. For students who do receive information literacy instruction, it is most often given in the form of an in-class session taught by a librarian. As librarians, we are presented with the challenge of entering someone else\u27s classroom for a short time and instructing a wide variety of students on the information skills they will need to succeed. In this session, a panel of four librarians will discuss their own unique adventures in one-shot instruction sessions, and pose questions for group discussion, such as: What does Information Literacy mean to you?, What are the best/worst experiences you\u27ve had with a one-shot teaching session? and What are the information skills students need most? The goal of this session will be to establish a dialogue between librarians and course instructors about the unique challenges of teaching information literacy skills. This round table session will be of particular interest to those interested in learning more about incorporating information literacy content into their courses
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Connecting to the \u27Right Now\u27 Generation
No full textIt is no secret that today’s students are different: with nearly limitless access to information and a bombardment of instant digital stimulation, understanding the new generation of students is one thing...and teaching them is quite another! In this humorous and practical presentation, take a trip outside of education into the world of design thinking, cross-industry innovation and user-experience. Participants will learn how different industries and services use experience design to create memorable (and some ‘not so memorable’) experiences and discover a learner-centered approach to Generation “Right Now” so that together, we can truly redesign the experience of school