Is there such a thing as a “bad” Asian Canadian? The ACAM faculty, staff, and students invite you to explore this philosophical question with Jen Sung through personal storytelling and her decade-long flirtation with art + community activism.
Event highlights:
– a short film screening
– breakout discussions
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Speaker bio: Jen Sung, Facilitator, artist-activist and co-conspirator at loveintersections.com
Jen Sungshine speaks for a living but lives for breathing life into unspoken situations in unusual places. As a queer, Taiwanese artist-activist based in Vancouver, BC, she is grateful to live, breathe, dance and work on the unceded, occupied and ancestral lands of the Coast Salish nations. She facilitates with creativity and social justice media to evolutionize and revolutionize QTIPOC visibility and community-based work through Our City of Colours, Love Intersections, Out in Schools and the Institute for Gender,Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Her artistic practice involves unlearning while learning and learning while unlearning; and instead of calling you out, she wants to call you in – to make artful social change with her through the language of love and nerdy codes. She is very wordy.
http://www.jensungshine.com/
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*Where: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building for The Institute of Asian Research, UBC
*When: Friday October 23, 2015, 12 – 1pm
*Registration: RSVP now to save your seat as there is limited capacity! http://acamlunchoct.eventbrite.ca
*Accessibility info to come.
*Lunch (meat and vegetarian options) will be provided to those RSVP (please email us if you have any special dietary needs).
If you have any questions, please email acam.events@ubc.ca
We hope to see you there!
For more info about the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program, visit http://acam.arts.ubc.ca
OCT 23 ACAM LUNCH WITH JEN SUNG
2016 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme Recruitment – A Chance to Live, Work and Learn in Japan
Recruitment for the 2016 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme is currently underway. Of the 54 participants sent from British Columbia, this past summer, over half (24) were former UBC students. We hope we will continue to receive many strong candidates from UBC for next year.
The JET Programme offers a minimum, one-year opportunity to experience Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) or Coordinator for International Relations (CIR) through an official Government of Japan program. ALTs work alongside Japanese teachers of English in the public school system, while CIRs are employed in local government offices. Participants gain valuable overseas work experience, learn about Japanese culture, and meet participants from around the world, while contributing to language education and international understanding.
Application forms and further details can be found on the Embassy of Japan’s JET Programme website: jetprogramme.ca. The deadline to apply for the 2016 JET programme is November 30, 2015.
In general, applicants are required to hold a bachelor’s degree (any discipline) by July 2016 and be a Canadian citizen, to apply through the Embassy of Japan in Canada. As the JET Programme involves 43 countries, non-Canadians should contact the Embassy of Japan in their home country about applying for the JET Programme.
The following information sessions will also be held at UBC:
Wednesday, October 7 – 5:30 to 7 pm in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 182, and Tuesday, October 27 – 12:30 to 2 pm in the Asian Centre Auditorium
We hope you will consider forwarding this message to your students, colleagues or others who might be interested in this opportunity to live and work in Japan. Thank you again for supporting our program.
Undergraduate Research Opportunites at UBC
Interested in research, but don’t know where to start? Become a mentee with Undergraduate Research Opportunities (URO). URO runs the Research Experience Program (REX) during the UBC school year from September until March, with the aim of encouraging and facilitating undergraduate students into research. Mentees will be paired up with mentors who are experts in their field of study (PhDs, Masters, PostDocs, etc). You will then work closely with your group of mentees and mentor in order to tackle research problems and to gain valuable research experience. URO is currently looking for enthusiastic mentees who are interested in developing a theoretical research project which they will present as a poster at the Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC). For more information and to sign up, please visit http://www.uroubc.ca/rex/
Invitation to Take Part in a Research Study on Study/Work/Volunteer Placements Abroad
Are you an undergraduate from the US, Canada, Australia or the UK who is studying a language and who has either just left or is just about to travel abroad for a study, work or volunteer placement for three months or more? If so, consider participating in this research about your information experience and use as you settle in! You’ll be helping me with my research, but you’d gain a valuable chance to reflect on your experiences abroad, which may help you if you have to write a report for your program. I will also be providing USD$40 Amazon or iTunes gift cards to compensate you for your time.
You are eligible if you are:
*Currently undertaking an undergraduate degree in a world language (eg French, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, etc.)
*In the United States, Canada or Australia, this includes students with language major/minor or who are studying a language in an honors/honours programme
*In the United Kingdom, this includes students studying single or joint honours
*Have just left on/About to go abroad for a period of three months or more
*This includes study, work or volunteer placements
Sound intriguing? Find out more and register your interest at: https://languagestudyabroad.wordpress.com/
Volunteer: "Cultural Ambassadors" of the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre
Call for volunteers:
Calling all volunteers who are curious about the lesser-known history of BC. If you can speak either English, Cantonese or Mandarin, and are willing to be trained to qualify as the “Cultural Ambassadors” of the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre (PCHC), please read on.
In support of the Centennial Anniversary of the Ing Suey Sung Tong Association of Vancouver, and their upcoming exhibition of rare artefacts of Overseas Chinese and Historical Figures of the Ing Clan, PCHC is offering a training program for volunteers to become “Cultural Ambassadors”, who will guide visitors at the said exhibition (see description of the Exhibition below) and provide some basic information relating to the history and experience of Chinese pioneers in Vancouver.
Eligibility requirements:
1. Fluency in either English, Cantonese or Mandarin.
2. Interest in learning more about the life and history of the early Chinese pioneers and in sharing that knowledge with others.
3. Attendance at the information session at 11am on June 7 (Saturday) at an appropriate place in Chinatown (to be determined).
4. Completion of a training program before assuming duties as guides at the exhibition which starts on June 14, 2014.
5. Availability to be on the roster of guides for at least 3 shifts during the period June 14 to July 14 when the exhibition is on.
To find out more, come to the mandatory information session on June 7 by
pre-registering on line at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/pchc-info-session-for-new-volunteers-tickets-11794334171
or by calling Ms Chunli Yang at 604-782-3866 to reserve a spot.
Winnie L. CHEUNG and Chunli YANG
Volunteer & Training Committee,
Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration (PCHC-MoM) Society
www.pchc-mom.ca<http://www.pchc-mom.ca/>
Government of Japan 2015 MEXT Research Student Scholarship: Applications
Greetings from the Consulate General of Japan:
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan is currently accepting applications for its 2015 Research Student for foreign students who wish to study at Japanese universities.
The Research Student Scholarship is aimed at university graduates, born on or after April 2, 1980 (for the 2015 scholarship year) who wish to study as research students. The research study area should be the same field that the applicant has studied or a related field. The term of the scholarship is 18 months to two years (including 6 months of Japanese language training) starting in April or October 2015.
Application guides and forms are available on the Consulate General of Japan’s website: www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/en/culture/mext.htm. Deadline for the 2015 scholarship year: May 16, 2014. Applicants who successfully pass the written application screening are required to undertake an interview and examination (English and Japanese language) to be held in late June/early July.