Past events - UBC Equity & Inclusion Office

EDI Action Network: Building Conflict Engagement Literacy in Higher Education on November 27, 2025 1:00 PM
Workplace Accessibility & Inclusion Action Research Toolkit – Information Sessions on November 21, 2025 11:00 AM
Workplace Accessibility & Inclusion Action Research Toolkit – Information Sessions on November 17, 2025 1:00 PM
Workplace Accessibility & Inclusion Action Research Toolkit – Information Sessions on November 13, 2025 1:00 PM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: All disciplines session on October 1, 2025 1:00 PM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Maths (STEMM) on September 23, 2025 11:00 AM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: Creative and Performing Arts on September 16, 2025 11:00 AM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: Social Sciences and Humanities on September 9, 2025 11:00 AM
EDI Action Network: Advancing EDI during Tumultuous Times (Virtual Session) on August 27, 2025 1:00 PM
2025 UBC Pride Connect on June 3, 2025 3:00 PM
EDI Action Network Spring Luncheon: Advancing EDI during Tumultuous Times on May 28, 2025 12:00 PM
Accessibility Drop-In on March 27, 2025 12:00 PM
UBC Black Students, Staff & Faculty Networking Event on March 20, 2025 4:00 PM
Disability Justice Book Club: Disabled and Proud Cohort on January 22, 2025 12:00 PM - January 25, 2025 1:00 PM
Celebrate International Day for Persons with Disabilities on December 3, 2024 1:00 PM
Wingspan Gala on November 12, 2024 4:00 PM
EDI Action Network Fall Gathering: Inspiring Ideas, Sparking Action on November 7, 2024 10:00 AM
EDI in TAing: Open Stream on October 4, 2024 1:00 PM
EDI in TAing: Creative and Performing Arts Stream on September 27, 2024 12:00 PM
EDI in TAing: Social Sciences and Humanities Stream on September 20, 2024 11:00 AM
EDI in TAing: STEM Stream on September 17, 2024 9:00 AM
2024 UBC Pride Connect: 2SLGBTQIA+ faculty & staff reception on June 26, 2024 3:00 PM
Implementing equity and anti-racism priorities: Progress update on June 25, 2024 2:30 PM
Implementing equity and anti-racism priorities: Progress update on June 24, 2024 2:45 PM
Implementing equity and anti-racism priorities: Progress update on June 24, 2024 10:45 AM
Implementing equity and anti-racism priorities: Progress update on June 19, 2024 9:30 AM
Implementing equity and anti-racism priorities: Progress update on June 17, 2024 10:45 AM
EDI Action Network: Equitable hiring on May 29, 2024 10:00 AM
POSTPONED – StEAR Roadmap for Change update: Reporting on equity and anti-racism progress on January 22, 2024 2:00 PM
EDI Action Network: Building a culture of accessibility on December 4, 2023 2:00 PM
Reveal: Coast Salish Two-Spirit Pride Mosaic on November 14, 2023 11:30 AM
EDI in TAing: Building inclusive learning environments (all disciplines) on September 21, 2023 10:00 AM
EDI in TAing: Building inclusive learning environments in Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines on September 15, 2023 12:00 PM
EDI in TAing: Building inclusive learning environments in Creative & Performing Arts disciplines on September 8, 2023 12:00 PM
EDI in TAing: Building inclusive learning environments in STEM disciplines on September 1, 2023 10:00 AM
IBPOC STEM Network summer social on July 25, 2023 12:00 PM
Best practices for effective allyship on July 20, 2023 2:00 PM
2023 UBC Pride Connect: 2SLGBTQIA+ faculty & staff reception on June 28, 2023 3:00 PM
How flexible workplaces can support retention, recruitment, collaboration and innovation on June 22, 2023 2:00 PM
IBPOC STEM Network: Garden walk on June 20, 2023 3:00 PM
Leadership and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Workshop on June 10, 2023 8:45 AM
Hot lunch with Dr. Arig al Shaibah on May 31, 2023 11:30 AM
EDI Action Network Gathering #5 on April 25, 2023 9:30 AM
End of term celebration on April 18, 2023 12:00 PM
Trans Day of Visibility Gender-Affirmation Free Store on March 31, 2023 10:00 AM
Practicing inclusive and equitable faculty and staff performance reviews on March 30, 2023 2:00 PM
Inspiring deep, widespread and enduring change to support EDI on March 23, 2023 1:00 PM
EDI action-planning: Building a sustainable network for students on March 9, 2023 2:00 PM
IBPOC Connections faculty & staff lunch: Create joy and play on March 9, 2023 12:00 PM
International Women’s Day on March 8, 2023
IBPOC STEM Network Spring Social on March 2, 2023 3:00 PM
Creating supportive and restorative departmental processes for complaints, conflicts and concerns from equity-deserving groups on February 23, 2023 2:00 PM
Creating community connections to support EDI at UBC on February 16, 2023 1:00 PM
Roadmap for Change: Implementing anti-racism commitments at UBC on January 25, 2023 2:00 PM
Student Equity Action Network Meet & Greet on November 24, 2022 4:00 PM
Building reciprocal and respectful engagements with Indigenous communities and governments on November 17, 2022 2:00 PM
IBPOC STEM Network Fall Social on November 3, 2022 12:00 PM
EDI Action Network Gathering #4 on November 1, 2022 9:30 AM
Using demographic data and frameworks to plan and evaluate JEDII initiatives on October 27, 2022 2:00 PM
Women, Life, Freedom on October 18, 2022 3:30 PM
EDI in TAing – Social Sciences & Humanities disciplines on September 28, 2022 4:00 PM
Activating Inclusion: Tools and resources to support EDI planning and strategy on September 26, 2022 2:00 PM
EDI in TAing – Creative Arts disciplines on September 21, 2022 4:00 PM
EDI in TAing – STEM disciplines on September 14, 2022 4:00 PM
Managing workload and burnout as a member of an equity-deserving group working in JEDII on August 11, 2022 2:00 PM
IBPOC STEM Network: Women and gender-diverse faculty, staff, postdocs and grad students social on August 10, 2022 12:00 PM
Stage 3: Inclusive and equitable on-campus processes on August 4, 2022 2:00 PM
IBPOC STEM Network: Women and gender-diverse faculty, staff, postdocs and grad students social on July 21, 2022 4:00 PM
Orientation and on-boarding to support equity-deserving students, faculty and staff on July 14, 2022 2:00 PM
UBC Pride Connect: 2SLGBTQIA+ faculty & staff reception on June 29, 2022 3:00 PM
IBPOC STEM Network: Women and gender-diverse faculty, staff, postdocs and grad students social on June 27, 2022 12:00 PM
Stage 2: Inclusive and equitable practices in evaluating candidates on June 23, 2022 2:00 PM
Recruiting, retaining and supporting leaders from equity-deserving groups on June 16, 2022 2:00 PM
Stage 1: Creating the building-blocks for an effective search – June 2 on June 2, 2022 2:00 PM
EDI Action Network on April 26, 2022 9:30 AM
Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force report launch on April 22, 2022 3:30 PM
Activating Inclusion: Tools and Resources to support EDI planning and strategy on March 29, 2022 2:00 PM
Equity Enhancement Fund Showcase on October 28, 2021 3:00 PM
Coast Salish 2Spirit/Indigequeer Identities & Experiences on October 6, 2021 9:30 AM
Book Launch – Nerve: Lessons On Leadership From Two Women Who Went First on September 29, 2021 4:30 PM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: Open – Pick-up Sessions on September 28, 2021 5:00 PM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: Creative & Visual Arts on September 15, 2021 9:00 AM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: Social Sciences & Humanities on September 14, 2021 2:00 PM
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in TAing: STEM on September 13, 2021 8:00 AM
Get Connected: Two-spirit, Queer, and Trans on July 14, 2021 3:00 PM
Through the Lens: Relations First on July 14, 2021 10:00 AM
Through the Lens: I Am Because You Are vs I Am Because You’re Not (encore) on June 9, 2021 10:00 AM
EDI Action Network Launch on May 26, 2021 9:30 AM
Equity Enhancement Fund Showcase on May 13, 2021 3:30 PM
Through the Lens: Finding Artful Activism at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality on May 12, 2021 10:00 AM
Equity & Inclusion Coffee Hour Series on April 27, 2021 1:00 PM
Master Planning Eugenics: Mapping, Navigating and Negotiating the Intersections and Overlays of Race, Class, Disability, and Queerness on April 15, 2021 1:00 PM
Through the Lens: Being Muslim in Higher Education on April 8, 2021 10:00 AM
Through the Lens: Anti-Blackness after 2020 – Invisibility, hyper-visibility, & mental health on March 10, 2021 10:00 AM
EIO Coffee Hour on February 23, 2021 1:00 PM
Through the Lens: I Am Because You Are vs I Am Because You’re Not on February 10, 2021 10:00 AM
Through the Lens: Co-Creating Spaces of Belonging – A Disability as Diversity Perspective on January 25, 2021 10:00 AM
Through the Lens: Cultivating Safe Spaces on January 20, 2021 10:00 AM
Black Artistic Expressions in BC: Dawn Pemberton on December 16, 2020 4:30 PM
Through the Lens: Deaf Culture and Awareness on December 16, 2020 10:00 AM
Black Artistic Expressions in BC: Ndidi Cascade / Shad on November 18, 2020 4:30 PM
Disability Affinity Group Launch on October 26, 2020 5:00 PM
Black Artistic Expressions in BC: Tonye Aganaba on October 21, 2020 4:30 PM
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) in TAing on September 23, 2020 3:00 PM
Systemic Racism and Anti-Racism in Teacher Education on September 21, 2020 9:30 AM
Black Artistic Expressions in BC: Marcus Mosely on September 16, 2020 4:30 PM
Teaching Assistant Workshops: Science/STEM on September 15, 2020 8:00 AM
Teaching Assistant Workshops: Creative Arts on September 14, 2020 4:00 PM
Teaching Assistant Workshop: Open to all on September 11, 2020 1:00 PM
Teaching Assistant Workshop: Social Sciences & Arts on September 10, 2020 11:00 AM
In Conversation with Eternity Martis on July 16, 2020 4:00 PM
Get Connected: BIPOC on July 8, 2020 5:30 PM
Through the Lens: Finding Artful Activism at the Intersection of Race and Sexuality (Online) on June 30, 2020 1:00 PM
Get Connected: MAJOR! Film Screening on June 29, 2020 5:00 PM
Different Together: Can We Make It Happen on June 11, 2020 3:30 PM
Equitable Decision-Making During COVID-19 on June 4, 2020 2:00 PM
Radical Self-Care for IBPOC Communities: Strategies for Well-Being on May 27, 2020 11:00 AM
Online: Through the Lens – Being Muslim in Higher Education on May 26, 2020 1:00 PM
Online: Through the Lens – White Privilege and Allyship on April 22, 2020 9:00 AM
*CANCELLED* IGNITE Book Club: Tessa McWatt in conversation with Annette Henry on April 7, 2020 5:00 PM
*CANCELLED* Reviving the Craft of Apology on March 31, 2020 9:30 AM
*CANCELLED* IGNITE Book Club: Randy Boyagoda in conversation with Ian Williams on March 26, 2020 5:00 PM
*CANCELLED* Being, feeling, thinking, and doing inclusive leadership: Dr. Arig al Shaibah’s insights on equity, diversity, and inclusive organizational change in the academy on March 19, 2020 5:00 PM
IGNITE Book Club: Annahid Dashtgard in conversation with Shirin Eshghi on March 12, 2020 5:00 PM
Through the Lens: Sínulkhay and Ladders, Two Years of Decolonizing Game Play on March 10, 2020 9:00 AM
Black Activism in Education and Community: Asserting Black Presence in Canada with OmiSoore Dryden on March 2, 2020 6:30 PM
IGNITE Book Club: Desmond Cole in conversation with Candis Callison on February 24, 2020 5:00 PM
No Sexuality Please, We’re Scientists on February 12, 2020 2:30 PM
Thriving in STEM — 2SLGBTQIA+ perspectives on February 11, 2020 12:30 PM
IBPOC Connections Staff & Faculty Lunch: Important Conversations on February 11, 2020 11:30 AM
Equity Enhancement Fund Proposal Writing Workshop on February 11, 2020 11:00 AM
Black Activism in Education and Community: Exposing Anti-Black Racism in Vancouver with Shelby McPhee on February 6, 2020 6:30 PM
What if We Were to Talk About it? Engaging Controversial Topics in the Classroom on February 6, 2020 1:00 PM
Through the Lens: Challenging Anti-Blackness on February 3, 2020 9:00 AM
Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM): Sex In All Languages on January 29, 2020 5:00 PM
Sexual Misconduct Policy Information Session on January 21, 2020 9:00 AM
Community connections for faculty and staff impacted by current events in Iran on January 20, 2020 3:00 PM
Teaching Assistant Workshop: Diversity by Design on January 17, 2020 12:00 PM
BIPOC Connections: Staff and Faculty Lunch on December 10, 2019 11:30 AM
Through the Lens: Being Blind in a Sighted World on December 6, 2019 9:00 AM
Through the Lens: Trans and non-binary gender identities on November 27, 2019 9:00 AM
Dealing with Criticism: Giving and Receiving Feedback on November 26, 2019 1:00 PM
Movie Screening: My Name Was January on November 20, 2019 2:00 PM
Get Connected: Two-spirit, queer, and trans on November 19, 2019 5:00 PM
Get Connected: BIPOC on November 18, 2019 5:00 PM
From Awareness to Action to Innovation: Empowering Leaders Through Inclusive Excellence on November 14, 2019 5:00 PM
Is it Time To Wave the Flag? on November 13, 2019 6:00 PM
Managing Difficult Conversations on November 13, 2019 9:00 AM
In Conversation with David Chariandy on October 3, 2019 5:00 PM
Teaching Assistant Workshop: Diversity by Design (General) on September 13, 2019 12:00 PM
IAP Engagement Session: Graduate Students on September 11, 2019 11:30 AM
Teaching Assistant Workshop: Diversity by Design (Arts/Social Sciences) on September 11, 2019 5:00 AM
IAP Engagement Session: Undergraduate Students (cancelled) on September 10, 2019 11:30 AM
IAP Engagement Session: Undergraduate Students on September 9, 2019 11:30 AM
Teaching Assistant Workshop: Diversity by Design (Science/Labs) on September 9, 2019 10:00 AM
IAP Engagement Session: Faculty and Staff on August 28, 2019 11:30 AM
IAP Engagement Session: General on August 26, 2019 11:30 AM
IAP Engagement Session: Staff on August 22, 2019 11:30 AM
IAP Engagement Session: Faculty on August 19, 2019 11:30 AM
Come March at the Vancouver Pride Parade on August 4, 2019 10:30 AM
No sexuality please, we’re scientists on August 1, 2019 12:00 PM
2019 UBC Faculty & Staff Pride Convergence on July 29, 2019 4:30 PM
Get Connected: Queer, Trans, & Allies Community Night on June 19, 2019 4:30 PM
Positive Space Workshop on June 18, 2019 1:00 PM
Equity and Inclusion at Canadian Universities: How Do We Get There? on June 10, 2019 10:00 AM
Equity & Justice Work in the Canadian University: A Panel Series at Congress on June 5, 2019 8:30 AM
Building the Future of Work-Life: Catalyzing Inclusion on May 22, 2019 - May 24, 2019
Game Changers: How Are Assistive Technologies Making Sport Accessible? on April 8, 2019 6:30 PM
Is There Hope for a More Inclusive Future? Welcoming Faith on Campus on April 3, 2019 5:30 PM
Positive Space Foundations Workshop on March 28, 2019 1:00 PM
Speak Out: (En)countering Racism – A Dialogue on March 27, 2019 5:00 PM
How do I Experience Awe? Similarities and Differences Within and Among Faith Traditions on March 20, 2019 5:30 PM
Do I Dare Bring More of Myself to Campus? on February 27, 2019 5:30 PM
Positive Space Foundational Workshop on February 14, 2019 10:00 AM
Ideas to Action: Building an Inclusive UBC on February 13, 2019 12:00 PM
Black History Month on February 1, 2019 - February 28, 2019
Sex in All Languages on January 29, 2019 6:00 PM
Equity & Inclusion Scholars Program Information Session on January 29, 2019 1:00 PM
Equity & Inclusion Scholars Program Information Session on January 21, 2019 12:00 PM
Positive Space Workshop on November 30, 2018 10:00 AM
Get Connected: Queer, Trans & Allies Movie Night on November 28, 2018 5:00 PM
Get Connected: BIPoC Students Movie & Dinner Night on November 21, 2018 5:00 PM
The Power of Diversity: Better decisions? Better outcomes? on October 30, 2018 6:30 PM
Decolonizing Self-Care on October 30, 2018 4:30 PM
UBC Pride Installation Celebration on October 15, 2018 12:00 PM
Watching Crazy Rich Asians in Vancouver (A Dialogue, Not A Film Screening) on October 10, 2018 4:00 PM
What’s In a Name? Navigating Mispronunciation and Misgendering with Grace on September 25, 2018 12:00 PM
What’s In a Name? Navigating Mispronunciation and Misgendering with Grace on September 10, 2018 12:00 PM
Queer + Trans* Student Welcome Dinner on August 30, 2018 5:30 PM
BIPOC* Student Welcome Dinner on August 29, 2018 5:30 PM
Positive Space Foundational Workshop on August 15, 2018 1:00 PM
UBC Pride Convergence on July 30, 2018 4:00 PM
Controversial Events on Campus: Opportunities & Limitations in Institutional Responses on July 23, 2018 4:00 PM
Positive Space Foundational Workshop on July 19, 2018 1:00 PM
Positive Space Foundational Workshop on June 13, 2018 1:00 PM
Exploring Graduate Supervisory Excellence on a Global Campus on May 10, 2018 11:30 AM
Realities of Racism: (Mis)representation of Race in the Media on March 20, 2018 5:00 PM
Digital Spaces: The New Public Domain on March 20, 2018 10:00 AM
Lead, Succeed, and Inspire: Join Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould for an Evening with Changemakers on March 14, 2018 6:30 PM
Luminescence: Chanteuse to the Power of Three on March 8, 2018 7:00 PM
NSERC Presents: Initiatives to Advance Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Research Excellence on March 8, 2018 11:00 AM
Equity Enhancement Fund Proposal Writing Workshop on February 15, 2018 12:30 PM
Catalyzing Change: Equity Enhancement Fund Showcase on February 13, 2018 12:30 PM
Equity Enhancement Fund Proposal Writing Workshop on February 1, 2018 12:30 PM