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Fang Wang, Northeast China Normal University
Random Thoughts on an Academic Sojourn
Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:00 PM in Neville Scarfe 1223

The following event is organized by the Institute of Early Childhood Education & Research (IECER) with the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI), the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies (CSICS), the Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), and Critical Studies in Sexuality.

Bronwyn Davies, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Legitimation: Neoliberal Imperatives and Post-structural Challenges
Thursday, November 27, 2008, 12:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 100

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Mary Lou Rasmussen, Monash University, Australia
Studying 'Secularism' in Sex Education
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 4:00 PM in Neville Scarfe 1223

This presentation is co-sponsored with the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education (CCFI)
Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley
Worlding Cities, Pied-à-terre Subjects
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, Noon in Green College Coach House

Yuzhen Xu, Capitol Normal University, Beijing, China
What is in the Limelight and What is in the Shadow: A Critical Review of Chinese National Curriculum Reform
Thursday, September 18, 2008, 4:00 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University
Collaborative Discensus: Research and Writing at the Nexus of
Interpretive Methodologies, Urban School Partnerships, and Curriculum
Wednesday, May 28, 2008, 11:00 AM in Neville Scarfe 1209

* * *The following presentations in the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry (CCFI) Noted Scholars Lecture Series are co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the Internationalization of Curriculum Studies (CSICS), Critical Studies in Sexuality, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education (CCIE), Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, UBC Departments of English, Geography, French, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Philosophy:

Thomas Foster, University of Washington
Innocent by Contamination: Queer World-Making, Ethnicity, and Technicity in Samuel R. Delany’s, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Tuesday, January 22, 2008, Noon in Neville Scarfe 310

Devon G. Peña, University of Washington
The ‘Brown’ and the ‘Green’ revisited: Chicanos and Environmental Politics in the Upper Rio Grande
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, Noon in Neville Scarfe 310

Jacques Rancière, Visiting Professor Rutgers, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and University of California – Berkeley
The Contemporary Misadventures of Critical Thinking
Friday, March 7, 2008, Noon in Neville Scarfe 310

Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Simon Fraser University
Local Sex on Global Screens? Reflections on the New Queer Asian Cinema
Thursday, March 13, 2008, Noon in Neville Scarfe 310

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Aditya Raj, University of British Columbia
Me, Myself, Memoirs: Journey and Beyond
Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 1209

Erik Malewski, Purdue University
Turning the Searchlight Inward: The Life and Work of Mahatma Gandhi
Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

Alan A. Block, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Intimations of Immortality, an Ode, of sorts
Alan Block is the editor of the Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies and the author, most recently, of Pedagogy, Religion, and Practice: Reflections on Ethics and Teaching (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 1209

Daniel Tröhler, University of Zurich
Between Ideology and Institution:
The Establishment of Modern Foreign Languages in the Higher Education
Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 304A

Elizabeth Macedo, State University of Rio de Janeiro
Audio
Curriculum Reform in Brazil
October 16, 2007, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

Hongyu Wang, Oklahoma State University
“Life History and Cross-Cultural Thought: Creating an Intercultural Curriculum”
September 25, 2007, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

Zhang Hua, East China Normal University and Elizabeth Macedo, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Curriculum Reform in China and Brazil”
September 14, 2007, 10 AM to 12 noon
University of Victoria, University Club in the Honeysuckle Room

Zhang Hua, East China Normal University
“The Fast-Shifting Field of Curriculum in China: How and Why?”
Professor Zhang Hua, East China Normal University, Shanghai
September 4, 2007, 5:00 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

R. Michael Fisher
“An Inconvenient Truth”: A Convenient Culture of Fear –
Lecture and Dialogue
August 7, 2007, 2:30-4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

Jen Gilbert, York University
Video
“On Having Been an Infant: Psychoanalysis and the Limits of Experience”
March 14, 2007, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 310

Daniel Tröhler, University of Zurich
“National Semantics and Transnational Languages of Education”
February 7, 2007, 4:30 PM in the West Mall Swing Space 305

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Tero Autio, University of Tampere, Finland
“Conditions of Possibility for Contemporary Curriculum Studies: Gnosticism, Descartes, Subjectivity”
January 17, 2007, 4:30 PM in Neville Scarfe 310