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Webinar: Advancing BC and Mexico Higher Education Plenary Session
You’re invited to a special Indigenous academic collaboration on February 16, 2022! Global Affairs Canada and BCCIE will host a virtual event with the aim to facilitate academic partnership, collaboration and learning. Join us in the morning for a plenary/panel session with representatives from BC and Mexico. Registration is required for this free webinar.
Program Schedule
- Welcome and Opening Remarks
- Panel I: Perspectives on Advancing Academic Indigenous Partnerships
- Panel II: Platforms for Indigenous Programming and Collaboration
Takeaways
- Explore how governments, institutions, researchers and educators throughout BC and Mexico endeavor to advance values of reconciliation and de-colonization within their respective areas of work and responsibility
- Learn how various structures and jurisdictions understand the implications and opportunities of UNDRIP as it outlines a framework for reconciliation, healing and peace based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights and non-discrimination
Who Should Attend?
BC and Mexican institutions, educators, faculty and international liaison administration interested in learning about and strengthening indigenous programming and initiatives with an aim to forge international cooperation and partnerships.
Background
Colonial North America was predicated on the political ambitions of countries that sought to control and subjugate both North and South America and its resources. The results were catastrophic, impacting existing Indigenous populations who had owned and occupied their lands for tens of thousands of years – populations in the tens of millions in cities and settlements throughout the entirety of the Americas. Five hundred years later, Indigenous peoples in Canada and Mexico continue to disproportionally suffer the impacts of colonial violence, perpetuated through existing systems of power and privilege.
Recently, there have been significant and positive advances with key developments addressing colonial impacts and inequities, including Canada’s TRC and its accompanying 94 Calls to Action, the adoption of UNDRIP in Canada and Mexico, and BC’s passing of said declaration into law in 2019. But there is still much work that needs to be done, and international educators can play a significant role in this change.
Within the field of international education, we strive to understand our colonial history and how to move towards a more equitable position where we can advance values that support Indigenous learning, pedagogy, scholarship and partnership. In this light, we are working with Indigenous partners throughout regions in Mexico and BC with the aim to facilitate academic partnership, collaboration and learning through dialogue.
Please note that the afternoon one-on-one B2B partnership meetings are full and are not open to registration.