Tag Archive for UBC

CRC position in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, UBC

02/06/2012 Job No comments

See online ver­sion here

The Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia invites appli­ca­tions for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change that will be located in the Department of Educational Studies. The Canadian Research Chairs Program (http://​www​.chairs​.gc​.ca) has been estab­lished by the Canadian Federal Government with the pur­pose of attract­ing out­stand­ing researchers to the Canadian uni­ver­sity sys­tem. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be expected to have a strong record of schol­ar­ship and a com­mit­ment to research lead­er­ship. Candidates for Tier 2 Chairs are described by the Canadian Research Chairs Program as ‘excep­tional emerg­ing researchers, acknowl­edged by their peers as hav­ing the poten­tial to lead in their field’. This is a full-time tenure track posi­tion at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.

We are seek­ing can­di­dates who can con­tribute to mul­ti­ple pro­gram­matic areas and who come with a broadly crit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion. Specifically, can­di­dates should be able to con­tribute to con­tem­po­rary debates on the new social, polit­i­cal, cul­tural and eco­nomic con­fig­u­ra­tions of racial inequal­ity and the cul­tural and eco­nomic pol­i­tics of racism in the con­text of glob­al­iza­tion. We encour­age appli­ca­tions from schol­ars rep­re­sent­ing a wide range of ide­o­log­i­cal, the­o­ret­i­cal, method­olog­i­cal, and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approaches, whose exper­tise spans the fol­low­ing areas:

  1. The study of racial inequal­i­ties and for­ma­tions as insep­a­ra­ble from other social for­ma­tions (e.g. class, gen­der, dis/ability, age, and sexuality);
  2. Cultural stud­ies of edu­ca­tional poli­cies, prac­tices and/or pedagogies;
  3. Critical pol­icy stud­ies illu­mi­nat­ing the cul­tural and ide­o­log­i­cal strug­gle in which edu­ca­tion is located.

Read more

Korean language instructor at the University of British Columbia

05/21/2011 FYI No comments

From: H-Net Job Guide:

JOB GUIDE NO.: https://​www​.​h​-net​.org/​j​o​b​s​/​j​o​b​_​d​i​s​p​l​a​y​.​p​h​p​?​i​d​=​4​2​564

University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies
Korean Language Instructor

Institution Type: College / University
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Position: Lecturer

The DEPARTMENT OF ASIAN STUDIES
University of British Columbia

is accept­ing appli­ca­tions for one 12-month lec­turer posi­tion (1 year con­tract) in Korean lan­guage, com­menc­ing September 1, 2011 and end­ing August 31, 2012. The suc­cess­ful appli­cant will teach up to 24 cred­its of Korean Language and pos­si­bly Asia courses related to Korean lan­guage and/or cul­ture, pos­si­bly from first– to fourth– year, over the cal­en­dar year as well as assist in pro­gram admin­is­tra­tion and development.

Applicants are required to have native or near-native flu­ency in Korean, a Master’s degree (or be near com­ple­tion) in Applied Linguistics, Language Education, or TESOL/TESL, and rel­e­vant teach­ing expe­ri­ence at the college/university level in North America. Salary com­men­su­rate with expe­ri­ence. Read more

[Job] Teaching postdoc, Women’s and Gender Studies at University of British Columbia

01/11/2011 FYI No comments

Post-Doctoral Teaching Appointment
Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Program
University of British Columbia

The Women’s and Gender Studies under­grad­u­ate pro­gram in the Faculty of Arts at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver cam­pus, invites appli­ca­tions for a one-year, non-renewable appoint­ment as a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012.

Applicants will be within three years of being awarded the PhD, and must have teach­ing expe­ri­ence. We are look­ing to appoint a Humanities-based scholar, with spe­cial­iza­tion in cul­tural and media stud­ies, the­o­ries of rep­re­sen­ta­tion, post-colonial the­ory, racial­iza­tion, or Asian Studies. The suc­cess­ful appli­cant will teach a total of four under­grad­u­ate courses (2 per term), includ­ing Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies and an upper-level Special Topics course. The posi­tion is sub­ject to final bud­getary approval.

Deadline for com­pleted appli­ca­tions is April 1st, 2011. Please sub­mit, by
mail, a let­ter of appli­ca­tion, state­ment of teach­ing phi­los­o­phy and inter­ests, evi­dence of teach­ing expe­ri­ence (includ­ing course syl­labuses and teach­ing eval­u­a­tions), sam­ple of writ­ten work, CV, and three con­fi­den­tial let­ters of ref­er­ence, to:

Dr. Becki Ross, Chair,
Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Jack Bell Building, lower level
2080 West Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z2

phone: 604 822‑3018
Fax: 604 822‑9169
Email: becki@​interchange.​ubc.​ca
Website: www​.ws​.arts​.ubc​.ca

The University of British Columbia hires on the basis of merit and is com­mit­ted to employ­ment equity. UBC is strongly com­mit­ted to diver­sity within its com­mu­nity and espe­cially wel­comes appli­ca­tions from vis­i­ble minor­ity groups, women, Aboriginal per­sons, per­sons with dis­abil­i­ties, per­son of any sex­u­al­ity or gen­der iden­tity. Canadians and per­ma­nent res­i­dents of Canada will be given priority.

Geography Colloquium, UBC on Nov 9

10/29/2010 Calendar No comments

I’m giv­ing a col­lo­quium talk in the geog­ra­phy depart­ment at UBC on Tuesday, November 9. Unlike the North Korea-focused talks I’ve been giv­ing lately, this one is about the Korean mis­sion­ar­ies who were taken hostage in Afghanistan in 2007. I must have been pre­oc­cu­pied with the idea of “inten­tion” when I wrote the abstracts for these talks — they’re all titled “beyond good inten­tions,” when in fact, they should just be called “beyond inten­tions.” ;-)

afghan0830.jpg

The Hankyoreh edi­to­r­ial car­toon, August 30, 2007. Hostages, troops, and mis­sion­ar­ies leave Afghanistan, with two dead.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 12:30pm

Beyond Good Intentions: Geopolitics and Korean evan­gel­i­cal mis­sions in Afghanistan
Department of Geography, University of British Columbia
Geography Room 212

A group of twenty-three South Korean evan­gel­i­cals made world­wide head­lines in 2007 when they were taken hostage by the Taliban for nearly six weeks in Afghanistan. Two men were killed, and the rest were even­tu­ally released — after the South Korean gov­ern­ment pledged to with­draw its troops and ban any fur­ther pros­e­ly­tiz­ing activ­i­ties by Korean evan­gel­i­cals in Afghanistan. While crit­ics pointed to the hostage sit­u­a­tion as indica­tive of mis­guided mis­sion­ary zeal and reck­less­ness, mis­sion advo­cates insisted that the hostages should be described instead as “church vol­un­teers” or “human­i­tar­ian aid work­ers,” and that sim­i­lar relief mis­sions be allowed to con­tinue. Drawing from ethno­graphic research and inter­views, I will dis­cuss how Korean/American mis­sion­ar­ies con­tend with demands for inter­na­tion­al­ism and tol­er­ance in “Islam mis­sions” and “fron­tier mis­sions” in the con­text of war and neo­colo­nial­ism.