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Indigenous Climate Action at the Speed of Consent

February 29, 2024, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm

 This year’s John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture will be given by Dr. Kyle Whyte, George Willis Pack Professor, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. Dr. Whyte is also a U.S. Science Envoy, and serves on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council.

 Dr. Whyte’s research addresses environmental justice, specifically, moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice, and the Anthropocene. Dr. Whyte is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

 Date: February 29, 2024

Time: 6:00PM

Venue: First Nations Longhouse (1985 West Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2)

 If you are planning to join the reception following the lecture, please notify them by email.

Date: February 29, 2024

Time: 7:30 PM

Venue: Sage Catering Building (6331 Crescent Rd Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1)

RSVP: Please email cis.comms@ubc.ca to confirm your attendance.

 

Reach out to cis.comms@ubc.ca with any questions.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.

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