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In February, RAGA also organized an informal information session on Women and Pensions. Dr Claire Young from the UBC Law Faculty presented a brief talk on the subject, and then discussed the implications of different retirement funds for women with a small group of participants.
Along with Dr. Sneja Gunew (Associate Principal, College for Interdisciplinary Studies, UBC) and Dr. Malashri Lal (Professor, Delhi University), RAGA Director, Dr. Sunera Thobani, was a convenor of the interdisciplinary Symposium, Beyond Binaries and Borders, held March 13-14, at the Liu Institute for Global Issues. The Symposium addressed the theme of food, with a particular focus on salmon. The presentations examined different intercultural and interdisciplinary approaches to food, and included papers by Dr. Michael Burgess, Principal of CFIS, on the ethics of genome sequencing of salmon; Dr. David Close on the relationship of the sacred to food among West Coast Indigenous peoples; Dr. Malashri Lal on fasting traditions among different communities of women in India; Dr. Kornelia Slavova on the changing relationship of women to food and cultural representations in post-communist Bugeria; Dr. Sneja Gunew on the use of food in family narratives among diasporic communities; and Dr. Thobani on the representation of the relationship among gender, nation, citizenship and food in Indian cinema. Graduate students responded to many of the presentations as discussants. It is anticipated that the exchange of ideas at the Symposium will lead to collaborative research initiatives in the future.
The RAGA Centre has had three Visiting Scholars the Winter term: Dr. Grace Puja was an IDRC Visiting Scholar from Carleton University; Dr. Laurence Bachmann was visiting from the University of Geneva and Dr. Michelle Bastian from the University of New South Wales.
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