The UBC School of Journalism\, Writing\, a nd Media and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies are pleased to i nvite you to Decolonize THIS (media)\, a special talk feat uring 2020 UBC Asper Visiting Professor and award-winning journalist\, Angela Sterritt and moderated by UBC Associate Profes sor\, Dr. C andis Callison.
To register your attendance\, please RS VP here\, and we will send you the event details via email pri or to the event.
About Asper Visiting Professor and award-win ning journalist\, Angela Sterritt
For two d
ecades\, journalist and author Angela Sterritt has focussed her coverage on
sharing impactful stories on the lives\, communities\, and injustices of I
ndigenous people. Her career has taken her to Dene territory in Yellowknife
where she covered land claims and forest fires\, to the oil sands in Fort
Chipewyan\, to outside a bank in Vancouver where a Heiltsuk family was raci
ally profiled.
More recently she has explored the ways in which bias or impartiality is situated for journalists. What is considered neutral whe n we live in a society that was and continues to be shaped by colonializati on? Sterritt aspires to reveal a cultural partiality in Canada and stir tho ughts about our unconscious worldviews.
She will share highlights of a reckoning we are seeing in media to address imbalances and look at the ri sks involved for those who push to seek change. Sterritt’s column Reconcil e THIS (CBC Vancouver) explores the tensions between Indigenous people and institutions and has won several awards.
About the moderator\
, Dr. Candis Callison
Candis Callison is an Associate Professor i
n the School of Journalism\, Writing\, and Media and Institute
for Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Her research and teaching are focused on changes to media practices and platforms\, journalism ethics\, the role of social movements in public discourse\, and understanding how issues related to science and technology become meaningful for diverse publics.
Prior to her academic work\, C allison produced\, wrote\, and reported for television\, the Internet\, and radio in Canada (CBC\, CTV) and the United States (Lycos\, Tech TV). Callison is Tahltan\, an Indigenous people loca ted in Northwestern British Columbia.
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