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Home / 2014 / May / 06 / Imagining Kelowna’s history (and present)

Imagining Kelowna’s history (and present)

By Patty Wellborn on May 6, 2014

Last chance to participate in UBC’s AlterKnowledge discussion series

What: AlterKnowledge discussion series
Who: Faculty and students from UBC’s Cultural Studies Program
When: Friday, May 9, 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Where: Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, 421 Cawston Ave., Kelowna

The last session of this year’s UBC’s AlterKnowledge discussion series takes place Friday, giving people a final opportunity to participate in an open community dialogue. The topic for Friday’s session is Imagining Kelowna’s History (and Present).

Undergraduate students from UBC’s Okanagan campus will launch a new publication of creative/critical engagements with public history and heritage in the Okanagan. How does public heritage reinforce a ‘settlement myth’? How is colonialism represented in the Vernon murals, the Okanagan Heritage Museum, or Kelowna heritage displays? How is commemoration a form of forgetting?

The discussion will be facilitated by UBC Assoc. Prof. David Jefferess of the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies.

In its second year, the AlterKnowledge series provides a venue for so-called ‘alternative’ knowledge to be shared and valued, and for dominant systems of ‘knowledge’ to be altered. The series aims to foster community-based knowledge-making, bringing people together to discuss, share, and un/learn. AlterKnowledge will return in September for another series of lively and thought-provoking discussions, says Jefferess.

AlterKnowledge focuses on critical engagement with the way colonialism continues to shape relationships and identities, in both local and global contexts.

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Patty Wellborn
Media Relations Strategist
University Relations

The University of British Columbia
Okanagan campus
Tel: 250 317 0293
E-mail: patty.wellborn@ubc.ca

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