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UFV employees are invited to Settler Colonialism in Palestine and Canada: Resilience Despite Dispossession, a talk by Dr. Gwendolyn Point and Dr. Andr\u00e9 Elias Mazawi.<\/p>\n
Friday, February 6 from 2-4:30 PM on the Abbotsford campus (location room will be shared with registered participants the day before the event)
\nRegistration: forms.office.com\/r\/mkzMzk75cE
\nSpace is limited. Registration closes February 3, or once spots are filled.<\/p>\n
This timely gathering will bring together two distinguished speakers whose work addresses the enduring impact of settler colonialism and the resilience of Indigenous cultures:<\/p>\n
Dr. Gwendolyn Point<\/strong> Dr. Andr\u00e9 Elias Mazawi<\/strong> Together, Dr. Point and Dr. Mazawi will guide a dialogue on the ongoing realities of dispossession and resistance, bridging insights from Palestine and Indigenous communities in Canada.<\/p>\n This event is hosted by the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee of the Faculty of Education, Community, and Human Development, with sponsorship from the Centre for Justice, Equity & Sustainable Action. The room number will be circulated to registered participants by e-mail the day before the event.<\/p>\n https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/mkzMzk75cE<\/a><\/p>\n For more information, contact fechd@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 02\/07\/2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UFV employees are invited to Settler Colonialism in Palestine and Canada: Resilience Despite Dispossession, a talk by Dr. Gwendolyn Point and Dr. Andr\u00e9 Elias Mazawi. Friday, February 6 from 2-4:30 PM on the Abbotsford campus (location room will be shared with registered participants the day before the event) Registration: forms.office.com\/r\/mkzMzk75cE Space is limited. Registration closes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","category-calendar","category-ufv-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36857,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36833\/revisions\/36857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKnowledge keeper for the BC Assembly of First Nation Chiefs, former Chancellor of UFV, and long-time educator and advocate for Indigenous language and culture. Dr. Point has served her home community of Sts\u2019ailes and the broader St\u00f3:l\u014d Nation in leadership and educational roles for over three decades.<\/p>\n
\nProfessor and department head of Educational Studies at UBC. Dr. Mazawi is a sociologist of education whose scholarship critically examines the intersection of education, coloniality, and geopolitics \u2014 particularly in the Arab region. He is co-editor of Policies and Pedagogies of Canadian Offshore School Programs (Routledge, 2024).<\/p>\n