MEDTalks: The Genomics Revolution
Presented by UBC Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in partnership with alumni UBC The sequencing of the human genome has been hailed as a scientific breakthrough in that it has opened the human genetic blueprint to investigations of all questions ranging from human origins to the understanding of health […]
Decolonize or Indigenize?: Transitionising for the information profession
Library and information institutions are colonial constructs that have collected and organized indigenous knowledge, but are they really inclusive? Using examples from Canada and New Zealand, this talk considers whether the answer to this question is to decolonize these institutions or to focus on indigenizing them. Speaker As Dodson Visiting Professor at the UBC iSchool […]