Upcoming Event! “Pushed Out of the League: Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Hockey”
Pushed Out of the League: Anti-Indigenous Structural Racism in Canadian Hockey [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vp0__X5RNw[/youtube] A virtual panel discussion Thursday, November 30th at 3pm (PST) If “hockey is Canada’s game,” what does it say about ‘Canada’ and ‘hockey’ when Indigenous people are being excluded from playing the sport they love? What does it mean when all-Indigenous teams are […]
Visit the Sport and Sustainability Research and Education Media Resource!
Interested in media and educational resources related to sport and sustainability? Visit the Sport and Sustainability Research and Education Media Resource! This new Resource is designed to be the primary knowledge mobilization hub for UBC’s Centre for Sport and Sustainability. Contents of the Resource were contributed mostly by members of a CSS-affiliated group called the […]
Dunja Antunovic on Feminist Sports Media Studies: Past, Present, and Future Directions
Feminist Sports Media Studies: Past, Present, and Future Directions On Friday, October 20th, 2023, visiting scholar Dr. Dunja Antunovic presented on feminist sport media studies at the Chan Gunn Pavilion to UBC Kinesiology grad students and faculty. Abstract: For decades, scholars have raised concerns about gender inequalities in media coverage. Although women’s sports receive significant […]
Talk by visiting PhD student Frida Austmo Wågan
UBC Kinesiology students and faculty gathered on Friday, October 27th, 2023, at the Chan Gunn Pavilion to hear Frida Austmo Wågan — a visiting Ph.D. student with UBC’s Centre for Sport & Sustainability and the School of Kinesiology, through UBC Global’s Visiting International Research Student Program — discuss her PhD research and her research group […]