SIG: Community Volunteer Group
September 22, 2022, 4:00 pm
Join us for the first meeting of the 2022-23. We are pleased to invite you to attend this meeting in hybrid format, you may RSVP to attend in-person or on Zoom. Speaker, Jenny Peterson will be joining us in-person for their lecture.
Scholars at Risk, WUSC, Ukraine, Afghanistan
Speaker: Jenny Peterson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Research area: Human Rights, UBC Political Science Department
Jenny Peterson joined the Political Science Department from the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (Manchester) where she worked as a lecturer from 2009-2013. Her research explores the politics of international aid, has analyzed the process of liberal peacebuilding, and diversity and innovation, both local and international, in peace/justice movements. She has conducted research and led student fieldtrips in Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Ghana. Her teaching interests include peace studies, international relations, humanitarian studies and human rights. Her volunteer service is as impressive as her research and teaching record, currently as a committee member on UBC's Scholars at Risk Advisory program, faculty advisor for both UBC's Human Rights collective and the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) student refugee program, and committee member on various UBC initiatives to support Ukrainian and Afghan scholars and students.
Meeting Format: Hybrid. (members can choose to join in-person at UBC or on Zoom).
In-person location: UBC Vancouver Campus, Ponderosa Office, Annex F, Room 201.
Attend & join the Community Volunteer Group mailing list: Members receive meeting details including Zoom links in advance of all meetings. Please email Nancy.Gallini@ubc.ca and express your interest.