When Marie Cooper (SWETALIYE) received her Honorary Doctor of Education degree from UVic in 2010, it was a moment she had been steering toward her entire life.聽A teacher, counsellor, Elder, advocate and innovator, Dr. Cooper鈥檚 efforts to promote and defend Indigenous education, language and culture led to the inclusive transformation of educational policies and practices for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students.
"5 Days of Action," a week-long event coordinated by the Equity & Human Rights Office, encourages every member of the UVic community to take concrete steps toward ending racism, discrimination, harassment and sexualized violence on campus.
The role of words, narratives and stories are central themes of "5 Days of Action," an initiative led by the Office of Equity and Human Rights the week of March 19鈥�23.
The forgotten Swiss diplomat who rescued thousands from Holocaust
A UVic historian's research on the efforts of Switzerland鈥檚 forgotten Schindler鈥攁 diplomat named Carl Lutz鈥攚ill be presented Nov. 27 in Switzerland at the world鈥檚 premier gathering for Holocaust remembrance and education. Charlotte Schalli茅's findings include 36 harrowing stories of survival.
A mother-daughter team has played a key role in bringing the stories of Budapest Holocaust survivors and the heroic work of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz to light, in new research by Charlotte Schalli茅.
Long-lost letters from interned Japanese-Canadians
Three hundred letters from Japanese Canadians, written in the mid to late 1940s, were recently discovered by UVic historian Jordan Stanger-Ross, project director of the UVic-led Landscapes of Injustice research project. The letters reveal unsettling and moving accounts of dispossession.
A recent discovery has given Judy Hanazawa some of her family's history back. Now 70, Hanazawa knew little of their experiences during the Second World War. Some 300 letters of protest from Japanese Canadians, rediscovered as part of the UVic-led Landscapes of Injustice project, reflect the outrage of dispossession.
Students from the humanities, social sciences, fine arts and law鈥攏ow back in Victoria after a transformative trip overseas and also in Winnipeg鈥攃ame together for a powerful and challenging field school that brought them to historic sites in Europe and taught them valuable lessons about Canada.
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UVic students are currently visiting historic sites in Europe in a field school examining migration, the refugee crisis and memorialization of the Holocaust. And the learning doesn't stop in Europe: they'll be at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in mid August, then home to UVic for a symposium.
This year, a week-long celebration in sunny Ottawa marked the formal conclusion of a six-year nation-wide process. June 2015 brought the unveiling of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission鈥檚 work and the issuing of 94 recommende鈥�
