The Memo

A monthly review of campus events, academic reminders, and program updates for Media Studies students.

February 2022

In This Issue

Featured News

  • M-DEA Talk: UBC Bachelor of Media Studies Public Speaking Competition
  • Check out the BMS Peer Mentors' "Day in the Life" Vlog Series
  • Peer Mentorship session – What to Expect in Year 2

Featured Events

  • Massy Reads: On Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film - March 1, 2022

  • I Know We'll Meet Again - March 1, 2022

  • UBC Spring Virtual Career Fair 2022 - March 2, 2022

  • David and Brenda McLean Lectures 2022 - March 2 & 17, 2022

  • Japanese Girls’ Science Fiction Manga and Women Manga Artists - March 3, 2022

  • The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Soledad O'Brien - March 3, 2022

  • Honouring Indigenous Writers - March 7, 2022

  • Arts Career Conversations: The Art of Social Change - March 9, 2022
  • Designing Your Life & Career - March 10, 2022
  • The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Matt Taibbi - March 17, 2022

  • Materializing Haa Aaní: Tlingit Beading Practices and the Land - March 17, 2022

Featured Course

  • CPSC 491: Interactive Digital Media Practicum

Opportunities

  • Digital Engagement Assistant - Deadline: March 4, 2022

  • Marketing, Communications & Development Intern - Deadline: March 13, 2022

  • Marketing and Outreach Coordinator - Deadline: March 16, 2022

  • Social Media Coordinator - Deadline: March 17, 2022

Advising Corner

  • Apply for UBC Vancouver Spring 2022 Graduation
  • Book Appointments for your Graduation Photos
  • BMS Advising   
  • UBC Wellness Centre Virtual Services
  • UBC Student Assistance Program (SAP) 

Featured News

M-DEA Talk: UBC Bachelor of Media Studies Public Speaking Competition

Event Date: April 6, 2022 (6pm-9pm PST)

BMS students, we’re so excited to announce the inaugural M-DEA Talk: UBC Bachelor of Media Studies Public Speaking Competition event! 

As a UBC Bachelor of Media Studies student, you are inquisitive and passionate about media, and learn and understand the impact of media in our society through interdisciplinary studies in media. You are media makers, artists, theorists, and thinkers with your own unique perspectives - defining and creating media. 

As such, we've organized M-DEA Talk, an event that is the coming together of media and students' ideas, and aims to promote the learning of Media Studies and theory by providing current BMS students the opportunity to share your diverse ideas about this ever-evolving media landscape with a greater audience by presenting a 4 minute to 6 minute speech on the topic, "What should Media mean to us?" 

Speech Contestants will have the exciting opportunity to compete for the First, Second, and Third Place Prizes! There will also be an Audience Choice Award that's selected live by the audience. 

Do you want to bring your ideas to the stage, and win the first M - DEA Talk titles?

Click the link below to sign up to be a Speech Contestant by March 10, 2022!

 

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Check out the BMS Peer Mentors' "A Day in the Life" Vlog Series

We are excited to announce a mini-vlog series "A Day in the Life of a UBC BMS Student on the Vancouver Campus" that captures the unique BMS student lives on and off-campus, featuring BMS Peer and Academic Mentors’ highlights of their days.

From school to work, professional development, extracurriculars and hobbies, learn more about the BMS student life!

Keep your eye out for the vlogs on our Instagram and Facebook page. 

Visit the link below to watch the first vlog! 

Watch Vlog

Peer Mentorship session – What to Expect in Year 2

Are you a first-year BMS student wondering what comes next? Our BMS Peer Mentors are excited to support you through a virtual session focusing on Year 2 Experiences & Expectations, Core Plus, Course Selection and more!

Our whole team is so excited to talk with you on March 11th, 2022 at 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. (PST), so be sure to save the date and come with any questions you might have.

They will cover:
☑️ Year 2 Planning
☑️ Tips for Course Selection
☑️ Core Courses
☑️ Engagement Opportunities
☑️ Any other questions you have!

🗓Date: March 11th, 2022
⏰Time: 2:00-3:00 PM (PST)
📍Location: ZOOM (Zoom meeting link will be emailed to you!)

See you then! ✨

Visit the link below to learn more.

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Featured Events

Massy Reads: On Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film
March 1, 2022 

A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with Kyle Frackman, Ervin Malakaj, and Christopher Rea is
a book launch series co-hosted by UBC-V Public Humanities and Massy Arts Society.

Books written by UBC authors, Coming OutSlapstick: An Interdisciplinary CompanionChinese Film Classics, 1922–1949, explore unique genres, themes and cinematic eras through films. The book launch panel discussion will be moderated by Dr. Colleen Laird. 

Visit the link below to register now.

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I Know We'll Meet Again: Correspondence and the Forced Dispersal of Japanese Canadians
March 1, 2022

UBC Library & the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies program invite the community to a public panel event inspired by a remarkable collection of letters. 

As we acknowledge the 80th anniversary of the forced dispersal, internment, & dispossession of Japanese Canadians from the coastal regions of British Columbia, we are most grateful to the following panel members from the Japanese Canadian community—Laura Ishiguro, Angela May, Carolyn Nakagawa, Lisa Uyeda, Nicole Yakashiro (Moderator)—for providing their responses to these letters at this event.

We hope that this event will give us an opportunity to reflect on the histories, effects, & legacies of the historical injustice. 

Visit the link below to register now.

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UBC Spring Virtual Career Fair 2022
March 2, 2022

Attend UBC’s annual Spring Virtual Career Fair on March 2, 2022, on CareersOnline from 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM PST.

Connect with leading companies and organizations to explore your career and post-graduation options! Meet employers and network with organizations looking to recruit from various academic disciplines and learn about the job opportunities available – from co-op to full-time positions to summer programs and volunteer opportunities.

If you have any questions about the event, please reach out to spring.fair@ubc.ca. 

Visit the link below to register now.

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David and Brenda McLean Lectures 2022
March 2 & 17, 2022

On March 2, Professor Laura Moss will present a public lecture, "Climate Warnings: The Power of Canadian Environmental Art, Literature, and Creative Activism". 

On March 17, in a panel discussion, Professor Moss will be joined by several of the creators—Warren Cariou, Stephen Collis, and Rita Wong—whose work she features in the lecture to discuss the relationship between art and activism, the climate emergency, and the limits of art in driving change.  

Visit the link below to register now.

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Japanese Girls’ Science Fiction Manga and Women Manga Artists
March 3, 2022

Post-war Japanese science fiction manga and anime illustrate a futuristic world, expressing both the desires and fears related to advanced technologies. Generally speaking, those sci-fi manga were shonen (for boys/young men) and illustrated by male manga artists in Japan. However, there are high-quality sci-fi manga from female manga artists which more often reflect the problems and desires of females in modern Japanese society.

This seminar will analyze shojo (girls’) sci-fi in the 1970s, when a group of female manga artists greatly influenced shojo (girls’) manga. It will also discuss the works of these female artists in order to explore what kinds of messages and desires they have tried to illustrate for their female audiences. The seminar will also explore many of the differences and similarities between shojo (girls’) sci-fi and shonen (boys’) sci-fi.

Visit the link below to register now.

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The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Soledad O'Brien
March 3, 2022

UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs is proud to host Soledad O’Brien, award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, author, and host of the political show Matter of Fact, as part of our 2022 Phil Lind Initiative series on "The Future of Media."

Soledad O’Brien is an award-winning documentarian, journalist, speaker, author, and philanthropist, who founded Soledad O’Brien Productions, a multi-platform media production company dedicated to telling empowering and authentic stories on a range of social issues. She anchors and produces the Hearst TV political magazine program Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien and is a correspondent for HBO Real Sports. She is also the host of the Quake Media podcast Very Opinionated with Soledad O’Brien.

Visit the link below to register now.

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Honouring Indigenous Writers
March 7, 2022

Join us for a reading and conversation with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Dallas Hunt presenting on Akiwenzie-Damm’s recently released poetry anthology, (Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, edited with an introduction by Hunt. Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is a profoundly influential figure in Indigenous literature, founding Kegedonce Press.

Hunt and Akiwenzie-Damm will join David Gaertner in conversation about their collaboration and some of the themes that stretch across Akiwenzie-Damm’s distinguished career as a poet, publisher, and cultural worker. Resilience, love, sexuality, anger, and Indigenous brilliance are just some of the themes that will resonate throughout this event.

Visit the link below to register now.

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Arts Career Conversations: The Art of Social Change
March 9, 2022

Looking for a career that will help to make the world a better place?

The final Arts Career Conversations event of 2021-22 features a panel of UBC Arts alumni working across a variety of industries in jobs committed to the betterment of society. Find out how their Arts degree inspired their professional journey and discover how to build your own career in social change. This is an opportunity to learn about diverse career paths related to social change and to hear useful advice on how you can use your Arts degree to positively impact your community.

A moderated panel discussion will be followed by a Q&A with the audience.

This event is intended for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts and will be held in-person at the new Arts Student Centre.

Visit the link below to register now.

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Designing Your Life & Career
March 10, 2022

Join the "Designing Your Life & Career" Webinar to discover and reflect on your pathways after university.

Each day is an opportunity to think like a designer - to be curious, try things out, collaborate with others, reflect, and be mindful when making choices. In this workshop, you will be challenged to think about the multiple possible futures you can design for your life and career.

Visit the link below to register now.

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The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Matt Taibbi
March 17, 2022

UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs is proud to host Matt Taibbi, best-selling author and award-winning columnist for Rolling Stone, as part of our 2022 Phil Lind Initiative series on “The Future of Media.”

One of the smartest—and funniest—chroniclers of the rise of Trump, growing inequality, and Wall Street excess, Matt Taibbi is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, and an award-winning columnist for Rolling Stone. His most recent book, Hate, Inc., is a turbocharged take on how the media twists the truth to pit us against each other. In talks, Taibbi paints an alarming portrait of politics, media, and culture, while providing a way forward against our most urgent crises.

Visit the link below to register now.

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Materializing Haa Aaní: Tlingit Beading Practices and the Land                   March 17, 2022

The increasingly rich array of cultural expressions created by contemporary women artists for use in communities as well as for display in museums and galleries results directly from the resilience of previous generations of Tlingit women.

The mothers, grandmothers, and aunties of the four artists introduced in this seminar persisted through the darkest years of settler colonialism, making and selling beadwork that set the stage for the revival or expansion of weaving, carving, painting, installation and other cultural and artistic practices. Though the work of revitalization is far from over, Tlingit women are, as they have always been, the backbone of this cultural shift.

Visit the link below to register now. 

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Featured Course

 

CPSC 491: Interactive Digital Media Practicum
Deadline to register: March 11, 2022 

Are you a BMS student who is interested in Computer Science, and looking for a course to take in the summer? 

CPSC 491 is a 6-credit collaborative directed studies course involving SFU Computing Science, UBC Computer Science and the Centre for Digital Media. 

In this program, you will join a team with 2-5 graduate students at the Centre for Digital Media at least two days every week to create interactive media projects over one term.

Gain hands-on experience on the industry-sponsored project in a highly interdisciplinary team, and learn agile software design methodologies.

Registration Details

Opportunities 

 

Digital Engagement Assistant
Deadline: March 4, 2022

Sierra Club BC is hiring a Part-Time Digital Engagement Assistant.

The Digital Engagement Assistant reports to the Communications Co-Leads of Sierra Club BC (SCBC) and works dynamically with the development and communications team to engage Sierra Club BC’s online community and promote our programs and campaigns on social media. This is a great opportunity to learn about environmental communication and gain work experience in the nonprofit sector. If you are someone who feels comfortable using social media and are committed to SCBC’s goals of advancing climate justice and ecosystem protection, this is the right role for you.

Visit the link below to apply today.

Apply Here

Marketing, Communications & Development Intern
Deadline: March 13, 2022

The B.C. Wildlife Federation’s Marketing, Communications and Development team is looking for a driven, energetic, outdoor enthusiast with a career trajectory in Marketing, Communications, and/or Development to join our teams as a 4-month Marketing, Communications & Development Intern. As a BCWF intern, you will have the unique opportunity to get involved in supporting conservation and stewardship throughout B.C.

The Marketing, Communications and Development Intern will be immersed in all areas of the department, supporting projects ranging from social media and public relations to fund generation and marketing strategy. Our dynamic and highly collaborative approach to teamwork creates significant opportunities for collaborative learning.

Visit the link below to apply today.

Apply Here

Marketing and Outreach Coordinator
Deadline: March 16, 2022

The BC Cycling Coalition is looking to hire a Marketing and Outreach coordinator, both to support our award-winning Kids on Wheels program, and to also support their organization with social media marketing, outreach and fundraising.

This is a chance to gain experience working with an amazing and supportive group and be involved on the ground level to help influence changes that make active transportation and mobility safer, more equitable, and more accessible across B.C.

Visit the link below to apply today. 

Apply Here

Social Media Coordinator
Deadline: March 17, 2022

Hill’s of Kerrisdale is looking for a Full-Time Social Media Coordinator. 

The Social Media Coordinator is responsible to create and maintain a strong social presence through multiple social channels and effectively organizing and managing all Social Media platforms for Hill’s Dry Goods. The Social Media Coordinator ensures all communication content represents the Hill’s Dry Goods brand strategy and storytelling, to inspire and engage with our community of followers, fans and influencers and to align with the broader marketing strategies. This position partners with the Digital + eCommerce team and collaborates with the Product and Retail teams.

Visit the link below to apply today.

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Advising Corner

 

Apply for UBC Vancouver Spring 2022 Graduation

December 15, 2021 - February 25, 2022

For those intending to graduate in May 2022, the deadline to apply for Graduation is February 25th. There is no fee to apply for Graduation, and all of your program requirements must be completed by the end of April 2022.

Visit the link below for more information.

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Book Appointments for your Graduation Photos

If you intend to graduate in May 2022, you can now book your Graduation Photos online with Artona Studios. You can book appointments to sit for your Graduation Photos starting now till March 30th. Please note that all appointments are available online on a first-come, first-served basis. The photo session includes grad portraits and casual and dressy outfits.

Visit the link below to book your appointment today.

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Virtual BMS Advising

Do you have questions about your academics, program planning, or degree requirements?

You can email the BMS Advising team by clicking below or
set up a virtual advising appointment with BMS advising by emailing arts.mediastudies@ubc.ca

 

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UBC Wellness Centre Resources and Opportunities

The Wellness Centre has many offerings to support student learning about health & wellbeing for this current school year. The Centre is offering various virtual services to support you. To view the resources, please click the link below.
 

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UBC Student Assistance Program (SAP)

We are here to support you - offered by Aspiria, the UBC Student Assistance Program (SAP) is a free, 24/7 wellness resource for students. Services include personal counselling, life coaching, group programs and more based on your needs.

UBC SAP can help you with a wide range of concerns to support your mental, emotional, physical and financial health.

 

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