Wednesday, April 1st, 10:00am – 3:00pm
The 2026 CAPCON Schedule will be published in mid-March 2026.
As in years past, today’s CAP conference is taking place on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation, and on the coastal and mountain land that makes up the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. CAPCON concludes a year of exciting events that have taken place in CAP, on this land, and the work that you’ll hear and see today reflects the fact that many of these events have been closely tied to the commitment in our program to the importance of learning, working from, and developing a greater understanding of the land that we study on as students at UBC and in Vancouver. From papers that address the colonial roots of contemporary inequality on Vancouver’s streets, to those reflecting on the changing faces of the workforce and class struggle in today’s global marketplaces, this year’s conference looks at what it means to belong somewhere, anywhere, and nowhere, and what it takes to forge new definitions of community and belonging and to recover long-suppressed ways of being with each other and with the land.