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.
Knowledge-making at universities has historically been stitched into the history of colonization, and today’s student work signals some of the steps we are taking towards rethinking what we learn and how we learn it. The student projects that you will hear and see today reflect our program’s commitment to learning, working from, and developing a greater understanding of the land that we study on as students at UBC and in Vancouver.
Wednesday, April 1
10:00am – 10:25am – WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS
10:30am – 11:20am – Session 1
Moderator: Ava Danaei
- Sufi Oveisi (ES) – Reposession of Traditional Lands: The Path to Indigenous Self-Determination
- Ava Rihani (LS) – Canada's failure of UNCRC: How resource extraction legislation fails the rights of the child
- Lizzy Whiteson (LS) – Authoritarianism In Fairy Creek Watershed
Moderator: Leean Wu
- Cormac McKeever (PPE) – How the Internet and Social Media Facilitate the Rapid Rise of Far-Right Radicalization
- Kalen Warren (PPE) – Packaging Persuasion: How PragerU Uses Gendered Grievance to Recruit Young Men
- Avery Top (IS) – Little influencer on the prairie: The rise of the tradwife
Moderator: Mark Lam
- Maya Tontti (LS) – Food as Cultural Connection: A Study of Elder Larry Grant’s Childhood
- Lily Carter (IS) – Is a Pink Shirt Enough? Pink Shirt Day and the Bystander Effect
- Serena Lu (IS) – Israel as a model for language revitalisation, what Cantonese can take away
11:30am – 12:20pm – Session 2
Moderators: Aryana Mehrkhodavandi
Presenters: Lukas Gonzalez, Maya Tontti, Diva Shah, Kiana Alai, Utkaarsh Rajhans, Lianna Latif
Moderator: Akuol Riak
Presenters: Mafe Boucher, Anisha Dodani, Marianne El-Mikati, Arwant Kang, Will Tao
12:30pm - 1:00pm - SHOWCASE
Moderators: Dolapo Olanrewaju, Leila Cavers
- Amalia Smith Durán (PPE) - “Creepypasta to Panic: How 2014 News Coverage Misread Slender Man's Participatory Culture as Public Threat"
- Ahleena Cowsill (MS) - "Invisible Justice: What the News Ignores Inside Vancouver’s Courtrooms"
- Myra Yu (ES) - "Arc'teryx's Roundtrip: How outdoor apparel has circulated the globe"
- Olivia Atkinson, Ahleena Cowsill, Sharon Mai, and Jiadong Sun - "Situating the Nonprofit Industrial Complex"
- Beihao Liu, Mclaren Nelson-Quine, Ella Reynolds, and Yiwen Wu - "Unconditional Cash Transfers Reduce Homelessness"
1:00pm - 1:50pm - Session 3
Moderator: Bana Anabtawi
- Kaila van Vliet (LS) – Elites Sustaining the Prison Industrial Complex
- Camila Mariel Sanchez Lopez & Amaya Buenfil Ruz (PPE & IS) – Mexico's Searching Mothers: The Sociopolitical and Psychological Implications of Digital Activism in Mexico
- Hana Inouye (LS) – Queerness in isolation; The impact of shelter from heteronormative expectations
Moderator: Akuol Riak
- Cara Kuo (PPE) – Factors shaping eldercare among one-child policy-born women: A systematic review
- Luca Jenkin (IS) – Men Can Get Pregnant: A Review of Trans Masculine Perspectives on Gestational Pregnancy
- Tanisha Lehal (LS) – Infancy through Childhood in Prison: The potential positives and negatives in prison nurseries
2:00pm - 2:50pm - Session 4
Moderator: Aditi Bedarkar
- Remi Ajao-Russell (PPE) – The Political Economy of Adoption within the United States
- Eyerus Muller (PPE) – Facing cultural identity: a systematic review on transnational Ethiopian adoptees' experiences
- Newsha Novinchehr (IS) – The Children Left Behind
- Aase Ade-Akhani (PPE) – Migrant Workers' Experiences of Transnational Mothering: A Review
Moderator: Rayna Arora
- Carys Connolly (IS) – TMetaphors of Threat: How Reform UK Frames Immigration as an Attack on British Cultural and Religious Identity
- Lina Jeong (PPE) – Surrogacy in the Media: A Literature Review on Positive and Negative Media Frames
- Kiana Alai (LS) – Wage Gaps and Occupational Segregation: intersection of gender, race, and class contributing to wage disparities
Moderator: Dilia Hasanova
- Jakhona Juraeva (IS) – Metaphoric Frames for AI Companionship: A Discourse Analysis of Human–AI Emotional Intimacy
- Annick Williams (MS) – “Dear Phone, We Need to Talk”: Examining the Potential Impact of Digital Detox Discourse
- Navya Sharma (MS) – All Eyes on Gaza Until the Algorithm Looks Away: A Semiotic Analysis of Pro-Palestinian Censorship