To mark the 90th Anniversary of the School of Social Work we held a Symposium on Social Justice and an Ethic of Care – Feb 24 & 25. The Symposium opened with a keynote address from Prof. Christine Morley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (details below). The Symposium continued the next day with research papers and panels from 9:00 am to 5 pm at Jack Bell School of Social Work, 2080 West Mall, UBC. Agenda and Abstracts can be found here. The event was co-sponsored with the Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Keynote and Keynote Registration: Professor Christine Morley, Queensland University of Technology, spoke on “Reactivating Social Work Practice as an Emancipatory Project: The Role of Critical Theory, Pedagogy and Reflection”. The keynote was from 5:30 to 7 pm on Feb. 24 (Room: The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC) and was open to the public. Please click here for more info.
Registration for the event has been closed.
Questions? Please contact: sowk.main@ubc.ca.
