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Books about race, gender, sexuality, colonial history—these are among the most challenged titles in Canadian schools and libraries. 🚫📚
This week is Freedom to Read Week (Feb 22–28), and our colleagues at UVic Libraries have created a display that puts those books front and centre—because the best response to a challenge is to read the challenged books! ✊
Stop by McPherson Library to have a look. 👀
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Please join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Alexandra Bögner (Basel University, CH)
Dr. Bögner is researching how EU supply chain regulations and their enforcement are impacted by political pressure.
Co-presented by CIFAL Victoria, Environmental Governance Group (EGG), UNITAR & Kula
When: Tuesday, May 19, 12–1 PM,
Where: Kula Lounge, Mearns Centre for Learning - McPherson Library, UVic
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Trauma-informed archiving asks what responsibility an archive holds toward survivors.
On April 22 at 10 AM PDT, Dr. Ajnura Akbaš of the War Childhood Museum joins the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project and UBC's Public Humanities Hub to discuss community-engaged approaches to archiving the 1992–1995 Bosnian War.
Part of the Archiving with Care Webinar Series. Moderators: Matt Huculak & Oli
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We talk a lot about threats to libraries—book bans, political intimidation, budget cuts—as a threat to democracy itself.
But what happens when these institutions built to safeguard democracy become vulnerable to undermining it from within — including through their own budgets funding surveillance capitalism?
That question is raised in "Save Troy: Liberate The Library," a provocative micro-essay by
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Books about race, gender, sexuality, colonial history—these are among the most challenged titles in Canadian schools and libraries. 🚫📚
This week is Freedom to Read Week (Feb 22–28), and our colleagues at UVic Libraries have created a display that puts those books front and centr…
International Archives Week 2026 (8–12 June) puts the social role of archives in focus — theme: "Archives for Justice: Rights, Memory & Futures."
Our mini-symposium ***in Leipzig, Germany*** carries this theme: Mon, 15 June, HTWK Leipzig. …
Please join us for a guest lecture by Dr. Alexandra Bögner (Basel University, CH)
Dr. Bögner is researching how EU supply chain regulations and their enforcement are impacted by political pressure.
Co-presented by CIFAL Victoria, Environ…
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Trauma-informed archiving asks what responsibility an archive holds toward survivors.
On April 22 at 10 AM PDT, Dr. Ajnura Akbaš of the War Childhood Museum joins the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project and UBC's Public Humanities H…
Kula and CIFAL Victoria are co-hosting a UN SDG Month Mixer on Friday, March 27: a lunchtime conversation for UVic faculty, staff, and students whose work relates to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Come join us and connect across discip…
In the 1930s, an archaeological team at the Penn Museum captured nearly 300 photographs of Yezidi life in northern Iraq — weddings, pilgrimages, laughing children. After the 2014 genocide destroyed homes, shrines, and local archives, those…
Researchers, educators, students, staff—if open scholarship has ever crossed your mind, this one is for you. 🌱
The Open Science Community Victoria (a Kula seed-funded initiative) is hosting an inter-siciplinary panel on integrating open re…
We talk a lot about threats to libraries—book bans, political intimidation, budget cuts—as a threat to democracy itself.
But what happens when these institutions built to safeguard democracy become vulnerable to undermining it from within …
Wonder what Kula is all about? Here's a good place to start. 👇
In an interview with EurekAlert, Kula Director @jmhuculak talks about what happens when libraries become spaces of collaboration, creativity, and shared inquiry — from reflecti…
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We are just as excited about being part of this year's @bibliocon as our German friends and colleagues at @tibosl – what better time to join forces across the Atlantic and tackle thr…
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