A Place Like Home: student research symposium
Are you a Vancouver-area university student researching housing-related issues? Check out this November event.
Date and time
November 15, 2023
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location
SFU Vancouver, Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
Segal Conference Room (HC1420) & Teck Gallery
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Details
☕️ Coffee and lunch will be provided.
🎨 Original artwork inspired by themes of home and community will be on display throughout the event.
A Place like Home is a free research symposium featuring graduate and PhD student work that examines the nexus of community and housing. Presenters from SFU, UBC, and UNBC will come together to explore the significance and need for homes amidst the ongoing housing, climate, and opioid crises.
With keynote remarks from Samantha Thompson (UVic) and City in Colour (CiC) Co-operative*, we look forward to having cross-disciplinary discussions on both the limits and potential for improved housing and care for our communities.
*More about keynotes and speakers on Eventbrite and programme
Homes are places in which people grow up, form relationships, work, study, and age. An inquiry into housing is not limited to physical structures, but also the social connections, well-being, and sense of belonging that are integral to where we live. The community and housing nexus refers to this relationship between where we live and the communities we are apart of or aspire to be apart of.
Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of housing studies, this symposium aims to address critical themes in housing planning and policy, sociology, anthropology, health, gerontology, geography, and economics. We hope to facilitate meaningful discussions about what the changing landscape of housing means for our individual and collective communities, now and into the future.
The symposium hopes to spotlight student research and foster an environment where students can exchange ideas, connect, and collaborate with other researchers.
Event programme
10:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM
Keynote Address: Samantha Thompson
“Sustaining Life in Housing Crises: Impacts of Landlord-Tenant Laws on Tenants’ Experiences of Care and Housing”
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM
Break
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM
Panel 1: The Right to Housing I
This panel considers how systemic oppression plays out within the housing system and is reflected in residents’ lived experiences. In particular, how does this affect the right to adequate housing for historically marginalized communities?
12:45 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch break
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Keynote Address 2: City in Colour (CiC) Co-operative
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM
Panel 2: The Right to Housing II
This panel is an extension of Panel 1 but considers specific challenges to building community and home-making in the Vancouver and Vancouver DTES context.
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Panel 3: Housing Policy Limits & Innovations
This panel considers the limits and innovations of housing and neighbourhood policy. These presentations consider future directions for housing development, as well as the unintended harm brought forward by the same decision-making process.
3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Break
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Panel 4: Community building & Collective living
This panel explores the changing meaning of what it means to live together in a context where collective housing is often framed as a less desirable housing alternative. How does this affect understandings of home and community?
5:00 PM
Closing remark
Thank you to our symposium sponsors!
