Human Rights and Equity Conference 2024
This year's human rights and equity (HRE) conference takes place on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Sheraton Guildford Hotel in Surrey – the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, and Semiahmoo First Nations peoples.
The application period for this year’s conference is now closed.
This one-day, in-person conference, On Being Included: Reflecting on the Past, Imagining the Future, is an invitation for us to consider what it means to be included – in our union and our workplaces – and to consider the histories, systems and processes that continue to function as mechanisms of exclusion.
In 2025, BCNU will commemorate two decades of a sustained commitment to expanding the circle of inclusion – an initiative that began with the establishment of the multicultural caucus in 2005. In the ensuing years, the commitment to inclusion has grown in significance and scope – but much remains to be done.
Join your colleagues as we reflect on our past accomplishments and begin the task of imagining a more just and equitably inclusive future.
Guest speakers
Dr. Jill Stauffer is an associate professor and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights concentration at Haverford College, where she also leads a restorative practices program. She authored Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard and co-edited Nietzsche and Levinas: After the Death of a Certain God. Stauffer serves on the editorial board of Voice of Witness, an oral history series amplifying voices of those affected by human rights crises. She is currently working on a book titled Temporal Privilege, exploring the relationship between time and law.
Vivek Chibber is a sociology professor at New York University and the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. He has authored several books, including Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It (Verso: 2022), The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn (Harvard: 2022), and Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (Verso: 2013).
Additional speakers coming soon.