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A couple of years ago I read Turning: Lessons from Berlin’s Lakes by Jessica J. Lee. This beautifully crafted environmental memoir also taught me about the seasonal turning of lakes: the colder and warmer parts of the lake switch places, and a lake’s appearance changes too – a murkier summertime lake all of a sudden… Continue reading Turning Over

This FEELed Note showcases the work of FEELed Lab Research Associate and former UBC Okanagan SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Alex Berry.   How does climate change taste? This is an inquiry that Alex Berry explored with a class of education students last Spring, as part of a research project investigating sensory pedagogies for relating to place… Continue reading Tasting Climate Change

This FEELed Note is the first post from Tom Letcher-Nicholls, a PhD student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies program in Sustainability. His research focuses on the responsibilities, relations, and obligations of researchers on unceded territories From the 19th-22nd of June, with the support of the FEELed Lab, I attended the 2024 biennial conference of the Association… Continue reading Researchers in the FEELed! ALECC 2024

This FEELed Note is from Emma Carey, a Master’s student in UBCO’s Interdisciplinary Sustainability program, who is also working on the Enhancing Access and Inclusion in Environmental Humanities Research Practice Project. Hello fellow FEELers! Our team has been hard at work on the Access and Inclusion project, planning, thinking, and learning about how we can be… Continue reading Access and Inclusion Zine-making Workshop at ALECC Conference

In May as part of our Biodiversities of Gender project, FEELed Lab Research Affiliates Michael V Smith and Erin Scott offered a writing and performance workshop called Plant Pizzazz! (from page to stage) which used plants as a springboard for gender exploration. Participants researched and wrote plant-based monologues (“I am the pasqueflower” and “I am… Continue reading Feeling Planty?

The FEELed Lab reaffirms our support of the People’s University at UBCO and joins faculty, staff and organizations across Canada who have expressed their support, solidarity, and admiration for students’ calls to boycot, divest and impose sanctions against institutions and corporations supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We reaffirm the students’ right to peaceful assembly… Continue reading FEELing Solidarity

In early April, the FEELed Lab had the welcome opportunity to co-convene the next installation of the Storyteller’s Series run by UBCO’s Institute for Community Engaged Research. This session featured Cree scholar and UBCO Associate Professor Shawn Wilson, discussing his influential work on Research is Ceremony – what it is grounded in, and how and… Continue reading Storytelling, at the Periphery

Over the past year, Natalie Forssman and Astrida have been convening informal one-hour sessions where faculty from a wide range of Departments at UBCO share assignments, exercises and other pedagogies that they have used in their classrooms that invite students to engage “place” in a wider variety of ways: as colonized, as surprising, as laden… Continue reading Place-based Pedagogies: Sharing is Caring!

Neela Rader (they/them) is a sibling, artist, and community organizer living in the traditional, unceded, and currently occupied territories of the syilx people. They love David Bowie, playing the fiddle, and spending time with their sibling.  This FEELed Note is part of our occasional series featuring outstanding feelz from undergraduate students. In the springtime of 2017,… Continue reading Dear Mill Creek, Sorry for Everything– P.S. I Love You

This FEELed Note is from Grace Henri who is a research affiliate leading  project “Nostalgia Forecast”, which investigates the complexity of eco-grief, and more specifically, how we mourn what we have not yet lost.  Every day we line up small rocks by the shoreline. Methodically we push them into the smooth sand, spread equally apart… Continue reading Returning to the Shore: the Power of Ritual