LIMITL

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Columbia Colle

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July

21, 2018 | 9

:30 am - 3

:00 pm

Columbia Colle

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ImagInIng

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special thanks from your conference organizersWe acknowledge that LIMITLESS 2018 takes place on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, Stó:lō and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. We also want to acknowledge all non-status peoples and members of other tribes who live in Vancouver.

Conference organizers always rely heavily on the generosity of others. This conference would not have been possible without the assistance and enthusiasm of our student volunteers, Student Services, Library staff, and teachers at the college. In particular, we would like to thank the following for dedicating their time to moderate: Lesley Schimanski, Crystal Ehresman, Shahnaz Koji, Mike Metcalf, Victoria Hodson, Lisa Poole, Anastasia Shamshyna, and Ataman Avdan. We’d also like to thank the judging committee: Meghan Bowe, Hema Giesbrecht, Brenda Louie, Brylle Navea, Jessica Poon Nielsen, and Tara Todoruk. Many thanks to Kenneth Lau for filming today’s events.

LIMITLESS 2018 was also possible through generous financial support from Columbia College.

Thanks to the IT staff for making email communications possible within the college and for the AV tech support during the conference.

We thank all our student presenters for imagining brighter futures.

We extend deep gratitude to our workshop facilitators, Karen Atwal, Manjot Bains, Sophie Baker, Rose Black, Gabrielle Flores-Santiago, Simran Sarwara, and Abeer Yusuf, and keynote speakers, Hasan Alam and Dr. Maryam Sadeghi, who have set the tone for a wonderful conference.

Finally, we want to thank each other. Planning this conference was a lot of work, but has proven to be tremendously rewarding. We couldn’t have imagined a brighter future without each other.

Many thanks, Rose Black, Gabrielle Flores-Santiago, Stephanie Fung, Noorhan Gamal, Fatin Jallad, Mike Metcalf, Sarah Munawar, Matt Wadsworth, Anna Zima

Welcome Welcome to LIMITLESS 2018! This year, LIMITLESS invites all Columbia College students to our panels, workshops, and events, including our opening Keynote Address by Hasan Alam followed by an afternoon Keynote Address by Dr. Maryam Sadeghi. Our conference will close with an Awards Ceremony.

With student presenters across disciplines, the conference program this year is a diverse and thought-provoking engagement with our theme, “Imagining Brighter Futures.”

Why “Imagining Brighter Futures?”

The goal of the conference is to celebrate student excellence in academic scholarship, as well as to equip students with the practical tools and skills they need to succeed in today’s job market. What does a brighter future look like? How can we imagine brighter futures not just for ourselves, but also for others? What are the ethics or responsibilities in doing so?

We hope you can join many of the panels, workshops, and conversations today, and we look forward to seeing you around!

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Limitless at a glanceConference registration is free for Columbia College students and includes catered breakfast and lunch, and entry to all panels, workshops, and keynotes.

10:00 - 10:50 am Concurrent Panels (1 & 2) Rooms 414 & 416

1) Subaltern Histories and Postcolonial Futures: (Re)Imagining the Origins and Boundaries of the Nation (Moderators: Lesley Schimanski and Crystal Ehresman) Room 414

Vongai Mundiya - Tensions Begins When You Decide to Impose

Tarandeep Singh - Vicious Empire of British

Harpreet Kaur - Marxism in India

Nishita - Class Struggle: Outcome of the Revolution

Lovepreet Kaur - The Rise of Technology and Its Influence on the Lives of Human Beings

Malvis Okika - Dependency Theory: Enclave Economies in Africa

2) The Changing World of Human Resource Management, Finding Employment Research in S.T.E.M, and Environmental Justice: Building Greener World and Futures (Moderators: Shahnaz Koji and Mike Metcalf) Room 416

Hargopal Parmar - How to Make a Firm More Productive

Manvir Singh - Resume Writing 101

Vikramjeet Singh - Hydraulic Pressure: The Amazing Work of a Little Crane

9:00 - 9:30 am Breakfast 5th floor Student Lounge

9:30 - 9:55 am Keynote Address: Hasan Alam Room 550/560

10:00 - 10:50 am Concurrent Panels (1 & 2) Rooms 414 & 416 Developing a Small Business Room 412 Self-Care: Success after Graduation Room 446 Unlearning Empowerment in South Asian Diaspora Room 448 Gaining Work and Volunteer Experience Room 450 10:50 - 11:00 am Break

11:00 - 11:50 am Concurrent Panels (3 & 4) Rooms 414 & 416 Developing a Small Business Room 412 Self-Care: Success after Graduation Room 446 Unlearning Empowerment in South Asian Diaspora Room 448 Building your Brand Room 450 Video Replay of Panels 1 & 2 Room 550/560

12:00 - 12:30 pm Lunch 4th floor Student Lounge

12:30 - 1:00 pm Keynote Address: Dr. Maryam Sadeghi Room 550/560

1:10 - 2:00 pm Concurrent Panels (5 & 6) Rooms 414 & 416 Gaining Work and Volunteer Experience Room 412 Your Leadership Style Room 446 Gaining Work and Volunteer Experience Room 448 Building your Brand Room 450 Video Replay of Panels 3 & 4 Room 550/560 2:00 - 3:00 pm Awards Ceremony & Closing Remarks Room 550/560

Conference schedule

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conference schedule Ifraz Ahmed - The Future of Cloud Storage: Peer to Peer Decentralized Storage Systems

Jian Wei Jonathan Chen - Can Crows Help With Our Littering?

Harsimran Kaur - Kenya: Ban on Plastics

Bruno Heger de Andrade Rebelo - A Brighter Future with Solar Power

Saulo Guizar - Channel Your Energy for Common Good

Michael Oyaro - A Brighter Future Enhanced Through Leadership

11:00 - 11:50 am Concurrent Panels (3 & 4) Rooms 414 & 416

3) Critical Pedagogies: The Role of Ethics in Global Education // Thinking with Care: Frontiers and Possibilities in Global Public Health (Moderators: Ataman Avdan and Shahnaz Koji) Room 414

Venisia Wijaya - Becoming a Successful Learner: Four Determining Attributes of Effective Learning

Lewia Prunella Ntunga - Think Big: Reinforcing Ethics

Sana Poornasiri - Sex Education and Sexual Health: The Relation Between Sex Education and Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy, STDS, and STIs

Jiraporn Chaemdara (Elle) - Label Signs of HIV/ AIDS: HIV? AIDS Can Happen to Everyone

Abhishek Arora - Culture, Social Environment, and Other Factors of Addiciton

Garry Narula - Bipolar Disorder: A Stain to People’s Life?

Jaspreet Saini - Social Media Obsessions

4) Canada 151+: Questions of Sovereignty, Reconciliation, and Inclusion // Global and the Local: Addressing Poverty at Home and Abroad (Moderators: Victoria Hodson and Lisa Poole) Room 416

Devki Shah - How Canada Will Look in the Next 150 Years

Satinderdeep Kaur - Canada in 150 Years: Social, Cultural, and Economic Factors

Brennan Morse - Canada in 150: Political, Economic, and Population Factors

Gursimran Kaur Gill - Poverty in Vancouver

Simranjeet Kaur - Homelessness: Cause and Effect

Urja Sharma - Child Hunger: A Solvable Problem

1:10 - 2:00 pm Concurrent Panels (5 & 6) Rooms 414 & 416

5) In Her Voice: Transnational Feminist Perspectives (Moderators: Lesley Schimanski and Crystal Ehresman) Room 414

Gurpreet Kaur - Female Airline Pilots

Nunazriah Dhahrusalam - Child Marriage: Addressing It as a Right-Based Problem

Amanat Kaur - India Needs a Better Structure for its Citizens

Manpreet Kaur - Feminism and Anti-Feminism in Sudan

Saki Kawano - Feminist Movement in Japan

6) From Within the Margins: The Politics of Inclusion (Moderators: Victoria Hodson and Ataman Avdan) Room 416

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Prayzeet - Refugee Crisis: What’s our Moral Obligation toward the Refugees’ Children?

Nadim Ahlasa - Human Rights Justice: Amazigh in North Africa

Amandeep Singh - A Reflection on the First Nations People in Canada

Watenga Martha - The Value of Ethnic Affiliation on National Identity

Karen Atwal (Work and Volunteer Experience)Karen has been a counsellor at Columbia College since 2015 and is currently actively involved with the Students for the Planet club at the college. She has also assisted students on campus through job preparation and resume writing workshops. Before working at Columbia College, Karen was a social worker at Vancouver General Hospital where she helped support a diverse population through education and prevention.

Manjot Bains (Developing a Small Business)Manjot Bains is the co-founder + editor-in-chief of Jugni Style.com, and producer of The Nameless Collective Podcast. As a writer and communications consultant, her creative non-fiction writing has been published in Geist Magazine, Huffington Post, and numerous corporate publications. Manjot is also co-creator of Anara, a modern textiles + home decor brand carried in stores across Vancouver + Brooklyn. An active community volunteer, Manjot is a member of the BC Arts Council and a past member of the City of Vancouver Multicultural Advisory Committee. She

Workshop Facilitators

loves French pastries, pilates and reading race theory. Instagram @manjotdbains @jugnistyle @anaradesignco

Sophie Baker (Self-Care: Success After Graduation)Sophie is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) who has enjoyed working at Columbia College since 2014. Before this, she was a counsellor at Trinity Western University where she assisted students with managing their mental health challenges and improving their coping techniques. Sophie is particularly interested in working with students on their overall wellness and enhancing their self-care strategies.

Rose Black (Your Leadership Style)Rose has been working as Student Services Manager at Columbia College since May 2014, and before that worked in community engagement at Leeds University Union, one of the biggest student-led charities in the UK. Rose loves helping students to identify their strengths so that they can reach their full potential and has been lucky to present to students from across Canada at an annual Student Leadership Conference run by guard.me for the past two years.

Gabrielle Flores-Santiago (Work and Volunteer Experience)Gabrielle has recently joined Columbia College as the Learning Centre Supervisor. She is currently working on a couple of projects to further enable the success of the College’s community of learners. Having previously worked as an Employment Specialist and an Inclusion Facilitator, she has supported many individuals to obtain meaningful employment within their own communities. Feel free to visit her in the Learning Centre (411) for a chat and a snack.

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Workshop Facilitators KeYnOte sPeaKer: hasan alam

His role at CIDA involved working with local NGOs around issues of human rights, gender equality, and labour rights. Hasan articled at the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, through which he gained experience in poverty and human rights law. He also had the opportunity to facilitate public legal education workshops across British Columbia, which focused on marginalized communities learning more about their rights.

Hasan currently works as a Staff Lawyer at the BC Government and Service Employees Union, where, he advocates on behalf of workers and represents them in labour arbitrations and mediations. He is also the supervising lawyer for the Abbotsford Community Services Migrant Worker and Poverty Law Clinics. These programs are aimed at providing pro bono legal advice to individuals who are either temporary foreign workers in the lower mainland or cannot afford legal services otherwise. Hasan is also a founding member of Critical Muslim Voices, an organization dedicated to advocating against Islamophobia in Canada and creating spaces for dialogue and community activism. He currently sits on the boards of the BC Civil Liberties Association and the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers.

Hasan Alam is an activist and lawyer that specializes in employment and labour law. He is a child of Pakistani migrants and resides here on the occupied territories of the Coast Salish People. He received his degree in Law from the University of Calgary in 2011 and was called to the bar in British Columbia in 2012. Prior to law school, he worked in Cairo, Egypt for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Simran Sarwara (Unlearning Empowerment in South Asian Diaspora) Simran Sarwara is a current Liberal Studies student at Capilano University with a strong as well as a diverse background in the participation of various grassroots initiatives. As she continues to do so, she expresses an ambition to develop and deliver capacity-building workshops for various communities of marginalized youth, particularly among Indigenous and newcomer communities. She is currently working towards maintaining grassroots ties through her role as the Youth Community Developer at PeerNetBC, while also hoping to pursue a career as a human rights lawyer for marginalized communities in and around what is called Canada. Simran envisions the collaboration of multiple movements, projects, and other initiatives around the world that will serve to support any young person to accomplish their goals in the same way she has been supported to do so.

Abeer Yusuf (Building Your Brand)Abeer Yusuf is a journalist, media professional and community builder. Abeer migrated to Canada four years ago to pursue her second Masters in Journalism at UBC, and has been working in the media landscape for the last 8 years. Her interests lie in authentically building connections and community, intersectionality of race and culture, looking at identity <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quS_pMGIlec> and how we belong in places. Her passions include reading fiction, beating Google Maps’ walking estimates, the colour yellow and eating chicken biryani. Abeer spends her time between Vancouver and the Internet.

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Maryam Sadeghi, the CEO and Co-Founder of MetaOptima Technology, completed her PhD in Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in the Medical Image Analysis lab.

In 2012, she co-founded MetaOptima Technology in Vancouver, Canada, where MoleScope and DermEngine were developed for intelligent skin analytics, imaging, and management. The company was one of ten that were shortlisted for the 2013 BCIC New Ventures Competition, and won a $40,000 Wavefront Wireless prize package. In 2014, Dr. Sadeghi also won the Venture Prize from Coast Capital Savings.

From 2013-2015, Dr. Sadeghi was director of the Digital Health Hub (Innovation Boulevard), where she was actively involved in R&D and commercialization activities. She also worked closely with the Gerontology Research Center (GRC) at SFU on innovative health solutions for senior care and independent living.

In 2016, Dr. Sadeghi made the Business In Vancouver’s Forty Under 40 Awards List for her innovative work and successful commercialization of DermEngine (an intelligent dermatology platform) and MoleScope (a mobile dermoscope). Recently, Maryam was appointed as a MITACS Research Council member, was credited

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as one of BC’s most influential women in BC Business Magazine, and her company was listed as a “Ready To Rocket” business in the area of digital health.

Since its development, MetaOptima has become one of the fastest growing digital health technology companies in Canada, and continues to strive to empower physicians and patients for better care outcomes.

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COnFerenCe PassPOrtDon’t forget to get a stamp or sticker when you attend a panel or keynote, or participate in a workshop! Show this page to your instructor at the end of the conference to get class participation points.

Time Name of session you attended

Stamp / Sticker

9:30-9:55 am Keynote Address: Hasan Alam

10:00-10:50 am

11:00-11:50 am

12:30-1:00 pm Keynote Address: Dr. Maryam Sadeghi

1:10-2:00 pm

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Check out the summer issue of Aesth, produced and published by Columbia College’s journal club, to see what other students have created. Consider buying a copy to support their creative and academic work!

Cost: Only $3 each for students, $5 for teachers, FREE copy for published authors and artists!

Where: Registration table at the conference

Send your paper to Aesth at columbiacollegejournal@gmail.com today!

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