Job Postings: Operations and Special Projects Manager, Program Assistant
The Centre is hiring for two positions: an Operations and Special Projects Manager, and a Program Assistant. Both postings will remain open until November 6. Find the full postings on Workday here:
Director’s Message and Centre Updates
Director’s updates moving forward into the fall from IRSHDC Director Janey Lew.
IRSHDC Welcomes Janey Lew as Director
The Centre is pleased to welcome Janey Lew, PhD. (she/they) into the role of Director. Janey stepped into the role earlier this year.
Watch: CBC Interviews IRSHDC Academic Director Johnny Mack
Last month, the CBC’s Wawmeesh Hamilton visited IRSHDC Academic Director Johnny Mack at the Centre to talk about Nuu-chah-nulth worldview, making room for Indigenous students, addressing denialism, and more.
Job Posting: IRSHDC Director
We are hiring! Find the internal job posting here, and the external posting here. The job requisition number is JR23041 Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre. Apply by January 11, 2026.
Turning Sideways Toward Truth: A Statement from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Events unfolding at another B.C. campus over the past week have brought renewed attention to a familiar tactic: attempts to provoke controversy around the history of residential schools in order to draw Indigenous communities and institutions into an exhausting cycle of reaction.
Statement Regarding Recent Findings at St. Augustine’s and Kuper Island Indian Residential Schools
The Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) extends our deepest condolences and support to the Shíshálh Nation and to the Penelakut Tribe following their recent announcements regarding unmarked graves at the sites of the former St. Augustine’s Indian Residential School (also known as Sechelt Residential School) and the Kuper Island Indian Residential School. We are deeply saddened by the confirmation […]
Professor Johnny Mack appointed as Academic Director at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
Professor Johnny Mack has been appointed Academic Director at the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC), effective May 1, 2025, for a three-year term. Situated at the intersection of academic inquiry, historical truth-telling, and community engagement, the IRSHDC plays a vital role in advancing UBC’s academic mission by supporting Indigenous Peoples’ rights to […]
Statement from the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre
The history of the Indian Residential School system in Canada is not a matter of opinion or debate. The documented facts – including Survivor testimonies, government and church records and physical evidence of unmarked burials – are well-established and publicly accessible. These facts have been acknowledged by federal and provincial governments, churches and independent commissions, […]
Indian Health Regulations: How tuberculosis played into Canada’s settler colonial genocide
March 24 is World TB Day, in recognition of the day in 1882 when Dr. Robert Koch announced the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the germ that causes tuberculosis (TB). In 1952, on the Stony Reserve in Alberta, Bella Two Young Men was taken away from her husband and forcibly kept in a segregated hospital for tuberculosis […]