Past Exhibits

	Faith, Fencing & Fate: New Cultural Landscapes of Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands   April 26 2010 - July 9 2010 By Juanita Sundberg and Michael Hyatt Gallery Opening April 26 2010 Crossing the southern border of the United States without authorization is now a life-threatening journey. As undocumented migrants travel north, they interact with and transform the landscape in small, yet significant ways through the things they leave behind, from shelters and shrines to quotidian objects.    This collaborative project by Juanita Sundberg, a human geographer at UBC and Michael Hyatt, a social documentary photographer, records and represents these new cultural landscapes of migration in Arizona’s Altar Valley. Whether ephemeral or enduring, the landscapes left behind invite compelling questions about the sensory dimensions of migration, the ways geopolitics, bodies, and desert landscapes meet.
	Personalizing the World Health Crisis   March 25 2010 - April 22 2010 By Robert Semeniuk Artist lecture part of tribute to Dr. George Povey, April 9th at 5pm.   Fourteen million people die each year from treatable diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and diarrhea, while another two billion are infected. In addition to these main killers are the numerous little known diseases like sleeping sickness, river blindness, rotavirus, and trachoma, all of which shatter families, jolt economies and destabilize security and food supplies. More than one billion people lack access to clean water, and 2.6 billion lack access to sanitation. Yet the amount spent on world health is less than two percent of the global military budget. World health is a human right and the most pressing development issue facing us today.   By living among, and forming intimate friendships with the diseased and disenfranchised people whose stories are documented, this project aims to give a voice, hope and dignity to the victims, and humanize the crisis by putting faces and personalities on the overwhelming statistics.   http://www.robertsemeniuk.com/worldhealth.html
	Her Name is Beatrice, My Name is Lara: experiences in witnessing, internal displacement and conflict in Northern Uganda after 23 years of war January 14 2010 - March 25 2010 By Lara Rosenoff, PhD student and Liu Scholar At certain stages in the 23-year conflict in Northern Uganda, over 1.8 million people, or 90% of the northern population, had been displaced into severely overcrowded and squalid internally displaced person’s (IDP) camps, resulting in “almost 1000 excess deaths every week…” (Ugandan Ministry of Health, 2005). It is also estimated that one in five girls and one in three boys in northern Uganda have been abducted at some point by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group and were forced to be child soldiers. Although a ceasefire between the LRA and the Ugandan Government had been signed in August 2006, it has since run out without producing a peace agreement. The LRA and their infamous leader, Joseph Kony, continue to be active in neighbouring Sudan, Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo. "Her Name is Beatrice, My Name is Lara: experiences in witnessing, internal displacement and conflict in Northern Uganda after 23 years of war" is a documentary project manifested in several forms. The various forms and means of dissemination examine a documentary’s potentials and pitfalls in critical “witnessing,” while exploring how voices from those living in the centre of conflict can challenge dominant media and humanitarian narratives. Lara Rosenoff returned three times over two years to visit Beatrice in Padibe Internally Displaced Person's Camp in Northern Uganda. The photo and video-based exhibition that Ms. Rosenoff has put together is part of their story and will be featured in the Lobby Gallery at the Liu Institute for Global Issues in 2010. For more information about the exhibit, please visit http://www.hernameisbeatrice.com/