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Putting a Face to Captivity in War in the Ancient Roman World

Putting a Face to Captivity in War in the Ancient Roman World By Katerina Huemoller (Department of CNERS, UBC) https://histories-cluster.ubc.ca/A-Face-to-Captivity   Thousands of people were trafficked as a result of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean (c. 300 BCE – 100 CE). These individuals are mostly recorded in ancient sources in numerical form alone—as tallies of prisoners […]

Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India

Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India By Radha D’Souza (Law, Development and Conflict Studies, School of Law, University of Westminster, UK), organized by Sunera Thobani (Department of Asian Studies, UBC) https://histories-cluster.ubc.ca/ProtectorsPerpetrators   Professor Radha D’Souza’s address will focus on state violence against women in India. India is widely perceived to be the most populous democracy […]

The Great Exodus Book Virtual Book Talk

On February 10 at 5PM (PST), join the online book talk hosted by UBC’s Centre for Chinese Research. The event will feature discussions with Dr. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang (yangmeng@missouri.edu) on his newly published book— The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan. We will take a look into the one of the least understood […]

Ziegler Lecture Series: “Spatial Politics with Berlin Black History Month Celebrations”

Join us on February 24 at 4:00 pm for the virtual Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Tiffany Florvil of the University of New Mexico. Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5EtceGrrD8vE9GRRzlclPVVFVprxIpCjZOA Title: “Spatial Politics with Berlin Black History Month Celebrations” Abstract: From France to the United States, Black diasporic subjects have long engendered spaces for themselves in order to assert their […]

Virtual Talk: Dr. Anna Hájková, “The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt”

The CENES Department is delighted to host a talk by Dr. Hájková on her book The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. This talk is free and open to the public. Register here via Zoom: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Atd-mtqD0pHNH_KAvfFS_DoSGhcOdxExaP Title: “The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt” Abstract: Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was […]

Writing the History of a Non-Event, or How I Studied the Mass Disappearances of 1965-66 in Indonesia

Disappearances are meant to be non-events. Many thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia in 1965-66 were secretly executed. Those responsible destroyed the evidence, claimed the event never happened, and enforced a silence upon it. How can historians study this kind of non-event? How should they? The approach I adopted in my book Buried Histories: The […]

Meeting for prospective History Majors, Minors, & Honours Students

Are you an undergraduate interested in history? On March 16th at 6pm, attend the Prospective Majors Evening with UBC History! Mark your calendars for an evening discussion about History program requirements, the History Students Association (HSA), Go Global, Co-op, and more. Sign up for departmental advising, ask your questions, & meet with faculty and students. […]