Worn Words: Engaged Research-creation and Stories of Ordinary Words

17 March 2021 12:00 pm

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Film Screening and Talk This event includes a screening of Borderstory, a 24-minute film on the word ‘border,’ followed by a discussion of its production process as a form of research creation. Humanitarian communication is notorious for shaping a popular imaginary around refugee ethics that dehistoricizes the cultural figure of the refugee and focuses on […]

Between Loss and Recovery: Cross-Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia

22 March 2021 11:00 am

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This study focuses on medical pluralism in Ottoman Bosnia through its confessional differences, medical theories, and curative practices. Given that medical knowledge circulated inter-regionally, between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, as well as intra-regionally, among Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Jews, the study sheds light on how premodern Bosnians negotiated their lives between local and […]

Disability and the Distorted Body on the Ancient Roman Comic Stage

24 March 2021 12:00 pm

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The times when Plautus, the most well-preserved Roman comic playwright, lived and worked, were the times of the biggest war campaign the Roman Republic had undertaken till then. Alongside changeable war luck, the Punic Wars brought huge social turmoil. As a direct result of wars, among other marginal social groups that increased in this period […]

10th Annual Burge Lecture – Guest lecturer Dr. Sunil Amrith

22 April 2021 6:00 pm

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The UBC Department of History is pleased to invite you to this year’s Annual Burge Lecture, “Migration and the Environment: A View from the Indian Ocean World” with Dr. Sunil Amrith, Professor of History at Yale University. Organized by the UBC History Graduate Student Association, the Burge Lecture is an annual endowed lecture made possible by […]

The Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance became Policy and Politics

27 April 2021 12:30 pm

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Join us for this seminar with historian Kate Brown on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, marking its 35th anniversary. Please register in advance. The Zoom details will be emailed you to prior to the event. U.N. websites say that 33 people died from the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe and 6,000 children got cancer. Is that the extent of […]

Confronting Hatred: New-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today.

29 April 2021 9:00 am

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Please join the editorial staff of The Journal of Holocaust Research for a virtual roundtable webinar with the authors of our latest special issue – Confronting Hatred: New-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today. Featuring UBC History’s Heidi Tworek.

University of the Fraser Valley: The Future of BC’s History

08 May 2021

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Join UBC History’s Sharanjit Sandhra as well as panelists from UVic and UNBC for “The Future of BC’s History,” a forum discussion about the past, present, and future of B.C. studies. Part of the BC Studies conference at the University of the Fraser Valley.

From the Forgotten to the Monumental: Early Communism in Republican China

13 May 2021 4:00 pm

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Join Tim Cheek of UBC History, and Dr. Wen-hsin Yeh of UC Berkeley for “From the Forgotten to the Monumental: Early Communism in Republican China,” a webinar from the UCI Irvine Centre for Asian Studies.

BC Museums Association: The Elephant in the Room: the Leadership Crisis in Canada’s Cultural Sector

21 May 2021 10:00 am

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As part of BC Museums Week ’21, the BC Museum’s Association will hold a session, facilitated by UBC History PhD Candidate Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, on systemic racism in Canada’s museum sector.

Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures through Construction Photography

21 May 2021 7:00 pm

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Join the UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative for “Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures through Construction Photography.” Cecilia Chu of the University of Hong Kong, and Dorothy Tang of MIT discuss photography and infrastructure in 70s and 80s Hong Kong- the “golden age of construction.”