Event Category Archives: Featured Events

HGSA Winter Book Sale

The UBC History Graduate Student Association’s winter book sale will be at the AMS Nest Booth #20 (across from Tea Dot), Monday December 2 – Wednesday December 4 from 10 am to 3 pm. Paperbacks start at $2 each and hardcovers start at $5 each. We have history and other kinds of non-fiction and fiction books, […]

Burge Lecture 2025 | “A Crying Need for a Day Care Centre” with Dr. Sarah Nickel

Burge Lecture with Dr. Sarah Nickel The Burge Lecture is an annual endowed lecture organized by the History Graduate Students Association and made possible by a generous donation from UBC alumnus William Burge. The series provides students, faculty, alumni and community members the opportunity to connect with historians and scholars engaged in exciting research relevant to our […]

Waiting for the People with Nazmul Sultan

Waiting for the People reconstructs how the debates over peoplehood defined Indian anticolonial thought, and a bold new framework for theorizing the global career of democracy. This book is the first account of Indian answers to the question of peoplehood in political theory. From Surendranath Banerjea and Radhakamal Mukerjee to Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, […]

A Conversation with Andy Chih-ming Wang

The Empires in Asia cluster is delighted to welcome interested graduate students and faculty to this informal lunchtime conversation with Andy Chih-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society). Andy Chih-ming Wang is a Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, working in the intersected […]

A Maritime Vietnam with Li Tana

Despite its 3,000 kilometre coastline, few people see Vietnam as a maritime country. In A Maritime Vietnam, Li Tana presents a powerful new argument about Vietnamese history: that key political changes resulted from the impact, economic and otherwise, of the sea. This is a finely layered account covering the two millennia before colonisation that radically […]

History Honours Symposium Session #1

Date: Monday, April 7, 11:00–12:30 Location: Buchanan Tower 1112 Join us to learn about and celebrate the research of this year’s graduating History Honours students! The UBC Department of History is pleased to invite you to attend the 2025 Honours Symposium, which will feature presentations by this year’s graduating Honours students. All members of the UBC […]

History Honours Symposium Session #2

Date: Thursday, April 10, 14:30–16:00 Location: Buchanan Tower 1112 Join us to learn about and celebrate the research of this year’s graduating History Honours students! The UBC Department of History is pleased to invite you to attend the 2025 Honours Symposium, which will feature presentations by this year’s graduating Honours students. All members of the UBC History […]