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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. […]

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

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

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 […]

Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow

The Institute for European Studies, the Department of Anthropology and the Eurasia Research Cluster present: Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow A virtual talk by Riikkamari Muhonen, PhD Candidate of History, Central European University Wednesday, March 24, 2021 12:15pm – 1:30pm (PST) Register at: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5MtdO6vqTMpG9NwI_WWIz4SfTiOVfP7ikYT Abstract – Officially […]