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.

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.”

The Colonial and Cold War Origins of “Youth” in Singapore

28 May 2021 8:00 pm

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UBC History Graduation Celebration!

02 June 2021 2:00 pm

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Congratulations History Graduates! We’re proud of your success and we’re particularly proud of how you’ve achieved it in the face of the pandemic. You’ve worked hard, read more books than you thought had been written, wrote more essays than you thought humanly possible, and endured countless hours of lectures over Zoom (much of it while […]