Events at: Buchanan Tower 1112

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams with Jane Ferguson

The UBC History Empires and (Post-)Colonialisms in the Asia-Pacific Cluster features local scholars who have recently published monographs to have informal discussions about a chapter or two of their book. We invite all faculty and graduate students with interests in modern Asia/-Pacific (broadly defined) and the themes of empire, colonialism, or postcolonialism/decolonization to join, regardless […]

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, […]

The Architects of Dignity with Kevin Pham

The Architects of Dignity introduce Vietnamese political thought to debates in political theory, showing how Vietnamese thinkers challenge Western conventional wisdom. Kevin D. Pham traces an intergenerational debate among six influential figures in colonial Vietnam. These figures had competing visions for how the Vietnamese should respond to French colonial domination, what the Vietnamese should do […]

Emplacing East Timor with Kisho Tsuchiya

Emplacing East Timor explores the relationship between the cycle of regime change and that of knowledge production, offering an alternative framework to periodize the history from the 1850s to the 2010s. Kisho Tsuchiya shows that the prevailing perceptions of East Timor have been shaped by large-scale wars, postwar consolidation, and the dominance of foreign observers. […]

Saje Mathieu | Women on the Move: Black Female Immigration to Canada, 1900s-1950s

On March 11, 2025 at 12:30 pm PT, join UBC Department of History for “Women on the Move: Black Female Immigration to Canada, 1900s-1950s,” a talk by Dr. Saje Mathieu, Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota and Fulbright Canada Distinguished Chair in Arts and Social Sciences in Canada and North America at […]

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 […]