Welcome Back to History – Majors, Minors, & Honours

11 September 2019 5:00 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197

Are you planning to graduate in 2020 with a program in History? Do you have a minor or a double major? Do you (or will you) have transfer credits? Planning to go on exchange? Are you looking for internships or community experiences? Would you like to learn more about the department’s new concentrations? Are you […]

David Hume as a Proto-Weberian: Commerce, Protestantism, and Secular Culture

16 January 2020 5:00 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197
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“Silvan Tomkins, Cybernetics, and the Psychology of Knowledge”

30 January 2020 5:00 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197

UBC History Careers Night

05 February 2020 6:00 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197
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Join us for History Careers Night! The evening will start off with a short presentation from Juliana de Souza (Career Strategist, Faculty of Arts.) Julianna will discuss resources and services at UBC to help with career preparation as well as upcoming related events. In addition, the History Student Association will host a panel […]

“Where Russia was “Ahead” of Europe: Russia’s State Colonialism in Comparative Perspective

06 February 2020 12:30 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197
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This paper addresses an unusual knot of Russian historiography: was Russia a colonial empire and if so, why did the authorities consistently refuse to identify the empire as such? By examining the Russian empire in the broad comparative perspective of both European and Asian empires, the argument will show that in its Asian territories Russia […]

A Price History of Ming Famine

26 February 2020 4:30 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197
Categories: Cluster, Economic History

Speaker: Tim Brook (UBC) Although China in the Ming period had a large and sophisticated grain market, almost no grain price data survive – except for when famine struck. This presentation explores the possibilities and limits of what 774 famine pieces over half a dynasty might be able to tell us about the economic history […]

Withdrawn and Secretive: Privacy among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam

27 February 2020 12:30 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197

Part of the Medieval & Early Modern Research Cluster Speaker: Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld (Independent Scholar) Talk Title: “Withdrawn and Secretive: Privacy among the Portuguese Jews in Early Modern Amsterdam.” This lecture is supported by the Itta and Eliezer Zeisler Memorial Lecture Fund. For more information: https://history.ubc.ca/news/schedule-for-medieval-early-modern-research-cluster-lectures-2019-2020/

Organic Form, Plastic Forms: The Nature of Plastic in Contemporary Ecopoetics

27 February 2020 5:00 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197

Part of the Science & Technology Studies Colloquium Speaker: Margaret Ronda, University of California, Davis Title: “Organic Form, Plastic Forms: The Nature of Plastic in Contemporary Ecopoetics.” (co-sponsored by the Early Modern Research Cluster) For More Information: https://sts.arts.ubc.ca/about-sts/

How Lies Bind: Genealogies of a “National Hero.” CANCELLED

12 March 2020 12:30 pm

Venue: Buchanan Tower - room 1197

CANCELLED – as of Wednesday March 4th. Will be Rescheduled. Part of Medieval and Early Modern Research Cluster Speaker: Leo Shin (UBC, History & Asian Studies) Lecture title:How Lies Bind: Genealogies of a “National Hero.”