UBC History’s Statement on the Global Climate Strike
The Department of History at the University of British Columbia stands in solidarity with our many students and colleagues who will participate, along with millions of others around the world, in the Global Climate Strike scheduled for Friday, September 27. Inspired by the overwhelming scientific consensus that demands urgent action in response to our unprecedented […]
Schedule for Medieval & Early Modern Research Cluster Lectures 2019-2020
Schedule of Lectures for 2019-2020 Shahzad Bashir (Brown, Islamic Humanities) Oct 11 Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and their Interpreters. Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster and MEMRC. 5:00pm-6:30, Choi 120 Erik Kwakkel (UBC ISCHOOL) Oct 24 Medicine at Monte Cassino: Copying and Disseminating Constantine the African’s Medical Translations. 12:30-2, BuTo 1197 Felipe […]
Project will Employ Students to Research Objects in the Africa Collections at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA)
A team led by David Morton, UBC assistant professor of African history, Nuno Porto, Museum of Anthropology (MOA) curator for Africa and South America, and John Michael Koffi, president of the UBC Africa Awareness Initiative (AAI), has been awarded $95,280 from UBC’s Program for Undergraduate Research Experience (PURE) toward a project entitled “Decolonizing the African […]
Tara Mayer appointed as 2019/20 Wall Scholar
Tara Mayer has been awarded a Wall Scholar fellowship at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies for the 2019/20 academic year. Wall Scholars are chosen among leading UBC researchers from all academic disciplines to spend one year in residence at the Institute, in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment. During her fellowship, Dr. Mayer will advance on a project […]
We have launched a UBC History Alumni Newsletter!
Dear UBC History Alumni, There’s a lot going on in History! We’ve launched a bi-annual alumni newsletter to highlight exciting work by students and faculty; bring you the latest news from the Department; and keep you apprised of upcoming history-related events at UBC. Each issue will include alumni news and updates, as well as features […]
Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource Launch
The Centre for Japanese Research and UBC Library at the University of British Columbia are proud to announce the launch of the Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource (DTR). Curated and edited by Tristan Grunow and Naoko Kato, the Meiji at 150 DTR presents open-source scholarly content that will be useful for educators and academics looking for new images and topics to introduce into their classroom teaching, while highlighting the academic research made possible using UBC Library’s digital archives.
Call for Submissions: the BC Jewish History Research Prize
“The Jewish Museum and Archives of British Columbia has announced the establishment of a new history research prize for works of scholarship and public history projects making substantial use of the BC Jewish Community Archives.
Full details about the qualifications for entry are outlined in the Call for Submissions.”
Call for Applications: Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East
The Department of History, University of British Columbia (Vancouver) invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor in the history of the modern Middle East, with an expected start date of 1 July 2019. Thematic and geographic specialty is open.
The Canadian Historical Association Meeting, June 3rd – 5th 2019 at UBC
The Canadian Historical Association Meeting at Congress The Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting is taking place during Congress at UBC between June 3rd and 5th. This is an exciting event for the UBC History community since it will attract 400 participants from universities across Canada and the world and offers an interesting program with 143 events […]
Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond – March 14-15 2019
Coming off the sesquicentennial of the Meiji Restoration in 2018, the History Department partnered with the Centre for Japanese Research and units across campus to mark the 150th anniversary of the Japanese settler colonization of Hokkaidō with a workshop entitled, “Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond” on March 14-15, 2019. […]