Buried Histories with Dr. John Roosa
The UBC History Empires and (Post-)Colonialisms in the Asia-Pacific Cluster features local non-UBC 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, […]
Rescuing Children: The International Tracing Service’s Child Search Branch after World War II
On November 2, 2023 at 5:00 pm PT, join UBC History for a talk by Professor Dan Stone (Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London), author of The Holocaust: An Unfinished History (Penguin, 2023). This talk will take place at Allard Hall, Franklin Lew Forum […]
2023/2024 UBC History Postdoctoral Fellows: Drs. Meghan Longstaffe and Jane Komori
UBC History welcomes Dr. Meghan Longstaffe and Dr. Jane Komori as 2023/2024 Postdoctoral Fellows. Dr. Longstaffe works on histories of women, poverty, and activism in the late twentieth century, especially Downtown Eastside Vancouver. Dr. Komori writes about the “settler ecology” of Western Canada from the 1850s through the Second World War.
HIST-490N-2023W-101
In this course, we will survey the late antique and early medieval writers and their texts that shaped western European ideas about politics and power, agency and institutions, nature and the supernatural, man and the devil. We will see how both holy scripture and the works of the church authorities who laid down its “correct” […]
Dr. John Roosa Wins Association of Asian Studies’ Kahin Prize
Congratulations to Dr. John Roosa on winning the George McT. Kahin Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for his book, Buried Histories: The Anticommunist Massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia.
UBC History Welcomes Ukrainian Holocaust Scholar Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk
The UBC Department of History is pleased to welcome Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Rivne State University for the Humanities (Rivne, Ukraine). Dr. Ivchyk is joining us as a visiting scholar for the 2022-2023 academic year.
UBC Middle East Studies presents: Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East
We are pleased to invite you to “Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East”, a lecture presented by Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at UC Berkeley. This talk can be attended both in-person and virtually via Zoom. However you choose to attend, please register using the RSVP link below. This […]
2022/2023 History Courses to Take You Across Time and Space
History is a discipline for the curious. Whether you are fascinated by events that changed the world, or want to know more about the ordinary people who made these events happen, the inspiring and award-winning faculty in the Department of History offer incredible courses that will help you deepen your understanding of how the world as we know it came to be.
The Hong Kong and Taiwanese Diaspora in the Literary Imagination
The world of Hong Kong and Taiwanese literature is obviously not limited to literary works written in Chinese by writers living in Hong Kong or Taiwan. Not only is there a significant body of writings in English by authors based in Hong Kong or Taiwan (such as Xu Xi, Timothy Mo, Dorothy Tse, Tammy Ho, […]
Hongkongers’ International Front: The Global Politics of Diaspora during and after the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protest
The flare-up over Hong Kong’s proposed extradition bill in 2019 gave rise to a global wave of organization among overseas Hongkongers, which has persisted after the decline of the protest movement as a result of COVID and government repression. Based on 85 in-depth interviews with overseas activists as well as data drawn from social and […]