Confronting Hatred: New-Nazism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust Studies Today.
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.
10th Annual Burge Lecture – Guest lecturer Dr. Sunil Amrith
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
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 […]
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Repatriates by Dr. Jana Lipman
After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In her talk, Dr. Lipman will tell us the story of what happened in the camps raising the key questions all too relevant today – Who is a refugee? Who […]
Writing the History of a Non-Event, or How I Studied the Mass Disappearances of 1965-66 in Indonesia
Disappearances are meant to be non-events. Many thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia in 1965-66 were secretly executed. Those responsible destroyed the evidence, claimed the event never happened, and enforced a silence upon it. How can historians study this kind of non-event? How should they? The approach I adopted in my book Buried Histories: The […]
The Copenhagen Network by Alexei Kojevnikov
This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor, but of a recent or actual Ph.D. student just embarking on an uncertain academic career in economically hard times. Quantum mechanics exploded on to the intellectual scene between 1925 and […]
Questions of Inclusion and Belonging: A Q&A with Ben Bryce
Benjamin Bryce is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. Get to know him (and his research) in our new Q&A! Tell me about your research. What are you currently working on? One thing I am working on right now is a project about immigration restriction in Argentina at the turn of […]
Collected news and opinions on COVID-19 from UBC historians
Historical perspectives are proving to be of crucial importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. UBC’s historians have been busy lending their knowledge to a wide variety of news and media publications, on everything from the World Health Organization to hand-washing. COVID-19 in Vancouver, BC, and Canada The Conversation: Coronavirus: Racism and the long-term impacts of […]
Pandemics and History – a roundtable on COVID-19 and its historical connections
“I feel that it’s a moment when all of history is kind of rising up and being revealed before us, and we’re provoked to think about a million different questions.” – Robert Brain. How has history been impacted by pandemics? How do we understand pandemics, and how do we study them? How do historians interact […]
Prof. Ivan Avakumovic, noted historian of 20th-century political movements, dies at 86
The Department of History records with sorrow the recent death of Professor Emeritus Ivan Avakumovic, a noted historian of twentieth-century political movements and a memorable teacher of modern international history. Professor Avakumovic died in Vancouver on July 16, 2013 at the age of 86. Ivan Avakumovic was born in what was then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia […]