Alice Christensen (UBC) : Indoor Heating and Experiments in Narration around 1900
Description Part of the Science & Technology Studies Colloquium About the Presenter Alice Christensen (UBC)
Public History Project- The Wildest Night in Vancouver Digital Resource & Podcast
Over three nights in early September of 1907, as many as 500 white “rowdies” rallied by the Asiatic Exclusion League vandalized dozens of Asian-owned stores in Vancouver’s largely Chinese and Japanese downtown eastside, breaking windows, causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage, and fatally wounding one Japanese-Canadian person in the process. Further damage and […]
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. […]
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