History Honours Symposium Session #2
Date: Thursday, April 10, 14:30–16:00 Location: Buchanan Tower 1112 Join us to learn about and celebrate the research of this year’s graduating History Honours students! The UBC Department of History is pleased to invite you to attend the 2025 Honours Symposium, which will feature presentations by this year’s graduating Honours students. All members of the UBC History […]
History Honours Symposium Session #1
Date: Monday, April 7, 11:00–12:30 Location: Buchanan Tower 1112 Join us to learn about and celebrate the research of this year’s graduating History Honours students! The UBC Department of History is pleased to invite you to attend the 2025 Honours Symposium, which will feature presentations by this year’s graduating Honours students. All members of the UBC […]
The Role of Women in Global History Before 1500 CE
In celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, here’s a list of the contributions of women to global history, inspired by materials featured in UBC History’s HIST 101: Global History Before 1500 CE, taught by Dr. Sara Ann Knutson.
Museums, Anthropology, and the Politics of Knowledge Production in Vietnam, 1940-1954
Date: Friday March 21, 2025 Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM PT Location: Buchanan Tower 1112 The Empires in Asia Cluster is delighted to welcome Pin-Hua Chou (UCLA) to speak about her ongoing research on museums, anthropology and knowledge production in Vietnam. There is no associated reading for this event, and a light lunch will […]
Alumna Q&A with Georgia Twiss (MA History 2022)
UBC History alumna Georgia Twiss (MA ’22), Reference Historian at The Museum & Archives of North Vancouver, shares her journey from student to working historian and the valuable lessons she learned along the way.
Shifts in the Shifting Tides History Conference
Professor Tina Loo, UBC History faculty and conference co-organizer, shares a reflection on the 2025 Shifting Tides, an undergraduate and graduate student conference that took place this year on January 31 – February 2, 2025.
2024/2025 Term 1 History Undergraduate Scholarship Winners
Join the UBC History community in congratulating the 2024/2025 Term 1 undergraduate Recommended Awards scholarship winners!
A Fractured Liberation with Kornel Chang
*Professor Kornel Chang will be giving a talk from 3:30 to 5:00 PM PT, followed by a conversation, which will take place from 5:00 to 6:00 PM. With the collapse of the Japanese Empire in August 1945, the Korean peninsula erupted with hopes that had been bottled up for nearly forty years. A Fractured Liberation […]
A Conversation with Andy Chih-ming Wang
The Empires in Asia cluster is delighted to welcome interested graduate students and faculty to this informal lunchtime conversation with Andy Chih-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica; Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society). Andy Chih-ming Wang is a Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, working in the intersected […]
Alumnus Feature: David Williams (BA History Major, AMNE Minor 2023)
David Williams first graduated from UBC with a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce in May 1978. When he turned 65, five years after retiring from a career in the investment industry, he reactivated his student status and dove into courses offered by UBC History. Read his story here.