Events
Apr 4, 2024 | The act of coercive televised confessions by intelligence agencies has cast a long shadow, making traditional video interviews a source of anxiety and distrust. In conversation with Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör and Dr. Peter Klein, we will delve into the ethical dimensions of interview methodologies, particularly examining the discomfort and potential […]
Apr 12, 2024 | Vincent Chui’s “Leaving in Sorrow” 憂憂愁愁的走了 (2001) will be featured as the closing film for the 2023/2024 Asian Independent Cinema Showcase. Director Vincent Chui 崔允信 will participate in a virtual conversation following the screening.
Apr 16, 2024 | Join UBC History for the 2024 Burge Lecture, featuring Dr. Rachel Leow (Cambridge University). Dr. Leow will be presenting a talk entitled “Blood, Borders and Diaspora’s Horizons: Chinese Entanglements in the Southern Seas.”
Apr 23, 2024 | With co-hosts Massy Arts and Massy Books, please join us for a roundtable discussion with Drs. Brenna Bhandar, Adel Iskandar, Jasbir K. Puar, and André Elias Mazawi on witnessing genocide as a humanities public scholarship method in the Palestinian context.
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Oct 19, 2023 | UBC Faculty of Arts Statement of Solidarity | Dear Arts community, In recent days, we have been devastated by the outbreak and escalation of violence and the ongoing suffering and loss among Israeli and Palestinian peoples. The current situation is part of a long history that has deeply affected, and continues […]
We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Mary K. Bryson as the new Academic Director of the UBC-V Public Humanities Hub beginning July 1, 2023. Dr. Bryson is a Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education. Their research and teaching interests include medical humanities, critical literary theory, academic freedom and collegial […]
The Public Humanities Hub would like to offer its sincere condolences to Chris Patterson (GRSJ), former Hub Advisory Board Member, on the death of his life-partner, UBC-Vancouver Humanities scholar Y-Dang Troeung, on November 27th, 2022 after a year-long battle with cancer. Those of you who knew her know that Y-Dang was a model colleague: generous, […]
June 16, 2022 | The Public Humanities Hub is a co-applicant on the newly awarded “Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education”, a SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Charlotte Schallié, University of Victoria, which will gather and commemorate the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, including survivors of the Holocaust, […]
As the crisis in Ukraine unfolds, the Centre for European Studies (CES) is compiling resources and developing events that provide background information, teaching resources, reliable news sources, and ways to help. See their page of resources for more information, which will be continuously updated. The Public Humanities Hub will be working to promote events and […]
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 23 MARCH, 2022 @ 9:00 AM PST. Are you a Humanities scholar? Have you been recently inspired? Perhaps by a book, film, or video game? A special pet theory or a niche research interest? Or a public, applied research, or creative project you’ve been involved in? The Public Humanities Hub and Arts […]