Explore the poetry, film, letters, interviews, and prose of Forugh Farrokhzad with Dr. Farzaneh Milani on Saturday, April 18 at UBC Robson Square!
See how Farrokhzad expanded Iran’s literary language, reach, and imaginative boundaries.
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Event banner for a UBC talk titled "Moving Markets: Mobility, Memory, and Urban Transformation in London and Hong Kong," presented by Maurizio Marinelli, Professor of China and Global Prosperity at University College London. The event takes place on April 1, 12:00–1:30 PM at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Dodson Room (302). Features a headshot of the speaker and a background photo of a busy street market. Logos of the UBC Centre for Migration Studies (Mobilities Research Group) and UBC Department of History appear at the top.
🗓️ Apr 1 | 12–1:30 PM | IKBLC, Dodson Room (302)
How do street markets shape — and survive — city life? Dr. Maurizio Marinelli (@ucl.ac.uk) explores urban mobility, migration & community resilience in London & Hong Kong.
🔗 Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...
Learn more about how the Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio (CoDHerS)—founded by our assistant professor Dr. Aynur Kadir—works with communities to document and strengthen endangered languages!
UBC graduate students — are you engaged in policy-related research on Canada–Asia relations? Apply for the new Dr. Paul Evans Research Prize in Canada–Asia Relations Policy by April 2!
Join us tomorrow, March 26 for the Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture, and Friday, March 27 for the Wat Lecture Research Seminar. Celebrate 10 years of our Cantonese Language Program with linguists Virginia Yip and Stephen Matthews!
The CMS Mobilities research group invites you to a talk by Prof. Wanning Sun on March 16 from 3:00 to 4:30 PM in C.K. Choi 351, examining Chinese-language media, transnational platforms, and political belonging among PRC immigrants in Australia.
🔗 Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...
Discover how marriage, race, and geopolitics intersect in Reform-era China. Join us for a conversation on Post-Soviet Brides in the China Dream with Prof. Elena Barabantseva (@manchester.ac.uk).
📅 March 12 | 11:00–12:30 PM
📍 Buchanan Tower, Room 225
🔗 Register: migration.ubc.ca/events/event...
On Friday, March 13 at 11am, join our Assistant Professor Pasang Yangjee Sherpa and scholars Mabel Gergan and Arvind Kumar as they explore critical questions around Indigeneity, caste, race, and decolonial thought in South Asia.
Join in-person or online via Zoom at this link: bit.ly/4lnjcpQ
Discover how the movement of Buddhist ideas, art, and individuals shaped and contributed to a richly connected Global Asia across two millennia!
Join us in-person or online on March 11 from 5pm for the next Yin‑Cheng Distinguished Lecture, featuring Dr. Tansen Sen.
Drawing upon their individual and collaborative research, Dr. Shneiderman and Dr. Baniya explore how European funding is flowing into Nepal, while young people are flowing out of the country through labour migration to global locations including Europe.
Lunch will be served. RSVP on our website!
Discover the key role theater and performance played in suturing identity in global Chinese theatre in the 1980s! Join Dr. Wah-Guan Lim for his talk on Tuesday, March 10 at room 604 of the Asian Centre.
Join this pre-AAS research talk with Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University) and Tanaka Yukari (Nihon University) on March 10! Japan Studies graduate students can also join a professional development seminar held on March 11.
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Join upcoming events in March such as panel discussions and curator tours for Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images, an exhibition curated by our Assoc. Prof Fuyubi Nakamura!
If you're not able to visit in-person, enjoy an online tour hosted by Dr. Nakamura.
This Thursday at 4:30pm: Join Dr. Thomas Gaubatz as he discusses his monograph, The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan, exploring the tension between shared norms and the lived particularities in 17th-century Japan. Learn more:
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In celebration of International Women's Day, join our Assistant Professor Ji-yoon An on Tuesday, March 3 as she takes a closer look at how the depiction of women in South Korean dramas have evolved over the past 20 years.
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On Mar 26-27, join us for the 25/26 Wat Lecture with Drs. Virginia Yip (CUHK) and Stephen Matthews (HKU) as they share how the future of Cantonese linguistic and cultural heritage relies on children and examine the language development of monolingual vs. bilingual children.
Co-organized by Dr. Colleen Laird and her colleagues, Videographic Venice invites participants to explore Venice as both subject and medium through videographic criticism. Apply by March 31: www.univiu.org/study/summer...
Thank you for attending Dr. Don Baker’s retirement lecture held on January 30. Marking his 40-year milestone with UBC Asian Studies, he discussed the lives of three brothers – a renowned philosopher, a pioneer biologist, and a Catholic Martyr in Chosŏn Korea.
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This Friday at 12 pm: Join Dr. Naoko Kato (Corpus Christi College and St. Mark’s College) as she tells the stories of the Japanese diaspora members who were “doubly abandoned” by both the Canadian and Japanese states during the postwar period. Learn more: asia.ubc.ca/events/event...
🎨 CMS invites artists to submit for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱–𝟮𝟲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! Explore how migrants navigate physical, social, political, and identity borders, revealing journeys of exclusion, hope, pain, and resilience.
Prizes: 🥇$1,250 🥈$250
Learn more: migration.ubc.ca/news/interna...
Join us for the upcoming lunchtime colloquium by Dr. Naveeda Khan, a Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University!
📍Allard Hall, Room 121 (UBC-Vancouver)
📅 Thursday, February 5 @ 12:30-2:00 PM
📝 Register here: shorturl.at/GBfg4
🥕 FREE LUNCH PROVIDED!
Join our next FHIS Research Seminar to explore the interpreter’s body as a site of analysis and to reflect critically on the embodied demands of the profession—especially in an age of AI, when bodies are increasingly framed as problems to be solved or eliminated.
This Thursday at 4:30pm: Dr. Jiajun Liang (University of California) will be discussing the Studio Ghibli film Grave of the Fireflies, a tragic portrayal of civilian suffering in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat in World War II. Learn more:
This Friday at 12pm: Join the talk by Dr. Millie Creighton (Department of Anthropology, UBC), who will discuss Japan-Palestine connections, and the Japanese residential community’s involvement with Palestinians. Learn more:
Apply to a workshop for Ways of Undoing: Craft, Collaboration, and Videographic Practice, a three-year international initiative exploring how new practices can unsettle hierarchical structures in videographic scholarship. asia.ubc.ca/news/call-fo...
Please join us in welcoming our new Associate Professor of Teaching in Korean Language and Culture, Ho Jung Choi! He is a highly experienced educator and former director of Princeton University’s Korean Language Program, bringing expertise and leadership to our community.
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On Friday, January 30, join us for the 2026 Capstone Lecture, where our Professor in Korean History and Civilization, Dr. Don Baker will explore the remarkable lives of the Chŏng brothers, revealing valuable insight into life in late 18th- and early 19th-century Korea.
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We're excited to welcome Chui Joe Tham, our new Geiss Hsu Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Ming Studies, who recently arrived from the University of Oxford with a Doctor of Philosophy in History! Learn about her research, interests and path to academia.
Applications for the position of Lecturer in Japanese Language are due by January 5, 2026. Please share with qualified individuals in your network!
