Event Category Archives: Featured Events

13 Bedar Celebration

Date/Time: Friday, April 12 from 6:45pm (PDT) Location: Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver (map here) Featuring a speech contest, live music, and stand-up comedy for students! Should you be interested in participating in the speech contest, please reach out to hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca. This event is free but registration is required.

Work Abroad for UBC Students: Talent Visa Talk

Open to all FCCS (UBCO) and Department of Asian Studies (UBCV) Students Did you know that you may be eligible to work abroad without first getting a job? If you completed your program at UBC, you might be interested in embarking on this adventure! Both Hong Kong and Japan offer a range of visa programs […]

The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan

The event will feature a slide lecture on incense, Japanese incense ceremony, and beneficial effects of incense. The participants will also experience the fragrance of kyara which is the highest quality of agarwood and sandalwood as well as the original fermented neri-koh along with a demonstration of Japanese incense ceremony. This event is free and open to the public. […]

VIFF’s Pantheon Screening: Pather Panchali with Kiran K. Sunar

Join Kiran K. Sunar at VIFF’s Pantheon series as they introduce the classic 1955 Satyajit Ray film “Pather Panchali,” hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of […]

The Popularization of the Hundred Poets in Edo-Period Japan

JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025 This talk, featuring Professor Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia, Asian Studies), will explore how knowledge of the Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) collection spread among the commoner class in Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603-1868), becoming the foundation of popular literary literacy through the booming […]

The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India

The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India on September 28, 2024. For a millennium, Persian was a preeminent language of learning far beyond Iran, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this talk on his recent book, Alexander Jabbari […]

Film Screening of “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle) and Discussion Session

The Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee, Department of Asian Studies at UBC invites you to the screening of Chakma language film “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle). The film was produced by Indigenous director Aung Rakhaine in 2015. It was banned by the censorship board in Bangladesh until 2024. In light of the recent tragic incidents in […]