2016/17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Postwar Tokyo: Capital of a Ruined Empire

17 November 2016 6:00 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
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In this talk, Dr. Seiji M. Lippit discusses Postwar Tokyo. The capital of what had once been a massive overseas empire was reduced to ruins by the unrelenting Allied aerial bombardment and now faced occupation by a foreign military power for the first time in the nation’s history.

2016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Barbara Mittler

15 March 2017 6:00 pm

Categories: Featured Chinese, Featured Events, Featured Homepage

The 2016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg) Lecture: Living the Cultural Revolution—Impact Events and the Making of Cultural Memory Why is it that for a while in the early 2000s, Mao’s portrait dangled in almost every taxi? Why is it that Mao’s image is to be […]

2017/18 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Stolen Secrets: Intercepting Dispatches Between Wartime Berlin and Japan

13 March 2018 6:00 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
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Britain was woefully equipped in terms of Japanese language expertise in December 1941, in spite of earlier efforts to alert the government to the need to start training people to speak and read Japanese.

2018/19 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: The Social and Political Lives of Japanese Cherry Blossoms

22 November 2018 6:30 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Japanese
Tags: John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies

Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney’s talk will present the many, often contradictory, meanings assigned to cherry blossoms – from life and love to death – while becoming a symbol of various social groups, and, ultimately, the Japanese as a whole.

2019W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

05 November 2019 7:00 pm

Venue: Ponderosa Commons Ballroom
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‘Where Silence Reigns, Startling Claps of Thunder’ 於無聲處聽驚雷 The 2019W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Dr. Geremie Barmé 白杰明 (Professor Emeritus, Australian National University) In memory of P.K. Leung 梁秉鈞 (1949-2013). Photos from the Yip So Man Wat Lecture: Missed this year’s lecture? You can view it along with Dr. Barmé’s presentation here. […]

FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy: Do They Exist?

15 November 2019 5:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
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Speaker: Dr. Cuilan Liu (University of Pittsburgh) Date: Friday, November 15, 2019, 5 – 7 pm Venue: UBC C.K. Choi Building, Room 120 Abstract: The demarcation and maintenance of jurisdictional boundaries between religious institutions and lay society have been at the center of the conflict between religion and the state since the formation of early Buddhism. Drawing on cases […]

In The Memory of The Loved Ones in UIA 752 Flight

10 January 2020 4:30 pm

Venue: Martha Piper Plaza & UBC Nest
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We are gathering on Friday Jan. 10th from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at UBC to commemorate the loved ones who lost their lives in the tragic 752 Flight crash in Iran. We will start a candlelight vigil from 4:30 p.m. at UBC Martha Piper Plaza (the Fountain) on UBC University Blvd. and will then […]

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Iran in the Early 20th Century (in English)

17 January 2020 6:00 pm

Venue: Asian Studies Auditorium
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian
Tags: Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

Exploring the early twentieth century, this talk examines the role of cinema in Iranian modernity and in the urbanization of Tehran from the 1900s to 1930s.

2020 Lunar New Year Celebration — Year of the Rat

28 January 2020 11:00 am

Categories: Featured Chinese, Featured Events

The Chinese Language Program, co-hosted by UBC Chinese Music Club & UBC Asian Studies, invites you to join the 2020 Lunar New Year Celebration for the Year of the Rat. From lion dances to k-pop dances, mahjong to calligraphy, come down and enjoy the festivities!

2019/20 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: What Aborigines Sang: Aynu, Yukar and Some Problems in Japan Studies

10 February 2020 6:30 pm

Venue: Asian Studies Auditorium
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In this talk, Professor Ketelaar will draw on his most recent research into the concepts of the barbarian and the frontier in the construction of Japanese national identity and history.