In Search of Identity: Story-Reading with Mitra Eliati

03 August 2021 7:00 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Persian

The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are hosting another prominent figure in modern Persian literature, Mitra Eliati on August 3, 2021.

The Second International Symposium on Teaching Cantonese as a Second Language

19 August 2021

Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Events

Reflections on the Story of Ali in Sunni Islam

02 October 2021 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Reflections on the Story of Ali in Sunni Islam on October 2, 2021.

[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Director Wei Te-sheng

21 October 2021 4:00 pm

Categories: Featured Chinese, Featured Events

Speaker Series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacific Connections 線上講座系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋的聯結 Director Wei Te-sheng on the Making of the First Blockbuster Film about Taiwan’s Indigenous History, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale 賽德克 · 巴萊：第一部講述台灣原住民歷史並轟動世界的電影 Date & Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021 | 4:00pm-6:00pm (PDT) Location: online via Zoom *Presented in English and Mandarin Free & open to the public. Registration is […]

2021 K-pop Dance Event

05 November 2021 4:00 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Korean

The Korean Language Program at UBC is hosting the 2021 K-pop Dance Event on November 5, 2021.

Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di’s Quest for Lyric Experience and Mystical Eroticism in the “Golestān” and the “Ghazals”

20 November 2021 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry on November 20, 2021.

New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi

04 December 2021 4:00 pm

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi on December 4, 2021.

Asian Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration

06 December 2021 6:00 pm

Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Chinese, Featured Events, Featured Hindi-Urdu, Featured Homepage, Featured Japanese, Featured Korean, Featured Persian, Featured Punjabi, Featured Sanskrit, Featured Tibetan

You Are Invited: Asian Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration, December 6, 2021, 6pm (PST)!

Virtual Asian Studies Careers Workshop: Foreign Language Intelligence Analyst (Chinese) with Communications Security Establishment

31 January 2022 4:00 pm

Categories: Featured Cantonese, Featured Chinese, Featured Events
Tags: Virtual Asian Studies Careers Workshop

The workshop on January 31 features Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s national cryptologic agency.

CANCELLED: Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian Young Adult Fiction

05 February 2022 11:00 am

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

You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Representations of Ethnicity in Young Adult Persian Literature on February 5, 2022.