You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Changing Diet of the Iranians – From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores on February 26, 2022.
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Winter and Spring 2022. The second session of the Winter and Spring 2022 series features author and literary critic, […]
You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diasporic Milieu that Gave Birth to It, 1906-1931 on March 5, 2022.
You are invited to the 2021/22 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies featuring Professor Clark Chilson on March 8 and 9, 2022.
The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night on March 17, 2022!
Join us for a public WEBINAR SERIES on Wednesday afternoons in conjunction with the course ASIA210, as we welcome noted scholars to discuss how and why they study yoga through historical, cultural, and critical lenses.
You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Persian Prison Poem from South Asia to the Caucasus on April 2, 2022.
The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2022. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 7!
Indigenous Asia Initiative presents: Green Courts and the Indigenous Slot in Himalayan Resource Struggles: The Environment as a Metanarrative on April 12, 2022.
You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver” on May 14, 2022.