Event Category Archives: Featured Hindi-Urdu

2023 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This event will feature a keynote speech and round robin […]

Regimes of Pain: Access to Morphine and the Geopolitics of Palliation in Pakistan

This talk addresses how the pain of advanced cancer is sustained in Pakistan by militarized apparatuses of narcotics control in the War on Drugs, as well as by a national regime of rigid price ceilings. It draws on ethnographic research to show how these regimes of control—reimagined as ‘regimes of pain’—render morphine, a cheap, effective […]

Complete Political Independence: The Curious Genealogy of a Nationalist Indian Demand

The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan). The Indian National Congress, the mainstream old anti-colonial political institution in British India, passed a resolution in 1929 in which it […]

CANCELLED – South Asia Research Colloquium: Kiran Sunar

This event has been cancelled The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Kiran Sunar (University of British Columbia). Date & Time: Monday, March 18, 2024 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT) Location: UBC Asian Centre, Room […]

2024 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

– Registration is now closed – The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so each year we bring in reputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This […]

The Marginal Archive and the Probable Event: Reflections on an Imperial Twilight Zone

The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Naveena Naqvi (University of British Columbia). Questions about how archives are constituted, by whom, and to what end, have occupied numerous postmodern meditations on the act […]

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 […]