Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2026

10 April 2026 5:30 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
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The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2026. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 10!

Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between

18 April 2026 6:30 pm

Venue: UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between on April 18, 2026. This presentation brings together Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry, film, letters, interviews, and prose to offer a portrait of a writer who reshaped modern Iranian literature by inhabiting its in-between […]

On writing and translating Sakura: A conversation with Kanako Nishi and Allison Markin Powell

24 April 2026 2:30 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
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Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2026

24 September 2026 5:30 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
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Join us for our annual Welcome Back Night on September 24, 2026! Learn more about our programs, meet our faculty and staff, and celebrate Asian culture.

Living with complex risk in the Himalaya: An interdisciplinary discussion of the August 2026 disaster in Nepal and Tibet

14 October 2026 5:30 pm

Venue: The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees
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2026 Vancouver Korean Book Festival: Book Talk with Park Sang Young

15 October 2026 4:30 pm

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The 2026 Vancouver Korean Book Festival will feature a book talk with Sang Young Park, author of Love in the Big City! The event offers UBC students and the wider community an opportunity to meet the author and explore Love in the Big City in conversation, including its themes and its life beyond the page. The […]

Screening of There Are No Words (Min Sook Lee, 2025) + Q&A with Min Sook Lee

22 October 2026 6:00 pm

Venue: The Norm Theatre
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UBC Film Society, Centre for Korean Research, and Department of Asian Studies invite you to a screening of Min Sook Lee’s film There Are No Words (2025). There Are No Words examines how Cold War militarism on the Korean Peninsula enters the home, as filmmaker Min Sook Lee turns her camera toward her father—a former […]