Event Category Archives: Featured Punjabi

2023 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

Join us for an annual day of presentations by graduate students from the Department of Asian Studies, featuring special guest presenters unique to each year. Participants in the conference will present their original research, engage in accompanying discussions on their papers or presentations, and enjoy refreshments while meeting and talking with scholars working in a […]

Book Launch: Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) by Gurinder Mann

Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) is a book of Punjabi poetry written by Gurinder Mann, Lecturer in Punjabi Language and Culture of the Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. Gurinder’s poems touch upon various topics, issues, and sentiments, and he uses the tools of imagery, metaphor, and personification to illustrate emotions on […]

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 […]