Event Category Archives: Featured Punjabi

Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in Post-Conflict Punjab

Date and Time: Thursday, February 29, 2024 from 5:00pm-7:00pm (PST) 5:00pm-5:30pm (PST) Reception 5:30pm-7:00pm (PST) Talk and Discussion Location: xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees) Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Drive, UBC *There is also an option to watch the event virtually. The lecture will be live-streamed.  This event is free and open […]

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 […]