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Lectures, Public Event
Shaken, Not Stirred: Richard Gard, the CIA, and the Invention of Cold War Buddhism
June 27, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Ponderosa Commons Ballroom
Conferences, Public Event, Symposium
The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium
June 24, 2025 | 9:00 AM - June 25, 2025 | 6:15 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Screening
Outdoor Movie Night: SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife)
June 20, 2025 | 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Screening
In Search of Light: Hong Kong x Taiwan Documentary Short Films
May 6, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Exhibitions, Public Event, Talks
From Hong Kong to the World Through the Eyes of Artists
April 26, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 6:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
The Ideal Balance: Combining Fluency and Accuracy
April 25, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Annual, Public Event
Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2025
April 23, 2025 | 5:15 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Talks
Framing Asia Final Event: Between Pictures
April 17, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
room
The Norm Theatre
Lectures, Public Event
Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion, 1797-1800
April 12, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
room
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
Lectures, Public Event
2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: Journey into Exile: The Rare Books of the National Peiping Library, 1933–1941
April 10, 2025 | 12:00 AM - April 11, 2025 | 11:59 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Awakening Literature: The Voice of the Other, the Rights of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
April 5, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Seminars
Korean Studies Visiting Scholar Seminars
April 4, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
room
Asian Centre Room 604
Screening
[Asian Independent Cinema Showcase 2025] Vancouver Premiere of K-Family Affairs and Conversation with Director Arum Nam
April 3, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
Seminars
Abul Mansur Ahmad’s America: A Global Intellectual History of the Language Movement in East Pakistan/Bangladesh
April 3, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Workshops
Reading Group on Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation
March 26, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Asian Studies Grad Lounge, Auditorium Annex B
Talks
Translating “pop fiction” from 1000 years ago: Ochikubo monogatari (Lady of the Low Chamber)
March 26, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Students
Nowruz 1404 Persian Speech Contest: "Why I Learn, Why I Speak: My Persian Language Journey"
March 21, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Drawing the Holocaust: The “Documentary” Manga of Satonaka Machiko
March 21, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
room
Asian Centre Room 604
Lectures
Is There a Crisis of Narration? Narrative Imagination on Chinese Social Media
March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
room
Coach House, Green College
Screening, Talks
Framing Asia: The Queen of My Dreams
March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
The Norm Theatre
Lectures
Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd”
March 8, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
Taiwan Democracy and the Chinese Humanistic Tradition
March 6, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Preserving Enemy (Japanese) language Histories
March 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present
February 26, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
room
C.K. Choi, Room 120
Exhibitions, Talks
Space Fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture
February 26, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Lectures
Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal
February 22, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetry
February 22, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
給香港樂壇寫笑忘書 – 與陳嘉銘一席話 The Book of Unforgetting Canto-pop - A Conversation with Chan Ka Ming
February 21, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
Interweaving Intercultural Competence & Communication in the Arabic Classroom: Standards, Practice and Assessment
February 21, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Talks
Panel Talk x LunarFest 2025: Places of Memory in Graphic Novels
February 12, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
room
Coach House, Green College
Talks
Tanomi shōmon: Political voice and “Democratization” within Tokugawa village society
February 12, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Talks
Framing Asia: Palestine in Focus
February 11, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Asian Centre Auditorium
Public Event, Screening
Vancouver Premiere: Kissing the Ground You Walked On 海鷗來過的房間 Conversation with Director HONG HENG-FAI 孔慶輝
February 6, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
room
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
Lectures
Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black
February 1, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Talks
Assessment in the Arabic Classroom: From Achievement to Proficiency
January 31, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Lectures
2024/25 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Samurai, Knights, and Nationalisms: Japan and the Medievalization of the Modern World
January 30, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Talks
Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women
January 29, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Asian Centre Auditorium
Public Event
2025 Lunar New Year Celebration
January 29, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
room
AMS Student Nest
Lectures, Talks
Thinking through Prose: The Social Life of Poets in Early-Medieval India
January 28, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Talks
Awakening Literature: The Other Gender
January 25, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Students, Workshops
How We Mastered Chinese: Tips from Learners
January 24, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Talks
Ecce Homo: The Male Body in Pain in Japanese World War Two Visual Propaganda
January 22, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Lectures
Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge
January 18, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Public Event, Talks
《杜騙新書》如何譯? Adventures in Translating the Ming Dynasty Book of Swindles
January 16, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Talks
Translanguaging and L2 Arabic: From Theory to Practice
December 6, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Talks
Anti-War Literature: Realism vs. Idealism
November 30, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Students, Talks, Workshops
Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article
November 29, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Seminars
On the Correlations between Lee Sang's Poems and the Film An Andalusian Dog: Why do Invisible Needles Prick his Skin?
November 29, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction with Gustav Heldt
November 27, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Room 351, C.K. Choi Building
Talks
Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? The Case of China’s Email-Order Brides with Dr. Monica Liu
November 27, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
room
The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees
Talks
Teaching Arabic Literature to Non-native Speakers: Facilitating the Balance between Content and Language Acquisition
November 22, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Talks
Intiha: An Evening of Conversation with Ali Sethi
November 21, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
room
The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees
Public Event, Talks
Language Standardization in South Korea: An Ideological Perspective
November 8, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
room
The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees
Students, Talks, Workshops
'Don't Be a Gap-Filler', and Other Writing Advice for Graduate Students
November 1, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event
Special Halloween screening (& screaming!): CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB 盤絲洞 (1927)
October 31, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Karayuki-san, Rashamen, and Places of Memory: Fieldnotes from Yokohama
October 30, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Room 351, C.K. Choi Building
Talks
Political Resistance in Post-Revolutionary Poetry: Mohammad Mokhtari and Baktash Abtin
October 26, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Lectures
Zhao Puchu’s Concept of “Buddhism as Culture” and the Revival of Buddhism in Contemporary Mainland China
October 25, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Workshops
Asian Studies Indigenizing Teaching & Learning Series: PD Workshop
October 23, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lectures, Public Event
What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Years?: The Social, Cultural, and Political Role of Towfigh Satirical Paper
October 19, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
room
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
Public Event
Of Colour and Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949
October 18, 2024 | 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures
Onkarbir Toor Memorial Lecture: Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab
October 17, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
room
The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees
Talks
DEFYING RESTRICTIONS: Women-Created, Women-Read Sexual Writing in Modern Japan
October 16, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Room 351, C.K. Choi Building
Lectures, Public Event
A conversation – Living Spiritually with Climate Change
October 11, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Talks
Employing AI in Arabic Teaching: Principles and Applications
October 11, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Public Event
Film Screening of “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle) and Discussion Session
October 8, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Talks
The Origins of Awakening Literature in Modern Iran: A Study of the First Persian Short Stories
October 5, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
Imaginaries of Wartime: Illustrations and Photographs of Shōjo no Tomo and Shōjo Kurabu
October 2, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Room 351, C.K. Choi Building
Lectures
The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India
September 28, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Talks
From "What to teach?" to "How to teach?": Practices in light of Language Proficiency
September 27, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Students
CLP Chinese Moon Festival Game Night
September 23, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event
[Literary Hong Kong series] Screening of Liu Yichang 劉以鬯: 1918 and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong
September 21, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
AERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory
Students
Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2024
September 19, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
[Literary Hong Kong series] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)
September 19, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
room
Peña Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Talks
[Literary Hong Kong series] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading
September 19, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Peña Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Talks
The Popularization of the Hundred Poets in Edo-Period Japan
September 18, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Room 351, C.K. Choi Building
Talks
Religion for Lunch: “Why Were They Arrested? Religious Leaders and Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Democratization”
September 18, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Public Event
VIFF's Pantheon Screening: Pather Panchali with Kiran K. Sunar
September 15, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
room
VIFF Centre
Seminars
The Spatial Structure under the Treaty Regime and its Dismantling (1876-1910)
August 22, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event, Talks
The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan
August 15, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Seminars
Medicine and Geomancy in Premodern Korea
August 12, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality
August 10, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event
Movies and Momos
August 9, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
room
CoDHerS Space (Room 508)
Public Event
...and the Sun Does Not Perish: Commemorating Contemporary Persian Thinker and Poet, Wasef Bakhtari
July 20, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: The Birth of the Story in the Enchantment of Phantoms
June 22, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Public Event, Talks
Love, Lust, and Life in Colonial Punjab
June 6, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Newton Branch Library Meeting Room
Talks, Webinar, Workshops
Work Abroad for UBC Students: Talent Visa Talk
April 24, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Talks, Webinar
From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection
April 21, 2024 | 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Talks, Webinar
From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection
April 20, 2024 | 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Talks
[Screening+Conversation] AICS Closing Film: Leaving in Sorrow and Conversation with Director Vincent Chui
April 18, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Talks, Webinar
From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection
April 14, 2024 | 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Talks, Webinar
From the Ground to the Cloud: Insights from Seven Years of Fieldwork, Training, and Data Collection
April 13, 2024 | 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Students
13 Bedar Celebration
April 12, 2024 | 6:45 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Seminars
The Marginal Archive and the Probable Event: Reflections on an Imperial Twilight Zone
April 8, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event
Persian Spread of the Gift
April 7, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event
Persian Spread of the Gift
April 6, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: The Immigrant's Perspective
April 6, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Lectures, Public Event
“Two Hearts / Two Solitudes”: Jahan Malek Khatun’s and Forugh Farrokhzad’s Proto-Feminist Self-Defense in Medieval and Modern Iran
April 5, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
room
UBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
Lectures
2023/24 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: The Allegorical American: Positioning the United States in Chinese-Language Cinema
April 3, 2024 | 3:30 PM - April 4, 2024 | 8:00 PM
Students, Symposium
Queer/Trans Cinema Studies - A Symposium
March 30, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
Room 997, Buchanan Tower
Seminars
[Seminar] Memory as Resistance: From Tiananmen to Hong Kong
March 28, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Talks
Tough Compassion: Chŏng Yagyong’s New Vision for Humane Government
March 26, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event
[Community] 民主退潮下的新聞自由與香港社會 Press Freedom and Hong Kong Society under Democratic Backsliding
March 23, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Talks
[Screening+Conversation] In Search of Home: Short Films Selection and Conversation with Filmmakers
March 22, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Alumni, Students
2024 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 21, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM
room
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Seminars
CANCELLED - South Asia Research Colloquium: Kiran Sunar
March 18, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event
Persian Spread of the Gift
March 17, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event
Persian Spread of the Gift
March 16, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
[Talk] Knowledge Circles 知識界 in Colonial Hong Kong 1945-1997: From Offshore Publics to Civic Communities
March 11, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Symposium
Rethinking Global Japanese Studies Symposium
March 10, 2024 | 12:00 AM - March 11, 2024 | 11:59 PM
room
Various
Lectures
Twelver Shiite Martyrologies in Turkic: The Politics of Translation and Ritual in Early Modern Iran
March 2, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: The Life of the Hopeless
March 2, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Seminars
Complete Political Independence: The Curious Genealogy of a Nationalist Indian Demand
March 1, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Violence in Post-Conflict Punjab
February 29, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
room
The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees
Talks
"Dear Mother" Screening and Q&A with Dir. Sk Shuvo Shadique
February 13, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Lectures
The Japan Lecture Series
February 9, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
room
Asian Centre
Lectures, Public Event
Commercialism in Hindustani Classical Music - A Brief Survey with Arnab Chakrabarty
February 8, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures
2023/24 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Works, Networks, and Good Works: John F. Howes and the early years of Japanese Studies at UBC
February 2, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: The Birth and Development of the Beast
January 27, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Lectures
The Persianate Understanding of Japan: The Reach and Limits of Inter-Asian Exchange
January 25, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
The Japan Lecture Series
January 23, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
room
Asian Centre
Seminars
Restructuring Religiosity: Conflict, Disaster, and the Transformation of Sacred Space in Nepal
January 22, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Public Event, Seminars
[Screening+Conversation] AICS Spotlight Event: Drifting Petals
January 20, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lectures
Exploring “Liku”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty
December 9, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature
December 9, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
History in Literature and Literature in History: War, the Silence of Narratives and the Poetic Language
December 2, 2023 | 10:15 AM - 1:15 PM
room
Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, Maple Hall
Lectures
RESCHEDULED: Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush, the Elephant-Eared
December 1, 2023 | 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
The Relationship between Chen Yingning’s Immortal Theory and Monk Taixu’s Influence
November 27, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
Regimes of Pain: Access to Morphine and the Geopolitics of Palliation in Pakistan
November 27, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Lectures
Lament of the Ages: Memory, Voice, and Experience with the Dotāris of Torbat-e Jām
November 25, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
room
Online Event
Public Event
Kathāsindhu: A Stream of Ancient Tales
November 24, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Presenting a Red Chamber’s Banquet—Food and Life in Classical Chinese Novels
November 13, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Students, Workshops
Experience the Healing Art of Pastel Nagomi
November 7, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Seminars, Talks
The Chosŏn Korean Kingship in the Chosŏn-Ming Relations in the Sixteenth Century
November 3, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: Suppression of Discourses
October 28, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, Maple Hall
Talks
Department of Asian Studies Indigenizing Teaching & Learning Series: Indigenous Asia Brown Bag Gathering
October 6, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Students
Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2023
October 5, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Exhibitions
Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio (CoDHerS) Opening Celebration
October 4, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
room
Asian Centre
Dr. Thomas Hunter Memorial Event
September 30, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
Selection Bias and Chinese Translation
September 27, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
History and its Representation in Literature: The Bewilderment of Discourses
September 23, 2023 | 10:15 AM - 1:15 PM
room
Delbrook Community Recreation Centre, Maple Hall
Talks
The Samurai & the Cross: “Temporal” or “Spiritual” Conquest in Early Modern Japan?
September 22, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Seminars
[South Asia Research Colloquium] Gandhi's Silence
September 8, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Seminars
Struggles of Life between Cultural Sensitivity and Social Reality in Premodern/Modern Korea
August 3, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
Otherness in Literature and the “Other” of Literature: Writing for Young Adults and Children
July 29, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
room
West Vancouver Memorial Library, Welsh Hall
Seminars
Colonial Modernization from the Perspective of Quantitative Economic History
June 7, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Talks
"Otherness" in Literature and the "other" of literature: The Rise of the Crime Fiction
June 3, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
room
North Vancouver City Library
Students
2023 Quiz on Korea is Happening Offline this Year!
May 6, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
room
UBC Asian Centre
Talks
Korean Literature Night
May 3, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Symposium
UBC Transdisciplinary Symposium on Disability Research, Education, and Activism
April 17, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
room
Online Event
Alumni, Lectures, Students, Talks
FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?
April 14, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Annual
Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2023
April 6, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi, Room 120
Celebration of Dr. Sunera Thobani’s induction to the Royal Society of Canada
April 5, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Webinar
Connecting Past, Present and Future: Ainu Documentary, Language and Culture
March 31, 2023 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
World-oriented Crossings: The Covert Globality of Malaysian Chinese Literature
March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
room
3rd-floor Boardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Lectures
2022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: A Traveling Feast: The Story of Chop Suey and the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to America
March 30, 2023 | 12:00 AM - March 31, 2023 | 11:59 PM
Talks
“Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature: Informal historiography in Iran
March 26, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
room
Welsh Hall West, West Vancouver Memorial Library
Workshops
Traditions of yoga 2023
March 23, 2023 | 12:00 AM - April 6, 2023 | 11:59 PM
Alumni, Students
2023 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 16, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
room
2nd floor, Arts Student Centre
Talks
Book Launch: Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) by Gurinder Mann
March 11, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi, Room 120
Students
The 35th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest
March 4, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
room
Asian Centre
Conferences
2023 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
March 4, 2023 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
room
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Exhibitions
[Exhibition] Leslie Cheung 張國榮: Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003)
February 15, 2023 | 12:00 AM - April 6, 2023 | 11:59 PM
room
Asian Centre & Asian Library
Lectures
2022/23 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Two Unforgivens: The Western as Method for Reimagining Transpacific History
February 6, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Liu Institute for Global Studies
Talks
“Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature: the author of the “other” gender
January 28, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
room
North Vancouver City Library; Online
Talks
[Screening + Conversation] Keep Rolling: Four Stories about Hong Kong under the Pandemic
January 26, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Liu Institute for Global Studies
Lectures
“Dressed in the Costume of His Country:” Portraits of Persians Done in the West, 1600–1842
December 3, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
Essence and power of non-fiction: capturing the voice of the suppressed and others
November 27, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
room
West Vancouver Memorial Library, Welsh Hall
Exchange to Korea: Insider Tips from UBC Go Global Participants at Universities in Korea
November 25, 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
[South Asia Research Colloquium] Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Gregg and Integral Nonviolence
November 25, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Lectures
My Caste – My Shadow: Flights of Freedom Through Literature
November 22, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Lectures
Art and Spatial Politics in Iran
November 19, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
room
Online Event
Students
2022 K-pop Dance Event
November 8, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Talks
“Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature
November 6, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
[Screening + Conversation] Far Far Away 緣路山旮旯
October 25, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Liu Institute for Global Studies
Seminars
South Asia Research Colloquium
October 21, 2022 | 12:00 AM - April 21, 2023 | 11:59 PM
room
Asian Centre
Lectures
CANCELLED: Gardens in Persian Literature: Ecology of Material and Metaphysical Beauty, from Balkh to Shiraz
October 14, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
room
UBC Robson Square
Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East
October 13, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Talks
Performing Solidarities: 'Third World' Alliance as Choreographic Practice in Mao-Era China
October 11, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
A New Translation and Study of The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang)
October 9, 2022 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Lectures
"Ikkyū" and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: Then and Now
October 8, 2022 | 7:10 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Webinar
[Webinar] Becoming Communities: The Changing Face of Community Activism in Hong Kong
October 7, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
room
Online Event
Conferences
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present International Conference
October 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM - October 9, 2022 | 11:59 PM
room
Liu Institute for Global Studies
A Conversation with Yū Miri | “Minamisōma Medley”: Weaving Together Voices from Fukushima
October 5, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Talks
China’s Grandmothers: A Talk by Professor Emerita Diana Lary on her new book
September 28, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual, Students
2022 Asian Studies Welcome Back Night
September 12, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Talks
“By What Right Does the Emperor Rule?: Statecraft Technology and the Problem of Monarchy” A Talk by Dr. Timothy Brook
September 9, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Lectures
The Japan Lecture Series
September 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
room
Asian Centre
Away of the Devil’s hands to the Report of a Fall: the Journey of a Writer Story Reading with Aziz Allah Nehefta
August 28, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Online Event
“Writing about Today” Story reading with Nahid Tabatabai
July 30, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Online Event
The Japanese Way of Tea: the interaction of host and guest in the tearoom
July 21, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
room
Asian Centre
“The Guard of the Tulip”: Reading Afghanistan Reading Rahnavard-e Zaryab
June 24, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
The Impossible Gift of Sense in Rahnavard Zaryāb's “The Snakes Under the Silverberry Trees”
June 18, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl
May 28, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Conferences
Snake Oil: Snake Women in East Asia and Their Afterlives in Literature, Theatre, and Film
May 28, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
Revelations of Chinese Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy, Comparative Studies and Case Studies
May 16, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi, Room 120
Workshops
Virtual Asian Studies Workshop Series: Careers and Engagement in Asia
May 16, 2022 | 12:00 AM - May 20, 2022 | 11:59 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver”
May 14, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
"Between Two Worlds": Immigrant Writer: Which Subject? From Where? For Where?
May 7, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Re-Imagining Asian Canadian Futures
May 4, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Talks
Green Courts and the Indigenous Slot in Himalayan Resource Struggles: The Environment as a Metanarrative
April 12, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Annual
Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2022
April 7, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Annual, Lectures, Seminars
2021/22 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Ban Wang
April 4, 2022 | 12:00 AM - April 5, 2022 | 11:59 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
"Between Two Worlds”: Immigrant Writers and the Mother Language
April 3, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lectures
The Persian Prison Poem from South Asia to the Caucasus: Towards an Anthology
April 2, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Workshops
"The Nature of Story": Story reading with Abu Torab Khosravi
March 27, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Webinar
Traditions of Yoga 2022: A Webinar Series
March 23, 2022 | 12:00 AM - April 6, 2022 | 11:59 PM
Students
2022 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 17, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
“Between Two Worlds”: The Literature of Migration OR Immigrant Writer?
March 13, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Online Event
Annual, Lectures, Seminars, Talks
2021/22 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Japan
March 8, 2022 | 12:00 AM - March 9, 2022 | 11:59 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diasporic Milieu that Gave Birth to It, 1906-1931
March 5, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
The 34th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest
March 5, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Workshops
Being-in-Passing; Story Reading with Asieh Nezam Shahidi
February 27, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lectures
The Changing Diet of the Iranians – From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores
February 26, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
CANCELLED: Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian Young Adult Fiction
February 5, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
room
Online Event
Workshops
Virtual Asian Studies Careers Workshop: Foreign Language Intelligence Analyst (Chinese) with Communications Security Establishment
January 31, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Workshops
Habitat of War, the Migrant: Story Reading with Rira Abbasi
January 29, 2022 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
[Screening+Conversation] Reunification
January 28, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures
The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Persian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderabad
December 18, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Asian Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration
December 6, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lectures
New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi
December 4, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Workshops
“Deadend of Story writing in exile: challenges of migrant women writers,” in conversation with Mahbuba Temori
November 24, 2021 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures
Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di’s Quest for Lyric Experience and Mystical Eroticism in the "Golestān" and the "Ghazals"
November 20, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran
November 6, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Students
2021 K-pop Dance Event
November 5, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Webinar
[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Director Laha Mebow
November 3, 2021 | 4:00 PM - November 4, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Workshops
Kūr Sorkhī: Narratives of Life/Soul and War
October 30, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Webinar
[Webinar] Late Colonialism: “Hong Kong People” and the Popular Re-imagining of an Instituting Imaginary
October 29, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Webinar
[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Writer Ahronglong Sakinu
October 28, 2021 | 4:00 PM - October 29, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Workshops
Literature at the Time of Desolation: a point of view in Bahram Moradi’s Stories
October 27, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures
Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran
October 23, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
room
Online Event
Webinar
[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Director Wei Te-sheng
October 21, 2021 | 4:00 PM - October 22, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Lectures
Social Media, Music, and Poetic Worldmaking in Iranian Publics
October 16, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Webinar
[Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Writer Badai
October 14, 2021 | 4:00 PM - October 15, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Conferences
A Forest of Knowledge about the Texts and Images regarding Buddhist Saints, Sages, Translators, and Encyclopedists
October 14, 2021 | 12:00 AM - October 16, 2021 | 11:59 PM
Talks
Virtual Book Talk with Shahla Haeri: The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender
October 6, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lectures
Reflections on the Story of Ali in Sunni Islam
October 2, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
[Webinar] The Chinese and Hong Kong Diasporas in the U.S.-China Conflict
October 1, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures, Talks
[Public Lecture] Foreign Femininity and Masculinity in Japanese Translation with Dr. Momoko Nakamura
October 1, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Workshops
Migration and Language: Story-Reading with Fariba Sedighim
September 29, 2021 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures
Production and Circulation of Post-revolutionary Iranian Literature
September 25, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
Virtual Book Talk with Elaheh Kheirandish: Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science CA. 750-1750
September 8, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshops
Literature and the Feminine Perspective: Story-Reading with Mehrnoosh Mazarei
August 25, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The Second International Symposium on Teaching Cantonese as a Second Language
August 19, 2021 | 12:00 AM - August 20, 2021 | 11:59 PM
Conferences
East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking
August 14, 2021 | 12:00 AM - August 16, 2021 | 11:59 PM
Workshops
In Search of Identity: Story-Reading with Mitra Eliati
August 3, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lectures
Afghans in the Persianate Age
July 24, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
[Conversation] Light Hours: Eleven Artists Looking at Hong Kong
June 19, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Talks
Imaginative minds, Shackled Feet with Belgheis Soleimani
June 19, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Panorama of Contemporary Persian Poetry in Afghanistan
June 13, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Lectures
Earthly or Ethereal? The Beloved in Classical Persian Poetry
May 29, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
room
Online Event
Workshops
Woman and Facing the Real: Story-Reading with Fariba Vafi
May 22, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Seminars
[Webinar] Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures through Construction Photography
May 21, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Students, Workshops
Overcoming Online Challenges in Hosting Events and Planning Projects (UBC 2021 Celebrate Learning Week)
May 20, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Students, Talks
Celebrate Student Research: Games in Asia
May 18, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lectures
Iranian Women as Theatre-Makers: Witnesses and Whispers
May 15, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Students, Talks
Exploring Asian Heritage in Vancouver
May 6, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Virtual Book Launch – Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater
May 6, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Asian Languages Teaching during COVID 19 – Bringing experience forward
May 3, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Workshops
Women and Power in Persian Literature: Story reading with Shahrnush Parsipur
April 30, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Workshops
Hong Kong Popular Culture—Imagining a Research Field
April 30, 2021 | 12:00 AM - May 1, 2021 | 11:59 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
April 26, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures
Literature Against Propaganda: Counter Discourse and Symbolic Resistance in Iran-Iraq War Fiction
April 24, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Wendi Adamek
April 22, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Talks
Are the Tibetans Indigenous? Exploring the Issue of Indigeneity in Tibet
April 21, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures, Talks
Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity
April 20, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
April 19, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Students, Talks
Traditions Of Yoga 2021: A Webinar Series (Webinar 4: Vancouver Yoga Roundtable)
April 14, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
April 12, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures
Intertextuality or Plagiarism? Sadeq Hedayat’s The Blind Owl from a Cognitive Poetics Lens
April 10, 2021 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
Social Media in Social Movements: A Computational Approach to Collective Actions
April 9, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Annual, Lectures, Students, Talks
[CANCELLED] Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2021
April 7, 2021 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Students, Talks
Traditions Of Yoga 2021: A Webinar Series (Webinar 3: Yoga and White Public Space)
April 7, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
April 5, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Students, Talks
Traditions Of Yoga 2021: A Webinar Series (Webinar 2: Peace, Love, and Yoga)
March 31, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
March 29, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures, Talks
Ainu, Okinawa and Indigeneity: Re-thinking Okinawan Indigeneity
March 29, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Nowrooz 1400: The Celebration of the Persianate Culture
March 28, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Lectures
Genre Fiction and Narrative Epistemologies: The Case of Detective Fiction in Persian
March 27, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Students, Talks
Traditions Of Yoga 2021: A Webinar Series (Webinar 1: Sanskrit Precursors to Modern Yoga)
March 24, 2021 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
March 22, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Talks
Webinar: Mid-Century Modern: Jōdo Shinshū and the Making of American Buddhism
March 22, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Lectures
Love and Punishment in Persian Literature: Story-Reading with Shahriar Mandanipour
March 19, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures, Talks
Ten Years after Fukushima: Commemoration and Lessons for the Future
March 17, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
March 15, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures, Talks
Ainu, Okinawa and Indigeneity: Ainu: 150 years of resilience
March 15, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lectures
Degenerate, Popular, and Forgotten? Politicization and Monetization of Urban Entertainment in Pahlavi Iran
March 13, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Alumni, Annual, Students
2021 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 12, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Lectures, Talks
The 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Online Curator Tour of A Future for Memory
March 11, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Talks
Virtual Book Launch – Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
March 11, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
March 8, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Annual, Students, Talks
33rd Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest
March 6, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Seminars
Recording Hong Kong: The Oral History Collection of the Hong Kong Heritage Project
March 5, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
March 1, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures
CANCELLED: Social Media, Music, and Poetic Worldmaking in Iranian Publics and Counterpublics
February 27, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Movie Discussion on Feb 25: "ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch"
February 25, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Talks
Ainu, Okinawa and Indigeneity Series
February 23, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminars, Students
The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group
February 22, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Lectures
Razi- Nuw: Hossein Alizadeh and the Possibility of a Persian Musical Modernity
February 13, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Talks
Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India
February 10, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Annual, Lectures
2020/21 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Nouvelle Japonisme: Le Samouraï (1967) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan
February 1, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Lectures
The Iranian Nightmare: Theorizing a New Iranian Horror Cinema in the (Trans)National Circuitry, 2009-2019
January 30, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Annual, Lectures
2020/21 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wai-yee Li
January 20, 2021 | 4:30 PM - January 22, 2021 | 6:30 PM
Lectures
#Me_Too and the Valuing of (Gendered) Violence in Iran
January 16, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
Negotiating Modernity: The Prostitute Character in Iranian Film and Fiction
December 12, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
Persian, Pahlavi, and Teaching Farsi
November 28, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
Representation of Sigheh Women in Modern Iranian Cultural Productions
November 14, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Seminars
The Poetics and Politics of Representation: A Comparative Study of 'Simurgh' in Four Royal Manuscripts of the Shahnama
October 31, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
Confronting Racism in Japanese Language Education presented by Dr. Ryuko Kubota
October 28, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Students
2020 Quiz on Korea by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto
October 24, 2020 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Seminars
No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965): From Speculative Fiction to Decolonial Option
October 17, 2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Lecture Series: Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography
October 9, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Lectures, Seminars, Students, Talks
(Webinar)Chinese Language Talk: Immersing Yourself in the Mandarin Language - Thursday October 8, 7:00pm PST
October 8, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Seminars, Talks
Eileen Chang 張愛玲 at 100: Online premiere of film “Love Everlasting” 不了情 (1947)
September 30, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Seminars
Pondering Anti-Blackness in the Iranian Context: From Enslavement to the Present
September 26, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
room
Online Event
Lectures
MOA Visual + Material Culture Seminar Series: Utsukushiki Okori: Seeing Red in Ninagawa Mika’s Cinema of Extremes
September 17, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Alumni, Lectures, Seminars, Students, Talks
Career Insights: Uncovering Journalism in Asia
August 27, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Seminars, Students, Talks
Viewing of "Remembering Inninimowin" and online Q&A with director Jules Arita Koostachin
August 27, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lectures, Seminars, Students, Talks
(Webinar) Korean Language Talk: Best Practices for Learning Korean - Thursday July 30, 3 - 4:30pm PST
July 30, 2020 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Seminars, Students, Talks, Workshops
Webinar: Is Asian Studies For Me? Thursday June 18, 4 - 5pm PST
June 18, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Seminars
[Roundtable] National Security (Law) in Hong Kong: An Assessment
June 10, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Seminars, Talks, Workshops
Mapping Hong Kong—A History Workshop
May 28, 2020 | 12:00 AM - May 30, 2020 | 11:59 PM
[LIVE STREAM] Multiple Voice One Heart (MVOH) Benefit Concert 萬千聲音眾志一心
May 23, 2020 | 12:00 AM - May 24, 2020 | 11:59 PM
Lectures, Talks
[Webinar] The Hong Kong Diaspora in the Age of Protests
May 19, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
Undergraduate Event Survey: What would you like to see in an Asian Studies webinar?
May 14, 2020 | 2:30 PM - May 22, 2020 | 11:59 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
April 29, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
April 22, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
April 15, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
April 8, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Lectures
[CANCELLED] The Wisdom of Love: Hafez, Goethe, and World Literature (in English)
April 3, 2020 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Annual, Lectures, Students, Talks
[CANCELLED] A Celebration of Punjabi at UBC
April 2, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Liu Institute for Global Studies
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
April 1, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Annual, Students
CANCELLED: The 2nd UBC Cantonese Singing Contest 第二屆卑詩大學粵語歌唱比賽
March 26, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
March 25, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
March 18, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Students
2020 Japanese Speech Contest
March 14, 2020 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Lectures
CANCELLED - Persian, Pahlavi, and Teaching Farsi (in English)
March 13, 2020 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Students
Carbon Footprint Challenge: Wrap-Up Party
March 13, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Alumni, Annual, Students
2020 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 12, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
March 11, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Students, Talks
China and the Coronavirus: A Roundtable Assessment
March 4, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building
Seminars, Students, Workshops
[NOW ONLINE!] Mahaparinirvana Sutra in Sanskrit/Pali/Tibetan/Chinese Reading Group
March 4, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Annual, Conferences, Lectures, Students, Talks
2020 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference
March 1, 2020 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Students
2020 Japanese Fun Night
February 28, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Weaponizing Citizenship: The politics of exclusion and inclusion in India
February 25, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lectures
Persian Munshi, Persian Jones: English Translations of Sa’di’s Gulistan from Late 18th to Mid-19th Centuries (in English)
February 12, 2020 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Annual, Lectures
2019/20 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: What Aborigines Sang: Aynu, Yukar and Some Problems in Japan Studies
February 10, 2020 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Talks
“Paper,” Binding, Book: Perspectives from Japan, India, and Tibet
February 6, 2020 | 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Seminars
Information Luncheon: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
February 6, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building
Talks
Why Are There Protests in India Now, and Why Does it Matter?
February 5, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures
Japanese Rare Books (Wahon) and Bindings: A Guide to Characteristics and Handling
February 5, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Students
[Screening] An Autumn’s Tale 秋天的童話
February 3, 2020 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Lectures
The Persian Influences on the Architecture of the Mugal Empire (in Persian)
January 31, 2020 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Students, Workshops
WORKSHOP: Rethinking the Cultural Cartographies of Tokyo in Japanese Media
January 31, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
room
Asian Centre, Room 604
Talks
Worldly Divine Love: Women and Public Performances of Sung Poetry in South Asia with Francesca Cassio
January 30, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Talks
Did women produce Buddhist texts in Medieval China? And does it matter if they did?
January 30, 2020 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Annual
2020 Lunar New Year Celebration — Year of the Rat
January 28, 2020 | 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Talks
Exploring the Health Research Priorities of the South Asian Community with Sonia Singh and Aven Sidhu
January 22, 2020 | 5:00 PM - January 23, 2020 | 7:00 PM
Lectures
Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Iran in the Early 20th Century (in English)
January 17, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
In The Memory of The Loved Ones in UIA 752 Flight
January 10, 2020 | 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Martha Piper Plaza & UBC Nest
Seminars
“Intercultural Learning in Language Teaching” Workshop
December 4, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
room
Dodson Room, Irving K Barber Learning Centre
Lectures
Civilizational Contacts Between Ancient Iran and Europe During the Classical Era (in English)
November 29, 2019 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy: Do They Exist?
November 15, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
room
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lectures
Political Economy of Oil Despotism: The Case of Post-Revolutionary Iran (in English)
November 8, 2019 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Alumni, Lectures, Students
FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: Through Altruism to Enlightenment
November 7, 2019 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
room
Asian Centre
Lectures
2019W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
November 5, 2019 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Ponderosa Commons Ballroom
Lectures
Iranian Art After Islam: With a Look at Some Renowned Calligraphers (in Persian)
October 25, 2019 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters
October 11, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Alumni, Lectures, Students
FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: “All Living Beings Have Buddha-Nature”
October 7, 2019 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures
Zoroastrian Philosophy: An Introduction by Dr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi (presented in English)
October 4, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Asian Studies Auditorium
Lectures
One Poet Among Many: Hafez and the Transregional Literary Networks of 14th-Century Iran
September 27, 2019 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
room
UBC Robson Square
Annual, Students, Talks
2019 Asian Studies Welcome Event
September 17, 2019 | 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Lectures
Loneliness and Struggle: Self-Narratives of Iranian Trans People’s Lives
September 13, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Exhibitions
At the Border: An Exhibition of Artists' Work in Response to the Partition of Punjab
September 1, 2019 | 12:00 AM - September 30, 2019 | 11:59 PM
Lectures
Parviz Tanavoli: Poetry in Bronze (Film Screening/Q&A)
April 25, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
Classical Persian Literature as a Mirror of Past Gender Orders
March 29, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
The Woman through the Safavid Texts and Documents
March 22, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
Articulations of Identity in the Iranian Diaspora
March 15, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
The 2019 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program
March 14, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Liu Institute for Global Studies
Annual
2018 Graduate Student Conference
March 10, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
Asian Studies Graduate Conference 2019
March 9, 2019 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
room
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Annual
2019 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 5, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Lectures
I, Kambiz Sharif: A Talk and Book-Signing
March 1, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
C.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures
Iranian Music After the 1979 Revolution
February 8, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures
Modernizing the Persian Masterpiece, Shahnameh
January 16, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Annual, Lectures
2018/19 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: The Social and Political Lives of Japanese Cherry Blossoms
November 22, 2018 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures
On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia
November 8, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
2018/19 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Helen F. Siu
October 3, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch
September 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual, Lectures
2017/18 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Stolen Secrets: Intercepting Dispatches Between Wartime Berlin and Japan
March 13, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
2018 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night
March 6, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
The 2018 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program
March 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM - March 4, 2018 | 11:59 PM
Annual
2018 Lunar New Year Celebration
February 9, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
room
Asian Centre
Annual
2018W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
January 17, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual
Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch
September 5, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Annual, Lectures
2016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Barbara Mittler
March 15, 2017 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Annual
2017 Lunar New Year Celebration
January 27, 2017 | 10:30 AM - January 27, 2019 | 4:30 PM
room
Asian Centre & Asian Library
Annual, Lectures
2016/17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Postwar Tokyo: Capital of a Ruined Empire
November 17, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Annual, Lectures
2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long, Short Years: Our World, Our Fukushima
January 18, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
room
Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
Annual, Lectures
2013/14 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: with Professor Pai Hsien-yung
October 2, 2013 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2012/13 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wang Fan-sen
October 3, 2012 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2011/12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Leung Ping-Kwan
October 5, 2011 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor David Der-Wei Wang
April 21, 2011 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2009/10 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Lung Ying-tai
October 18, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2008/09 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Author Yu Hua
February 25, 2009 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2007/08 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Dorothy Ko
February 13, 2008 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Annual, Lectures
2005/06 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Roger T. Ames
October 26, 2005 | 6:15 PM - 8:15 PM
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