Events

Talks

Letters to Morisaki Kazue: Re-imagining the lives of "karayuki-san"

November 12, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Boardroom (Rm 316), Liu Institute for Global Issues
Webinar

Carceral Violence & Resistance: from Palestine to Global Sites of Confinement

November 17, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Students

VIVA x UBC CLP Career & Study Abroad Fair 2026

November 19, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures, Public Event

Enlightenment Within Bodily Affliction: Zhuanyu Guanheng’s “Sickness Yet Not Sickness” and the Construction of Monastic Identity amid the Ming-Qing Dynastic Transition

November 25, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Lectures, Public Event, Talks

Is Women’s Poetry Always for Women Readers? The Women’s One Hundred Poets (Onna Hyakunin isshu) and A New Commentary to The Women’s Poetic Immortals (Onna Kasen shinshō)

November 26, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Conferences

6th International Conference on Teaching Persian Language & Literature

April 22, 2027 | 12:00 AM - April 24, 2027 | 11:59 PM
Public Event, Talks

Building Engagement in Language-Focused Courses in the Age of AI

October 30, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event, Students

Celebrate Diwali with the Asian Library and Punjabi Program

October 29, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event, Talks

Book Talk: Revisiting the Heart Sūtra

October 23, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Public Event, Screening, Talks

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

October 22, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomThe Norm Theatre
Talks

Writing the Traumatic Japanese Body after 1945

October 22, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Boardroom (Rm 316), Liu Institute for Global Issues
Public Event, Talks

2026 Vancouver Korean Book Festival: Book Talk with Park Sang Young

October 15, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Public Event, Talks

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

October 14, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Lectures, Public Event

Afrasiyab’s Dream in the Shahnameh Dreams and Dream Interpretation in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, with Special Attention to Afrasiyab’s Dream in the Story of Siyavash

October 7, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Students

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2026

September 24, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Workshops

Undoing Your Archive Workshop

September 21, 2026 | 9:00 AM - September 23, 2026 | 12:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event, Talks

Mini Manga and Anime Convention featuring PhD student Haruki Sekiguchi

September 19, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAlice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Lectures, Public Event, Talks

Beyond the Written Assignment: Videographic Methods in Research and Teaching

September 18, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures

The Great Earth and Its Tiny Creatures: Buddhist Monastic Life, Insect Agencies, and the More-Than-Human Human

August 6, 2026 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomMultimedia Room, Walter Gage
Lectures, Public Event

Iranians before Iran: Identity and the Safavid Diaspora in Mughal India

May 21, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Public Event, Screening

Screening of “Like the Dyer’s Hand"

May 5, 2026 | 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
roomVarious
Public Event, Talks

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

April 24, 2026 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Conferences, Public Event

Forging Empire: Networks, Encounters, and Contestation in the Early Modern World

April 23, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lectures, Public Event

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

April 18, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
Annual, Public Event

Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2026

April 10, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Students

Lights, Camera, Culture: A Night of Student Cinema & Multilingual Storytelling

April 10, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomSWNG 122
Public Event, Talks

The Politics of Common Reading Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894–1954

March 31, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:20 PM
roomCoach House, Green College
Public Event, Talks

Beyond Monolingual and Monocultural Ideologies: Navigating Japanese as an Additional Language Education in Contemporary Japan

March 27, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Annual, Lectures, Seminars

2025/26 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: The Cantonese heritage and the heritage child

March 26, 2026 | 12:00 AM - March 27, 2026 | 11:59 PM
Students, Talks, Workshops

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

March 25, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event, Talks

Palestine and Feminist Liberation

March 24, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLabatt Hall Theatre (1700), SFU Harbour Centre
Students

Nowruz Speech Contest: "Persian Language and Culture: Voices of Unity in Times of Conflict"

March 24, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Alumni, Students

2026 Asian Studies Careers Night

March 19, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomPonderosa Commons Ballroom
Public Event

Tang-Song Transition in Japanophone Academia Today: An Academic Reflection on Research Approaches and Reorientation

March 18, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 1133, Buchanan Tower
Exhibitions, Public Event

Curator Tour of Entangled Territories

March 14, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Public Event, Talks

Entangled Territories: A Panel Discussion

March 14, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Public Event, Talks

Nowruz: The Seven Trials of Esfandiyar

March 14, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAlice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch
Public Event

Critical Crossings: Gendered Readings across Textual and Visual Media

March 13, 2026 | 7:15 PM - 9:15 PM
roomPan Pacific Vancouver Hotel
Public Event, Talks

Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diasporas

March 11, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Screening, Symposium

Documentary Screening “Metamorphosis of the Bay Area” & Special Presentation by Prof. Helen F. Siu

March 11, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Lectures, Public Event

The Buddhist Cosmopolis: Connectivity, Diversity, and Materiality in Global Asia

March 11, 2026 | 5:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Public Event, Talks

The Transnational Impact on Identity Formation in Theatre Across the Chinese-Speaking World

March 10, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Seminars, Talks

Local Japan, Global Japan: Thinking Forward Through the Past

March 10, 2026 | 11:00 AM - March 11, 2026 | 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks, Webinar

The Textual Townsman and the Particularism of the Early Modern

March 5, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Webinar

What K-dramas reveal about women and power today

March 3, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Talks

The Fight for Recognition: Double Abandonment and Resistance from Wartime Canada to Postwar Japan (1942–1965)

February 27, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Lectures

Iran’s Nationwide Protests and the Theocratic Regime’s Crisis of Legitimacy

February 26, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Public Event, Talks

THE ANTHONY WONG STORY: A Live Storytelling Event in Vancouver

February 21, 2026 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOld Auditorium
Talks

Researching Hong Kong from Afar - Moderated Conversation

February 7, 2026 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Talks, Webinar

Time Out of Joint: War, Memory, and the Limits of the Postwar in Grave of the Fireflies

February 5, 2026 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Lectures

A Tale of Three Brothers: A Renowned Philosopher, a Pioneer Biologist, and a Catholic Martyr in Chosŏn Korea

January 30, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

A Japanese Work Community in Palestine: Japan’s Foreign Interface through Heritage Tourism Architecture and Construction

January 30, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Lectures

Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine

January 29, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomDodson Room (302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Talks

Entangled Territories: A Response to the Exhibition

January 22, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomCommunity Lounge (Room 213), Museum of Anthropology
Talks, Webinar

Visions of Man’yōshū: Reimagining Japan's Oldest Poetry Collection in the Medieval and Modern Eras

January 15, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomOnline Event
Talks

Community-engaged exhibit making and restorative justice in museums

January 15, 2026 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCommunity Lounge (Room 213), Museum of Anthropology
Screening, Students

UBC Short Film Festival｜青年微電影節

December 5, 2025 | 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
roomGreat Hall, UBC Nest
Talks

Emotion and Entertainment in the Mobilization of the Japanese Empire, 1937-1945

December 5, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Screening, Students

Text to Screen: Students Interpret Modern Arabic Literature Through Film

December 4, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom B151, School of Population & Public Health (SPPH)
Talks

Critical Perspectives on “Great Authors” of Feminist Literature

November 29, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Exhibitions, Public Event

Entangled Territories: Artist Tour

November 22, 2025 | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Exhibitions, Public Event, Talks

Entangled Territories: Artist Conversation

November 22, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Talks, Webinar

Rewriting Romance: Khvājū Kirmānī’s Humāy-u Humāyūn as a Post-Mongol Epic

November 22, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
roomOnline Event
Exhibitions, Public Event

Opening Celebrations of Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images

November 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Public Event, Talks

Paracolonial Thought in Afghan North India 1774-1857

November 19, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomBuchanan Penthouse
Students

K-Pop Dance Night: Learn, Play, Win & Mingle

November 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Contested Frames: Women, Photography, and the Politics of Seeing in Modern Japan

November 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event

[UBC x Jade Music Fest 2025] Panel: Multilingual Music in Taiwanese Indie Scene

November 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCoach House, Green College
Lectures, Public Event

Gendering the Archive: Family and Friendship in Early Modern Isfahan

November 1, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
Exhibitions, Public Event

Overcaste: Exhibition and Opening Reception

October 30, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Students, Talks

From Classroom to Career: Speaking Success with Language Learning (Arts Multilingual Week)

October 30, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 726, Buchanan Tower
Talks

Layers of Fear: Arabic in a Monolingual University

October 29, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Lectures, Public Event

A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley

October 28, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:20 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

Great Figures of Contemporary Persian Literature: A Critical Examination of the Concept of “Greatness” in Literature

October 25, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Public Event, Screening, Talks

Eco-documentary Screening + Conversation: City of Shells: Our Forgotten Oyster Reefs and Breathing Room

October 23, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event, Seminars

Out of Time, Out of Space, Out of Place: The Many Visual Incarnations of Qissa Sohni Mahiwal

October 23, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Talks, Webinar

Learning and Transformation within the Boundaries of Tradition: An Institutional Analysis of Shi’a Political Jurisprudence

October 18, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
roomOnline Event
Public Event, Talks

Stakeholder Perspectives on Language Support for Ethnic Minority Children in Japan: Centering Voices That Matter

October 17, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event, Talks

Everyday Indigenous Experiences in the CHT, Bangladesh: Voices from Indigenous Women

October 17, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Workshops

Meet the Comedians: The Skills Behind the Laughs

October 16, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Public Event

Celebrate Diwali with UBC Asian Library and Hindi-Urdu & Punjabi Programs

October 16, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks, Webinar

Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930

October 10, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Public Event

In Conversation with “Finch & Midland” Director Timothy Yeung 楊永光, Producer Ridley Tsui 徐寶華 & Actor Jaden Kwan 關家悅

October 5, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Talks

Navigating Emotional Jetlag: A Palestinian Reflection on Identity and Hope

October 2, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom B151, School of Population & Public Health (SPPH)
Talks

The Giants of Modern Persian Literature: A Critical Examination of the Concept of “Greatness” in Literature

September 27, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

Teaching the Listening Skill: Practical Experiences and Insights for Application

September 26, 2025 | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Screening, Talks

INDIANS ON INDIAN LANDS: No Past to Long For

September 22, 2025 | 2:00 PM - September 23, 2025 | 8:30 PM
Public Event

Indigenous-Asian Relationship Building: A Multi-Generational Conversation

September 20, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRussian Hall
Public Event, Screening, Talks

Film Screening of I’ve Got the Blues 水底行走的人 and Conversation with Director Angie Chen

September 20, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory
Talks

Kyojin, Taihō…and Repatriation?: On the Legacies of Repatriation in Postwar Japan

September 19, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Students

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2025

September 18, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event

Comedy Show: Ashwyn Singh and Guests!

September 16, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Screening, Talks

Golden Gate Girls with director Louisa Wei

September 15, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomThe Norm Theatre
Talks

Crown and Money Market in Seventeenth-Century China: Ming and Qing Credit Politics in Comparative Perspective

September 11, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Talks

Field Notes on Chinese Opera Associations in Canada

September 3, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event, Screening

Film Screening and Conversation: The Swordsman 笑傲江湖 (1990) with Dr. Helena Wu

July 31, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Public Event, Talks

[Meet-the-Filmmaker] In Conversation with Director Adam Wong 與黃修平導演對話

July 28, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
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
roomPonderosa Commons Ballroom
Conferences, Public Event, Symposium

The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

June 24, 2025 | 9:00 AM - June 25, 2025 | 6:15 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Screening

Outdoor Movie Night: SGaawaay K’uuna (Edge of the Knife)

June 20, 2025 | 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Talks

Lexical and Lexical-Semantic Overlap between MSA and Dialects-Implications on Learning and Teaching Arabic

May 23, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Talks

Framing Asia Final Event: Between Pictures

April 17, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomThe 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
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Seminars

Korean Studies Visiting Scholar Seminars

April 4, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
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
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Workshops

Reading Group on Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation

March 26, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomAsian 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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Drawing the Holocaust: The “Documentary” Manga of Satonaka Machiko

March 21, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lectures

Is There a Crisis of Narration? Narrative Imagination on Chinese Social Media

March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomCoach House, Green College
Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: The Queen of My Dreams

March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomThe 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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

Taiwan Democracy and the Chinese Humanistic Tradition

March 6, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Preserving Enemy (Japanese) language Histories

March 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present

February 26, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Exhibitions, Talks

Space Fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture

February 26, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lectures

Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal

February 22, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
roomOnline Event
Talks

Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetry

February 22, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomOnline Event
Talks

Interweaving Intercultural Competence & Communication in the Arabic Classroom: Standards, Practice and Assessment

February 21, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Talks

Tanomi shōmon: Political voice and “Democratization” within Tokugawa village society

February 12, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Panel Talk x LunarFest 2025: Places of Memory in Graphic Novels

February 12, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCoach House, Green College
Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: Palestine in Focus

February 11, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women

January 29, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Public Event

2025 Lunar New Year Celebration

January 29, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomAMS 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
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
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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Students, Talks, Workshops

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

November 29, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction with Gustav Heldt

November 27, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 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
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Public Event, Talks

Language Standardization in South Korea: An Ideological Perspective

November 8, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event

Special Halloween screening (& screaming!): CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB 盤絲洞 (1927)

October 31, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Karayuki-san, Rashamen, and Places of Memory: Fieldnotes from Yokohama

October 30, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
Public Event

Of Colour and Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949

October 18, 2024 | 6:15 PM - 8:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Talks

DEFYING RESTRICTIONS: Women-Created, Women-Read Sexual Writing in Modern Japan

October 16, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

Imaginaries of Wartime: Illustrations and Photographs of Shōjo no Tomo and Shōjo Kurabu

October 2, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory
Students

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2024

September 19, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomPeña 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
roomPeña 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
roomRoom 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
roomVIFF Centre
Seminars

The Spatial Structure under the Treaty Regime and its Dismantling (1876-1910)

August 22, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event, Talks

The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan

August 15, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Seminars

Medicine and Geomancy in Premodern Korea

August 12, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality

August 10, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event

Movies and Momos

August 9, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCoDHerS 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
roomFletcher 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
roomNewton 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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

April 7, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

April 6, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomTheatre Room (C300), UBC Robson Square
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
roomRoom 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Seminars

CANCELLED - South Asia Research Colloquium: Kiran Sunar

March 18, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

March 17, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

March 16, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomVarious
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
roomOnline 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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Talks

"Dear Mother" Screening and Q&A with Dir. Sk Shuvo Shadique

February 13, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

February 9, 2024 | 12:00 AM - June 3, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomAsian Centre
Lectures, Public Event

Commercialism in Hindustani Classical Music - A Brief Survey with Arnab Chakrabarty

February 8, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

January 23, 2024 | 12:00 AM - May 17, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomAsian Centre
Seminars

Restructuring Religiosity: Conflict, Disaster, and the Transformation of Sacred Space in Nepal

January 22, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomOnline Event

Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature

December 9, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomDelbrook 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
Lectures

The Relationship between Chen Yingning’s Immortal Theory and Monk Taixu’s Influence

November 27, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Seminars

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

November 27, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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
roomOnline Event
Public Event

Kathāsindhu: A Stream of Ancient Tales

November 24, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Students, Workshops

Experience the Healing Art of Pastel Nagomi

November 7, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Seminars, Talks

The Chosŏn Korean Kingship in the Chosŏn-Ming Relations in the Sixteenth Century

November 3, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: Suppression of Discourses

October 28, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
roomDelbrook 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Students

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2023

October 5, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Exhibitions

Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio (CoDHerS) Opening Celebration

October 4, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAsian Centre

Dr. Thomas Hunter Memorial Event

September 30, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Talks

Selection Bias and Chinese Translation

September 27, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: The Bewilderment of Discourses

September 23, 2023 | 10:15 AM - 1:15 PM
roomDelbrook 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Seminars

[South Asia Research Colloquium] Gandhi's Silence

September 8, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Talks

Otherness in Literature and the “Other” of Literature: Writing for Young Adults and Children

July 29, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
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
roomNorth Vancouver City Library
Students

2023 Quiz on Korea is Happening Offline this Year!

May 6, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Talks

Korean Literature Night

May 3, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Symposium

UBC Transdisciplinary Symposium on Disability Research, Education, and Activism

April 17, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
roomOnline 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
Annual

Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2023

April 6, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Celebration of Dr. Sunera Thobani’s induction to the Royal Society of Canada

April 5, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Webinar

Connecting Past, Present and Future: Ainu Documentary, Language and Culture

March 31, 2023 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Talks

World-oriented Crossings: The Covert Globality of Malaysian Chinese Literature

March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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
roomWelsh 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
room2nd 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
Students

The 35th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest

March 4, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomAsian Centre
Conferences

2023 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

March 4, 2023 | 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 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
roomAsian 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
Talks

“Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature: the author of the “other” gender

January 28, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Talks

[Screening + Conversation] Keep Rolling: Four Stories about Hong Kong under the Pandemic

January 26, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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
roomOnline 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

Exchange to Korea: Insider Tips from UBC Go Global Participants at Universities in Korea

November 25, 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomOnline Event
Seminars

[South Asia Research Colloquium] Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Gregg and Integral Nonviolence

November 25, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Lectures

My Caste – My Shadow: Flights of Freedom Through Literature

November 22, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Lectures

Art and Spatial Politics in Iran

November 19, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomOnline Event
Students

2022 K-pop Dance Event

November 8, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Talks

“Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature

November 6, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Talks

[Screening + Conversation] Far Far Away 緣路山旮旯

October 25, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Seminars

South Asia Research Colloquium

October 21, 2022 | 12:00 AM - April 21, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomAsian 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

Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East

October 13, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Talks

Performing Solidarities: 'Third World' Alliance as Choreographic Practice in Mao-Era China

October 11, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

A New Translation and Study of The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang)

October 9, 2022 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Lectures

"Ikkyū" and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: Then and Now

October 8, 2022 | 7:10 PM - 8:30 PM
Webinar

[Webinar] Becoming Communities: The Changing Face of Community Activism in Hong Kong

October 7, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomOnline 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

A Conversation with Yū Miri | “Minamisōma Medley”: Weaving Together Voices from Fukushima

October 5, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Talks

China’s Grandmothers: A Talk by Professor Emerita Diana Lary on her new book

September 28, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Annual, Students

2022 Asian Studies Welcome Back Night

September 12, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

September 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM - December 31, 2022 | 11:59 PM
roomAsian 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
roomOnline Event

“Writing about Today” Story reading with Nahid Tabatabai

July 30, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomOnline Event

The Japanese Way of Tea: the interaction of host and guest in the tearoom

July 21, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomAsian Centre

“The Guard of the Tulip”: Reading Afghanistan Reading Rahnavard-e Zaryab

June 24, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomOnline 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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

May 28, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
roomOnline 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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

Revelations of Chinese Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy, Comparative Studies and Case Studies

May 16, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Workshops

Virtual Asian Studies Workshop Series: Careers and Engagement in Asia

May 16, 2022 | 12:00 AM - May 20, 2022 | 11:59 PM
roomOnline Event
Lectures

Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver”

May 14, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
roomOnline 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
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

"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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

CANCELLED: Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian Young Adult Fiction

February 5, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran

November 6, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
roomOnline Event
Students

2021 K-pop Dance Event

November 5, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline Event
Seminars

Negotiating Modernity: The Prostitute Character in Iranian Film and Fiction

December 12, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Seminars

Persian, Pahlavi, and Teaching Farsi

November 28, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline Event
Seminars

Representation of Sigheh Women in Modern Iranian Cultural Productions

November 14, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
roomOnline 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
Annual, Lectures, Students, Talks

[CANCELLED] A Celebration of Punjabi at UBC

April 2, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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
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
roomRobert 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
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
Students

2020 Japanese Fun Night

February 28, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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
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
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
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
Students, Workshops

WORKSHOP: Rethinking the Cultural Cartographies of Tokyo in Japanese Media

January 31, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
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

In The Memory of The Loved Ones in UIA 752 Flight

January 10, 2020 | 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomMartha Piper Plaza & UBC Nest
Seminars

“Intercultural Learning in Language Teaching” Workshop

December 4, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomDodson Room (302), 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
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
roomRoom 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
Alumni, Lectures, Students

FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: Through Altruism to Enlightenment

November 7, 2019 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAsian Centre
Lectures

2019W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

November 5, 2019 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomPonderosa 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
Lectures

Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters

October 11, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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
Lectures

One Poet Among Many: Hafez and the Transregional Literary Networks of 14th-Century Iran

September 27, 2019 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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
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
Lectures

Classical Persian Literature as a Mirror of Past Gender Orders

March 29, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lectures

The Woman through the Safavid Texts and Documents

March 22, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lectures

Articulations of Identity in the Iranian Diaspora

March 15, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Annual

The 2019 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

March 14, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Annual

2018 Graduate Student Conference

March 10, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Annual

Asian Studies Graduate Conference 2019

March 9, 2019 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Annual

2019 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

March 5, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Lectures

I, Kambiz Sharif: A Talk and Book-Signing

March 1, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Lectures

Iranian Music After the 1979 Revolution

February 8, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures

Modernizing the Persian Masterpiece, Shahnameh

January 16, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomRobert 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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Lectures

On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia

November 8, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Annual

Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch

September 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Annual

2018 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

March 6, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAsian Centre
Annual

2018W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

January 17, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Annual

Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch

September 5, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAsian 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
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
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