Events Archive - Department of Asian Studies

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Screening, Talks

Framing Asia Final Event: Between Pictures

April 17, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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

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

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Seminars

Korean Studies Visiting Scholar Seminars

April 4, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Workshops

Reading Group on Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation

March 26, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Talks

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

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

Asian Centre Room 604

Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: The Queen of My Dreams

March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Norm Theatre

Lectures

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

March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Coach House, Green College

Lectures

Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd”

March 8, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Online Event

Lectures

Taiwan Democracy and the Chinese Humanistic Tradition

March 6, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Talks

Preserving Enemy (Japanese) language Histories

March 5, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Talks

Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present

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

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

Asian Studies Auditorium

Lectures

Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal

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

Online Event

Talks

Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetry

February 22, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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

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

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Talks

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

February 12, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Coach House, Green College

Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: Palestine in Focus

February 11, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women

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

Asian Centre Auditorium

Public Event

2025 Lunar New Year Celebration

January 29, 2025 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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

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

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

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Students, Talks, Workshops

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

November 29, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Talks

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

October 30, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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

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

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

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

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 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

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 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

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

AERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory

Students

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2024

September 19, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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

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

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 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

VIFF Centre

Seminars

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

August 22, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Asian Centre, Room 604

Public Event, Talks

The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan

August 15, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Seminars

Medicine and Geomancy in Premodern Korea

August 12, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Asian Centre, Room 604

Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality

August 10, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Asian Centre, Room 604

Public Event

Movies and Momos

August 9, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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

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

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

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

April 7, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

April 6, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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

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 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

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

Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre

Seminars

CANCELLED - South Asia Research Colloquium: Kiran Sunar

March 18, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Asian Centre, Room 604

Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

March 17, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Public Event

Persian Spread of the Gift

March 16, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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

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

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

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

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

February 9, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

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

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

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

Online Event

Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

January 23, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Asian Centre

Seminars

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

January 22, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

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

Online Event

Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature

December 9, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM

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

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

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

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

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

Online Event

Public Event

Kathāsindhu: A Stream of Ancient Tales

November 24, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Students, Workshops

Experience the Healing Art of Pastel Nagomi

November 7, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: Suppression of Discourses

October 28, 2023 | 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Students

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2023

October 5, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Exhibitions

Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio (CoDHerS) Opening Celebration

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

Asian Centre

Dr. Thomas Hunter Memorial Event

September 30, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Talks

Selection Bias and Chinese Translation

September 27, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Asian Centre, Room 604

Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: The Bewilderment of Discourses

September 23, 2023 | 10:15 AM - 1:15 PM

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

Asian Centre, Room 604

Seminars

[South Asia Research Colloquium] Gandhi's Silence

September 8, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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

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

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

North Vancouver City Library

Students

2023 Quiz on Korea is Happening Offline this Year!

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

UBC Asian Centre

Talks

Korean Literature Night

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

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

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

C.K. Choi Building, Room 120

Annual

Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2023

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

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

Asian Studies Auditorium

Webinar

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

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

Online Event

Talks

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

March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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

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

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

C.K. Choi, Room 120

Students

The 35th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest

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

Asian Centre

Conferences

2023 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Online Event

Seminars

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

November 25, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Asian Centre, Room 604

Lectures

My Caste – My Shadow: Flights of Freedom Through Literature

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

Asian Studies Auditorium

Lectures

Art and Spatial Politics in Iran

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

Online Event

Students

2022 K-pop Dance Event

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver

Talks

“Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature

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

Online Event

Talks

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

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

Liu Institute for Global Studies

Seminars

South Asia Research Colloquium

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

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

UBC Robson Square

Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Annual, Students

2022 Asian Studies Welcome Back Night

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

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

Asian Studies Auditorium

Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

September 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

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

Online Event

“Writing about Today” Story reading with Nahid Tabatabai

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

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

Asian Centre

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

June 24, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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

Online Event

Lectures

The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl

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

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

Online Event

Lectures

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

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

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

Online Event

Lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Online Event

Lectures

CANCELLED: Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian Young Adult Fiction

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

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

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

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

Online Event

Lectures

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

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

Online Event

Students

2021 K-pop Dance Event

November 5, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Online Event

Seminars

Negotiating Modernity: The Prostitute Character in Iranian Film and Fiction

December 12, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Online Event

Seminars

Persian, Pahlavi, and Teaching Farsi

November 28, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Online Event

Seminars

Representation of Sigheh Women in Modern Iranian Cultural Productions

November 14, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asian Studies Auditorium

Students

2020 Japanese Fun Night

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Asian Studies Auditorium

In The Memory of The Loved Ones in UIA 752 Flight

January 10, 2020 | 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Martha Piper Plaza & UBC Nest

Seminars

“Intercultural Learning in Language Teaching” Workshop

December 4, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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

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 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

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

Asian Centre

Lectures

2019W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C.K. Choi Building, Room 120

Lectures

The Woman through the Safavid Texts and Documents

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

C.K. Choi Building, Room 120

Lectures

Articulations of Identity in the Iranian Diaspora

March 15, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Annual

The 2019 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

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

Liu Institute for Global Studies

Annual

2018 Graduate Student Conference

March 10, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Annual

Asian Studies Graduate Conference 2019

March 9, 2019 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Room 120, C.K. Choi Building

Annual

2019 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

March 5, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre

Lectures

I, Kambiz Sharif: A Talk and Book-Signing

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

C.K. Choi Building, Room 120

Lectures

Iranian Music After the 1979 Revolution

February 8, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Lectures

Modernizing the Persian Masterpiece, Shahnameh

January 16, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Lectures

On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia

November 8, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Annual

Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch

September 4, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Annual

2018 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

March 6, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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

Asian Centre

Annual

2018W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

January 17, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Auditorium, Asian Centre

Annual

Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch

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

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

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

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

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

Events

In Search of Light: Hong Kong x Taiwan Documentary Short Films

From Hong Kong to the World Through the Eyes of Artists

The Ideal Balance: Combining Fluency and Accuracy

Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2025

Framing Asia Final Event: Between Pictures

Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion, 1797-1800

2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: Journey into Exile: The Rare Books of the National Peiping Library, 1933–1941

Awakening Literature: The Voice of the Other, the Rights of Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Korean Studies Visiting Scholar Seminars

[Asian Independent Cinema Showcase 2025] Vancouver Premiere of K-Family Affairs and Conversation with Director Arum Nam

Abul Mansur Ahmad’s America: A Global Intellectual History of the Language Movement in East Pakistan/Bangladesh

Reading Group on Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation

Translating “pop fiction” from 1000 years ago: Ochikubo monogatari (Lady of the Low Chamber)

Nowruz 1404 Persian Speech Contest: "Why I Learn, Why I Speak: My Persian Language Journey"

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

Framing Asia: The Queen of My Dreams

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

Translating Persian, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd”

Taiwan Democracy and the Chinese Humanistic Tradition

Preserving Enemy (Japanese) language Histories

Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present

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

Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal

Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetry

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

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

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

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

Framing Asia: Palestine in Focus

Vancouver Premiere: Kissing the Ground You Walked On 海鷗來過的房間 Conversation with Director HONG HENG-FAI 孔慶輝

Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black

Assessment in the Arabic Classroom: From Achievement to Proficiency

2024/25 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Samurai, Knights, and Nationalisms: Japan and the Medievalization of the Modern World

Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women

2025 Lunar New Year Celebration

Thinking through Prose: The Social Life of Poets in Early-Medieval India

Awakening Literature: The Other Gender

How We Mastered Chinese: Tips from Learners

Ecce Homo: The Male Body in Pain in Japanese World War Two Visual Propaganda

Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge

《杜騙新書》如何譯? Adventures in Translating the Ming Dynasty Book of Swindles

Translanguaging and L2 Arabic: From Theory to Practice

Anti-War Literature: Realism vs. Idealism

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

On the Correlations between Lee Sang's Poems and the Film An Andalusian Dog: Why do Invisible Needles Prick his Skin?

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

Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? The Case of China’s Email-Order Brides with Dr. Monica Liu

Teaching Arabic Literature to Non-native Speakers: Facilitating the Balance between Content and Language Acquisition

Intiha: An Evening of Conversation with Ali Sethi

Language Standardization in South Korea: An Ideological Perspective

'Don't Be a Gap-Filler', and Other Writing Advice for Graduate Students

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

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

Political Resistance in Post-Revolutionary Poetry: Mohammad Mokhtari and Baktash Abtin

Zhao Puchu’s Concept of “Buddhism as Culture” and the Revival of Buddhism in Contemporary Mainland China

Asian Studies Indigenizing Teaching & Learning Series: PD Workshop

What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Years?: The Social, Cultural, and Political Role of Towfigh Satirical Paper

Of Colour and Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949

Onkarbir Toor Memorial Lecture: Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab

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

A conversation – Living Spiritually with Climate Change

Employing AI in Arabic Teaching: Principles and Applications

Film Screening of “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle) and Discussion Session

The Origins of Awakening Literature in Modern Iran: A Study of the First Persian Short Stories

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

The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India

From "What to teach?" to "How to teach?": Practices in light of Language Proficiency

CLP Chinese Moon Festival Game Night

[Literary Hong Kong series] Screening of Liu Yichang 劉以鬯: 1918 and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong

Asian Studies Welcome Back Night 2024

[Literary Hong Kong series] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)

[Literary Hong Kong series] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading

The Popularization of the Hundred Poets in Edo-Period Japan

Religion for Lunch: “Why Were They Arrested? Religious Leaders and Korea’s 1980 Gwangju Democratization”

VIFF's Pantheon Screening: Pather Panchali with Kiran K. Sunar

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

The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan

Medicine and Geomancy in Premodern Korea

History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality

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