Events

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
Talks

Researching Hong Kong from Afar - Moderated Conversation

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

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

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

Critical Crossings: Gendered Readings across Textual and Visual Media

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

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

March 25, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Lectures

Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine

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

Entangled Territories: A Response to the Exhibition

January 22, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomCommunity Lounge, 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, 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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomUBC Robson Square, Theatre Room (C300)
Exhibitions, Public Event

Overcaste: Exhibition and Opening Reception

October 30, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomThe xwθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Issues
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
roomIKBLC - Peña Room 301
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomRoom 213, Museum of Anthropology
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Public Event, Talks

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

October 17, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Workshops

Meet the Comedians: The Skills Behind the Laughs

October 16, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomDodson Room, IKB UBC
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
roomAsian Studies Auditorium
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomC.K. Choi, Room 120
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomUBC 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
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Seminars

Korean Studies Visiting Scholar Seminars

April 4, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomAsian 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
roomUBC 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
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
roomAsian Centre Room 604
Lectures

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

March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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
roomC.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
roomAsian Studies Auditorium
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
roomAsian 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
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
roomAsian 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
roomUBC 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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Screening, Talks

Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women

January 29, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
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
roomAsian 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
roomAsian 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
roomC.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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Students, Talks, Workshops

Turning Your Seminar Paper into a Journal Article

November 29, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomAsian 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
roomAsian 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
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
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
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
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
roomAsian 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
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
roomAsian 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
roomUBC 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
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
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
roomAsian 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
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Talks

History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality

August 10, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomUBC 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
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
roomAsian 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
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Seminars

CANCELLED - South Asia Research Colloquium: Kiran Sunar

March 18, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
Talks

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

February 13, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

February 9, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 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
roomC.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
roomOnline Event
Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

January 23, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 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
roomAsian 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
roomOnline Event

Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature

December 9, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 5:45 PM
roomAsian 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
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
roomC.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
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
roomAsian 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
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Students, Workshops

Experience the Healing Art of Pastel Nagomi

November 7, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
roomAsian 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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
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
roomAsian 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
roomWest 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
roomNorth Vancouver City Library
Students

2023 Quiz on Korea is Happening Offline this Year!

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

Korean Literature Night

May 3, 2023 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
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
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Annual

Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2023

April 6, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomC.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
roomAsian Studies Auditorium
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
room3rd-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
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
roomC.K. Choi, Room 120
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
roomLiu 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
roomNorth 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
roomLiu 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
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
roomWest 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
roomOnline Event
Seminars

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

November 25, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAsian Centre, Room 604
Lectures

My Caste – My Shadow: Flights of Freedom Through Literature

November 22, 2022 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomAsian Studies Auditorium
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
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
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
roomLiu Institute for Global Studies
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
roomUBC Robson Square

Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East

October 13, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAsian Centre, Room 604

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

October 9, 2022 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, 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
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
roomLiu 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
roomAuditorium, 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
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
roomAsian Studies Auditorium
Lectures

The Japan Lecture Series

September 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 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
roomC.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
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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, 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
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
roomAuditorium, 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
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
roomC.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
roomLiu 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
roomC.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
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
roomC.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
roomAsian Studies Auditorium
Students

2020 Japanese Fun Night

February 28, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAsian 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
roomC.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
roomAsian 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
roomC.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
roomC.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
roomAsian 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
roomAsian Studies Auditorium

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, 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
roomC.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
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
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures

Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreters

October 11, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomC.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
roomAsian 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
roomUBC 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
roomC.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
roomC.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
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 120
Lectures

The Woman through the Safavid Texts and Documents

March 22, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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
roomLiu Institute for Global Studies
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
roomC.K. Choi Building, Room 120
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
roomAuditorium, 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
roomAuditorium, 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