Events at: Asian Centre, Room 604

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

This talk addresses how the pain of advanced cancer is sustained in Pakistan by militarized apparatuses of narcotics control in the War on Drugs, as well as by a national regime of rigid price ceilings. It draws on ethnographic research to show how these regimes of control—reimagined as ‘regimes of pain’—render morphine, a cheap, effective […]

Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature

In 2022, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) and Seoul Selection Publishing facilitated the English-language translations of four important literary works by prominent Zainichi (lit. “residing in Japan; resident) Korean authors: Kim Sŏk-pŏm’s Death of a Crow, translated by Christina Yi; Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’aryŏng and Other Stories, translated by Cindi Textor and Lee […]

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

The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Sara Shneiderman (University of British Columbia, Anthropology and School for Public Policy & Global Affairs). This talk draws upon one chapter of a book manuscript in progress […]

CANCELLED – South Asia Research Colloquium: Kiran Sunar

This event has been cancelled The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Kiran Sunar (University of British Columbia). Date & Time: Monday, March 18, 2024 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT) Location: UBC Asian Centre, Room […]

Tough Compassion: Chŏng Yagyong’s New Vision for Humane Government

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Chŏng Yagyong 丁若鏞 (1762-1836, Tasan 茶山) is generally understood as one of the most prominent Korean Confucian scholars during the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910) who tried to radically reform the Korean state, firmly grounded in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, into one that protects the well-being […]

The Marginal Archive and the Probable Event: Reflections on an Imperial Twilight Zone

The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Naveena Naqvi (University of British Columbia). Questions about how archives are constituted, by whom, and to what end, have occupied numerous postmodern meditations on the act […]

History and its Representation in Literature: Identity and Spatiality

The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 will focus on: History and its Representation in Literature Introduction and Significance of the Topic: Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh, in the preface of his collection of stories “Once Upon a Time”, has regarded innovative approaches in literature, especially […]

Medicine and Geomancy in Premodern Korea

Date & Time: Monday, August 12, 2024 at 10:00am – 4:00pm Location: Room 604, Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, BC This event is free and open to the public. No registration is required. These seminars will be presented in Korean.   Seminar 1 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM) Hŏ Chun and the Compilation and […]

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

From a European perspective, all “lands” were either European territories or their potential colonies. In contrast, the “sea” remained a free space outside all territorial orders and was open to all countries. In the 19th century, Europe created new spaces in Asian countries by forcing them to agree to a treaty in European terms. In […]