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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join the Indigenous Asia Committee for a screening of Dear Mother, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Sk Shuvo Shadique! The movie presents the resilience of the Mro community, the oldest and most marginalized tribe in the Chittagong Hill Tracts area, conveyed in their native language. Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Time: 5:30 – […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
“Dear Mother” Screening and Q&A with Dir. Sk Shuvo Shadique
Tough Compassion: Chŏng Yagyong’s New Vision for Humane Government
The Marginal Archive and the Probable Event: Reflections on an Imperial Twilight Zone