Events at: Asian Studies Auditorium

Zoroastrian Philosophy: An Introduction by Dr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi (presented in English)

Co-sponsored by UBC Zoroastrian Student Association and Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian Studies سلسله سخنرانی‌های ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی علیرضا احمدیان زرتشتِ فیلسوف سخنران: دکتر تورج خدابخشی، دندانپزشک و موبد زرتشتی این سخنرانی به بررسی اصول فلسفی دین زرتشت، دین باستانی ایران و یکی از قدیمی‌ترین دین‌های توحیدی جهان می‌پردازد.   This lecture will focus on […]

2020 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

Join us for an annual day of presentations by graduate students from the Asian Studies department, featuring special guest presenters unique to each year. Participants in the conference will present their original research, engage in accompanying discussions on their papers or presentations, and enjoy refreshments while meeting and talking with scholars working in a wide […]

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

JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025 Graphic depictions of the painful injuries and deaths of soldiers are common in one of the most widely disseminated and widely viewed forms of Japanese mobilization propaganda in World War II: kamishibai (literally, paper plays). The realistic style and vivid colors of the illustrations of kamishibai plays make the […]

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

JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025 The foundations of Afrofuturism lie in the efforts and aspirations of African, African American, and other African diasporic actors. And yet in the realm of African American popular music there was a special window in time when a diasporic Japanese illustrator based in Los Angeles, California—Nagaoka Shusei (1936-2015)—worked to […]