Events at: Auditorium, Asian Centre

Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch

All transfer and returning Arts Undergraduate students are welcome to join us for our Welcome Back Lunch on Imagine Day (2nd, 3rd and 4th years). Come learn about the Asian Studies Experience and join the Asian Studies community. Meet with faculty and staff, network with alumni and mingle with students over lunch. Imagine day is […]

2018W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

The Guest’s View: Some Thoughts on Director Ann Hui’s許鞍華 Work The 2018W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Dr. Rey Chow (Duke University) With reference to the acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui 許鞍華, this lecture discusses the notion of “the guest’s perspective” in relation to Chinese idiom, cinematic form, and contemporary migration controversies. The lecture […]

Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch

All transfer and returning Arts Undergraduate students (2nd, 3rd and 4th years) are welcome to join us for our Welcome Back Lunch on Imagine Day. Come learn about the Asian Studies experience and join the Asian Studies community. Meet with faculty and staff, network with alumni and mingle with students over lunch. Imagine day is your […]

2018/19 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Helen F. Siu

The Worldly Engagement of the Greater Pearl River Delta Region The 2018/19 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Helen F. Siu (Yale University) South China has long been part of what is now popularized as the Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries, the movement of goods, people, and ideas has bridged continental divides. The talk […]

On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia

On the evening of Nov. 8th, 2018, Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo delivered a speech, in Persian, titled ‘Dar radd va tamanna-ye nostalji’ (‘On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia’) in the Auditorium of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of British Columbia, to a Persian-speaking audience. Namjoo was invited by the Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Persian Club. He had also held a workshop titled ‘Ritm-ha-ye do-zarbi’ [‘Duples’] during the same day.

Iranian Music After the 1979 Revolution

سلسله سخنرانی‌های ایران‌شناسی و فارسی‌پژوهی علیرضا احمدیان موسیقی ایران پس از انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ امیر اسلامی، نوازنده و آهنگساز، مدرس سابق دانشگاه هنر تهران؛ به همراه هامین هنری، نوازنده انقلاب در هر کشوری همواره تبعات خوب و بد فراوانی به همراه داشته است. انقلاب سال ۱۳۵۷ ایران نیز از این قانون مستثنی نیست. گرچه به‌ویژه به […]

2018 Graduate Student Conference

Come join us for a day of presentations by graduate students from the Asian Studies department, with a few guest presenters from other departments. Listen to students present on their own research, join in on the accompanying discussions, and enjoy refreshments while meeting and talking with scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines and […]