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005/06 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Roger T. Ames (University of Hawai’i)
Arguably the most important relationship at the beg inning of the 21st century is between Europe and North America\, and a rapi dly growing China. Given that China is home to nearly one-quarter of the wo rld’s population\, the importance of this relationship extends far beyond m utual economic interests. The question is: how can these two profoundly dif ferent civilizations come to know each other better?
Relationships em erge from a process of relating to each other productively\, that is\, from effective communication. For such a discourse to be effective\, it require s an overlapping\, if not common\, vocabulary.
Over the past few year s\, Professor Ames has revisited the traditions of American philosophy from Jonathan Edwards and Ralph Waldo Emerson to William James and John Dewey—i nspired to do so by productive resonances he has found between the traditio nal Confucian sensibilities of the Sinitic world and indigenous Western phi losophy. These resonances provide us with language that we can appeal to in introducing Confucian philosophy to the Western academy\, and also with an external perspective from which to examine the presuppositions of our own worldview and commonsense.
Given the delicate historical relationship between the West and China\, Professor Ames will argue that within Western philosophy\, pragmatism may serve as the vocabulary for positive dialogue between these cultures at a time when such conversation is imperative.
< p>Wednesday\, October 26th\, 2005Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
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Dr. Roger T. Ames
of the University of Hawai’i. [/caption]
About the Speak er
Roger T. Ames (UBC BA’70\, UBC MA’73\, PhD’78 U of London) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i (Manoa)\ , where he served as director of the Center for Chinese Studies from 1991–2 000. He has been editor of Philosophy East and West since 1987\, and is co- director of the East-West Center’s Asian Studies Development Program. His t eaching and research interests focus on comparative philosophy\, the philos ophy of culture\, environmental philosophy\, classical Confucianism\, and D aoism.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possibl e by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of th eir mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2005-06-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-professor-roger-t-ames/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/robert-ames.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211101T0745Z-1635752715.6658-EO-53503-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211022T205029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T173907Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20080213T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20080213T200000 SUMMARY: 2007/08 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Dorothy Ko DESCRIPTION: The 2007/08 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Dor othy Ko (Columbia University) Lecture: Footbinding in Women’s Eyes Professo r Ko’s lecture intends to complicate the prevalent view of footbinding as a barbaric form of female oppression. By way of embroidered shoes and other artifacts related to the binding of feet\, the talk will probe […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
007/08 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Dorothy Ko (Columbia University)
Professor Ko’s lecture int ends to complicate the prevalent view of footbinding as a barbaric form of female oppression. By way of embroidered shoes and other artifacts related to the binding of feet\, the talk will probe the incentives of women in per petuating the custom for nearly a thousand years. In doing so\, it is hoped we will gain insights on gender relations and power dynamics in Chinese so ciety.
Wednesday\, February 13th\, 2008
6:00pm-
8:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
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Dr. Dorothy Ko of Col
umbia University. [/caption]
About the Speaker< /p>
Dorothy K o received her PhD from Stanford University and is author of s everal books including Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Cultur e in Seventeenth-Century China (1994)\; Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet (2005)\; and most recently Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (2005). She has also co-edited a pa ir of volumes on women and Confucian cultures in pre-modern East Asia\, and feminisms in China.
In Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist Histo ry of Footbinding\, Ko seeks to understand the forces that made footbi nding a conventional practice for women and to debunk many myths and miscon ceptions about it. From a standpoint that neither condemns nor defends the practice\, her aim is to show that “there is not one footbinding but many” and to argue that it is wrong to assume that footbinding was a uniform and timeless practice motivated by a single cause. Rather than stemming from se xual perversion\, Chinese men’s desire for bound feet was connected to larg er concerns such as cultural nostalgia\, regional rivalries\, and claims of male privilege. Nor were Chinese women who bound their feet hapless victim s\; they did so to signal their high status and self-respect. Femininity\, like the binding of feet\, was associated with bodily labor and domestic wo rk and properly bound feet and beautifully made shoes required exquisite sk ills and technical knowledge that was passed on from generation to generati on. Seeking out partial perspectives and the submerged voices of people lef t out or left behind\, Ko writes an “alternative history” of footbinding th at resists the moralistic discourse that structures our present knowledge o f it.
In Teachers of the Inner Chambers: Women and Culture in Sev
enteenth-Century China\, Ko writes about women’s culture in seventeent
h-century Jiangnan\, looking for evidence
that shows “how tradition ca
n be harnessed to further untraditional goals and how women can be incorpor
ated into new ways of imagining national and local communities.” The book u
nsettles the view that Chinese women were simply victims of patriarchal opp
ression\, and explores how they formed communities of their own within a dy
namic and changing gender system. Chapters on women and commercial publishi
ng\, literary friendships among women\, and individual writers\, poets\, an
d painters illustrate how Chinese women created new spaces within tradition
al social structures without directly challenging those structures.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the gener ous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, t he late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Plea se visit the full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2007-08-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-professor-dorothy-ko/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/dorathy-ko.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211101T1522Z-1635780137.3017-EO-53500-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211026T160948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T173912Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20090225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20090225T200000 SUMMARY: 2008/09 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Author Yu Hua DESCRIPTION: The 2008/09 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Author Yu Hua Lecture: Yu Hua\, author of “Brothers” Brothers\, Yu Hua’s most recent nov el and longest work to date\, broke sales records in China when its two vol umes were published in 2005 and 2006. The epic tale follows two stepbrother s\, Baldy Li and Song Gang\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
008/09 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Author Y
u Hua
Brothers\, Yu Hua’s most recent novel and longest wor k to date\, broke sales records in China when its two volumes were publishe d in 2005 and 2006. The epic tale follows two stepbrothers\, Baldy Li and S ong Gang\, from their scrappy childhood during the Cultural Revolution thro ugh the economic and social liberalization of the post-Mao era. The novel d eepens Yu Hua’s absurdist vision of life in modern China\, a direction whic h has not sat well with all critics. While some have criticized Brothers fo r merely reiterating the author’s fixation on historical violence\, others have been offended by its sensationalistic elements\, such as a “national v irgin beauty competition” that sets off a stampede for hymen reconstruction surgery among would-be contestants. Critics and fans alike agree that this is a book of extremes. The English translation of Brothers will be publish ed by Pantheon in January 2009.
Wednesday\, February 25th\, 2
009
6:00pm-8:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Centre Auditorium
\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to the public. Regi stration is now closed.
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Author Yu Hua. [/caption]
About t he Speaker
Yu Hua\, one of Ch ina’s most prominent contemporary novelists\, was born into a family of doc tors in Hangzhou in 1960 and grew up in the coastal town of Haiyan\, Zhejia ng. Following the Cultural Revolution\, at his father’s urging\, he worked for five years as a dentist before abandoning medicine for literature. He g ained national attention in 1984 for a series of short stories distinguishe d by Kafka-esque scenes of banal cruelty rendered in plain language with su rgical precision. Some critics have attributed the preponderance of the mac abre in Yu Hua’s fiction to his childhood living near a hospital morgue and overhearing the nightly wailings of bereaved families. (Dentists also surf ace frequently in Yu’s fiction\, notably Yanker Yu in Brothers.) These “exp erimentalist” stories explored the relationship between memory and the viol ence of the past through disjunctive narration\, denial of character interi ority\, and other avant-garde stylistics.
Yu Hua’s first novel\, Crie s in the Drizzle (1990\; English translation\, 2007)\, a story about an ost racized boy growing up during the later years of the Mao era\, signaled the beginning of a shift from conspicuously formalistic experimentation toward s a more realist narrative style. To Live (1992\; English translation\, 200 3)\, an existentialist masterpiece\, is an old man’s account of his and his family’s struggle to survive the vicissitudes of life in rural China from the 1940s through the 1960s. The novel remains Yu Hua’s best-known work to date\, having been adapted into a film in 1994\, and\, more recently\, a 33 -part television series. Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (1995\; English tran slation\, 2003)\, chronicles the physical and mental debilitation of a town -dweller whose habit of selling his own blood to feed his family eventually becomes an addiction. Like To Live\, Chronicle was voted one of China’s te n most influential books of the 1990s by a wide array of critics and is rep ortedly being adapted into a film. Yu Hua’s works have won numerous literar y awards\, including Italy's Premio Grinzane Award (1998) and the James Joy ce Foundation Award (2002). He lives in Beijing.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Mess rs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full l ecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2008-09-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-author-yu-hua/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/yu-hua-larger-image.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211102T0433Z-1635827607.0921-EO-53550-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211026T173120Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T173919Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20091018T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20091018T200000 SUMMARY: 2009/10 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Lung Ying-t ai DESCRIPTION: The 2009/10 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Lun g Ying-tai (University of Hong Kong and National Tsing Hua University) Lect ure: Big River\, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949 Watch Lung Ying-tai’s lect ure “Big River\, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949” in English. Watch Lung Yi ng-tai’s lecture “Why 1949” in Chinese. Webcast sponsored by […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
009/10 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Lung Ying-tai (University of Hong Kong and National Tsing Hua University)
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuNQr JPFy-M[/embed]
Watch Lung Ying-tai's lecture "Big River\, Big Sea: Un told Stories of 1949" in English.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watc h?v=GPKynvGdDlY[/embed]
Watch Lung Ying-tai's lecture "Why 1949" in C hinese.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre\, a nd made possible by the Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture series hosted by th e Department of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts\, UBC welcomed profes sor at Hong Kong University\, Dr. Lung Ying-tai on October 18\, 2009 at the Asian Auditorium at UBC. Lung Ying-tai's most recent work is Big River \, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949\, published to coincide with the 60 th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. With it\, Professor Lung marks the anniversary in a different way –by writing a book dedicated to the pain and suffering of more than 10 million people who die d in the Communist victory and millions of others whose lives were changed forever by it. To that end\, Big River\, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 194 9 is a work of history that transcends nationality\, transcends nation al borders\, and straddles the Taiwan Strait. In it\, Lung Ying-tai wants t o let readers "see an entire generation of people who silently suffered eno rmous trauma crushed under the iron wheel of history." Western society is f amiliar with the tragic consequences of the Nazi armys siege of Leningrad d uring World War Two. Few people are aware\, however\, of a similar tragedy that took place in 1948 in the northeastern city of Changchun\, when Commun ist armies encircled Nationalist forces during the Civil War. Even the majo rity of Chinese are unaware of this event. Lung Ying-tai writes not only ab out that generation\, but about “all those who were trampled upon\, humilia ted and destroyed in that historical epoch.”
Sunday\, October
18th\, 2009
6:00pm-8:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Centre A
uditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to the pub lic. Registration is now closed.
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"attachment_53553" align="alignright" width="300"]
Dr. Lung Ying-tai of Univ
ersity of Hong Kong and National Tsing Hua University. [/caption]
Celebrated writer\, literary cri tic and public intellectual of contemporary Taiwan\, Lung Ying-tai’s works also have grea t influence in the Chinese language world in Hong Kong\, China\, and North America.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possi ble by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature a nd culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2009-10-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-professor-lung-ying-tai/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/Lung-Ying-tai.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211101T1116Z-1635765401.932-EO-53546-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211026T173138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T173848Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20110421T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20110421T200000 SUMMARY: 2010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor David Der-W ei Wang DESCRIPTION: The 2010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Dav id Der-Wei Wang (Harvard University) Lecture: Writing History after “Post-H istory”: On Contemporary Chinese Fiction Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by th e Department of Asian Studies. Writing at a time when History has collapsed […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
010/11 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r David Der-Wei Wang (Harvard University)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian St udies. Writing at a time when History has collapsed and Revolution has lost its mandate\, writers cannot take up the two subjects without pondering th eir inherent intelligibility. Drawing upon theories on “post-history” as de veloped by scholars such as Jacques Derrida\, Li Zehou and Liu Zaifu\, and contemporary fictional works as created by writers such as Mo Yan\, Yan Lia nke and Wang Anyi\, this lecture will address the following three issues: H istory after Post-History\, Enlightenment versus Enchantment and Socialist Utopia and “the Best of all Best Possible Worlds”.
Thursday\,
April 21st\, 2011
6:00pm-8:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Ce
ntre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to t he public. Registration is now closed.
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Dr. David Der-wei Wang of Harvard University. [/caption]
David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter -University Center for Sinological Studies at Harvard University. The world ’s leading scholar of modern Chinese fiction\, his research specialties inc lude modern and contemporary Chinese literature\, late Qing fiction and dra ma\, and comparative literary theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparativ e Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison\, and has taught a t National Taiwan University and Columbia University. His many honors inclu de an honorary doctorate from Lingnan University (Hong Kong)\, and his appo intments as an Academician of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and as a Yangtze River Scholar affiliated with Fudan University (Shanghai).
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous supp ort of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2010-11-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-professor-david-der-wei-wang/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/david_wang.jpg.crop_display-e1486414829467.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0126Z-1635211595.497-EO-53495-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211022T204437Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T204437Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20111005T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20111005T210000 SUMMARY: 2011/12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Leung Ping- Kwan DESCRIPTION: The 2011/12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Leu ng Ping-Kwan (Harvard University) Lecture: Transformative Identities: Liter ary Adaptation and Cultural Negotiation in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1950s Contrary to the common belief that Hong Kong cinema excels only in martial arts and gangster genres but has little to do with literature\, recent […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
011/12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Leung Ping-Kwan (Harvard University)
[embed]https://www.y outube.com/watch?v=_sShnA-jlm8&list=PLhA05Qf-09xAMYj1FeIu5pAY05KeBArzN&inde x=5[/embed]
Contrary to the common belief that Hong Kong cine ma excels only in martial arts and gangster genres but has little to do wit h literature\, recent research (Hong Kong Film and Literature Filmograp hy\, 1913-2000 [Hong Kong: Centre for Humanities Research\, Lingnan Un iversity\, 2005]) has shown that more than a thousand Hong Kong films have been adapted from literature since the beginning of the film industry (with the 1950s and 1960s as the high points). This talk will examine how Hong K ong culture has evolved since the 1950s\, and it will examine how directors and writers drew on traditional and modern Chinese literary works as well as foreign and popular resources to develop alternative Chinese cultures–cu ltures that would not have been possible to develop in Mainland China.
< p>Hong Kong cinema from the 1950s made adaptations not only from mainstream twentieth-century writers such as Lu Xun\, Ba Jin\, and Mao Dun but also f rom unacknowledged writers such as Shen Congwen and Eileen Chang. It contin ued to adapt from the literary works of Tolstoy\, Maupassant\, and Dickens when its counterpart in the mainland had ceased to do so. And it continued to adapt from traditional opera and romance (the “Mandarin Duck and Butterf ly” stories) when the latter were severely criticized in the north.T his talk will focus in particular on some rarely seen films adapted from Lu Xun\, Tolstoy\, and traditional opera. Its objectives are to highlight the literary varieties in Hong Kong culture\, to clarify its historical links with Chinese and Western cultures\, and at the same time to trace the forma tion of the characteristics that contributed to the development of Hong Kon g culture.
Wednesday\, October 5th\, 2011
7:00p
m-9:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Van
couver\, BC
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
Monday\, October 3rd\, 2 011
Free & open to the public. Registration is now cl osed.
Thursday\, Octobe r 6\, 2011
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
Friday\, October 7th\, 2011
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
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Dr. Leung
Ping-kwan of Lingnan University. [/caption]
About the S peaker
Leung Pin g-kwan 梁秉鈞 (pen name: Ye Si 也斯) is a highly prolific poet\, no velist\, cultural critic\, and multimedia artist. He has published eleven v olumes of poetry (including Vegetable Politics 蔬菜的政治 [2006] and th e award-winning Halfway 半途 [1995])\, a novel\, and four collection s of short stories (among themIslands and Continents 島和大陸[1987]\,< em>Postcards from Prague 布拉格的明信片 [1990]\, which won the Hong Kong Urba n Council’s Biennial Award for Fiction\, andPostcolonial Affairs of Foo d and the Heart 後殖民食物與愛情 [2009]). As Chair Professor of Comparative Li terature at Lingnan University\, he has also published extensively on Hong Kong literature and culture (including Hong Kong Culture 香港文化 [199 5] and Hong Kong Literature and Cinema 香港文學與電影[2011]). His recent research on the film culture of Hong Kong in the 1950s forms the basis of t his year’s Wat Lecture.
Leung’s writings have been translated into Fr ench\, German\, and Japanese. He has also produced multimedia art works on urban life\, collaborated with visual and performing artists\, fashion desi gners\, and other cultural workers\, as well as staged poetry and photograp hy exhibitions in Hong Kong\, Frankfurt\, and Bern.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of M essrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat \, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the ful l lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2011-12-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-professor-leung-ping-kwan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/BK12_author01.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0126Z-1635211584.36-EO-53498-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211022T201400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T204227Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20121003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20121003T210000 SUMMARY: 2012/13 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wang Fan-se n DESCRIPTION: The 2012/13 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wan g Fan-sen (Academia Sinica) Lecture: Shoes\, Umbrellas\, and Tofu: Appraisi ng Local Officials in Late Imperial China Historians have long been interes ted in the rituals of appraisals for officials that took place in local tem ples. This is so for good reasons. For most scholar-officials in late […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
012/13 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Wang Fan-sen (Academia Sinica)
Historians have long been interested in the rituals of appraisals for officials that took place in local temples. This is so f or good reasons. For most scholar-officials in late imperial China\, earnin g a place in a Confucius Temple (thus securing one’s privilege to accept of ferings of cold pork left by worshippers) was indeed a lifelong aspiration. And as a result\, rituals of appraisals did generate a sense of anticipati on and were an important part of socialization and social order in late imp erial times.
In this talk\, I would like to explore a related though lesser-known phenomenon: the appraisal of local officials by common people. In examining popular responses to state power\, scholars have tended to fo cus on resistance and revolts (e.g.\, James Scott’s Weapons of the Weak). B y contrast\, in this lecture I will examine another way people responded to state authority: ritual demonstrations of approval and praise for “good of ficials.”
Among the ritual behaviours to be discussed are the taking
off of shoes\, the gifting of so-called umbrellas of ten-thousand-names (
Wednesday\, October 3rd\, 2012
7:00pm-9:00pm (Paci
fic Time)
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
[caption id="attachment_53499" align="alignright" width="240"]
Professor Wa
ng Fan-sen of Academia Sinica. [/caption]
About the Spea ker
Professor Wang Fan-sen is an historian specia lizing in the cultural-intellectual history of early modern and modern Chin a. Among his most acclaimed works are Zhang Taiyan de si xiang (The thought of Zhang Taiyan\; 1985)\, Gu shi bian yun dong de xing qi (The rise of the doubting-antiquity movement\; 1987)\, Fu Ssu-nien: A Life in Chinese Histo ry and Politics (2000)\, Zhongguo jin dai si xiang yu xue shu de xi pu (The geneology of modern Chinese thought\; 2003)\, and Wan Ming Qing chu si xia ng shi lun (Ten essays on Ming and Qing intellectual history\; 2004). Wang Fan-sen received his M.A. in History from the National Taiwan University an d Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs . Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit th e full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2012-13-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-shoes-umbrellas-and-tofu-appraising-local-officials-in-late-imp erial-china/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/Fan-sen-Wang.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211026T0126Z-1635211574.0642-EO-53489-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211022T201152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T205019Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20131002T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20131002T210000 SUMMARY: 2013/14 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: with Professor Pai Hsien- yung DESCRIPTION: The 2013/14 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Pai Hsien-yung (University of California\, Santa Barbara) Lecture: Father and the Republic Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the l ife and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi\; 1893–1966) . General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the histor y of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 2
013/14 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Pai Hsien-yung (University of California\, Santa Barbara)
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v25CcQhA4rY&list=PLhA05Qf-09xAM Yj1FeIu5pAY05KeBArzN&index=7[/embed]
Father and the Republ ic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late Gener al Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi\; 1893–1966). General Pai’s career both para lleled and profoundly influenced the history of the Republic of China: As a n eighteen-year-old military cadet in 1911\, he joined a “Dare-to-Die” corp s that marched to Wuhan to take part in the Wuchang Uprising and helped ove rthrow the Qing dynasty (1644–1912)\; in 1928\, as Chiang Kai-shek’s one-ti me Chief of Staff\, General Pai fought his way into Beijing and brought the Northern Expedition to a successful conclusion\; in 1938\, as Commander of the Republic’s armies in northern China\, he gave the Japanese Army\, at t he Battle of Taierzhuang\, what was later called “the worst defeat it had s uffered in modern times”\; and in the winter of 1939\, as commander of forc es in Guangxi\, General Pai was instrumental in wiping out one of Japan’s e lite units.
During the Civil War\, after routing the army led by Lin Biao (1907–71) in 1946\, General Pai argued for the pursuit and destruction of the retreating Communist forces. But\, under the pressure of General Ge orge Marshall\, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a ceasefire\, thus allowing the Com munist Army to recover Manchuria and\, in time\, conquer mainland China. In 1949\, General Pai commanded the Nationalists’ last operational forces on the mainland before withdrawing to Taiwan\, where the Republican government ’s standoff against Communist China continues to this day.
General Pa i was immensely popular in China during the war and was recognized as the m ost brilliant military strategist of his generation\, a distinction exempli fied by his nickname “Little Zhuge” (a reference to the fabled strategist Z huge Liang of the Three Kingdoms period). But his military career was overs hadowed by a long and complicated relationship with Chiang Kai-shek\, who r esented his brilliance and kept him under constant surveillance after the R epublic’s retreat to Taiwan.
Father and the Republic includes nearly six hundred photographs (many appearing in public for the first time ) that serve to illustrate the public career and family life of General Pai from the 1920s to his days in Taiwan. As a witness to the birth of the fir st republic in Asia\, Pai Ch’ung-hsi felt an unwavering sense of loyalty to it and chose to stay on in the Republic’s last foothold in China. General Pai was also a devout Muslim\, and his death in 1966 was honored with a sta te funeral held in accordance with Muslim customs.
Wednesday\
, October 2nd\, 2013
7:00pm-9:00pm (Pacific Time)
Old Au
ditorium\, 6344 Memorial Road\, Vancouver\, BC
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
Sunday\, Septemb
er 29th\, 2013
2:30pm (Pacific Time)
Richmond Public Lib
rary (Brighouse)\, 7700 Minoru Gate\, Richmond
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
Monday\, September 30th\, 20
13
4:00pm (Pacific Time)
Asian Centre Auditorium\, UBC\,
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public. Registr ation is now closed.
Thursday\, October 3rd\, 2013
2:30pm (Pacific Tim
e)
Asian Centre Auditorium\, UBC\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
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Dr. Pai H
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Son of the prominent military ge neral Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi)\, Pai Hsien-yung grew up in Guilin\, Shanghai\, and Hong Kong during the war years of th e 1930s and 1940s. His family eventually resettled in Taiwan\, where he rec eived the remainder of his early schooling. Pai Hsien-yung is a graduate of the National Taiwan University (1961)\, where he co-founded the literary j ournal Xian dai wen xue (Modern Literature). The journal laun ched the modern literary movement in Taiwan and subsequently had a great im pact on both Hong Kong and China. In 1965\, Pai received a master’s degree in fine arts with a specialization in creative writing from the famed Write r’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. That same year\, he joined the facu lty of the University of California at Santa Barbara\, where he remained ac tive as a teacher\, creative writer\, and scholar until his retirement in 1 994.
Pai Hsien-yung is recognized as one of the most important modern Chinese fiction writers. His works\, comprising several dozen volumes\, in clude short story collections\, novels\, screenplays\, and critical essays\ ; among his more notable works are Taibei ren (Taipei People) \, Nie zi (Crystal Boys)\, Niuyue ke (New Yorkers)\, and the stage play You yuan jing meng (Wandering in the Gar den\, Waking from a Dream). His fiction\, set against the backdrop of t he great national dramas and tragedies that mark the history of twentieth-c entury China\, explores\, among other topics\, problems of Chinese identity \, migration and nostalgia\, and sexuality. Ever innovative and daring\, hi s works examine a startling range of subjects and lifestyles\, from the “la st aristocrats” of displaced mainlander Chinese in Taiwan and Manhattan in the 1950s and 1960s to the homosexual youth counterculture of Taipei in the 1980s. His novels and short stories have been adapted into full-length fil ms\, television series\, and stage plays\; and his fiction has been transla ted into English\, French\, German\, Italian\, Dutch\, and Japanese. In add ition to his other creative activities\, Pai Hsien-yung has become a leadin g promoter of the revival of Kunqu opera\, and his own production of the si xteenth-century drama “The Peony Pavilion” has been performed more than two hundred times worldwide\, winning high critical acclaim.
His most re cent endeavor has been the completion of a photobiography of his father\, < i>Fu qin yu Min guo (Father and the Republic)\, which was publis hed simultaneously in Taiwan\, Hong Kong\, and mainland China in 2012. The publication of the book was a major milestone\, which the noted historian D iana Lary has called “a harbinger that a serious reconsideration of China’s history of revolution can be discussed in public… [and that] a clearer und erstanding of modern Chinese history [can be achieved].”
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs . Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit th e full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2013-14-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-father-and-the-republic/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/201314-father-and-the-republic-1200-x-628.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220209T1500Z-1644418852.9354-EO-55030-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220205T002202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T192431Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20160118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20160118T190000 SUMMARY: 2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long\, Short Years: Our World\, Our Fukushima DESCRIPTION: 2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long\, Sh ort Years: Our World\, Our Fukushima features guest speaker Professor Dr. N orma Field\, Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies at the University of Chi cago. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2015/
16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Dr. Norma Field
(Professor of Japanese Studies Emerita at the
University of Chicago)
Thank you to all who attended this year’s lectu re and for making it our highest attended John Howes Lecture to date. Guest Speaker Dr. Norma Field gave an enlightening lecture that revealed the dev astating reality of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster – a reality which w as reinforced by the presence of Fukushima and Chernobyl residents in the a udience.
The recording can be viewe d on YouTube via this link here.
[embed]https://youtu.be/ikGkAGPXmUI[/embed]
Monday\, January 18\, 2
016
5:00pm Reception with refreshments
6:00pm Lec
ture
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Lecture abstract:
March 11\, 2016 marks the fifth anniversary of the triple disaste r\, the Great East Japan Earthquake that brought with it a tsunami and nucl ear catastrophe. In 2013 Prime Minister Abe won the 2020 Olympics for Tokyo by declaring the spread of radioactively contaminated waters “under contro l\,” to widespread disbelief back home. And yet\, that declaration has been steadily converted into truth through the collaboration\, witting and unwi tting\, of bureaucratic mandate and citizen need-to-forget. The process is aided and abetted by the accelerated redefinition of the character of the p ostwar Japanese nation.
Still\, to provide a merely dystopian account would be to commit a falsehood and an injustice. Let us\, rather\, conside r the efforts being made\, with intuitive or disciplined suspension of disb elief\, and in defiance of the multifarious tentacles of the late Mrs. That cher’s dictum\, to struggle for an alternative world. Those efforts take on especially precarious\, contradictory\, and determined form in Fukushima\, and it is to them that the heart of this talk will be dedicated.
About the speaker:
The Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of Japanese Studies Emerita at the University of Chicago\, Norma Field was born and educated in Americ an schools in Tokyo\, Japan. Her publications include In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End\; Kobayashi Takiji: 21seiki ni do yomu ka (Reading Kobayashi Takiji for the 21st Century)\; F ukushima Radiation: Do You Still Say No Crime Was Committed (co-transl ator)\; and For Dignity\, Justice\, and Revolution: An Anthology of Jap anese Proletarian Literature (co-editor).
Book Sale:
Dr. Norma Field’s most recent publication\, For Dignity\, Justice\, and Re volution\, will be for sale at the lecture.
Synopsis: Fiction cr eated by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization\, dramatic inequality\, and i mperial expansion. In Japan\, literary youth\, men and women\, sought to tu rn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices\, with r esults that captured both middle-class and worker-farmer readers. This anth ology is a landmark introduction to Japanese proletarian literature from th at period.
For more information regarding Fukushima and the nucle ar incident\, we recommend you read “The Human Consequences of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accidents< /a>” by Eiichiro Ochiai.
About the John Howes Lect ure in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding member o f UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia University. During his 30 years of active teac hing and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cu ltural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan rel ationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\ , and Professor Howes’ devoted former students came together to launch an e ndowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prominent scholars from around the world to speak to the university community and alumni on to pics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2015-16-john-howes-lecture-i n-japanese-studies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/02/2016-John-Howes-Lecture_Digital-Signage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220209T1511Z-1644419509.7134-EO-55027-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220205T000850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T192413Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20161117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20161117T200000 SUMMARY: 2016/17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Postwar Tokyo: Cap ital of a Ruined Empire DESCRIPTION: In this talk\, Dr. Seiji M. Lippit discusses Postwar Tokyo. Th e capital of what had once been a massive overseas empire was reduced to ru ins by the unrelenting Allied aerial bombardment and now faced occupation b y a foreign military power for the first time in the nation’s history. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2016/
17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Dr. Seiji M. Lippit
(University of California\, Los Angeles)
Thank you to everyone who attended! The recording can be viewed on YouTube via this link here.
https://youtu.be/MUsLiWZOpnw
Thursday\, November 17\, 2016
6:00pm Lecture
Location:
A
sian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public.
Lecture ab stract:
In the aftermath of World War II\, the city of Tokyo lay in a state of devastation. The capital of what had once been a massive overseas empire was reduced to ruins by the unrelenting Allied aerial bomb ardment and now faced occupation by a foreign military power for the first time in the nation’s history. At the same time\, the city was also the site of a remarkable efflorescence of literature and culture in the immediate p ostwar period\, as intellectuals and artists\, many of them returning to th e city from the countryside or from overseas territories\, grappled with a simultaneous sense of immense loss and hopeful visions of the future. This talk examines ways in which the city of Tokyo—as both a material site and a s a space of representation—shaped one of the most productive periods in mo dern cultural history. It focuses in particular on Tokyo’s materialization of a core contradiction underlying the experience of this historical moment : the city embodied on the one hand a sense of radical historical rupture\, while\, at the same time\, it also framed the spectral return of the imper ial past\, which haunted the reconstruction of the city and the nation in t he years after the war. The talk will examine a number of recurrent themes and images in literature and popular culture\, including representations of the capital in ruins\, the city under occupation\, and the cultural space of the black markets.
About the speaker: 
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
< p>John Howes was a founding member of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, w hich he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia University . During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cultural\, educational and people-to-peop le relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate their caree rs and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 201 2\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted former s tudents came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund suppor ts the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an annual pu blic lecture for prominent scholars from around the world to speak to the u niversity community and alumni on topics in Japanese Studies with a focus o n Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92. CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2016-17-john-howes-lecture-i n-japanese-studies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/02/2016-John-Howes-Lecture-Digital-Signage.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20190906T1704Z-1567789492.9774-EO-45787-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20190906T164523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190906T213620Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20170127T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190127T163000 SUMMARY: 2017 Lunar New Year Celebration DESCRIPTION: On January 27th\, 2017 the Department of Asian Studies will be hosting our annual Lunar New Year Celebration! Come to the Asian Centre an d participate in fun activities that will celebrate the cultures of China a nd Korea. Friday\, January 27th\, 2017 10:30am – 4:30pm Asian Centre and As ian Library (1871 West Mall) Free and open […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:On January 27th\, 2017 the Department of A sian Studies will be hosting our annual Lunar New Year Celebration! Come to the Asian Centre and participate in fun activities that will celebrate the cultures of China and Korea.
Friday\, January 27th\, 2017
10:30am - 4:30pm
Asian Centre and Asian Library (1871 West Mall)
Free and open to the public.
Asian Centre Auditorium
Asian Centre Lobby
Asian Centre Auditori um
Celebrate Lunar New Year with Cultural Activities\, Games\, Snacks \, and Prizes!
Sponsore d by:
UBC Asian Studies Department
Consula
te-General of PRC in Vancouver
The 2
016/17 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg)
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Why is it that for a while in the early 2000s\, Mao’s portrait dangled in almost every taxi? Why is it that Mao’s image is to be found everywhere today\, in high-market as well as popular accessorie s? Why do numerous Chinese websites feature memories of producing and consu ming Maoist propaganda art? Why do people get married in “Cultural Revoluti on style”? Why are the model works and revolutionary songs most prominent d uring the Cultural Revolution reproduced in never-ending varieties of pop\, rock and jazz covers\, even in karaoke bars\, and on home videos? Why\, in short\, do people appreciate the products of a period in Chinese history k nown for its radical politics and the horrors it inflicted on so many?
< p>In addressing these questions\, Barbara Mittler will argue that the Cultu ral Revolution was an “impact event” that touched not only those who have w ritten about it—intellectuals\, the well-off\, the middle class—but everyon e down to peasants and workers. The Cultural Revolution was there for—or ag ainst—everyone. Taking her point of departure from three recent films\, fic tional and documentary: Bloody Snow by Peng Tao and My Cultural Revolution and Crime Summary by Xu Xing\, Professor Mittler will illustrate how\, in i nnumerable and even counterintuitive ways\, the Cultural Revolution’s polit ical hysterics reached even the most remote corners of a vast country. She will explore how the all-encompassing experience of living through the Cult ural Revolution has influenced the making of cultural memory in and beyond China.Wednesday\, March 15\, 2017
6pm - 9pm (P
acific Time)
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
Tuesday\, March 14\, 2017
2pm - 4pm (Pacific Time)
Room 221\, West Mall Swing Space\,
2175 West Mall
Tuesday\, March 14\, 2017
4pm - 6pm (Pacific Time)
Room 604\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall
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About the Speaker
Prof. Dr. Bar bara Mittler is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Institute of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg and Director of the Heid elberg Centre for Transcultural Studies—Asia and Europe in a Global Context . Her hundreds of publications include the books Dangerous Tunes: The Polit ics of Chinese Music in Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and the People’s Republic of C hina since 1949 (Harrassowitz\, 1997)\; A Newspaper for China: Power\, Iden tity and Change in Shanghai’s News Media (1872-1912) (Harvard\, 2004)\; and A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture (Harv ard\, 2012)\, which won the 2013 John K. Fairbank Prize from the American H istorical Association. She is a graduate of Heidelberg (Habilitation and Ph .D.)\, Oxford (B.A./M.A.)\, and Pearson College (I.B.) in Victoria\, B.C.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their moth er\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture . Please visit the full lecture list here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2016-17-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/2017-Wat-Lecture-Poster-Final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20190905T1849Z-1567709373.0312-EO-45773-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20190904T230203Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190906T213723Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20170905T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20170905T133000 SUMMARY: Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch DESCRIPTION: All transfer and returning Arts Undergraduate students are wel come to join us for our Welcome Back Lunch on Imagine Day (2nd\, 3rd and 4t h years). Come learn about the Asian Studies Experience and join the Asian Studies community. Meet with faculty and staff\, network with alumni and mi ngle with students over lunch. Imagine day is […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
All transfer and returning Arts U ndergraduate 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 E xperience and join the Asian Studies community. Meet with faculty and staff \, network with alumni and mingle with students over lunch. Imagine day is your greatest opportunity to become aware of the programs across campus and start planning ahead! We hope that you will leave more knowledgeable about our Language and Culture Programs\, UBC's Go Global Exchange Program and U BC’s student work opportunities.
Tuesday\, September 5th
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Asian Centre Auditorium\,
1871 West Mall
Price: Free
The 2018W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Dr. Rey Chow (Duke University)
With refer ence to the acclaimed Hong Kong director Ann Hui 許鞍華\, this lecture discuss es the notion of “the guest’s perspective" in relation to Chinese idiom\, c inematic form\, and contemporary migration controversies. The lecture will include remarks on the film Night and Fog 天水圍的夜與霧 (2009).
Wednesday\, January 17th\, 2018
7pm Lecture
6pm Re
ception with light refreshments
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Ma
ll\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public.
An associated seminar will be held on Thursday\, January 18th >>
Top ban ner image credits (from left to right): Eighteen Springs (1997)\, The Golde n Era (2014)\, Boat People (1982) \, Song of the Exile (1990).
Event Photos:
About the speaker:
Rey Chow is Anne Firor Scot t Professor of Literature at Duke University\, USA. Her publications in the last decade include Sentimental Fabulations\, Contem porary Chinese Films (2007)\; Entanglements\, or Transmedial Think ing about Capture (2012)\; and Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience (2014). Chow is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the boards of over 55 journals\, book series\, and research cente rs around the world. Her writings have appeared in more than ten languages. With James A. Steintrager\, she is the coeditor of the anthology Sound Objects\, forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2018.
The renowned poet\, essayist\, and novelist Leung Ping-kw an 梁秉鈞 (1949-2013)\, who spoke at UBC just a few years ago\, passed away in early 2013. This article discusses a key theme\, shuqing 抒情 (lyri cism or lyricalness)\, in Leung’s thinking: how does this predominantly lit erary mode become a way of addressing contemporary cultural politics\, such as the cultural politics of Leung’s beloved city Hong Kong?
Thursday\, January 18th\, 2018
4pm - 6pm
Asian Centre Au
ditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public. Registration required. Attendees will b e expected to read a paper before coming to the seminar. The paper is inclu ded in the registration confirmation email.
The Y ip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support o f Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
On February 9th\, 2018\, the Department of Asian Studies will be presenting our annual Lunar New Year Celebration! To celebrate this most important holiday in both Chinese and Korean cultures\ , we would like to sincerely invite you to come and enjoy our wonderful per formances\, great food\, interesting hands-on activities\, and a meaningful seminar. You will gain more cultural knowledge\, make new friends\, and wi n special prizes!
Schedule of Events
Performances 10:00am—12:30pm
Asi an Centre Auditorium
$5 Lunch 12:30pm—1:30pm
Asian Centre Lobby
Asian Library Activ ities 12:30pm—2:30pm
Asian Centre Library
Hands-on Cultural Activities 1:30pm—4:30pm
Asian Centre Auditorium
Public Seminar 2:00pm—3:30pm
Multipurpose Room\, Liu Instit ute for Global Issues (6476 NW Marine Dr.)
Free and open to the public
LOCATION:Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2018-lunar-new-year-celebrat ion/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20190906T1853Z-1567796021.0022-EO-45797-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20190906T175615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190906T232747Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180302 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180305 SUMMARY: The 2018 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program DESCRIPTION: Celebrating Punjabi Language and Culture at UBC Now in its 10t h year 2-3-4 March 2018 With film screenings and discussion with special gu est\, award-winning Punjabi language filmmaker Gurvinder Singh Friday\, 2 M arch 2018 7:30-9 p.m. UBC Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancou ver “Awazzan” (“Voices\,”2016): A documentary on the UK-based Punjabi langu age poet Amarjit Chandan. Please register below […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Now in its 10th year
2-3-4 March 2018
With film screenings and discussion with sp ecial guest\, award-winning Punjabi language filmmaker Gurvinder Singh
Friday\, 2 March 2018 7:30-9 p.m.
UBC A
sian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
"Awazzan" ("Voice s\,"2016): A documentary on the UK-based Punjabi language poet Amarjit Chan dan.
"Anhe Godhe da
Daan" ("Alms for a Blind Horse\," 2011): A film exploring the experience o
f marginality in contemporary Punjab
Winner of two National Awards (In
dia)\, screened at Venice Film Festival\, and award winner at the Abu Dhabi
Film Festival.
Sunday\, 4 March 2018 4:30-7:45 p.m.
Surrey Centre Stage (Surrey City Hall)\, 3450 104 Ave\, Surrey
Co-
organized with the Gursharan Singh Memorial Lecture Committee.
"Chaut
hi Koot" ("The Fourth Direction\," 2015): A film portraying individuals and
families negotiating a space between separatist and state forces amidst th
e violence of the 1980s in Punjab\, India.
Screened at Cannes and awar
d winner at the Singapore Film Festival.
An award for lifetime achieve
ment to BC-based Punjabi writer\, Inderjit Kaur Sidhu\, as well as awards f
or student Punjabi-language essay contest winners will be presented.
Made possible by the generous support of the Sidhu fam ily\, in loving memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (nee Gill)\, devoted wife\, mot her\, and strong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, an d women’s issues.
Organized by the Department of Asian Studi es\, UBC\, with the support of the UBC Dean of Arts\, the Department of The atre and Film\, and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies\; the Dr. Har i Sharma Foundation\; the Gursharan Singh Memorial Lecture Committee\; and the University of Toronto\, Centre for South Asian Civilizations. Held in association with the South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) at UBC\, organized by the Centre for India and South Asia Researc h\, with support from the Departments of History and Asian Studies\, and IC -IMPACTS. SACPAN takes place at UBC during the days of March 2-3\, and feat ures keynote addresses by Professors Ruby Lal and Gyanendra Pandey of Emory University\, and papers from faculty and students from institutions in Was hington\, Oregon\, and B.C.
About the Harjit Kau r Sidhu Memorial Program:
The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Pr ogram celebrates the rich life of Punjabi language and culture and its impo rtance in BC\, in memory of a woman who shared such passions. Our goal is to call attention to important new scholarship on Punjabi language and cult ure and bring it to our students and the broader Vancouver area audience\; encourage and recognize achievements in Punjabi language cultural productio n\; and honor students for their work in learning and using the Punjabi lan guage.
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The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our 2018 Annual Asian Studies Careers Night o n Tuesday\, March 6th. This is a wonderful opportunity to gain advice and n etwork with alumni who have found exciting careers after an Asian Studies d egree. We will be inviting alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to come share their inspiring stories with you. Please do not miss this event!
Tuesd
ay\, March 6th\, 2018
6:00 PM
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\
, 1871 West Mall
Free – Online r
egistration required.
*Please keep checking back here for further developments. Alumni speakers will be a dded as they are confirmed.
Speaker: Rachael Bedlington\, Consul General of Canada
in Guangzhou\, China.
(BA Joint Honours [East Asian Studies
and Political Science]\, McGill University\, 1990\, Nanjing Normal Universi
ty\, 1992)\, joined External Affairs and International Trade Canada in 1992
. She has served abroad extensively in Asia\, including two previous assign
ments in China at the Embassy of Canada in Beijing (from 1995-1998 and 2006
-2011)\, as political counsellor in Kuala Lumpur\, Malaysia\, and Chargé d
’Affaires in Colombo\, Sri Lanka. In Ottawa\, Ms. Bedlington has worked in
divisions responsible for negotiating the North American Free Trade Agreeme
nt\, for bilateral relations with India\, and South East Asia\, and within
Personnel Branch on diplomatic assignments. In 2011\, she became head of Ca
nada’s Sudan and South Sudan Task Force\, representing Canada at the Darfur
Peace Agreement Implementation Follow-up Commission and serving as Chair o
f the International Contact Group on Sudan and South Sudan. Starting in 201
3 she served as Executive Director for Human Rights and Indigenous Affairs
Policy within Foreign Affairs\, Trade and Development Canada. She began her
assignment as Consul General of Canada in Guangzhou in September\, 2015.
Our panelists co mprise a diverse group of Asian Studies alumni who have had successful care ers in the Canada-Asia interface. They will discuss how they first started working in Canada or abroad and the skills that will help students find opp ortunities outside of Canada or in Canada-Asia relations.
Rachael Bedlington\, BA '90 - Panelist\, Cons ul General of Canada in Guangzhou\, China.
Richard
Liu\, BA ’93 - Panelist\, Board of Director at the Pacific Canada Heritage
Centre – Museum of Migration
Richard Liu explored China as a
student attending Peking University that led to a rich 20-plus year career
at the Canadian Embassy\, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce\, and Western Acade
my of Beijing\, in areas of diplomacy\, public relations\, major events org
anization and education. As a leader in the development of a wide variety o
f volunteer projects in China\, Richard started the influential “Canadians
in China” network\; founded the rapidly growing Canadian Alumni Network (CA
N) that brings together thousands of alumni currently in China who attended
Canada’s post-secondary institutions\; and was one of the original foundin
g committee members to start the very first Terry Fox Run for Beijing in 19
99. He is currently living in Burnaby as a Board of Director at the Pacific
Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migration.
Find Richard Liu on LinkedIn >>
Christine Park\,
BA ’11 – Development Researcher
Christine works in media\, d
eveloping TV shows in factual\, documentary\, and lifestyle programming. Sh
e has just moved back from London\, UK where she started her career in medi
a and worked for National Geographic. Prior to working in TV\, she worked i
n policy at the European Commission in London and the Asia Pacific Foundati
on of Canada\, a think tank on Canada-Asia policy. As a student she worked
for Canada Border Services Agency and the Ministry of Health. She also stud
ied abroad in Korea as a student.
Find Christine Park on LinkedIn >>
Jennifer War
d\, BA ’12 – Freelance Translator (Japanese to English)
For f
ive years\, Jennifer has worked from home\, self-employed\, as a freelance
translator. She is currently translating three light novel series and has w
orked on dozens of manga for Yen Press\, Seven Seas\, Kodansha\, and other
publishers. She considers herself a professional otaku.
Find Jennifer Ward on LinkedIn >>
Students will break into groups a nd rotate among the alumni. Ask our alumni how they got their first jobs af ter graduating and how they have navigated through the “real world”. < /p>
Aleem Bandali\, BA '99 - Managing Director/Partner MNP Corpor
ate Finance
After finishing his BA at UBC\, Aleem attended la
w school and business school (JD/MBA) in the US. After working in the US fo
r a period thereafter with large companies such as MGM Mirage\, Starwood Ho
tels\, the Department of Energy (nuclear labs) etc.\, he moved back to Vanc
ouver in 2008 to join PwC. Aleem joined MNP Corporate Finance four years ag
o and lead the corporate finance practice for BC. They work on sell side/bu
y side transactions ranging from $5 million to $300 million typically but h
ave experience on deals valued at up to $30 billion. He currently sits on t
he UBC alumni board\, the BC spinal cord injury board and on the fundraisin
g committee for Kidsafe BC.
Michael Beaty\, BA '11 - Non-Prof
it Solutions Consultant at Traction on Demand
Michael was bor
n and raised in BC and grew up on Bowen Island\, a short ferry ride away fr
om Vancouver. Japanese language and culture interested him from even before
his first year of university\, and afforded him the opportunity to study f
or a year at Waseda University in Tokyo through the Go Global Exchange Prog
ram. Following graduation\, Michael found an opportunity in the non-profit
technology sector\, and has been there ever since.
Nathan (Ku
ang-Chi) Hwang\, BA '12 – Senior Business Development Assistant at Sojitz C
anada Corporation
Nathan was born in Taiwan but grew up in Ja
pan (Tokyo)\, US (San Diego) and Canada (Coquitlam). Nathan is a tri-lingua
l speaker in English\, Japanese and Mandarin. Upon graduating in 2012\, he
joined Sojitz Canada Corporation as a Sales Assistant in commodity export a
nd now works as a Senior Business Development Assistant in the same company
. Prior to graduating\, his work experience included being a Program Assist
ant at the Centre for Japanese Research at UBC\, a Camera Assistant with NH
K during the 2010 Winter Olympics\, and as a freelance translator.
Kyubak Lee\, BA '11– New Business Development Manager at Cambridge Gl
obal Payments
Kyubak works in the finance industry\, providin
g corporate clients with foreign exchange risk management solutions and tre
asury solutions. As the New Business Development Manager\, he is responsibl
e for guiding his team to better understand and prospect new clients with f
x and cross border payments requirements.
Aaron Posehn\, BA '
10 – Strategic Planning Support at UBC Office of the Provost
Aaron works at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, but is
currently seconded part-time to the UBC Office of the Provost to support lo
gistical planning of the university-wide strategic planning process. He pre
viously also worked in Taipei as an academic editor assisting researchers i
n Taiwan\, Hong Kong\, and China to improve the quality of their written re
search for publication in academic journals.
Nick Stember\, M
A’15 – Literary translator / Education consultant
Nick is a t
ranslator and historian of Chinese comics and science fiction. In 2016\, he
completed his MA in Asian Studies with his (very readable and not at all o
bscure) thesis on the formation of the Shanghai Manhua Society.
Emily is currently an Internal Coach a
t UBC and a Program Coordinator at the UBC Extended Learning. Her current w
ork involves developing\, delivering\, and managing innovative educational
programs for adult professionals. Prior to working at UBC\, she has worked
as an Assistant to Consul for Cultural Affairs at Consulate General of Japa
n in Vancouver and a Coordinator for International Relations on the JET pro
gram. Emily has served on the board of JET lumni Association of UBC and cur
rently volunteers with Japan Fair Association of Vancouver and Big Sisters
of BC Lower Mainland.
2017/
18 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Dr. Peter Kornicki
(Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University)
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Thank you to everyone who attended! The recording can be vi ewed on YouTube via this link here.
Photos:
Video:
https://youtu.be/8dAfc_Con 4M
Tuesday\, March 13\,
2018
6:00pm Lecture
Followed by a reception
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public. Click here to register.
Lecture abstract:
Britain was woefully e quipped in terms of Japanese language expertise in December 1941\, in spite of earlier efforts to alert the government to the need to start training p eople to speak and read Japanese. Undergraduates with a talent for language s were lured into emergency language courses at Bedford\, Bletchley Park an d SOAS and learnt a very particular kind of Japanese that was useful for th e war effort. Teachers were a problem\, but the shortage of native speakers was made good by three Canadians of Japanese descent who spent the war tra ining Britons in London. Those who ended up in Bletchley Park ended up read ing the dispatches of Japanese diplomats in Europe\, including those of the remarkable Oshima Hiroshi\, long-serving ambassador in Berlin. His dispatc hes were invaluable in the struggle with Nazi Germany but they also had a l ot to say about the Soviet Union. Oshima died in 1975\, not knowing that hi s mail had been read throughout the war.
Why did all this have to be kept secret so long? What happened to the young men and women who learnt Ja panese during the war? Why did they lack a feeling of hostility towards Jap an during the war? And what impact did all this have on the postwar develop ment of Japanese studies?
About the speaker:
Son of a Polish fighter pilot and an English
mother\, Professor Kornicki completed his undergraduate and graduate studi
es at Oxford. His first academic job at the University of Tasmania led him
to become an enthusiastic hiker. After a post at the Humanities Research In
stitute at Kyoto University\, he moved to Cambridge in 1985\, where he reti
red as Professor of Japanese and Head of the Department of East Asian Studi
es in 2014. From 1997 to 2000 Professor Kornicki served as President of the
European Association for Japanese Studies and in 2001 was elected a Fellow
of the British Academy. In 2010\, he became founding editor in chief of th
e new journal East Asian Publishing and Society (Brill) and in 2013 he was
awarded the Yamagata Bantō Prize. His new book\, Languages\, Scripts an
d Chinese Books in East Asia\, is forthcoming from Oxford University P
ress.
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding member of UBC’s Department of As ian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Colu mbia University. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Prof essor Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cultural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedic ate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ d evoted former students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies \, an annual public lecture for prominent scholars from around the world to speak to the university community and alumni on topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4 th\, 2017\, at the age of 92. This is the first lecture since his passing.< /p>
All transfer and returning Arts Undergraduate students (2nd\, 3rd and 4th years) are welcome to join us for our Welcome Back Lunc h on Imagine Day. Come learn about the Asian Studies experience and join th e Asian Studies community. Meet with faculty and staff\, network with alumn i and mingle with students over lunch. Imagine day is your greatest opportu nity to become aware of the programs across campus and start planning ahead ! We hope that you will leave more knowledgeable about our Language and Cul ture Programs\, UBC’s Go Global Exchange Program and UBC’s student work opp ortunities.
Tuesday\, September 4th\, 2018
Time
: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Location: Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mal
l
Price: Free
Take a mini Bhangra workshop and ask Dr. Anne Murphy about the Punjabi language program.
Get custom hen na done on your hand and ask Dr. Sunil Bhatt any questions about t he Hindi-Urdu language program.
Try your hand at writing Iranian calligraphy with Persian language instructor\, Mozhgan Zolfi.
Learn the Sanskrit alphabet through cool drummi ng activities with Dr. Thomas Hunter.
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/asian-studies-welcome-back-l unch/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20190906T1858Z-1567796280.3334-EO-45799-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20190906T180902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201218T224011Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181003T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181003T203000 SUMMARY: 2018/19 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Helen F. Si u DESCRIPTION: The Worldly Engagement of the Greater Pearl River Delta Region The 2018/19 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Helen F. Siu (Y ale University) South China has long been part of what is now popularized a s the Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries\, the movement of goods\, peop le\, and ideas has bridged continental divides. The talk […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="atta
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with P
rofessor Helen F. Siu (Yale University)
South China has long been part of what is now popularized as t he Maritime Silk Road. Over the centuries\, the movement of goods\, people\ , and ideas has bridged continental divides. The talk focuses on the rise o f trading hubs with multi-ethnic identities and resources and tracks strate gic footprints across the oceans from Canton to Zanzibar. It will comment o n the region's paths of development and conflict.
Wedn
esday\, October 3rd\, 2018
6pm Reception with light refreshme
nts
7pm Lecture
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancou
ver
Free & open to the public. Onl ine registration is required.
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About the Speaker
Helen F. Siu
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the l ate Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please v isit the full lecture list here.
How Big is “Local”? The Historically Global Nature of Hong Kong Culture and Society
Community Conversation (program
in Cantonese 粵語講座)
with Prof. Helen F. Siu 蕭鳳霞教授 (Ya
le University)
7:30 pm
Richmond Pub
lic Library\, 7700 Minoru Gate\, Richmond
For Hong Kong\, what is deemed “local” is a multi-layere d historical experience shared by generations of immigrants and emigrants. Each of these layers has given the place unique cultural characteristics. T he talk urges us to uncover and cherish these global footprints. They have provided the resources for Hong Kongers to connect with extensive overseas communities\, to capture unusual opportunities\, and sail through political storms. What will be the strategic steps to take as Hong Kongers face an a ssertive China and an uncertain global future?
Free & open to the public. Registration is required.
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V isit the event page for details >>
Professor Siu will also be giv ing a guest lecture\, titled "Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnograp hic Journey\,” to students of "History of Cantonese Worlds" (ASIA 323/HIST 377) on October 4 th.
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2018-19-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture-with-professor-helen-f-siu/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230415T1534Z-1681572857.1017-EO-59291-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230415T001102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T203622Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181108T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181108T200000 SUMMARY: On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia DESCRIPTION: On the evening of Nov. 8th\, 2018\, Iranian musician Mohsen Na mjoo delivered a speech\, in Persian\, titled ‘Dar radd va tamanna-ye nosta lji’ (‘On Declining and Desiring Nostalgia’) in the Auditorium of the Asian Studies Centre at the University of British Columbia\, to a Persian-speaki ng 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. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:سخنران: محسن نام جو، خواننده – ترانهسرای ایرانی، محقق موسیقی و نوازندهٔ سهتار، ساکن شهر نی ویورک، بهدعوت دپارتمان آسیاپژوهی و انجمن دانشجویان ایرانی یو بی سی
م قالهخوانی مقالهٔ «در رد و تمنای نوستالژی» از کتاب «چهار مقاله» اثر محسن نا مجو، نشر ناکجا
The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/gvb2bqEx2_k
On the evening of Nov. 8th\, 20
18\, Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo delivered a speech\, i
n Persian\, titled ‘Dar radd va tamanna-ye nostalji’ (‘On Declining and Des
iring Nostalgia’) in the Auditorium of the Asian Studies Centre at the Univ
ersity of British Columbia\, to a Persian-speaking audience. Namjoo was inv
ited by the Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Persian Club. He had al
so held a workshop titled ‘Ritm-ha-ye do-zarbi’ [‘Duples’] during the same
day.
2018/
19 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
(William F. Vilas Research Professor
at the University of Wisconsin)
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b>hursday\, November 22\,
2018
6:30pm Lecture
7:30pm Reception with light refreshme
nts
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
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Free & open to the public. Registration available at the door.
Lecture abstract:
Following from h er recent book\, Kamikaze\, Cherry Blossoms\, and Nationalisms: The Mil itarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History\, Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tiern ey's talk will present the many\, often contradictory\, meanings assigned t o cherry blossoms – from life and love to death – while becoming a symbol o f various social groups\, and\, ultimately\, the Japanese as a whole. Her l ecture will highlight abuses of this aesthetic during Japan’s military peri od\, and conclude by deliberating on opacity in symbolic communication and its impact on the people.
About the speaker: < /p>
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a foundi ng member of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 af ter earning his doctorate from Columbia University. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Cana da-Japan cultural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canad a-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC facul ty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted former students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Ho wes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prominen t scholars from around the world to speak to the university community and a lumni on topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes p assed away peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2018-19-john-howes-lecture-i n-japanese-studies-with-professor-emiko-ohnuki-tierney/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/09/DigitalSignage_HowesLecture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230415T2358Z-1681603091.2895-EO-59290-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230414T231101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T002611Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190116T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190116T203000 SUMMARY: Modernizing the Persian Masterpiece\, Shahnameh DESCRIPTION: Hamid Rahmanian is a 2014 John Guggenheim Fellow. He is the ar tist behind Shahnameh: Epic of the Persian Kings\, an illustrated translati on of the 10th Century epic poem by Ferdowsi. Following the publication of the best selling 600-page art book\, Mr. Rahmanian has continued to adapt S hahnameh into new forms: an audio-book\, a pop-up book\, and most recently\ , a shadow theatre production. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
در این سخنرانی، حمید رحمانیان، هنرمند و دریافتکنند هٔ بورس جان گوگنهایم در سال ۲۰۱۴، از تلاشهای خود برای ارائهٔ شاهنامهٔ فردو سی در قالبهای هنری جدید، شامل کتاب تصویری، کتاب صوتی، کتاب پاپآپ و همچنین تئاتر سایه میگوید.
Hamid Rahmanian is
a 2014 John Guggenheim Fellow. He is the artist behind Shahnameh: Epic
of the Persian Kings\, an illustrated translation of the 10th Century
epic poem by Ferdowsi. Following the publication of the best selling 600-p
age art book\, Mr. Rahmanian has continued to adapt Shahnameh into
new forms: an audio-book\, a pop-up book\, and most recently\, a shadow th
eatre production.
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. گرچ ه بهویژه به دلایل مذهبی و سیاسی وقت، بسیاری از تحولات در زمینهٔ موسیقی رون دی منفی داشته است، بنا بر اصلی روانشناختی و جامعهشناختی، «هر آن چه منع شو د، بیشتر مورد توجه قرار میگیرد.» موسیقی ایران نیز طی چهل سال گذشته علیرغم تمامیِ مشکلات، موانع و سرکوبها، در بسیاری از جهات پیشرفتی چشمگیر داشته اس ت، پیشرفتی که بر تلاش و مبارزهٔ موسیقیدانان برای احقاق حق خود و زنده نگه د اشتن موسیقی مبتنی بوده است. در این نشست، نگاهی گذرا به این تحولات منفی و مث بت خواهیم داشت.
Musician and researcher Amir Es lami\, along with musician Hamin Honari will be d iscussing the post-revolutionary Iranian music. Their talk will be followed by a short musical performance by them. (Mr. Eslami will be speaking in Pe rsian. Mr. Honari will be delivering his talk in English.)
سخنران: کا مبیز شریف، مجسمهساز
در این سمینار کامبیز شریف، هنرمند ساکن ونکوور، ت جربههای شخصی و حرفهای خود را از ایده تا اجرای اثر هنری با رویکردی پرسشگر انه، در ارتباط با شرایط مختلف اجتماعی – فرهنگی زندگی امروز مطرح نموده و به گفتگو میگذارد. این شرایط که محدود به منطقهٔ جغرافیایی خاصی نیستند تلاش می کنند تا انسانها را در قالب و فرمهای ازپیشتعیینشدهای شکل دهند و آنها را در چارچوب سیستمهای معینی تعریف کنند. «شریف» در تلاش برای رهایی از این مرز ها، آزادانه به اهمیت فرایند ساخت مجسمههایش و ارتباط آنها با مردم تأکید می کند.
Speaker: Kambiz Sharif\, Vancouver
-based Sculptor
The Department of Asian Studies is delight ed to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating l ife after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with div erse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current stud ents. This event will feature a panel\, round robin networking session\, ra ffle prizes\, and a delicious free dinner. Careers Night is the perfect opp ortunity to make connections\, meet fellow Asian Studies students\, and fee l more confident in taking the next steps on your career path.
Tuesday\, March 5th\, 2019
6:00 PM
Jack Poole Hall\, Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Free – Online registra
tion required via the form below.
This event is co-organized by t he Department of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts.
Our panelists comprise a diverse group
of Asian Studies alumni who have had successful careers in the Canada-Asia
interface.
Moderator: Elliott Cheung\, A sian Studies Honours\, 4th year
Panelist: Nathan (Ku ang-Chi) Hwang\, BA ’12 – Business Development Coordinator at Sojitz Canada Corporation
Panelist: Tinnie Shackle\, BA ’99 – Dig ital and Social Media Story Telling Strategist
Panelist: Zining Wang\, BA’18 – Project Coordinator at Asia Pacific Foundation o f Canada
Students will break into groups and rotate among the alumni. Ask our alumni
how they got their first jobs after graduating and how they have navigated
through the “real world”.
Kayla Black\, BA ‘ 14 –
Program Coordinator at First Steps Canada
I returned from st
udying in Korea in 2014 to graduate from UBC. I initially worked as an Engl
ish teacher in Vancouver before joining First Steps Health Society\, a loca
l charity that works to prevent child malnutrition in North Korea. I feel v
ery fortunate to be able to use my Korean-language skills while living and
working in beautiful Vancouver. I continue to enjoy developing my Korean bo
th at work and through private studies– North Korean is its own adventure a
s well!
Lyndsay Bocchinfuso\, BA '16 – Student Programs Coord
inator – UBC Department of Asian Studies
After completing her
first degree in criminology\, Lyndsay taught English in Japan for five yea
rs. She taught elementary and junior high school students while honing her
own skills in Japanese. Her interest in studying Japanese language and cult
ure led her to enroll at UBC for a degree in Asian Studies\, which she rece
ived in 2016. During this time\, Lyndsay entered the Work Learn program in
the department and eventually was hired full time to the administrative sta
ff. She now hires and supervises current Work Learn students. Lyndsay is a
great alumna to explore opportunities within the department or on campus\,
but also can speak to travelling abroad and teaching.
Ellie C
ho\, BA ’16 – CG Artist
Ellie Cho graduated from UBC with hon
ours in Asian Languages and Cultures (Mandarin) and minor in English (liter
ature). She found her passion in learning the language in Taiwan through sc
holarships and went back again through Go Global. During her time at UBC\,
she also studied and worked under Dr. Ross King\, as well as studying trans
lation in Korean. After graduating\, she found a position in a credit union
\, but she left in order to pursue a more creative career. After further sc
hooling\, Ellie is now in the visual effects industry as a CG artist and ha
s worked on games and films in companies like Electronic Arts and MPC.
Chris Heine\, BA '11 - Manager - Investor Services\, International
Trade Division\, BC Ministry of Jobs\, Trade and Technology
With his interest in East Asia relations and Economics while at UBC\, Chris
set his career sights on a path in the public service assisting local comp
anies to do business in Asia. His part-time job while a student at UBC evol
ved into a unique entry point into the BC Public Service supporting BC comp
anies export their goods and services to international markets and helping
overseas companies recognize BC as a preferred place to invest and do busin
ess. As Manager for Investor Services he supports international companies f
rom Asia and beyond with tailored services\, bringing together various leve
ls of government and industry stakeholders\, to help facilitate informed\,
positive business experiences and advance investment decisions which benefi
t of BC's key sectors\, regions and communities.
Nathan (Kuan
g-Chi) Hwang\, BA ’12 – Business Development Coordinator at Sojitz Canada C
orporation
Nathan was born in Taiwan but grew up in Japan (To
kyo)\, US (San Diego) and Canada (Coquitlam). Nathan is a tri-lingual speak
er in English\, Japanese and Mandarin. He also went on an exchange program
(Go Global) to Osaka University in 2010-2011. Upon graduating in 2012\, he
joined Sojitz Canada Corporation which is a Japanese Trading Company\, as a
Sales Assistant in commodity export and now works as a Business Developmen
t Coordinator in the same company. Prior to graduating\, his work experienc
e included being a Program Assistant at the Centre for Japanese Research at
UBC\, a Camera Assistant with NHK during the 2010 Winter Olympics\, and as
a freelance translator.
Tarni Kaur BA '16 – Education Facult
y Student at UBC
Tarni graduated with BA Psychology Major and
Asian Studies Minor in 2016. She has experience as a therapist for student
s with behavioural needs and working as an ABA Support worker for the Surre
y Schools Districts. Tarni can speak to her experiences connecting with fam
ilies from South Asian backgrounds in her career field.
Azale
a Lee\, BA ’16 - Graduate Student in Asian Studies MA Program
Azalea is a 3rd year Korean Studies MA student studying under Dr. King and
Dr. Fulton. She graduated from UBC in 2016 with a double major in Psycholo
gy and Asian Language and Culture specializing in Korean. Her research curr
ently revolves around the intersection of language\, ideology\, and gender
and how it manifests in premodern Korean fiction. Throughout her BA and MA\
, Azalea has taken advantage of a number of programs UBC has to offer inclu
ding the Exchange Program\, the Arts Internship program\, and an RAship wit
h the Department of Asian Studies.
Richard N. Liu\, BA ’93 –
Board of Director at the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre – Museum of Migrati
on
Richard N. Liu explored China as a student attending Pekin
g University that led to a rich 20-plus year career at the Canadian Embassy
\, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce\, and Western Academy of Beijing\, in area
s of diplomacy\, public relations\, major events organization and education
. As a leader in the development of a wide variety of volunteer projects in
China\, Richard started the influential “Canadians in China” network\; fou
nded the rapidly growing Canadian Alumni Network (CAN) that brings together
thousands of alumni currently in China who attended Canada’s post-secondar
y institutions\; and was one of the original founding committee members to
start the very first Terry Fox Run for Beijing in 1999. Since returning to
Canada in 2014\, Richard now sits on various boards\; and advises companies
and organizations on a variety of sectors pertaining to Asia.
Jimmy Mitchell is a 30-year Asia veteran with a
focus on program management\, media & communications\, political and econom
ic research\, and the promotion of Canada – China political and business in
terests in both the public & private sectors. Jimmy began his Asian career
as a teacher in China in the 1980s\, and then as a journalist/broadcaster\,
news editor and voice-over professional in Taiwan. From 2000 – 2010\, he t
ook on a variety of roles as a Canadian diplomat with stints in Taipei\, Ot
tawa and Shanghai. In 2011 Jimmy returned to Vancouver and the private sect
or\, serving as Vice President of AdvantageBC until 2018. He now runs his o
wn business consulting firm\, focusing on helping Chinese businesses to suc
ceed in the Vancouver marketplace.
Melody Pan\, BA '14 - Tech
nical Coordinator at Waterproof Studios & Freelance Translator
Melody entered UBC in hopes of studying Japanese for her very first time
and graduated with a ASLC (Japan) degree. Since then\, she has applied her
Japanese skills to work for a variety of companies in various different fie
lds\, including Bandai Namco (video Games)\, Waterproof Studios (CG Studio)
\, and Yen Press (Manga Publisher). She currently works full time as a Tech
nical Coordinator at Waterproof Studios. Although she entered the company a
s a Translator\, she eventually became a Production Coordinator\, and then
transitioned into her current position\, where she is pursuing her interest
in IT. She also continues to keep her Japanese skills fresh by translating
manga and games on a freelance basis. Melody credits her success in the re
al world to her cross-cultural communication skills gained via her year-lon
g exchange to Japan (Go Global)\, as well as involvement on campus during h
er academic career at UBC.
Christine Park\, BA ’11 – Freelanc
e Producer
While studying Asian Studies and International Rel
ations\, Christine worked as a Border Services Officer for CBSA and as a Re
search Analyst at the Ministry of Health. She went on exchange to Yonsei Un
iversity in Seoul\, South Korea and knew she wanted to live abroad again. U
pon graduating\, she worked at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada\, a th
ink tank on Canada-Asia policy. She then moved to London\, UK where she wor
ked at the European Commission and then made a career transition into TV. T
here she held positions at National Geographic channel and production compa
nies before moving back to Vancouver in December 2017. She now develops fac
tual\, documentary\, and lifestyle television and hopes to tell more divers
e stories.
Steve Rai\, BA ’92 –
Deput
y Chief Constable Steve Rai has been a member of the Vancouver Police Depar
tment since 1990. He is now the Vancouver Police Department’s senior Deputy
Chief overseeing the Support Services Division of his organization. In his
29 years of service\, Deputy Chief Rai has completed a variety of assignme
nts including\, hostage negotiator\, public order commander\, district comm
ander and many others. Because of the many different roles available in law
enforcement\, Deputy Chief Rai always likes to share that\, within policin
g\, he’s had a new career every three years.
Tinnie Shackle\,
BA ’99 – Digital and Social Media Story Telling Strategis
t
After graduating from UBC\, Tinnie Shackle worked for CBC V
ancouver and hosted a show called Lotusland. She then moved to Hong Kong wo
rked for CNN as a presenter and producer for CNN’s ebizAsia\, RTHK\, and AT
V in Hong Kong whilst writing a column called CitySeen for South China Morn
ing Post in 2002 at the height of the SARS outbreak in Hong Kong. She ran M
TV channels for Chinese and Korean pop culture MTV Chi and MTVK for MTV Wor
ld\, which was one of the first channels to popularize K-Pop. She then move
d to China to be head of programming for MTV China. After starting a family
\, Shackle moved to London in 2014 and worked for Facebook and Instagram an
d then worked as a digital and social media marketing specialist in Dubai f
or the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts. She is now back in Vanc
ouver and running a digital and social media story telling consultancy.
Zining Wang\, BA’18 – Project Coordinator at Asia Pacific Founda
tion of Canada
Coming to study at UBC in summer 2013 was Zini
ng’s first time to go abroad. Fast forward to 5 years later\, she completed
a double major in Asian Studies and Economics\, a minor in Commerce and 16
months of Co-op work. Learning Farsi\, Japanese\, and exploring her Chines
e identity through literature and movies became her fondest memory of UBC.
Upon graduation\, Zining joined the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada\, a n
on-for-profit think tank promoting Canada-Asia relations\, to pursue her pa
ssion connecting Asia to the rest of the world. Realizing the mentorship sh
e received from alumnus and professors has contributed greatly to her journ
ey\, Zining founded the Asia Pacific Mentorship Program in 2017 that provid
es students opportunities to learn more about a future career related to As
ia. Outside of her work\, Zining is a dialogue facilitator and has engaged
with multiple initiatives to support conversations about diversity\, inclus
ion\, and intercultural awareness on UBC campus and beyond.
E
mily Wu\, BA ’03 & MA ’07 – Program Coordinator\, UBC Extended Learning &
UBC Internal Coach
Emily is currently an Int
ernal Coach at UBC and a Program Coordinator at the UBC Extended Learning.
Her current work involves developing\, delivering\, and managing innovative
educational programs for adult professionals. Prior to working at UBC\, sh
e has worked as an Assistant to Consul for Cultural Affairs at Consulate Ge
neral of Japan in Vancouver and a Coordinator for International Relations o
n the JET program. Emily currently serves on the board of Powell Street Fes
tival Society and volunteers with Japan Fair Association of Vancouver and B
ig Sisters of BC Lower Mainland.
**Stay tuned! Alumni bios will added as they are confirmed.**
Online registration is now cl osed. We will still be accepting registration at the door.
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Come join us for a day of presentations by graduate students fr om the Asian Studies department\, with a few guest presenters from other de partments.
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 regions .
The conference will be held Saturday\, March 10\, 2018 in the Audit orium of the Asian Centre at the University of British Columbia - main camp us.
The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to our 11th Annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on March 14th!
6:00pm Reception with food and refreshments
6:30pm
Event Program
Multipurpose room\, Liu Institute\, 6476 NW Marine Dr\,
Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2
Free & open to t he public. Please register online
Featuring
Made possible by the generou s support of the Sidhu family\, in loving memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (née Gill)\, devoted wife\, mother\, and strong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women’s issues.
Organized by the Department of Asian Studies and co-sponsored by the Centre for India and S outh Asia Research and the Office of the Dean of Arts.
Thank s to our media partner Spice Radio 1200AM.
Why is Punjabi Studies Important at UBC?
https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=rjXQVawZHuA&feature=youtu.be
At the University of British Colu mbia\, the Punjabi language occupies a central place in our South Asia prog ram\, and represents one of the largest and longest-standing Punjabi-langua ge programs in the world\, outside of South Asia. In this video\, hear from students why Punjabi Studies has been integral to their experience at UBC.
About the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program:
The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program celebrates the rich life of Punjabi language and culture and its importance in BC\, in memory of a woma n who shared such passions. Our goal is to call attention to important new scholarship on Punjabi language and culture and bring it to our students an d the broader Vancouver area audience\; encourage and recognize achievement s in Punjabi language cultural production\; and honor students for their wo rk in learning and using the Punjabi language.
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Register for our mailing list!
سخنران: نوژنگ خاتمی، دانشجوی دکتری، مدرس و پ ژوهشگر علوم سیاسی، دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا
دیاسپورای ایرانی چگونه سخن م یگوید؟ چه روایتی از هویتهایمان به خودمان و دیگران منتقل میکنیم؟ این سخنر انی پیچیدگیهای پیمایش هویت ایرانیان مهاجر را با توجه به تجربیات مختلفی که داریم - مدت زمانی که از ایران دور بودهایم، میزان فرهنگ ایرانی و زبان مادری که حفظ کردهایم و همچنین جهتگیری سیاسی ما - بررسی میکند. پس از کاوش کوتا هی در رویکردهای سیاسی و فلسفی به این پرسشها، این سخنرانی از زاویهٔ دیگر، ی عنی هنر و ادبیات به این موضوع میپردازد.
How does the I ranian diaspora speak? What narratives about our identities do we convey to ourselves and others? This talk explores the complexities of navigating a diasporic Iranian identity in light of our different experiences – how long we have been away from our country of origin\, how much of the culture and language we have retained\, and what our political alignments are. Followi ng a brief exploration of political and philosophical approaches to these q uestions\, the lecture turns to art and literature to seek a different\, an d hopefully more fruitful\, avenue. The strength and endurance of our cultu ral and literary treasures\, and the love we continue to have for art\, are examined as testaments to the power of Iranian aesthetics to help those ou tside the nation’s borders to carve out new spaces of creative expression f or themselves. In the end\, this talk seeks to extend a dialogue about how we think of ourselves as Iranians abroad\, and what stories we want to tell going forward.
Nojang Khatami\, born in Tehran and having moved to Canada at the age of eight\, has always been captivated by the haunting realities and stories of his homeland. His studies\, his teach ing and his writings all revolve around identity and the ways we continue t o build a sense of self in new lands. Outside of academic work\, he is eage r to explore these themes through fiction and especially through dialogue w ith the Iranian community to stimulate conversations about the culture in a ll its range and richness.
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سخنران: دکتر نزهت احمدی، دانشیار گروه تار یخ، دانشگاه اصفهان
علیرغم اهمیت موضوع سبک زندگی زنان در ایران پیشامد رن، در مباحث تاریخ اجتماعی ایران کمتر به این موضوع پرداخته شده است. زنان در آن دوران چگونه زندگی میکردند و از چه اختیاراتی برخوردار بودند؟ تعامل آنها با اطرافیان چگونه بود و موقعیت خود را چگونه ارزیابی میکردند؟ تا چه اندازه از حقوق خود آگاه بودند و به طور کلی چه حقوقی داشتند؟ جامعه چگونه برای حقوق آنها ارزش قائل میشد؟ اینها برخی از سؤالاتی است که محققان حوزهٔ تاریخ زنان با آنها مواجه میشوند. این سخنرانی با استناد به منابع مختلفی مانند اسناد م الی و حقوقی، نامههای شخصی، نقاشیها و متون ادبی عصر صفوی این موضوع را بررس ی میکند.
The lifestyle of women in the pre-modern peri od is one of the important topics discussed in the field of social history of Iran. However\, this topic has been neglected to some extent in this fie ld of study. Certainly\, the current status of women cannot be counted as b eing affected by the background of their actions and reactions throughout t he history.
How did women live in those times and how much authority did they have? How was their interaction with people around them and how di d they evaluate their own position? To what extent were they aware of their rights and generally what rights did they have? How did the society value their rights? These are some of the questions that scholars come across wit h in the field of women’s history\, which are not easy\, but too difficult\ , to find an exact and precise answer to. So that\, it sometimes seems impo ssible to obtain a clear picture of the women’s lives and their everyday in teractions.
Unlike expected\, due to the patriarchal government and a lso aristocratic view of the history\, historical resources do not provide us with the most information available in this field of study. Instead\, th e resources have only reported the history of the governors\; however\, wom en of the royal families have also been mentioned in some reports. Therefor e\, the researchers have mostly relied on Western travelogues\, which despi te their great value still have some shortcomings.
Western travelers have lived in Iran for a short time. They have often acquired information a bout women through others\, since they did not have any access to the inner layers of the community\, let alone having direct interaction with the wom en themselves. Therefore\, we should seek for signs of women in other resou rces which contain rare information in this regard or are written with othe r purposes than recoding history. Thus\, various documents from financial a nd legal documents to personal letters and even paintings must be studied c arefully as well as historical texts and travelogues.
Moreover\, othe r texts such as literary texts\, either prose or verse\, should be also exa mined. In other words\, we must even have a closer look at narrative texts. Although\, narrative texts seem to be far from reality in the first place\ , they can be valued well enough in case we accept the presented environmen t in the narrative is just the same as the one the author has grown up in.< br />Here\, I have tried to study and analyze various resources in order to show how women’s lives have been manifested in such resources and that how we can give answers to at least some the questions raised about history of women by comparing such resources.
Speaker: Nozhat Ahmadi: Associate Professor of History\, University of Isfahan
< div>About the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate S tudies: Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an enthusiastic researc her\, a consummate socio-political analyst\, and an opinion leader on forei gn policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogue and liberal democ racy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, supporter of UBC’s Depa rtment of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadian-Iranian Community. The department renamed this lecture series in his honour in 2019. Alireza’ s friends in the community have provided funding to support this series\, a nd this generous gift will see these important academic and community engag ement events supported through to the end of the 2025/2026 academic year. < a href="https://asia.ubc.ca/lecture-series/alireza-ahmadian-lectures/">Read More ...
سخنران: دکتر آزاده مختارنامه، مدرس سابق زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه شیراز، ایران
زنان در اعصار مختلف نقشهای متفاوتی را در نظام خانواده و اجتماع بر عهده داشتهاند. این جایگاه تحت تأثیر عوامل بسیاری از جمله شرایط اجتماعی و دینی و سیاسی و … متغیر بوده است. تمام این عوامل باعث شده است که زنان در طول تاریخ در جایگاه و موقعیتهای متفاوتی در مقایسه با مردان قرار بگیرند. آثار ادبی و مسائل اجتماعی با هم ارتباطی تن گاتنگ دارند؛ چنانکه با بررسی آثار بزرگ ادبی میتوان به نکات ظریف اجتماعی ک ه در کنار آن وجود دارد، پی برد. در آثار ادبی و حماسی گاهی شاهد نقش بارز زنا ن در اجتماع و محیط خانواده هستیم و از سوی دیگر گاهی دیده میشود که زنان در برخی از این آثار نقش کمرنگتری را بازی میکنند و آنها را جنس دوم قلمداد می کنند؛ بهطوریکه حتی گاهی مردان را از رأیزنی با زنان برحذر میدارند. موضوع دیگری که میتوان به آن اشاره کرد این است که در انواع مختلف ادبی شاهد نقشه ای متفاوتی از زنان هستیم. برای مثال، نقش زنان در اشعار حماسی با اشعار غنایی متفاوت است. در این نشست، به بررسی جایگاه مختلف زنان در ادوار مختلف ادبیات کلاسیک میپردازیم و زوایایی از این حقایق را برای شرکتکنندگان وعلاقهمندان به مسائل ادبی و اجتماعی روشن میسازیم.
Speaker: Azadeh Mokhtarnameh\, Former Lecturer of Persian Language and Lit erature at Shiraz University\, Iran
«پرویز تناولی: شعر گفتن با برنز» مستندی دربارهٔ پرویز تناولی، مجسمهساز برجستهٔایرانی-کانادایی است. در این نشست، ضمن نمایش مستند، جلسهٔ پرسش و پاسخ با حضور استاد تناولی و تِرِنس تِرنِر، کارگردان کانادایی مستند ب رگزار میشود.
Documentary screening\, followed by Q&A be
tween the director and the artist\; Terrence Turner: Canadian filmmaker\; P
arviz Tanavoli: Iranian-Canadian sculptor.
As part of "Creative Interruptions\," the works displayed on the ground floor of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre are curated by Dr. Anne Murphy and CISAR Research Associate Raghavendra Rao K.V . "Creative Interruptions" is an international arts and humanities research project designed to use creativity as a way of connecting people and commu nities across borders.
This exhibit ion presents a selection of the results of a visual arts and community enga gement project in 2018-9 that explores the meaning and practice of “heritag e” in the Punjab\, a linguistic and cultural region divided in 1947 between the two successor states to British colonial rule\, Pakistan and India\, a nd connects this heritage to Canada. The exhibition by the South Asian Cana dian Histories Association (SACHA) in partnership with the University of Br itish Columbia\, is represented by Anne Murphy (Asian Studies/co-Director\, Centre for India and South Asia Research)\, as a part of a larger overall project that was originally initiated through a grant from the Arts and Hum anities Research Council (AHRC) UK. By pursuing this project here in Vancou ver and at UBC\, we hope to enhance UBC South Asian community engagement th rough community-based art work\, helping an international project come “hom e” to BC.
This exhibition will be on display in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Level 2 foyer from Septe mber 1st to 30th\, 2019.
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سخنران: مهسا راد، دانشجوی دکتری روانشناسی، دانشگاه تربیت مدرس، تهران؛ دانشجوی پژو هشی بینالمللی در یو بی سی
جنسیت و پدیدههای وابسته به آن از چالشبرا نگیزترین مفاهیم تاریخ بشری بودهاند که همواره با ارزشهای فرهنگی آمیختهاند . لذا بستر جوامع بسته به بافت فرهنگی، مذهبی و اجتماعی در شکلگیری و تجربه ج نسیت اثرگذار است. جامعهٔ ایران به واسطهٔ برخورداری از ویژگیهای منحصربهف ردی نظیر غلبهٔ فرهنگ مردسالار و ساختار خانوادهٔ متناسب با آن و یا تأکید بر گفتمان دینی در ساختار اجتماعی و قانونی، میتواند دربردارندهٔ ناشناختههای ب سیاری باشد که به فراخور آنها تجربهٔ شکلگیری هویت جنسیتی و یا تراجنسیت در آن به گونهای متفاوت با جوامع دیگر رقم بخورد. در کنار تجربههای مشترک جهان ی برای افرادی که خارج از چارچوبهای جنسی و جنسیتی جوامع میایستند، در این گفتگو به نقل تجربهٔ زیسته و مسیر پرپیچوخم زندگی افراد تراجنسیتی و تراژاد ( تراجنس) ایرانی میپردازیم.
Sex\, gender and related phe nomena have been enumerated as one of the most challenging concepts in huma n history. These notions are often intermingled with cultural values. There fore\, societies' cultural\, religious and social context affect the gender formation. By virtue of its specific characteristics\, namely\, the domina nce of patriarchal culture in family foundation as well as the effects of r eligion in every aspect of social life and legislation\, Iran’s society hol ds many unknowns. As such\, and owing to these characteristics\, the proces s of gender formation and transsexuality/transgenderism might be experience d differently in the Iranian culture from other societies. Alongside consid ering the globally mutual experiences\, in this talk we will narrate the li ved experiences of Iranian TS people.
Speaker: Mahsa Rad\, Ph.D. Candidate in Psychology\, Tarbiat Modares University\, Tehran\ ; Visiting International Research Student at UBC.
Join us to kick off the 2019 academic year ! Mingle with your fellow students and enjoy drinks\, nibbles\, guest speak ers and fun activities.
We’ll also have some funky Asian Studies merch for sale – brin g your cash and we guarantee you’ll start the new academic year off in styl e!
This event is free but registration is required.
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em>Calling all artists!
Thi
s year we are excited to include a mini art installation for student work a
t our event. If you are an Asian Studies student or alumni and you have any
paintings\, drawings or photography you would be willing to display\, plea
se email our Events & Communications Coordinator at sophie.gardner@ubc.ca.
سخنران: دکتر دومینیک پرویز بروکشا، دانشیار ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه آکسفورد
حافظ در ذهن و زبان بسیاری از ایرانیان و فارسیزبانان جایگاه ویژهای دار د، چندان که گاه او را ترجمهناپذیر و قیاسناپذیر با دیگر شعرا، چه فارسیزبا ن و چه غیرفارسیزبان میدانند. دکتر پرویز بروکشا، دانشیار ادبیات فارسی در د انشگاه آکسفورد در این سخنرانی میکوشد دیدگاه تازهای دربارهٔ حافظ به ما عرض ه کند، دیدگاهی که بر مبنای آن، حافظ را نباید بهصورت شاعری منفرد و جدا از ح لقهٔ شعرای همعصرش، بلکه در دل چنان مناسبات ادبی و شاعرانهای و با توجه به روابط ادبی و سیاسی او با شعرای معاصرش، چه در شیراز و چه حتی دورتر، در تبریز و بغداد، مطالعه کرد و شناخت.
Thank you to everyone who attended this event on Friday\, September 27\, 2019. To view photos\, clic k here\; to listen to the audio of Dr. Brookshaw’s lecture\, click here.
Hafez of Shiraz (d.1390) is arguably the most famous of m edieval Iran’s great poets. More than six centuries after his death\, Hafez ’s verses continue to inspire\, console\, and provoke us today. Though undo ubtedly a giant in the Persian poetic canon\, Hafez has for far too long be en studied in splendid isolation. There are many who still believe that Haf ez’s poetry is incomparable and should not be read in tandem with that of o thers. But the truth is that Hafez was but one poet among many in fourteent h-century Iran who worked alongside one another in a profoundly competitive and intertextual environment. Hafez and his contemporaries imitated one an other’s poems\, challenged one another repeatedly in verse\, and vied with one another to secure lucrative royal patronage. This lecture will examine the motivations behind these acts of imitation in order to present a more b alanced reading of Hafez\, one that stands in opposition to the traditional depiction of the poet\, and is\, consequently\, more faithful to Hafez’s h istorical reality.
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw is Assoc iate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of Oxford\, and Seni or Research Fellow in Persian at Wadham College\, Oxford. From 2011-2013 he was Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Comparative Literature a t Stanford University. Professor Brookshaw currently serves on the Editoria l Board of Middle Eastern Literatures and\, for a decade (2004-2014)\, he s erved as Assistant Editor for Iranian Studies. He is a former member of bot h the Board of the International Society for Iranian Studies\, and the Gove rning Council of the British Institute of Persian Studies. Professor Brooks haw has published widely on medieval and modern Persian poetry. His monogra ph\, Hafiz and His Contemporaries: Poetry\, Performance\, and Patronage in Fourteenth-century Iran was published in February 2019 by Bloomsbury.
Co-sponsored by UBC Zoroas trian Student Association and Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian Studies< /p>
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 w
ill focus on the basic philosophical principles of Zoroastrianism\, the anc
ient religion of Iran and one of the first and oldest monotheistic religion
s in the world.
Dr. Tooraj Khodabakhshi was born and raised in Tehran\, Iran. He practiced as a Dentist and as a Mobed (Zoroast rian Priest) in Iran\, until immigrating to Canada with his family (wife an d two sons) in 2006. Since immigrating to Canada\, Dr. Khodabakhshi has bee n working mostly in the healthcare field. He continues to practice as a Mob ed\, where he performs Zoroastrian rituals and gives religious lectures for the Zoroastrian Society of British Columbia (ZSBC).
The Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist S tudies\, with administrative support from FROGBEAR\, proudly presents a lec ture by Dr. Michael Zimmermann\, Numata Center for Buddhis t Studies\, Hamburg University/University of Tsukuba
When: 4:30 pm\, Monday\, October 7\, 2019
Venue: UB C Geography Building\, Room 229
Abstract:
This lecture will focus on o
ne particular strand of thought in the history of Buddhism. Often neglected
by scholars and even deemed to be non-Buddhist\, the idea of universal bud
dhahood unfolded enormous influence throughout the history of Buddhism. The
concept that all living beings have buddha-nature has its beginning in the
early centuries of the common era in India. Its impact was crucial for the
spread of Buddhism in Asia.
Direct forerunners of the idea that all living beings have buddha-nature are the Lotus Sutra and parts of the A vataṁsaka (華嚴經). The lecture will discuss how the concept of buddha-na ture came into existence\, what kind of factors were crucial for this devel opment\, and how the idea was described in its earliest literature. Recent years have seen a fresh and unexpected re-arrangement of the early history of buddha-nature thought. These new developments will also be presented and evaluated.
About the Speaker:
Michael Zimmermann studied Classical Indo
logy\, Tibetology and Japanology at the University of Hamburg and earned hi
s doctorate with a thesis on the origin of the teaching of buddha-nature in
India. He spent several years at universities in Kyoto and Tokyo and later
worked in a Manuscript Project of the German Research Foundation (DFG) in
Hamburg and Kathmandu. After four years at Stanford University\, in 2007 he
became professor for Indian Buddhism at the Asien-Afrika-Institut of the U
niversity of Hamburg\, one of Europe’s largest research institutions dealin
g with the languages and cultures of Asia.
His research focus is Indi an Mahayana Buddhism in all its forms of expression\, but in particular its textual history based on the canonical traditions in India\, Tibet and Chi na. Other interests are the relation of Buddhism to statecraft and the deve lopments in contemporary Buddhist traditions in East and West. Zimmermann t eaches in the Department of Indian and Tibetan Studies and co-directs the N umata Center for Buddhist Studies at Hamburg University\, an institutional hub promoting teaching\, research\, dialogue\, academic exchange and public outreach. For more information see www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de
This guest lectu re will be presented in English. This event is free and open to the public\ , but pre-registration is preferred here
URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/frogbear-guest-lecture-all-l iving-beings-have-buddha-nature/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/12/sanchi-hill_banner-1200x675.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191231T0750Z-1577778626.2296-EO-47123-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191220T235533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T005532Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191011T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191011T183000 SUMMARY: Imagining Time in India: Persian Chroniclers and Their Interpreter s DESCRIPTION: Presented in English by Shahzad Bashir\, Ph.D.\, Aga Khan Prof essor of Islamic Humanities Professor of Religious Studies\, Brown Universi ty. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
سخنران: دکتر شهزاد بشیر، استاد علوم انسانی اسلامی و مطالعات دینی، دانشگاه براون
هند در دوره سالهای ۱۵۰۰ تا ۱۹۰ ۰ میلادی صحنهٔ تولید ادبیات وقایعنگاری وسیع و متنوع به زبان فارسی بود. در طول قرن نوزدهم، محققان اروپایی (شامل چهرههای برجستهای چون الیوت و داوسون) از این آثار برای ایجاد درک مدرن از تاریخ جنوب آسیا استفاده کردند که تا به امروز بهعنوان تصویر غالب از این تاریخ باقی مانده است.
India was the scene for the production of a vast\, internally diverse chro nicle literature in Persian during the period 1500-1900 CE. During the nine teenth century\, European scholars (such as the famous Elliot and Dowson) m ade selective use of this material to create the modern understanding of So uth Asian history that remains dominant to the present.
Speak er: Shahzad Bashir\, Ph.D.\, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanit ies Professor of Religious Studies\, Brown University.
سخنران: دکتر فرزان کرمانی، دکتر ای طراحی، موسسه فناوری هند بمبئی
این نشست به واکاوی ویژگیهایی از جر یان هنر در ایران پس از اسلام میپردازد. این نکات با ذکر داستانهایی از سرگذ شت خوشنویسان پرآوازه و نمایش تصاویر و فیلمهایی از آثار هنری مختلف ملموستر خواهد شد. موقعیت ویژهٔ هنر و هنرمندان، فرهنگ مدارا و شیوه خلق اثر هنری نزد نیاکانمان، تأثیر جنگها و کشمکشهای سیاسی و اقتصادی، مهاجرت و تبعید گسترده ٔ اهالی هنر در طول تاریخ، رنج و اسارت هنرمندان و روشنگری و روشنفکری آنان از جمله مطالبی هستند که مطرح خواهند شد.
Speaker: Farzan Kermani\, Ph.D. in Design\, IIT Bombay.
The 2019W Yip
So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Dr. Geremie Barmé
白杰明 (Professor Emeritus\, Australian National University)
In memory of P.K. Leung 梁秉鈞 (1949-2013).
Photos from the Yip So Man Wat Lect ure:
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Missed this year's lecture? You can view it along with Dr. Barmé's presentation here.
Held annually\, the Department invites lead ing scholars to discuss topics in Chinese literature and culture. The 2019 lecture will feature Dr. Geremie Barmé 白杰明 Founding Director Emeritus of th e Australian Centre on China in the World and Emeritus Professor of History at the Australian National University.
From late 2018\, China has ma rked a series of major anniversaries and commemorations. A century of poli tical\, cultural and social upheavals have been brought into sharp focus by tumultuous contemporary events. Today\, the past is living in to the prese nt in ways that are significant not only for the ‘Chinese commonwealth’\, b ut also for China in the World.
This lecture — the title of which com es from a poem by the writer Lu Xun (d.1936) — will address the 2018-2019 ‘ year of anniversaries’ in the context of ‘Voiceless China’\, an expression Lu Xun used when addressing an audience in Hong Kong in 1927. Although toda y China is anything but voiceless\, the 2018-2019 year of anniversaries has passed as much in silence as it has in commemoration.
In the 2019 Wa t Lecture\, we will introduce some of the voices\, or ‘claps of thunder’\, that have broken the silence at the two poles of China’s People’s Republic — to the north in Beijing and in Hong Kong far to the south. Like the men a nd women who demanded to be heard during the clamorous era of the May Fourt h Movement\, today China’s voices of conscience and resistance are also det ermined to ‘speak out of turn’.
Tuesday\, November 5th\, 2019
6pm Reception with light refreshments
7pm Lecture
Ponderosa Commons Ballroom\, 6445 University Boulevard\, Vancouver
< strong>About the speaker:
Dr. Geremie Barmé 白杰明 is the editor of China Heritage\, a journal devoted to history\, literature\, translation and thou ght produced under the aegis of The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology\, wh ich he co-founded with John Minford in 2016. He has also worked as a journa list\, academic historian\, editor\, translator and film-maker. During his academic career Barmé founded and edited China Heritage Quarterly (2 005-2012) and The China Story (2012-2016)\, as well as editing Ea st Asian History (from 1990 to 2007). From 2010 to 2015 he was the foun ding director of The Australian Centre on China in the World at The Austral ian National University. His An Artistic Exile: The Life of Feng Zikai ( 1898-1975) was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2004. Other books i nclude Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience (1986\; edited wi th John Minford)\; New Ghosts\, Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices (19 92\; edited with Linda Jaivin)\; Shades of Mao (1996)\, In the Re d: on contemporary Chinese culture (1999)\, and The Forbidden City (2008). He has also worked on a number of prize-winning documentary film s\, including The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Boston: Long Bow Group\, 1 995)\, and published two collections of Chinese essays in Hong Kong.
Monday\, November 4th\, 2019
4p
m - 6pm followed by drinks reception
Allard Hall\, Room 104\, 1822 Eas
t Mall\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public. Registration required.
The Yip So Man Wat Memo rial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her pass ion for Chinese literature and culture. Previous speakers have included aut hors Yu Hua 余华\, Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞 (Ye Si 也斯) and Pai Hsien-yung 白先勇\, pu blic intellectual Lung Ying-tai 龍應台\, Harvard professor David Der-wei Wang 王德威\, and Duke professor Rey Chow 周蕾.
Thursday\, November 7th\, 2019
5:30pm - 10
pm
VPL Central Library\, 350 West Georgia St\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public.
What happened on the day of June 4\, 1989 is stil
l a banned topic in China today. On the 30th anniversary year of the Tianan
men Protests\, join us for a screening of documentary film The Gate of
Heavenly Peace (1995)\, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Profes
sor Geremie R. Barmé 白杰明
Conducted in English and Mandarin.
1989年6月4日的天安門到底發生了甚麼 ? 三十年後的今天在中國依然是不能公開討論的。1995年製作的《天安門》是一部反映"六四"的大型文獻紀錄片，全長三小時八分鐘，紀錄八九學運五十天內發生 的事情，採訪了包括劉曉波、王丹、吾爾開希、韓東方、侯德健等參加者。該片放映後，副導演白潔明教授(Geremie R. Barmé)將與觀眾對談。
中英文活動
More details here.
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made poss ible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.
< /div> CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage LOCATION:Ponderosa Commons Ballroom GEO:49.263709;-123.221255 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2019w-yip-so-man-wat-memoria l-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/10/WatLectureBanner-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191224T0848Z-1577177305.7092-EO-47140-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191223T201357Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191223T201357Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191107T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191107T160000 SUMMARY: FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: Through Altruism to Enlightenment DESCRIPTION: The Tianzhu Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultures\, with administrative support from FROGBEAR\, proudly presents a lecture by Dr. Re y-Sheng Her 何日生 of Tzu Chi Foundation. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Tianzhu Netw ork for the Study of Buddhist Cultures\, with administrative support from F ROGBEAR\, proudly presents a lecture by Dr. Rey-Sheng Her 何日生 of Tzu Chi Foundation.
When: 2:30 pm–4 pm\, Thur sday November 7\, 2019
Venue: UBC Asian Centre\, Roo m 604
Abstract: Dharma Master Cheng Yen says that th e Bodhisattva saves others first before he saves himself. Until all beings accomplish the Buddha Nature\, he then accomplishes his supreme enlightenm ent. The impurity and toughness of sentient beings provide positive element s for the Bodhisattva to accomplish the Buddha spirit. The lotus grows up i n dirty mud\, and through the mud\, lotus acquires its nourishments\, so as the sentient beings to be nourishing the ultimate wisdom of Bodhisattva.
This lecture shall focus on the philosophy and practices of altruism t hat advocated by Dharma Master Cheng Yen. Following the teaching of “In finite Meaning Sutra”\, Dharma Master Cheng Yen establishes Tzu Chi Dh arma Path and advocates that through helping others\, one shall purify his or her spirit. By endlessly devoted to the earthly purification\, one will acquire infinite wisdom and reach the ultimate calmness. Although we are al l imperfect mortal beings\, and yet by following the divine dharma we may t ransport all sentient beings to reach the awakening ashore\, and concurrent ly we reach the state of Nirvana altogether.
Dr. Rey-Sheng He r is currently a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University\, and adj unct Associate Professor at National Chengchi University. He was a visitin g scholar at Oxford University\, Cambridge University and Columbia Universi ty in 2018 and 2019. He has been served as the Spokesman and Director of H umanity Development of Tzu Chi Foundation since 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Peking University. Master of Art on Communication Manag ement\, the Annenberg School for Communication of University of Southern Ca lifornia.
His study interests include NGO Management\, Chinese Philos ophy\, Charitable Philanthropy\, Transcultural Goodness\, and Communication Theories. His recent research focuses on the philosophy of altruism and i ts application to organizational governance and economic life.
As a v eteran media professional\, he was a senior news anchor and TV program prod ucer. The documentary he produced “The Great Love as a Running Water: T estimony to the Development of Bone Marrow Transplantation“\, was sele cted by the 32nd Emmy Award International as the best doc umentary in the regions of Asia and Africa.
His publications include “Economy of Goodness—The Philosophy of Altruism in Economy” (In Publishing)\, “From Altruism to Ultimate Awakening ”\, “Constructive Journalism”\; “The Philosophy and Practices of Buddhist Tzu Chi\, “The Moment of Inspiration”\, and “The Great love as a Running Water—The Humanity Perspective on the Bone Marrow Transp lantation”\; edited “The Dialogue of Environment and Reli gion”\, “Compassion Relief for Syrian Refugees”\, “The Universal V alues of Buddhism & the Dharma Path of Tzu Chi”.
This guest lect ure will be presented in English. This event is free and open to the public \, but pre-registration is preferred here.
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سخنران:< /strong> دکتر مرتضی اسدی، محقق مدعو در دانشکده مطالعات بینالملل، دانشگاه س ایمون فریزر، استادیار سابق اقتصاد دانشگاه خوارزمی، تهران
نقش درآمدهای نفتی در بسیاری از کشورهای غیردموکراتیک در سراسر جهان موضوعی چالشبرانگیز ب رای مطالعات توسعه در اقتصادهای مبتنی بر نفت بوده است. بسیاری نفت را «منبع ن فرین» میدانند که میتواند منجر به تمرکز قدرت و کاهش رشد پایدار شود. از سوی دیگر، برخی از اقتصاددانان بر عامل نهادی بهعنوان عامل اصلی توسعهنیافتگی س یاسی و اقتصادی تمرکز میکنند. در این سخنرانی با استفاده از تحلیل دادههای ت ابلویی، نقش نفت و سایر عوامل نهادی پشت ساختار سیاسی بررسی میشود. نتایج این مطالعه میتواند به برنامهریزی ملی کمک کند تا بر دموکراتیزه شدن قدرت بهعن وان یک اولویت تمرکز کند یا وابستگی دولت به نفت را در ساختار سیاسی و نهادی ح اکم رد کند.
The role of oil revenues in many non-democr atic countries around the world have been a challenging topic for developme nt studies in oil-based economies. Much literature considers oil as a “reso urce curse” that may lead to the concentration of power and lower sustained growth. On the other hand\, some economists focus on the institutional fac tor as the main factor behind political and economic underdevelopment. In t his talk\, I attempt to examine the role of the oil and other institutional factors behind the political setup by using panel data analysis. The outco mes of the study could help the national planning to focus on the democrati zation of power as a priority or to rule out the oil dependency of the stat e within the prevailing political and institutional set-up. My main finding s show that both factors (the oil and the institutions) contribute to slow- sustained growth\, yet quantitative study shows institutions to serve as mo re influential factors in twenty oil-based economies in general\, including Iran. The question remains as to whether any specified country can be an e xceptional case if there is no democratic movement in the society.
Speaker: Morteza Asadi\, Ph.D. and former Assistant Professo
r of Economy at Kharazmi University\, Tehran.
Speaker: Dr. Cuilan Liu ( University of Pittsburgh)
Date: Friday\, November 15 \, 2019\, 5 – 7 pm
Venue: UBC C.K. Choi Building\, R oom 120
Abstract: The demarcation and maintenance of jurisdictional boundaries between religious institutions and lay society h ave been at the center of the conflict between religion and the state since the formation of early Buddhism. Drawing on cases presented in Buddhist le gal texts (Vinaya) from six different traditions preserved in Sanskrit\, Pā li\, Chinese\, and Tibetan\, Cuilan Liu challenges the Orientalist assumpti on that Buddhism is “lawless.” She argues that despite using a less aggress ive strategy to settle jurisdictional boundaries with the state\, Buddhist clergy in ancient India were not only interested in creating and implementi ng Buddhist canon law to govern Buddhist adherents but were also ambitious and strategic in securing legal privileges and jurisdictional autonomy in t heir interactions with the state.
About the Speaker: Cuilan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the Universit y of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2014\, w here she had also made a documentary film Young Jigme screened at the 2015 International Jean Rouch Film Festival in Paris. Her research focuses on th e legal interaction between Buddhism and the state in China\, Tibet\, and I ndia. Her publications have appeared in the Journal of Chinese Religions\, the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies\, the Jour nal of the American Oriental Society\, and the Journal of Indian Philosophy .
This event is free to attend and open to the general public. Regist ration is not required.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/frogbear-guest-lecture-cleri cal-privileges-and-the-jurisdiction-of-the-buddhist-clergy-do-they-exist/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/10/Featured-event_FROGBEAR-guest-lecture-Nov-14-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191221T1515Z-1576941338.6012-EO-47112-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191220T234112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T005957Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191129T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191129T203000 SUMMARY: Civilizational Contacts Between Ancient Iran and Europe During the Classical Era (in English) DESCRIPTION: Presented in English by Kaveh Farrokh\, Ph.D.\, Professor of H istory & Academic Advisor for Analytica Iranica\, Methodolgica Governance U niversity\, Paris\, France. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:سخنران: دکتر کاوه فرخ، استاد تاریخ و مشاور دانشگاهی آنالیتیکا ایرانیکا، دانشگاه M GU، پاریس، فرانسه
این سخنرانی مروری اجمالی از روابط تمدنی ایران بزرگ باستان و اروپا (تمدن یونانی-رومی و همچنین اروپای قارهای) ارائه میدهد. بحث با بررسی مجراهای تبادل بین ایران باستان بزرگ (سلسلههای هخامنشی، اشکانی و ساسانی ایران و همچنین نقش مردمان ایران شمالی)، قفقاز و اروپا آغاز میشود. س پس مبادلات دانش شرق و غرب از دورهٔ هخامنشیان تا پس از ساسانیان و به دنبال آ ن نمونههایی از مبادلات هنری، معماری و مهندسی بین تمدنهای یونانی-رومی و ای رانی مرور میشود. همچنین نمونههایی از تأثیر میراث باستانی ایران بر قارهٔ ا روپا نیز مورد بحث قرار میگیرد و بهدنبال آن نمونههایی از میراث موسیقی ایر ان باستان و همچنین مبادلات ایرانی-اروپایی در حوزه آشپزی ارائه میشود.
This lecture provides a synoptic overview of the civilization
al relations between Greater ancient Iran and Europa (Greco-Roman civilizat
ion as well continental Europe). The discussion is initiated with an examin
ation of the conduits of exchange between Greater ancient Iran (the Achaeme
nid\, Parthian and Sassanian dynasties of Iran as well as the role of North
ern Iranian peoples)\, the Caucasus and Europa. The lecture then provides a
n overview of learning exchanges between east and west spanning the time er
a from the Achaemenids into the Post-Sassanian eras\, followed by examples
of artistic\, architectural\, and engineering exchanges between Greco-Roman
and Iranian civilizations. Select examples of the ancient Iranian legacy i
nfluence upon the European continent are also discussed\, followed (time pe
rmitting) by examples of the musical legacy of ancient Iran as well as Iran
ian-European exchanges in the culinary domain.
Kaveh Farrokh< /strong> was born in Athens\, Greece and received his PhD at the University of British Columbia\, specializing in the linguistic and cognitive process es of the Persian-language. He has authored eight books of the military his tory of Iran in English and Spanish with seven translations of these in Per sian and Russian academic press outlets. Farrokh publishes articles in peer -reviewed journals and publications in English\, Persian\, Spanish and Germ an (i.e. Classic Arms and Militaria\, International Book of Dyslexia: A Cro ss Language Comparison and Practice Guide\, Palgrave-Macmillan\, etc.). He currently serves as Professor of History and as academic advisor for the An alytica Iranica encyclopedia initiative at Methodolgica Governance Universi ty\, Paris\, France.
Abstract:
In langua ge education\, intercultural learning has been understood as navigating cul tural differences or mélanges\, as involving specific kinds of kno wledge or savoirs\, as developing the capacity for empathy\, persp ective taking\, and adaptability\, or as actively engaging in the process o f making and interpreting meaning. This workshop provides an opportunity to explore how language teachers can approach intercultural learning with the ir students\, how conceptions of culture and language can impact course ins truction and content\, and will include teaching activities and texts that offer a means of learning culture through language.
The workshop will guide participants through a discussion of key concepts and definitio ns with a focus on the role of stereotypes and notions of cultural grouping \, belonging and identity. The activities will allow participants to explor e intercultural understanding from their own perspectives and to model the use of authentic texts and resources for their own teaching. The final part of the workshop will offer an overview of an assessment model that has bee n developed for intercultural language teaching and learning.
Speaker: Meike Wernicke
Date and Time: Wedn
esday\, December 4th\, 12-3pm
Location: Dodson Room\,
3rd Floor\, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Dr. Wernicke is Assista nt Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the Un iversity of British Columbia. She has an extensive background in Modern lan guage teaching (German and French)\, French Linguistics\, as well as German heritage language education. Her research interests include intercultural education\, bi-/multilingual language policy and pedagogies\, and discourse analytic research methodologies.
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LOCATION:Dodson Room\, Irving K Barber Learning Centre GEO:49.260872;-123.113953 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/intercultural-learning-in-la nguage-teaching-workshop/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/12/Intercultural-Learning-in-Language-Teaching-Workshop_featuredimage-768x384.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200114T0101Z-1578963711.7735-EO-47175-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200110T235305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200110T235305Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200110T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200110T200000 SUMMARY: In The Memory of The Loved Ones in UIA 752 Flight DESCRIPTION: We are gathering on Friday Jan. 10th from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at UBC to commemorate the loved ones who lost their lives in the tragic 752 Fl ight crash in Iran. We will start a candlelight vigil from 4:30 p.m. at UBC Martha Piper Plaza (the Fountain) on UBC University Blvd. and will then [… ] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
We are gathering on Friday Jan. 10t h from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at UBC to commemorate the loved ones who lost their l ives in the tragic 752 Flight crash in Iran.
We will start a candleli ght vigil from 4:30 p.m. at UBC Martha Piper Plaza (the Fountain) on UBC Un iversity Blvd. and will then head to the Nest’s Main Atrium at 6 p.m.
The event is a student-initiative sponsored by UBC Graduate Student Societ y\, UBC Persian Club\, Karvan\, Thaqalayn Muslim Association and Zoroastria n Student Association. This event will be held in an inclusive atmosphere a nd we welcome all students from all backgrounds to join us in solidarity.
Please dress appropriately for the weather.
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ما قصد داریم در روز جمعه، دهم ژانویه، از ساعت ۴:۳۰ تا ۸ بعد از ظهر، در دانش
گاه بریتیش کلمبیا در کنار هم جمع شویم تا یاد و خاطرهی عزیزانی که در پرواز
752 از کنار ما پر کشیدند را گرامی داریم.
در آغاز، به یاد این عزیزان ا ز ساعت ۴:۳۰ در Martha Piper Plaza شمعی بر میافروزیم و در ساعت ۶ بعد از ظهر ، در طبقه ی اول Nest (ساختمان اتحادیه دانشجویی) برای همبستگی در کنار هم جمع میشویم.
این رخداد، توسط دانشجویان دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا و حمایت های بی دریغ و مهربانانه جامعه دانشجویان تحصیلات تکمیلی، انجمن دانشجویی ایرانیا ن، انجمن دانشجویی کاروان، انجمن مسلمانان ثقلین و انجمن دانشجویی زرتشتیان یو بی سی سازماندهی شده است.
از آنجا که قصد ما ابراز همبستگی و همدردی ست ، سعی بر این است که محیطی دوستانه و آرامش بخش فراهم کنیم که همهی دوستان، د ر هر مقطع تحصیلی، از یو بی سی یا از هر دانشگاه دیگری، فارسیزبان یا غیر فار سیزبان، با هر پیشینه فکری و با هر ترجیحی برای نحوه ی سوگواری، در کنار هم ح ضور پیدا کنند.
با توجه به شرایط ناپایدار آب و هوایی، به شرکت کنندگان پیشنهاد میشود که لباس مناسب آب و هوای سرد و بارانی بپوشند.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Martha Piper Plaza &\; UBC Nest GEO:49.266553;-123.249839 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/in-the-memory-of-the-loved-o nes-in-uia-752-flight/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/01/82099912_2960531067341789_2711300093893410816_o.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191122T0326Z-1574393215.6181-EO-46835-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191120T222919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T174943Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200117T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200117T210000 SUMMARY: Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Iran in the Early 20th Century (in English) DESCRIPTION: Exploring the early twentieth century\, this talk examines the role of cinema in Iranian modernity and in the urbanization of Tehran from the 1900s to 1930s. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
سخنران: دکتر گلبرگ رکابطلایی، استادیار تاریخ، دانشگاه سیتون هال
شناخت و ارزیابی سینمای ایران در سطح بینالمللی از دههٔ ۱۹۹۰ میلادی منجر به علاقهٔ بیسابقهای به مطالعهٔ علمی و مردمی سینمای ایران شده است. با این حال، تمرک ز بر دورههای متأخر تاریخ سینمای ایران موجب بیتوجهی به فعالیتهای سینمایی در دورههای پیشین شده است. این سخنرانی به بررسی نقش سینما در مدرنیتهٔ ایران ی و در شهرنشینی تهران از دهه ۱۹۰۰ تا ۱۹۳۰ میلادی میپردازد.
Thank you to all who attended this event. Click here to see some photos from the evening and here to listen to the audio!
Since the 1990s\, the recogni tion and appraisal of Iranian cinema on an international level has led to a n unprecedented interest in scholarly and popular study of Iran’s post-revo lutionary cinema\, and at times\, its pre-revolutionary new wave counterpar t. This focus on the later periods of cinema history has led to a disregard and forgetfulness of cinematic activities in the earlier periods. Explorin g the early twentieth century\, this talk examines the role of cinema in Ir anian modernity and in the urbanization of Tehran from the 1900s to 1930s.< /p>
Iranian modernity in the early twentieth century was tied to diverse socio-cultural and political conditions that prompted a diverse and dynamic urban culture. Major cities in Iran became commercial\, artistic\, and pol itical hubs for residents from diverse ethnic\, religious\, and linguistic backgrounds who facilitated a cosmopolitan culture in urban centres such as Tehran. Cinema drew on and expanded these cosmopolitan experiences. On the one hand\, before national films were produced in the 1930s\, internationa l films exposed the public to new experiences\, different cities\, and nove l lifestyles. On the other hand\, movie theatres\, owned and operated by co smopolitan merchants became sites of sociability for Tehran’s population. H oused in the most prestigious streets of Tehran\, movie houses configured t he urban fabric of the city\, giving rise to some districts that became cen tres of socialisation\, critical thinking\, and entertainment for many deca des to come. Within such diverse social and cultural conditions\, Persian-l anguage film productions of the 1930s came to envision and express this rap idly-changing city onscreen. Films such as Mr. Haji: The Cinema Actor became a public medium through which criticisms were made against societal and urban transformations. Thus\, while cinema shape d the Iranian modern subject through national and international films that it showcased on-screen\, it also became engaged in processes of urban moder nity.
Dr. Golbarg Rekabtalaei is a cultural historia n of Modern Iran\, and the Middle East at large. She received her PhD in Ne ar and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2015. She is interested in the relationship between cinematic image and space\, modernity\, cosmopolitanism\, urbanisation\, nationalism\, and revolutions. Her book\, Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History\, which w as published in 2019 in Cambridge University Press's “Global Middle East” b ook series\, focuses on the role of cinema in facilitating cosmopolitan ima ginations and hybrid subjectivities from the early twentieth century to the 1979 revolution. Rekabtalaei is currently an assistant professor in the De partment of History at Seton Hall University.
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January 31\, 2:00pm – 4:30pm
Asian Centre\, Room 604
No o ther city has lent itself to the spatial imaginary of Japanese cultural pro duction than Tokyo. Capital of Japan\, undisputed center of politics and bu siness\, home of the publishing industry\, most populous metropolis in the world: Tokyo maps itself onto the rest of the nation in ways both profound and pervasive. This workshop will explore some of these mappings in media – literally and literarily – through presentations by four leading scholars of Japan. Presentations will be primarily in Japanese\, with Q&A in Japanes e and English.
2:00pm Opening remarks by Christina Yi (UBC)
2:10pm Tanaka Yukari & Hayashi Naoki (Nihon University)\, “‘Edo/Tokyo WebGIS’ and the Smartphone App ‘Edo/Tokyo Monogatari’”
2:40pm Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University)\, “Tokyo as Protagonist: Stories of the City”< /p>
3:10pm Nezu Tomohiko (Ritsumeikan Univers ity)\, “Tokyo Journalism History and the Emperor System”
3:40 pm Q&A
Sponsored by the UBC Asian Studies Department and the Centre for Japanese Research
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/workshop-rethinking-the-cult ural-cartographies-of-tokyo-in-japanese-media/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/01/Jan-31-Workshop_Featured-Event-Image-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191204T0120Z-1575422415.882-EO-46851-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191121T230110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T175312Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200131T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200131T203000 SUMMARY: The Persian Influences on the Architecture of the Mugal Empire (in Persian) DESCRIPTION: Presented in English by Dr. Razieh Rahimi\, Ph.D. in Architect ure\, Savitribai Phule Pune University\, India X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
سخنران: دکتر راضیه رحیمی، دکترای معما ری، دانشگاه ساویتریبای فوله پونا، هند
امپراتوری گورکانی هند یا همان ا مپراتوری مغول هند، امپراتوری بزرگی بود که در آن نوادگان تیمور در هندوستان ا ز سال ۱۵۲۶ تا ۱۸۵۷ میلادی در بخش بزرگی از شبهقارهٔ هند، از جمله کشورهای ام روزی هند، پاکستان، بنگلادش و بخشهایی از افغانستان امروزی فرمانروایی میکرد ند. این دوران با دورهٔ فرمانروایی سلسلهٔ صفوی در ایران همزمان بوده است. مط العهٔ دقیق سبک معماری مغول در شبهقارهٔ هند و شباهتهای آن با معماری دورهٔ صفویه در ایران، نشاندهندهٔ تأثیر بسزای فرهنگ و معماری ایران بر سبک جدیدی د ر معماری کشور هند است. در معماری این دو سلسله شباهتهای زیادی در: ۱- عناصر طراحی، ۲- شباهت در مفهوم طراحی و توجه در برنامهریزی، ۳- جزئیات، ۴- تکنیکه ای ساخت، و ۵- هندسه و تقارن وجود دارد که در این جلسه در نگاه کوتاهی به مقای سهٔ آنها خواهیم پرداخت.
A careful study of the Mughal ar
chitectural style in the Indian subcontinent and its similarities with Safa
vid architecture in Iran show the great influence of Iranian culture and ar
chitecture on the new style of Indian architecture.
The Gurkani Empir e of India\, or the Mongol Empire of India\, was a large empire in which th e descendants of Timor ruled India from 5 to 6 AD in large parts of the Ind ian subcontinent\, including modern-day India\, Pakistan\, Bangladesh and p arts of present-day Afghanistan. This period coincided with the era of the Safavid dynasty in Iran. The official language of the Mughal court of India \, Persian language and hence spread Iranian culture and architecture in th e Indian subcontinent. The Mughal Empire of India was dependent on Iranian culture for various reasons and aspects\, for example\, Babur had been livi ng in Iran for many years with Timur's offspring and had spent five years i n exile with his wife in Iran. Jahangir also had an Iranian wife who played an important role in the development of Iranian art and architecture in In dia\, and Arjmand Bano\, wife of Shah Jahan\, was an Iranian prince who pla yed an important role in encouraging Iranian artists to migrate to India to develop Iranian art and architecture.
Iranian culture\, along with I ranian architecture\, created a vast area during the Mongol era in the nort h of India\, culminating in the reign of Akbarshah\, Homayoun\, and Jahangi r. The influence of Iranian architecture can be seen in many buildings of t he conquered Purskari\, Agra and Delhi complexes\, which combine a new styl e into a single structure. In the architecture of this era there are many s imilarities in domes\, columns\, public spaces and interior and exterior de corations with Iranian architecture in the Safavid era. During the reign of Shah Jahan\, a new capital was designed and built by Iranian architects wh o used the Mongol kings of Isfahan during the reign of Shah Abbas as a mode l for the development of their new capital in Delhi.
Iranian artists have introduced new architectural styles in keeping with the Indian climate using local architectural structures whose beautiful examples are visible in castles\, mosques\, tombs of the time. The best example of this masterpi ece is the Taj Mahal in Agra\, which is known as an Iranian spirit in the I ndian body. However\, it should be noted that this cultural influence is no t a constant phenomenon and is a solitary phenomenon.
Speaker: Dr. Razieh Rahimi\, Ph.D. in Architecture\, Savitribai Ph
ule Pune University\, India
Int erested in studying in Japan or collaborating with Japanese scholars? JSPS offers funding for grad students\, postdocs\, and professors in all fields. Learn more from International Program Associate Mr. Hideki Kunii and JSPS alumni.
You are welcome to remain for the ""Paper\," Binding\, Book: Perspectives from Japan\, India and Tibet" event at 1:30pm!
Sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the UBC Centre for Asian Research.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:C.K. Choi Building GEO:49.260872;-123.113953 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/information-luncheon-japan-s ociety-for-the-promotion-of-science-jsps/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200205T0949Z-1580896181.1592-EO-47405-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200203T193824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T195132Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200206T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200206T151500 SUMMARY: “Paper\,” Binding\, Book: Perspectives from Japan\, India\, and Ti bet DESCRIPTION: Learn about Japanese paper production\, binding techniques\, a nd book formats with book history expert Dr. Takahiro Sasaki (Keio Universi ty)--presenting in Japanese with English translation. Join our discussion w ith UBC Asian Studies professors Dr. Adheesh Sathaye\, Dr. Dagmar Schwerk\, and Dr. Hasan Siddiqui. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Learn about Japan
ese paper production\, binding techniques\, and bo
ok formats with book history expert Dr. Takahiro Sasaki (Keio University)--presenting in Japanese with English translation.<
/p> Join our discussion with UBC Asian Studies professor
s Dr. Adheesh Sathaye\, Dr. Dagmar Schwerk\, and Dr. Hasan Siddiqui. Dr. Sasaki heads the Keio University Institute of Oriental Classics (Shidō Bunko)
\, a collection of 170\,000 rare books and research materials on Japan and
Asia. A leading researcher of book history\, in 2016 he published Nihon
koten shoshigakuron\, a monograph on Japanese bibliography studies. A
s a developer of pedagogy on rare books\, he has created multiple online co
urses via FutureLearn\, including Japanese Culture Through Rare Books\, Sin
o-Japanese Interactions Through Rare Books\, and The Art of Washi Paper in
Japanese Rare Books offered. Dr. Adheesh Sathaye is
an associate professor specializing in early medieval Sanskrit drama\, aest
hetics\, and narrative literature. Dr. Dagmar Schwerk is a Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies
and Steering Committee Member of the UBC Himalaya Program researching Tibet
an Buddhism with a focus on the intellectual\, political\, and social histo
ry of Bhutan. Dr. Hasan Siddiqui is a postdoctoral f
ellow in Asian Studies researching the social and cultural history of early
modern South Asia and the Mughal empire. Sponsored by the Japan Soci
ety for the Promotion of Science and the UBC Centre for Asian Research. 2019/
20 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies Thank
you to everyone who attended! The recording can be viewed via this link here and see some photos from the evening her
e. (Videographer: Taher Hashemi and Photographer: Colby Brochu) Monday\, February 10\,
2020 Location:
Free & open to the public. Lecture abstract: Professor Ketelaar will draw on his most recent research into the c
oncepts of the barbarian and the frontier in the construction of Japanese n
ational identity and history\; coupled with this he will examine something
of the roles and meanings of emotion in the construction of the historical
imagination in Japan. All of which will be used in a critical approach to t
he area known as Japan Studies. About the speaker: Professor James E. Kete
laar has lived in Japan off and on for fifteen of the last thi
rty-five years\, mostly in Kyoto\, but also in Tokyo\, Hokkaidô (mostly dur
ing the summer)\, and Kyûshû (mostly during the winter). He did some of his
undergraduate work at Waseda University and some of his graduate and disse
rtation work at Kyoto University. He has taught in Japan as a study-t
rip leader for the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Chicago Al
umni Association. He was an undergraduate educator for the Kyoto Consortium
for Japanese Studies (KCJS) on three separate occasions\, and in 2012\, he
led a group of University of Chicago undergraduates to Tokyo\, Kyoto\, Nar
a\, and Osaka after a month studying Japanese history and culture with them
at the university's Center in Beijing. Professor Ketelaar was a memb
er of the KCJS Governing Board for fifteen years and currently serves as th
e chair of the Executive Committee and the Governing Board of the Inter-Uni
versity Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) based in Yokohama\, Japa
n. About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: John Howes was a founding member of UBC’s Department of Asian
Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbi
a University. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Profess
or Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cultural\, educational and pe
ople-to-people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate
their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or ano
ther. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devo
ted former students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The
fund supports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\,
an annual public lecture for prominent scholars from around the world to sp
eak to the university community and alumni on topics in Japanese Studies wi
th a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4th\
, 2017\, at the age of 92. سخنران: دکتر پگاه شهباز، پژوهشگر پسادکتری دپارتمان آسی
اپژوهی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا از قرن هفدهم، سعدی شیرازی در مرکز توجه ا
روپاییان قرار گرفت: نام او در سفرنامهها و نشریات این دوره به چشم میخورد و
برخی از حکایات سعدی به لاتین، آلمانی، فرانسوی و انگلیسی ترجمه و منتشر شد.
در این سخنرانی نقش مؤسسات آموزشی بریتانیا در هند مستعمره در معرفی سعدی و گل
ستان او به خوانندگان انگلیسیزبان از سویی و نقش منشیهای بومی هندو-فارسی که
در تهیهٔ ترجمهها نقش داشتند از سوی دیگر بررسی میشود.
With Guest
Speaker Professor James E. Ketelaar
(Professor in the Departments of H
istory and East Asian Languages & Civilizations\, and Divinity School\, Uni
versity of Chicago)
6:30pm Lecture<
br />7:30pm Reception with light refreshments
Asian Centre Aud
itorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
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SUMMARY: Persian Munshi\, Persian Jones: English Translations of Sa’di’s Gu
listan from Late 18th to Mid-19th Centuries (in English)
DESCRIPTION: Presented in English by Dr. Pegah Shahbaz\, SSHRC Postdoctoral
Fellow\, Department of Asian Studies\, UBC.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: منشی فارسینویس و جونزِ فارس: ترجمههای انگلیسی گل
ستان سعدی از اواخر قرن هجدهم تا اواسط قرن نوزدهم
Speaker: Dr. Pegah Shahbaz\, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow\ , Department of Asian Studies\, UBC.
Pegah Shahbaz is a specialist of Persian language and literature and studies literary productions from Iran \, Central and South Asia. Her work focuses on translation studies\, in par ticular on systems of knowledge transmission through narrative texts (Histo ry and fiction) in the Persian\, Indian\, Arabic and Turkish milieu\, and i n diverse historical contexts under the impact of religious systems of thou ght\, such as Hinduism\, Buddhism\, Islam and Sufism. Her field of research relates to the history of Iran and Central Asia (from the Abbasids to Qaja r period) and India (Sultanates and Mughals)\, and the history of the Frenc h and English presence in the Persianate world from the 17th century. P. Sh ahbaz studies historically and comparatively\, the intermediary role of Per sian as a lingua franca in the translation and transmission of [Indo-] Pers ian literature into other literary cultures\, including the European ones s uch as English and the French literatures. Her academic research interests also include Shi’ism\, the question of gender in the Iranian culture\, Pers ian book art and painting (miniature)\, and manuscript culture.
Pegah Shahbaz received her PhD from the University of Strasbourg\, France in 201 4 with a dissertation on “Persian Prose Narratives in South Asia in the Pre -Modern Period”. She worked as a Postdoctoral fellow (2014-2018) at the Sor bonne-Nouvelle\, Paris\, France\, and collaborated with the Perso-Indica pr oject. She is currently a ACLS/ Robert H. N. Ho. Family Foundation Research Fellow of Buddhist Studies and works on her project about the adaptations of the life story of Buddha in Persian literary culture. She will be a SSHR C Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Asian Studies from January 2020\ , to work on a research project about Punjabi and Persian narrative traditi ons\, for a period of two years.
Pegah Shahbaz has taught Persian lan guage and diverse themed courses at French and Iranian Universities. She is the Section Editor of the “Fables and Tales” chapter of the Perso-Indica p roject (La Sorbonne Nouvelle – Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale s - Paris)\, and one of the Associate Researchers and contributors to the D ELI Encyclopedic Dictionary of Indian Literatures (MII Iranian and Indian W orlds and CERC Centre for Comparatist Research and Studies) on Persian lite rary productions of South Asia\, as well as an Associate member of the CERI AS (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur l’Inde\, l’Asie du Sud et sa diaspo ra) at U-QAM University\, Montreal.
Join the Japanese programme on February 28 for our largest annual event\, the Japanese Fun Night! Food\, drinks\, gre at prizes\, and the chance to spend time with your fellow students\, friend s\, TAs and senseis. This year we have 3 divisions: Design (design a mascot for UBC JAPN!)\; Culture (videos or presentations on any aspect of Japanes e culture!)\; and Performance (comic performances\, skits\, rakugo\, or our ever-popular karaoke!).
Check out the video below! And sign up here by February 14.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Studies Auditorium GEO:30.285854;-97.740426 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2020-japanese-fun-night/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/01/japanese-fun-night-website-thumbnail.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200221T0200Z-1582250450.1294-EO-47581-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200220T173351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T183634Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200301T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200301T173000 SUMMARY: 2020 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION: Join us for an annual day of presentations by graduate student s from the Asian Studies department\, featuring special guest presenters un ique to each year. Participants in the conference will present their origin al research\, engage in accompanying discussions on their papers or present ations\, and enjoy refreshments while meeting and talking with scholars wor king in a wide […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for an annual day of presentations by graduate students from the A sian 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 wi de variety of disciplines and regions. This year we are also excited to hav e Dr. Sunera Thobani< /a> as our keynote speaker. Questions can be directed to ubcasiagradcon2020 @gmail.com
If you plan to attend\, please register here. There will be some food available\, but please k eep in mind that priority will be given to presenters\, panel chairs\, and volunteers. We hope to see you there!
The event program can be viewed here.
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A day of presen tations by graduate students from the Asian Studies department\, exploring current research projects\, engaging with various scholars\, and hosting di scussions regarding a wide range of subjects and disciplines.
Saturday\, March 9th\, 2019
A day of presentations by graduate students from the Asian S tudies department\, with a few guest presenters from other departments
Saturday\, March 10\, 2018
With panel discussions fr om Dr. Christina Yi\, Dr. Bruce Rusk\, Dr. Ross King\, Dr. Jessica Main and Dr. Hyung-Gu Lynn from the Department of Asian Studies
Saturday\, March 11\, 2017
With opening and closing talks from Dr. Ross King and Dr. Christopher Rea from the Department of Asian Studies
Saturday\, March 12\, 2016
With opening and closing talks from Dr. Stefania Burk\, Dr. Anne Murphy\, and Dr. Ross King from the Department of Asian Studies
Satur day\, April 11\, 2015
With keynote speech from Dr. Daisuke Miyao\, Associate Professor of Japanese Film and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Lite rature at the University of Oregon
Saturday\, April 5th\ , 2014
With keynote speech from Dr. Rebecca Copeland\, Professor and Chair of Department of Japanese Language and Liter ature at Washington University in St. Louis
Saturday\, M arch 9th\, 2013
With keynote speech from Dr. Melek Ortabasi\, Director and Associate Professor of the World Literature program at Simon Fraser University
Saturday\, May 12th\, 2012
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Studies Auditorium GEO:30.285854;-97.740426 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2020-asian-studies-graduate- student-conference/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/02/Grad-conference-2020-website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200304T0038Z-1583282290.4507-EO-47678-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200226T183904Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200226T183904Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200304T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200304T173000 SUMMARY: China and the Coronavirus: A Roundtable Assessment DESCRIPTION: UBC China Studies faculty offer an assessment of the social\, political\, and cultural impact of Covid_ID in China. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Department of Asian Studies is delight ed to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating l ife after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with div erse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current stud ents. This event will feature a round robin networking session\, raffle pri zes\, and a delicious free dinner. Careers Night is the perfect opportunity to make connections\, meet fellow Asian Studies students\, and feel more c onfident in taking the next steps on your career path.
https://youtu. be/a0DR7-KaMZE
Thursday\, March 12th\, 2020
Jack Poole Hall\,
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Free –
This event is co- organized by the Department of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts.< /p>
These annual events\, h eld in February or March of each year\, are open to students who have decla red or are potentially interested in declaring a major in Asian Studies\, a nd alumni who are interested in sharing their personal insight and experien ces.
As a student:
* Ask the burning q
uestions about what a degree in Asian Studies has to offer
* Gain extr
emely helpful networking tips (e.g. How to Use LinkedIn 101)
* Meet yo
ur fellow undergraduates and learn about their career and academic plans
* Gain an excellent head-start in planning your next move during and aft
er UBC
As an alumni:
* Share what you
did at UBC that helped you succeed
* Give back to your alma mater by p
roviding your insights to the students of what they should be expecting
* Meet and make connections with other alumni\, faculty\, and students
* Meet potential employees among our diligent and passionate students
Students will break into groups and rotate among the alu mni. Ask our alumni how they got their first jobs after graduating and how they have navigated through the “real world”. Confirmed alumni include:
Kayla Black\, BA '14 – Project Coordinator at The Law Found ation of BC
Kayla studied Korean culture and language at UBC \, including a year abroad with GoGlobal in South Korea. Following her grad uation in 2014\, she worked at a local Vancouver charity\, First Steps\, to prevent child malnutrition in North Korea. Recently\, Kayla began working at the Law Foundation of BC\, an organization which funds law-related publi c programs and projects.
Gabriela Chen\, BA ’15 – Account Based Marketing Analyst\, Procurify
Gabriela had the opportunity to study in Vancouver\, Hong Kong and Japan - earning h er skills in English\, Japanese\, Cantonese and Mandarin while growing up. Immediately after graduating in 2015\, Gabriela supplied and serviced resta urants and retail businesses as a full cycle sales for four years with a pu blicly listed Japanese import and distributor: Nishimoto Tradings Inc. In 2 019\, Gabriela became curious between different business management styles in the city and currently leads sales outreach efforts for local software c ompany Procurify as their marketing analyst.
Ellie Cho\, BA ’16 – CG Artist
Ellie graduated f rom UBC with honours in Asian Languages and Cultures (Mandarin) and minor i n English (literature). She found her passion in learning the language in T aiwan through scholarships and went back again through Go Global. During he r time at UBC\, she also studied and worked under Dr. Ross King\, as well a s studying translation in Korean. After graduating\, she found a position i n a credit union\, but she left in order to pursue a more creative career. After further schooling\, Ellie is now in the visual effects industry as a CG artist and has worked on games and films in companies like Electronic Ar ts\, MPC\, and Sony Pictures Imageworks.
Micki Cowan\, BA '11 – Assignment Producer/Reporter at CBC Vancouver
Micki is an assignment producer and reporter at CBC Vancouver. Half the time she is ma king big decisions about what stories the newsroom covers and how it covers them. The other half she is out in the field conducting interviews\, doing live radio hits and going on TV. Her passions include municipal affairs\, the environment and making use of her Japanese language skills.
Reid Hamilton\, BA '93 – Assistant Vice President\, HSBC
After graduating with a BA in Asian Studies in 1993\, Reid spent th e next five years living in Hong Kong working as an executive recruiter foc using on banking and finance. He earned his MBA in Finance from NYU in 2001 . Following this\, Reid spent the next 15 years in various foreign exchange and interest rate risk management roles in New York and Hong Kong. In 2015 Reid returned to Vancouver and is currently an Assistant Vice President wi th HSBC's commercial banking group covering large corporates in Vancouver.< /p>
Alysha Joo\, BA’ 16 – Knowledge and Records Management Specialist\, Land Title and Survey Authority of Brit ish Columbia
Alysha graduated from UBC with honours in Asian Area Studies. She focused on courses relating to Japanese history\, Korean history\, Korean language and Korean literature. She also worked for the D epartment of Asian Studies as an Office Assistant through the Work Learn pr ogram. After graduation\, her interests in history and literature led her t o pursue a combined Masters of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) and A rchival Studies (MAS) at UBC's School of Information (iSchool). During this time\, she undertook a variety of opportunities to broaden her interests\, as a Student Librarian providing reference and educational support at UBC Woodward Library\, by exploring records and privacy management in public or ganizations through an internship with the City of Port Coquitlam\, as well as through pursuing her research interests on the impact of emerging techn ologies on information management and digital preservation as a Graduate Re search Assistant with Blockchain@UBC. Immediately after the completion of h er MAS & MLIS degrees\, Alysha gained employment as the Knowledge and Recor ds Management Specialist with the Land Title and Survey Authority of Britis h Columbia\, where she currently works assisting in the development of a Kn owledge Management Strategy and Knowledge Base for land title practice.
Nicole Lin\, BA ’19 - Graduate Student in the Asian Studies MA Program
Nicole is currently a firs t year Korean Studies MA student in the UBC Asian Studies Department studyi ng under the supervision of Dr. Ross King. She recently completed her BA an d graduated from UBC in 2019\, double majoring in History and Asian Area St udies. Her focus area primarily concerns colonial Korea and colonial Korean literature. Throughout her BA and MA\, Nicole has taken part in the Go Glo bal Exchange Program\, Arts Co-Op program\, Work Learn\, and has held RA an d TAships with the Department of Asian Studies.
< p>Richard N. Liu\, BA ’93 – Board Director at the Pacific Canada He ritage Centre – Museum of MigrationDaryl Louie\, BA ’10 – Co-F ounder and CEO\, AntiSocial Media Solutions
Daryl is the Co- Founder and CEO of AntiSocial Media Solutions\, a digital marketing agency with offices in Vancouver and Toronto. His team handles social media strate gy and execution\, an all in-house media production team\, website build an d SEO optimization\, and digital advertising campaign management.
Oft en found photobombing selfies\, Daryl is deeply involved in promoting AntiS ocial’s office culture.
He has worked in digital marketing for 10+ ye ars\, spanning many industries. The teams he leads have worked on brands pr ominent through their Digital Marketing including Jimmy Pattison Group\, Va ncouver Police Foundation\, Fairmont\, Notable\, El Furniture Warehouse\, B lueprint\, 7-Eleven\, and more.
Lucy Lu\, BA ’19 – Content Creator\, Heyni Technology Corp.
Lucy gradu ated from UBC with the major in Asian Area Studies in 2019. She completed c ourses related to East Asian culture\, art\, and history. The two summer in ternships in China\, with the role of marketing assistant in a local cultur al museum and the role of project assistant in Chongqing foreign cultural e xchange center\, provided her insights into the cultural industry. By takin g Chinese history\, literature\, and film courses\, she gradually founded h er passion for Chinese language and culture. Upon graduation\, she joined a n online Chinese education company in Vancouver – HEYNI Technology Corp. Co mbining Lucy’s academic background with her creative writing skill and thea tre performance\, she is working as a Content Creator & Event Planning Assi stant to help global students to learn Chinese\, and to facilitate the mult icultural communication within Greater Vancouver. Outside of her work\, she is a writer and storyteller to narrate young people’s life struggles posit ively.
Chandima Silva\, BA ’18 – Academic Pro gram Coordinator\, Simon Fraser University
Chandima graduate d with a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Area Studies with a focus on South and S outheast Asia in 2018\, which he complemented with an exchange stint at the National University of Singapore. He is currently an Academic Program Coor dinator for the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University\, wh ere he manages the delivery of the undergraduate and graduate programs alon gside two other kick-ass colleagues. In addition to his full-time work\, he is involved on the Asia Pacific Youth Council for the Asia Pacific Foundat ion as a Director of Arts and Culture Programming\, which involves extendin g the mandate of connecting Canadian youth with Asia through events centred around pan-Asian art and culture.
He enjoys travelling and eating hi s way around the world and is passionate about increasing LGBTQ+ visibility and inclusion.
Zining Wang\, BA '18 - Program Specialist at Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Com ing to study at UBC in summer 2013 was Zining’s first time to go abroad. Fa st forward to 5 years later\, she completed a double major in Asian Studies and Economics\, a minor in Commerce and 16 months of Co-op work. Learning Farsi\, Japanese\, and exploring her Chinese identity through literature an d movies became her fondest memory of UBC. Upon graduation\, Zining joined the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada\, a not-for-profit think tank promoti ng Canada-Asia relations\, to pursue her passion connecting Asia to the res t of the world. Realizing the mentorship she received from alumnus and prof essors has contributed greatly to her journey\, Zining founded the Asia Pac ific Mentorship Program in 2017 that provides students opportunities to lea rn more about a future career related to Asia. Outside of her work\, Zining is a dialogue facilitator and has engaged with multiple initiatives to sup port conversations about diversity\, inclusion\, and intercultural awarenes s on UBC campus and beyond.
Jenn ifer Ward\, BA ’12 – Freelance Translator (Japanese to English)
For seven years\, Jennifer has worked from home\, self-employed\, as a freelance translator of light novels and manga. Cumulatively\, she's transl ated nearly thirty light novels and hundreds of volumes of manga in digital and print for Yen Press\, Seven Seas\, Kodansha USA and Kodansha JP\, and other publishers.
Emily Wu\,
BA ’03 & MA ‘07 – Program Leader\, UBC Extended Learning & UBC Internal Co
ach
Emily is currently an Internal Coach at UBC and a Program
Leader at the UBC Extended Learning. Her current work involves developing\
, delivering\, and managing innovative educational programs for adult profe
ssionals. Prior to working at UBC\, she has worked as an Assistant to Consu
l for Cultural Affairs at Consulate General of Japan in Vancouver and a Coo
rdinator for International Relations on the JET program. Emily currently se
rves on the board of Powell Street Festival Society and volunteers with Jap
an Fair Association of Vancouver and Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland.
Juliana de Souza\, Career Strategist\, Arts - Cent re for Student Involvement and Careers
Registrations have now closed\; we will welcome sign ups for our Waitlist from 5:30pm on the day (first come\, first served)\, and space permitting\, we will advise at 5:50pm.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre GEO:49.265974;-123.250020 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2020-asian-studies-annual-ca reers-night/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/11/careers-night-ellie-cho.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200209T2244Z-1581288298.2733-EO-47333-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200129T181625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T182343Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200313T140000 SUMMARY: Carbon Footprint Challenge: Wrap-Up Party DESCRIPTION: Join us to celebrate the successful completion of the Carbon F ootprint Challenge! Friday\, March 13\, 2020 12pm – 2pm Venue: TBA X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join us to celebrate the successful comple tion of the Carbon Footprint Challenge!
Friday\, March 13\, 2020
< p>12pm - 2pmVenue: TBA
URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/carbon-footprint-challenge-w rap-up-party/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/01/Carbon-Footprint-website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191226T0029Z-1577320155.4961-EO-47093-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191220T225759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T175630Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200313T203000 SUMMARY: CANCELLED – Persian\, Pahlavi\, and Teaching Farsi (in English) DESCRIPTION: Presented in English by Dr Rastin Mehri\, Lecturer\, Language Training Institute\, University of Simon Fraser.\n\nThis lecture is part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Persian and Iranian Studies. Location TBA . X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This talk was cancelled due to unforeseen ci rcumstances.
سخنران: دکتر راستین مهری، مدرس در موسسه آموزش زبان دانشگاه سايمون فريزر
این سخنرانی بهدلیل شرایط پیشبینینشده لغو شد.
Speaker: Dr Rastin Mehri\, Lecturer\, Langu age Training Institute\, University of Simon Fraser.
The Annual British Columbia Japanese Speec h Contest is open to British Columbia and Yukon residents who speak Japanes e as a foreign or second language. The 2020 Contest will be held on Saturday\, March 14\, 2020 at the University of British Columbia (Asian Ce ntre). The High School Division is tentatively scheduled to start at 10:00 am and the University/Open Division at 1:00 pm. The finalized sche dule will be published on Monday\, March 2\, 2020 on the Consulate General of Japan’s website.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Read the 2020 contest guidelines.
Register via the online application form.
Deadline to apply is Friday\, February 14th\, 2020 at 5pm.
3/11/2020: We've opted to cancel this year's UBC Cantonese Singing Contest due to saf ety concerns. We apologise to those hoping to attend\, and stay tuned for f uture events!
3/2/2020: Due to current public health and safety concerns\, the 2nd UBC Cantonese Singing Contest has been resch eduled to Thursday March 26\, 2020 broadcast live online f rom UBC campus to a global audience. Please stay tuned for more details and updates! 鑒於目前公衆衛生及安全考慮，第二屆卑詩大學粵語歌唱比賽將改於 2020 年 3 月 26 日星期 四晚上 7 點正全球網上直播，大家可安坐家中欣賞賽事。請留意稍後更多詳情公佈。
2/16/2020: F ree tickets will soon be available by RSVP. Please stay tuned for registrat ion details. 決賽免費入場門票即將接受登記，請密切留意本頁嘅消息！
2/14/2020: C ongratulations to the following finalists 恭喜以下決賽入圍選手:
2/8/2020: Thanks to all contestants who participated in the preliminary round. We will announce the list of finalists soon. Stay tuned! 多謝所有參與初賽嘅同學。我哋好快會 公佈決賽嘅入圍名單，請密切留意本頁嘅消息！
2/1/2020: Registration for con testants has closed. Registered individuals will be contacted to participat e in the preliminary round. 比賽已截止報名，我哋會聯絡參賽者安排初賽事宜。
1/15/2020 : The 2nd UBC Cantonese Singing Contest is open to registration fo r contestants now! Please register by completing the registration form by J anuary 31. 第二屆卑詩大學粵語歌唱比賽已開始接受報名！請喺 1 月 31 日或之前填妥報名表格。
CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-2nd-ubc-cantonese-singin g-contest-%e7%ac%ac%e4%ba%8c%e5%b1%86%e5%8d%91%e8%a9%a9%e5%a4%a7%e5%ad%b8%e 7%b2%b5%e8%aa%9e%e6%ad%8c%e5%94%b1%e6%af%94%e8%b3%bd/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/03/CSC-website.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191129T2215Z-1575065751.8007-EO-46881-18@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20191128T175224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200402T174452Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200402T203000 SUMMARY: [CANCELLED] A Celebration of Punjabi at UBC DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to ou r 12th annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program. Join us in celebrating ov er 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 3rd! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Not
ice: In light of the current situation of COVID-19\, the Department of Asia
n Studies has made the difficult decision to cancel this year's "A Celebrat
ion of Punjabi at UBC"\, which was to be held on April 2nd.
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The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to ou r 12th annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program. Join us in celebrating ov er 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 2nd!
Every year\, the program f eatures a keynote address by a distinguished scholar\, awards for local wri ters and student-contest winners\, and student performances. In alternating years\, the book/writer award either honors a BC-based Punjabi-language wr iter with a “lifetime achievement award\,”or a “best book” published in rec ent years by a writer from the region.
The program was established in loving memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (nee Gill)\, devoted wife\, mother\, an d strong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women’ s issues. Our goal is to call attention to important new scholarship on Pun jabi language and culture and bring it to our students and the broader Vanc ouver area audience\; encourage and recognize achievements in Punjabi langu age cultural production\; and honor students for their work in learning and using the Punjabi language.
Thursday\, April 2\, 2020
6:00pm Reception with refreshments
6:30pm Welcome followed by
Event Program
Place of Many Trees\, Liu Institute\, 6476 NW Marine Dr\
, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2
Free & open to the public. Registration s are essential via the form below.
Featuring
Speaker bio: Navtej Purewal (PhD in Development Studies\, Lancaster University) is an inter-disciplinar y social scientist whose work focuses on the political sociology of South A sia. Her research interests and publications span a range of disciplines. m ethodologies and methods. She focuses on the dialectical relationship betwe en the political and the social\, with a strong interest in gender\, struct ural violence\, social change and the on-going bordering processes across t he region of South Asia. Her new co-authored book Beyond Religion in In dia and Pakistan: Gender and Caste\, Borders and Boundaries (Bloomsbur y\, 2019) is based on extensive field research in the region of Punjab\, sp anning India and Pakistan\, where gender and caste frame social structures through patriarchy\, caste ideology and evolving social and political forms .
Organized by the Department of Asian Studies with the support of th e Centre for India and South Asia Research and the Office of the Dean of Ar ts.
Made possible by the generous support of the Sidhu famil y\, in loving memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (née Gill)\, devoted wife\, mothe r\, and strong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women’s issues.
Thanks to our media partner Spice Radio 1200 AM.
Harjit Kaur Sidh
u (nee Gill) was born in Amritsar in 1937. She grew up in what is
now Pakistan and resettled with her parents\, brothers and sisters in Ludh
iana after partition. She received both an MA and MEd. She went on to lec
ture at Sidwa College in 1966 and 1967. She immigrated to Canada with her h
usband\, Balvindar Singh Sidhu\, in 1968. The couple lived in the Yukon fo
r 32 years\, during which time Mrs. Sidhu’s passion became early childhood
education. After the birth of her sons Ravindar (1971) and Rajvindar (1972
)\, she worked as a teacher in multiple early childhood settings: preschoo
l\, prekindergarten programs and in kindergarten.
In 2001\, Harjit an d Balvindar moved to Vancouver where there youngest son was a practicing de ntist and where\, later\, their oldest son started a career at UBC as a sur geon in the Faculty of Medicine. During her time in Vancouver\, Harjit red iscovered her passion for Punjabi language and culture. She was a strong a dvocate for Punjabi culture\, and for women in Punjabi society.
After two and a half year courageous battle with cancer\, she passed away in her home on July 23\, 2007. She is survived by her husband\, two sons and the ir wives\, two grandsons and one granddaughter.
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Why is Punjabi Studies Import ant at UBC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjXQVawZHuA&fea ture=youtu.be
At the University of British Columbia\, the Punjabi lan guage occupies a central place in our South Asia program\, and represents o ne of the largest and longest-standing Punjabi-language programs in the wor ld\, outside of South Asia. In this video\, hear from students why Punjabi Studies has been integral to their experience at UBC.
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On March 14\, 2019\, the Department of Asian Studies hos ted the 11th Annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program to celebrate over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC. This year\, we celebrated the memory of Gurcharan Rampuri (1929-2018)\, the first recipient of the UBC Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Award in 2009.
Born in Punjab on 23 Ja nuary 1929\, Gurcharan Rampuri began to write poetry at the age of 15. His first published poem appeared in 1950 in the famous literary magazing Prītl aṛī. Before coming to Canada in 1963\, he had published three collections o f poetry: Kaṇakāṅ dī Khushbo\, Kaul Karār\, and Kiranāṅ dā Ālhṇā. His first book published after coming to Canada\, Annhī Galī\, appeared in 1971. Oth er well-known books by him include: Kaṅchanī\, Katalgāh\, Agnār\, etc. A la rge number of his poems have been published in Russian\, English\, Urdu\, a nd Hindi.
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Mr. Rampuri also contrib uted greatly to the establishment of Punjabi literature in Canada. He was t he founding President of the Punjabi Literary Association\, later known as the Punjabi Writers’ Forum. He remained connected with many other cultural associations in the Lower Mainland\, such as the Punjabi Likhari Sabha Ramp ur\, the International Literary Trust Canada\, International Punjabi Author and Arts Canada\, the Urdu Association of Vancouver\, the Writers’ Union o f Canada\, and Indians Abroad for a Pluralist India. Gurpreet Singh (journa list\, editor of Radical Desi\, and host on Spice Radio) and Nadeem Parmar (author and community historian) spoke eloquently about Rampuri’s work and contribution\, and five former and current Punjabi language\, culture\, and history students read poetry by Mr. Rampuri. Mr Rampuri’s family was in at tendance to share in the memorial program.
In addition to awarding prizes to students from UBC\, Dashmesh Punjabi Sch ool Abbotsford\, and Khalsa School Mission who won a Punjabi language essay contest\, UBC awarded Punjabi-language writer Jogindar Shamsher with a lif etime achievement award. Shamsher is an author of both prose and poetry\, a nd a translator. He has been active in Punjabi letters for seventy-five yea rs. His first book\, published in 1943\, was a biography of the Ghadar revo lutionary activist\, Baba Harnam Singh Kala Sanghia. He has til now written approximately one dozen books. The names of some of his books are: Fro m London to Delhi by Car (A Travelogue)\, Martyrs of Lond on\, Punjabi Lives and Literature in Britain\, Punjab in 1919 (A history)\, Overtime People\, The Letters of Faiz Ahmed Faiz to Begum Sarfraz Iqbal (A translation).
The highli ght of the evening\, as always\, was the performances by UBC Punjabi langua ge students\, under the careful direction of UBC's Punjabi Language Instruc tor\, Sukhwant Hundal. Students created short skits that addressed issues o f importance in the Punjabi Canadian community\, and particularly for young people: such as son preference\, the valorization of fair skin\, and the n eed to accept children's diverse interests -- not just in science!
As UBC Professor Anne Murphy no ted at the program\, Punjabi language and literature have created a family at UBC\, made up of all the people at UBC who learn Punjabi and read Punjab i literature. That family had a wonderful time together on March 14\, celeb rating the people and words that make the life of Punjabi in BC so rich.
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The Tenth Annual Harjit Kaur S idhu Memorial Program was held 2-4 March 2018. It was held at a la rger scale than usual this year with the support of additional partners: th e Dean of Arts Office\, the Centre for India and South Asia Research\, the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies\, the Department of Theatre and F ilm at UBC\, & the Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation/Gursharan Singh Memorial Lect ure. The three day program\, organized by Anne Murphy\, Sukhwant Hundal and Sarbjit Randhawa\, hosted Gurvinder Singh\, award-winning Punjabi-language filmmaker\, for a series of film screenings and conversations. The first s creening took place at UBC West Point Grey\, with a screening of the film " Awaazaan" (2016) about UK-based Punjabi language poet\, Amarjit Chandan. Th is was attended by a community audience as well as attendees at a conferenc e organized by the Centre for India and South Asia Research\, the South Asi a Conference of the Pacific Northwest\, 2-3 March 2018. On Saturday\, March 3\, we held a screening at UBC Robson Square of the film "Anhe Godhe da Da an (Alms for a blind horse)" (2011)\, which portrays caste and class margin alization in the Indian Punjab today. The film featured a good showing of s tudents\, film buffs\, and those interested in the content of the film\, in cluding Jai Birdi of the Chetna Association.
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On Sunday\, we had our main event in Surrey\, where we awarded Inde rjeet Kaur Sidhu\, a local Punjabi language author\, with a lifetime achiev ement award\, and gave awards to students in our annual essay contest. Stud ents from Dasmesh School Abbotsford\, Khalsa Secondary School\, and UBC par ticipated. At that event\, we screened "Chauthi Koot\, (Fourth Direction)" (2015) a haunting film that explores the violence of 1984 for individuals a nd families in the Indian Punjab. The University of Toronto also supported these events in part\, because they held a screening of the latter film in Toronto\, after the events here came to an end.
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May 13th\, 2017\, at the North Delta Sec ondary School
In 2017\, we welcomed Samuel John\, award-winning actor and theatre activist\, back to UBC to perform for the public. Hundreds of Punjabi language enthusiasts gathered in North Delta to watch Mr. John’s pe rformance\, in collaboration with Rangmanch Punjabi Theatre\, of two works in Punjabi: “Dulatti” (The Hidden Power) and “Ghasea Hoea Aadmi” (Worn Out Man). In keeping with the Sidhu Program tradition\, we honoured a local Pun jabi writer at the event\, as well as student winners of a Punjabi language essay contest. This year’s winner of the lifetime achievement award for a BC-based Punjabi writer was Nadeem Parmar\, a local writer and community hi storian.
Mr. John was also a key part of a theatrical workshop held p rior to the Sidhu program at UBC entitled “Luna’s Voice: Restaging a tradit ional Punjabi narrative in the Lower Mainland\,” which was funded by an Art s-based Workshop grant from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies a t UBC. The workshop made it possible to bring together Mr. John\, Sohil Bha tia (a performance artist based in New Delhi)\, and BC-based Punjabi langua ge and/or Punjabi culture based theatre artists to explore ways of reimagin ing a traditional Punjabi narrative in British Columbia\, building on prior reimaginations of the narrative in Punjabi literature.
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March 16th\, 2016\, at the Asian Centre\, UBC
This year the UBC community gathered to hear a short talk on the early twentieth century revolutionary Ghadar movement\, which sought to establish a free and secul ar India and an end to British colonial rule\, by Sunit Singh (University o f Chicago)\; present awards to student winners in a Punjabi-language essay contest\; honour BC-based Punjabi-language author Jarnail Singh Sekha with a life-time achievement award\; and view performances in Punjabi by student s in Punjabi 200 and films by students from ASIA 475\, “Documenting Punjabi Canada.” The event was well attended by students and members of the commun ity. Dr. Singh also gave a separate scholarly talk entitled "Western Clario n: Canadian Socialists and Indian Migration to British Columbia" in the Dep artment of Asian Studies\, which was also well attended by faculty and stud ents.
March 17\, 2016\, at the Asia n Centre\, UBC
with Sunit Singh (University of Chicago).
Around 1905\, British Indian subjects\, primarily Sikhs from the Punjab\, started to venture to the western shores of Canada and the United States in search of employment. At first\, Indian labor was absorbed in British Columbia\, as was that of the Chinese and Japanese. Yet a forceful backlash after 1907 interrupted their welcome\, when a deepening economic crisis fanned anti-A sian and anti-Indian sentiments\, and established unions attempted to stem the “Tide of Turbans.” The backlash coincided with the emergence of a new s pirit in the electoral life of British Columbia—the socialist party. And th ough generally ostracized by the unions\, a small but influential group of these Indians migrants made inroads with the Canadian Socialist Party\, whi ch\, after some hesitation\, took up their cause. The object of this talk i s to unpack how the Canadian left and the Indians themselves understood the exigencies of the labour market and the relationship of race and imperial subjecthood.
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The 2015 program feat ured a presentation by Punjabi actor and activist Samuel John\, in dialogue with Margo Kane (Cree/Saulteaux)\, an interdisciplinary performing artist and founder of the Talking Stick Festival for First Nations Performing Arts .
Samuel John uses his theatre not to make money but to spread social awareness among his audiences. His plays deal with the daily experiences o f dalits\, small farmers and other marginalized people of Punjab\, dealing with caste discrimination\, the boycott of dalits in villages of Punjab\, a nd the suicides of indebted small farmers. Mr. John has also appeared in th ree Punjabi films – Mitti\, Aatoo Khoji and Anneh Ghore Da Daan (Alms for a Blind Horse). The last film won multiple awards at the 59th National Film Awards in India.
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s Theatre at UBC on Thursday March 5\, 2015\, the Sidhu program for 2015 wa
s presented in partnership with the Hari Sharma Foundation/Gursharan Singh
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ved the writer's award for this year\, in honour of his tremendous contribu
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May 1st\ , 2014\, at Centre Stage\, New Surrey City Hall
Our 2014 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program featured “An evening with Ali Kazimi and the film “C ontinuous Journey” (2004)” at the New Surrey City Hall on Thursday May 1\, 2014. The event featured a conversation with the filmmaker Ali Kazi mi and screening of his 2004 documentary\, “Continuous Jou rney”\, which explores the history of the Komagata Maru ‘incident’ of 1914\, when a ship carrying over 350 would-be immigrants from South As ia was turned away from Vancouver. It represented a partnership with the Ko magata Maru Heritage Foundation\, Surrey Art Gallery\, and Surrey Civic The atres\, as a part of a major region-wide commemoration of the centenary of the Komagata Maru incident in the summer of 2014. It also formed the openin g component of our Komagata Maru Project\, which was comprised of a s eries of theatr ical productions (May 3-4 2014 at UBC and May 9 in Surrey) of Canadian plays in Punjabi and English about the Komagata Maru incident\, and a relat ed symposium on thea tre and the postcolonial at UBC (May 3 2014).
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May 3rd\, 2014 \, at St. John's College\, UBC
A symposium associated with the theatr ical and scholarly program "Performing the Komagata Maru: Theatre and the W ork of Memory." Featured a panel discussion by the playwrights of the plays included in the program (Sadhu Binning\, Sukhwant Hundal\, Sharon Pollock\ , Ajmer Rode)\, talks by Rahul Varma (playwright and founder of Teesri D uniya Theatre or "Third World Theatre")\, Nandi Bhatia (University of W estern Ontario)\, and filmmaker and York University Professor Ali Kazimi. W e commenced with a key-note address by Professor of English at Panjab Unive rsity\, Chandigarh and well-known translator of modern Punjabi literature\, Rana Nayar.
May 3rd & 4th\, 2014\,
at the Frederic Wood Theatre\, UBC
May 9th\, 2014\, at the Surrey Art
s Centre
This performance event explored three plays written about th e Komagata Maru incident by Canadian authors: Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hu ndal’s “Sumundari Sher nal Takar” (in Punjabi)\, Sharon Pollock’s “The Koma gata Maru Incident” (in English)\, and Ajmer Rode’s “Kamagata Maru” (in Pun jabi). We developed a single program that integrated sections of the three plays to explore how and why we remember the Komagata Maru\, and how the cr eative arts augment and enhance the traditional historical archive. Student s in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC performed short selections f rom Pollock’s play\; members of the theatre group “Rangmanch Punjabi Theatr e” performed selections from the two Punjabi plays. The event was entirely bilingual through the use of Surtitling\, and sets for the production were produced by students from Srishti School of Art\, Design\, and Technology i n Bangalore in association with artist and Rangmanch Punjabi Theatre member\, Raghavendra Rao K.V.
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March 7th\, 2013 at the Fred eric Wood Theatre\, UBC
with Guriqbal Singh Sahota\, University of Ca lifornia\, Santa Cruz
In 2013\, we invited Guriqbal Singh Sahota\, no w Associate Professor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sahota spoke about how Rajinder Singh Bedi’s literary and filmic oeuvre captured t he conflicting imperatives of a decolonizing society\, on the one hand\, an d customary gender relations in the domestic sphere\, on the other. Profess or Sahota addressed the following questions: How did the domestic sphere be gin to figure as a formidable challenge for radical politics for the genera tion that came of age in decolonization? What moral shape did those conflic ts take in Bedi’s work? To what extent do India’s contemporary debates aro und the question of gender reflect the unresolved and muted struggles of an earlier postcolonial moment? What did Bedi’s status as a member of the Sik h minority have to do with his articulation of widely popular treatments of these themes over the course of his career?
Prominent poet\, playwri ght\, and critic Ajmer Rode received the Writer's Award for his overall con tribution to Punjabi literature.
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Nikky-G uninder Kaur Singh joined us in 2012 in association with her new book\, Of Sacred and Secular Desire (I.B. Tauris\, 2012)\, which explores in an introductory fashion key texts of Punjabi literature\; it represents on e of the first popularly-oriented secondary works on Punjabi literature in English. Kaur Singh delighted a large audience at UBC's Asian Centre with a deep exploration of major figures from the Punjabi literary canon\, modern and early modern. The Writer/Book Award was granted to 2012 Dr. Sadhu Sing h\, for his book paṅjābī bolī dī virāsat\, “The legacy of the Punj abi language.”
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In 2011\, our guest was Arvind-pal Singh Mandair of the University of Michigan\, whose presentation focused on the secular commitments of modern Punjabi literature\, with the suggestion that the religious/secular binary --which is so central to the imaginary that has fed modern Punjabi literatu re--itself does violence to the ethos of Punjabi literature overall\, which exceeds such a distinction. The enforcement of this distinction ends only in alienating the religious\, he argued\, setting up false opposition betwe en religious and secular modes of being. This year the Writer/Book Award wa s granted to 2011 renowned playwright Ravinder Ravi\, for lifetime achievem ent.
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In 2010\, we welcomed Farina Mir of the University of Michigan\, whose book The Social Space of Language (2010) beau tifully details the ways that the Punjabi language thrived in the colonial period outside of direct patronage of the state. This work provide s a powerful portrait of how Punjabi flourished in the colonial period\, dr awing on traditional early modern narrative and poetic forms. Her research counters the preoccupation that has held in scholarship with reformist and religiously agonistic literature\, to reveal the shared literary and cultur al ethos among Punjabis of diverse religious backgrounds. The Writer/Book A ward was granted in 2010 to Sohan Singh Punni\, for his book kaneḍā de gadarī yodhe\, “Canada’s revolutionary fighters”
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We opened our program in 2009 with Alyssa Ayres (Ph.D. University of Chicago) who is now with the Council on F oreign Relations and formally the US State Department\, who spoke on "Punja biyat"--or\, a Punjabi cultural and literary ethos--in Pakistan. She argued cogently that advocacy that is visible in Pakistan for the Punjabi languag e demonstrates a need for a reconfiguration of the generally accepted schol arly formulation of the direct relationship between state formation and lan guage politics. The first recipient of our Writer/Book Award was granted in 2009 to Gurcharan Rampuri for his lifetime achievement in Punjabi letters.
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Speaker: Dr. Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani\, Associate
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Please note that these weekly sessions have been moved to online via Zoom\, but otherwise details remain the same ! Please email either charles.li@ubc.ca< /a> or sonam.chusang@ubc.ca if yo u would like to join.
Learning about ASIA courses? Thinking abou t majoring in Asian Studies? UBC Department of Asian Studies is planning to host a webinar in June that answers your questions!
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Dr. Simon Shen 沈旭暉
博士
via Zoom
A City in Protest event
Registration required
The recent decision by the government t o arrest fifteen prominent pro-democracy leaders is a clear reminder that\, despite Covid-19\, political turmoil in Hong Kong is ongoing. While much o f the action has taken place in situ\, a notable feature of the pr otests in the Special Administrative Region has been the active participati on and support of overseas Hong Kongers\, many of whom have organized ralli es\, petitioned the governments of their adopted countries\, and provided b oth moral and material support to the protestors. But who are these oversea s Hong Kongers? Is it useful to think of them as a “diaspora”? And to what extent could they be considered a (political) force? Perhaps most important \, as the city seems to be stuck in a stalemate\, what roles could overseas Hong Kongers play in the future of Hong Kong?
Dr. Simon Shen 沈旭暉 (B.A.\, M.A.\, Yale University\; D. Phil.\, University of Oxf ord) is a scholar of international relations\, an entrepreneur\, and a publ ic intellectual. Prior to entering the business world\, Dr. Shen had taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong\, the Education University of Hong Kong\, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\, the University of H ong Kong\, among others\, and he had served as a part-time member of the Ce ntral Policy Unit of the Hong Kong SAR Government. Dr. Shen has contributed frequently to local and international media and has maintained a personal Facebook page with more than 250\,000 followers.
This seminar is organized by the UBC Hong Kong Studies I nitiative and is co-sponsored by: Department of Asian Studies\, D epartment of History\, Centre for Chinese Research\, and Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society.
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Program in Cantonese
Included as pa rt of the 25th Festival Accès Asie\, the MVOH Anti-COVID-19 Cantonese Opera Benefit Concert will be live streamed from Hong Kong to the delight of fan s around the world in four parts.
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SUMMARY: [Roundtable] National Security (Law) in Hong Kong: An Assessment
DESCRIPTION: Roundtable Wednesday\, 10 June 2020\, 19:00 (Pacific Daylight
Time) National Security (Law) in Hong Kong: An Assessment via Zoom A City i
n Protest event Registration required (by noon\, Tuesday\, June 9) Panelist
s: Albert Hung-yee Chen\, University of Hong Kong Wilson Leung\, Temple Cha
mbers Jie Cheng\, University of British Columbia Pitman Potter\, University
of British Columbia The decision by the National People’s Congress […]
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Roundtable
Wednesday\, 10 June 2020\, 19:00 (Pacific Dayligh
t Time)
National Security (Law) in Hong Kong: An Assessme
nt
via Zoom
A City in Protest event
Registration required (by noon\, Tuesday\, June 9)
Panelists:
Albert Hung-y
ee Chen\, University of Hong Kong
Wilson Leu
ng\, Temple Chambers
Jie Cheng\,
Pitman Potter\,
University of British Columbia
The decision by the National People’s Congress to introduce a national security law in Hong Kong has ge nerated strong reactions both within the special administrative region and far beyond. Why is the proposed law deemed necessary by some but viewed wit h deep concerns by others? How would the proposed law affect the ways of li fe of the people in Hong Kong? And how would the proposed law reconfigure H ong Kong’s long-standing status as an international hub? Finally\, what imp lications does the introduction of the proposed law have for countries such as Canada?
This roundtable is sponsored by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative< /a>\, the Department of Asian Studies\, the < a href="http://www.allard.ubc.ca/centre-asian-legal-studies" target="_blank " rel="noopener noreferrer" data-unsp-sanitized="clean">Centre for Asian Le gal Studies\, and the Centre for Chinese Resea rch of the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver.
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Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Please note the event has now taken place - thank you to all wh
o participated! You can watch the recording here:
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Details:
Planning to take Asian Studies courses? Interested in Asian St udies but not sure if you should major in it? The Department of Asian Studi es is excited to invite you to our first undergrad experience webinar! Cour se planning and trying to decide on a major or minor\, whilst also coping w ith the current pandemic is not easy\, so we've invited senior Asian Studie s students and alumni with diverse experiences to connect with and inspire current students. The webinar will feature a Q&A session where current stud ents can ask questions about majoring in Asian Studies\, Go Global experien ces in Asian countries\, and more!
Key Takeaways:
Kristy Lin\, 4th year Asian Area Studies \, minor in Asian Canadian Migration\, focus on East Asian popular culture and films
Hel
lo everyone! My name is Kristy and I am a second generation Chinese Canadia
n from Vancouver. I am currently in 4th year majoring in Asian Area Studies
with a minor in Asian Canadian Migration (ACAM). Growing up here in Vancou
ver\, I've experienced a fairly unique mix of both Asian and Western cultur
al influences\, and so the topics of identity and more importantly cultural
identity/identities are very important to me. I think that we are very luc
ky that UBC has such a great department for Asian Studies and allowed me to
pursue less traditional topics such as East Asian popular culture and film
s. After graduation\, I hope to travel across Asia with plans to teach Engl
ish in Korea and Japan.
H arsimran Sachdeva\, 4th year Asian Language and Culture\, specializing in S outh Asia history and languages
Aaron Throness\, 4th year Asian Area Studies\, specializing in Late Imperial China
Erin Wu is a third ye
ar Political Science student whose major focus is on Asian politics. Erin s
tudies advanced level of Japanese and has worked as a full-time teaching as
sistant in the Japanese Language Department for 2 years. Erin competed and
was awarded third prize at the Advanced Level in the 30th Canada National J
apanese Speech Contest in 2019. She also achieved first place in the catego
ry of University Open at the 32nd Annual BC Japanese Speech contest in 2020
. Erin’s goal is to combine the language skills she has learnt in the facul
ty of Asian Studies along with her experience in Political Science studies
to devote herself into cultural exchange industries to help improve the Jap
an-China relationship.
Thank you to
everyone who attended! This webinar is now complete\, but you can access t
he full recording her
e.
Also\, check out t his amazing visual map of everything that was discussed\, created by one of our participants!
Date: Thursd ay\, July 30th
Time: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
L ocation: Online via Collaborate Ultra
RSVP: Via the below form by 5pm Vancouver time\, Thursday July 23rd\, 2020
Details:
Korea is an incredible country with an immense history\, delicious food\, and thriving pop culture scene. It's no wonder it's one of the most popular tourist destinations\, and that Korean is rapidly rising as an extremely beneficial language to learn and speak. UBC Asian Studies offers Korean language courses\, so whether you are a) ev en remotely planning to learn Korean in the future\, b) already studying/sp eaking Korean\, and wondering where it might take you in the future\, or c) thinking about a student exchange to Korea\, at a time when it is safe to do so again...this webinar is for you!
Join Eurie Shin (UBC Lecturer\, Korean Language) and Sophie Rock (4th year International Relati ons student minoring in Korean Language and Culture\, and recently returned from a full-year Go Global exchange to Yonsei University\, South Korea) to hear all about this incredible language\, what it entails\, and what doors it may open for you. Bring your questions and we'll provide the answers!
Key Takeaways:
Eurie Shin\, UBC Lecturer\, Korean Language
Eurie Shin is a lecture r in Asian Studies. She received MA's from Yonsei University in Korea and U niversity of California at Berkeley\, and she has been teaching Korean at U BC since 2008. She is in charge of placement interviews\, and she is the co ntact person if you are interested in taking any Korean language courses at UBC.
Sophie Rock\, 4th year Interna
tional Relations student\, minoring in Korean Language and Culture
Sophie Rock is a 4th year International Relations student minoring i n Korean Language and Culture. She recently returned from a full-year excha nge with Go Global to Yonsei University\, in Seoul\, South Korea and will b e finishing her final year of university at UBC.
Read a little about Sophie's recent Korean exchange here!
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CATEGORIES:Featured Homepage,Featured Korean URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/koreanlanguagetalk/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/07/2020S-Korean-Webinar-2x1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200808T0839Z-1596875988.1412-EO-49086-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200807T190020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200831T180858Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200827T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200827T180000 SUMMARY: Career Insights: Uncovering Journalism in Asia DESCRIPTION: Thank you to everyone who attended! You can now access the ful l recording of this webinar on YouTube here. Date: Thursday\, August 27 Tim e: 5:00pm – 6:00pm Location: Online via Zoom RSVP: Via the below form Detai ls: A career in journalism is not for the faint-hearted…but then\, it never has been! Amidst the COV-ID pandemic […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Date: Th ursday\, August 27
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
RSVP: Via the below form
Details:
A career in journalism
is not for the faint-hearted...but then\, it never has been! Amidst the CO
V-ID pandemic and among a constantly changing media landscape of "fake news
" (and Facebook's recent detection of this)\, the 24-hour news cycle and so
cial media panics\, it's no wonder that the public continues to want to hea
r from reliable voices and sources. This is particularly important in Asia'
s thriving Hong Kong and Beijing cultural hubs\, where two of our panelists
live and work in the epicentre of global news\; and also in the USA and Va
ncouver\, where our other two panelists work in senior roles with two of th
e country's most prestigious and well-respected newspapers.
Key Takeaways:
Kathryn Gretsinger\, <
/b>Associate Professor of Teaching\, UBC Graduate School of Journalism
Kathryn is an associate professor of teaching at the School of Journalism\, Writing\, and Media. She is a long time public broadcaster at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\, with a record of creating award- winning work at the local and national level in Canada. Kathryn is also a K illam Teaching Prize winner and she was named as one of North America’s top innovative journalism educators in 2018.
Sher
isse Pham – Reporter\, CNN Hong Kong
Sherisse is a tech
and business reporter for CNN Business and CNN International in Hong Kong.
She is a recipient of the Royal Television Society's breaking news award fo
r CNN team coverage of the storming of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council by p
rotesters.
Prior to Hong Kong\, she was based in Washington\, D.C.\, w
here she was a general assignment weekend correspondent and digital produce
r. She also worked as a correspondent in London with CNN International\, co
vering the Syrian refugee crisis and other regional stories in Europe. She
was also part of a CNN team that received the Edward R. Murrow award for so
cial media coverage of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
She holds
degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a BA (
English Lit and Commerce) from the University of British Columbia.
Nath
an VanderKlippe - Reporter\, Globe & Mail Beijing
Nathan is the Globe and Mail’s Asia correspondent based in Beijing. His reporting takes him across Asia\, as he covers political developments\, social trend s\, international affairs\, refugee crises\, and natural disasters. He has served multiple terms on the board of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of C hina\, including as its president. Prior to joining the Globe in 2009\, he was a print and television correspondent in Western Canada based in Calgary \, Vancouver and Yellowknife. He has covered Canada's energy industry\, abo riginal issues and Canada’s north.
Emily Rauhala\, Staff Writer\, The Washi
ngton Post
Emily covers foreign affairs for the Washington Post. In a decade of reporting from East and Southeast Asia\, she covered China's ris e on the world stage and its authoritarian turn at home. In 2017\, she shar ed an Overseas Press Club award for a series about the Internet in China. H er work has also been recognised by the Human Rights Press Awards\, the Soc iety of Publishers in Asia and the International China Journalists Associat ion. She is a graduate of Queen's University\, the University of Toronto an d Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.
Joanna Chiu
– Senior Journalist\, Toronto Star
Joanna is a journalist for the To
ronto Star\, Canada’s highest-circulation newspaper\, and has previously se
rved as bureau chief and managing editor of the Star Vancouver. Her special
ty is in China-Canada relations as well as topics related to race and inequ
ality.
Joanna was previously based for seven years in China as a forei
gn correspondent. She reported for Agence France Presse (AFP)\, covering Ch
inese politics\, legal affairs and human rights issues for one of the world
’s biggest news operations.
She has also served as China and Mongolia
correspondent for the top German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur\, and
in Hong Kong\, she reported for the South China Morning Post\, The Economis
t and The Associated Press.
She is the founder and chair of NüVoices\,
a non-profit editorial collective which publishes and celebrates the work
of women and minorities working on China topics. She also received her unde
rgraduate degree in Honours History from the University of British Columbia
.
Where: Online\, register here.
Details: Remembering Inninimowin is a two-year long documentary film project on the personal journey of a Cree woman\, Ju les Arita Koostachin\, as she starts to remember her first language\, Innin imowin (Cree).
Remembering Inninimowin is Jules' first featu re documentary\, produced while she was in graduate school. Born in Moose F actory Ontario\, Jules was raised by her Cree speaking grandparents in Moos onee\, and also with her mother in Ottawa\, a warrior of the Canadian Resid ential school system. Jules is a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation\, the Ancestral lands of the MoshKeKo InNiNeWak. She currently resides in Va ncouver where she is a PhD candidate with GRSJ at the University of British Columbia\, and she will defend her thesis MooNaHaTihKaaSiWew: Unearthing S pirit in 2020.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/viewing-of-remembering-innin imowin-online-qa-with-director-jules-arita-koostachin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/08/Cree.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200910T1926Z-1599766018.9547-EO-49416-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200910T184745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200910T190956Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200917T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200917T170000 SUMMARY: MOA Visual + Material Culture Seminar Series: Utsukushiki Okori: S eeing Red in Ninagawa Mika’s Cinema of Extremes DESCRIPTION: Utsukushiki Okori: Seeing Red in Ninagawa Mika’s Cinema of Ext remes Museum Of Anthropology (MOA) Visual + Material Culture Seminar Series – Fall 2020 With Speaker Professor Colleen Laird (Assistant Professor of J apanese Film and Popular Culture\, Department of Asian Studies\, UBC) One o f Japan’s most celebrated commercial fashion photographers\, Ninagawa Mika is an acclaimed “girly” […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Museum Of Anthropology (MOA) Visual + Materia
l Culture Seminar Series – Fall 2020
With Speaker Pro
fessor Colleen Laird
(Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Popular
Culture\, Department of Asian Studies\, UBC)
One of Japan’s most celebrated commercial fashion photographers\, Ninagawa Mika is an acc laimed “girly” visual artist and a director of films\, music videos\, and a Netflix Original series. She is immensely popular\, particularly with fema le-identifying audiences. She features so-called “bad girl” protagonists an d recruits notoriously “bad girl” celebrities to craft a vision of extravag ance and a vision of extremes\, all largely draped in red\, which she deems to be “the colour of passion\, the colour of blood\, the colour of everyth ing.” This seminar invites you into Ninagawa’s extravagant\, scopophilic vi sual world\, one in which the act of looking is one of power\, one of passi on and desire\, one of projection\, reflection\, connection\, objectificati on\, and ustukushiki okori—“beautiful rage.”
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/utsukushiki-okori-seeing-red -in-ninagawa-mikas-cinema-of-extremes/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/09/VisualMaterialCultureSeminar-Fall2020-Sep-17_Laird-768x768-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200709T2305Z-1594335955.3754-EO-48388-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200709T183652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T180034Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200926T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20200926T170000 SUMMARY: Pondering Anti-Blackness in the Iranian Context: From Enslavement to the Present DESCRIPTION: Thinking about antiblackness in the Iranian context since ensl avement to the present allows us to become aware of how whiteness finds sup port for its violence against Black communities throughout the world and le aves us to ask ourselves\, how will we show up for Black lives? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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n]سخنران: دکتر اِیمی طحانی بیدمشکی، استادیار بخش انگلیسی، کالج شهر پاسادینا، کا لیفرنیا
این سخنرانی چند ماه پس از قتل جورج فلوید، سیاهپوست بیگناه آ مریکایی برگزار میشود؛ حادثهای که خشم تمام جهان از جمله ایرانیان را برانگی خت. به همین مناسبت، در این نشست سخنران به بررسی سیاهستیزی ایرانیان میپردا زد؛ از دوران بردهداری در ایران تا رفتارهای امروزی با جمعیت سیاهپوستان ایر ان.
The event recording is now available:
https://w
ww.youtube.com/watch?v=XfhKWMxy0Mg
On May 25\, 2020\, George Fl
oyd\, a 46-year-old unarmed Black man\, was murdered by law enforcement off
icers in Minneapolis\, Minnesota for allegedly using a counterfeit bill at
a grocery store. This particular incident spiked the rage of the entire wor
ld including the state of Iran and its citizenry. In this talk\, I will thi
nk through the long legacy of global antiblackness and its horrific history
of enslavement and genocide and discuss how Iran and Iranians (nationals a
nd those in diaspora) are active participants in the dehumanization of Blac
k peoples. While Iranians within Iran and throughout the world mourn the un
just murder of an innocent Black man\, most fail to acknowledge their own c
omplicity in antiblackness including the enslavement of Black Africans by P
ersian aristocrats in the last few centuries\, the current and continuous s
uppression of Iran's Black populations and their grievances\, and cultural
practices such as Haji Firuz. Thinking about antiblackness in the Iranian c
ontext since enslavement to the present allows us to become aware of how wh
iteness finds support for its violence against Black communities throughout
the world and leaves us to ask ourselves\, how will we show up for Black l
ives?
Dr. Amy Tahani-Bidmeshki teaches with an empha sis on the study of race\, sexuality\, class\, and gender within the larger context of American history and culture. Her teaching and research interes ts include Afro-pessimism\, critical theory\, anticolonialism\, internation alism\, psychoanalysis\, nationalism\, the literatures of revolutionary mov ements\, and resistance literature. In addition to working on the far-reach of Black radicalism in Southwest Asia and North Afrika\, she looks at Blac k masculinity and the long history of Black fatherhood in the United States . Her most recent publication "The Specter of Black Fatherhood in 12 Years a Slave" can be found in the fall 2019 issue of Rhizomes and "Queering the Iranian Nation" appears in Iran Namag on "Iranian Men and Masculinities" (3 .1\, spring 2018). She currently teaches in the English Division at Pasaden a City College in Pasadena\, California.
Date: Wednesday\, Septemb er 30th
Time: 10am Pacific Time
Locati on: Online via YouTube
RSVP: Not required - join here or search “Chinese Film Classics Love Eve rlasting” on YouTube
Details:
Please join us f or an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eileen Chang !
September 30\, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the b irth of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing 張愛玲\, 1920-1995)\, one of the most accla imed writers of the twentieth century. In celebration\, the Modern Chinese Cultural Studies YouTube channel is hostin g a special premiere of Professor Christopher Rea’s new translation of Chan g’s first produced film screenplay Love Everlasting 不了情 (1947). Starring Che n Yanyan and Liu Qiong\, the film dramatizes a story of love\, social press ure\, and a young woman in an impossible situation.
During the 93-min ute screening\, join Christopher Rea (UBC Profess or of Modern Chinese Literature) and Renren Yang (UBC Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Popular Culture) for a live chat (in the YouTube Premiere comments sidebar) about the film and its relations to literary and cinematic culture\, as well as to the life of Eileen Chang.
About the Film:
Yu Jiayin\, a young professiona l woman\, takes a job in Shanghai as the in-house tutor of an eight-year-ol d girl\, only to fall in love with the girl’s father\, Xia Zongyu–a married man. Jiayin’s good-for-nothing father arrives in town and starts trying to exploit the situation for his own benefit. Then Zongyu’s sickly wife arriv es from the countryside\, and Jiayin finds that an already compromising sit uation is becoming unbearable. What will she do?
Love Everlasting (als o known as Unending Love) was the first of several collaborations between Eileen Chang and director Sang Hu. Later in 1947\, for example\, Ch ang and Sang teamed up again on the film comedy Long Live the Missus! 太太萬歲 (1947) (featuring much of the same supporting cast)\; that year\, Chang also revised her “Unending Lo ve” screenplay into the story “How Much Regret” 多少恨\, which was published i n a magazine Sang edited.
Subtitles translated by Christopher Rea. Su btitles created by UBC PhD student Liu Yuqing.
< strong>About the Chinese Film Classics Project:
Love Everlasting is the twenty-first Republican-era film with new Eng lish subtitles added to the Chinese Film Classics YouTube playlist. Subscribe to the M odern Chinese Cultural Studies YouTube channel\, hosted by Christopher Rea\, for announcements and updates about new videos\, including a free onl ine course about early Chinese cinema\, which will go live this fall on the channel and on www.chinesefilm classics.org.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/eileen-chang-at-100/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-23-at-11.13.29-AM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200927T1402Z-1601215332.5102-EO-49510-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200918T221503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201120T205512Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201008T200000 SUMMARY: (Webinar)Chinese Language Talk: Immersing Yourself in the Mandarin Language – Thursday October 8\, 7:00pm PST DESCRIPTION: Date: Thursday\, October 8th Time: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Location: O nline via Zoom RSVP: Via the form by 5pm Vancouver time\, Monday October 5t h\, 2020 Thank you to all who attended this webinar! The presentation can b e viewed on YouTube here. Details: With thousands of years of continuous hi story\, China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Date: Thursday\, October 8th
Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: Online via Zoom
RSVP: Via the form by 5pm Van couver time\, Monday October 5th\, 2020
Thank you to all who attended this webinar! The presentation can be viewed on YouTube here.
Details:
W ith thousands of years of continuous history\, China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. The beauty of Hanzi 漢字\, the traditional form of Chin ese characters\, is worth preserving. The Chinese language is now one of th e most widely spoken languages in the world\, and we are seeing more eager language learners! Students will find that some of the benefits of learning Chinese includes work\, volunteer\, and travel opportunities where you wil l be able to utilize and improve your Chinese skills. Studying overseas wit h the Chinese language program may be one of the most memorable experiences you can have (when it is safe to go abroad again)\, creating new friendshi ps and learning the rich culture and traditions that go with it. Whether yo u are a beginner\, novice or even fluent in Mandarin\, UBC Asian Studies ha s Chinese language courses fit for your level\, offering both non-native an d native speakers courses. Even with remote learning\, you have the chance to use and improve your Mandarin skills through interactions with your cour ses\, peers and beyond.
Find out about even more exciting ways to lea rn Chinese such as the Chinese Speech Contest and going abroad with Li-jung Lee (UBC Visiting Lecturer\, Chinese Language)\, Jennifer Packet (BIE’19\, Senior Analyst at KPMG Canada) and Liam LaForce (Political Science/International Relation s student minoring in Chinese Language and Culture). Prepare any q uestions you have for our panelists and get ready to get motivated in learn ing Chinese!
Key Takeaways:
A
ydin Quach\, 3rd year\, Double majoring in Honours History with Internation
al Relations and Chinese Language and Culture
Aydin Qu
ach is a 3rd-year undergraduate student double majoring in Honours History
with International Relations and Chinese Language and Culture. He is also c
urrently a Teaching Assistant for the Chinese Language Program.
Born i
n Vancouver Canada\, his parents both come from overseas Chinese communitie
s in Southeast Asia (His father was born in Vietnam and his mother hails fr
om Brunei). At home\, he speaks Cantonese and Hakka -- minority dialects of
Chinese. Aydin’s areas of research is in global Chinese migrations. A core
leading question is: What does it mean to be Chinese? More broadly\, how d
o Overseas Chinese fit into the Chinese identity?
Li-jung Lee\, UBC Visiting Lecturer\, Chinese Language<
br />
Li- jung Lee is a visiting lecturer of Chinese and she is awarded "2019/20 Lecturer of the Year" in the Department of Asian Studies. She teaches non-h eritage Chinese and heritage Chinese courses. Before joining the Department of Asian Studies at UBC\, she taught Chinese at Wake Forest University in North Carolina\, USA\, and developed a new proficiency test and learning ma terials at the Division of Research and Development in the Steering Committ ee for the test of Proficiency – Huayu in Taiwan.
Li-Jung believes le arning should be meaningful and fun. It will help learners overcome their f rustrations and make them become life-long learners. For her\, the satisfac tion of teaching is that students immerse themselves in Chinese happily and share their ideas with people in Chinese confidently.
Je
nnifer Packet\, BIE'19\, Senior Analyst at KPMG Canada
Jennifer Packet gradu ated from UBC last year in International Economics. Jennifer is half Chines e and half Canadian\, and can speak Mandarin and Cantonese. She started lea rning Mandarin when she was 13\, and began taking Chinese classes with the UBC Chinese Language program since her first year of university\, and conti nued until graduation. Throughout her years at UBC\, Jennifer had the oppor tunity to intern in Hong Kong\, Shanghai and Shenzhen\, and took a Chinese Summer Langauge program at Peking University in Beijing. She also had the u nique experience of participating in the Chinese Bridge language proficienc y competition in Hunan last year. Since graduation\, Jennifer competed in t he Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant and was crowned the champion in December 2019. Currently\, Jennifer works at KPMG as a Global Transfer Pricing and E conomic Services specialist.
Check out Jennifer's story about her Chi nese language learning journey below!
http s://youtu.be/VLAwbj8lzU4
Liam LaForce\, 4th-year Political Sci
ence/International Relations student\, minoring in Chinese Language and Cul
ture
Liam LaForce is a 4th year student studying Political S cience/ International Relations with a minor in Asian Language and Culture with a focus in China. Liam has previous spent four months traveling and ea ting around China\, and most recently participated in the 2019 GoGlobal Pro gram Learning in a Living Classroom in Taiwan. After graduation\, Liam is p lanning to return to Taiwan through Taiwanese government programs to live a nd study for six to twelve months. Liam enjoys learning about new cultures through traveling and food.
Liam and Teacher Lee at a d inner during the Living Classroom in Taiwan (Go Global Program) in 2019
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/webinarchinese-language-talk / ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/09/2x1-Mandarin-Chinese-Language-talk-4.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200918T0920Z-1600420829.7516-EO-49483-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200915T184911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201025T233300Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201009T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201009T093000 SUMMARY: UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Lecture Series: Karma in Chinese Buddhist Hist oriography DESCRIPTION: Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz L ecture Series With Speaker John Kieschnick (Professor of Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University) Sponsors Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Budd hist Cultures\, FROGBEAR Project Why did Chinese Buddhist historians turn t o the doctrine of karma for explanation of historical causation and truths? Find out at “Karma in Chinese […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Lecture Series
With Speaker John Kieschnick
(Professor of Buddhist S
tudies\, Stanford University)
<
strong>Sponsors
Tianzhu Global Network for the Study of Buddhist Cultu
res\, FROGBEAR Project
Why did Chinese Buddhist historians t urn to the doctrine of karma for explanation of historical causation and tr uths? Find out at “Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography” with Dr. John Kieschnick\, on October 9\, 8 am PST. Open to public.
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to this event's success! You can read the full lecture report here\, and view the presentation recording on YouTube.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ubc-tianzhu-hurvitz-lecture- series-karma-in-chinese-buddhist-historiography/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/09/UBCTianzhuHurvitz.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200709T2303Z-1594335810.1735-EO-48389-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200709T183732Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T180156Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201017T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201017T120000 SUMMARY: No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965): From Speculative Fiction to Decolo nial Option DESCRIPTION: Studies of Anglophone literature\, or postcolonial writing in English\, are often limited to literatures of the Commonwealth and the form er colonies of the British Empire. Yet Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gun ga Din (1965)\, one of the few cases of Anglophone writing in Iran\, a nati on which – though never under formal colonial rule – has been deeply shaped by the discourse of colonial modernity. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:سخنران: دکتر امیرحسین وفا، استادیار ادبیات انگلیسی و ادبیات تطبیقی ، دانشگاه شیراز
مطالعات ادبیات انگلیسیزبان، یا نوشتههای پسااستعماری به زبان انگلیسی، اغلب به ادبیات کشورهای مشترکالمنافع و مستعمرات سابق امپر اتوری بریتانیا محدود میشود. در این سخنرانی کتاب «بهشتی برای گونگادین نیست» (۱۹۶۵) اثر علی میردریکوندی معرفی میشود. این کتاب یکی از معدود کتابهای دا ستانی ایران است که به زبان انگلیسی نوشته شده است. ایران اگرچه هرگز تحت حکوم ت استعماری رسمی نبوده است، عمیقاً تحت تأثیر گفتمان مدرنیتهٔ استعماری بوده ا ست.
The event recording is now available:
https://
youtu.be/Aj8bBpo3eyk
Presented in English with subtitles.
Studies of Anglophone literature\, or postcolonial writing in Engl
ish\, are often limited to literatures of the Commonwealth and the former c
olonies of the British Empire. Yet in this talk\, our presenter seeks to in
troduce Ali Mirdrekvandi’s No Heaven for Gunga Din (1965)\, one of
the few cases of Anglophone writing in Iran\, a nation which – though neve
r under formal colonial rule – has been deeply shaped by the discourse of c
olonial modernity.
Ali Mirdrekvandi (1916–1964) was a rural labourer from the western region of Lorestan\, who escaped the famine that struck ru ral Iran in the aftermath of the First World War\, and arrived in Tehran du ring the Allied occupation of the city in WWII. Finding a job as a servant to a regiment of British and American troops\, Mirdrekvandi grew an interes t in English\, and finished the manuscript of a novel which was posthumousl y published in London: No Heaven for Gunga Din is an allegorical speculatio n over the imagined aftermath of World War III in the distant future. The p rotagonist\, an Iranian servant named after Rudyard Kipling’s famed Gunga D in\, accompanies a regiment of Anglo-American soldiers towards Heaven acros s the Milky Way Galaxy! Mirdrekvandi’s cosmic journey\, in search of “an-ot her order of thinking” (a concept borrowed from Walter D. Mignolo) does pro vide a decolonial option to recast contemporary Iranian history\, and its p roblematic sense of worldliness since the advent of colonial modernity.
Amirhossein Vafa is an Assistant Professor of English a nd Comparative Literature at Shiraz University\, and the author of Recastin g American and Persian Literatures (Palgrave\, 2016). Amirhossein’s recent research has been twofold\, but intertwined: To read English Literature as a non-European participant in Anglophone literary studies\, and to decoloni ze the Canon of modern Persian/Iranian literature to unlearn & recast the m odern/colonial history of the Middle East region.
Hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Kore a in Toronto (Korean Education Centre in Canada)
In Partnership with the Centre for the Study of K
orea of the University of Toronto
The Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto (Korean Ed ucation Centre in Canada) will host 2020 Quiz on Korea\, an online quiz eve nt on Saturday\, Oct. 24\, 2020 at 2-4pm (EDT) [11am-1pm (PDT)] in partners hip with the Centre for the Study of Korea of the University of Toronto.
The Quiz on Korea is a participatory quiz contest for non-Koreans who s tudy Korean language in Canada to enhance their interest in and knowledge o n Korea and Korean culture.
Eligibility:
- Any non-Korean who is 18 years or older (as of Oct. 24\, 2020)
- P articipants and their immediate families are NOT of Korean nationality or e thnicity (i.e. EXCLUDING overseas Koreans and immediate family members who are Koreans)
- Those who can speak both English and Korean (Most ques tions are English multiple choices but some are Korean multiple choices)
Prizes for the winners:
- 1st place: CAD 500 / 2nd place: CAD 400 / 3rd place: CAD 300 /
- 4th place: CAD 200 / 5th place: CAD 100
- 6th - 50th place: $25 Amazon online gift card
- 51st - 100th place: $10 Tim Hortons online gift ca rd
- Special prize winners: Korea Tourism Organization or Nongshim sp onsored gift
*Only residents of Canada will be eligible to receive 1< sup>st - 5th place & special prizes.
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The online application is available until
(Ther e are only 250 seats available\, and once all the seats are filled\, the re gistration will close early)
Online Application for Quiz on Kore a @ eventbrite.ca
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- Please parti
cipate under nick name within 8 characters + last 4 digit # of eventbrite o
rder # (ex. if your order # is 0123456789\, make a nick name such as “bangt
an 6789”) as the contestants’ face will be exposed to zoom screen.
(Pl
ease take note that your application will be regarded as agreement with suc
h exposure)
We hope that Quiz on Korea will provide opportuni ties for Canadians learning Korean to demonstrate their Korean proficiency and further understand Korea and Korean culture.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Korean URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2020-quiz-on-korea/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/10/banner-quizonkorea1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200929T2332Z-1601422371.2809-EO-49576-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200929T230727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201029T031734Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201028T180000 SUMMARY: Confronting Racism in Japanese Language Education presented by Dr. Ryuko Kubota DESCRIPTION: Confronting Racism in Japanese Language Education 人種差別に立ち向かう日本 語教育 Lecture in English and discussion with Dr. Ryuko Kubota (Department of Language and Literacy Education\, Faculty of Education) Antiracism has rece ntly become a prominent topic for discussion\, offering critical reflection s on language education. This talk will focus on Japanese language teaching and learning and explore the concept of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Lecture in English and discussion with Dr. Ryuk
o Kubota
(Department of Language and Literacy Educat
ion\, Faculty of Education)
Antiracism has recently be come a prominent topic for discussion\, offering critical reflections on la nguage education. This talk will focus on Japanese language teaching and le arning and explore the concept of race\, different types of racism\, inters ectionality involving race\, gender\, language\, and other social identitie s\, and possibilities for antiracist engagement. The presentation and discu ssion will be conducted in English.
Thank you to all who attended this webinar! The presentation can be v
iewed on YouTube here.
Dr. Ryuko Kubota is a Professor in the Department of Language
and Literacy Education\, Faculty of Education. Her teaching and research dr
aw on critical approaches to second language education\, focusing on race\,
gender\, culture\, language policies\, and language ideologies. Previously
\, she has taught Japanese at UBC\, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill\, and Monterey Institute for International Studies.
https://youtu
.be/unatailMB_Y
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/confronting-racism-in-japane se-language-education/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/10/DrRyukoKubota_newsletter-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20200709T2314Z-1594336488.767-EO-48390-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20200709T183907Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T180326Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20201031T170000 SUMMARY: The Poetics and Politics of Representation: A Comparative Study of ‘Simurgh’ in Four Royal Manuscripts of the Shahnama DESCRIPTION: The fantastic Simurgh\, the mythical bird of ancient Persia\, has maintained a significant presence in Persian culture. The visual and te xtual references to this bird manifest a mysterious and complex symbolism s haped around this super-natural creature in Persian literary sources. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]س خنران: دکتر بهرنگ نبوینژاد، مدرس تاریخ هنر، کالج کلمبیا، ونکوور
سیمرغ، پرندهٔ اسطورهای ایران باستان، جایگاه ویژهای در ادب و فرهنگ ای رانی دارد. ارجاعات بصری و متنی به این پرنده، نمادگرایی مرموز و پیچیدهای را پیرامون این موجود افسانهای در منابع ادبی فارسی شکل میدهد. در این نشست سخ نران با بررسی دقیق بازنماییهای مصور سیمرغ در چهار نسخهٔ خطی سلطنتی شاهنامه ، به مفاهیم ایدئولوژیک پنهان در این بازنماییها میپردازد.
The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/jeDnKFLOZko<
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The fantastic Simurgh\, the mythical bird of ancient Persia\, h
as maintained a significant presence in Persian culture. The visual and tex
tual references to this bird manifest a mysterious and complex symbolism sh
aped around this super-natural creature in Persian literary sources. The Si
murgh evolves from a myth\, to the symbol of royalty\, to the guardian of P
ersian kingdom\, and finally to represent the Divine. This promotion and tr
ansformation are facilitated through the idea of divine protection and king
ship inherited from ancient Persia\, transforming the representations of th
e Simurgh into powerful images. The intertextual analysis of the Avestan an
d Pahlavi references to the Simurgh\, and their comparison with the charact
eristics of the Simurgh in the Shāhnāma\, has allowed me to trace the amalg
amation of these sources in the Persian national epics. Through a process o
f literary creativity\, Firdausi combines the characteristics of the two my
thical birds\, Saēna and Vāreghna\, to shape the Simurgh in the Shāhnāma. I
n the light of these sources\, the representations of the Simurgh are conte
xtualized in this study. Through a close examination of the representations
of the fantastic bird in the illustrative program of four royal manuscript
s of the Shāhnāma\, I argue for an ideologically charged nature for the rep
resentations of this bird in these manuscripts. These manuscripts comprise
those produced for the Timurid prince\, Muhammad Juki (1444-45)\, and the t
hree Safavid kings\, including Shah Tahmasp (1522-35)\, Shah Ismaʿil II (15
76-77)\, and Shah ʿAbbas I (1587-97). Thus\, our presenter suggests that th
e presence of the royal\, divine\, and Iranian glory (farr-i īzadī\, farr-i
Īrānī)\, sought for by both rulers and individuals (in this case\, the art
ists of the paintings discussed) in the Persian system of thought\, charges
the representations of the Simurgh in these illustrated manuscripts of the
Shāhnāma produced between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries.
Although this study deals with literary sources\, both in the Avestan a nd Pahlavi languages and Classical Persian literature\, this talk and prese ntation can be altered to focus on the Shāhnāma as a narrative text\, thus becomes accessible and appealing to a wider audience. The extensive examina tion of illustrated pages of the Shāhnāma through the presentation will fur ther assist its perception by the public.
Dr. Behrang Nabavi Nejad received her PhD in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria (2017) where she has taught courses on Islamic art a nd architecture as a sessional instructor. She holds a Master’s degree from the department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations\, the University o f Toronto (2009)\, and a Master’s in History of Art from Bangalore Universi ty\, India (2000). She is currently teaching courses on various aspects of art history including Canadian contemporary art at the Columbia College\, V ancouver. She has joined the Centre of Comparative Muslim Studies\, Simon F raser University as a research associate in June 2019. Her doctoral researc h examines the illustrations of royal manuscripts of the Persian national e pics\, the Shāhnāma through an intertextual analysis of the pre-Islamic wri tten sources and contemporary historiographies. Her research proposes three distinctive iconographic categories for the representations of the mythica l bird\, the Sīmurgh in Persian painting. Behrang is currently preparing he r doctoral thesis for publication. She published the second edition of the ARTiculate\, as the editor in chief.
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]سخنران: دکتر کلودیا یعقوبی، دانشیار مطالعات فارسی، مؤسسه روشن، دانشگاه کارولینای شمالی در چپل هیل
در این نشست به بررسی چگونی بازنمایی صیغه در ادبیات دورهٔ پهلوی و همچنین دو اثر سینمایی پس از انقلاب اسلامی پرداخته میشود. ازدواج موقت علیرغم مشروع و قانونی بودن در ایران، برای زن و مردی که وارد چنین رابطهای میشوند، و علی الخصوص برای زن نوعی انگ اجتماعی به دنبال دارد. با نگاه به این موضوع در چارچ وب نابرابری و تفکیک جنسیتی، سخنران ازدواج موقت را در دوگانههایی چون تسلیم و مقاومت، تجاوز و تبعیت و موانع و احتمالات بررسی میکند.
The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/SrC-rd-mcGk
In this talk\, analyzing the representation of sigheh (temporary
marriage) women literature of the Pahlavi era (1924-1979) and two cinematic
works produced after the Islamic Revolution (1979-)\, I will argue that th
ese cultural productions reflect the manner in which the practice of sigheh
impacts women by calling into question how sexuality works as a form of po
litical analysis and power. However\, I will also move beyond the literary
and cinematic realms and examine in-depth a rather controversial social ins
titution which has been the subject of disdain for many Iranian feminists a
nd captured the imagination of many Western observers. Despite their legali
ty and legitimization\, sigheh marriages carry a social stigma that marks t
he couple\, particularly the woman\, who enter such marriages. Seen within
the context of gender inequity and segregation\, I situate temporary marria
ge at the intersection of submission and resistance\, transgression and com
pliance\, obstacles and possibilities. The literature and films of modern I
ran manifest the female body as the locus for socio-cultural policing – a s
ite of social inscriptions\, both subordinate and passive. I will illuminat
e how the female body is produced through an interaction of disciplinary in
stitutions and governments within a patriarchal system that inscribes socio
cultural codes and power structures on the female body. Nonetheless\, while
the female body is an embodiment of sociocultural\, political\, and histor
ical possibilities that are part of the regulatory discourse of the larger
power structure\, I will also highlight the fact that the female body has a
gency. Despite the fact that female sigheh characters are portrayed as invi
sible\, liminal\, vulnerable\, and often stigmatized\, they are simultaneou
sly depicted as exercising a certain power by occupying a significant space
in the social imaginary of the dominant Iranian culture. It is through thi
s dual position that they disrupt the standard narratives about Iranian wom
en and their sexuality. Sigheh women pose threats to the status quo\, hold
power over men\, and create anxiety over male sexuality in Iranian society
even while they themselves are marginalized and subject to violence.
Claudia Yaghoobi is a Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. She is the author of the following books: Subjectivity in ‘Attar\, Persian Sufi sm\, and European Mysticism (Purdue UP 2017) and Temporary marriage in Iran : Gender and Body Politics in Modern Iranian Film and Literature (Cambridge UP 2020)\; and co-editor of the book series\, Sex\, Family and Culture in the Middle East (with Janet Afary) and winner of the Hammed Shahidian Criti cal Feminist prize\, awarded by the Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation in 2 014.
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]سخنران: دکتر راستین مهری، مدرس در موسسه آموزش زب ان دانشگاه سايمون فريزر
آموزش محتوای تاریخی مرتبط، جذاب و قابلفهم بر ای زبانآموزان موضوعی است که محققان مطالعات اجتماعی کمتر به آن پرداختهاند. سخنرانی حاضر به این مسئله میپردازد که آشنایی با فارسی میانه چگونه بسیاری از جنبههای پیچیدهٔ نهفته در دستور زبان و املای فارسی امروز را روشن میکند و در آموزش زبان فارسی بهعنوان زبان دوم، چه در سطوح پایه و چه در سطوح عالی، میتواند مؤثر باشد.
The event recording is now availab
le:
https://youtu.be/ITGHSTMp_SY
Teaching historical conte
nt that is relevant\, engaging\, and accessible for students of Language is
something that social studies scholars have scarcely investigated. The pre
sent article reveals how knowledge of Middle Persian illuminates many compl
ex aspects inherent in both the grammar and orthography of Modern Persian/F
ārsī and particularly in teaching them as a second language. This presentat
ion will maintain that a cogent knowledge of Middle Persian is in fact cruc
ial in understanding many aspects of Modern Persian grammar\, both basic an
d higher level\; and that it enable scholars\, teachers and educators obtai
n a clarity on how to best teach the growing and diverse population of stud
ents of Persian Language in schools and universities across North America.<
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Rastin Mehri obtained his Ph. D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies\, in the University of London\, U.K.\, and hol ds a B.F.A.\, B.A. and an M.A. from the University of British Columbia in V ancouver\, Canada. His research interests include the history\, literature and social situation of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Diaspora in Brit ish Columbia\, Canada. He has taught courses in Arabic\, Middle Persian and Persian as term-lecturer at SFU\, and as a guest-lecturer in UBC.
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سخنران: دکتر مریم زهتابی ثابتی مقدم، دانشگاه ماساچوست در امهرست
در ایران، با توجه به کمبود منا بع اجتماعی-تاریخی در مورد روسپیگری و فقدان نوشتههای خودِ روسپیها تا اواس ط قرن بیستم، مسئولیتِ پرداختن به این موضوع و روشن ساختن جنبههای مختلف شرای ط زندگی و کار روسپیها بر عهدهٔ نویسندگان ادبی و هنرمندان قرار گرفت. نویسند گان ایرانی در نوشتههای خود روسپیگری را با موضوعاتی مانند فساد اقتصادی، زو ال سیاسی و ریاکاری دینی مرتبط کردند و با این کار، نظرات خود را در مورد جامع ه، سیاست و مذهب از طریق شخصیت روسپی به اشتراک گذاشتند. فیلمسازان ایرانی نیز از شخصیت فاحشه برای تجسم برخورد سنت و مدرنیته در کشور استفاده کردند. در ای ن نشست، سخنران تصویر روسپی را در آثار متنی و تصویری از انقلاب مشروطه تا انق لاب اسلامی مورد بررسی قرار میدهد تا از این طریق تحولات گفتمانی پیرامون روس پیگری را روشن کند.
The event recording is now available
:
https://youtu.be/DFiE6TcizYk
Prostitutes have been judge
d\, stigmatized\, criminalized\, pathologized\, and marginalized\, but also
sought after\, idolized\, and revered. They have been regarded as both vic
tims and conquerors\, commodified bodies and entrepreneurs. Their professio
n is a paradox—shrouded in myths—constructed\, conceived\, and theorized in
a myriad of ways due to its varying legal definitions and the numerous per
mutations it undergoes to contravene the laws.
In Iran\, the dearth o f sociohistorical sources on prostitution and the lack of writings by prost itutes themselves up until mid-twentieth century (Sattareh Farman-Farmaʾian ’s influential On Prostitution in the City of Tehran would not appear until 1970)\, made it the purview of literary writers and artists to shed light on the life and working conditions of prostitutes. Although in the previous centuries prostitutes cropped up sporadically in literary texts\, it was w ith the dawn of the twentieth century\, and as a result of the consequentia l and exceptional socio-political developments of the time\, that a remarka ble number of Iranian literary writers turned their attention to bringing t he plight of prostitutes to light to lay bare the causes as well as consequ ences of prostitution for both individual prostitutes and the society at la rge.
Associating prostitution with economic corruption\, political de cay\, and religious hypocrisy—among other themes—Iranian writers inscribed their social\, political\, and religious commentary on the body of the pros titute character. Similarly\, Iranian filmmakers used the prostitute charac ter to embody the clash of tradition and modernity in the country. In this talk\, our presenter will scrutinize the image of the prostitute and her in flationary popularity in written and visual texts from the Constitutional R evolution (1906-1911) to the Islamic Revolution (1979) to shed light on the shifts in discourse on prostitution in the twentieth-century Iran.
< strong>Maryam Zehtabi Sabeti Moqaddam has a Ph.D. in Comparative L iterature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where she recently d efended her dissertation on the representations of sex workers in Persian f ilm and fiction from the Constitutional Revolution (1906-1911) to the Islam ic Revolution (1979). She is particularly interested in feminist\, gender\, and sexuality studies and the intersection of religion and women studies. She is also a published translator aspiring to introduce Iranian women writ ers to Western audiences through translation and criticism of their works.< /p>
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]سخنران: علی جنابان (فیلمساز)، الهام نائیج (دکترای دانشگاه نیو ساوت ولز، استرالیا) و امین پوربرقی (فیلمساز)
در پ ی شکلگیری جنبش «#من_هم» در ایران، فیلم مستند Hailstone’s Dance (رقص تگرگ) تلاشهای یک دختر برای بازیابی خود پس از تجاوز جنسی در دوران کودکی و همچنین نقصهای سیستم قضایی ایران در رسیدگی به چنین جرائمی را به تصویر میکشد. در ا ین جلسه با سازندگان این مستند به گفتگو نشستهایم.
The ev
ent recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/7IzKjIXiKjA
Presented in both Persian and English with subtitles.
Pres
enters: Filmmakers Ali Jenaban and Amin Pourbarghi\, with Elham Naeej (PhD
in Literature\, The University of New South Wales\, Australia).
https://youtu.be/Z1yGuKrEnKE
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Persian LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/me_too-and-the-valuing-of-ge ndered-violence-in-iran/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/01/me_too_event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201124T0936Z-1606210601.5966-EO-49969-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20201118T003718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T204946Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210120T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210122T183000 SUMMARY: 2020/21 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wai-yee Li DESCRIPTION: The 2020/21 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Wai -yee Li (Harvard University) Lecture: Elegance and Vulgarity: The Promise a nd Peril of Things in Ming-Qing Literature 雅俗分際：明清文學的物情與物累 How is value a ssigned to things? What is the line between the refinement of good taste an d the force of obsession? Is elegance compromised by self-consciousness? Ho w can […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The 2
020/21 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with Professo
r Wai-yee Li (Harvard University)
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"Lan
dscape in Snow" by Shen Zhou 明沈周雪景山水[/caption]
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How is value assigned to things? What is the line between the refinement of good taste and the forc e of obsession? Is elegance compromised by self-consciousness? How can an o bject of appreciation be both commodity and anti-commodity (inasmuch as tru e appreciation and the greatest worth are not measurable in economic terms) ? Are elegance or vulgarity determined by affirming social consensus or cha llenging it? How do the fellowship and competition among connoisseurs drive the definition of elegance? Why are “elegant things” associated with natur e and reclusion but also embedded in social relations among the rich and th e powerful? Can good taste become bad taste\, and vice versa? Professor Wai -yee Li will discuss the figure of the vulgar connoisseur in Jin Ping Me i\, the contradictions of elegance in a story by Li Yu (1611-1680)\, an d the implications of redefining elegance and vulgarity in The Story of the Stone.
Wednesday\, January 20th\, 2021
4:00pm-6:30pm (Pacific Time)
Online via Zoom
Free & open to t he public. Registration is now closed.
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-jCZa6r5nU[ /embed]
How are the discourse on things and the discourse on subjecti vity and moral agency intertwined? References to things (wu) multip ly as the vocabulary of inwardness develops during mid to late Warring Stat es (ca. 4th-3rd century BCE). The flowering of aesthe tic thought in the Six Dynasties (3rd to 6th century) is marked by a new interest in “being moved by things” (ganwu) and “giving form to things” (tiwu). Moral self-examination relies on “th e investigation of things” (gewu). Agency and self-sufficiency are t hreatened by “taking pleasure in things” (wánwu) and superfluous thi ngs (zhangwu). Professor Wai-yee Li will reflect on the philosophica l ruminations on the promise of mastery and transcendence through things\, the specter of the dangerous pleasures of things\, and the negotiation of b oundaries between these two poles. The discussion will then turn to the ide a of objectifying people and humanizing things\, using Jin Ping Mei (late 16th century) and The Story of the Stone as example s.
Friday\, January 22nd\, 2021
12:30pm - 2:30p
m (Pacific Time)
Online via Zoom
Free & open to the public. Registration is now closed.
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About the Speaker
Wai-yee Li teaches Chinese literature at Harvard University. She has writte n on Ming-Qing literature and early Chinese thought and historical writings . Her recent publications include Women and National Trauma in Late Imp erial Chinese Literature (2014)\, an annotated translation of Zuozhuan (in collaboration with Stephen Durrant and David Schaberg\, 2016)\, Ke ywords in Chinese Culture (in collaboration with Yuri Pines\, 2020)\, and Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge\, two Memoirs about Courtesans ( 2020).
The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honou r of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her passion for Chinese literat ure and culture. Please visit the full lecture list here.< /p> CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2020w-yip-so-man-wat-memoria l-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/11/1920x1080_v5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210105T0714Z-1609830892.3311-EO-50255-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210105T003921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T181329Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210130T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210130T170000 SUMMARY: The Iranian Nightmare: Theorizing a New Iranian Horror Cinema in t he (Trans)National Circuitry\, 2009-2019 DESCRIPTION: Presenter: Dr. Farshid Kazemi (Postdoctoral Fellow\, Simon Fra ser University). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
در این ارائه، سخنران گروهی از فیلمهایی را که پس از تظاهرات گسترد ه سال ۱۳۸۸ ساخته شدند، مورد بحث و بررسی قرار میدهد. این فیلمها از برخی قر اردادهای ژانر وحشت بهعنوان نقدی براندازانه بر فضای کلاستروفوبیک و ترسناک ج امعه ایران پس از سال ۱۳۸۸ استفاده میکنند. یکی از فیلمهای بسیار هنری ژانر وحشت که میتوان آن را سرآغاز جنبش فوق دانست، «ماهی و گربه» (۱۳۹۲) ساختهٔ شه رام مکری است. همچنین فیلم «دختری در شب تنها به خانه راه میرود» (۱۳۹۳) ساخت هٔ آنا لیلی امیرپور به عنوان نمونهٔ فراملی یا دیاسپوریک این جنبش بررسی میش ود. با بررسی دقیق ویژگیهای فرمی و روایی این فیلمها مشخص میشود که چرا آن ها را بخشی از یک جنبش جدید در نظر میگیریم. در این فیلمها درونمایههای مش ترکی وجود دارد که فضای تهدیدآمیز و ترسناک جامعه ایران پس از سال ۱۳۸۸ را تدا عی میکنند.
The event recording is now available:
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ttps://youtu.be/cjtVHshW4Hw
Presented in English with subtitles.
There is a notable shift in the films that are emerging from Iran today from the art-house films of the New Iranian Cinema that used to popu late and dominate international film festivals with directors such as Kiaro stami\, Makhmalbaf\, Panahi\, Rasoulof\, Bani-Etemad\, Ghobadi\, etc. Indee d\, it is in this band of new Iranian horror films where a visible shift ca n be detected between the New Iranian Cinema of the mid 1990s and 2000s\, w ith its unique style and recognizable conventions (i.e.\, the blurring of d ocumentary and narrative fiction\, the use of non-professional actors\, rur al landscapes\, etc.)\, and these emerging genre bending films. In this pre sentation\, I will delineate a group of films that emerged in the aftermath of the 2009 mass protests in Tehran that deploy certain conventions of the horror genre as a politically subversive critique of the claustrophobic\, terrifying\, and paranoiac atmosphere of post-2009 Iranian society\, by the orizing a new filmic movement that is structured around what I call\, The U ncanny between the Weird and the Eerie. For my analysis\, I rely on Mark Fi sher’s formulation of the two modes that he uncovers in certain instances o f music\, novels and films\, and that he characterizes as “The Weird and th e Eerie (Beyond the Unheimlich).” A theoretical correlation will be made be tween these two modes theorized by Fisher to their literary counterparts in Persian-Arabic literature called: ‘ajib wa gharib (‘Ajib\, meaning wondrou s\, marvellous or amazing\; and gharib\, meaning\, strange or weird).
One of the most artful horror films that can be said to have inaugurated t his genre bending film movement is Shahram Mokri’s Fish and Cat (2013)\, wi th Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014)\, as one of its transnational or diasporic examples. What distinguishes and characteriz es the films of this movement that I have dubbed das unheimliche or the unc anny between the weird and the eerie is their evocation of the fearful envi ronment of post-2009 Iran\, and a number of thematics that they commonly sh are. For example\, among the various components shared by this movement\, a re such motifs as political and ideological critique through the deployment of supernatural elements or occult phenomenon (devil/satan\, vampires\, ji nn\, Aal and zaar\, etc.). They also touch on such taboo subjects as (femal e and male) sexuality\, homosexuality and transsexuality in Iran. They are often pervaded by doubles or Doppelgängers\, dreamlike worlds\, nightmarish landscapes\, paranoid and menacing atmospheres\, surveillance\, invisible threatening forces\, and a sense of pervading fear and terror or impending doom. Finally\, through a close examination of some of the formal and narra tive feature of these films\, it will become clear as to why these films co nstitute a new movement\, since beyond embodying the uncanny between the we ird and the eerie (‘ajib wa gharib)\, they share a common set of motifs tha t evoke the menacing and terrifying atmosphere of post-2009 Iranian society .
Farshid Kazemi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sch ool for the Contemporary Arts\, Simon Fraser University. His research inter ests combine an interdisciplinary and theoretical approach to Film and Medi a Studies/Film Theory\, Iranian Studies\, and Islamic and Middle Eastern St udies. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the Univ ersity of Edinburgh\, with a thesis on Iranian cinema and second wave psych oanalytic film theory titled: The Interpreter of Desires: Iranian Cinema an d Psychoanalysis. He has published several articles and book chapters on Ir anian cinema\, psychoanalytic film theory/feminist film theory in journals such as Camera Obscura. His book on the film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Nig ht will be published by Auteur/Columbia University Press in 2020.
2020/
21 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Professor Daisuke Miyao
(Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Ja
panese Language and Literature at the University of California\, San Diego)
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< span style="color: #ff0000\;">Thank you to everyone who attended! The re cording can be viewed on YouTube via this link here.
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Date & Time:
Monday\, February 1 | 5:30pm
(PST)
Monday\, February 1 | 8:30pm (EST)
Tuesday\, February 2 | 9
:30am (CST)
Locati
on:
Online via Zoom
Presented in English
Free & open to the public. Registration required.
Lect ure abstract:
French New Wave\, the art film movement that e merged in the late-1950s France\, had a curious obsession with Japan. C ahiers du Cinéma’s adoration of Mizoguchi Kenji\, Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959)\, Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983 ) to name a few. By focusing on Jean-Pierre Melville’s acclaimed 1967 film< em> Le Samouraï\, this talk examines what Melville’s allusion to the s amurai seeks to signify. Despite its title\, Le Samouraï is not a jidaigeki (period drama) set in Japan but a story of Jef Costello\ , a contract killer in Paris in the 1960s. Melville’s conception did not on ly exist in the context of post-World War II France but also descended from the history of Japonisme in France since the nineteenth century.
About the speaker:
Daisuke Miya
o is Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and
Literature at the University of California\, San Diego. He is the author of
Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema (Duke University Press
\, 2020)\, Cinema Is a Cat: A Cat Lover’s Introduction to Film Studies<
/em> (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2019)\, The Aesthetics of Shadow: L
ighting and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press\, 2013)\, Eiga
wa neko dearu: Hajimete no cinema sutadizu (Heibonsha\, 2011)\, and
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding memb er of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after ear ning his doctorate from Columbia University. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Canada-Japa n cultural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspired countl ess young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, st aff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted former students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lec ture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prominent schol ars from around the world to speak to the university community and alumni o n topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed a way peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2020-21-john-howes-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2020/11/1920x1080_final.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210129T1424Z-1611930243.9275-EO-50548-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210128T195753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210302T235831Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210210T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210210T110000 SUMMARY: Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India DESCRIPTION: Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in In dia The University of British Columbia Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster With Radha D’Souza (Professor of Law\, Development and Conflict St udies at the School of Law\, University of Westminster\, UK) February 10\ , 2021 Time: 10:00 am (PST) Location: online via Zoom Registration require d. Talk abstract: Professor Radha D’Souza’s address […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The University of British Columbia Interdisciplinary
Histories Research Cluster
With Radha D'Souza
(P
rofessor of Law\, Development and Conflict Studies at the School of Law\, U
niversity of Westminster\, UK)
February 10\, 2021
Location: online via
Zoom
Registration required.
Talk abstract:
Professor Radha D’Souza’s address will focus on state violence against women in India. India is widely perce ived to be the most populous democracy in the world. Its progressive consti tution puts classical liberal rights including equality\, non-discriminatio n\, right to life and access to justice at the heart of the constitution as fundamental rights. At the same time India is also seen as the most danger ous country to be a woman in. Within and outside academia\, the endemic and routinised violence against women is widely attributed to familial and soc ietal causes. If the law fails to bring perpetrators of violence against wo men to justice\, corruption within police and dysfunctional criminal justic e system is seen as the problem. Going beyond these frames of analysis\, Pr ofessor D’Souza will examine statutes like the Armed Forces Special Powers Act that exempt army personnel form prosecution in occupied territories\, s tate organised pogroms against religious and caste groups\, and the endemic everyday police violence against poor\, Dalit (marginalised castes) and Ad ivasi (indigenous) women. Her address will call into question the assumptio ns about normative and procedural standards\, including human rights standa rds\, in Legal Studies and the theoretical and methodological strategies in Gender Studies that are typically used to analyse violence against women i n India. State violence against women unravels assumptions about gender-bas ed violence and rights based legal remedies.
About the speake r:
Dr. Radha D’Souza is a professo r of Law\, Development and Conflict Studies at the School of Law\, the Univ ersity of Westminster in the United Kingdom. She is a critical scholar\, so cial justice activist\, barrister\, and writer\, from India. Radha’s resear ch and writing focus on the Global South\, in particular South Asia\, law a nd colonialism and neo-colonialism\, history of imperialism in South Asia\, and comparative theory and philosophy. She is an interdisciplinary scholar who has published in the fields of sociology\, history\, geography\, devel opment studies\, besides legal studies. She has written on activism and the security state\, anti-colonial movements in South Asia\, and on militarisa tion and ethnonational conflicts in South Asia. Her recent book What’s Wron g With Rights? Social Movements\, Law\, and Liberal Imaginations (Pluto\, 2 018) maps the transformations in the regime of international rights to the transformations in post-World War imperialism. Her most recent article ‘Law and Development: From ‘company raj’ to UN System via indirect rule’ (Routl edge\, 2020) examines how legal principles of colonial governance under the British Empire have come to be elevated as international law.
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This event is organized by Dr. Sunera Thobani (UBC Asian Studies) and Int erdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster. It is co-sponsored by the Ce ntre for India and South Asia Research/Institute for Asian Research/School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of Asian Studies at UBC.
URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/protectors-as-perpetrators-s tate-violence-against-women-in-india/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/01/DSouza_ProtectorsAsPerpetrators.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210122T1836Z-1611340595.5707-EO-50256-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210122T011440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T181827Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210213T170000 SUMMARY: Razi- Nuw: Hossein Alizadeh and the Possibility of a Persian Music al Modernity DESCRIPTION: Presenter: Morteza Abedinifard (PhD Candidate in Musicology\, University of Alberta). X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_54835" width="620"
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سخنران: مرتضی عابدینیفرد، دانشجوی دکتری موسیقیشناسی، دانشگاه آلبرتا
در این نشست، سخنران به آلبوم «راز نو» اثر حسین علیزاده می پردازد که علیرغ م به چالش کشیدن رویکردهای مرسوم موسیقی ایرانی، ویژگیهای ساختاری اساسی این سنت موسیقایی را حفظ میکند. یکی از ویژگیهای این آلبوم، تلاشهای موفق علیزا ده در برخی از قطعات آوازی است برای برقراری رابطهای واقعگرایانه بین موسیقی و «معنا» در متن. به عبارت دیگر، موسیقی علیزاده از «ظرفیتهای» متعارف موسیق ی ایرانی فراتر میرود و فعالانه درگیر واقعیت متن میشود، بدون اینکه ساختاره ای فرهنگ موسیقی ایرانی را بهصورت اساسی برهم بزند.
The e
vent recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/ozGixY5bxbs
Presented in English with subtitles.
Presenter:< /strong> Morteza Abedinifard (PhD Candidate in Musicology\, University of A lberta).
Hossein Alizadeh’s musical novelties are distinct from other contemporary composers in an important manner: they seek to activate certa in potentialities within Persian music in order to create fresh sonorities and a novel relationship between sound and text. An example of these innova tional attempts is Alizadeh’s album Raz-i Nuw (Novel Mystery)\, a thoroughl y original approach to polyphony in Persian music\, which he composed for f our vocal lines\, two percussions\, and a melodic instrument (the “Tar” and a modified “Tanbour” in different sections). In my presentation\, I will f ocus on certain novelistic aspects of this musical offering that have decid edly challenged conventional approaches to Persian music while at the same time preserved some significant structural characteristics of this musical traditions. In particular\, I will underline and examine Alizadeh’s efforts in certain vocal pieces in this album where he has succeeded in constructi ng a realistic relationship between music and “meaning” in the text. I argu e that this new approach to text-setting\, although not entirely unpreceden ted among Persian composers\, is particularly interesting in Alizadeh’s mus ic for an important reason: it shapes its musical realism through an inhere ntly local\, i.e.\, Persian\, approach to musical materials. In other words \, Alizadeh’s music goes beyond the conventional “capacities” of Persian mu sic and actively engages in the reality of the text\, without fundamentally disrupting the structures of Persian musical culture.
Mortez a Abedinifard is currently a PhD Candidate in Musicology at the Un iversity of Alberta. Morteza's research interests include music philosophy\ , music history\, and conceptual history. He has been playing the Setar for over 15 years.
FEBRUARY 25\, 5:00–6:00 PM
Movie Disc
ussion - ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
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a href="https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/anthropocene-1480x740/">
Join us for a discussion of ANTHROPOCENE\, an award-winning documen
tary about a new geological epoch brought on by human activities. We will b
e joined by Nina Hewitt from the Department of Geography\, and Dongchen Hou
from our Chinese Language faculty\, who will guide us through the conversa
tion. We look forward to considering Asian contexts for issues highlighted
in ANTHROPOCENE. The film is available to anyone with a UBC CWL account thr
ough Kanopy. We recommend watching before the discussion\, but encourag
e everyone to join us – our session will provide sufficient context for dis
cussion!
Please email here
or here if you would like the Zoom eve
nt details. This event was created by the Department of Asian Studies' Sust
ainability Committee.
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This talk was cancelled due to unforeseen ci rcumstances.
سخنران: دکتر ناهید صیامدوست ، استادیار مدعو مطالعات زنان و انسانشناسی دین، دانشکده الهیات هاروارد
< p>این سخنرانی بهدلیل شرایط پیشبینینشده لغ و شد.
Music has long served within Iran’s public sphere as an important channel for social and political mediation. In this talk\, Nahid will examine the role of music in the poetic creation of alte rnative worlds\, the instrumentalization of joy both within these worldmaki ngs as well as their cooptations\, and the impact of social media – and the securitization of online spaces – on these processes.
Nahid Siamdoust is a Visiting Assistant Professor on Women’s Studies and Anthropology of Religion Women’s Studies in Religion Program Research Asso ciate 2020–21. Previously\, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Program in Iranian Studies in MacMillan. Next year she will be joining the Departm ent of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas\, Austin\, as an A ssistant Professor. Dr. Siamdoust received her doctorate from the Universit y of Oxford\, where she graduated in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St. A ntony’s College. Her book\, Soundtrack of the Revolution: The Politics of M usic in Iran was published in 2017 by Stanford University Press. Dr. Siamdo ust is an anthropologist and media scholar whose work concentrates on the i ntersection between politics\, culture and media in Iran and the wider Midd le East\, with a focus on questions of cultural mediation\, political power and social movements.
The 33rd Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest is open to registrations from British Columbia and Yukon res idents who speak Japanese as a foreign or second language.
Read the < a href="https://www.vancouver.ca.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100121740.pdf">2021 Contest Guidelines
Registration fo r the 2021 Japanese Speech Contest has been closed.
The 2021 C ontest will be live streamed ONLINE on Saturday\, March 6\, 2021 from the website of the Consulate General of Japan. The e vent is free and open to public viewing online!
Live-streamed link can be accessed here.
• The High School Division is scheduled to start at 10:00
am and the University/Open Division at 1:00 pm.
• View the event progr
am below or on the website of the Consulate General of Japan.
Contest Program:
10:00 - Morning Program
10:10 - High School Division
12:00 - Award Ceremony
13:00 - Aft ernoon Program
13:10 - University Division
16:05 - Award Ceremo ny
*The detailed contest program can be viewed here.
The Department of Asian Studies is delight ed to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating l ife after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with div erse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current stud ents. This event will feature a guest speaker\, a panel\, and a round robin networking session. Careers Night is the perfect opportunity to make conne ctions\, meet fellow Asian Studies students\, and feel more confident in ta king the next steps on your career path.
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Friday\, March 12th\, 2021
5:30 PM (PST)/Saturda
y\, March 13th 1:30 AM (UTC)
Held online via Zoom
Free – Online r
egistration required via the form below.
This event is co-organiz ed by the Department of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts.
T he annual career event\, held in February or March of each year\, are open to students who have declared or are potentially interested in declaring a major in Asian Studies\, and alumni who are interested in sharing their per sonal insight and experiences. This year we will be holding Careers Night v irtually due to COVID-19 restrictions.
As a student:
* Ask the burning questions about what a degree in Asian Stu
dies has to offer
* Gain extremely helpful networking tips (e.g. How t
o Use LinkedIn 101)
* Meet your fellow undergraduates and learn about
their career and academic plans
* Gain an excellent head-start in plan
ning your next move during and after UBC
As an alumni:
* Share what you did at UBC that helped you succeed
*
Share your experience in navigating through your career field and finding
the right fit for you
* Give back to your alma mater by providing your
insights to the students of what they should be expecting
* Meet and
make connections with other alumni\, faculty\, and students
* Meet pot
ential employees among our diligent and passionate students
Students will have the opportunity to ask all of our alum ni panelists their questions about how they got their first jobs after grad uating\, how they have navigated through the 'real world'\, and how the COV ID-19 pandemic may have impacted them (whether positive or negative).
H.E. Dr. Sarah Taylor – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of Canada – Embassy of Canada Kingdom of Thailand\, Kingdom of Cambodia and
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
With over thirty years’ e xperience working in and on Asia\, including diplomatic assignments in Hong Kong\, Beijing and Jakarta\, Her Excellency Dr. Sarah Taylor is currently Canada’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand\, the Kingdom of Cambodia\, and the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Upon her initial completion of he r BA with honors in Anthropology from the University of Toronto in 1982\, A mbassador Taylor continued to pursue her interest in archaeology as she con ducted research and fieldwork in various Asian countries such as Thailand a nd Japan\, ultimately receiving her PhD from Cambridge University in East A sian Archaeology in 1990. Starting her career in External Affairs and Inter national Trade Canada and working her way through various positions with wh at is now Global Affairs Canada\, Ambassador Taylor served as Deputy Head o f Mission in the P.R.C. from 2011 to 2015. Along the way\, she has learned multiple Asian languages such as Mandarin\, Japanese\, Bahasa Indonesia and Thai.
Richa
rd N. Liu\, BA ’93 – Board Director at the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre\,
Museum of Migration
Richard explored C hina as a student attending Peking University that led to a rich 20-plus ye ar career at the Canadian Embassy\, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce\, and Wes tern Academy of Beijing\, in areas of diplomacy\, public relations\, major events organization and education. As a leader in the development of a wide variety of volunteer projects in China\, Richard started the influential “ Canadians in China” network\; founded the rapidly growing Canadian Alumni N etwork (CAN) that brings together thousands of alumni currently in China wh o attended Canada’s post-secondary institutions\; and was one of the origin al founding committee members to start the very first Terry Fox Run for Bei jing in 1999. Since returning to Canada in 2014\, Richard now sits on vario us boards\; and advises companies and organizations on a variety of sectors pertaining to Asia\; and was appointed the Honorary Brigade Division Presi dent for St. John Ambulance\, Canada’s leading first aid and safety charity \, and one of the oldest humanitarian organizations in the world.
Joseph Ho\, BA ’94 – previous Senior Manager\, Nike Chi
na
Joseph is a Canadian Chinese who lives in Asia for past 20 years with 10 years in Mainland China in leadership roles with Nike and Apple. In his almost six years of experience working for Nike China\, he has brought new digital services and membership experiences to Nike own Retail Stores and helping to launch China new concept stores\, including Ho use of Innovation 001 in Shanghai (2018) and Guangzhou RISE in Guangzhou (2 020). Before he joined Nike\, he worked at Apple Retail as part of the HK L eadership team opening up the first Apple Store in Hong Kong\, and later tr ansferred to Shanghai to be part of the Apple Shanghai leadership team in t he growing China market.
Fongyee Walker MW\,
BA’ 96\, MA’ 99 - Co-founder and Head\, Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting
Fongyee (Master of Wine) is the co-founder\, with Edward Ragg\, of Dragon Phoenix Wine Consulting\, Beijing’s first and fully indepe ndent wine consulting and education service (est. 2007). Fongyee has delive red both WSET course and special trade-targeted wine courses in Mandarin fo r such bodies as Wine Australia\, the Hawke’s Bay Wine Association\, the Na pa Valley Vintners and numerous other groups\, as well as creating a number of unique wine courses specifically tailored to mainland Chinese students. She became the first Master of Wine (MW) resident in mainland China in 201 6 with her dissertation on winter vine burial practices in Hebei and Ningxi a.
As a wine judge\, Fongyee has judged at numerous wine competitions including the International Wine Challenge (UK)\, the Hong Kong Internatio nal Wines and Spirits Competition and has been guest international judge fo r the Royal Melbourne Wine Show\, Old Mutual Trophy (South Africa) Wine Sho w\, the Qantas Western Australia Wine Show\, AWOCA (Wines of Chile)\, the H unter Valley Wine Show as well as many other regional wine shows. Fongyee h as also written articles for Decanter Magazine\, Wine Review\, RVF China an d Wine in China\, among other Chinese wine magazines. She has also been a c olumnist for Decanter China\, writing about educational issues.
Fongy ee is also the star of Wok ’n Wine\, a popular internet-broadcast show abou t food and wine matching with Chinese cuisines with more than 4 million vie wers\, as well as a new show (2021) Carpe Vinum\, featuring the wine and fo od of Italy.
Paul Hsu\, BA’ 06 - Princi
pal\, St. Regis Secondary School\; Chief Executive Officer\, New Castle Jap
an Investment\; Chairman of the Board\, Canadian Housing Society
Paul is a graduate of the Department of Asian Studies of 20 06 and a graduate of the Masters in Asia-Pacific Policies Studies Program o f 2008. He is the founder and current Principal of St. Regis Secondary Scho ol\, a senior independent high school in Vancouver that is known for its re putation of sending students to top-50 QS Ranking universities around the w orld through the school’s comprehensive and versatile education program. As ide from his work at St. Regis\, Paul also serves as the founder and CEO of New Castle Japan Investment\, a transnational real estate investment firm that specializes in asset acquisition\, property reconstruction\, and long- term rental projects in Canada and Japan. He is also the Chairman of the Bo ard of Canadian Housing Society\, a non-profit organization whose primary m ission is to provide sustainable\, comfortable\, and financially feasible h omes for low-income and other disadvantaged members of the community in BC and NB.
Sloane Geddes\, BA ’16\, MA’18 – Sessional Lecturer in Sanskrit language – UBC Department of Asian Studies
Sloane is currently teaching Immediate Sanskrit at the UBC Department of Asia n Studies. She is also a doctoral student in the Department for the Study o f Religion at the University of Toronto where she works on medieval Sanskri t poetry—think descriptions of dazzling mountains and larger-than-life hero es. Within this genre she is interested in how theological concepts get map ped onto other genres and how commentary shapes the way we read texts.
< p>While she is in Toronto\, her first foray into Sanskrit was at UBC\, wher e she completed her BA (2016) and MA (2018) in Asian Studies. At that time she looked into how the perceived gender of the author shapes both how we u nderstand texts and how they are read in particular ways by feminists and g eneral literary scholars.Learning Sanskrit is not only a challenge\, but can also be a fun and rewarding experience—especially when one manages to unlock the beautiful image behind a confusing compound or verse!
Faiz Jaffar\, BA ’17 – Management Consultant\, Kellen Consulting
Faiz entered UBC in 2012 and joined the Department of Asi an Studies only a year later in 2013. While at the department\, Faiz took p art in numerous department competitions\, spent a year abroad\, and appeare d on national television in China. Unfortunately\, in 2017\, Faiz had to gr aduate (BA). Upon graduation\, Faiz received a scholarship to study in Chin a\, where he completed a Master's Degree of Chinese Law (LLM) at Renmin Uni versity of China. Since that time\, Faiz has worked at a national Chinese l aw firm\, at a state-owned Fortune 500 company\, and is currently working a s a management consultant at Kellen. Faiz is currently based in Beijing and stays involved with the Canadian community in Beijing\, participating in t he Canadian Alumni Network\, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce\, and working with the Canadian Embassy to China.
Chandima Silva\, BA ’18 – Program Coordinator\, Academic Programs - Sim
on Fraser University
Chandima graduated with a Bache lor of Arts in Asian Area Studies with a focus on South and Southeast Asia in 2018\, which he complemented with an exchange stint at the National Univ ersity of Singapore. He is currently a Program Coordinator for the School o f Computing Science at Simon Fraser University\, where he manages the deliv ery of undergraduate programs. He has continued in higher education as a s tudent as well\, and is on track to finishing a Graduate Diploma in Busines s Administration from Simon Fraser University.
In addition to his ful l-time work\, he is involved on the Asia Pacific Youth Council for the Asia Pacific Foundation as a Director of Arts and Culture Programming and more recently as the Council's President. The latter experiences involve extendi ng the mandate of connecting Canadian youth with Asia through events centre d around pan-Asian art and culture.
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سخنران: د کتر آیدا مفتاحی، استادیار تاریخ، دانشگاه ایالتی بویزی
اصطلاح «مبتذل» در گفتمان هنری حزب توده، سازمان بزرگ مارکسیستی ایران، که در دوران شکوفایی خ ود در دهه ۱۹۴۰ میلادی، سرمایهگذاری زیادی روی فرهنگ و هنر به عنوان رسانهٔ س یاست داشت، بسیار رایج بود. این سخنرانی با تمرکز بر جنبههای جنسیتی و جسمانی اصطلاح «ابتذال» و متضادهای دوگانهٔ آن، یعنی «متعهد» یا «هنری»، قصد دارد ای ن اصطلاحات را در گفتمان هنری حزب توده بررسی کند. منابع اولیه این تحقیق شامل اسناد و نشریات حزب توده و همچنین اسناد سفارت و کنسولگری اتحاد جماهیر شوروی و سازمانهای دارای پیوند قوی با آن و همچنین خاطرات اعضای حزب توده است. تحل یل عمیق این مفاهیم و ویژگیهای اخلاقی و زیباییشناختی آنها برای درک هنرهای معاصر ایران و نقد فرهنگی بسیار مهم است.
Presented in
English with subtitles.
Relatively understudied and preva
lently deployed in the cultural discourse of contemporary Iran\, the term “
degenerate” (mubtazal) has historically been used to devalue and dismiss a
range of arts\, most of which belong to the realm of urban popular culture.
While in the leftist discourse the term contrasted the valorized political
ly conscious “committed” (muti‘ahhid)\, in other contexts degenerate connot
ed a lack of artistic quality and tastelessness. When applied specifically
to performing bodies (performance in its broad sense)\, the term degenerate
incarnated certain types of corporeal qualities\, gender performativity\,
and affect. The term was especially prevalent in the art discourse of the T
udeh Party’s\, Iran’s major Marxist organization\, which during its heydays
in 1940s\, was heavily invested in culture and arts as the media of politi
cs. Engaging major literary and artistic figures of the era\, the cultural
ventures of the party involved producing a number of publications on the to
pic\, and a range of performative forms including theatre\, music\, and cho
reographed political demonstrations those of which have greatly shaped Iran
ian cultural thought and performative politics to this day.
Focusing on the gendered and corporeal aspects of the term “degeneration” (ibtizal) and its binary oppositions “committed” and/or “artistic\,” this paper aims to historicize and unpack these terms in the Tudeh Party’s discourse on art s and public performative politics\, such as performing and visual arts\, p olitical demonstrations and meetings\, celebrations\, speeches\, political behavior\, and anthems. My primary sources for this study include documents and periodicals of the Tudeh Party as well as those belonging to the embas sy and consulate of the Soviet Union\, and organizations with strong ties t o it\, such as VOKS\, and memoirs of members of the Tudeh Party. An in-dept h analysis of these notions and the moral and aesthetic qualities they enta il is critically important for understanding contemporary Iranian arts\, cu ltural criticism\, and public political performance.
Ida Meft ahi is an assistant professor of Middle Eastern history at Boise S tate University\, where she teaches a range of interdisciplinary courses on Middle Eastern and Iranian history and culture. She holds a PhD from the U niversity of Toronto’s Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Human ities at Pennsylvania State University (2013–14)\, as well as a visiting as sistant professor of contemporary Iranian culture and society at the Univer sity of Maryland (2014-2019). Meftahi specializes in the history of modern Iran\, emphasizing the intersections of politics\, gender\, and performance (it its broader Goffmanian sense). She has presented and published her wo rk in a number of academic forums in different areas of the humanities and social sciences in North America\, Europe\, and the Middle East. Her first book\, Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage (2016 ) received the Association for Iranian Studies’ prestigious Latifeh Yarshat er Award for its original contribution to the field of Iranian women’s stud ies. With a unique approach to embodiment and vigorous historiography of un derstudied realms of urban popular culture\, Meftahi’s work has emerged as a frequent reference for recent academic inquiries into urban Iranian cultu ral history\, ethnomusicology\, and gender studies as well as cinema\, thea tre\, and dance studies. Building on over fifteen years of extensive intern ational archival and ethnographic research in Iran and around the world \, Meftahi is currently working on a second book project\, tentatively titled “Tulip Grove\, Tehran: Urban Geopolitics\, Gender\, and Performativ e Culture in Modern Iran.” The book features a detailed historical-anthropo logical investigation of Tehran’s historic Lalehzar Street and its vicinity between 1880 and 1960. It takes the lens of performance studies to the str eets and venues of this crucial zone of cultural production and diplomacy. “Tulip Grove\, Tehran” allows for a closer exploration of the interrelation s of cultural production and spectatorship\, religious and political practi ces\, as well as (face-to-face) social interactions in light of major histo rical local and international turning points.
The D epartment of Asian Studies and Persian Literature Reading Club at the Unive rsity of British Columbia are delighted to invite the readers and admirers of Modern Persian Literature to join this special event:
"Love and Punishment in Persian Literature:
Story-Reading with Shahriar Mandanipour"
Friday\, March 19th\,
2021
4:00PM-6:00PM (PST)
Held online via Zoom
Free
– Online registration is required here.
In the first hour sect ion of the event\, we discuss two short stories by Shahriar Mandanipour\, " Violet Orient" and "“Shatter the Stone Tooth”. Use this rare opportunity to have the author give clues as to how to connect with the story. Come to th e session with your questions and enjoy a mini-lesson in literary criticism from the author. In the last half hour\, the professors of UBC's Departmen t of Asian Studies D r. Hessam Dehghani and Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard will hold an interview with Shahriar Mandanipour about his latest novel and masterpiece "Moon Brow"(The English Translation of his work "'Aqrab Keshi").
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سخنران: دکتر امید آزادی بوگر، دانشگاه عادی هونا ن، چین
داستان جنایی یا کارآگاهی اگرچه بهعنوان یک ژانر از ادبیات جهان موردتوجه بوده است، در ادبیات مدرن فارسی، چه برای نویسندگان و مترجمان و چه برای خوانندگان، ژانری محبوب نبوده است. در این نشست، سخنران به بررسی عوامل ف رهنگی مؤثر بر این موضوع میپردازد. وی استدلال میکند که داستان پلیسی معرفت شناسیهای خاصی را پیشفرض میگیرد که ممکن است با برخی نظامهای فکری سازگار نباشد. همچنین به این موضوع پرداخته میشود که چگونه از معرفتشناسیهای «جایگ زین» برای همسوسازی داستانهای کارآگاهی با نظامهای مختلف فکری استفاده شده ا ست. از نظر سخنران، معرفتشناسی روایی برای تحلیل فرهنگ عامه و روایتهای شرق شناسانه مفید است و جای خالی آن در بحثهای پیرامون ادبیات جهان خالی است.
Presented in English with subtitles.
E
ven though crime/detective fiction has been discussed as a genre of world l
iterature (e.g. Nilsson et al. 2017)\, it has not been a popular genre in m
odern Persian literature\, whether for writers and translators or for reade
rs. In this sense\, the genre highlights one of the ruptures in the concept
of world literature\, signaling the existence of points of cultural resist
ance to literary homogenizing tendencies.
Arguing the genre and its a bsence in modern Persian literature\, scholars have pointed at censorship a s a major impediment to its rise or development (Abdoh 2014\; Nanquette 202 1). While the disrupting effects of censorship can partly explain the statu s of the genre in Persian\, they do not particularly explain why it has not been received well—particularly in translation.
In this talk\, Omid argues that detective narrative presupposes the cultural permeation of epis temologies that justify and sustain the genre. In other words\, there are c ultural factors other than censorship that defer the rise of detective fict ion in Persian. Omid will discuss how “alternative” epistemologies have bee n used to adapt detective fiction to different systems of thought\; present examples from Persian to elaborate on their epistemological assumptions\; propose that narrative epistemology is largely missing in debates about wor ld literature\; and specify how the concept can be useful in discussing bot h popular culture and orientalist narratives.
Omid Azadibouga r is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation at Hunan Normal University. He is the author of 'The Persian Novel: Ideology\, Ficti on and Form in the Periphery' (Rodopi | Brill\, 2014) and 'World Literature and Hedayat's Poetics of Modernity' (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2020).
The Department of Asian Studies of the Uni versity of British Columbia and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are del ighted to invite all lovers of Persianate Culture to an event celebrating N owrouz 1400. You and your whole family of all ages are invited to our Film Screening and Shahnameh Performance (Naqqālī)!
This event will b e in English and Persian.
Sunday\, March 28th\, 2021
2:00 PM - 4:15 PM (PST)
Held online via Zoom
Free – On
line registration is required here.
2:50 pm - 3:15 pm Interview with the Director of the Film
(Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Department of Asian Studies at UBC interviews the Director and Producer Dr. Farzin Rezaeian abo ut the documentary)
(Appropriate for all ages- Languag es : English and Persian)
Farzin Rezaeian is an aw
ard-winning documentary and educational film producer and director. He stud
ied sociology\, political science and communications at the University of I
llinois in Chicago and then continued his studies in Iranian arts and civil
ization.
For the past twenty years\, Dr. Rezaeian has researched and w
ritten for many educational and documentary films that he has produced or d
irected at Sunrise Visual Innovations. These include Persepolis Recreated\, Iran: Seven Faces of a Civilizatio
n\, Incredible Isfahan\, 5000 Years of Iranian Engineering and The Spirit o
f Nowruz.
About the Persian Language Program:
The Persian language Program in the Department of Asian Studies prov
ides language courses for heritage and non-heritage speakers\, as well as c
ourses in Iranian studies\, where it dives deep into the historical and soc
io-cultural impact of the country.
Spoken today primarily in Iran\, Af
ghanistan\, and Tajikistan\, Persian was historically more widely understoo
d in an area ranging from the Middle East to India and exerted a strong inf
luence on languages such as Hindi\, Urdu\, and Punjabi. Persian culture\, r
eligion and literature has had an extraordinary impact on Central\, Souther
n and Western Asia as well as other cultures globally.
The Persian la nguage program offers courses at all levels: perfect for those who want to learn basic Persian and Farsi\, or those who want to be more proficient spe akers.
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This year’s Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program features awards for student winners of 2021 Essay Competition for Punjabi Language Students\, an award to a BC-bas ed Punjabi language writer\, and talks on the topic of “Perspectives on the Farmers’ Movement in India\,” with Hartosh Singh Bal (Caravan Magazine) an d Dr. Aarti Sethi (University of California at Berkeley).
https://www.you tube.com/watch?v=rjXQVawZHuA&feature=youtu.be
At the University of Br itish Columbia\, the Punjabi language occupies a central place in our South Asia program\, and represents one of the largest and longest-standing Punj abi-language programs in the world\, outside of South Asia. In this video\, hear from students why Punjabi Studies has been integral to their experien ce at UBC.
About the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program :
The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program celebrates the ric h life of Punjabi language and culture and its importance in BC\, in memory of a woman who shared such passions. Our goal is to call attention to impo rtant new scholarship on Punjabi language and culture and bring it to our s tudents and the broader Vancouver area audience\; encourage and recognize a chievements in Punjabi language cultural production\; and honor students fo r their work in learning and using the Punjabi language.
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بوف کور (۱۳۱۵) نوشتهٔ صادق هدا
یت، یکی از بحث برانگیزترین آثار برای تشخیص مرز باریک میان بینامتنیت و سرقت
ادبی در سطوح متفاوت زبانی، ساختاری، مفهومی و غیره است. درواقع، براساس سه قا
ب بینامتنی معنایی، موضوعی و سبکی (پاناگیوتیدو، ۲۰۱۱) و همچنین سه نوع سرقت
ادبی که نگارنده براساس سه سطح طرحوارهای مفهومی، متنی و زبانی (گای کوک، ۱۹
۹۹) پیشنهاد میکند، امکان تمایز میان این دو اصطلاح، که هر یک نتیجهای کاملا
ً متفاوت به دست میدهند، فراهم میشود. با تعریفی ساده میتوان گفت که در سرق
ت ادبی، متن از پیشمتن فراتر نمیرود، اما در بینامتنیت متن به واسطهٔ گفتوگ
و با پیشمتنهای خود لایهلایه متکثر میشود و این گفتوگو به واسطهٔ تشخیص ا
نواع قابهای بینامتنی میسر میشود، همان گونه که بوف کور در خلال تاریخ ادبیا
ت داستانی همواره با تفسیرهای کاملاً متفاوت و گاه متقابل با یکدیگر مواجه بود
ه و این به دلیل ارتباط با پیشمتنهای مطرحی در ادبیات جهان از جمله هملت، او
رلئا، دفترهای مالده لائوریس بریگه، دانشجوی پراگ، تار، ملوزین، مطب دکتر کالی
گاری، نوسفراتو، نادیا، خشم و هیاهو، خون یک شاعر، موجها و بسیاری از دیگر آث
ار است. درنتیجه در صورت آشنایی مخاطب با هر یک از این پیشمتنها، قابی بینام
تنی در ذهن او برای ایجاد تفسیری تازه شکل میگیرد.
براساس این تحقیق، تم
ایز سرقت ادبی با انواع بینامتنیت و به ویژه بینامتنیت سبکی درونهگیریشده یا
غیرمستقیم، برمبنای دانش دایرةالمعارفی مخاطب امکانپذیر است که درصورت فعال
شدن این دانش، پیشمتنهای موردمطالعهٔ مخاطب فراخوانده میشوند و میان پیش
متنها و متن ارتباطی ایجاد میشود که منجر به افزایش لایههای معنایی متن دوم
میشود، همان گونه که نسبت بوف کور با دیگر آثار نسبتی تعاملی است و براساس س
ه سطح طرحوارهای کوک که در این بررسی نشان میدهم، این اثر از سطوح مختلف طر
حوارهای هریک از پیشمتنها فراتر میرود، درنتیجه با ایجاد رابطهای تعاملی
، در سطحی کلان جهان گفتمانی خود را به واسطهی پیوندهای بینامتنی گوناگون توس
عه میدهد. از دستاوردهای این تحقیق در رویکرد شعرشناسی شناختی، ارائهٔ ابزاری
نظاممند برای تمایز میان بینامتنیت و سرقت ادبی است که به باور پساساختگرایا
ن امری ناممکن به نظر میرسد، اما در این تحقیق به امری قابلمطالعه و قابلاس
تفاده در زمینههای متفاوتی چون نقد ادبی، شکایتهای قضائی و پیگیری حقوق مؤل
ف تبدیل میشود.
The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/NZ776H3qEvk
Presented in Persian with Englis
h subtitles.
Plagiarism is defined as “presenting someone
else’s work or ideas as your own\, with or without their consent\, by incor
porating it into your work without full acknowledgement.” It is\, however\,
often mistaken for intertextuality\, which is used to “designate the vario
us relationships that a given text may have with other texts.” Despite thei
r different goals\, plagiarism and intertextuality are sometimes mistaken f
or each other due to their overlap in their drawing on others’ texts and th
e fact that they keep readers wandering between two worlds\, i.e.\, that of
the cited/copied text and that of the new one. Sadeq Hedayat’s The Bli
nd Owl (1936) has often become the subject of a heated debate on the d
ifference between intertextuality and plagiarism\; indeed\, The Blind O
wl has been explicitly accused of plagiarism by some scholars who do n
ot find a clear and practical border between plagiarism and intertextuality
.
In this presentation\, using The Blind Owl as a point of r eference\, and drawing on notions and theories in Cognitive Poetics\, I wil l attempt to differentiate plagiarism from intertextuality\, while also bri efly pointing out the intertextual relations between The Blind Owl and a good number of other texts\, including William Shakespeare’s Ham let (1602)\; Gérard de Nerval’s Aurélia (1855)\; Rainer Maria Rilke’s Malte Laurids Brigge’s Notebooks (1910)\; Stella n Rye & Paul Wegener’s The Student of Prague (1913)\; Wyndham Lew is’s Tarr (1918)\; Franz Hellens’s Mélusine\, Ou\, La Robe De Saphir (1920)\; Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1 920)\; Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922)\; André Breton ’s Nadja (1928)\; William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury (1929)\; Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet (1930)\; Virginia W oolf’s The Waves (1931)\, etc. In its intertextual connections wit h these and other texts\, The Blind Owl enters into a dialogue wit h them in order to project an innovative world—a world which would remain p artly undiscovered were we not to familiarize ourselves with these intertex ts.
< div>About the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate S tudies: Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an enthusiastic researc her\, a consummate socio-political analyst\, and an opinion leader on forei gn policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogue and liberal democ racy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, supporter of UBC’s Depa rtment of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadian-Iranian Community. The department renamed this lecture series in his honour in 2019. Alireza’ s friends in the community have provided funding to support this series\, a nd this generous gift will see these important academic and community engag ement events supported through to the end of the 2025/2026 academic year. < a href="https://asia.ubc.ca/lecture-series/alireza-ahmadian-lectures/">Read More ...
This event is co-sponsored by CJR and the Department of Asian Stud ies
With Speaker Will B
ridges (University of Rochester)
Moderator: Christina Yi (UBC)
Date & Time:
April 13
\, 2021 | 4:00pm – 5:15pm PDT
Location: online via Z
oom
Registration required.
Lecture abstract:
This talk is interested in the formation of what w e might call an epistemology of the violets\, or a way of seeing and being in the world at the intersection of the blues and the reds. The “blues” her e refers to that musical form born in the freedom found in the wake of Amer ican slavery. They are characterized by the expressive deviations of the bl ue note and the transformation of memories of the sounds of the plantation (field hollers\, wailings\, and so on) into something more mellifluous. In Development Drowned and Reborn\, Clyde Woods contends that the mod es of listening and sounding out afforded by the blues unfurl into a larger epistemology\, one which helps us sense and make sense of the possibility of new worlds “more egalitarian and democratic” and more committed to “sust ainability” and “justice” than the old world.
“Red” here serves as a chromatic stand in for the epistemological and sensorial insights embedded in Japanese creative works. To date\, Afro-Japanese scholarship has been fr amed primarily by concepts such as representation and reception. While info rmative in their own way\, such frameworks prime us to think about transfer ences from one culture (“blues”) to another (“reds”). This talk is a “betwe en the books talk:” it synthesizes lessons learned in the writing of Pl aying in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Li terature with content from the upcoming The Black Pacific: A Poeti c History. The aim of this synthesis is to provide general heuristics for those interested in the study of the epistemological possibilities of p urple\, or a way of seeing and creating possible worlds that is neither red nor blue—neither African American nor Japanese—but both red and blue\, the emergence upon their coalescence.
About the speaker:
Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Rochester. His scholarship has been recognized by the Fu lbright Program\, the Japan Foundation\, the Association for Asian Studies\ , and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His first monograph\, Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature\, was published in 2020 by the University of Michigan Press . He is currently working on two manuscripts. The first is The Futurist Turn: The Japanese Humanities and the Re-imagining of the Unwelfare State< /em>. The second is The Black Pacific: A Poetic History. He is als o an author of creative nonfiction.
A talk by Professor Tsering Shakya
Hosted by
Indigenous Asia Initiative\, Department o
f Asian Studies
(To join this talk\, please email Dr. Sunil Bhatt at sunil.bhatt@ubc.ca for more information and the Zoom link)
Prof Tsering Shakya will explore the critical iss ue of the position of the Tibetans in contemporary China\, where the Tibeta ns are a "minority" group in the modern Chinese's nation-state. What does i t mean to be a minority? When does a group of people become a minority? Is the term "indigenous" an asserted or claimed identity or something conferre d by others? When does a group become a minority or indigenous? These quest ions will be discussed in the context of Tibet.
Tsering Shakya is Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and the Department of Asian Studies at UBC . He is the author of The Dragon in the Land of Snow\, A History of Tibet S ince 1947. His research interests focus on Himalayan regions and Sino-India n Relations.
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< strong>سخنران: دکتر سالور ملایری، دکترای زبانهای مدرن، دانشگاه سن ت اندروز
مطالعات مربوط به ادبیات جنگ ایران و عراق عمدتاً بر آن دسته ا ز آثار متمرکز است که با پروپاگاندای جنگی رژیم اسلامی ایران که بهعنوان «ادب یات دفاع مقدس» شناخته میشود همسو است. این سخنرانی به داستانهایی میپردازد که با به چالش کشیدن کدهای فرهنگی و زیباییشناختی ادبیات دفاع مقدس، تصویری متفاوت ارائه میدهند و فضایی را برای درک انتقادی از جنگ فراهم میکنند. این پژوهش از مفاهیم نشانهشناسی انتقادی و نظریهٔ تحلیل گفتمان استفاده میکند تا میزان بازتولید یا به چالش کشیدن گزارههای ایدئولوژیک موجود در ادبیات دفاع مقدس توسط این آثار ادبی را بررسی کند. دکتر سالور ملایری آثاری را از نویسندگ ان مستقل که تلاش کردند به گفتمانها و گروههای اجتماعی سرکوبشده یا به حاشی ه راندهشده صدا بدهند، بررسی خواهد کرد.
The event record
ing is now available:
https://youtu.be/ySyUmJjhkYM
Presented
in English with subtitles.
Studies on Iran-Iraq war literature tend to focus on those works which represent the war propaganda of the Isla mic regime\, known as the ‘literature of the sacred defence’ (adabiyyāt -e defā’-e moqaddas). However\, this talk will focus on those stories that offer a different image and provide a space for a critical understandi ng of the war by challenging the cultural and aesthetic codes of the Sacred Defence literature. This study will use the premises of critical semiotics and discourse analysis theory to examine the extent to which the ideologic al statements embedded in the Sacred Defence literature are either reproduc ed or challenged by these literary works. This talk will focus on the first decade of the Islamic revolution (the 80s) when the Sacred Defence discour se was in its most hegemonic stage\, and the war was still going on. Dr. Sa lour Malayeri will examine works from independent writers who tried to give voice to suppressed or marginalised discourses and social groups\, works f rom Javād Mojābi\, Mansur Kushān\, Amir Hossein Cheheltan\, Qāzi Rabihāvi a nd Taqi Modarresi.
Salour Malayeri earned his PhD in Modern Languages from the University of St Andrews. His PhD thesis focuses on ideology and resistance in Nāser-e Khosrow’s poetry. In his thesis\, Sa lour uses the method of discourse analysis and the critique of ideology to investigate the relationship between the literary tradition and Ismaili dis course in Nāser-e Khosrow’s Divan. Salour is also interested in th e history of modern literary criticism in Iran and the dialogue between tra dition and modernity in the early 20th-century Persian poetry. His chapter on the literary views of Mirza Fatali Akhundzādeh (Akhundov) has been publi shed by Ginko Library in ‘Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906: Narrati ves of Enlightenment’ edited by Ali M Ansari. His second publication on Ira nian modern literary criticism and poetry focuses on Mohammad-Taqi Bahār’s literary heritage\, which will be published by Routledge in an edited volum e by Homa Katouzian and Alireza Korangi. Salour has been teaching Persian l anguage and literature in the School of Modern Languages\, St Andrews Unive rsity. Currently\, he is working on his monograph\, ‘Temporality and Endura nce: A Study of Ideology and Resistance in the Poems of Nāsir-i Khusraw’ wh ich is based on his doctoral thesis.
Join us each Monday from 7pm - 8:30pm PST on Zoom to discuss the biography of Nangsa Oebum\, one of the eight gre at biographies of Tibet. Please email chusang@mail.ubc.ca if you would like to join.
The Department of Asian Studies of the Uni versity of British Columbia and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are del ighted to invite all lovers of Persianate Culture to join us in "Women and Power in Persian Literature: Story reading with Shahrnush Parsipur" event o n April 30\, 2021. Shahrnush Parsipur is the author of the novels\, "Touba and the Meaning of Night (Touba va Manāy-e Shab\; 1989)" and "Prison Memoir (Khāterāt-e Zendān\; 1996)". In this workshop\, Asian Studie s professors\, Dr. Hessam Dehghani and Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard will intervi ew the author and delve into one of her best works about Women and Feminini ty\, "Women without Men".
Each member of the audience has the chance to ask questions and comment on different aspects of this novel and become familiar with the writer's point of view\, technique\, and style.
Pre sented in Persian. Registration is required here.
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The transition to on line teaching in the past year has posed many challenges to language teachi ng in Asian Studies. With the prospect of in-person classes in September\, we are here to discuss what we have learnt from teaching online and how we plan to modify our in-person teaching based on this unusual experience. Th is workshop invites representatives from different language programs in Asi an Studies to discuss and share their experience of teaching language onlin e and more importantly\, what changes they are going to make for their Sept in-person classes.
The event is for matted as a panel discussion. Please join the meeting via the Zoom link bel ow:
https://ubc.zoom.us/j/65085731511?pwd=U3ZHRzRUNnp1VC8xd2ZXV UdUd1BaUT09
Meeting ID: 650 8573 1511
Passcode: 549586
Panelists:
Hessam D ehghani - Persian Language Program
Sonam Chusang - Tibetan Language Program
Su nil Kumar Bhatt - Hindi-Urdu Language Program
Zoe Lam - Cantonese Language Program
Eurie Shin & Jeonghye Son - <
/span>Korean Language Program Nick Hall (representing Distan
ce Education DE Course Team) - Japanese Language Program Yinghua
Tsai - Chinese Language Program<
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mbed]https://youtu.be/OHtzd56A3Gg[/embed] According to the Ca
mbridge English Dictionary\, heritage means features belonging to the cultu
re of a particular society\, such as traditions\, languages\, or buildings\
, that were created in the past and still have historical importance. Throu
gh a virtual panel conversation\, we would like to explore the significance
of Asian Heritage Month to Asian-Canadians today living in Vancouver. This
virtual event will feature a moderator and four panelists who will respond
to various pre-recorded audio\, video\, and written submissions from UBC a
nd Vancouver community members who have self-recorded responses to a series
of questions. Jimmy Yan\, Vancouver Asian
Heritage Month Society Board of Directors\, Secretary Jimmy
joined Access Justice in 2003 and served as its System Architect\, Project
Manager\, and Acting Executive Director prior to its merger with Pro Bono L
aw of BC. He's a columnist and a regular media commentator on issues of pub
lic legal education and information. Jimmy has a B.Sc. degree in Computer E
ngineering and a M.Ed. in Law\, Justice and Ethics. He's also a Research As
sistant of The Centre for Education\, Law and Society in the Faculty of Edu
cation at Simon Fraser University\, and a CELS educational advisor to the C
hinese community. Dr. Caroline Lo\, UBC Lec
turer in Social Justice As a naturalised Canadian\, Dr. Caro
line Lo (she/her) was born\, raised\, and educated in Taiwan for the first
25 years of her life\, and received her advanced degree in Business Adminis
tration (MBA) at Eastern Washington University (EWU) in the US. She then mo
ved to Canada to pursue her second advanced degree in Ethics\, Law\, and So
cial Justice in the Faculty of Education at SFU in 2013\, and later her PhD
degree at UBC. She currently works as a lecturer teaching Social Justice a
t UBC while being involved in various research projects in literacy learnin
g and education of special needs children. Dr. Lo explores Chinese he
ritage maintenance in identity and language practice in BC. Findings illumi
nate perceptions shaped by migratory trajectory\, immigrant generation\, an
d embodied racialized identity. Her research enriches the theoretical disco
urse in heritage maintenance with language as a conceptual link between her
itage and identity. Sophia Diamonds\, UBC Political Science s
tudent Sophia (she/her) is a UBC Political Science student h
ailing from Vancouver\, BC. She is Taiwanese-Canadian with family roots in
Taichung\, Taiwan. Her studies focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict\, which i
nfluenced her to live in Jerusalem. There\, she witnessed the ongoing polit
ical tensions — learning locally and without media bias. Improving the heal
th of mothers\, newborns\, and their families (MNCH) is also one of her pas
sions. She led a public awareness campaign and facilitated educational disc
ussions with the Canadian public\, including at events like Taiwanfest 18’.
She enjoys running\, skiing\, and spending time with her family. Olivia Lim (she/her) is a recen
t UBC graduate of Chinese Filipino and European descent currently working a
nd living on the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceeded territories of the
Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-waututh nations. She completed her BA in H
onours in English with a minor in Asian Canadian and Asian Migrations Studi
es in 2020 and plans to begin graduate studies in English Literature in Fal
l of 2021. Her research interests center on critical race and critical disa
bility studies\, life writing\, affect theory\, embodiment studies\, and As
ian Canadian\, Asian American\, Filipinx\, and Asian diasporic literatures
and her current projects include research assistantships on transpacific li
teratures and Asian diasporic communities. Arian Zand\, UBC A
lumnus Arian Zand (he/him) recently graduated from UBC with
an Honours degree in Political Science and International Relations. He is c
urrently working as a Legislative Intern in the Legislative Assembly of Bri
tish Columbia. Immigrating to Canada from Iran at 18\, Arian became fascina
ted with the relative diversity\, inclusion and multiculturalism in democra
tic institutions in his new home. As an immigrant in Canada\, Arian's journ
ey presented him with unique yet abundant opportunities to learn from his f
riends\, classmates\, and mentors from diverse cultural backgrounds. What's
more\, educational and cultural events at the UBC Department of Asian Stud
ies enabled him to expand his perspective by exposing him to the rich tradi
tions of various Asian societies. Arian's academic\, professional\, a
nd volunteer activities revolve around promoting diversity in political rep
resentation\, cultivating trust in democratic institutions and fostering in
tercultural dialogue. The VAHMS is a regi
stered secular non-profit organization with year-round programming in the a
rts and culture scene. Their mission is to foster\, promote and celebrate t
he arts and cultural diversity that Asian-Canadian communities bring to Can
adian society. Since 1996\, VAHMS has worked closely with local Asian
-Canadian communities and organizations that support their vision of becomi
ng the main hub for celebrating Asian-Canadian arts and culture in the Metr
o-Vancouver area. Their signature project is explorASIAN\, a Metro-Vancouve
r festival showcasing pan-Asian Canadian arts and culture during Asian Heri
tage Month in May. This year (2021) is the 25th anniversary of both VAHMS a
nd explorASIAN. [gravityform id="4
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] سخنران: دکتر مرجان
موسوی، مدرس دانشگاه مریلند شاهدها، نجواها و کلاهگیسها در نمایشنامه
های خلقشده توسط زنان نمایشنامهنویس معاصر ایرانی، نشانههای «مشکلساز» از
حضور فضایی و جسمانی هستند که با مقررات صحنه بر اساس شئونات اسلامی مطابقت ن
دارند، در عین حال قادر به تجسم معانی و بازنماییهای چندگانه و ظریف هستند. د
ر این ارائه، دکتر مرجان موسوی آنچه را که از بررسی استفادهٔ زنان تئاترآفرین
از شاهدان و زمزمههای زنان در برخوردهای خصوصی و عمومی آموخته است، به اشتراک
میگذارد. Marjan Moosavi is the Roshan L
ecturer of Persian Studies and Performance at the University of Maryland\,
where she teaches courses about theatre\, multimedia art\, and activism thr
ough art in Iran and its diaspora. She has served as a faculty member and d
esigned curricula for the University of Toronto\, York University (Canada)\
, Portland State University (U.S.A)\, and Parand Azad University (Iran). Ma
rjan is the author of several scholarly articles\, book chapters\, and inte
rviews published in Theatre Topics\, The Drama Review (TDR)\, New Theatre Quarterly\, Asian Theatre Journal\, and
Ecumenica. She is the Principal Investigator and Curator for the F
irst Photo Exhibition on the Middle Eastern Theatre\, founder and the Princ
ipal Investigator of the First Digital Guide to Theater of the Middle East\
, and the Regional Managing Editor of the Iran section for TheTheatreTimes.
com. Recent collaborations include those with Gatherings (University of Tor
onto)\, IPCCR (International Program for Creative Collaboration & Research\
, University of Maryland)\, and Persian Digital Humanities (University of M
aryland). Embracing her new virtual reality\, Marjan appreciates connecting
with you via Zoom for a saffron tea and a sweet chat! The Department of Asian Studies of the Uni
versity of British Columbia and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are del
ighted to invite all lovers of Persianate Culture to join us in "Woman and
Facing the Real: Story-Reading with Fariba Vafi" workshop at 1PM (PST) on M
ay 22\, 2021. In the first part of the session\, Dr. Hessam Dehghani and Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard
from the Department of Asian Studies will interview Fariba Vafi about her l
ates novel\, "Ruz-e Digar-e Shora". In the second part of the event\, we fa
miliarize you with Vafi's depiction of women issues and her literary style
through analyzing and discussing her collection of short stories "Bī Bād\,
Bī Pārū." Use this rare opportunity to have the author give you clues as to
how to connect with her stories. Come to the session with your questions a
nd enjoy a mini-lesson of literary criticism from the author. Presented in Persian. Registration is required. Registratio
n link: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u50ld-yopj4pG9V656c5B
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] سخنران: مهدیه ولیزاده، دانشجوی
دکتری ادبیات تطبیقی، دانشگاه تورنتو به نظر میرسد که مناقشات بر سر ا
ینکه معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارسی ماهیتی زمینی دارد یا آسمانی هرگز پایان نخواه
د یافت. طرفداران قرائت آسمانی از معشوق (که بهویژه پس از انقلاب اسلامی مورد
حمایت قرار گرفتند) افرادی را که قائلند که معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارسی زمینی ا
ست، تنگنظر میدانند. از سوی دیگر، طرفداران قرائت زمینی بودن عشق در ادبیات
فارسی، خوانشهای عرفانی از معشوق را خوانشهایی جزمی و منسوخ میبینند که توس
ط سنتگرایان رواج یافته است. در این سخنرانی ماهیت معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارسی
(با محوریت سبک عراقی) از طریق پنج رویکرد متفاوت اما مرتبط ادبیات فلسفی، تر
جمهای و تطبیقی، زبانشناختی، شعری و در نهایت تاریخی بررسی و تحلیل میشود.<
/p> [embed]https
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSkU316OFqE[/embed] Mahdieh Vali-Zadeh is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Comparative Literature of Univers
ity of Toronto and a graduate of Harvard World Literature program. Mahdieh
is now focused on writing her comparative dissertation\, which concerns the
reception of British Orientalist scholarship of Persian mysticism on the m
atter of the ‘self’\, both individual and national\, in two different but r
elated frameworks: among the British Romantic poets of the late-eighteenth
and early-nineteenth century\, and the Iranian intellectuals of the early t
o mid-twentieth century. Her comparative Masters’ thesis on the matter of t
he sublime in Rumi and Wordsworth’s poetry was nominated for Best American
Comparative Literature Association Master Thesis Award from York University
. The recording of the event is now made available: [embed]https://youtu.be/m0B6lt1zEmk[/embed] UBC Persiana
te and Iranian Studies Program and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club is h
osting one of the leading literary and cultural figures in Afghanistan\, Mu
jib Mehrdad. He will speak about his view of the contemporary poetry in Afg
hanistan and we will interview him about his latest collection of poetry pu
blished in Iran\, titled "Dolphins' Alley (Kuche-y-e Dolfin-ha)". Take this
rare opportunity to know more about the development of poetry in Afghanist
an and its relation with the Contemporary Nīmā-ei Movement in Iranian poetr
y (جنبش شعر نیمایی) . Date & Time: Mujib MEHRDAD (poet\, playwright\, translator\; Afghanistan)
is the author of the poetry collections [Gladiators Are Still Dying] (2007\
; winner of the Afghan Civil Society’s literature contest)\, [The Fishes Ha
ve Fled Our Veins] (2008)\, [Audience] (2009)\, and [soldiers] (2015)\, and
of the collection of essays [The Rain Passed]. He has translated Ginsberg\
, Plath\,Langston Hughes\, Mayakovsky\, Tagore\, and others\, into Dari. He
is a board member of the literary organization Kashane Nawesendagan [House
of Authors]\, board member of Afghan pen organization and teaches Persian
literature at Al-bironi University in Kapisa and for the last three years h
e has been working as a spokesperson for the ministry of education. He has
a master's degree in English literature and Cultural studies from India. At
the moment\, he is editor-in-chief of Hashti Subh daily\, the most read ne
wspaper in Afghanistan. [caption id="attachment_41785" align="alignce
nter" width="512"] The event is sponsored by UBC Department of A
sian Studies. The Department of Asian Studies of the Uni
versity of British Columbia and UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are del
ighted to invite all lovers of Persianate Culture to join our next dive int
o different manifestations of femininity in Persian literature. On June 19\
, 2021 at 10am (PST)\, we are hosting a scholarly talk titled\, "Imaginativ
e minds\, Shackled Feet" by Belgheis Soleimani followed by an interview abo
ut her latest novel "Tokhm-e Shar". In this session\, Belghei
s Soleimani\, the author of some of the most popular and award-win
ning Persian novels\, will give you clues as to how to connect with her wor
ks and will explicate how she sees the role of women in Iran's sociopolitic
al sphere. Presented in Persian. Registration is req
uired via the form below. Moderator
Panelists
About the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Socie
ty (VAHMS)
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]<
/p>زنان ایرانی در مقام تئاترآفرینانِ
شاهد و نجواگر
Witnesses\, whispers\, and wigs in the plays
created by contemporary Iranian women playwrights are ‘problematic’ markers
of spatial and corporeal presence that fail to comply with stage regulatio
ns of Islamic decency fully yet manage to embody multiple and nuanced meani
ngs and representations. In this presentation\, Dr. Marjan Moosavi shares w
hat she learned from examining female theatre-makers’ use of witnesses and
whispers of/about women in their private and public encounters. By looking
at the narrative and aesthetics of plays\, props\, and processes\, this pre
sentation engages with the following questions: how do shared narratives an
d spaces in women’s performances invite spectators to bear witness and deve
lop an ethical response? How do ‘problematic’ witnesses and whispers on sta
ge simultaneously carry discourses on ambivalence and playfulness concernin
g values and virtues?
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SUMMARY: Celebrate Student Research: Games in Asia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210520T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210520T183000
SUMMARY: Overcoming Online Challenges in Hosting Events and Planning Projec
ts (UBC 2021 Celebrate Learning Week)
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URL;VALUE=URI:https://cjr.iar.ubc.ca/overcoming-online-challenges/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210521T203000
SUMMARY: [Webinar] Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures
through Construction Photography
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URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/webinar-infrastructure-imagi
nation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210522T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210522T150000
SUMMARY: Woman and Facing the Real: Story-Reading with Fariba Vafi
DESCRIPTION: Join us in "Woman and Facing the Real: Story-Reading with Fari
ba Vafi" workshop on May 22\, 2021
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Should you have any questions\, please contact the Depart
ment of Asian Studies at Asian.Studie
s@ubc.ca.
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]زمینی یا آسمانی؟ معشوق در شعر کلاسیک فارس
ی
The event recording is now available:
It seems that t
he controversies over the nature of the beloved in classical Persian poetry
as an earthly or ethereal phenomenon would never end. Those in favor of th
e celestial reading of it (who particularly enjoyed more fortune after the
1979 Islamic revolution) consider their counterparts with close affinities
for an earthly beloved to be narrow-minded. The adherents of terrestrial lo
ve (who have not favored many academic voices\, inside Iran due to the hege
mony of the Islamicists\, and in diaspora\, because of the dominance of Isl
amic Studies in Religious Departments)\, though\, see mystical readings dog
matic and outdated\, prevailed by traditionalists. The topic gets even more
complicated when one takes into account the attitudes in the medieval Musl
im world toward homosexual acts and homosexual orientation\, shāhid-bāzī\,
and thus\, the gender of this beloved. The present article explores and ana
lyzes the nature of the beloved in Persian classical poetry (with a focus o
n theʿirāqī style) via five different but related approaches: philosophical
\, translational and comparative literature\, linguistic\, poetic\, and ult
imately\, historical/developmental. The study concludes that a structural a
nd essentialist reading of the beloved in Persian classical poetry as eithe
r earthly or ethereal would create numerous problems at multiple levels\, a
nd that that the spirit of Persian classical poetry in this regard is the s
pirit of uncertainty\, due to various reasons. The present research hopes t
o offer an expanded meaning of mystical love to read and interpret Persian
mystical/lyrical ʿirāqī-style poetry.About the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian an
d Persianate Studies: Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an enthus
iastic researcher\, a consummate socio-political analyst\, and an opinion l
eader on foreign policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogue and
liberal democracy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, supporter
of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadian-Iran
ian Community. The department renamed this lecture series in his honour in
2019. Alireza’s friends in the community have provided funding to support t
his series\, and this generous gift will see these important academic and c
ommunity engagement events supported through to the end of the 2025/2026 ac
ademic year. Read More ...
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SUMMARY: The Panorama of Contemporary Persian Poetry in Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION: UBC Persianate and Iranian Studies Program and UBC Persian Lit
erature Reading Club is hosting one of the leading literary and cultural fi
gures in Afghanistan\, Mujib Mehrdad.
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Should you have any questions\, ple
ase contact the Department of Asian Studies at Asian.Studies@ubc.ca.
June 13 | 11
am - 1pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
*Presen
ted in Persian
Free & open to the public. 
The latest collection of poetry
published in Iran by Mujib Mehrdad\, titled "Dolphins' Alley (Kuche-y-e Dol
fin-ha)".[/caption]
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]
Poster design by Razman Goudarzi[/caption]
سخنران: دکتر نَوینا نقْوی، استادیار فرهنگهای اسلامی فارسیزبان جنوب آسیا، دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا
در گفتما ن عمومی اغلب از مردم افغان منحصراً بهعنوان ساکنان افغانستان، معروف به «گور ستان امپراتوریها» و محل جنگهای بومی، یاد میشود. اما افغانها قبل از بهو جودآمدن دولت مدرن افغانستان چه کسانی بودند؟ در این نشست تلاش میشود که با ب ررسی تاریخ مردم افغان در آسیای مرکزی و جنوبی قبل از دوران معاصر به این پرسش پاسخ داده شود. برای این منظور بر تاجران افغان، صوفیان و کارگران خدماتی در هندوستان که برخی اسنادی را به زبانهای فارسی، پشتو و اردو به جای گذاشتهاند تمرکز میشود.
Too often\, Afghan peoples feature in pub
lic discourse exclusively as inhabitants of Afghanistan\, a so-called ‘grav
eyard of empires’ and a site of endemic warfare. But who were the Afghans b
efore the modern state of Afghanistan came into being? We will visit this q
uestion by observing how the history of Afghan peoples unfolded across Pers
ianate Central and South Asia in pre-modern times. In particular\, we will
focus on Afghans traders\, Sufis and service people in Hindustan\, some of
whom left behind a written record in Persian\, the lingua franca\, as well
as Pashto and later\, in the local vernacular\, Urdu.
Naveena Naqvi is a historian of early modern and modern South Asia. Her r esearch interests include the Persianate world (ca. 13th-19th centuries)\, with a focus on non-courtly Persographic writers in regional contexts durin g early colonial rule. Her broader fields of interest span the history of p olitical Islam\, gender and sexuality\, and Hindustani music. She was a pos tdoctoral fellow at Yale University in 2018-19 and completed her PhD in His tory at UCLA in 2018. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia. You can listen to her speak about her work here.
The recording of the event is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/7puslSb2CNE[/embed]
F ollowing the journey through women's literature in Persian\, the Persian La nguage and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club are hosting another prominent figure in modern Persian litera ture\, Mitra Eliati. The focus of the workshop would be her collecti on of short stories\, titled "Mademoiselle Kati". In this wo rkshop\, we will talk with Eliati about modern Irania n's search for identity within their country and through immigration. We wi ll also delve into the formation of sexuality in the characters of her stor ies. If you are not familiar with this brilliant author\, this session is t he best opportunity to speak with her and listen to her read and discuss he r stories.
About the Speaker:
Mitra Eli ati is an Iranian novelist and poet. Her first collection of stories was pu blished in 2001 by Cheshmeh Publications. This book received a lot of atten tion from literary critics and won various awards such as the first collect ion of short stories in 2002 "Golshiri Foundation" and the book of the year award "Story House". Eliati's collection of short stories\, "Mademoiselle Katie" includes 7 short stories that have reached their seventh edition so far. Her second collection of stories entitled "Mermaid Cafe" has been publ ished by Cheshmeh Publishing (2008) and has reached its third edition.
< p>In addition to writing short stories\, Mitra Eliyati has b een the judge of several Iranian short story festivals\, including: judging the best stories of Isfahan\, Mashhad\, Khorramabad\, Gorgan\, etc.میترا الیاتی (تهران 3 فروردین 1329- )
داستاننویس و شاعر ایرا نی. مادمازل کتی و چند داستان دیگر، اولین مجموعه داستان میترا الیاتی در سال 1380 توسط انتشارات چشمه منتشر شد. این کتاب از سوی منتقدین ادبی مورد توجه بسیاری قرار گرفت و جوایز مختلفی همچون جایزۀ اولین مجموعه داستان سال 13 81 «بنیاد گلشیری»، و جایزۀ کتاب سال «خانۀ داستان» را از آن خود کرد. مجموعه داستان مادمازل کتی شامل 7 داستان کوتاه است که تاکنون به چاپ هفتم رسیده. دومین مجموعه داستان او نیز تح ت عنوان «کافه پری دریایی» توسط نشر چشمه (۱۳۸۷) منتشر شده و تاکنون به چاپ س وم رسیده است.
میترا الیاتی علاوه بر داستاننویسی تاکنون داوری چند جشنوارۀ داستان کوتاه کشوری از جمله: داوری داستانهای برتر اصفهان، مشهد، خر مآباد، گرگان و... را بهعهده داشته است.
Date & Time:
August 3 | 7pm – 9pm (PDT)
Location: online vi
a Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
The event is sponsored by UBC Department of Asian Studies.
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The recording of the event is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/8JuMeyQueJI[/embed]
The Persian Langu age and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Re ading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting their next Literature Rea ding Workshop with another Persian Women Writer\, Mehrnoosh Mazarei. In thi s workshop\, they will listen to her read parts of her flash fictions and a nalyze them thematically and structurally step by step. Particularly\, the workshop pays attention to the feminine perspective in these stories and it will look into the significance of linguistic and narrative choices made i n a flash fiction. If you are familiar with her work\, it is your chance to meet the author and ask your questions. On the other hand\, if you do not know her\, this is going to be the best introduction to her work.
August 25 | 7pm – 9pm (PDT)
Lo
cation: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & o
pen to the public.
Mehrnoosh Mazarei is the author of several Persian short story collections\, including A Stranger in My Room\, which was nominated twice in Iran for th e best short story collection of the year. Her many stories have been publi shed and anthologized in other countries as well\, including the United Sta tes\, Great Britain\, Canada\, and Germany. Her latest novel is "Mina's Rev olution" in English which is being translated to Persian.
The eve nt is sponsored by the UBC Department of Asian Studies.
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Moderated by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (University of British Columbia)\, this book talk features author Dr. Elaheh Kheirandish in discus sion of her book Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Ag e of Science CA. 750-1750 alongside two panelists Prof. Charles Melvil le (University of Cambridge) and Dr. Anne Ashley Davenport (Harvard Univers ity). The event is hosted by Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiativ e at UBC and sponsored by the UBC Department of Asian Studies.
September 8 | 11am – 12pm (PDT)
L
ocation: online via Zoom
This talk will be presented in Engli
sh.
Free & open to the public. Click the link below to register for
the event.
Registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register /WN_BZJyihShSlWR0SNT6bp_8g
About the speaker
Elaheh Kheirandish is a lecturer and researcher at Harvard University\, Cambr idge\, Massachusetts. She holds a PhD in the History of Science from Harvar d University\, as well as graduate degrees in Mathematics and Science Educa tion from the University of Rhode Island. Her undergraduate degrees are in Applied Mathematics and Chemistry. She has taught courses at several depart ments at Harvard University\, curated exhibits at Harvard and Brown Univers ities\, produced documentary films and digital projects\, and lectured inte rnationally. Her most recent affiliation is with the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University\, and the Agha Khan Program f or Islamic Architecture.
Charles Melville \, University of Cambridge
Charles Melville is an Emeritus P rofessor of Persian History at the University of Cambridge. He has been a l ong-serving member of the Governing Council of the British Institute of Per sian Studies and is currently (since 2017) President. He has also served on the Board of the Societas Iranologica Europaea (1995-2003) and was Preside nt of The Islamic Manuscript Association (2006-19) and a trustee of the Gib b Memorial Trust until 2019. Since 1999\, he has been Director of the Shahn ama Project\, based in Cambridge. In 2010 he was behind an exhibition of Pe rsian manuscripts and paintings of the Shahnama (Persian Book of Kings) at the Fitzwilliam Museum. He is series editor of 'Studies in Persian Cultural History' (Brill\, Leiden) and the 'Idea of Iran' symposia (Soudavar Memori al Foundation). He is a Permanent Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Man uscript Cultures (CSMC) at Hamburg University and currently has a Leverhulm e Trust Emeritus Fellowship with a project on 'Visualising Persian history' . He has travelled widely in Central Asia and Iran (both before and after the Islamic Revolution).
Anne Davenport\, Harvard University< /strong>
Anne Ashley Davenport is a senior fellow at t he Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School. Raised in France\, she received a diploma from the University of Nancy befo re entering Harvard College where she earned a bachelor of arts degree cum laude. She received a master’s degree in teaching from Simmons College and completed her Ph.D. in the history of science at Harvard in 1998. Recipient of grants from the Cades Foundation and the Institute for Medieval Philosophy and Theology at Boston College\, Dr. Davenport was a Dibner Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy. She has written a number of scholarly articles. Her first book\, Measure of Greatness: The Intensive Infinite\, 1250-1650< span class="">\, was published by Brill last year.
Hessam Dehghani\, University of British Columbia
< strong>About the Book:
Baghdad and Isf ahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science CA. 750-1750
Elaheh Kheirandish
Renowned as great centres of learning\, the c ities of Baghdad and Isfahan were at the heart of the Islamic civilization as rich capital cities and centres of intellectual thought. Their distinct cultural voices inspired a unique historical dialogue\, which finds new exp ression in Baghdad and Isfahan\, the story of how knowledge was transmitted and transformed within Islamic lands\, and then spread across Europe. Capt uring the history of Baghdad and Isfahan from 750 to 1750\, Elaheh Kheirand ish draws on the voices of court astronomers\, mathematicians\, scientists\ , mystics\, jurists\, statesmen and Arabic and Persian translators and scho lars to document the extensive and lasting contribution of sciences from Is lamic lands to the history of science. Kheirandish bases her narrative on a unique medieval manuscript and other historical sources and the result is more than a thousand-year 'tale of two cities' – it is a city by city\, and century by century\, look at what it took to change the world. In a feat o f travelogue and time travel\, this unique book creates parallel stories wi th modern and historical characters\, crossing cities worldwide\, and captu ring changes through time. Interweaving multiple narratives\, histories\, a nd futures\, she charts the possible paths – formalized and serendipitous\, lost and recovered – by which knowledge itself is translated and transmitt ed across time and cultures.
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ncenter" width="1920"]
Poster desi
gn by Farzan Kermani[/caption]
سخنرا ن: دکتر لَتیشیا نَنکِت، مدرس ارشد، دانشگاه نیو ساوت ولز، سیدنی
طرفبحث: دکتر اِیمی مطلق، دانشیار ادبیات تطبیقی و مطالع ات خاورمیانه و جنوب آسیا، دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، دیویس
برای تحلیل ادبیات معاصر فارسی، نه تنها خود متون، بلکه چگونگی تولید و انتشار آنها در ارتباط با حوزههای اجتماعی، اقتصادی و سیاسی نیز اهمیت دارد. در این سخنرانی، به چگونگ ی عملکرد و انتشار ادبیات ایرانی، به ویژه نثر، از انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ تا به امروز، چ ه در داخل ایران و چه در خارج از آن، با تمرکز بر آمریکای شمالی، اروپای غربی و استرالیا پرداخته میشود.
To analyse contemporary Pers
ian literature\, it is important to study not only the texts themselves\, b
ut also how they are produced and circulated\, in relation to the social\,
economic and political fields. In this lecture\, Laetitia Nanquette will di
scuss how Iranian literature\, especially prose\, has functioned and circul
ated from the 1979 revolution to the present\, both within Iran and in the
countries of the Iranian diaspora\, with a focus on North America\, Western
Europe and Australia. Dr. Nanquette will first look at the forms\, structu
res and functions of Iranian literature within Iranian society\, before tur
ning to the global diaspora.
Laetitia Nanquette is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Arts and Media a t the University of New South Wales\, Sydney\, Australia. She studied in Fr ance\, the United Kingdom\, Iran and the United States\, before coming to A ustralia. Nanquette was a fellow of the Australian Research Council between 2015 and 2019. She travels to Iran for research fieldworks and translates contemporary Persian literary texts into English and French. Her first book was Orientalism Versus Occidentalism. Literary and Cultural Imaging Be tween France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution (I.B. Tauris\, 2013 ). Her work on Iranian literature has appeared in leading journals includin g Iranian Studies\, The Translator\, Interventions. Iranian Literature after the Islamic Revolution: Production and Cir culation in Iran and the World was published in May with Edinburgh Uni versity Press.
Amy Motlagh is As sociate Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East and South Asian Studies and the inaugural Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Lan guage and Literature at UC Davis\, where she is also language coordinator f or the Middle East and South Asia Studies program. After finishing her Ph.D . at Princeton University\, she spent the first decade of her academic care er at the American University in Cairo. Her first book\, Burying the Be loved: Realism and Reform in Modern Iran (Stanford University Press)\, focused on the connections between civil law\, prose fiction\, and gender in twentieth-century Iran. Motlagh’s current research projects are focused\ , respectively\, on: racial discourse in Iran\; translation and circulation of Persian literature\; and human rights discourse and cinema. She maintai ns an active interest in the production of Iranian diasporic culture around the world.
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC
and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are
hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile
in Modern Persian Literature. The first workshop features author\, Fariba S
edighim\, who will speak about “language and migration” by way of a discuss
ion on her collection of short stories titled I Was Once a British Woma
n\, followed by a discussion on her latest novel I in Parentheses<
/em>.
در این جلسه در بررسی ادبیات مهاجرت و در تبعید، در بخش اول جلسه، در قالب خوانش بخشهایی از مجموعه داستان «من زن ی انگلیسی بوده¬ام» نظر نویسنده را دربارهی مسئله زبان در ادبیات و خصوصا اد بیات مهاجرت جویا خواهیم شد. در بخش دوم با مصاحبه ای با ایشان درباره رمان اخ یرشان، «من در پرانتز»، با سبک و دغدغههای این نویسنده آشنا میشویم
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The recording of the event is now made available:
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Date & Time:<
br />September 29
6:30pm – 8:30pm (PDT) | 6:00am - 8:00am (Kabul Time)
| 5:00am - 7:00am (Tehran Time)
Location: online via
Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
Fariba Sedighim was born in 1959 C.E.\, 1338 of the Persian Calendar\, henceforth P.C.\, to a religious Jewish family of Nahavand\, Iran. In 1992 C.E.\, 1371 P.C.\, Fariba Sedighim published her first book in Persian\, entitled in translation Two Brothers\, Two Frie nds. Around that time\, Fariba began to write stories for adults\, in addition to her flourishing poetry and children’s stories. Her new creative phase produced an array of works in Persian\, including a collection of po ems entitled This Heart Won’t Beat Regularly\; two collec tions of stories\, namely\, The Candles Beneath the Colander and < em>I Was Once a British Woman\; three works for children and youngster s entitled I Love You as Much as the Folds in My Skirt\, Do You Know My Friend?\, and Who Took All the Water in the Lake?\; and a no vel entitled Leora.
فریبا صدیقیم
درسال 1338 در تهران متولد شد . تا سن 11 سالگی در شهرستان کوچکی به نام نهاوند زندگی می کرد و بعد با خانواده به تهران مهاجرت کرد. مدرک تحصیلی اش را در رشته ی فیزیوتراپی از دانشگاه تهران گرفت . در سال 2001 با خانواده به آمریکا مهاجرت کرد. کار ادبی اش را از حدود بیست و پنج سال پیش با کار کودکان و نوجوانان شروع کرد و سپس با شرکت در کلاس های اد بی دکتر رضا براهنی به شعر و داستان نیز رو آورد. علاوه بر کتابهایی که نوشت ب ا مجلات و سایت های ادبی مختلف در زمینه شعر، داستان و نقد شعر و داستان همکار ی داشته است. حاصل فعالیت های ادبی اش را در ذیل مشاهده می کنید: در زمینه ی ک ودکان و نوجوانان: "دو برادر دو دوست"، "اگر مادر بود چکار می کرد؟"، "سعید و اسباب بازی هایش"، "من چی نقاشی کنم؟"، "احمد و بوته ی گل سرخ"، "چطور مادر را خوشحال کنم"، "من خودم"، "خانم بلوز آبی"، "کوچکترها بزرگترها"، "سفید گریه ن کن"، "نابغه ی کوچک"، "دوستت دارم "، "شما دوست مرا می شناسید" . برای بزگسالا ن: مجموعه ی شعرهای " به تعویق می اندازیم تا کی ؟ " ، و " این قلب معمولی نمی زند " و مجموعه داستان های " شبی که آخر نداشت"، " شمع های زیر آبکش " و " من زنی انگلیسی بوده ام". رمانهای او عبارتند از "لیورا" و «من در پرانتز».
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This lecture is held as a component of JAPN465: Japanese
Media and Translation.
Date & Time:
Octob
er 1 | 5pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
This
lecture will be presented in English.
Free & open to the public. Re
gistration is required. Please see the bottom of this page to register for
this event.
This paper investigates how Japanese translators use Japanese gendered features in translating the speech of non-Japanese women and men (Inoue 2003\; Shibamoto Smith 2004). The data consists of the trans lated speech in English and Russian literary works\, TV dramas\, films and newspaper interview articles. Based on the methodology of discourse analysi s\, Dr. Momoko Nakamura examines the occurrences of feminine and masculine features in the wide range of media discourse (Nakamura 2013). The analysis shows: 1) Japanese translators overwhelmingly use feminine features in tra nslating non-Japanese women’s speech\, and 2) while they also employ mascul ine features in translating non-Japanese men’s speech\, with respect to the casual\, laid-back speech of non-Japanese men\, they have created a specif ic Japanese style used only in the translation of the speech. The findings suggest: 1) the predominant use of feminine features for the speech of non- Japanese women works to naturalize Japanese femininity beyond linguistic an d ethnic boundaries\, and 2) the invention of the style for non-Japanese me n serves to enregister the Japanese stereotype of non-Japanese casual mascu linity\, depending on which Japanese masculinity maintains its idealized st atus. In sum\, this paper contributes to elucidating the inter-lingual inte rsections of gender construction.
Momoko Nakamura\, Ph.D. is Professor of English at Kanto Gakuin University\, Japan. Her research
interest includes linguistic construction of gendered\, sexualized identity
and discursive formation of gendered styles. She is the author of Jibu
nrashisa to nihongo [Identity and Japanese] (2021\, Chikuma shobo)\, <
em>Shinkeigo ‘majiyabaissu’: shakaigengogaku no shiten kara [New Honor
ifics “Majiyabaissu”: A Sociolinguistic Approach] (2020\, Hakutakusha)\,
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Should you have any questions\, please contact the Department of Asian Studies at Asian.Studies@ubc.c a.
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*The event title was later adjusted to
"Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shīʿī Islam" as per the speak
er's request.
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سخنران: دکتر نِبیل حسین، استادیار گروه مطالعات دینی، دانشگاه میامی
طرفبحث: دکتر جواد هاشمی، پژوهشگر اخلاق پزشکی، دانشکده پزشکی هاروارد، دانشجوی دکتری مطالعات ا سلامی، دانشگاه هاروارد
علی، چهارمین خلیفهٔ اسلام را می توان یکی از مو رداحترامترین شخصیتهای تاریخ اسلام دانست. تصویر تقریباً یدکدستی که از علی بهعنوان شخصیتی باتقوا در ادبیات مسلمانان وجود دارد بهنحوی است که روند باز سازی شخصیت او طی قرنها پنهان میماند. برای سالیان دراز، عدهای از مسلمانان علی را دوست نداشتند و او را حاکمی نامشروع میدانستند. نبیل حسین در کتاب جد ید خود با عنوان «مخالفت با امام» به شیوههای گوناگونی که مسلمانانِ نخستین ا ز علی یاد میکردند، توجه میکند و زمینههای شکلگیری تسنن و تشیع را بررسی م یکند. در این ارائه، یافتههای کلیدی این کتاب مورد بحث و بررسی قرار میگیرد .
The event recording is now available:
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ps://youtu.be/PnDd2TIF3Uw[/embed]
Presented in English.
Islam’s fourth caliph\, Ali\, can be cons idered one of the most revered figures in Islamic history. His nearly unive rsal portrayal in Muslim literature as a pious authority obscures a centuri es-long process that entailed the rehabilitation of his character. For many years\, some Muslims disliked Ali and considered him an illegitimate ruler . In his new book\, Opposing the Imam\, Nebil Husayn considers the diverse ways in which early Muslims remembered Ali and contextualizes t he rise of both Sunnism and Shi'ism. This presentation discusses key findin gs from this recent publication.
Javad T. Hashmi is a board-certified emergency physician\, fmr. Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School\, and a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion (Isl amic Studies) at Harvard University. In addition to his medical training\, Dr. Hashmi holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Arabic & Islamic Studi es from U.C. Berkeley and Harvard respectively.
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC is ho
sting a virtual book talk featuring author Dr. Shahla Haeri in discussion o
f her book The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authority\,
Gender. Moderated by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (University of British Columb
ia)\, the session will include a discussion of Dr. Haeri's book\, followed
by a Q&A session with two panelists Professor Ali Banuazizi (Boston College
) and Professor Emeritus Nayereh Tohidi (California State University\, Nort
hridge). The event is sponsored by the UBC Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Time:
October 6 | 5pm – 6:30pm (PDT)
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strong>Location: online via Zoom
This talk will be presented
in English.
Free & open to the public. Click the link below to regi
ster for the event.
Registration link: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/ register/WN_MQ8K_bDAT1mSJSMZwZ_Ijg
About the speaker
Shahl a Haeri is a former director of the Women’s Studies Program at Boston U niversity\, Shahla Haeri is one of the pioneers of Iranian Anthropology\, a nd has produced cutting-edge ethnographies of Iran\, Pakistan and the Musli m world. Her landmark books include her classic ethnography\, Law of De sire: Temporary Marriage\, Mut’a\, in Iran (1989/2014) translated into Arabic and reprinted frequently\, highlighting the tenacious but secretive custom of temporary marriage in Iran\; No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women (2002/2004)\, widens the ethnographic sco pe to make visible lives of educated and professional Muslim women. Her mos t recent book\, The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authori ty\, Gender (Cambridge University Press) is a groundbreaking book on t he extraordinary lives and legacies of a few remarkable Muslim women sovere igns from across cultures and Islamic history. Dr. Haeri’s academic and cre ative oeuvre include directing a video documentary\, Mrs. President: Wo men and Political Leadership in Iran (2002\, 46 min.) focusing on six women presidential contenders during the Iranian presidential election of 2 001. She is the recipient of many fellowships\, grants\, and postdoctoral f ellowships.
Ali Banuazizi\, Boston Colle ge
Ali Banua zizi's scholarly interests include political cultures of the Middle Eas t\; comparative study of religion\, civil society\, and politics in the Mid dle East\; and Iran’s social history and contemporary domestic politics and foreign relations. Professor Banuazizi is currently the Director of the Pr ogram in Islamic Civilization and Societies (ICS) and Chair of the Internat ional Studies Academic Advisory Board at Boston College. He is a past Presi dent of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) and the International So ciety for Iranian Studies (ISIS). He has held visiting appointments at Prin ceton\, Harvard\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, M.I.T.\, and Oxford Univ ersity.
Nayereh Tohidi\, California State University\, Northr idge
Nayereh Tohidi is a Professor and former Chair of the Department of Gender & Women Studies at California State University\ , Northridge. Currently\, she is the founding Director of the Middle Easter n and Islamic Studies at CSUN and also a Research Associate at the Center f or Near Eastern Studies of UCLA where she has been coordinating the Bilingu al Lecture Series on Iran since 2003. Professor Tohidi earned her MA and Ph .D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS (with Hono rs) from the University of Tehran in Psychology and Sociology. She is the r ecipient of several grants\, fellowships and research awards\, including a year of Fulbright lectureship and research at the Academy of Sciences of th e Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan\; post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard Univ ersity\; Stanford University\; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\; the Keddie-Balzan Fellowship at UCLA\; and an NEH grant to devel op the MEIS Program at CSUN. She has held visiting positions at Universitie s of Iowa\, Minnesota\, Harvard\, UCLA\, and USC.
< strong>Hessam Dehghani\, University of British Columbia
Hessam Dehghani is a n Assistant Professor of Teaching\, Persian Language and Culture. He obtain ed a first Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehra n\, Iran\, with a dissertation titled “Interpretation and Literary Theory: From Structuralism to Ricoeurian Hermeneutics” (2011). In 2019\, he earned a second Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston College\, where he was a Fellow at the Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy (2014-2018). His dissertati on\, “The Topology of Community in Aristotle: a Phenomenological Approach\, ” offers a phenomenological reading of Aristotle’s formulation of a “just c ommunity” and its appropriation in Islamic thought.
A bout the book
The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession\, Authority\, Gender
Shahla Haeri
In this landmark study\, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of sever al Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political system s of their times. Their stories illuminate the complex and challenging impe ratives of dynastic succession\, electoral competition and the stunning suc cess they achieved in medieval Yemen and India\, and modern Pakistan and In donesia. The written history of Islam and the Muslim world is overwhelmingl y masculine\, having largely ignored women and their contributions until we ll into the 20th century. Religious and legal justifications have been syst ematically invoked to justify Muslim women's banishment from politics and p ublic domains. Yet this patriarchal domination has not gone on without seri ous challenges by women - sporadic and exceptional though their participati on in the battle of succession has been. The Unforgettable Queens of Islam highlights lives and legacies of a number of charismatic women engaged in f ierce battles of succession\, and their stories offer striking insights int o the workings of political power in the Muslim world.
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Speaker Series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpaci
fic Connections
線上講座
系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋的聯結
Indigenous literature has flourished in Taiwan since the “Aboriginal Social Movement” of the 1980s. Up to 2021\, mo re than 120 works have been published\, including novels\, essays\, poems\, and literary reportage. This lecture provides an overview of Taiwan’s indi genous literary field\, covering oral literature\, poems of street protest\ , the launch of Taiwan Indigenous Voice Bimonthly\, and the establishment o f literary prizes. It argues that such literary practices have helped Taiwa n’s indigenous cultures and literatures to find a voice and come into their own.
當代台灣原住民文學自80年代「原住民社會運動」開始倡議，至2021年已經累積120餘本包括小說、散文、詩、報導文學等作品。本講 演主要概述，從口傳文學的整理、街頭社會抗爭的詩歌、《山海文化》雜誌社、文學獎的辦理，藉文學的實踐，逐步建立台灣原住民族文化與文學的「話語權」與「主體性 」。
Professor Christopher Rea< /b> is a literary and cultural historian whose research focuses on the mode rn Chinese-speaking world. His most recent publications concern comedy\, ce lebrities\, swindlers\, print culture\, cultural entrepreneurs\, literary c osmopolitanism\, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, October 14\, 2021 |
4:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
*
Conducted in English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public. < /p>
Writer B adai will be discussing indigenous culture in modern society in conversatio n with Dr. Josephine Chiu-duke (Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, U niversity of British Columbia) on the following day of the lecture.
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strong>Date & Time:
Friday\, October 15\, 2021 | 4:00pm-6:00p
m (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
*Conducted in
English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public.
Josephine Chiu-Duke is Professor o f Chinese Intellectual History in the Asian Studies Department at the Unive rsity of British Columbia. Since 2010\, she has been responsible for a cour se on History and Culture of Taiwan for students at University of British C olumbia. As well as publishing many scholarly articles on Chinese history a nd culture\, she is the author of To Rebuild the Empire: Lu Chih’s Confu cian Pragmatist Approach to the Mid-T’ang Predicament (SUNY Press\, 200 0) and co-translator of From Rural China to the Ivy League: Yü Ying-shi h’s Reminiscences of His Life and Times (Amherst\, NY: Cambria Press\, 2021).
丘慧芬是UBC亞洲研究系教授，主要從事中國思想史的研究。自2010年起，丘教授在UBC
Badai is an acclaimed Taiwanese indigenous fict ion writer\, and a member of the Puyuma tribe of eastern Taiwan. His short stories focus on the lives of indigenous people in modern society\, while h is novels draw inspiration from tribal history and culture. His works are k nown for their sense of profound historical immediacy\, rich cultural image ry\, and meticulous evocations of wartime\, as well as their accessibility. Acclaimed works include the story “Ginger Road” and the young adult novel Witch Way. His literary works have been translated into Mongolian\, English\, Japanese\, Czech\, and Korean. He is also a researcher with exper tise in Puyuma shamanism and the indigenous literatures of Taiwan.
巴代，台東卑南族小說家。短篇小說主要關懷原住民族在現代社會的適應，長篇小說則以族群歷史、
文化作為創作素材，作品的特色具濃厚的歷史現場感，豐富的文化意象與細膩的戰爭情緒，作品有極高的辨識度。作品譯有蒙古文、英文、日文、捷克文、韓文。
研究領域：卑南族巫覡文化、台灣原住民文學
< p>著有:1.《Daramaw：卑南族大巴六九部落的巫覡文化》《吟唱．祭儀：卑南族大巴六九部落的祭儀歌謠》研究
專書兩冊
2. 短篇小說《薑路》1冊
3. 長篇小說《笛鸛》《斯卡羅人》《走過》《馬鐵路》《巫旅》《白鹿之愛》《最後 女王》《暗礁》《浪濤》《野韻》《月津》等11冊
曾獲：金鼎獎、台灣文學金典獎、吳三連文學獎、吳濁流小說獎、高雄文藝獎
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/indigenous-literary-practice s-in-postcolonial-taiwan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/01/Badai_Indigenous-Taiwan_poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210928T0212Z-1632795146.1215-EO-52999-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210927T181211Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T185053Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211016T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211016T171500 SUMMARY: Social Media\, Music\, and Poetic Worldmaking in Iranian Publics DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Social Media\, Music\, and Poetic Worldmaking in Irani an Publics on October 16\, 2021. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_52972" align="alig
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سخنران: دکتر ناهید صیامدوست، استادیار مطالعا ت رسانه و مطالعات خاورمیانه، دانشگاه تگزاس در آستین
طرفبحث:< /strong> دکتر نیکی اخوان، دانشیار، مطالعات رسانه و ارتباطات، دانشگاه کاتولی ک آمریکا
مدتهاست که موسیقی در سپهر عمومیِ ایران نقش یک کانال مهم را برای میانجیگری اجتماعی و سیاسی بر عهده داشته است. در این سخنرانی، دکتر ناه ید صیامدوست به بررسی نقش موسیقی در خلق شاعرانهٔ جهانهای بازنمودی، ابزاری سازی شادی هم در درون این جهانبرسازیها و هم در کاربستهای آنها و تأثیر رس انههای اجتماعی – و امنیتیسازی فضاهای آنلاین – بر روی این فرایندها میپردا زد.
Music has long serv
ed within Iran’s public sphere as an important channel for social and polit
ical mediation. In this talk\, Dr. Nahid Siamdoust will examine the role of
music in the poetic creation of representational worlds\, the instrumental
ization of joy both within these worldmakings as well as their cooptations\
, and the impact of social media – and the securitization of online spaces
– on these processes.
Nahid Sia
mdoust\, PhD – Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Middle Eas
t Studies\, University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Siamdoust’s first large
research project culminated in her book Soundtrack of the Revolution: T
he Politics of Music in Iran (Stanford\, 2017). It is a fine-grained s
tudy of musical discourses and media use in the constitution and developmen
t of the public sphere in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Researched in Iran
over a period of seven years\, Soundtrack of the Revolution broke new groun
d by demonstrating the minute but powerful ways in which works of cultural
production\, and their multi-layered mediations\, can register dissent and
create political alignments within an authoritarian political sphere\, but
also of power’s productive abilities to shape forces in its own image. By c
entering a discussion of media and its importance in 20th century Iranian p
olitics\, it contributes to a growing literature that claims popular cultur
e and media as key sites of analysis across the Middle East. Soundtrack of
the Revolution was based on her doctoral dissertation\, which won both the
Middle East Studies Association’s Malcolm H. Kerr dissertation prize and th
e Douglas Leigh Memorial prize from the British Society for Middle East
ern Studies (BRISMES) for best dissertation in Middle Eastern Studies.
Her new research project examines the role of various media technologies i
n the constitution of poetic worldmakings among Iranian publics in post-197
9 Iran\, with a special view to performances and discussions around “joy\,”
and the centrality of women in these discourses. Here she is investigating
the emergence of both analog and digital collectivities and their position
alities vis-à-vis state-imposed dogmatic religiosity\, placing analysis of
social and transnational media impact at the core of this research. As a me
mber of the Provost’s Cluster in Global Media Flows and (Dis)Information\,
Dr. Siamdoust is also investigating in a separate project the productive en
tanglements between rightwing creators of conspiracy and disinformation cam
paigns in the US and transnational “Iran regime change” advocates. Her writ
ing has been published in The New York Times\, Foreign Policy<
/em>\, Der Spiegel\, and Jadaliyya\, among others\, and s
he regularly appears on English\, German and Iranian media.
Niki Akhavan\, PhD – Associate Professor\, Medi
a and Communication Studies\, The Catholic University of America
Dr.
Akhavan’s research interests include: new media and transnational politica
l and cultural production\; international cinema and national identity\; st
ate sponsored and oppositional propaganda\; documentary and social change\;
post-colonial and critical theory\; Iranian cultural studies. Dr. Akhavan
is the author of Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Ev
olution (Rutgers\, 2013).
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Speaker Series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacific Connections<
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線上講座系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋
的聯結
賽德克 · 巴萊：第一部講述台灣原住民歷史並轟動世界的電影
Date & Time:
Thursday\, October 21\, 2021 | 4:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
*Presented in English and Manda
rin
Free & open to the public. Registration is required for both e vents.
Register here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2QNK 9TTtS0Og9pY28nVVSw
Renren Yang’s researc h and teaching span twentieth-and twenty-first-century Chinese literature\, cinema\, and popular culture\, with a focus on issues of authorship\, medi ation\, and hybrid genres in Chinese literary and media scenes. His current book project\, “A Media Genealogy of Literary Fame in Modern China: Paper\ , Stage\, Screen\, and Sphere\,” traces the changing concepts\, practices\, and politics of celebrity authorship throughout twentieth-century Chinese history with the ongoing shift from the print to the digital regime of lett ers.
楊任任博士畢業於斯坦福大學比較文學系，現任英屬哥倫比亞大學亞洲研究系助理教授。主要研究方向是現當代中國文學， 電影，和流行文化。
電影《賽德克 · 巴萊》對台灣原住民部落的再現——對話導演魏德聖
Director Wei Te-sheng will be in conversation with Dr. Aynur Kadir (Assistant Professor\, Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia) the day following the first panel .
Date & Time:
Friday\, October 22\, 2021 | 4:0
0pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
*Pres
ented in English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public. Registrat ion is required for both events.
Register here: https://ubc.zoom.u s/webinar/register/WN_2QNK9TTtS0Og9pY28nVVSw
Aynur Kadir is an Indigenous Uyghur scholar\, f
ilmmaker and curator with a research focus on the documentation\, conservat
ion and revitalization of Indigenous cultures and languages. Her work bridg
es the gap between Indigenous studies in Canada and in Asia. Her research i
nterests are in global indigeneity from the Uyghur in China to Coast Salish
and Six Nations in Canada\; transnational Indigenous diplomacy\; and the s
afeguarding and revitalization of languages and cultural heritage through d
igital technology and collaborative initiatives.
Aynur Kadir教授是一位維吾爾族學者、電影導演和策展人。她主要關注原住民文化和語言的記錄、保護和復興，致力於為加拿大和亞洲原住民文化研 究搭建溝通的橋樑。Kadir教授目前的研究興趣主要為全球原住民性（包含中國的維吾爾族和加拿大的Salish和Six Nations）、跨國原住民外交、 以及通過數字技術保護和復興原住民的語言和文化遺產。
Mahjong (1996)\, Assistant director
About July (1999)\, Direct or
Doube Vision (2002)\, Associate producer
Cape No. 7 (2008)\, Director
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)\, Director an d screenwriter
Kano (2014)\, Producer and screenwriter < /span>
52Hz\, I Love You (2017)\, Director and screenwriter
Taiwan Trilogy
魏德聖畢業於遠東工專（現遠東科技大學 ）電機科，非本科系出身的魏德聖帶著對影像的執著從拍片現場的最基層開始歷練。曾任《麻將》副導、《雙瞳》策畫，於2008年執導電影《海角七號》創下全台五億 三千萬台幣的賣座成績，打破臺灣影史票房紀錄，至今仍為國片票房紀錄保持者，並獲第45屆金馬獎臺灣傑出電影工作者。2011年執導的電影《賽德克・巴萊》獲得 第48屆金馬獎最佳劇情片、入選奧斯卡外語片九強。其他電影作品尚有2014年監製、編劇的《KANO》和2017年導演、編劇的《52Hz\, I Love You》。魏德聖不斷致力於電影產業水平的提升，他對臺灣歷史的爬梳及影像化成果也影響了一代人心中對這塊土地的認識。目前正在全力籌備最新計畫《臺灣三部曲 》。
參與過的電影作品:
《七月天》(1999) ｜導演、編劇
《雙瞳》(2002)｜策劃
《海角七號》(20 07)｜導演、編劇
《賽德克．巴萊 上集—太陽旗》(201 1)｜導演、編劇
《賽德克．巴萊 下集—彩虹橋》(2011 )｜導演、編劇
《KANO》(2014)｜監製、編劇
《52Hz\, I love you》(2017)｜導演、編劇
《臺灣三部曲》(籌備中)｜導演、編劇
Relevant links:
Watch Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGAuyah5cKw&ab_channel=YouTubeMovie s
Watch the trailer for Cape No.7: https://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=5TaIUCyyiXI&ab_channel=SammyRice
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/indigenous-taiwan-speaker-se ries-conversations-with-director-wei-te-sheng/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/Slide2.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210925T1010Z-1632564656.6492-EO-53007-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210923T165622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T185256Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211023T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211023T151500 SUMMARY: Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women\, Prayer and Poetry in Iran DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women\, Prayer an d Poetry in Iran on October 23\, 2021. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_53417" align="alig
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طرفبحث: مهتاب سیردانی، دانشجوی دکتری انسانشناسی اجتماعی و فرهنگی، دانشگاه بوستون
دکتر نیلوفر حائری در کتاب اخیر خود ب ا عنوان «هر چه میخواهد دل تنگت بگو: زنان، نماز و شعر در ایران»، در گفتگو ب ا گروهی از زنان، تحلیلی قومنگارانه از عبادت (اعم از دعا و نماز) و آنچه می توان برای این منظور از شعر کلاسیک آموخت ارائه میدهد. دکتر حائری در این سخن رانی با ارائهٔ مباحثی از این کتاب، به این موضوع میپردازد که عوالم دعا و شع ر چگونه در کنار هم قرار دارند و این همزیستی از چه جهت حائز اهمیت است.
In this lecture\, Dr. Niloofar Haeri will present ethnographi
c analysis of what it is like when we pray (both do’a and namaz) and what w
e can learn from the reception and memorization of classical poetry in the
daily lives of a group of women. How do the worlds of prayer and poetry liv
e side by side and what is the significance of this co-existence?
Niloofar Haeri is Professor of anthrop ology and Chair of the Program in Islamic Studies at Johns Hopkins Universi ty. She is a Guggenheim fellow (2015-2016). She has done research on Egypt and Iran. Her most recent book is Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women\, Prayer\, and Poetry in Iran. It just won one of the American A cademy of Religion awards in 2021.
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Mahtab Sirdani is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Boston University. Her research focuses on Muslim Iranian migrants in North America. She holds a masters degree from Harvard Divinity School where she specialized in religi on\, literature\, and culture. She has presented in several venues includin g the Institute on Culture\, Religion & World Affairs (CURA) where she was a fellow during 2019-2020 academic year.
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies I nitiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of mig ration and exile in Modern Persian Literature. The second workshop features Iranian writer\, Bahram Moradi\, who will speak about his style and themes in his story collections\, “Laughter in the House of Loneliness” and “A ma n across the Street\, Under the Tree”. The session is followed by an interv iew with Moradi on his latest novel Unbridled/Khudsar.
Date & Time:October 27
4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT) | 3:30am - 5:30am (Kabul Time) |
2:30am - 4:30am (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zo
om
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public. Reg
istration is required via the form below. لطفا برای ثبت نام اینجا کلیک کنید
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/literature-at-the-time-of-de solation-a-point-of-view-in-bahram-moradis-stories/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/09/Bahram-Moradi-Facebook-Event-Cover-Photos-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211013T0201Z-1634090469.1865-EO-53299-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211012T212617Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211028T172638Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211028T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211029T180000 SUMMARY: [Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Writer Ahron glong Sakinu DESCRIPTION: Speaker Series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacific Connections 線上 講座系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋的聯結 Hunter School: Reviving Taiwan Indigenous Practices f or New Generations 獵人學校：如何在當代台灣復興傳統原住民技藝 Indigenous writer Ahronglong Sakin u\, after years of living in Taipei\, founded and ran a “hunter school” foc used on transmitting Indigenous knowledge to new generations of Taiwan yout hs. What inspired Sakinu to found the school? What lessons and practices [… ] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_53565" align="alig
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線上講座系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋的聯結
Indigenous w riter Ahronglong Sakinu\, after years of living in Taipei\, founded and ran a "hunter school" focused on transmitting Indigenous knowledge to new gene rations of Taiwan youths. What inspired Sakinu to found the school? What le ssons and practices did he hope to teach? Who taught and studied there? And what has happened since the school\, tragically\, burned in a fire? Join S akinu and UBC professor Christopher Rea for a discussion of this real-life initiative to share Taiwan Indigenous cultural practices with the broader p ublic.
原住民作家亞榮隆 · 撒可努在台北生活多年後，創辦了一所“獵人學校”，致力於向新一代台灣青年傳播原住民知識。 是什麼促使撒可 努創辦了這所學校？ 他希望教給台灣年輕人怎樣的課程與技藝？ 誰在那裡教書和學習？ 學校不幸被大火燒毀後，又發生了什麼？歡迎參加台灣原住民作家撒可努與U BC教授雷勤風的這場對談，他們將和大家分享台灣原住民文化實踐的種種嘗試。
Date & Time:
Thursday\, October 28\, 2021 | 4:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Location
: online via Zoom
*Conducted in English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public. Registration is required for both events. Regis tering once will grant access to both events.
Register here: https: //ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xVZICzNTRvWv20ge_LQX7g
Professor Christopher Rea is a literary and cultural hi storian whose research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world. His mo st recent publications concern comedy\, celebrities\, swindlers\, print cul ture\, cultural entrepreneurs\, literary cosmopolitanism\, and the scholar- writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang.
Indigenous wri ter Ahronglong Sakinu earned public acclaim in Taiwan for his 1990s story c ollection "Hunter School\," known in Chinese as "Mountain Boars\, Flying Sq uirrels\, Sakinu." The stories have since been adapted into a feature film\ , and inspired an animated TV series\, which has been produced in both Mand arin and SaySiyat language versions. How has Sakinu worked with various cul tural industries to share his vision of contemporary Indigenous Taiwan with a broader public?
原住民作家亞榮隆 · 撒可努因其1990年代的故事集《山豬·飛鼠·撒可努》在台灣贏得了廣泛的讚譽。 這些故事後來被改編成故事片，並啟發了一部動畫連續劇，該劇已製作成普通話和賽夏語版本。 撒可努如何與各種文化產業合作，向大眾分享他對當代台灣原住民的看法 ？
Date & Time:
Friday\, October 29\, 2021 | 4:0
0pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
*Pres
ented in English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public. Registrat ion is required for both events. Registering once will grant access to both events.
Register here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xVZ ICzNTRvWv20ge_LQX7g
Dr. C.D. Alison Bailey resea rches and teaches pre-modern Chinese literature at the University of Britis h Columbia. Her research focuses on aspects of violence and emotions in lat e imperial China\, premodern law\, and filial revenge.
Alison Bailey教 授主要從事中國古代文學的研究和教學。她的研究關注中華晚期帝國的暴力與情感、古代法律，以及孝道與復仇
Born in 1972\, Paiwan tribeman\, Sakinu\, is from Lalauran vi llage\, Taimali\, Taitung\, Taiwan. The family name “Ahronglong” indicates the sound of thunder\, and the first name “Sakinu” represents the unceasing gallop of animals and growth of plants.
Sakinu has no training in li
terature at all. Born in the tribe and brought up by his hunter father\, he
is now a policeman who guards the forest. However\, after the first book <
em>Mountain Boars\, Flying Squirrels\, Sakinu published in 1998\, he h
as become the winner of various literary awards. His works are selected in
primary and high school textbooks\, and chosen by Harvard University as the
teaching material of Chinese. The austere style of writing\, the profound
tribal experiences and memories\, and the ecological knowledge and traditio
nal value concealed behind his works\, have made him significant in the rea
lm of literature. He has published The Wind Walker (2002)\, and
His works have been adapted var iously into movie\, animation\, and audio books\, which he acted and dubbed personally. What is more\, he hosts travel TV shows. He draws and carves t alently. However\, his great sense of achievement is derived from “Hunter S chool”\, where he leads the youth to establish their identities and persona l value. Through Hunter School\, Sakinu realizes his dream of alternative e ducation. From him we see the unceasing attempts and fulfillments.
亞榮隆‧撒可努是臺灣原住民族中的排灣族人，1972年出生於臺東太麻里拉勞蘭部落。家族名「亞榮隆」為雷聲之意，名字「撒可努」則為動物的奔馳從未停止，植物的生長
從未間歇。
成長於部落，教養來自獵人父親，無任何文學背景的撒可努任職森林警察，在第一本書《山豬‧飛鼠‧撒可努》（1998）出版後屢獲文學獎 項。文章收錄於小學、中學教科書，亦成為哈佛大學中文指定教材。質樸的文筆、深厚的部落生活與記憶、文字傳達的生態知識與傳統價值……，撒可努開創了超越原住民 文學範疇的文學價值。著有《走風的人》（2002）、《外公的海》（2010）。
其作品屢經改編以不同形式發行，包括電影、動畫、有聲書，他並親 自擔綱演出及配音。除此之外，他主持行腳類節目，他擅於繪畫雕刻，然而他最大的成就來自於「獵人學校」──帶領年輕人確立認同與價值，實現不同於體制的教育夢想 。撒可努的嘗試從未停止，實踐從未間歇。
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/indigenous-taiwan-speaker-se ries-conversations-with-writer-ahronglong-sakinu/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/Updated-with-event_names_Indigenous-Taiwan-Transpacific-Connections.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220129T1942Z-1643485351.4851-EO-53244-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211005T061702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211005T061710Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211029T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211029T133000 SUMMARY: [Webinar] Late Colonialism: “Hong Kong People” and the Popular Re- imagining of an Instituting Imaginary X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/webinar-late-colonialism/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/20211029-gregory-lee-poster-2x1-1-2048x1024.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211012T0756Z-1634025406.5018-EO-53145-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210927T233006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T203323Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211030T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211030T150000 SUMMARY: Kūr Sorkhī: Narratives of Life/Soul and War DESCRIPTION: The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hos ting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature. The third workshop features Iranian anthropologi st\, Shahram Khosravi. In the journey into the life and experience of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Pers ian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persia n Literature. The third workshop features Iranian anthropologist\, Shahram Khosravi. In the journey into the life and experience of migrants\, the se ssion initiates a conversation between Shahram Khosravi\, PhD and the write r Alie Ataee about her latest monograph “Kūr Sorkhī”.
The event i s sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
The reco rding of the event is now made available:
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Date & Time:
October 3
0
1:00pm – 3:00pm (PDT) | 12:30am - 2:30am (Kabul Time) | 11:30pm - 1:
30am (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Pre
sented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
Being referred to as the writer of the borders and one o f the most influential contemporary women writes\, Aliyeh Ataee is a n Afghan-Iranian novelist and screenwriter. She was born in 1981 in the bo rder region of Iran and Afghanistan. She has a Master’s degree in theater f rom Tehran University. All of Ataee’s works come with a theme of immigratio n and wars in the Middle East\, looking at war from a woman’s perspective a nd its particular consequences on harming women.
In 2010\, Aliyeh Ata ee won an award for The Best Screenplay in the Moon Festival. She received the Mehregan Adab award (one of the most prestigious and noble private lite rature awards in Iran) for her novel Kafourpoosh in 2015. The novel also won the Distinguished Novel of the Year award in the VAV Literature Aw ards. She is also a two-time winner of the Tehran City Award with more than two thousand competitors. Both wins for novels about immigrants. Galile o is a novel of hers which has won awards in Iran and has been publishe d in the Words Without Borders journal in the Un ited States. Alcove is another novel by Aliyeh which has been publis hed in Michigan Quarterly Review. It is a s tory about two women in the terrorist attack on a subway station in Tehran\ , where one of their husbands becomes suspicious about them. Aliyeh’s Ni ght of the Wolf (original title: Nuit De Loup) has been published by th e Parisian publication Edition Le Supirail as a story in a book titl ed Sous le ciel de Kaboul.
Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthr opology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropolog y of Iran\, forced displacement\, border studies\, and time. Khosravi is t he author of several books such as : Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008)\ ; The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders\, (2010)\; Precariou s Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran\, (2017)\; After Deportation: Ethnographi c Perspectives\, Palgrave (2017\, edited volume) and Waiting. A project in Conversation (2021\, edited volume). He has been an active writer in t he international press. He is a co-founder of Critical Border Studies\, a n etwork for scholars\, artists and activists to interact.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/kur-sorkhi-narratives-of-lif e-soul-and-war/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/09/Alie-Ataee-Facebook-Event-Cover-Photos.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211015T2234Z-1634337243.8539-EO-53301-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20211012T230645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250728T220457Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211103T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211104T180000 SUMMARY: [Indigenous Taiwan Speaker Series] Conversations with Director Lah a Mebow DESCRIPTION: Speaker Series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacific Connections 線上 講座系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋的聯結 Laha Mebow is the first female indigenous film direct or in Taiwan. After years of living and studying in cities\, she returned t o her Atayal tribe and directed several films about indigenous people’s lif e and culture. Her film Hang in There\, Kids! (Atayal: Lokah Laqi) was sele cted as the Taiwanese entry for […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Speaker Series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacifi
c Connections
線上講座系列：台灣原住民文化：跨越太平洋的聯結
Laha Mebow is the first female indigenous film director in T aiwan. After years of living and studying in cities\, she returned to her A tayal tribe and directed several films about indigenous people's life and c ulture. Her film Hang in There\, Kids! (Atayal: Lokah Laqi) was selected as the Taiwanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards. Her documentary Ça Fait Si Longtemps fo cuses on two Taiwan indigenous musicians who were invited to Caledonia for a month of musical exchange with local Kanak musicians. What motivated Laha Mebow to return to the tribe? What challenges do female indigenous filmmak ers face in the contemporary Taiwan film industry? How does Laha Mebow tell stories about indigenous children and musicians in her films? And how are we to understand the international connection between indigenous cultures i n her films? Join us for the two conversations with Laha Mebow where she wi ll share with us her experience of telling Taiwan indigenous stories to the world.
陳潔瑤(Laha Mebow)是台灣第 一位原住民女性導演。她在城市中生活以後多年後，決定回到自己的泰雅族部落，並以台灣原住民生活和文化為主題拍攝了多部電影與紀錄片。她的電影《只要我長大》曾 代表台灣入圍第89屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳外語片。而她的紀錄片《漂流遇見你》跟隨台灣原住民音樂家到達新喀里多尼亞，展現他們與當地原住民音樂家的音樂交流之旅。 是什麼促使了陳潔瑤回到部落？台灣原住民女性導演在當代台灣電影產業面臨怎樣的挑戰？在她的電影中，陳潔瑤是如何講述原住民兒童與音樂家的故事？我們又應該如何 理解電影中原住民文化的跨國聯結？歡迎加入我們與陳潔瑤導演的兩場對談！在這兩場由UBC亞洲系教授和博士生主持的對談中，陳潔瑤將與我們分享她如何透過電影影 像向世界講述台灣原住民故事。
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, November 3\, 2021 |
4:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
*
Conducted in English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public. Regis tration is required via the link below. Registering once will grant access to both events.
Register here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register /WN_EaJ8tKo7S0u3RCCWzznGVQ
柳雨青，畢業於復旦大學中文系、台灣大學中國文學研究所，目前就讀於UBC亞洲研究系博士 班，主要研究現當代中國語言、文學與電影。作為一名文學研究者與創作者，她在中文及英文期刊上發表數篇研究論文及書評，並且在台灣與中國大陸發表了許多散文及小 說，其散文《泰雅少年》曾獲2014年兩岸交流紀實文學獎。
Date & Time:
Thursday\, Novemb
er 4\, 2021 | 4:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Location: online vi
a Zoom
*Conducted in English and Mandarin
Free & open to the public. Registration is required via the link below. Registering once will grant access to both events.
Register here: https://ubc.zoom.us/web inar/register/WN_EaJ8tKo7S0u3RCCWzznGVQ
Laha Mebow (Tayal Tribe) is Taiwan's first female a boriginal film director. She has been working in film and television for al most 20 years\, and her portfolio of short documentaries and dramas focuses on indigenous themes and culture. She also focuses on Taiwan's Austronesia n links\, with plans for making international dramas with Austronesian arti sts. Her contributions to these issues and international culture exchanges earned her a Top 10 Outstanding Young Women Award from the Taiwan governmen t in 2015. Laha's latest film “Hang In There\, Kids” won five prizes at the 2016 Taiwan Film Festival\, including Grand Prize and Best Director\, and was Taiwan's entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Academy Award s.
陳潔瑤是台灣第一位原住民電影女導演，以拍攝原住民紀錄片、戲劇為主，也跨域與國外藝術家聯合創作南島民 族攝影作品，影視相關經歷近20年。因『發揚原民文化，促進國際交流』\, 獲總統頒發第23屆台灣十大傑出女青年。第二部劇情片《只要我長大》雙入選2016 台北電影節「國際新導演」與「台北電影獎」競賽單元，獲「台北電影獎」最佳導演等五項大獎，並代表台灣角逐第89屆奧斯卡最佳外語片。
*Both films listed below are available for screening on N ovember 1\, 8 pm PDT - November 4\, 8pm PDT. Open to all the registered audien ce whose IP is located in Canada for free. The screening information will b e sent through email prior to the screening time.
*以下兩部電影《只要我長大》與《漂流遇見你》，將於11/1\, 8 pm - 11/4\, 8 pm (溫哥華時間) 之間提供給註冊的觀眾免費收看。因為版權限制，我們僅能開放給網路位址在加拿大的觀眾。觀賞連結將於放映開始前以email寄出，請即刻 註冊，以確保您能收到電影連結。
Film "Lokah Laqi"
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2016｜90min｜Color｜Na rrative Feature｜Mandarin\, Tayal
2016 Taipei Film Awards - Grand Priz
e\, Best Narrative Feature\, Best Director\, Best New Talents Award for (Ed
iting)\, Audience’s Choice Award
2016 Golden Horse Awards - Best New P
erformer\, Best Original Screenplay\, Best Original Film Song
Watan\, Chen-Hao and Lin Shan are three playful Sqoyaw boys forced to deal with pr oblems too big for their age. For Watan\, his grandmother\, elder brother\, and teacher\, Miss Lawa\, are the most important people in his life\, whil e he must hunt and sell the mountain deer to make money. Chen Hao has a lov ing father\, but misses his mother who moved to the city following divorce. The clothes she sends him from Taipei are his only connection to her. Lin Shan has a father who wants to be a singer but often gets drunk and fights with his mother. The last straw comes when his father accidentally strikes his sister\, causing Lin Shan to leave home on is his birthday.
In th is heartwarming coming-of-age film\, resembling an Indigenous version of Or z Boyz! (2008)\, Laha Mebow captures the simplicity and perseverance Indige nous peoples maintain in times of difficulty. Under a whimsical tone lie th e complex subjects of alcoholism\, grandparenting and the outflow of youth. Through children’s eyes we come to understand the adult world’s complexiti es.
電影《只要我長大》
2016｜90min｜ 彩色｜劇情片｜國語、泰雅語發音
2016 台北電影獎 — 百萬首獎、最佳劇情長片、最佳導演獎、最佳新演員獎、最佳剪輯獎、觀眾票選獎
2016 金馬獎 — 最佳新演員、最 佳原著劇本、最佳原創電影歌曲
瓦旦、晨皓、林山三個即將國小畢業的環山部落孩童，平日頑皮、捉弄同儕，也帶著各自的煩惱看大人們的世界。祖母、哥 哥與課輔班的拉娃老師是瓦旦最重要的親人。他偶而販售山產、水蜜桃，人小鬼大地學著大人賺錢的門道。備受父親疼愛的晨皓，將自己的思念寄託在母親從臺北寄來的衣 物，他默記包裹地址，希望有天能去探望她。林山有一個心懷歌手夢、經常酒後與母親吵架的父親。一次父親酒後誤傷妹妹，讓林山憤而在生日當天離家出走，卻在其他人 幫忙慶生時，把三個生日願望都給了家人。片末，台北的校外教學，讓他們各自用不同的方式認識了部落與父母。
像是《囧男孩》（2008）原住民版， 導演希望呈現族人面對人生與挫折時，仍努力保有單純與堅毅的態度。在笑鬧溫馨的基調下，以幽默的方式，面對真實沉重的生命課題。透過孩子的視角，感受大人世界難 以理解的複雜與苦衷，進而探討隔代教養、酗酒、青年離鄉等部落現況。
Film "Ça Fait Si Longtemps"<
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Taiwan｜2017｜DCP｜Color｜90min
Is it possible that a group of people share our culture and fate\, but are drifting in another part of the ocean? Taiwanese aboriginal musicians\, Suming and Baobu\, are invited to New Caledonia for a month of musical exchange. They lived with local Ka nak musicians\, playing music and sometimes composing together. In the end\ , they all found that the secret to innovation and globalization is to re-d iscover one’s own cultural roots.
電影《漂流遇見你》
台灣｜
2017｜DCP｜Color｜90min
人與人之間不要拒絕「相遇」，而世界上有很多種人，會不會在世界的另一端，有一群跟自己有著相同文化背景
與命運的人，在不同的地方漂流著？台灣原住民音樂人舒米恩與保卜，應《只要我長大》導演陳潔瑤邀請，跨越太平洋，到南太平洋的法屬小島：新喀里多尼亞，與當地原
住民音樂人進行一趟音樂交流之旅。在經歷一個月的旅行中，他們與當地人一同生活，一起玩音樂、一起創作。在旅途結尾，他們發現了走向世界最重要的秘訣，就是尋回
自己的根底。
The Ko rean Language Program at UBC is hosting the 2021 K-pop Dance Event. Talente d dancers will teach cool K-pop dance moves for an hour\, and Trivia will f ollow. Korean refreshments and prizes will be provided. Please note that ev eryone must wear masks except for when you are eating or drinking with soci al distance.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studie s
Date & Time:
Friday November 5 | 4pm - 6pm (P
ST)
Location: Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mal
l\, Vancouver
Free & open to the UBC students only.
Regis tration is required via the form below. Due to the COVID-19 safety\, this e vent is limited to 50 participants only. Each individual who wishes to participate must RSVP by Monday\, November 1.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Korean LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2021-kpop-dance-event/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/10/2021KpopDanceFlyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211003T0906Z-1633252010.6934-EO-53008-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210929T160929Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T185554Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211106T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211106T171500 SUMMARY: The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Ira n DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Anti-Aryan Moment: Decolonization and Race in Late Pahlavi Iran on November 6\, 2021. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_52972" align="alig
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Poster design by
Farzan Kermani[/caption]
سخنران: دکتر فیروزه کاشانی ثابت، استاد تاریخ، دانشگاه پنسیلوانیا
طرفبحث: دکتر بَرینگتِن واکِر، استاد تار یخ، دانشگاه ویلفرید لوریه
روشنفکران دوران پسامصدق، آغازگر گفتمانی ضدا ستعماری بودند که طی انقلاب اسلامی ۱۳۵۷ بهشدت رایج بود. این نویسندگان، که ب رخی گرایشهای سوسیالیستی داشتند، رویدادهای شمال آفریقا و دیگر کشورهای استعم اری سابق را با علاقه دنبال میکردند. ابراز پذیرش یا مخالفت قومی و نژادی با درگیر شدن ایرانیان با بحرانهای جهانی که سیاستهای نژادی را بهشدت به حیاط خلوت آنها کشانده بود، تشدید شد. در حالی که قومیت بهعنوان موضوعی مردمشناخت ی و سیاسی همچنان موردتوجه بود، با توجه به وابستگیها و گرایشهای سیاسی نویس ندگان از طیفهای مختلف، نژاد و نژادپرستی اهمیت بیشتری پیدا کرد.
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Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonialist rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. These writers\, some with socialist\, leanings \, watched happenings in North Africa and other formerly colonized states w ith interest. Expressions of ethnic and racial acceptance or opposition gre w strident as Iranians engaged with global crises that brought the politics of race heatedly to their backyard. While the theme of ethnicity endured as a subject of anthropological and political interest\, race and racism ro se to the fore as writers of different stripes considered their political a ffiliations and proclivities. Persian high\, and popular\, culture grappled with notions of race and skin color in contemporary society\, and other id eologies such as Third Worldism\, Islamism\, and socialism informed these i ntellectual and public debates. In those years\, Iran expanded its network of international relations\, and\, by 1976\, it had pursued diplomatic enga gements with more than two dozen African nations. The Pahlavi regime\, whil e flaunting Iran’s Aryan past\, was pulled into another orbit. Race relatio ns provided an unanticipated and often missed opportunity for collaboration .
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iran ian Nation (1999) and Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran. (2011). She is completing a book manuscript\, e ntitled “Heroes to Hostages: America and Iran in a Troubled Middle East.” S he is also finishing another book project\, “Tales of Trespassing: Iran\, I raq\, and the Persian Gulf.”
Barrington W alker\, Ph.D. holds a doctoral degree in Canadian History from the University of Toronto (Canada) and is the inaugural Associate Vice Preside nt Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion and Professor of History at Wilfrid Lau rier University in Waterloo Ontario Canada. His research and teaching inter ests are in histories of Black Canada\, race\, immigration\, and the law. B efore coming to Wilfrid Laurier Walker was a professor of history for 18 ye ars\; during those years he taught both at the undergraduate and graduate l evels and supervised and mentored over 40 graduate students in topics relat ed to his research specialties. He is also often consulted for national tel evision\, print and radio media. He has published three books. Race On Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario’s Criminal Courts\, 1858-1958 (Univ ersity of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History\ , 2010)\; The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays (U niversity of Toronto Press and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal Histo ry\, 2012) and The History of Immigration and Racism in Canada: Essenti al Readings (Canadian Scholars Press\, 2008). He also currently finish ing two book projects: Colonizing Nation: A History of Colonization\, S ettlement and Canada’s Racial State Dark Peril: Blacks and Violence in Cana da’s Urban Landscapes (Wilfrid Laurier University Press). In 2012 Race on Trial was shortlisted for the Ontario Speaker’s Book Prize.
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Poster design
by Farzan Kermani[/caption]
سخنران: دک تر دومِنیکو اینجِنیتو، دانشیار ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، لس آنجلس
طرفبحث: دکتر جاستین لَنداو، دانشیار زبانها و تمدنها ی خاور نزدیک، دانشگاه هاروارد
کتاب جدید دومِنیکو اینجِنیتو با عنوان « تماشاگهِ حُسن: سعدی شیرازی و زیباییشناسی مِیل در شعر فارسی کلاسیک» بر پیون دهای بین جنبههای اروتیک، عرفانی و فلسفی غزلهای سعدی شیرازی تمرکز دارد. در این سخنرانی، دکتر اینجِنیتو به تحلیل زمینههای تاریخی که غزلیات سعدی در آن پیوندهای غیرقابلقیاس میان تجربیات زندگی و خلاقیت ادبی ایجاد کرده است میپ ردازد.
The event recording is now available:
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d]https://youtu.be/tO27HpXTiLc[/embed]
Domenico Ingenito’s new
book\, Beholding Beauty: Sa‘di of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire i
n Medieval Persian Poetry\, focuses on the connections between the ero
tic\, mystical\, and philosophical aspects of Sa‘di of Shiraz’s love poems
(ghazals). The book invites its readers to rediscover Saʿdi’s
ghazals through the lens of the relationship between experience and th
e celebration of beauty in the intellectual\, political\, and spiritual fra
meworks of medieval Iran.
This talk will approach the role of perform ance and performativity in Sa‘di’s ghazals through the analysis of the historical contexts in which medieval lyric poetry created incommensur able connections between life experiences and literary creativity. By drawi ng upon both Sa‘di’s pseudo-biographical accounts from the Golestān and the mystical ritual of listening to poetry and music for spiritual en ds (known as samā‘)\, our conversation will introduce a new resear ch project on lyric performance in the context of the Sufi practices and ae sthetic ideals of 13th-century Shiraz.
Domenico Ingenito is Associate Professor of Persian Li terature at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Director of th e Program on Central Asia. His research interests center on medieval Persia n poetry\, visual culture of Iran and Central Asia\, gender and translation s studies\, and manuscript culture. His most recent articles are: “Hafez’s ‘Shirāzi Turk’: A Geopoetical Approach (Iranian Studies)” and “‘A Marvelous Painting’: the Erotic Dimension of Saʿdi’s Praise Poetry” (Jo urnal of Persianate Studies). His most recent book is Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry ( Brill\, 2020). His Italian translation of Forugh Farrokhzad’s collected poe ms\, along with all original texts\, will be published in 2022 by Bompiani.
Justine Landau is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civil
izations at Harvard University\, where she teaches Persian literatures and
cultures. Her research focuses on c
lassical Persian literature and poetics. Before joining Harvard\, she taught at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the
University of California in Los Angeles\, and was a researcher at the Insti
tute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her publicatio
ns include various articles\, book chapters\, translations\, and a monograp
h\, De rythme & de raison. Lectu
re croisée de deux traités de poétique persans du XIIIe siècle [Of Rhythm and Reason: A Comparative Readin
g of Two Thirteenth-Century Persian Treatises on Poetics] (Paris: Presses d
e la Sorbonne Nouvelle\, 2013). Her next book project explores the aestheti
cs of occasion and circumstance in early Persian court poetry.
The recording of the event is now made available:
[em bed]https://youtu.be/PFd88i3YkcY[/embed]
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Readi ng Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature. The la st story-reading session of the Fall 2021 series features writer\, Mahbuba Temori. The session will delve into migrant women writer’s maladies and challenges by way of talking abou t Temori works including two collections: “In the depth of Solitude” and “I llusory Shadows.”
Date & Time:
November
24
6:30pm – 8:30pm (PST) | 6:00am - 8:00am (Kabul Time) | 5:00am - 7:0
0am (Tehran Time) | 2:30am - 4:30am (CET)
Location: o
nline via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
Mahbuba Temori was born in Herat\, Afgha nistan. She completed and received her Bachelors degree in Pedagogy from Ka bul University. Upon graduation\, she began work at the Afghanistan Academ y of Sciences\, tasked with publishing the Ariana Magazine. In 1988\, like many other educated Afghans\, she was forced to leave homeland due to the i ntensity of the civil war and eventually settled in Orange County\, Califor nia. In 2012\, Ms. Mahbuba Temori co-founded Jami Cultural Society\, a non- profit literary organization promoting cultural tolerance and literature wo rks of Afghanistan’s distinguished authors\, poets and young writers. In 20 19\, she became the managing director of the literary-artistic quarterly ma gazine\, “Shamireh”. It was during her time in diaspora that she began writ ing short and medium stories\, which were published in Farda Magazine\, a d istinguished Afghan publication in Sweden\, under the supervision of Dr. Ak ram Osman\, a well-known Afghan academic\, author and poet.
In 2011\, she wrote and published her first novel in Farsi “In the Depth of Solitude ”. It was published again in 2019. Her second work was published in 2019\, called “Imaginary Shadows”\, a collection of twenty-one shorty stories. Sh e has just finished writing her recent novel\, as the forces of Taliban re- entered and took over the country. She was hoping to publish her latest nov el in her homeland\, however\, with the Taliban in control\, she may not be able to do so and share her work with her countrymen and women.
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The event is s ponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/deadend-of-story-writing-in- exile-challenges-of-migrant-women-writers-in-conversation-with-mahbuba-temo ri/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/09/Mahbuba-Temori-Facebook-Event-Cover-Photos.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210925T0029Z-1632529792.653-EO-53010-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210923T201231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T190148Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211204T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211204T171500 SUMMARY: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliat ory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: New Insights from the East on Poetry and Politics: The Reconciliatory Thought of Sa‘di Shirazi on December 4\, 2021. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_52972" align="alig
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Poster design by Farzan Kermani[/caption]
سخنران: دکتر ایمان احمدیا ن، پژوهشگر، دانشگاه نیوکاسل
طرفبحث: دکتر حسام دهقان ی، استادیار زبان و فرهنگ فارسی، دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا
با حجم عظیم اند یشههای اجتماعی و سیاسی که از غرب سرچشمه میگیرد، شنیدن و بررسی حرفهایی که شرق برای گفتن در این زمینه دارد خالی از لطف نیست. برای مثال سهم شرق در ادر اکات زیباییشناختی، که امروزه بیشازپیش بهعنوان نیرویی در سیاست مورد توجه قرار میگیرد، قابلتأمل است. در این سخنرانی، شعر کلاسیک ایران از منظر نگرش به سیاست معاصر ایران تحلیل میشود. گلستان سعدی که اثری شاعرانه و بسیار جذاب است، رویکردی جایگزین برای رویکردهای عمدتاً تحمیلی غرب برای ایجاد صلح ارائه میکند؛ رویکردی که از باورهای بومی بهره میبرد. سخنرانی حاضر به این موضوع میپردازد که چگونه میتوان مفاهیم این اثر را از دوران معروف به دوران طلایی اسلامی به سیاست امروزی منتقل کرد.
The event recording is
now available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/XjnSTVnMNvo[/embed]
With a massive amount of social and pol
itical thought emanating from the West\, it is refreshing to study what the
East has to offer. One such offering lies in the East’s contribution to ae
sthetic understandings\, which are being considered more and more as a forc
e in politics. In this talk\, the poetry of ancient Persia will be analysed
for its insights into contemporary Iranian politics. The Rose Garden of Sa
’di\, which is a fascinating poetic work rooted in the struggle for human r
econciliation\, offers an alternative approach to peace-building to the mai
nly western-imposed approaches\, and one that utilizes indigenous beliefs.
This talk discusses how this poetry can be transposed from the so-called Is
lamic Golden Age of the Middle Ages into modern day politics\, building on
the current aesthetic turn in international relations\, and the current ind
igenous turn in peace-building.
Iman Ahmadian started his underg
raduate studies in Management at Queen Mary\, University of London and foll
owed his studies in International Relations at the University of Glasgow\,
Scotland and later on Newcastle University\, England\, where he is currentl
y working as a research associate. He wrote his first book on the diplomati
c insights of Sa'di's Rose Garden\, published in New York by Edwin Mellen P
ress and is amidst his second book\, offering an English translation for
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia\, an anniversary of deep cultural significance in a variety of Asian societies. In cultures th at traditionally used the sexagenary-cycle-based calendar\, the 60th year n ot only marks the end of a previous calendric cycle\, but more importantly also welcomes the beginning of a new one.
To commemorate this signifi cant and pivotal 60th anniversary\, we cordially invite you to join us virt ually on Monday\, December 6 at 6:00pm (PST) to celebrate our past sixty years of accomplishments and look forward with us to an even more splendid future together. During the virtual event\, we will review t he exciting developments and achievements of the Department and its languag e programs as well as its area studies programs and new initiatives. Come g ain a deeper understanding of the Department’s vision for the future. Lastl y\, the event will provide an opportunity for you to virtually gather with friends old and new. You are warmly invited to join this celebratory event.
Date & Time:
Monday\, December 6\, 2021 | 6:00
pm-7:00pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Location: online vi
a Zoom
Free & open to the public. Please register via the link below to receive a spot:
Register here:
https://ubc.zoom
.us/webinar/register/WN_SjHu9mtHSiCB_GaFfl_uEQ
You are more than welcome to bring your family and friends from outside the Department to this online celebration. Get ready for an ho ur of reminiscence\, effervescence\, and inspiration!
Please feel fre e to contact Asian.Studies@ubc.ca if you have any questions regarding this event or any difficulties regist ering. We look forward very much to seeing you online on December 6!
CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese,Featured Korean,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit,Featured Tibetan URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/asian-studies-60th-anniversa ry-celebration/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/11/4_Triangle_60th-Anniversary-Poster-1920x1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20210925T1035Z-1632566103.0053-EO-53011-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20210923T201454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T190353Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211218T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20211218T171500 SUMMARY: The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Persian: Muhamm ad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderabad DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Hidden Story of One Thousand and One Nights in Per sian: Muhammad Baghir Khurasani’s “Tarjumah Hinrīyah” Patronized in Hyderab ad on December 18\, 2021. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_52972" align="alig
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Poster design by Farzan Kermani[/caption]
سخنرانان: دکتر مهدی گنجوی، محقق، نویسنده و ویراستار، کتابخان
ه روبارتس، دانشگاه تورنتو؛ میثم علیپور، رماننویس و کارشناس ارشد مطالعات ه
نر، دانشگاه تهران
طرفبحث: دکتر پگاه شهباز، پژوهشگر پسادکتری، مرکز مطالعات جنوب آسیا، موسسه آسیایی، دانشکده امور جهانی و سیاست عمومی، دانشگاه تورنتو
در این ارائه، دکتر مهدی گنجوی اثر کمترشناختهشد هٔ ترجمهٔ هنریه، قدیمیترین ترجمهٔ هزار و یک شب به فارسی را بررسی میکند. م حمدباقر خراسانی بزنجردی با حمایت هنری راسل، بارونت دوم (۱۷۸۳-۱۸۵۲)، وزیر مق یم بریتانیا در حیدرآباد، حدود سه دهه پیش از عبداللطیف تسوجی ترجمهٔ خود را د ر حوالی سال ۱۱۹۳ شمسی نهایی کرد. ترجمهٔ هنریه که کمتر مورد توجه مورخان ادبی ات قرار گرفته است، نهتنها نخستین ترجمهٔ فارسی از هزار و یک شب است، بلکه بر اساس خانوادهای قدیمیتر (و بهطبع، معتبرتر) از نسخههای خطی عربی ألف ليلة وليلة است. سخنرانی حاضر به بررسی نسخهشناسانه، آرشیوی و تحلیل متنی دو نسخه ٔ خطی موجود از این ترجمه میپردازد.
The event recording
is now available:
https://youtu.be/L1uuxrlcFw4
In this p
resentation\, Dr. Mehdi Ganjavi will historicize and explore the lesser kno
wn Henriyah Translation (tarjumah hinr
īyah)\, the oldest translation of One Thousand and One Nights<
/em> into Persian. Patronized by Henry Russell\, 2nd Baronet (1783–1852)\,
British resident in Hyderabad\, Mohammad Baqir Khurasani Bazanjiri (b.1772)
finalized his translation in 1814 almost three decades before Abdul Latif
Tasuji embarked on a similar project in Iran. Overlooked by historians of l
iterature\, Henriyah Translation happens to be
not only the earliest Persian translation\, but one which is based on a sig
nificantly older (arguably authentic) family of Alf Layla Wa-Layla
Arabic manuscripts. Through manuscript and archival study\, and textual an
alysis of the two manuscripts available from this translation\, this presen
tation will narrate an interregional story remained hidden for two centurie
s about Nights in Persian.
Me hdi Ganjavi received his PhD from the department of Leadership\, Higher and Adult Education at University of Toronto. His work focuses on the cultural Cold War\, history of translatio n\, print\, publication and the politics of archive and historiography in c ontemporary Middle East. Ganjavi is a former PEN-CANADA writer-in-residence at George Brown College\, and a graduate of Masters of Middle Eastern Civi lizations (UofT). His scholarly writings have appeared in the Encyclopedia Iranica\, Iranian Studies\, and Review of the Middle East Studies. In the l ast seven years\, Dr. Ganjavi edited\, reintroduced\, and oversaw the publi cation of seven little-known Persian novels from 1920s-1940s. These novels shed light on the origins of science fiction\, detective fiction\, historic al and utopian fiction in Persian. He recently has finalized and submitted the first critical edition of "Henriyeh Translation"\, the oldest Persian t ranslation of “One Thousand and One Nights” (forthcoming with Maniahonar).< /span>
Meisam Alipour (novelist\, scholar) is a graduate of Master of Art Studies from Tehran University of Art\, and bachelor of Graphics Design from Enqelab Tehran Uni versity. His research focuses on modern Persian literature\, Iranian painti ng\, and Quran manuscripts during Abbasid era.
Pegah Shahbaz\, PhD is a specialist of Persian litera ture of Iran\, Central and South Asia. She is currently a SSHRC Postdoctora l Fellow at the University of Toronto\, Munk School of Global Affairs and P ublic Policy – the Asian Institute\, an Associate Member of the Centre d’Ét udes et de Recherches sur l’Inde\, l’Asie du Sud et sa Diaspora (CERIAS) at The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Section Editor of the F ables and Tales Chapter of Perso-Indica Project. She works on questions of narratology\, women and gender studies\, translation and systems of knowled ge transmission in the Persianate World\, in particular the reception and d omestication of Indian religious and cultural heritage in Persianate litera ry culture.
The recording of the event is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/Z1Kcpd8-qEM[/embed]
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events ana lyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature i n Winter and Spring 2022. The first session of th e Winter and Spring 2022 series concerns the war and migration and the life -world of the migrant in the works of Rira Abbasi. Some of her best works a re going to be reviewed and critically analyzed by a panel of specialists i ncluding writers\, poets\, and publishers.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Time
:
Saturday\, January 29\, 2022
10:00am – 12:00pm (PST)Location: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
۱. زیست گاه جنگ، انسان مهاجر: داستانخوانی با ریرا عباسی
زمان: شنبه ۲۹ ژانویه ۲۰۲۲ ساعت ۱۰ صبح به وقت ونکوور- ۱۰ شب به وقت تهران
در ادامه بررسی ادبیات معاصر و هستی ان سان مهاجر میزبان ریرا عباسی خواهیم بود و منتخبی از مجموعه داستانهای «بیدا ر شو ماه دولت» و «سیپریِ چهارشنبهها» و رمان اخیرش «تن دادگی» را با حضور پ نلی تخصصی از نویسندگان و ناشران بررسی خواهیم کرد.
پنلیست های جلسه:
فریبا صدیقیم
یاسین نگاه
علیرضا آبیزمهری رحمانی
عباس شکری
لطفا برای ثبت نام فرم زیر را پر کنید
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Rira Abbasi was born in Khorramabad\, Iran. Acclaimed as Iran's Lady Poet Laurea te and the winner of the Parvin Etesami Poetry Award in 2005\, Rira is also a member of Iran's Writers Association and the founder and director of the biennial International Peace Poetry festival since 2007. Black Elf of Wedn esdays (2000)\, No More Guns for this Lor Woman (2001)\, and the bold colle ction of love poems ''Who Loves You More Discreetly?'' (2002) are among her works. Rira has edited and introduced the first collection of Iranian Peac e Poetry (an anthology) in 2002. In 2008\, she founded the R.B.H\, an estab lishment in line with the International Peace Poetry Festival. A brainchild of Rira Abbasi and supported solely by individual donations and sponsorshi p of non-governmental organizations\, the charter of the Peace Poetry Festi val states that "Poetry for peace is affiliated to humanity\, regardless of race\, religion\, sex and geography". The world's first statue\, represen ting "The Poetry of Peace" was made by a team supervised by Rira's husband\ , Ali Khorram.
Many of her reviews and literary criticism s have been published in literary journals. Also\, many of her poems have b een translated into several languages such as Italian\, English\, German\, Indian\, Japanese\, Spanish\, Chinese\, Romanian\, Arabic\, Turkish and etc . Rira has been invited to many authoritative international poetry festival s so far and has attended in some of them. She has edited and translated "L ocal Poetry" (Tehran\, 2005) which is published at Studies and Research Cen ter and Cultural Anthropology. "Inversion" (Tehran\, 2008) and "Tin Frog" ( Tehran\, 2010) are two recent novels by Rira which are banned to publish by the government. Rira has also collected the anthology of World's Peace Poe try which is a multilingual selection of poems from the first and the secon d International Peace Poetry Festival and is ready to print.
In 2011\, Rira received a grant from Prince Claus Fund institute to tak e part in 21 Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín\, Colombia. In Ap ril 2012 a short film was made based on of her longer poems called "MYSTERI OUS NUCLEUSES" In 2014\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of Iran’s fi rst multilingual anthology of poetry "Peace\, the Poetr y of Life " (contemporary poets of the world). Her works include Valentine\, the White Sheep (April 2014). In 2015\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of "Inversion" a novel entitled (Naakoja Publicatio ns\, Paris). A collection of stories "Bear and feve r Marquez "was published in 2020. Maryam Ala Amjadi’s translations of Rira Abbasi’s poetry chapbook "I Gave Birth in War" received Honorable Mention a nd will be published by QuillsEdge Press\, US. In 2021\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of "Tandadegi" a novel (Ikhanum Public ation\, Kabul Afghanistan). Her latest work is a collection of stori es entitled "Wake up Mah Dolat''\, which was published in 2021(Aftab Public ation\, Oslo Norway).
Wondering where an Asian Studies degree can take you? The Virtual Asian Studies Careers Workshop is a pilot program tha t will connect Asian Studies students with employers and career opportuniti es. The aim of the workshop is to help students feel more confident in expl oring their future career path. It is open to Asian Studies undergraduate a nd graduate students. Students from other disciplines are also welcome to a ttend.
The workshop on January 31 features Communications Security Es tablishment (CSE)\, Canada’s national cryptologic agency. CSE is the nation al hub for cyber operations to defend Canada and advance national interests as well as to provide technical and operational assistance to federal law enforcement and security agencies. During this workshop\, CSE recruiters an d Subject Matter Experts (SME) will introduce you to the organization and t heir career opportunities\, specifically the Foreign Language Intelligence Analyst (FLIA)(Chinese) role (both professional position and co-op position ) which are open for applications. Come and learn about what it takes to be come a FLIA at Canada's national cryptologic agency!
Date & T
ime:
Monday\, January 31\, 2022 | 4:00pm-5:00pm (PST)Location: Online via Zoom
Foreign Language Intelligence An alyst (Chinese)
Fall 2022 - Student Opportunities in Langu age/Linguistics (Chinese)
Winter 2023 - Student Opportun ities in Language/Linguistics (Chinese)
Please RSVP via t he form below by 11:00am PST\, Monday\, January 31. The Zoom meeti ng information will be sent to registrants upon email confirmation. The wor kshop will not be recorded.
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ncenter" width="620"]
Poster design
by Farzan Kermani[/caption]
This talk was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
سخنران: دکتر فرزانه آقاپور، استادیار ، گروه زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه گیلان
طرفبحث: د کتر سودابه شکراللهزاده، استادیار گروه آموزش و پرورش دانشگاه علامه طبلاطبائ ی
این سخنرانی بهدلیل شرایط پیشبینین شده لغو شد.
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies present: Representations of Ethnicity in Iranian You ng Adult Fiction on February 5\, 2022.
Iran is a multicultural countr y with a wide range of ethnic variations. Fars/Persians\, Kurds\, Turks\, A rabs\, Lors\, Gilaks\, Baluches\, Torkamans and so on have coexisted over c enturies despite their different ideologies and cultures. However\, many of the non-Persian ethnic populations\, most of whom live in borderline areas of Iran\, have sometimes been marginalized by the dominant discourse\, for instance through stereotypical representations of them. In all these circu mstances\, all pertinent tribes\, despite their differences\, have been und er the umbrella of a central government\, and literature has served as a vo ice for all of them and as the meeting place of different ethnicities\, rac es and nationalities. Young Adult story and novel provide unique opportunit ies for teens to widen their worldviews while also creating relational poss ibilities through intercultural dialogues. The question is\, “What is the p lace of ethnicity with cultural\, social and political implications in Iran ian Young Adult literature?” In this lecture\, Dr. Farzaneh Aghapour will t ry to show the representations of Iranian ethnic groups in Persian Young Ad ult Literature\, with a focus on the three categories of “gender\,” facing the ”other\,” and the concept and value of “adolescence” among ethnicities. In doing so\, she will also discuss the representations of customs\, ethni c identity\, indigenous atmosphere and language within Young Adult narrativ es.
Farzaneh Aghapour\, PhD\, Assistant Profess or of Persian Language and Literature\, University of Guilan
Soudabeh Shokrollah-Zadeh\, PhD\, Assistant Professor of Educati on\, Allameh Tabataba’i University
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سخنران: دکتر ویلِم فلور، ایرانش ناس، محقق مستقل
طرفبحث: دکتر نادر مهرآوری، کالج علو م کشاورزی و محیط زیست، دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، دیویس
تا قرن بیستم تغییر چن دانی در رژیم غذایی ایرانیان ایجاد نشد. نان غذای اصلی بود و در کنار آن سبزیج ات، میوه، ماست و آجیل مصرف میشد. برای اکثر مردم، گوشت و برنج یک غذای لوکس بود. در قرن نوزدهم و بیستم ایرانیان شروع به استفاده از مواد غذایی جدید کردن د. پس از سال ۱۹۷۰، رژیم غذایی ایرانیان تغییر میکند. رژیم غذایی جدید شامل م قادیر زیادی برنج سفید، گوشت، نوشیدنیها و شیرینی/دسرهای شیرینشده با شکر، ب ا مقدار کمی سبزیجات، آجیل یا میوه بود؛ مشابه رژیم غذایی در ایالات متحده، با همان مشکلات برای سلامتی.
The event recording is now ava
ilable:
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies present: The Ch anging Diet of the Iranians – From Quasi-Vegetarians to Quasi-Carnivores on February 26\, 2022.
Until the 20th century there was little change i n the diet of Iranians. Bread was the major staple\, accompanied by vegetab les\, fruits\, yoghurt\, and nuts. Meat and rice were a luxury food for mos t consumers. In the 19th and 20th century new food items were adopted by Pe rsian consumers. After 1970\, the modern Iranian diet—large amounts of whit e rice\, meats\, sugar-sweetened beverages and sweet/desserts\, with few ve getables\, herbs\, nuts or fruits—grows increasingly similar to the US diet with the same health problems.
Willem Floor studied development economics and non-western sociology\, as well as Persian\, Arabic and Islamology from 1963-67 at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands). He received his doctoral degree from the Univers ity of Leiden in 1971. Since 1983\, Dr. Floor was employed by the World Ban k as an energy specialist\, however\, after his retirement in 2002\, he has dedicated his time to the study of the social and political history of Ira n\, and has published extensively throughout this time. His books include: Pu blic Health in Qajar Iran\, Agriculture in Qajar Iran\, and The History of Theater in Iran\, as well as\, The Persian Gulf: A Political and E conomic History of 5 Port Cities\, 1500-1730\, its second volume\, Pers ian Gulf: The Rise of the Gulf Arabs\, 1747-1792\, third volume\, The Rise and Fall of Bandar-e Lengeh\, the fourth vo lume\, Bandar Abbas: The Natura l Gateway of Southeast Iran\, and the fifth volume\, The Persian Gulf: Links with the Hinterland Bushehr\, Borazjan\, Kazerun\, Banu Ka’b\, & Bandar Abbas\, The Persian Gulf: The Hula Arabs o f The Shibkuh Coast of Iran\, and The Persian Gulf: Dutch-Omani Relations A Commercial & Po litical History 1651-1806\, and The Persian Gulf : Muscat – City\, Society and Trade . He has also published\, Travels Through Northern Persia\, 1770-1774\, Titles and Emoluments in Safavid Iran< /em>\, and A Social History of Sexual Relations in Iran< /em>\; Labor and Industry in Iran\, 1850-1941\; Guilds\, Merchants and Ulama in 19th Century Iran\; < a href="http://www.magepublishers.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-nader-shah-dutch -east-india-company-reports-1730-1747/">The Rise and Fall of Nader Shah \; Games Persians Play\, and History of Bread in Iran. His translations include: Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin’s Travels Thr ough Northern Persia 1770–1774 \, and with Hasan Javadi\, Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov’s The Heavenly Ros e-Garden: A History of Shirvan & Daghestan\; Evliya Chelebi’s Travels in Iran and the Caucasus\, 1647 and 1654\; A Man of Two Worlds: Pedros Bedik in Iran\, 1670–16 75\, Awake: A Moslem Woman’s Rare Memoir of Her Life and Partnership with the Editor of Molla Nasreddin\, the Most Influential Satirical Journal of the Caucasus an d Iran\, 1907–1931\, and Engelbert Kaempfer: Exotic Attractions in Persia\, 1684–1688: Travels & Observations.
Nader Mehravari has been studying the principles and practices of Persian cookery f or the past 30 years – initially as a serious side activity and now\, post- retirement\, fulltime. His current research interests include historical\, cultural\, and social practices relating to the preparation and consumption of food within the global Iranian diaspora community. He puts his research into practice by recreating traditional and authentic Persian dishes in a modern\, western home kitchen\, while carefully documenting associated meth ods behind individual and classes of dishes. He aims to create an innovativ e cookbook where accurate historical information and modern food science te chniques are compiled for modern western home kitchens. His academic and pr ofessional background is in science\, engineering\, and technology which al lows him to incorporate a structured and scientific approach into his culin ary passion. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1982. He is a r etired corporate executive\, has taught at Cornell\, Syracuse\, and Princet on Universities\, and has published extensively. He is currently a Research Associate at the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences of Univ ersity of California\, Davis. He also volunteers at the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University.
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies I nitiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Pe rsian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migra tion and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Winter and Spring 2022. The second session of the Winter and Spring 2022 seri es features author and literary critic\, Asieh Nezam Sha hidi. Along with a panel of specialists\, the session will analyze Shahidi' s latest short story collection\, the “Passing-Book.”
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
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Date & Time
:
Sunday\, February 27\, 2022
11:00am (PST) / 10:30pm (T
ehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Presented
in Persian
Free & open to the public. Registration is requi
red via the form below.
۲. هستی در گذر: بررسی مجموعه داستان « گذرنامه» با حضور نویسنده:
آسیه ن ظام شهیدی
زمان: یکشنبه ۲۷ فوریه ساعت ۱۱ صبح به وقت ونکوور و ۱۰/۵ شب به وقت ایران< u>
در این جلسه، با حضور نویسنده و پنلی تخصصی به بررسی مجموعه داستان «گذرنامه» خواهی م پرداخت.
پنلیست های جلسه:
فریبا صدیقیم
بهرام مرادی
بهناز علیپور گسکری
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Asieh Nezam Shahidi was born in Mashhad\, Khorasan. Her family had a literary and cult ural background. She left her hometown with her family when she was three y ears old. Due to her father's missions\, she lived in different cities of I ran and spent her primary education in these cities. She lived in Tehran an d spent his high school time in Tehran. During the first period of reopenin g universities after the revolution\, Shahidi studied law at the University of Tehran. Due to lack of interest in this field\, after graduation\, she was not employed and went to family affairs and personal studies.
She moved to Mashhad and went to university again and studied Persian literatu re at Payame Noor University. She began writing fiction in the late 1980s. Except for some limited storytelling sessions\, Shahidi has not participate d in any literary circles or storytelling workshops in Tehran or Mashhad. H er first collection of short stories\, entitled "My Beloved New Zealand Bud dhist Crocodile\," was published by Nashr-e-Phoenix (Hila)\, and a single s tory from this collection won an award at the last Golshiri Awards (The Sto ry of Ophelia\, Afilia). Her second collection of stories entitled "Morning Habits" was published by Afraz Publishing\, which won the Khasoo Literary Award in the same year. Her first novel\, entitled "The Age of the Wheel"\, was published by Negah Publishing.
She is currently a resident of Ma shhad. She is studying Persian literature for a master's degree and occasio nally writes notes for Persian literary publications abroad. “Passing-Book” is the latest collection of her stories published by Aftab Publishing in N orway.
آسیه نظام شهیدی،
زادهی سال 1340 در مشهدِ خراسان است. خانوادهاش پیشینهی ادبی فر هنگی داشتهاند. از سه سالگی زادگاهش را همراه خانواده ترک کرده. به سبب مامور یتهای پدرش درشهرهای مختلف ایران سکونت داشته و تحصلات ابتدایی را در این شهر ها گذرانده است. از ابتدای دههی پنجاه ساکن تهران بوده و دوران راهنمایی و دب یرستان را در تهران گذرانده. سال 62 در نخستین دورهی بازگشایی دانشگاهها بعد از انقلاب پذیرفته شده و در رشته حقوق قضایی دانشگاه تهران تحصیل کرده است. ب ه علت عدم علاقه به این رشته، بعد از فراغت از تحصیل، شاغل نشده و به امور خان وادگی و مطالعات شخصی پرداخته. از اوایل دههی هفتاد به زادگاهش مشهد کوچ کرده و بار دیگر به دانشگاه رفته و در رشتهی ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه پیام نور تحصیل کرده است. در اواخر دههی هشتاد به داستاننویسی پرداخته. به جز برخی جلسات محدود داستانخوانی محلی در هیچ یک از محافل ادبی و کارگاههای داستان تهران یا مشهد شرکت نداشته است. نخستین داستانهایش در نشریات محلی و سپس در مجلات ر ودکی، نافه، هنگام، زنان امروز و برخی سایتهای ادبی منتشرشده. در سال نود نخس تین مجموعه داستانش با عنوان «تمساح بودایی نیوزیلندی محبوب من» توسط نشرققنوس (هیلا) منتشرشده و تک داستانی از این مجموعه درآخرین دورهی جوایز گلشیری برند ه جایزه شده(داستان افیلیا، افیلیا). درسال94 دومین مجموعه داستانش با عنوان «عادتهای صبح گاهی» توسط نشر افراز منتشر شده که در همان سال جایزهی ادبی خصوصی( غیردولتی) هفتاقلیم برای بهترین مجموعه داستان را ازآن خود کرده است. درسال 97 نخستین رمانش با عنوان« دوران چرخ» از سوی نشر نگاه منتشرشده. در همین سال یکی از دا ستانهای نظام شهیدی در سومین و آخرین جلد از کتاب هشتادسال داستاننویسی ایرا ن تالیف حسن میرعابدینی، به عنوان یکی از داستانهای برگزیده دههی هشتاد انتخ اب و چاپ شده است( داستان ویلچر). همچنین دو داستان از او توسط مهدی مرعشی به انگلیسی ترجمه شده که در مجموعه بیست داستان از ده نویسندهی زن معاصر ایران با عنوان Alive and kicking منتشر شده و نشر آفتاب آن را چاپ کرده است. در حالحاضر نظام ش هیدی ساکن مشهد است. در مقطع ارشد ادبیات فارسی تحصیل میکند و گهگاه برای نش ریات ادبی -فارسی خارج از کشور یادداشت مینویسد. مجموعه داستان «گذرنامه» آخر ین مجموعه داستان
شه یدی است که نشر آفتاب آن را در نروژ منتشرکرده.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/being-in-passing-story-readi ng-with-asieh-nezam-shahidi/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/01/Asieh-Nezam-Shahidi-FB-Poster-01-22-copy.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220206T2058Z-1644181096.7935-EO-55066-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220203T224611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T192747Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220305T170000 SUMMARY: The 34th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest DESCRIPTION: The 34th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest is op en to British Columbia and Yukon residents who speak Japanese as a foreign or second language. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The 34th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest is open to British Columbia and Yukon residents who speak Ja panese as a foreign or second language.
The Contest will be held on S aturday\, March 5\, 2022\, 12pm - 5 pm (PST) at the Asian Centre\, Universi ty of British Columbia\, Vancouver Campus.
Please note that due to sa fety concern\, the event will be offered in a reduced in-person format.
Attendance is only limited to contestants\, judges and organizers. Howev er\, the event will be live-streamed through YouTube Live for the p ublic to view. Set a reminder on YouTube to get notified when the contest goes live: https://youtu.be/ SqXwCw3fyXI.
The program will be available before the event day o n the website of the Consulate General of Japan.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-34th-annual-british-colu mbia-japanese-speech-contest/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/02/updated_1280x720px-Japanese-Speech-Contest.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220123T1028Z-1642933692.2204-EO-54823-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220120T003615Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T192445Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220305T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220305T171500 SUMMARY: Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diasporic Milieu t hat Gave Birth to It\, 1906-1931 DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diaspo ric Milieu that Gave Birth to It\, 1906-1931 on March 5\, 2022. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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سخنران: دکتر ژانت اَفاری، استاد گروه مطالعات دینی در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، سانتا باربارا
طرفبحث: دکتر حسن جوادی، استاد بازنشسته، دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، برکلی
در او ایل قرن بیستم میلادی، گروهی از هنرمندان و روشنفکران منطقهٔ ماورای قفقاز برا ی شکل دادن به یک گفتمان اصلاحطلبی و ضداستعماری با تأکید ویژه بر اصلاحات اج تماعی و سیاسی، نشریهای با عنوان «ملانصرالدین» راهاندازی کردند. این نشریه با استفاده از فولکلور، هنرهای تجسمی و طنز، به دهها هزار نفر در جهان اسلام رسید و طرز تفکر یک نسل را تحت تأثیر قرار داد.
The event
recording is now available:
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studi
es present: Molla Nasreddin of Tiflis and the Transnational Diaspo
ric Milieu that Gave Birth to It\, 1906-1931 on March 5\, 2022.
In th e early 20th century\, a group of artists and intellectuals in Transcaucasi a reinterpreted a Middle Eastern trickster figure to construct a reformist and anti-colonial Muslim discourse with a strong emphasis on social and pol itical reforms. Using folklore\, visual art\, and satire\, their periodical Mollā Nasreddin reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world\, impacting the thinking of a generation.
Hasan Javadi was born in Tabriz\, Iran to a distinguished family of administrator s and scholars. He has taught English and Persian literature at the Univers ity of Cambridge\, Tehran University and the University of California at Be rkeley. He is the author and translator of numerous books\, including Satire in Persian Literature\, and Persian Literary Influence on English Literature. For Mage he translated Obeyd-E Zakani: Et hics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works. His translation s include: Forough Farrokhzad’s Another Birth and Other Poems\, an d with Willem Floor\, Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov’s The Heavenly Rose-Garden: A History of Shirvan & Daghestan\; Evliya Chelebi’s Travels in Iran and the Caucasus\, 1647 and 1 654\; and Wake Up Call: Memoir s of a Moslem Woman’s Struggle to Educate Her People\, 1907-1931. He edited Letters From Tabriz: The Russian Suppression of the Iranian Constitutional Movement. Now retired\, Dr. Javadi lives in the Washington DC area\, where he is working on original scholarship and translations of Persianate literatur e.
2021/
22 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Professor Clark Chilson
(Associate professor in the Department
of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh)
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Tuesday\, March 8\, 2022<
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6:00pm PST Lecture
Location:
The lecture will take place on
line only.
Presented in En
glish.
Free & open to the public.
Lecture abstr act:
In the 1910s\, Kure Shūzō\, the “father of Japanese psy chiatry\,” led a team that investigated throughout Japan traditional healin g practices. In the 1918 report he coauthored\, he advocated for state inte rvention to eradicate such practices at Buddhist temples. In the decades th at followed\, government policies pushed the mentally ill away from temples and monks and toward mental hospitals and psychiatrists. Yet\, after 1945\ , Zen and Pure Land Buddhist ideas and practices shaped indigenous psychoth erapies. To illustrate how\, this talk focuses on Morita and Naikan therapi es. It shows that\, unlike mindfulness in North America\, Buddhist-influenc ed psychotherapies in Japan attributed emotional suffering to self-centered ness and emphasized stronger social relations as a cure.
The lecture recording is now made available:
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12:00pm
- 1:45pm PST
Loca
tion:
The lecture will take place online only.
Presented in English.
Seminar abstract:
The life history of a man who has been running Naikan training centers in Japan for over 30 years\, based largely on a life-history interview he d id with Clark Chilson. Prof. Chilson will also discuss the value of such li fe histories and how we might interpret them in general as well as the one presented in particular.
Free & open to the public. Regi stration is required via the form found below.
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The Department of Asian Studies and the Asian Centre adhere to Provincial Health Orders and Public Health G uidance for all in-person events. Please check back regularly for specific information and details about attending this event safely and in accordance with the current phase of B.C.’s Restart Plan.
We look forward to seeing you.
About the speaker:
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding member of UBC’s Department of Asian Stud ies\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia Uni versity. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Ho wes was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cultural\, educational and people- to-people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate thei r careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted f ormer students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an an nual public lecture for prominent scholars from around the world to speak t o the university community and alumni on topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4th\, 201 7\, at the age of 92.
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The recording of the event is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/z5cAhQy-FTk[/embed]
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, t he UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosti ng a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Mo dern Persian Literature in Spring 2022. The first session of the Spring 202 2 series features guest speakers Amir Hossein Yazdanbod and Hadi Keykavosip . The sessions are designed and run by Bahram Moradi\, Hessam Dehghani and Fariba Seddighim.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asi an Studies.
Date & Time:
Sunday\, March 13
\, 2022
11:00am (PST) / 10:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to th
e public.
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این جلسه کلیات نظری درباره< span lang="AR-SA">ی ماهیت ادبیات مهاجرت ر ا به بحث میگذارد. اینکه نویسنده مهاجر کیست و مرز بین ادبیات مهاجرت و دیگر انواع ادبی کجاست؟ چه مقوله یا مقولاتی به این نوع ادبی را تعریف می کند؟
گردانندگان جلسه:< /p>
بهرام مرادی
فریبا صدیقیم
حسام دهقانی
میهمانان جلسه:< /span>
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امیرحسین یزدان< span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">بد نویسنده
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Hadi keykavosi was born on December 15\, 1978 in Tehran. He started to write fictions in Bandar Abbas in 2001. In 2003\, he won the first award with appreciation in "The Tehran Nights Literary Festival". After dropping out of university in 2004\, he started journalism. In the same year\, he won the Isfahan literary award for the "Giant Dog of Red Brick House"\, a publication that was released in "Literature and Philosophy" magazine. Ha di is the Award winner of the country's youths for “Attallo”.In 2 010\, he immigrated from Iran to Italy. In the following year\, he publishe d "Khate Fasele"\, a fiction collection in Cheshmeh Tehran publication. In 2019\, he published the second collection of stories entitled "ABC for Badgers". The publisher is Mehri London.
Amir Hossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Marcia\, the Dear Scoundrel” won the Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short f iction prize in 2007. Amir’s first collection of stories\, The Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshmeh\, 2009) won two national book prizes\, “Golshi ri” and “Gam-e Avval”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq\, 2013)\, a political novel that occurs in Iran\, Afghanistan and Azerbaijan\, addresses the issu es of neocolonialism and Western intervention in the region."
The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to inv ite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse expe riences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. Thi s event will feature a moderated panel discussion and round robin networkin g sessions. You will also have a chance to win raffle prizes (Asian Studies Merchandise)! Careers Night is the perfect opportunity to make connections \, meet fellow Asian Studies students\, and feel more confident in taking t he next steps on your career path.
The event has now concluded. Read the event recap here.
Thursday\, March 17\, 20
22
6:00 PM (PDT)
Held online via Zoom
As a student:
* Ask the burning questions about what a d
egree in Asian Studies has to offer
* Gain extremely helpful networkin
g tips (e.g. How to Use LinkedIn 101)
* Meet your fellow undergraduate
s and learn about their career and academic plans
* Gain an excellent
head-start in planning your next move during and after UBC
* Share what you did at UBC that helped
you succeed
* Share your experience in navigating through your career
field and finding the right fit for you
* Give back to your alma mate
r by providing your insights to the students of what they should be expecti
ng
* Meet and make connections with other alumni\, faculty\, and stude
nts
* Meet potential employees among our diligent and passionate stude
nts
Students will ha ve the opportunity to ask all of our alumni panelists their questions about how they got their first jobs after graduating\, how they have navigated t hrough the ‘real world’\, and how the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted t hem (whether positive or negative).
Zining Wang\, BA ’18 – Public Policy Manager\
, Huawei Canada
Zining is a Public Policy and Strategy Manage
r at Huawei Canada\, a global ICT and consumer electronics technology compa
ny. Her daily work involves supporting the company's strategic planning\, l
egislative initiatives\, and policy analysis.
She graduated from the UBC Asian Studies department in 2018\, with a double major in Economics and a minor in Commerce. During her time at the department\, some of her best memories were learning Farsi\, Japanese\, and Chinese literature. She was a lso active in getting involved at the UBC ASIA Club\, and being a Teaching Assistant at the Chinese Langauge Program.
Zining completed the UBC A rts Co-op program and worked for multiple offices on campus. Her time at UB C helped to find her passion in connecting Asia to the world --- it led her to work for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada upon graduation and subs equently\, her current role at Huawei.
Zining currently lives in Vanc
ouver. She enjoys dancing\, hiking\, taking long walks and is hoping to ado
pt a puppy in 2022.
Zining's LinkedIn Profile
Ciaran Dudley\, BA ‘11 - Culture and Pub lic Relations Coordinator\, Consulate General of Japan\, Vancouver
Born and raised in Vancouver\, BC\, Ciaran first became interested i
n the Japanese language and culture during a high school exchange trip to M
aizuru in Kyoto\, Japan. Upon graduating from St. Patrick’s Secondary\, he
decided to travel to Osaka on a working holiday visa where he taught Englis
h for one year. After returning to Canada\, Ciaran went to Corpus Christi C
ollege and then transferred to UBC\, specializing in Asian Languages and Cu
lture with a focus on Japanese. In his third year\, he was given the opport
unity to study abroad at Osaka University via the Go Global program before
returning to UBC to complete his degree in 2011. Shortly thereafter\, Ciara
n joined the JET Programme and was sent to Kumamoto City in Kyushu where he
worked in city hall as a CIR (Coordinator for International Relations) for
4 years. He is currently employed at the Consulate General of Japan in Van
couver in the Culture and Public Relations Section.
Ciaran's LinkedIn Profile<
br />Ciaran
's Arts Alumni Profile
Oliver Mann\, BA ’13 – Communications Strategist
\, UBC Community Engagement + Freelance photographer and videographer
Oliver is a digital communications professional with over nine ye
ars of experience working at the University of British Columbia and over a
decade of experience creating digital content for a variety of clients and
projects. Starting his career in communications as a Work Learn student for
the Department of Asian Studies\, Oliver has worked in a variety of commun
ications roles at Asian Studies\, the Faculty of Arts\, and recently joined
the Community Engagement team within UBC External Relations. Outside of UB
C\, Oliver freelances as a photographer and videographer and has worked wit
h large organizations like the Vancouver Whitecaps to small businesses like
fashion startups and local modeling agencies. Before picking up a camera\,
Oliver spent several years as a lead guitarist in a professional indie roc
k band\, was signed to Vancouver record label Light Organ Records\, and has
toured across North America\, Europe\, and Asia. While a student\, Oliver
studied Korean and Japanese language and spent two terms on exchange to Ewh
a Womens University in Seoul\, South Korea. While on exchange\, Oliver also
interned for British Columbia’s Trade Office in Seoul.
Oliver's LinkedIn Profile
Kristy Lin\, BA
’21 – Communications Specialist\, SAP
Kristy graduated from UBC last May with a major in Asian Area Studies and a minor in Asian Canad ian and Asian Migration (ACAM). Before her current role at SAP\, she worked with the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC) at UBC. In that position\, she was able to combine both h er studies in Asian Area Studies and Chinese Canadian Migration with her pe rsonal interests in digital media creation\, video editing\, virtual event planning and digital communications.
Kristy hopes to bring positivity
wherever she goes and to influence especially younger\, shy\, and introver
ted females to be confident in themselves and to reach for the stars when i
t comes to both personal and professional development. She also loves trave
ling\, learning about different languages and cultures\, and documenting he
r life experiences and journey on social media platforms such as YouTube an
d TikTok (check out Kristy’s Y
ouTube channel and her TikTok).
Kr
isty's LinkedIn Profile
Kristy's fe
ature in editorial piece "Finding our Seat at the Table: What Identity Mean
s for Asian Canadians"
Richard N. Liu\, BA ’93 – Honorary Brigade Division President\, St. John Ambulance\, BC/Yukon
Richard
explored China as a student
attending Peking University that led to a rich 20-plus year career at the
Canadian Embassy\, the Swiss Chamber of Commerce\, and Western Academy of B
eijing\, in areas of diplomacy\, public relations\, major events organizati
on and education. As a leader in the development of a wide variety of volun
teer projects in China\, Richard started the influential “Canadians in Chin
a” network\; founded the rapidly growing Canadian Alumni Network (CAN) that
brings together thousands of alumni currently in China who attended Canada
’s post-secondary institutions\; and was one of the original founding commi
ttee members to start the very first Terry Fox Run for Beijing in 1999. Sin
ce returning to Canada in 2014\, Richard now sits on various boards\; and a
dvises companies and organizations on a variety of sectors pertaining to As
ia\; and was appointed the Honorary Brigade Division President for St. John
Ambulance\, Canada’s leading first aid and safety charity\, and one of the
oldest humanitarian organizations in the world. Most recently\, Richard wa
s among 13 UBC Alumni to be recognized and awarded the 2018-2019 UBC Alumni
Builder Award\, and his citation read\, "For his service\, dedication\, an
d contribution to UBC and it's alumni community." And he just returned from
the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics after serving as a Mission Staff member o
n Team Canada.
Rich
ard's LinkedIn Profile
Watc
h Richard's "Why Asian Studies" Alumni Interview Feature
Paul Hsu\, BA’ 06 – Principal\, St. Regi
s Secondary School\; Chief Executive Officer\, New Castle Japan Investment\
; Chairman of the Board\, Canadian Housing Society
Pa
ul is a graduate of the Department of Asian Studies of 2006 and a gradu
ate of the Masters in Asia-Pacific Policies Studies Program of 2008. He is
the founder and current Principal of St. Regis Secondary School\, a senior
independent high school in Vancouver that is known for its reputation of se
nding students to top-50 QS Ranking universities around the world through t
he school’s comprehensive and versatile education program. Aside from his w
ork at St. Regis\, Paul also serves as the founder and CEO of New Castle Ja
pan Investment\, a transnational real estate investment firm that specializ
es in asset acquisition\, property reconstruction\, and long-term rental pr
ojects in Canada and Japan. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Canadia
n Housing Society\, a non-profit organization whose primary mission is to p
rovide sustainable\, comfortable\, and financially feasible homes for low-i
ncome and other disadvantaged members of the community in BC and NB.
<
a href="https://youtu.be/7oJFiCL5z6U">Watch Paul's "Why Asian Studies" Alum
ni Interview Feature
Faiz Jaffar\, BA ’17 – Member Services
Manager\, AGN International
Faiz graduated from UBC in 2017 w
ith an Asian Language and Culture (Chinese) major. While his time at UBC\,
Faiz took part in all kinds of Asian Studies departmental events\, spent a
year abroad\, and appeared on national television in China. After graduatio
n\, Faiz received a scholarship to study in China\, where he completed a Ma
ster’s Degree of Chinese Law (LLM) at Renmin University of China. While in
China\, Faiz has worked at a Chinese law firm\, as legal counsel for a stat
e-owned Fortune 500 company\, and as a management consultant for internatio
nal associations. In his free time in Beijing\, Faiz volunteered with the C
anadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Alumni Network. Together with
the Canadian Embassy to China\, Faiz helped advocate for Canadian universit
ies in China. For his work\, UBC honoured Faiz with the title of UBC Alumni
Ambassador to Beijing.
In 2022\, Faiz returned to Vancouver\, where
he now works as a member services manager at AGN International. As manager
he oversees membership activities for 10 offices across Canada. On weekends
he likes to play Dungeons and Dragons (English-Chinese games\, of course).
Faiz's Li
nkedin Profile
Faiz's Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight feature
Rossa Sung\, BA '01\, Management Consultant
Rossa graduated from UBC in 2001\, double majoring in Political Science an
d Asian Studies. As a marketing professional\, Rossa has over 25 years of g
lobal experience in the medical device industry. When she is not consulting
or building businesses\, she prioritizes her time by volunteering at her l
ocal parish and her children's school.
Rossa's LinkedIn Profile
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CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Japanese,Featured Korean,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit,Featured Tibetan URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2022-asian-studies-annual-ca reers-night/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/02/2022-Annual-Asian-Studies-Careers-Night.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220411T2136Z-1649712966.8562-EO-55539-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220321T181352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220321T181352Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220407 SUMMARY: Traditions of Yoga 2022: A Webinar Series DESCRIPTION: Join us for a public WEBINAR SERIES on Wednesday afternoons in conjunction with the course ASIA210\, as we welcome noted scholars to disc uss how and why they study yoga through historical\, cultural\, and critica l lenses. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Sanskrit URL;VALUE=URI:https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/03/traditions2022@144x-80.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220129T1942Z-1643485351.5536-EO-54951-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220128T225240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T204322Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220327T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220327T130000 SUMMARY: “The Nature of Story”: Story reading with Abu Torab Khosravi DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now made available: The Persian Lan guage and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Re ading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyz ing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in W inter 2022. The third session of the Winter […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/ndOGdHeSQ5U[/embed]
The Persian L anguage and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events anal yzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Winter 2022. The third session of the Winter 2022 series features one of t he leading writers of contemporary Persian literature\, Abu Torab Khosravi. In this session\, we will discuss his approach towards the nature of story .
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Time:
Sunday\, March 27\, 2022
11:00am (PDT
) / 10:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: online via ZoomPresented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
«ماهیت داستان: داستانخوانی با ابوتراب خسروی»
در این جلسه در
نشستی با نویسنده و به کمک پنلی تخصصی به بررسی مجموعه داستان «دیوان سومنات» و «کتاب ویران» از این نویسندهی نابغهی ایرانی خواهیم پرداخت
پنلیست های جلسه:
حسام دهقانی
کیهان خانجانی
بلقیس سلیمانی
لطفا برای ثبت نام فرم زیر را پر کنید
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He
has won several national awards including Mehregan-e Adab for “Asfār
-e Kātebān\,” The 4th Houshang-e Golshīrī award for “Rūd-e Rāvī\,” T
he 11th Houshang-e Golshīrī
ابو تراب خسروی، خالق سه گانه «اسف
ار کاتبان»، «رود راوی»
و «ملکان عذاب»
از دیگر آثار ابوتراب خسروی می توا
ن به «آواز پر جبرئیل» نیز اشاره کرد. او علاوه بر داستان، پژوهش هایی نیز در خصوص داستان و داستان نو
یسی دارد که تحت عنوان «حاشیه ای بر مبانی داستان نویسی» منتشر شده است
. ابوتراب خسروی جایزه های ادبی بسیاری را برای آثارش ب
ه دست آورده است. «اسفار کاتبان،» برنده
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Poster design by Farza
n Kermani[/caption]
طرفبحث: دکتر ساموئل هاجکین، پژوهشگر اد بیات جهان، دانشگاه بیرمنگام
موضوع نشست حاضر پژوهشی است در حوزهٔ حبسیا ت یا زنداننامههای فارسی. سخنرانان نشست در این پژوهش در حال جمعآوری گلچین ی از حبسیات فارسی (به انگلیسی)اند. این گلچین تصویری از تحول این گونه شعر را از قرن یازدهم تا بیست و یکم میلادی، از طریق شناسایی طیفی از قالبها و مضام ین و مفاهیم ادبی آن، ارائه میدهد. از جمله اشعار موردبحث در این نشست عبارت اند از: رباعیات مسعود سعد سلمان، قصائد خاقانی شروانی، غزلیات مجد همگر، مثنو یات ملک الشعرای بهار و شعر نوِ احمد شاملو.
The event rec
ording is now available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/RE1xl5RcDxM[/embed]< /p>
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studie s present: The Persian Prison Poem from South Asia to the Caucasus: Towards an Anthology on April 2\, 2022.
This presentation will introduce Dr. Rebecca Gould and Dr. Kayvan Tahmasebian's ongoing work towards an antholo gy of Persian prison poems (habsiyyāt) in English. Building on the ir prior work on the Persian poetics of imprisonment (Gould 2021)\, this an thology offers a snapshot of the development of Persian prison poetry from the 11th to the 21st century through the prism of its forms and topoi. Among the prison poems they will discuss are Masʿd Saʿd S alman’s rubaʿis to Khaqani Shirvani’s Christian qasida\, Majd Hamgar’s ghaz als\, Malek al-Shoʿara Bahar’s masnavi\, and Ahmad Shamlu’s free v erse. Throughout the presentation they will develop a new theory of genre a ttenuated to Persian poetics. As they explain\, the criteria underlying the structure of the anthology aims to reflect the dialectic of power and aest hetic in classical and modernist Persian poetry.
Rebecca Ruth Gould is the author of Writers and Reb els: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016) and The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagin ation (2021). With her co-author Kayvan Tahmasebian\, she has published a number of articles on Persian and comparative literature i n Representations\, Modernism/Mode rnity\, New Literar y History\, and Twentieth Century Literature. Tahmasebian 's and Gould's forthcoming translation\, House Arrest: Poems of Hasan A lizadeh (2022) won the PEN Translates Award from English PEN. She tea ches at the University of Birmingham\, where she directs the GlobalLIT \, a project which focuses on Glob al Literary Theory ('ilm al-balagha) in Persian\, Turkish\, and Ar abic.
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Kayvan Tahmasebian is a researcher in comparative literary theory and criticism. He is t he co-editor (with Rebecca Ruth Gould) of The Routledge Handbook of Tra nslation and Activism (2020).
Samuel Hodgkin is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Yal e University. He has published on the modern verse\, theater\, and criticis m of Iran\, Turkey\, the Caucasus\, and Central Asia. He is a co-organizer of the “Cultures of World Socialism” working group\, and his articles have appeared in Iranian Studies and other venues.
The event recording is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/P_jS6vbsBxk[/embed]
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persi an Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Spring 2022. The second session of the Spring 2022 series fe atures guest speaker Sorour Kasmaï who will delve in to the linguistic challenges every author wrestles with in composing a work \, the strategies they deploy\, and decisions they have to make. The sessio ns are designed and run by Bahram Moradi\, Hessam Dehghani and Fariba Seddi ghim.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
< p>Date & Time:
([میان دو دن یا [نویسنده< span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">ی مهاجر و زبان مادری)جلسه دوم :
یکشنبه ۳ آ وریل ۲۰۲۲ ساعت ۱۱ به وقت ونکوور - < /b>۷ شب به وقت گرینویچ و ۱۰/۵ شب به وقت تهران
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Sorour Kasmaï is a novelist\, translator an d publisher who was born in Teheran in a Francoph ile family. She attended primary and secondary school at the franco-iranian Lycée Razi. She later studied Russian language a nd literature in Paris. In 1987\, thanks to a university scholarship\, she went to Moscow and studied Russian theater. Passionate about theater\, she became\, a few years later\, a translator and interpreter of Russian on sta ge and at the Paris Opera. At the same time\, she worked on Tajik oral lite rature and published a series of CDs of folk and traditional music from Taj ikistan\, as well as popular and traditional Iranian music (Shadjarian\, Si ma Bina\, etc.). In 2002\, her first novel\, The Glass Cemetery\, wa s published by Actes Sud. She also founded and directed at the same publish er\, the collection “Horizons Pe rsans” (Persian Horizons) dedicated to Iranian and Afgha n literatures. Since then\, she has published The Valley of the Eagles\, the autobiography of an escape (Adelf Award 2007) and A Day Before the End of the World. She also translated into French several novels an d short stories from her compatriots\, including My Uncle Napoleon b y Iraj Pezechkzad and Leaving\, Staying\, Returning by Shahrokh Mesk oob.
The 2
021/22 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with guest sp
eaker Professor Ban Wang (Stanford University)
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Image credits: Cover image for
Ban Wang's monograph China in the World (forthcoming 2022 by Duke
UP)\, designed by Aimee Harrison\, based on a painting in the series “Land
scape Relativities” by Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney[/caption]
The recording of the main lecture is now made available:
[embed]https:// youtu.be/ZLd9gLA4hjQ[/embed]
Focusing on tensions and connect ions between national formation and international outlooks\, this talk show s how ancient visions persist even as Chinese modernizers and revolutionari es adopted and revised the Western nation-state form. The concept of ti anxia (all under heaven) and datong (great harmony) have been updated into outlooks of global harmony that value unity\, equality\, and reciprocity as the key to overcoming interstate conflict\, national divides \, and social fragmentation. The talk will delve into two ongoing debates: on the embrace of the West vs. aspirations for a common world\, and on the difference between liberal cosmopolitanism and socialist internationalism.< /p>
Date & Time:
Thursday\, F
ebruary 10\, 2022
In light of the current status of the pandemic in Vancouver\, the lecture
is now postponed to Tuesday\, April 5.
5:00pm (PDT) Reception with light refreshments
6:00pm-8:00pm (PDT)
Lecture
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 187
1 West Mall\, Vancouver
*There is also an option to watch the even
t virtually. The lecture will be live-streamed through YouTube.
Proof of vaccination and face coverings: At UBC\, p roof of vaccination continues to be required for all indoor event participa nts over 12 years old. Face coverings are required in public indoor spaces until April 30. The Department of Asian studies reserves the right to deny entry or participation to anyone who doesn't comply with the department's s tated policies\, procedures and visitor code of conduct.
Presented in
English.
Free & open to the public.
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In this seminar\, we will read Lu Xun’s essay “Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices” (Po esheng lun 破惡聲論) and stories “Mending Heaven” (Butian 補天)\, and “Curbing the Flood” (Lishui 理水). We will also rea d Ban Wang’s “Lu Xun as a Mytho-Ecological Writer” inspired by Lu Xun. We w ill discuss how Lu Xun mounts a critique of the myth of progress\, science\ , and technology. By evoking ancient cosmology and ecological resonance of humans with nature\, Lu Xun lampoons the hypocrisy of the hypocrite gentry. This privileged and power elite includes China’s reformers and westernizer s at the turn of the 20th century. In Lu Xun’s stories\, the kno wledge elite in modern China rub shoulders with bureaucrats of the imperial dynasties. By indulging cynically in empty talk and performing vacuous rit uals\, by wielding the rhetoric of utilitarian rationality\, this elite val orizes the fetish of technoscientific modernity by trashing “superstition.” Lu Xun’s defence of “superstition” re-invokes a millennial faith in the ec ological interconnection of humans and nature\, and expresses the intimate connection between faith\, voice\, and poetic imagination.
Da
te & Time:
Wednesday\, F
ebruary 9\, 2022
In lig
ht of the current status of the pandemic in Vancouver\, the research semina
r is now postponed to Monday\, April 4.
4:00pm – 5:45pm (PDT)
Location:
Asia
n Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
*This session wil
l not be live-streamed.
Presented in English.
Free & open to the
public.
Attendees will be expected to read Lu Xun's writ
ings and Ban Wang's essay before coming to the seminar. The readings are in
cluded in the registration confirmation email.
Proof of vaccination and face coverings: At UBC\, proof of vaccination continues to be required for all indoor event participants ove r 12 years old. Face coverings are required in public indoor spaces until A pril 30. The Department of Asian studies reserves the right to deny entry o r participation to anyone who doesn't comply with the department's stated p olicies\, procedures and visitor code of conduct.
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The Department of Asian Studies and the Asian Centre adhere to Provinc ial Health Orders and Public Health Guidance for all in-person events. Plea se check back regularly for specific information and details about attendin g this event safely and in accordance with the current phase of B.C.’s Rest art Plan.
We look forward to se eing you.
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Dr. Ban Wa
ng of Stanford University. [/caption]
About the Speaker< /strong>
Ban Wang is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies in
East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Stanford U
niversity. His major publications include The Sublime Figure of History
(1997)\, Illuminations from the Past (2004)\, History an
d Memory (Lish yu jiyi) (2004)\, and China in the World:
Culture\, Politics\, and World Vision (forthcoming March 2022). He has
edited and co-edited 8 book on the fields of Chinse studies\, including
The Yip So Man Wat M emorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, and her p assion for Chinese literature and culture. Please visit the full lecture li st here.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2021-22-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2021/11/Wat-Lecture-2022-1920x1080digital-screen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7222-EO-54669-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220117T191329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T164550Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220407T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220407T193000 SUMMARY: Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2022 DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to ou r annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2022. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 7! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/aMHW6SDuYrE[/embed]
The Department o f Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia is pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2022. Join us in ce lebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language and culture at UBC on April 7!
The program was established in loving memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (nee Gill)\, devoted wife\, mother\, and strong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women’s issues. Our goal is to call attention to import ant new scholarship on Punjabi language and culture and bring it to our stu dents and the broader Vancouver area audience\; encourage and recognize ach ievements in Punjabi language cultural production\; and honor students for their work in learning and using the Punjabi language.
Thursd
ay\, April 7\, 2022
5:00pm (PDT) Door open and reception
6:00pm (PDT) Welcome followed by Event Program
Location: Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Free & open to the public.
Proof of vaccination a nd face coverings: At UBC\, proof of vaccination continues to be requir ed for all indoor event participants over 12 years old. Face coverings are required in public indoor spaces until April 30. The Department of Asian st udies reserves the right to deny entry or participation to anyone who doesn 't comply with the department's stated policies\, procedures and visitor co de of conduct.
5:00 pm - Door open and rec eption with light refreshments
6:00 pm - Welcome
6:15 pm - Trib ute to Harjit Kaur Sidhu
6:20 pm - Presentation by guest speaker\, Ra
na Ranbir
(Presented in Punjabi\; A brief summary of the speech in Eng
lish will be provided.)
7:00 pm - Student essay contest awards announ cement
7:10 pm - Cultural performances
(Presented in Punjabi)
7:30 pm - Conclusion
*Please note that all recorded times ref er to Pacific Time i.e. the time it would be in Vancouver\, Canada.
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Rana Ranbir is a filmmaker\, a writer\, and a motivational
speaker who works with youth in Surrey. He worked in more than 50 films\, h
as a graduate degree from Punjabi University\, and is author of four books
(including Kin Min Tip Tip and Deeva)\, as well as a novel on 20th November
published in three editions. His prose Zindgi Zindabad is likewise a very
popular title.
The Department
of Asian Studies and the Asian Centre adhere to Provincial Health Orders an
d Public Health Guidance for all in-person events. Please check back regula
rly for specific information and details about attending this event safely
and in accordance with the current phase of B.C.’s Restart Plan.
We look forward to seeing you.
Harjit Kaur Sidhu (nee Gill) was born in Amritsar in 1937. She grew up in what is now Pakistan and resettled with her parents\, brot
hers and sisters in Ludhiana after partition. She received both an MA and
MEd. She went on to lecture at Sidwa College in 1966 and 1967. She immigra
ted to Canada with her husband\, Balvindar Singh Sidhu\, in 1968. The coup
le lived in the Yukon for 32 years\, during which time Mrs. Sidhu’s passion
became early childhood education. After the birth of her sons Ravindar (1
971) and Rajvindar (1972)\, she worked as a teacher in multiple early child
hood settings: preschool\, prekindergarten programs and in kindergarten.
In 2001\, Harjit and Balvindar moved to Vancouver where their youngest son was a practicing dentist and where\, later\, their oldest son started a career at UBC as a surgeon in the Faculty of Medicine. During her time i n Vancouver\, Harjit rediscovered her passion for Punjabi language and cult ure. She was a strong advocate for Punjabi culture\, and for women in Punj abi society.
After two and a half year courageous battle with cancer\ , she passed away in her home on July 23\, 2007. She is survived by her hu sband\, two sons and their wives\, two grandsons and one granddaughter.
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At the University of British Columbia\, the Punj abi language occupies a central place in our South Asia program\, and repre sents one of the largest and longest-standing Punjabi-language programs in the world\, outside of South Asia. In this video\, hear from students why P unjabi Studies has been integral to their experience at UBC.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/harjit-kaur-sidhu-memorial-p rogram-2022/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/01/v.2_Harjit-Kaur-Sidhu-Memorial-Program-Poster-2022.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220331T1551Z-1648741893.3718-EO-55636-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220330T184748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T201851Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220412T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220412T193000 SUMMARY: Green Courts and the Indigenous Slot in Himalayan Resource Struggl es: The Environment as a Metanarrative DESCRIPTION: Indigenous Asia Initiative presents: Green Courts and the Indi genous Slot in Himalayan Resource Struggles: The Environment as a Metanarra tive on April 12\, 2022. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Indigenous Asia Initiative presents: Green Court s and the Indigenous Slot in Himalayan Resource Struggles: The Environment as a Metanarrative on April 12\, 2022. Prof. Vasan will present an ethnogra phy of a case against a hydel power project in Himachal Pradesh (India) tha t was taken up in the National Green Tribunal of India. A local community w ith the support of environmental activists was successful in pausing the ex pansion of a hydel power project in the Himalayas. She will discuss how opp osing sides in the case all relied on a claim to environmentalism to make t heir case\, and the ways in which the indigenous slot played a role in thes e resource struggles. The broader argument merging from this is that the en vironment has emerged as a metanarrative of our times.
Date &
Time:
April 12 | 6:30pm - 7:3
0pm (PDT)
Location: online via Zoom
This
talk will be presented in English.
Free & open to the public. R
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Sudha Vasan \, Ph.D. (Yale)\ , is Professor in Sociology at the University of Delhi. She teaches and wri tes on political ecology with a focus on issues of gender\, caste\, class\, and adivasi issues as they intersect with development\, ecology and enviro nmentalism. She has a regional interest in the Himalaya\, with publications on social\, cultural\, economic and ecological change\, cross-border trade \, sacred nature\, gender and natural resources\, forest law\, policy and i nstitutions. Her book Living with Diversity: Forestry Institutions in t he Western Himalaya was published in 2007 by the Indian Institute of A dvanced Study\, Shimla.
Should you have any questions\, pleas e contact the Department of Asian Studies at Asian.Studies@ubc.ca.
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The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initia tive at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Spring 2022. The third and last s ession of the Spring 2022 series features guest speakers Bita Malakouti and Rira Abbasi. The panel discussion will deal with all that goes into the pr ocess of choosing a theme or a topic for a work of literature\, including t he audience (writing for readers in the native land or the immigrants and t heir community)\, the Life-Worlds they decide to focus on (the writer’s exp erience\, the immigrants’ experience\, and even publishers (in Iran or othe r countries)\, etc.
The event is sponsored by the Department of A sian Studies.
Date & Time:
Saturday\, May
7\, 2022
11:00am (PDT) / 10:30pm (Tehran Time)
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Bit a Malakouti was born in 1973 in Tehran. She started taking writing seriously at the age of 20 and her poems and short stories were getting pu blished in different magazines before the age of 25. She has written and pu blished extensively as a theater and drama critic for several years.
She has so far published eight books\, including three collections of short stories\, three poetry\, one novella and one reference book on the profess ional life of the renowned Iranian actress Soosan Taslimi. Some of her work s include Christ and whispered of Shahnameh daughter\, Empty cof fin\, My name is Layla\, and Sour apple\, Salty Rain. She left Iran for the United States in 2006. Now she is living in Prague\ , Czech Republic. Some of her poems have been translated and published in o ther languages such as English\, French\, Turkish\, Kurdish\, Swedish\, Cze ch\, Arabic\, Nepali\, Italian and Spanish.
Rira Abbasi was born in Khorramabad\, Iran. Acclaimed as Iran’s Lady Poet Laureate and the winner of the Parvin Etesami Poetry Award in 2005\, Rira is also a member of Iran’s Writers Association and the founder and director of the bi ennial International Peace Poetry festival since 2007. Rira has edited and introduced the first collection of Iranian Peace Poetry (an anthology) in 2 002. In 2008\, she founded the R.B.H\, an establishment in line with the In ternational Peace Poetry Festival. A brainchild of Rira Abbasi and supporte d solely by individual donations and sponsorship of non-governmental organi zations\, the charter of the Peace Poetry Festival states that “Poetry for peace is affiliated to humanity\, regardless of race\, religion\, sex and g eography”. The world’s first statue\, representing “The Poetry of Peace” w as made by a team supervised by Rira’s husband\, Ali Khorram.
Many of her reviews and literary criticisms have been published in lit erary journals. Also\, many of her poems have been translated into several languages such as Italian\, English\, German\, Indian\, Japanese\, Spanish\ , Chinese\, Romanian\, Arabic\, Turkish and etc. Rira has been invited to m any authoritative international poetry festivals so far and has attended in some of them. She has edited and translated “Local Poetry” (Tehran\, 2005) which is published at Studies and Research Center and Cultural Anthropolog y. “Inversion” (Tehran\, 2008) and “Tin Frog” (Tehran\, 2010) are two recen t novels by Rira which are banned to publish by the government. Rira has al so collected the anthology of World’s Peace Poetry which is a multilingual selection of poems from the first and the second International Peace Poetry Festival and is ready to print.
In 2011\, Rira received a grant from Prince Claus Fund institute to take part in 21 Festival Intern acional de Poesía de Medellín\, Colombia. In April 2012 a short film was ma de based on of her longer poems called “MYSTERIOUS NUCLEUSES” In 2014\, Rir a’s efforts led to the publication of Iran’s first multilingual anthology o f poetry “Peace\, the Poetry of Life ” (contempo rary poets of the world). Her works include Valentine\, the Whit e Sheep (April 2014). In 2015\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of “I nversion” a novel entitled (Naakoja Publications\, Paris). A collection of stories “Bear and fever Marquez “was published in 2020. Maryam Ala Amjadi’s translations of Rira Abbasi’s poetry chapbook “I Gave Birth in War” received Honorable Mention and will be published by Quil lsEdge Press\, US. In 2021\, Rira’s efforts led to the publication of “Tand adegi” a novel (Ikhanum Publication\, Kabul Afghanistan). Her latest work is a collection of stories entitled “Wake up Mah Dol at”\, which was published in 2021(Aftab Publication\, Oslo Norway).
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سخنران: دکتر بهنام فوم شی، پژوهشگر دانشگاه مانَش
طرفبحث: دکتر مِری هوبِر، استادیار ادبیات فارسی و تطبیقی دانشگاه استنفورد
پروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵-۱ ۳۲۰)، که اولین شاعر زن تأثیرگذار در ایران در قرن بیستم میلادی نیز هست، در شعر کلاسیک فارسی بهخوبی تبحر داشت. دانش زبان انگلیسی او، تجربهٔ تحصیلش در مدرسهٔ دخترانهٔ آمریکایی و همچنین ترجمههای پدرش، یوسف اعتصامی، از ادبیات خ ارجی در علاقهمندی او به افکار نوین از جمله حقوق زنان مؤثر بود. او برخلاف برخی از معاصران خود در اوایل قرن بیستم که سعی در ایجاد تحول در قالب شعر فار سی داشتند، توانایی زبان شعر را در قالبهای سنتی آن گسترش داد. دانش عمیق اعت صامی نسبت به ادبیات عرفانی فارسی و آگاهی او از نابرابریهای جنسیتی و نیز آش نایی او با ادبیات غرب، بهویژه آثار والت ویتمن، به معرفی شخصیتی جالبتوجه د ر شعر «جولای خدا» کمک کرد؛ عنکبوتی که همزمان دارای ویژگیهای زن و عارف است. اعتصامی از طریق این شخصیت، پیوندی میان زنانگی و عرفان ایجاد کرد و نظام مرد سالارانه، بهویژه گفتمان مردسالارانهٔ عرفان ایرانی را به چالش کشید.
The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/CY
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianat
e Studies present: Weaving Femininity into Mysticism: Rereading Parvīn Iʿti
ṣāmī’s “God’s Weaver” on May 14\, 2022.
Parvīn Iʿtiṣāmī (1907-1941)\, the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran\, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge of English language and educati on at the American school for girls as well as her father’s translations fr om foreign literatures contributed to her appreciation of the modern ideas\ , including women’s rights. Unlike some of her contemporaries in the early twentieth century who tried to revolutionize the form of Persian poetry\, s he expanded the potentiality of poetic language in its traditional forms. I ʿtiṣāmī’s profound knowledge of mystical Persian literature and her awarene ss of gender inequalities as well as her familiarity with Western literatur e\, particularly Walt Whitman\, contributed to introducing a character in t he poem “God’s Weaver”\, a spider who possessed characteristics of a female and those of a mystic. Through this character\, Iʿtiṣāmī formed an associa tion between femininity and mysticism\; challenged the patriarchal system\, particularly\, the patriarchal discourse of Persian mysticism\; and the le thargy of the (mostly male) mystics.
Be hnam M. Fomeshi\, specializing in comparative literature\, is inte rested in Iranian studies\, American studies and in particular the intersec tion of the two. Behnam is a Humboldt alumnus and a Research Fellow at Mona sh University conducting research on the Persian reception of American lite rature. In addition to a Humboldt fellowship\, he has received several gran ts including two for research at the University of St Andrews and Leiden Un iversity. His works have been widely published and his monograph\, The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception was released with Leiden University Press.
Marie Huber is Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literature at Stanford Unive rsity.
Wondering where an Asian Studies degree can take
you? The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to bring back another Asi
an Studies careers workshop this May! The Virtual Asian Studies Careers Wor
kshop was launched in January 2022 and is designed to connect Asian Studies
students with employers and opportunities. The aim of the workshop is to h
elp students feel more confident in exploring their future career path. It
is open to Asian Studies undergraduate/graduate students\, fresh graduates
and alumni. Students and alumni from other disciplines are also welcome to
attend.
The “Careers and Engagement in Asia” workshop series will tak e place during the week of May 16th\, which coincides with Asian Heritage M onth. We will invite Consul Generals\, regional trade representatives\, and leaders in business and organizations on Canada-Asia relations to talk abo ut the following opportunities in Asian countries/regions\, including China \, Hong Kong SAR\, Japan\, Malaysia\, Philippines\, and Taiwan.
Should you have any questions\, please contact the Department of Asian Studies at Asian.Studies@ubc.ca.
(All in Pacific Time)
11:00AM - 12:00PM Canadian Foreign Services & Opportuni ties in the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Join to l earn about the professional opportunities with the Canadian Foreign Service s. Mr. Nankivell will share his personal experience coming from an extensiv e 33-year career with Canada’s Foreign Service. Explore the research grants program and youth council initiatives in the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (Vancouver & Toronto).
Jeff Nankivell\, President and CEO\, Asia Pacific F oundation of Canada
11:
00AM – 12:00PM Prospects & Career opportunities in China
Learn about the employment and entreprene urship prospects in China as well as opportunities provided by the Chinese economic development for overseas talents and youth.
Xiaoling Tong\, Consul General of the People' s Republic of China in Vancouver
2:00PM - 3:00PM Deve lopment & Career opportunities in Hong Kong
Learn about the development in Hong Kong and discover professional opportunities in the city.
Emily Mo\, Director\, Hong Kong Economic and Trade
Office (Toronto)
Christopher Chen\, Head\, Invest Hong Kong pre
sence for Canada
11:0 0AM – 12:00PM Careers opportunities in Taiwan
Discover the car eer opportunities for overseas talents and youth in Taiwan.
Li-hsin(Angel) Liu\, Director General of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office\, Vancouver
11:00AM – 12:00PM Educat ional & Career opportunities in Malaysia
Explore Malaysi a economic situation\, cost of living in Malaysia\, as well as the in-deman d job opportunities and educational opportunities in the country.
< p>Shamsul Nizam Shamsuddin\, Consul General of Malaysia in Vancouver
2:00PM – 3:00PM Careers opportunities in P hilippines
Discover the career opportunities for oversea s talents and youth in Philippines.
Maria Andrelita S. A ustria\, Consul General of the Philippines to Vancouver
2:00PM - 3:00PM Cultural Exchange\ , Scholarship & Career opportunities in Japan
Join to le arn about the Japanese Exchange and Teac hing (JET) Programme\, the Undergraduate\, Japanese Studies and Research S tudent Scholarships offered by the Ministry of Education\, Culture\, Sp orts\, Science and Technology (MEXT) of the Government of Japan\, and Working Holiday Visas.
Kayo Imamura\, Co
nsul of Cultural Affairs\, Consulate General of Japan in Vancouver
Ciaran
Dudley\, Culture and Public Relations Coordinator\, Consulate
General of Japan in Vancouver
This lecture by Prof. Eva Kit Wah Man will start with personal notes before theoretical discussion\, which format confirms her beliefs tha t the real drive to philosophy and art is better to be concrete\, existenti al\, connecting to people\, with emotion and they should address to real li fe issues. This explains her alternative approach in opening this speech wi th the subject “What Does Comparative Philosophy Mean to a Female Chinese S cholar Like Me?”.
Followed by her personal notes \, Prof. Man will share her reflections on Confucian living framework and c omparative philosophy. Life experience brings a much better understanding i n feminist discourses and their conversations with Confucianism\, when she contrasted them from the philosophical level to the social and political le vels. Comparative philosophy is also sensible for doing philosophy for it i s simply a good strategy to consider a wide range of enduring and respected ideas. In this address\, she demonstrates her agreement with the above pre mises from her study approach to the subject\, bodies in China\, using Chin ese philosophy and feminist reflections as frames of reference.
The t heoretical discussion will start from some of the conceptual models that fe minist scholars propose\, which seek to displace Platonic dualism and emanc ipate concepts of the body from Cartesian mechanistic models or metaphors. Prof. Man explores how the Chinese philosophical ideas offered by Confucian s and Daoists may provide an alternative body ontology to the critical prac tices of feminists. She will then share her research on case studies of fem ale aesthetical representations in classical Chinese works such as The Book of Songs and contemporary body art in China. These representation s demonstrate an intertwining relationship among the body\, sexuality\, aes thetics and gendered roles in their social environments. These case studies are also living illustrations of the connections\, dynamics and transforma tions of the homogenous and the heterogenous China.
The lecture is or ganized by the Department of Asian Studies\, and co-sponsored by UBC Centre for Chinese Research.
Date & Time:
Monday\, May 16 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm (PDT)
This talk will be presented in English.
Free & open to the public. Registration is required via the form below.
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Professor Eva Kit Wah Man is currently the Director of Film Academy and Chair Profes sor in Humanities of Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics\, comparative philosophy\, woman studies\, feminist philosophy\, cultural studies\, art and cultural criticism. She was a Fulbr ight scholar conducted research at the University of California\, Berkeley\ , and was named AMUW Endowed Woman Chair Professor of the 100th Anniversary of Marquette University\, USA. She was awarded Outstanding Contributions t o Public Services by the HKSAR.
Professor Alison Bailey is an assistant professor of the Department of Asian Studies\, Universi ty of British Columbia. She researches and teaches pre-modern Chinese liter ature. Her research focuses on aspects of violence and emotions in late imp erial China\, premodern law\, and filial revenge.
Professor Sun era Thobani is a professor of the Department of Asian Studies\ , University of British Columbia. Her scholarship is located at the interse ction of the Social Sciences and Humanities. She studies and works on criti cal race\, postcolonial\, transnational and feminist theory\; South Asian w omen’s\, gender and sexuality studies\; representations of Islam and Muslim s in South Asian and Western media\; South Asian Diasporic Films\; Muslim W omen\, Islamophobia and the war on terror\; intersectionality\, social move ments and critical social theory\; colonialism\, indigeneity and racial vio lence\; and globalization\, citizenship and migration.
Should you have any questions\, please contact the Department of Asian Studies at Asian.Studies@ubc.ca.
CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese LOCATION:C.K. Choi\, Room 120 GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/revelations-of-chinese-philo sophy-and-feminist-philosophy-comparative-studies-and-case-studies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/04/Image-1200x628.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220527T0846Z-1653641206.996-EO-56220-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220524T190647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220524T205056Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220528T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220528T180000 SUMMARY: Snake Oil: Snake Women in East Asia and Their Afterlives in Litera ture\, Theatre\, and Film DESCRIPTION: This joint UCLA-UBC conference focuses on versions of and inte rconnections between two key East Asian tales about snake women: the Japane se Dōjōji 道成寺 and the Chinese Legend of the White Snake 白蛇傳. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_56294" align="alig
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This joint UCLA-UBC conference focuses on versions of and interconnections between two key East Asian tales about snake women: the Japanese Dōjōji 道成寺 and the Chinese Legend of the White Snake 白蛇傳. The four guest speakers each offer a thirty-minute work. E xcerpts of performance videos of three versions of the Now play Dōjōji\, the stop motion anime Dōjōji (1976)\, and one version of the Be ijing Opera The Tale of the White Snake will be shown with English c ommentary and subtitles. In addition\, there will be the world premiere of Snake Oil\, a new virtual production by Carol F isher Sorgenfrei\, and two graduate students' presentations.
T he event is co-organized by Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (University of Californ ia\, Los Angeles)\, Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia)\, and Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia).
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The presentations by Dr. Wilt L. Idema\, Dr. Liang Luo\, and Dr. Susan Blakeley Klein will be recorded and shared w ith registrants. Therefore\, even if you cannot participate live\, please r egister so that your email is on the mailing list. The rest of the conferen ce proceedings cannot be recorded or shared in any way because of copyright restrictions.
Please email y ueweiw@student.ubc.ca if you have any questions or require any accommod ations.
(in Pacific Time)
9:00-
10:20 AM
“The White Snake and her Son: Female Lust\, Filial Pi
ety\, and Romantic Love\,” Dr. Wilt L. Idema (Harvard University)<
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The Legend of the White Snake has shown the same t ransformative power as the white snake itself. Growing from tales of man-ea ting snakes\, it turned into a tale of the suppression of female sexuality. To be saved from imprisonment\, the loving snake needed a grown-up son\, w ho made his appearance in the eighteenth century\, but once the legend turn ed into a tragedy of free love in the twentieth century\, the son made a si lent exit.
“The Inter-Asian Travels of the Global Whit e Snake\,” Dr. Liang Luo (University of Kentucky)
The Global White Snake examines the Chinese White Snake legends and their extensive\, multidirectional travels within Asia a nd across the globe. Such travels across linguistic and cultural boundaries have generated distinctive traditions as the White Snake has been reinvent ed in the Chinese\, Japanese\, Korean\, and English-speaking worlds\, among others. This talk focuses on the multidirectional\, inter-Asian voyages of the White Snake legends\, with special attentions to the reinvention of th e legends in Japanese and Korean films from the early 1950s to the late 196 0s. These Japanese- and Korean-language films guide us to the excavation of Hong Kong as a Cold War cultural powerhouse\, connecting mainland China wi th Japan\, South Korea\, and Taiwan\, exporting to Southeast Asia and inter nationally\, and revamping the White Snake legends in vivid shapes and colo rs.
10:20-10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30-11:20 AM
Sel
ected Segments from the Beijing Opera Performance The Tale of the White Sna
ke (白蛇傳) with English subtitles and commentaries.
11:20 AM-1 2:00 PM Lunch Break
12:00-12:30 PM
“Dōjōji: The
Demonic Feminine as Serpent Through the Ages\,” Dr. Susan Blakeley Klein (
UC Irvine)
This talk will provide an overview of the Dōjōji legend\, in which a woman turns into a fire-breathing serpent to chase after and kill a priest who has spurned her love. The story has its origins in didactic medieval setsuwa and emaki aimed at young priests\, warning them of the dangers of too close association with women when on their sacred pilgrimages. The legend i s then taken up in the Noh theater\, where the story is transformed into a dramatic battle between the valiant forces of Buddhism and the wily\, demon ic feminine bent on revenge. The Edo period Kabuki play\, Musume Dojoi\ , takes the story in rather different direction\, using the Noh versio n as a framework upon which to hang a series of dances that focus on the st ages of a woman’s love life\, from innocent young girl experiencing the fir st pangs of love to the wretched bitterness of a discarded wife. If I have time\, I’ll discuss Tsuruya Nanboku’s last Kabuki play\, Kinnozai Sarus hima Dairi\, which returns to the Noh version in order to parody and s ubvert Kabuki plot tropes that undergird Tokugawa gender and samurai ideolo gy.
12:30-1:30 PM
Selected Segments from three versions
of the Noh play Dōjōji (道成寺) and the stop motion anime Dojōji
Temple with English subtitles and commentaries.
1:30-2
:20 PM
“The Bell and the Serpent: Early Modern Lives of Dō
jōji\,” Dr. Satoko Shimazaki (UCLA)
Various iterations of the Dōjōji narrative featuring a wom en’s transformation into a snake appear in forms and genres ranging from tw elfth-century setsuwa collections to picture scrolls and the famous noh pla y Dōjōji. In the commercial theaters and the print market of early modern Japan\, the Dōjōji story became increasingly fluid as it c ame to be embodied as an affective structure in the image of the bell and t he serpent. While playwrights and writers continued to use the title Dō joji\, which remained tied to a specific temple and geographical locat ion in Kii-province\, early modern kabuki theater\, in particular\, dialed down the importance of this spatial connection\, abstracting the story to f it the urban sites of stage performance. In this presentation\, I will focu s on the early modern recreation of Dōjōji through the dancing bod ies of female-role actors in Kyōganoko musume Dōjōji and subsequen t experiments that also loosened the strongly gendered connection between j ealousy and serpentine transformation and the bodies of female characters.< /p>
2:20-2:30 PM Coffee Break
2:30-4:00 PM
The World P
remiere of Snake Oil and conversation with Writer Carol Fisher Sor
genfrei and Director Penny Bergman
4:00-4:10 PM Coffee Break
4:10-5:10 PM
“Layered Temporalities: Reconsidering Rail
way Space-Time in Izumi Kyōka's Kōya hijiri\,” Victoria Davis (Ph.
D. student at UCLA)
“Contesting Discourses of Qing in
Qingshe (1993): From Imitation to Genuine Feelings\," Yuewei Wang
(Ph.D. student at UBC)
Wilt L. Idema (Ph.D. Leiden\, 1974) ha s taught at Leiden University (1970-1999) and at Harvard University (2000-2 013). He has published extensively on traditional Chinese drama (often with Stephen H. West). In recent years most of his publications have concerned prosimetric narratives of late imperial China\, for instance The White Snake and Her Son: A Translation of The Precious Scroll of Thunder Pea k\, with Related Texts (2009). He has also published on Chinese wo men's literature.
Liang Luo is a professor of Chinese studies at the University of Kentucky in the U nited States and a distinguished visiting professor at Tianjin Normal Unive rsity in China. She is the author of The Avant-Garde and the Popular in Modern China\, published by the University of Michigan Press in 2014\ , and The Global White Snake\, also from the University of Michiga n Press in 2021. Professor Luo’s research has been supported by the Nationa l Endowment for the Humanities at Stanford University\, the National Resear ch Foundation of Korea at Ewha Womans University\, the International Center for the Studies of Chinese Civilization at Fudan University\, and the Huma nities Research Centre at Australia National University\, among others. She is visiting the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) and wo rking on a new book and documentary project\, Profound Propaganda: The International Avant-Garde and Modern China.
Susan Blakeley Klein is Professor
of Japanese Literature and Culture and Director of Religious Studies at Uni
versity of California\, Irvine. Her research interests include Japanese the
ater and dance\; medieval commentaries\; Japanese and Asian religions\; New
Historicism and Feminist Critical Theory. She has published on the Japanes
e postmodern dance form Butoh (Ankoku Butō: The Premodern and Postmoder
n Influences on the Dance of Utter Darkness)\, and on the development
of secret medieval literary commentaries influenced by Shingon Buddhism (
Satoko Shimazaki is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Theater at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is the author of Edo Kabuki in Transition: From the Worlds of the Samurai to the Vengeful Female Ghost (Columbia University Press\, 2016)\, which was awarded the John Whitney Hall Book Prize and an honorable mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theater History. She has a joint appointment as Ass ociate Professor at Waseda University in Tokyo.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/snake-oil-snake-women-in-eas t-asia-and-their-afterlives-in-literature-theatre-and-film/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/05/Snake-Women-Promotion-Pic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220123T1030Z-1642933825.9662-EO-54826-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220120T012540Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T014150Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220528T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220528T171500 SUMMARY: The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies: The Indian Imaginary” in the Mirror of Hedayat’s The B lind Owl on March 12\, 2022 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="at
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سخنران: دکتر مارتا سیمیدچیِوا، دانش کدهٔ هنرهای آزاد و مطالعات حرفهای، دانشگاه یورک
طرفبحث: دکتر ندیم اختر، استاد مدعو زبان فارسی، گروه تاریخ، دانشگاه آشوکا
< p>رمان مدرنیستی «بوف کور» صادق هدایت الهامبخش مطالعات تطبیقی متعددی شده اس ت که توجهشان عمدتاً بر مقایسهٔ رمانهای او با آثار غربی معطوف است. اگرچه ا رجاعات به هند در این رمان فراوان است، مطالعات کمی دربارهٔ این ارجاعات انجام شده است. در این سخنرانی به این موضوع پرداخته میشود و سخنران اشیاء، نمادها و شخصیتهای مرتبط با هند را که در بوف کور برجسته شدهاند بررسی و کارکرد سا ختاری و تمثیلی آنها را تشریح میکند.
The event recording
is now available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/YCQmdCOkWvE[/embed]
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presen
t: The Indian Connection in Hedayat’s The Blind Owl on May 28\, 20
22.
Sadeq Hedayat’s modernist novel The Blind Owl has inspir ed numerous comparative studies\, mostly focusing on Hedayat’s appropriatio n of Western literary aesthetics\, or on parallelisms between his novel and Western works. Although references to India abound in the novel\, few stu dies have followed the South Asian connection of The Blind Owl. S o far\, that line of investigation is associated primarily with the publica tions of Iraj Bashiri\, whose monograph The Fiction of Sadeq Hedayat (pub. 1984) posits a Buddhist inspiration behind the characters of T he Blind Owl\, and correlations between its plotline and the Buddh acarita\; while earlier articles of Bashiri’s (e.g. "The Message of He dayat\," Studies in Islam\, Vol. XVII\, January 1980\, pp. 30-56) find also parallels with The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
The p roposed paper explores another aspect of the novel’s “Indian connection”: n amely\, the role accorded to it in the emergence of modern Iranian literary culture and artistic sensibilities. This line of inquiry rests on the ass umption that The Blind Owl is not only a work of fiction\, but als o a literary manifesto—a parable about Iranian cultural reform\, which ex amines the nature of the transition from classical to modern literature and art. In the course of this exploration\, the paper surveys instances in w hich objects\, symbols\, and characters associated with India are featured in the narrative\, and examines their structural and allegorical function. In an attempt to determine the “horizon of expectations”( H.R. Jauss’ te rm) with regard to India among audiences in Iran and in Western Europe dur ing Hedayat’s sojourn in France\, where an early draft of the novel may hav e been written (see M. F. Farzaneh\; H. Katouzian)\, the paper takes into account the following: the rhetorics of the “Bazgasht” among Iranian li terary historians and the representation of the Indo-Persian cultural excha nge in influential Iranian literary compendiums\, the role of the Iranian diaspora in India in the onset of Iranian modernity\; the place of India i n the nationalist and nativist discourses of Iran\; India and Hinduism in the European Romantic imagination during the 18th -19th c. . These considerations will play a part in defining the cultural cod es\, with which the novel implicitly engages.
< strong>Marta Simidchieva has a PhD in Iranian Studies form the Ins titute of Oriental Studies\, Russian Academy of Sciences\, Moscow\; and a B A in English Literature from the University of Tehran\, Iran\, where she st arted her graduate work in Iranian Studies. She teaches courses on Islamic culture\, religion\, and civilization at the Department of Humanities\, Yor k University\, Toronto. Her research interests lie in the domain of Persian literature\, focusing on issues of continuity and change\, modernity and t radition\, literary reception\, and East-West cultural interaction.
Nadeem Akhtar obtained his PhD in Persian literature from Centre of Persian and Central Asian Stud ies\, Jawaharlal Nehru University\, New Delhi\, having worked on the charac ters of the novels of Sadegh Hedayat\, a prominent Iranian novelist. Dr. Ak htar has authored a book titled Hedayat in India\, in Persian\, pu blished by Chesmeh Publication\, Tehran\, Iran. He has also writte n various research articles and reports for journals and magazines publishe d in India and abroad\, including an entry in the Encyclopaedia Iranica . He is a member of the Association of Iranian Studies and has present ed his research articles in its biennial conferences held in Montreal and V ienna. Dr. Akhtar has also taught the Persian language in various Summer Sc hools organized for the students of George Washington University and Indian Universities in the Institute of Indo Persian Studies at Delhi\, Kolkata\, and Hyderabad\, where he serves also as Joint Secretary of the Institute.< /p>
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سخنران: دکتر حسام دهقانی، استادیار زبان و فرهنگ فارسی، دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا
محمداعظم رهنو رد زریاب (۱۳۲۳ - ۱۳۹۹) یکی از تأثیرگذارترین روشنفکران افغانستان امروزی و کل قلمروی زبان فارسی بود. تأثیر او در عرصههای روزنامهنگاری، ادبیات و نقد فر هنگی-سیاسی و مذهبی همواره نمایان است. او در داستانهای کوتاه و رمانهایش از قدرت رئالیسم جادویی و فراواقعگرایی (سوررئالیسم) استفاده میکند تا خوانندگ انش را از قید و بندهایی رها کند که مردم خود او و به طور کلی مردمان حوزهٔ تم دنی زبان فارسی در درک نازل از وقایع با آن دستبهگریباناند. در این سخنرانی ، دکتر حسام دهقانی با اتکا به تعریف ژاک دریدا از «هدیه» و «هدیهٔ معنا» (la donation de sens)، نشان میدهد که رهنورد در آثارش، به ویژه در «مارهای زیر د رختان سنجد» چگونه به چنین مهمی دست مییابد.
The event re
cording is now available:
https://youtu.be/lly6Um_T-BU
Th
e Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies present: The I
mpossible Gift of Sense in Rahnavard Zaryāb's “The Snakes Under the Silverb
erry Trees” on June 18\, 2022.
Mohammad Azam Rahnavard Zaryāb (August 1944 – 10 December 2020) was one of the most influential intellectuals of the contemporary Afghanistan as well as the whole Persianate World. His imp act is forever manifested in the realms of journalism\, literature and Cult ural-political and religious criticism. In his short stories and novels\, h e uses the power of magical realism and surrealism to liberate his readers from the confines of the superficial understanding of the issues his people and the Persianate world in general are facing. He digs through multiple m odes of temporality and knit together past and future to give texture and c ontext to the sufferings of a people in a war-torn region. In this lecture\ , Dr. Hessam Dehghani alludes to Jacque Derrida's notion of "the gift" and "the gift of sense" (la donation de sens) to illustrate how Rahnav ard enacts such a feat in his work\, particularly in "The Snakes .....". He will provide some more evidence from his other essays and novels to corrob orate his account of this story as well.
Besides his research interest\, he has been teachi ng English as a foreign language in Iran\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past twenty years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and A rabic and directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for wh ich he received both teaching and leadership award from that institution. H e has recently started his tenure as an assistant professor of teaching Per sian language and Culture at UBC. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in materi al development and assessment for which he has passed multiple ACFTL worksh ops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is pass ionate about implementing technology in classroom and developing a course b ook for Persian Students of 21st century.
Mujib Mehrdad (poet\, playwright\, translator\; Afghanistan) is th e author of the poetry collections Gladiators Are Still Dying (200 7\; winner of the Afghan Civil Society’s literature contest)\, The Fish es Have Fled Our Veins (2008)\, and Audience (2009)\, and of the collection of essays The Rain Passed. He has translated Gi nsberg\, Plath\, Langston Hughes\, Mayakovsky\, Tagore\, and others\, into Dari. He is a board member of the literary organization Kashane Nawese ndagan [House of Authors] and teaches Persian literature at Albironi Univer sity in Kapisa.
The recording of the event is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/TlFYRZXW3fA[/embed]
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, th e UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hostin g a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Mod ern Persian Literature in Summer 2022. The first session of the Summer 2022 series features guest speaker Dr. Nasir Arian from the Penn State Universi ty. This panel\, moderated by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (UBC Department of Asian Studies)\, will discuss the legacy and the work of the renowned Afghan writ er\, journalist and activist Rahnavard Zaryab who passed away in 2020 due t o Covid-19.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Stu dies.
Date & Time:
Friday\, June 24\, 2022
6:30pm (PDT) / 6:00am (Tehran Time)
Location: o
nline via Zoom
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
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Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allam eh Tabātabāi University working on the “Structural analysis and Phenomenolo gical study of Persian Literature” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in P hilosophy from Boston College in 2019. Since then\, he has been a post-doct oral researcher and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he has researched about the format ion of the Persianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has publish ed a number of essays in Persian including “Phenomenology of Poetry: Re-rea ding Ahmad Shamlou’s poem “the walls”. He has also presented on different a spects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard and Boston College .
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a f oreign language in Iran\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the p ast twenty years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directe d Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received b oth teaching and leadership award from that institution. He has recently st arted his tenure as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at UBC. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in material development an d assessment for which he has passed multiple ACFTL workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about impl ementing technology in classroom and developing a course book for Persian S tudents of 21st century.
Should you have any questions\, plea se contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca.
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Tea Gallery\, UBC Asian
Centre[/caption]
The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invi te you to experience a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at the Tea Gallery at the UBC Asian Centre this summer. Presented by members of the Urasenke Tankokai Association of Vancouver\, the tea ceremony involves a demonst ration of the preparation and receiving of tea according to the Urasenke me thods of chanoyu (tea ceremony). Each participant will be served tea and a sweet. A collection of tea bowls expressing the four seasons will also be o n display.
Free and open to the public. Two presentations will be off ered. Due to limited seating\, please register for one of the presentations in advance to reserve a spot.
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Wakō-an (和光庵) is the name of the small demonstration tearoom in the t
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Located in the Asian Centre \, the Tea Gallery is surrounded with a view of the moat and Japanese garde ns. With three tatami-covered benches\, a large display case and a glass wa ll\, the space is suitable for tea ceremonies and small receptions.
[ accordions collapsible=true active=false][accordion title="About the name o f the Tea Gallery: Wakō-an (和光庵)"]Wakō-an (和光庵) is the name of the small de monstration tearoom in the tea gallery of the Asian Centre. The tearoom was donated to UBC in 1984 by Sen Soshitsu XV\, the former head of the Urasenk e tradition of chanoyu (tea ceremony).
The name Wakō-an is made up of three Chinese characters. “An” is a suffix for tea houses. It is sometimes translated as “hermitage.” The first two characters are from a Taoist text \, the full phrase being 和光同塵\, whose literal translation would be “softene d light\, along with the dust\,” meaning the person of virtue and wisdom in habits this world [of dust] without making a display of their superiority ( in other words\, they soften\, or hide\, the light of their wisdom). In Bud dhism it refers to the activities of Buddhas and bodhisattvas who appear in this world in a form that we can perceive\, in order to help people advanc e on the Buddhist path.
The tearoom itself is only two tatami mats in size\, which is about as small as a tearoom can get\, and can be seen as a n architectural expression of the “wabi-cha” (wabi tea) of Sen Rikyu\, in w hich the formality of the large room is abandoned and the relationship betw een host and guest becomes the primary consideration.[/accordion][/accordio ns]
Date and Time:
Thursday\, July 21
1:00
pm-2:00pm (PDT) Presentation 1
2:30pm-3:30pm (PDT) Presentation 2
Should you hav e any questions or concerns\, please contact our Communications and Events Coordinator\, Connie Yuchun Wu at yuchun. wu@ubc.ca.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-japanese-way-of-tea/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/07/tea-gallery_ac_2022_2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220706T0258Z-1657076285.584-EO-56648-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220705T212223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T173432Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220730T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220730T130000 SUMMARY: “Writing about Today” Story reading with Nahid Tabatabai DESCRIPTION: July 30\, 2022 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The recording of the talk is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/CE06RV7mDD8[/embed]
The Persian La nguage and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature R eading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analy zing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in Summer 2022. The second session of the Summer 2022 series features Iranian writer Nahid Tabatabai. Joined by panelists Dr. Hessam Dehghani (Assistant Professor of Teaching Persian Language and Culture at UBC) and Arash Sadegh Beigi (Iranian writer and journalist)\, the session will delve into Tabata bai’s works\, “Narcissus and Snow” and “Not the Deal we made.”
Th e event is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
Saturday\, July 30\, 2022
11am (PDT) / 1
0:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
P
resented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
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Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned h is first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on th e “Structural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019 . Since then\, he has been a post-doctoral researcher and associate researc her at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies wh ere he has researched about the formation of the Persianate identity in Per sian Mystic Literature. He has published a number of essays in Persian incl uding “Phenomenology of Poetry: Re-reading Ahmad Shamlou’s poem “the walls” . He has also presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature r egularly at Harvard and Boston College.
Besides his research interest \, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past twenty years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received both teaching and leadership award fro m that institution. He has recently started his tenure as an assistant prof essor of teaching Persian language and Culture at UBC. In pedagogy\, his in terests lie in material development and assessment for which he has passed multiple ACFTL workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up t o present. He is passionate about implementing technology in classroom and developing a course book for Persian Students of 21st century.
< p>Should you have any questions\, please contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca. CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/writing-about-today-story-re ading-with-nahid-tabatabai/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/07/July-30_summer-workshop-series.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220812T0733Z-1660289623.286-EO-56745-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220809T001558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T173329Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220828T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220828T130000 SUMMARY: Away of the Devil’s hands to the Report of a Fall: the Journey of a Writer Story Reading with Aziz Allah Nehefta DESCRIPTION: The recording of the talk is now made available: The Persi an Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literat ure Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club are hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literatur e in Summer 2022. The last session of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The recording of the talk is now made available:
[embed]https://youtu.be/9g3vH432tVo[/ embed]
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC\, the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club\, and the UBC Persian Club a re hosting a series of events analyzing the literature of migration and exi le in Modern Persian Literature in Summer 2022. The last session of the Sum mer 2022 series features guest speaker Aziz Allah Nehefta. This panel\, joi ned by Dr. Hessam Dehghani (UBC Department of Asian Studies) and Dr. Nasir Arian (Penn State University)\, will discuss Aziz's latest works about the fall of Afghanistan into the hands of Taliban in his novel “Report of a Fal l” and his short story collection “Hand of Devil”.
The event is s ponsored by the Department of Asian Studies.
Date & Tim
e:
Sunday\, August 28\, 2022
11:00am (PDT) / 10:30pm (Te
hran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Presented i
n Persian
Free & open to the public.
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Aziz allah Nehefta is a novellist\, short-s tory-writer\, poet and journalist who was born in Kabul in 1973. He attende d primary and secondary school at the franco-afghan Lycee Estiqlal. He late r immigrated to Pakistan due to civil war in the 80s.
In Pakistan\, he started to publish poems and short stories in literary magazines. His first book of poems was published in 1995. He w orked as a librarian in PCFA (program cultural franco-afghan)\, a French sp urted organization for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. When the Taliban took the power in Kabul\, he started to write ab out stories he heard from the refugees.
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English a s a foreign language in Iran\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past twenty years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and di rected Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he recei ved both teaching and leadership award from that institution. He has recent ly started his tenure as an assistant professor of teaching Persian languag e and Culture at UBC. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in material developme nt and assessment for which he has passed multiple ACFTL workshops and rece ived several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in classroom and developing a course book for Pers ian Students of 21st century.
Dr. Nasir Arian\, Lect urer at the Penn State University
Should you have any questions\, ple ase contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca.
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Welcome to the new academic year! Whether you are new t o UBC or are returning students\, join us for the Asian Studies Welcome Bac k Night on September 12!
The event is a great opportunity to learn ab out the Asian Studies experience and join the Asian Studies community. Chec k out our Asian language program booths to try out various traditional inst ruments\, play cultural games\, and test your Asian language knowledge! Thi s is your chance to network with peers\, chat with faculty and staff\, and learn more about what the Department of Asian Studies has to offer. You wil l also have a chance to win raffle prizes (Asian Studies Merchandise)!
Monday\, Sep
tember 12\, 2022
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (PDT)
Location:
Auditorium\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)Price: Free
Registration Required. Registration is now closed.
Here's a sneak peek at what our langua ge program booths have to offer!
Come learn more about the program an d chat with instructors.
5:30pm Doors Open
5:45pm Welcome
6:00pm Asian Language Booths
7:30pm Closing
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CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese,Featured Korean,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit,Featured Tibetan LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2022-welcome-back-night/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/08/Welcome-Back-Night_original-photo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220916T0041Z-1663288889.7706-EO-57053-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220915T183654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220915T183848Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20220928T173000 SUMMARY: China’s Grandmothers: A Talk by Professor Emerita Diana Lary on he r new book DESCRIPTION: September 28\, 4:00pm-5:30pm (PDT) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:C hina’s Grandmothers: A Talk by Professor Emerita Diana Lary on her new book
Professor Emerita Diana Lary (History\, University of British Columbia) will be talking about her new book China’s Grandmoth ers: Gender\, Family\, and Ageing from late Qing to Twenty-first Century (Cambridge University Press\, 2022) on Wednesday September 28th 2022 4:00pm – 5.30 pm (PDT) in the Asian Centre Auditorium.
Being a grandmother is a joyful stage of life for many women. In China women were \, until recently\, grandmothers in middle age\; they came in to their own\ , managing their households and caring for their grandchildren. They were t rusted as experts in prenatal\, postnatal and child care. They provided lov e and affection to children. In return they received respect and support in old age. Many of the roles of grandmothers have not changed over the past century and a half. Some roles have intensified\; around 70\,000\,000 `left -behind children'\, the children of migrant workers\, are cared for year ro und by their grandparents.
This event is co-sponsored by the Departme nt of Asian Studies and the Centre for Chinese Research\, Institute of Asia n Research\, UBC.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, Sept
ember 28 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Location: Auditorium
\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
This ta
lk will be presented in English.
Free & open to the public. Regist
ration is required via the form below.
Dr. Diana Lary is professor emerita of Modern Chinese History at U BC. She has specialised in social history\, focusing on society in China an d Chinese communities beyond China. She has written or edited ten books on these subjects. She is the grandmother of three beautiful teenagers.
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/guest-lecture-sonja-arntzen / ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/09/arntzen_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221104T1438Z-1667572702.9299-EO-57214-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221003T173545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221003T173545Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221009T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221009T210000 SUMMARY: A New Translation and Study of The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhu ang) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://frogbear.org/guest-lecture-richard-john-lynn/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/10/lynn_banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7271-EO-57196-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220929T205209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T212246Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221011T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221011T183000 SUMMARY: Performing Solidarities: ‘Third World’ Alliance as Choreographic P ractice in Mao-Era China DESCRIPTION: Tuesday\, October 11\, 2022\, 5:00-6:30 PM (PDT) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The concept of 'Third World' unity emerged in the mid-twen tieth century as a way of forging political alliances and solidarities amon g Asian\, African\, and Latin American people\, by focusing on shared exper iences of colonial history\, racism\, and decolonial struggle and imagining possibilities for global interaction beyond the bipolar Cold War framework .
In this talk\, Wilcox explores uses of performance\, especially dan ce\, to build and enact transnational alliances across differences. Through examples such as a 1964 Chinese dance drama about the US Civil Rights Move ment and the Asia-Africa-Latin America programs of China’s Oriental Song an d Dance Ensemble (est. 1962)\, Wilcox asks what it meant to choreograph all iances with transnational communities in Mao-era China.
Date & Time: Tuesday\, O
ctober 11\, 2022 | 5:00-6:30 PM (PDT)
Location: Room
604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here
)
Registration: Registration is required. Please
RSVP using the link at the bottom of this page (or click here).
This fr ee event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the Departm ent of Theatre & Film of the University of British Columbia.
Emil
y Wilcox is Associate Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at Will
iam & Mary. Wilcox’s first book\, Revolutionary Bodies: Chinese Dance and the
Socialist Legacy (University of California Press\, 2018)\, won th
e 2019 de la Torre Bueno Prize© from the Dance Studies Association. Wilcox
is co-editor of Corporeal Politics: Dancing East Asia (University
of Michigan Press\, 2020) and co-creator of the University of Michigan Chin
ese Dance Collection.
Wilcox is a 2021-2023 Public Intellectuals Prog ram Fellow at the National Committee on US-China Relations and a recipient of a 2022 Scholar Grant from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Internatio nal Scholarly Exchange. Her new co-edited collection\, Teaching Film fr om the People's Republic of China\, is forthcoming from the Modern Lan guage Association Options for Teaching series.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/performing-solidarities-thir d-world-alliance-as-choreographic-practice-in-mao-era-china/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/09/Performing-Solidarities-Digital-Poster-Final.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221104T1438Z-1667572702.9431-EO-57123-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220927T182914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220927T211343Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221013T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221013T133000 SUMMARY: Coexistence and Colonialism in the Modern Middle East X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://history.ubc.ca/events/event/ubc-middle-east-studies-p resents-coexistence-and-colonialism-in-the-modern-middle-east/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/09/singular-DS-Coexistence-and-Colonialism.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220910T0359Z-1662782352.8411-EO-56924-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220908T171753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230415T193359Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221014T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221014T210000 SUMMARY: CANCELLED: Gardens in Persian Literature: Ecology of Material and Metaphysical Beauty\, from Balkh to Shiraz DESCRIPTION: Friday\, October 14\, 2022 | 6:30pm-9:00pm (PDT) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_54835" width="620"
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This talk was cancelled due to unfo reseen circumstances (Cancellation Announcement).
سخنران: دکتر دومِنیکو اینجِ نیتو، دانشیار ادبیات فارسی در دانشگاه کالیفرنیا، لس آنجلس
این سخنرانی بهدلیل شرایط پیشبینینشده لغو شد (اطلاعیهٔ لغ و سخنرانی).
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in I
ranian and Persianate Studies presents: Gardens in Persian Literature: Ecol
ogy of Material and Metaphysical Beauty\, from Balkh to Shiraz on October 1
4\, 2022.
Domenico Ingenito is Associate Professor of Persian Literature at the University of California\ , Los Angeles\, and Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book\, Bodleia n Libraries\, University of Oxford (Spring 2023). His research interests ce nter on medieval Persian poetry\, the visual culture of Iran and Central As ia\, gender and translations studies\, and manuscript culture. His most rec ent articles are: "Hafez's 'Shirāzi Turk': A Geopoetical Approach (Iran ian Studies)" and "'A Marvelous Painting': The Erotic Dimension of Saʿ di's Praise Poetry" (Journal of Persianate Studies). His most rece nt book is Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desi re in Medieval Persian Poetry (Brill\, 2020). His Italian translation of Forugh Farrokhzad's collected poems\, along with all original texts\, wi ll be published in 2022 by Bompiani. He is currently working on an English translation of a selection of Sa'di's poems (University of California Press ) and a monograph on kingship\, poetic creativity\, and homoeroticism in th e context of Ghaznavid praise poetry.
Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this is a recurring event that is open to students and faculty of UBC and other academic institution s.
Should you have any questions\, please contact Mahnoor Lone at ml041296@mail.ubc.ca.
Friday\, September 8\, 2023 | 2:00-4:00 PM (PT)
Audito rium\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Gu est Speaker: Dr. Faisal Devji\, Professor of Indian History\, University of Oxford
Friday\, April 21\, 2023 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Va ncouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Veena Sriram\, Assistant Professor\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) and the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH)\, University of British Columbia
Friday\, March 24\, 2023 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (s eminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)< /p>
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kavita Philip\, Professor and President's Excellence Chair in Net work Cultures\, Department of English Language and Literatures\, University of British Columbia
Friday\, March 3\, 2023 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (sem inar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Pasang Sherpa\, Assistant Professor in Lifeways in Indigenous Asia\, Department of Asian Studies\, Critical Indigenous Studies\, Universi ty of British Columbia
Friday\, February 10 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT )
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vanco uver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Priti Narayan\, Assistant Professor and Asa and K ashmir (A&K) Johal Chair of Indian Research\, Director of the Centre for In dia and South Asian Research (CISAR 2022/23)\, University of British Columb ia
Friday\, January 20\, 2023 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (se minar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. M.V. Ramana\, Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament\, Global and Hu man Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA)\, Un iversity of British Columbia
India is among the nine countries that a re known to possess nuclear weapons\; it is also among the 32 countries (pl us Taiwan) that operate nuclear power plants. Many of the country’s leaders and scientists have been interested in nuclear technology since the late 1 930s. In this talk\, I will discuss media coverage of\, and views expressed by political and scientific leaders in India about\, nuclear technology in the first decade and a half after the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima an d Nagasaki. The time frame is chosen as a way to capture the development of different strands of thought\, but also ensuring that these views are not affected by the next major nuclear crisis\, the Cuban missile crisis of 196 2. Time permitting\, I will talk about the coverage in one prominent Indian newspaper\, the Tribune.
Friday\, November 25\, 2022 | 12:30- 2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West M all\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: D r. James Tully\, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Law\, Univ ersity of Victoria
Friday\, November 4\, 2022 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (s eminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)< /p>
Guest Speaker: Dr. Catherine Prueitt\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Ph ilosophy\, University of British Columbia
Professor Prueitt argues th at the sophisticated theory of play that is central to Abhinavagupta’s (10t h-11th century Kashmir) understanding of creation\, both artistic and cosmi c\, provides a robust framework for supporting and extending C. Thi Nguyen’ s account of aesthetic striving play in Games: Agency as Art (2020). Abhina vagupta’s framework supports Nguyen’s by providing technical details of how layered and fluid modes of agency are constructed and maintained\, and ext ends it by explaining the inherent link between depersonalized agency and a esthetic experiences.
Bringing in Abhinavagupta’s understanding of th e controversial Quiescent Rasa shows that the experience of aesthetic striv ing play is at the heart of aesthetic experience because it mirrors the lib erated experience of depersonalized agency\, which expresses itself in acts of imagination that constitute subject/object structured worlds simply for the joy of experiencing differentiated forms.
Friday\, October 21\, 2022 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speake r: Dr. Nazmul Sult an\, Assistant Professor of Political Theory\, Department of Political Science\, University of British Columbia
CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit LOCATION:Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/south-asia-research-colloqui um/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/09/South-Asia-Colloquium_Oct-21.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221104T1438Z-1667572702.9771-EO-57220-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221004T162115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221004T162115Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221025T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221025T203000 SUMMARY: [Screening + Conversation] Far Far Away 緣路山旮旯 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese LOCATION:Liu Institute for Global Studies GEO:49.274887;-123.205736 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/screening-conversation-far-f ar-away/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/10/Far-Far-Away-Poster-3-2x1psd-2048x1024.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20220924T1221Z-1664022079.0584-EO-57096-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20220923T232418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T173402Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221106T130000 SUMMARY: “Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature DESCRIPTION: November 6 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The recording of the talk is now made available:
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This year\ , the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC's Iranian and Persianate L iterature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosting a series of pane l discussions about "Otherness" in modern Persian Literature. The question is what it means to be an "Other" as a writer creating and promoting new ge nres other than the main body of Persian Literature or to be "Other" in dep icting the experience of the minorities in the Persianate world. During the Fall\, Winter\, and Spring of the upcoming year\, we will attend to both t rends in modern Persian Literature.
The sessions are hosted by Irania n writer and critic Amir Hosseing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from t he Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC where they invite a writer in that specific genre. During the series they w ill introduce and analyze genres as varied as science-fiction\, crime novel s\, detective stories\, literature of religious\, racial and ethnic minorit ies\, and the like.
For the first session\, we will have a panel disc ussion with Iranian novelist and science-fiction writer Zoha Kazemi about t he context\, definitions and limitations of "being an other" or "minority" or else an "outlier" within the body of Persian literature.
D
ate & Time:
Sunday\, November 6\, 2022
11:00am (PDT) / 9
:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: online via Zoom
Pr
esented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
بحث و گفتگویی پیرامون نویسندههایی با سلایق متفاوت
در این جل
سه به چیستی ادبیات اقلیت یا دیگری و یا انواعی از ادبیات میپردازیم که در اد
بیات معاصر فارسی کمتر بدانها پرداخته شدهاست. همچنین در این میزگرد تخصصی ب
ا نویسندگان دربارهی علل به حاشیه راندهشدن این انواع در ادب معاصر، انواع،
جایگاه و اهمیت آنها به بحث و گفتگو خواهیم پرداخت
تاریخ جلسه:
یکشنبه ششم نوامبر ۲۰۲۲
ساعت ۱۱ صبح به وقت ون
کوور؛ ۱۰:۳۰ شب به وقت تهران
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Her first sci-fi novel “Pine Dead” w as acknowledged in the first Noofe award. She has also written other dystop ian novels like “Humanoid” and “The Juliet Syndrome” which is a best seller in Iran. Kazemi has published a three-volume novel for young adults called “The World of Lollipop People” and a fantasy novel titled “The Covering Du st”. Her latest published book is a short story collection “Time Rider” wit h nine speculative stories. She has two more speculative novels under publi cation\, one for adult readers and a thriller-fantasy for YA named “The Meh rzan Gate”. Kazemi owns a bookshop in Tehran named “Rama Bookstore” which i s specialized in speculative fiction where she holds many events in\, like book signings\, creative writing classes and story writing contests.
ضحی کاظمی متولد 1361 در تهران است. تحصیلات دانش گاهی خود را در رشتهی مهندسی و سپس کارشناسی ارشد زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی ادام ه داده و از سال 1391 تا کنون، 15 اثر داستانی از ایشان در ایران منتشر شده اس ت. چهارمین اثر او با عنوان «سال درخت» که در سال 1393 منتشر شد، مورد استقبال منتقدین و مخاطبان ادبیات داستانی قرار گرفت. این رمان که در سبک رئالیسم جاد ویی نوشته شده، با ترجمه¬ی خانم کارولین کراسکری در همان سال به انگلیسی برگرد انده و در لندن منتشر شد. کاظمی از اولین نویسندگان ایران است که به صورت حرفه ¬ای در ژانر علمی¬تخیلی و فانتزی دست به قلم برده و آثار متعدد و متنوعی در ای ن ژانرها خلق کرده است. تا کنون 7 اثر بزرگسال گمانه¬زن و مجموعه رمان سه¬جلدی «دنیای آدم¬نباتی¬ها» برای گروه سنی نوجوان، از ایشان منتشر شده و دو اثر دیگ ر در ژانرهای فانتزی و علمی¬تخیلی در دست چاپ دارد. رمان پساآخرالزمانی «باران ¬زاد» او که سال 98 منتشر شد، همزمان به انگلیسی در لندن به انتشار رسید. این رمان به عنوان برنده¬ی جایزه¬ی «نوفه» برای بهترین رمان گمانه¬زن سال انتخاب ش د. همچنین، کاظمی برای رمان «رنسانس مرگ» در سال 99 برای بار دوم، برنده¬ی جای زه¬ی «نوفه» شد و رمان «کاج¬زدگی» او در اولین دوره-ی برگزاری «نوفه» در سال 9 7، مورد تقدیر قرار گرفت. «سندروم ژولیت» پرفروش¬ترین اثر بزرگسال کاظمی، در ز یرژانر دیستوپیا با ساختار روایی کارآگاهی نوشته شده و مورد استقبال خوب مخاطب ادبیات گمانه¬زن قرار گرفته. آخرین اثر منتشر شده¬ی کاظمی، مجموعه داستان «زم ان¬سوار» است که پاییز سال گذشته به بازار آمد. ضحی کاظمی در حال حاضر مدیر کت ابفروشی راماست، اولین کتابفروشی تخصصی ادبیات گمانه¬زن در ایران. در دو سال و نیم فعالیت کتاب راما، کاظمی میزبان نویسندگان، مترجمین و علاقه¬مندان ادبیات گمانه¬زن بوده و مراسم متعدد و مختلف رونمایی، نقد کتاب و مسابقات داستان¬نوی سی با هدف ارتقای ادبیات ژانری ایران، برگزار کرده است.
Amirhos sein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. He studied philosophy a nd physics\, but later changed his area to computer engineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Marcia\, the Dear Scoundr el” won Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short fiction prize in 2007. Ami r’s first collection of stories\, The Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshmeh\, 2009) won two national book prizes including “Golshiri”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq\, 2013)\, is a political novel that occ urs in Iran\, Afghanistan\, and Azerbaijan. He is also a member of the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group and published essays and short stories in Can ada.
امیرحسین یزدانبد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهرا ن است. او تحصیلاتش را در فیزیک کاربردی با گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام رها کرد. تحصیلات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱۳۸۴ نوشتن داستان را جدی گرفت اگرچه پیش از آن هم چند یادداشت و تک داست ان از او در نشریات چاپ شده بود. مجموعه داستان «پرترهی مرد ناتمام» او با اق بال بسیاری روبهرو شد و جوایز بنیاد هوشنگ گلشیری وگام اول را نصیب او کرد. ه مچنین او با همین اثر فینالیست جایزه منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریافت جایزه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدانبد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارس یای رذل عزیز» برندهٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر افق منتشر کرد که با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامهها و منتقدان م واجه شده است. وی هماکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقهی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری در نشریات معتبر از جمله فصلنامهی تخصصی اتحادیهی نویسندگ ان کانادا از وی منتشر شده است.
Dr. H essam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Ta bātabāi University working on the "Structural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature" in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philos ophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, h e was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity S chool and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he focused his resear ch on the formation of the Persianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature . He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regula rly at Harvard University and Boston College. His latest presentation on Pe rsian Literature at Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series can be found here. He is also the director and founder of Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC\, a public humanities initiative where the m ost prominent Persian writers\, academics\, students and the Persianate com munity at large come together to read about and discuss some of the most pr essing human issues raised in the works of Modern Persian Literature.
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for t he past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received bo th teaching and leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehgh ani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In ped agogy\, his interests lie in Content-based Instruction and Critical Heritag e Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and START ALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian and crea ting open access interactive online textbooks. Implementing the latest find ings in Critical Heritage Education and Second Language Acquisition\, he an d his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to the heritage learners of Persian\, they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT ).
Should you have any questions\, please contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc. ca.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/otherness-in-literature-and- other-of-literature/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/09/1106_Otherness-in-literature.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7169-EO-57570-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221019T000051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221017T233307Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221108T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221108T190000 SUMMARY: 2022 K-pop Dance Event DESCRIPTION: The Korean Language Program at UBC is hosting the 2022 K-pop D ance Event on November 8\, 2022. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Do you love K-pop? Dancing? Want to meet other K-pop dance rs? The UBC Korean Language Program is hosting the 2nd Annual K-pop Dance E vent on Tuesday\, November 8th from 5:00PM to 7:00PM. Members from the UBC K-Wave club will be teachin g the ‘key dance move’ of K-pop songs chosen by you! There will be a trivia contest for prizes and random dance time. Korean kimbap will also be serve d. Sign up for the fun night!
This event is sponsored by the Cons ulate General of the Republic of Korea in Vancouver and the UBC Department of Asian Studies.
Have any questions? Contact Lecturer Jeonghye Son at jeonghye.son@ubc.ca
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strong>Date & Time:
Tuesday\, November 8\, 2022
5:00PM-7
:00PM (PDT)
Location:
Auditorium\, Asian Centre
\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (Map here)
Free and open to all UBC students.
Registration is required (please find the registration form below).
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on]سخنران: دکتر پَملا کر یمی، استاد تاریخ هنر و سرپرست کالج هنرهای تجسمی و نمایشی دانشگاه ماساچوست د ر دارتموث
طرفبحث: دکتر هوشنگ شهابی، استاد افتخاری د انشکده تاریخ دانشگاه سنت اندروز
کتاب «ایرانِ بدیل» با نگاه به عرصهها ی هنری ایران از دههٔ ۱۹۸۰ میلادی به این سو، عوامل اقتصادی، سیاسی و فکریای را بررسی میکند که طبقهٔ خلاق ایران را به سمت اَشکال بدیع و غیرمتعارفی از ه نرآفرینی سوق داده است. این آثار هنری که برای موزهها یا سالنهای نمایش طراح ی نشده است، در خانههای شخصی، نمایشگاههای هنری غیرتجاری، نمایشگاههایی با مخاطبان «معتمد»، بناهای مخروبه، ساختمانهای در حال ساخت، فضاهای شهری متروکه و مکانهای طبیعیِ دورافتاده ظاهر میشوند. در این نشست، دکتر پَملا کریمی ضم ن ارائهٔ مباحثی از این کتاب، به بررسی نمونههایی از آثار هنری یادشده در ارت باط با جنبش «زن، زندگی، آزادی» در ایران میپردازد.
The e
vent recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/GRk2o9PXJH8
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br />The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies present
s: Art and Spatial Politics in Iran on November 19\, 2022.
Drawing on spatial and temporal turns that have animated Iranian art scenes since the 1980s\, Alternative Iran illuminates the economic\, political\, a nd intellectual forces that have driven Iran’s creative class toward increa singly original forms of unconventional artmaking not meant for museums or performance halls. These artworks appear instead in private homes\, non-com mercial galleries\, showrooms with “trusted” audiences\, dilapidated struct ures\, buildings under construction\, leftover urban spaces\, and remote na tural sites. Flouting the conventions of the art market and negotiating the regime's ideological protocols\, these loosely covert activities offer an enthralling inquiry into what is commonly referred to as critical spatial p ractice.
Throwing into sharp relief Iran's extraordinary art scenes\, Karimi further discloses anomalous instances when the state and other powe rful agents appropriate the same spatial techniques of loose covertness to bring aspects of the alternative into the limelight\, either to better regu late the creative community or to challenge the system from within.
Pamela Karimi earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and is currently an associat e professor at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Karimi is the author of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran (Routledge\, 2013) and coeditor of “Images of the Child and Childhood in Modern Muslim Contexts” (Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East\ , 2012)\, “Reinventing the American Post-Industrial City” (Journal of U rban History\, 2015)\, and The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in the Middle East: From Napoleon to ISIS (Aggregate\, 2016). Her major curatorial projects include Urban Renewal and Creative Economy in Massa chusetts Gateway Cities\, Stateless\, Black Spaces Matter\, and Co ntemporary Iranian Art & the Historical Imagination.
Karimi has held fellowships from many organizations\, including the Iran Heritage Foun dation at SOAS. More recently Karimi was the corecipient of a major grant f rom the Connecting Art Histories Initiative at the Getty Foundation. Cofoun der of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative\, Karimi currently ser ves on the boards of Thresholds Journal and the Association of Mod ern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World\, Iran\, and Turkey.
Houchang Chehabi is a scholar of Iranian stu dies\, an honorary professor of history at the University of St. Andrews an d an emeritus professor at Boston University. Professor Chehabi has also ta ught at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at UCLA and the Universid ad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published books including Onomastic Reforms: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020)\, Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006) and Irani an Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990). He has also co-edited Politics\, Soc iety\, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (1995)\; Sultanistic Reg imes (1998)\; Iran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics\, Cultural Transformations\, and Transnational Connections (2010)\; and Iran and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honour of Mohammad-Reza Djalili (2013).
Professor Chehabi’s areas of ex pertise include Middle Eastern politics and cultural history\, Shiism\, and international law and he has written numerous articles\, book reviews\, an d translations in these areas.
This event includes a presentation and a dialogue featuri
ng author Balbir Madhopuri on the topic “My Caste – My Shadow: Flights of F
reedom Through Literature.” Hosted by Gurinder Mann (Lecturer\, UBC\, Punja
bi Language and Culture) and Barj Dhahan (Founder\, The Dhahan Prize for Pu
njabi Literature)\, the event will take place in the Auditorium\, Asian Cen
tre at UBC on November 22.
Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studi es at UBC\, the event is free and open to the public.
Join to:
Balbir Madhopuri is the 2021 Dhahan Prize Finalist.
He is a renowned author of ‘Ghadri Baba Mangu Ram'\, 'Mitti Bo/ Peye' (
'The Earth Speaks')\, 'Chhangiya Rukh: Against the Night' (autobiograp
hy) and more.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Asian Studies Auditorium GEO:30.285854;-97.740426 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/my-caste-my-shadow-flights-o f-freedom-through-literature/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/11/My-Caste-My-Shadow-Nov.-22_1200x627px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7235-EO-57574-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221014T180649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230103T234836Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221125T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221125T140000 SUMMARY: [South Asia Research Colloquium] Mahatma Gandhi\, Richard Gregg an d Integral Nonviolence DESCRIPTION: Friday\, October 21\, 2022\, 12:30-2:00 PM (PDT) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This is the inaugural year of the UBC Sout h Asia Research Colloquium\, which offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. The format will consist of a research presentation of about forty-five minutes followed by questions and comments from the audience for about half an hou r.
The third seminar of the South Asia Research Colloquium entitled “ Mahatma Gandhi\, Richard Gregg and Integral Nonviolence” features speaker D r. James Tully (Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Law at the Univ ersity of Victoria).
Date & Time:
Friday\, Nove
mber 25 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PST)
Location:
Room 60
4 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
The event is open to students and faculty of UBC and other academ
ic institutions.
Registration is required (please find the registratio
n form below).
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James Tully is an emeritus profess or of Political Science and Law. After completing his BA at the University of British Columbia and PhD at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College ) he taught in the departments of Political Science and Philosophy at McGil l University 1977-96 (Chair\, Department of Philosophy 1994-6). He was Prof essor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at UVic from 1996-20 01 and cross-appointed in Law\, Indigenous Governance and Philosophy. In 20 01-03 he was the inaugural Henry N.R. Jackman distinguished professor in Ph ilosophical Studies at the University of Toronto in the departments of Phil osophy and Political Science and the Faculty of Law. In 2003 he returned to UVic as a distinguished professor. He retired in 2014. As emeritus and adj unct professor he continues his research and work with graduate students.
He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Emeritus Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation. In 2010 he was award ed the Killam Prize in the Humanities for his outstanding contri bution to scholarship and Canadian public life. In May 2014\, he was awarde d the David H. Turpin Gold Medal for Career Achievement in Research.
The Art of Agency in a Self-Effacing Universe\, November 4
What is Colonialism? The Meani ng of a Twentieth-Century Political Category\, October 21
CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/south-asia-research-colloqui um-mahatma-gandhi-richard-gregg-and-integral-nonviolence/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/09/South-Asia-Colloquium_Oct-21.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240314T2206Z-1710453975.2027-EO-57958-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221117T195916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221117T195916Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221125T203000 SUMMARY: Exchange to Korea: Insider Tips from UBC Go Global Participants at Universities in Korea X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Korean LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://korean.arts.ubc.ca/sample-news-post-2/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2019/10/UBC_Asian-Studies-Korean-Language-Program.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221118T0612Z-1668751943.5081-EO-57942-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221116T221921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T212007Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221127T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221127T140000 SUMMARY: Essence and power of non-fiction: capturing the voice of the suppr essed and others DESCRIPTION: This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Irani an and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosti ng a series of panel discussions about “Otherness” in modern Persian Litera ture. The question is what it means to be an “Other” as a writer creating a nd promoting new genres other than the main body […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC's Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosting a series of panel discussions about "Otherness" in modern Persian Literatur e. The question is what it means to be an "Other" as a writer creating and promoting new genres other than the main body of Persian Literature or to b e "Other" in depicting the experience of the minorities in the Persianate w orld. During the Fall\, Winter\, and Spring of the upcoming year\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Literature.
The sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hosseing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC where they invite a writer in that specific genre. During t he series they will introduce and analyze genres as varied as Science-ficti on\, crime novels\, memoirs\, detective stories\, literature of religious\, racial and ethnic minorities\, and the like.
An interview and discus sion with writer and critic Amir Hossein Yazdanbod about the publication of the recently published book “It Should have NOT Be Written” curated and pr epared by him and Hamed Esmaeilioun. The book is the memories of the famili es of the victims of flight PS752 from the time they heard the flight was s hot down by IRAN’s Revolutionary Guards. The session will discuss the essen ce and power of non-fiction to capture the voice of the suppressed and “Oth ers.”
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در این جلسه به چیستی ادبیات اقلیت یا دیگری و یا انواعی از
ادبیات میپردازیم که در ادبیات معاصر فارسی کمتر بدانها پرداخته شدهاست. هم
چنین در این میزگرد تخصصی با نویسندگان دربارهی علل به حاشیه راندهشدن این ا
نواع در ادب معاصر، انواع، جایگاه و اهمیت آنها به بحث و گفتگو خواهیم پرداخت
بحث و گفتگویی دربارهی چیستی «ناداستان» و اهمیت آن به ویژه برای به بی
ان تجربههای انسانیِ به حاشیه راندهشده و سرکوب شده و تاثیر آن به جهت روان
درمانگری
به بهانهی چاپ کتاب «نباید نوشته میشد» مجموعه خاطرات بازمان
دگان جنایت پرواز PS752
تاریخ جلسه:
یکشنبه ۲۷ نوامبر ۲۰۲۲
ساع
ت ۱۱ صبح به وقت ونکوور ۱۰:۳۰ شب به وقت تهران
Date & Time:
Sunday\, November 27th \, 2022
11:00am (PST) / 10:30pm (Teh
ran Time)
Location:
West Vancouver Memorial Libr
ary\, Welsh Hall (1950 Marine Dr Welsh Hall\, West Vancouver\, BC V7V 1J8)<
br />*There is also an option to watch the event virtually. The lecture
will be live-streamed through Zoom.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public. Please register via the form below to reserve a
spot for in-person attendance or to receive the information to attend onlin
e.
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Amirhossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran\, Amirhossein studied philosophy and physics\ , but later changed his area to computer engineering. He started writing fi ction in 2004 and his short story “For Marcia\, the Dear Scoundrel” won Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short fiction prize in 2007. Amir’s first c ollection of stories\, The Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshme h\, 2009) won two national book prizes including “Golshiri”. His latest wor k Stutter (Ofoq\, 2013)\, is a political novel that occurs in Iran \, Afghanistan\, and Azerbaijan. He is also a member of the PEN Canada Writ ers in Exile group and published essays and short stories in Canada.
امیرحسین یزدانبد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهران است. او ت حصیلاتش را در فیزیک کاربردی با گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام رها کر د. تحصیلات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱۳۸۴ ن وشتن داستان را جدی گرفت اگرچه پیش از آن هم چند یادداشت و تک داستان از او در نشریات چاپ شده بود. مجموعه داستان «پرترهی مرد ناتمام» او با اقبال بسیاری روبهرو شد و جوایز بنیاد هوشنگ گلشیری وگام اول را نصیب او کرد. همچنین او ب ا همین اثر فینالیست جایزه منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریافت جای زه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدانبد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذل عزی ز» برندهٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر افق منت شر کرد که با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامهها و منتقدان مواجه شده اس ت. وی هماکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقهی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری در نشریات معتبر از جمله فصلنامهی تخصصی اتحادیهی نویسندگان کانادا ا ز وی منتشر شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his f irst PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on the “S tructural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” in 201 2. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Be tween August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and ass ociate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle East ern Studies where he focused his research on the formation of the Persianat e identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspe cts of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series can be found here. He is also the director and founder of P ersian Literature Reading Club at UBC\, a public humanities initiative wher e the most prominent Persian writers\, academics\, students and the Persian ate community at large come together to read about and discuss some of the most pressing human issues raised in the works of Modern Persian Literature .
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a f oreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North Americ a for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and d irected Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he rece ived both teaching and leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr . Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of t eaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Content-based Instruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL an d STARTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to pr esent. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian a nd creating open access interactive online textbooks. Implementing the late st findings in Critical Heritage Education and Second Language Acquisition\ , he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching liter acy to the heritage learners of Persian\, they call Collaborative Storytell ing (CT).
Should you have any questions\, please contact Dr. Hessam D ehghani at hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:West Vancouver Memorial Library\, Welsh Hall GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/essence-and-power-of-non-fic tion-capturing-the-voice-of-the-suppressed-and-others/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/11/photo_2022-11-13_23-01-56.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221012T0156Z-1665539795.0354-EO-57207-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221011T182653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T232340Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221203T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20221203T173000 SUMMARY: “Dressed in the Costume of His Country:” Portraits of Persians Don e in the West\, 1600–1842 DESCRIPTION: Saturday\, December 3\, 2022 | 4:00pm-5:30pm (PDT) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_548
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سخنران: دکتر دَنیِل پاتس، استاد باستانشناسی و تاریخ خاور نزدیک، دانشگاه نیویورک
طرف بحث: دکتر لیلا دیبا، مورخ هنر، محقق مستقل؛ دکتر ویلِم فلور، ایرانشناس، محقق مستقل
پرترههای ایرانیانی که در دورهٔ صفویه و اوایل دورهٔ قاجار (اوایل قرن هفدهم تا اوایل قرن نوزدهم میلادی) به غرب سفر ک ردهاند، کمتر مورد توجه قرار گرفته است. در این سخنرانی مجموعهای از تصاویر - شامل طراحی، نقاشی، حکاکی، لیتوگرافی و حتی یک سایهنما - از ایرانیان در بو ستون، ژنو، لندن، پاریس، پراگ، ساراتوگا اسپرینگز، سن پترزبورگ، وین و واشنگتن دی سی که مربوط به سالهای ۱۶۰۱ تا ۱۸۴۲ هستند، مورد بحث قرار میگیرند. برخی از شخصیتهای به تصویر کشیده شده در این پرترهها افراد عالیرتبهای از طبقه ٔ نخبگان بودند و برخی دیگر پیشینهای عادی داشتند. نکتهٔ مشترک در خصوص تمام این شخصیتها آن است که همه مشغول انجام نوعی مأموریت در کشور مقصد بودند. نحو هٔ پوشش این افراد برای هنرمندان آن زمان و و عموم مردم جذابیت ویژهای داشت و اثری ماندگار بر اذهان ناظران غربی، که فقط معدودی از آنها به سرزمین شیر و خورشید سفر کرده بودند، بر جای گذاشت.
The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/uypSDSNyaoQ
The Alireza Ahmadian L ecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: “Dressed in the Costume of His Country:” Portraits of Persians Done in the West\, 1600–1842 on Dece mber 3\, 2022.
As a class\, portraits of Persians who travelled to th e West during the Safavid and early Qajar period (early 17th-ear ly 19th century) have received little attention. This lecture br ings together a set of images — drawings\, paintings\, etchings\, lithograp hs and even a silhouette — of Persians\, done in Boston\, Geneva\, London\, Paris\, Prague\, Saratoga Springs\, St. Petersburg\, Vienna and Washington DC\, between 1601 and 1842. Some of the subjects were high-ranking individ uals who were members of the élite class while others were from modest back grounds. All were on a mission of one sort or another and portraiture\, in the days before photography\, commemorated their visits to distant capitals \, offering us a rare glimpse at the dress\, accoutrements and regalia worn by these visitors to foreign lands. Subjects of fascination for both conte mporary artists and a well-informed public\, intrigued by all things Persia n and able to follow the movements of these travelers in the European and A merican press\, the sitters in these works left an indelible mark in the co nsciousness of Western observers\, only a few of whom ever journeyed themse lves to the Land of the Lion and the Sun.
Layla Diba is an independent scholar\, art advisor and curat
or. She has been Director and Chief Curator of the Negarestan Museum in Teh
eran (1975–79)\, art advisor for the Private Secretariat of HM Queen Farah
of Iran\, and Hagop Kevorkian Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum
of Art. From 1994 to 2006\, she was Visiting Professor of Islamic Art at B
ard Graduate Center. In 2006\, Dr. Diba was invited to develop programming
and strategy for the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum and to serve on the
Museum’s Asian Art Council and Middle East Focus Group. She has curated th
e landmark The Qajar Epoch: Royal Persian Paintings exhibition at
the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1998\, exhibitions at the Lehmann-Maupin and
Leila Taghinia Milani Heller Galleries in New York and served as an advisor
to the Doris Duke Foundation. Her recent publications include Turkmen
Silver Ornaments from the Marshall and Marilyn Wolf Collection (Metrop
olitan Museum of Art\, 2011). In 2013 she co-curated Iran Modern\,
the first major exhibition devoted to Iranian Modern Art for the Asia Soci
ety Museum\, New York (September 5\, 2013- January 5\, 2014) and co-edited
the accompanying publication. Dr. Diba holds a B.A. from Wellesley College
and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York Universit
y. Her articles\, including over 50 essays on Iranian art\, have appeared i
n numerous scholarly publications. Dr. Diba sits on the Board of The Soudav
ar Memorial Foundation and of the National Museum of Asian Art in Washingto
n. She is also a collector of Persian and Islamic art and a benefactor and
advocate for numerous Persian cultural causes.
Willem Floor studied development economics and non-western sociology\, as well a s Persian\, Arabic and Islamology from 1963-67 at the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands). He received his doctoral degree from the University of Leiden in 1971. Since 1983\, Dr. Floor was employed by the World Bank as an energy specialist\, however\, after his retirement in 2002\, he has dedica ted his time to the study of the social and political history of Iran\, and has published extensively throughout this time. Many know him for his seri es of 10 books on the Persian Gulf\, published from 2006 to 2017. His other recent books include Astrakhan: A Man of Two Worlds: Pedros Bedik in I ran\, 1670–1675 (2013)\, The Monetary History of Iran: From the Sa favids to the Qajars (Iran and the Persianate World) (2013)\, Hist ory of Bread in Iran (2015)\, Studies in the History of Medicine i n Iran (2018)\, Kermanshah: City and Province\, 1850–1945 (20 18)\, Salar al-Dowleh: A Delusional Prince and Wannabe Shah (2018) \, Persian Pleasures: How Iranians Relaxed Through the Centuries with F ood\, Drink and Drugs (2019). Willem Floor has also published several translations.
CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese LOCATION:Liu Institute for Global Studies GEO:49.274887;-123.205736 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/film-screening-keep-rolling/ #new_tab ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/01/Keep-Rolling-Poster-3-2048x1024.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230121T2303Z-1674342187.3423-EO-58431-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230120T191843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230626T201623Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230128T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230128T123000 SUMMARY: “Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature: the author of the “other” gender DESCRIPTION: January 28\, 2023 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The recording of the talk is now made available:
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This year\, UBC Persian Literature Re ading Club at UBC's Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Cultur e Program at UBC is hosting a series of panel discussions about "Otherness" in modern Persian Literature. The question is what it means to be an "Othe r" as a writer creating and promoting new genres other than the main body o f Persian Literature or to be "Other" in depicting the experience of the mi norities in the Persianate world. During the Fall\, Winter\, and Spring of the upcoming year\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Literat ure.
The sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hossei ng Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Liter ature\, Language\, and Culture Program at UBC. For each session\, they invi te a writer in that specific genre\, introduce and analyze genres as varied as science-fiction\, crime novels\, detective stories\, literature of reli gious\, racial and ethnic minorities\, and the like.
Our third-panel discussion in the series “Otherness in Literature and the Other of Literatu re” concerns the experience of gender minorities in Iran and how it is rela ted to literature. The event hosts Alista Aghaee (Iranian novelist)\, and D r. Mahsa Yaqoubi Rad (specialist in queer studies and a registered clinical psychologist in Vancouver).
Date & Time:
Satur
day\, January 28\, 2023
10:30am (PST) / 10:00pm (Tehran Time)
There is also an option to attend virtually via Google Meet.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
جلسه سوم
عنوان جلسه: «ادبیاتِ دیگری و دیگریِ ادبیا
ت» : نویسندهیِ جنسیتِ «دیگر»
میزگرد تجربهی دگرجنسیتی در ایران و نسبت
آن با ادبیات در گفتگو با
امیر حسین یزدان بد
دکتر حسام دهقانی
نیل )الیستا (آقایی
دکتر مهسا یعقوبی راد (دکترای روانشناسی و درمانگر
بالینی ثبت شده در ایالت بریتیش کلمبیای کانادا) متخصص مطالعات دگرجنسیتی
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Neil (Alista) Aghaee: “I am Neil Aghaee. Born in the winter of 1997. But the readers of my w orks know me as Alista. It’s safe to say that Alista is my artistic name. A fter three semesters of genetics\, I decided to drop out of college to focu s on writing. Writing has been the passion and motivation of my life since I can remember. Since then\, I have written four books\, three of which hav e been published: Mahaloud\, The Girl on the other side of the Mirror\, and Bloody Moon.I write fantasy and science fiction Book and mostly for teenag ers and young adults.I wrote mahaloud when I was nineteen. I have thousands of ideas and my biggest concern is that my life will not be enough to writ e them all. Writing is a mission for me\, my goal is not fame or fortune. M y whole goal is to be able to help others with my writing and words.”
من نیل
Mahsa Yaghubi Rad holds a Ph.D. in psychology and a registered clinical counselor (RCC) i n British Columbia. She has worked with a variety of populations\, includin g queer community. She also works as a research assistant (RA) in the Child and Teens Studies Lab at UBC. During her Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Fu ndamentals\, Development\, & Fortunes of Iranian Transgender Persons’ Ident ity” she developed a comprehensive understanding of the psychological-relat ed processes that transgender individuals experience in Iran during their j ourney to attain self-perception as a trans person.
مهسا یعقوبی راد دانش آموخته دکتری روانشناسی از دانشگاه تربیت مدر س و درمانگر بالینی ثبت شده در ایالت بریتیش کلمبیای کانادا است که در دوران ک اری خود با گروه هاي متفاوتي از جمله اقليتهاي جنسيتي کار کرده است. او همچنين بهعنوان دستیار پژوهشی در آزمایشگاه روانشناختی the child and teens studies lab در دانشگاه UBC مشغول به فعاليت است. مهسا در رساله دکتری خود با عنوان " وارسی بنیانها، فرایند و فرجام هویت افراد تراژاد ایرانی"، به داستان زندگی ا فراد تراژاد پرداخته است و سعی بر آن داشته است تا درک روشنی از تجربه روانشن اختی افراد تراژاد ایرانی در جریان فرایند تحول هويت ايشان، به دست آورد.
< h3>PanelistsAmirhossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. He studied philosophy and physics\, but later changed his area to computer engineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short s tory “For Marcia\, the Dear Scoundrel” won Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short fiction prize in 2007. Amir’s first collection of stories\, Th e Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshmeh\, 2009) won two national bo ok prizes including “Golshiri”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq\, 20 13)\, is a political novel that occurs in Iran\, Afghanistan\, and Azerbaij an. He is also a member of the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group and publis hed essays and short stories in Canada.
ا میرحسین یزدانبد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهران است. او تحصیلاتش را در فیزیک کاربردی ب ا گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام رها کرد. تحصیلات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱۳۸۴ نوشتن داستان را جدی گرفت اگرچه پیش از آن هم چند یادداشت و تک داستان از او در نشریات چاپ شده بود. مجموعه د استان «پرترهی مرد ناتمام» او با اقبال بسیاری روبهرو شد و جوایز بنیاد هوشن گ گلشیری وگام اول را نصیب او کرد. همچنین او با همین اثر فینالیست جایزه منت قدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریافت جایزه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدان بد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذل عزیز» برندهٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسا ل بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر افق منتشر کرد که با توجه بسیاری از ج انب نشریات و روزنامهها و منتقدان مواجه شده است. وی هماکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقهی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری در نشریات معتبر از جمل ه فصلنامهی تخصصی اتحادیهی نویسندگان کانادا از وی منتشر شده است.
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North Ame rica for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic an d directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he r eceived both teaching and leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor o f teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columb ia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Content-based Instruction and Critic al Heritage Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persia n and creating open access interactive online textbooks. Implementing the l atest findings in Critical Heritage Education and Second Language Acquisiti on\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching li teracy to the heritage learners of Persian\, they call Collaborative Storyt elling (CT).
Should you have any questions\, please contact Dr. Hessa m Dehghani at hessam.deh ghani@ubc.ca.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:North Vancouver City Library\; Online GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/otherness-in-literature-and- other-of-literature-the-author-of-the-other-gender/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/01/2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221209T2006Z-1670616392.941-EO-58112-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20221207T235550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230207T210948Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230206T200000 SUMMARY: 2022/23 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Two Unforgivens: T he Western as Method for Reimagining Transpacific History DESCRIPTION: With Guest Speaker Professor Takashi Fujitani(University of To ronto) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2022/
23 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Professor Takashi Fujitani
(University of Toronto)
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em>Unforgiven (1992). Ken Watanabe (on the right) starred in Yurus
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Date & Time：
5:30p
m-8:00pm (PST)\, Monday\, February 6\, 2023
5:30pm-6:20pm (PST) Recep
tion with light refreshments
6:30pm-8:00pm (PST) Lecture and Q&A
Location:
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Liu Institute for Global Iss
ues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, UBC
*There is also an option to watc h the event virtually. The lecture will be live-streamed.
Prese
nted in English.
Free & open to the public.
Please note that the
event will not be recorded for later distribution.
Lecture ab stract:
This presentation juxtaposes Clint Eastwood’s critic ally acclaimed Unforgiven (1992) against Lee Sang-il’s “remake” (< em>Yurusarezaru mono\, 2013) of the original as a method for thinking beyond the conventions of Japanese and U.S. history writing. It considers k ey themes in political philosophy -- such as the violence of law\, sovereig n power\, the right to kill\, prostitution\, domesticity\, and historical m emory and accountability – while foregrounding issues of indigeneity and se ttler colonialism in a transpacific framing. This is part of a book length study tentatively titled: “Cold War Clint: Asians\, “Indians” and Others in an American Political (Un)conscious.” While Eastwood’s many Westerns are w ell known\, Yurusarezaru mono is Lee’s only offering in this genre . Lee’s first film\, Chong (1998\, 2001)\, is in part based upon h is own life growing up as an ethnic Korean in Japan. His more well-known fi lms include Hula Girl (2006)\, The Villain (Akunin\, 2010)\, and Rage (Ikari\, 2016).
Takashi Fujitani holds the Dr. David Chu Chair
in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto\, where he is also Pro
fessor of History and Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific
Studies. His research has centered on the intersections of nationalism\, c
olonialism\, war\, memory\, racism\, and gender in Japan and the U.S. His m
ajor works include: Splendid Monarchy (UC Press\, 1996)\; Race
for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During WWII
(UC Press\, 2011)\; and Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (co-edited\, Duke U. Press\, 2001). He is editor of the book series Asia
Pacific Modern (UC Press) and has held numerous grants and fellowships\, in
cluding from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation.
Ayaka Yoshimizu is Assista
nt Professor of Teaching in the Department of Asian Studies at the Universi
ty of British Columbia\, Canada. Her research is concerned with transpacifi
c migration and cultures\, memories and senses\, and decolonial and perform
ative methodology. She is the author of Doing Ethnography in the Wake o
f the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama (Routledge
\, 2022). Her current research explores emplaced and embodied memories of J
apanese migrant sex workers who survived and died in the colonial transpaci
fic world at the turn of the 20th century.
About the Jo hn Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a foun ding member of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia University. During his 30 years o f active teaching and research\, Professor Howes was at the forefront of Ca nada-Japan cultural\, educational and people-to-people relations and inspir ed countless young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Can ada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC fac ulty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted former students came together t o launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lectu re in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prominent scholars fr om around the world to speak to the university community and alumni on topi cs in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. Howes passed away pe acefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
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Shoul d you have any questions\, please contact the Department of Asian Studies a t Asian.Studies@ubc.ca.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Liu Institute for Global Studies GEO:49.274887;-123.205736 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2022-23-john-howes-lecture-i n-japanese-studies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2022/12/Howes-Lecture_non-text-image_FINAL.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240314T2206Z-1710453975.2448-EO-58709-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230215T190753Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230215T190753Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230407 SUMMARY: [Exhibition] Leslie Cheung 張國榮: Hong Kong Icon (1956-2003) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage LOCATION:Asian Centre &\; Asian Library GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asian.library.ubc.ca/news/2023/02/08/leslie-cheung-ho ng-kong-icon/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/02/Website_Thumbnail_Logo_1200x720.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230228T1735Z-1677605753.8733-EO-58813-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230227T184149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230227T184149Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230304T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230304T173000 SUMMARY: 2023 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference DESCRIPTION: Join us for an annual day of presentations by graduate student s from the Department of Asian Studies\, featuring special guest presenters unique to each year. Participants in the conference will present their ori ginal research\, engage in accompanying discussions on their papers or pres entations\, and enjoy refreshments while meeting and talking with scholars working in a […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for an annual day of presentations by graduate students from the Department of Asian Studies\, featuring special guest presenters unique to each year. Participants in the conference will present their original research\, engage in accompanying discussions on the ir papers or presentations\, and enjoy refreshments while meeting and talki ng with scholars working in a wide variety of disciplines and regions.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese,Featured Korean,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit,Featured Tibetan LOCATION:Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2023-asian-studies-graduate- student-conference/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/02/2016-Asian-Studies-Graduate-Conference2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230218T1421Z-1676730102.2717-EO-58721-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230216T180200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230304T181746Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230304T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230304T170000 SUMMARY: The 35th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest DESCRIPTION: The 35th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest is op en to British Columbia and Yukon residents who speak Japanese as a foreign or second language. The 2023 Contest will be held on Saturday\, March 4\, 2 023 at the Asian Centre\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver Campus . The event is free and open to the public […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The 35th Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest is open to British Columbia and Yukon residents who speak Ja panese as a foreign or second language.
The 2023 Contest will be held on Saturday\, March 4\, 2023 at the Asian Centre\, University of British C olumbia\, Vancouver Campus.
The event is free and open to the public for in-person attendance. The event will be live-streamed through Y ouTube Live for the public to view as well. Set a reminder on YouT ube to get notified when the contest goes live: https://youtube.com/live/6CO59I2Zz8Q?feat ure=share.
The program will be available before the event day on the website of the Consulate General of Japan.
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Jazbaatan Da Kinara (Coastline of Emotions) is a book of Punjabi poetry written by Gurinder Mann\, Lecturer in Punjabi Langu age and Culture of the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia. Gurinder's poems touch upon various topics\, issues\, and sentime nts\, and he uses the tools of imagery\, metaphor\, and personification to illustrate emotions on the broad range of subjects presented. At Gurinder’s debut book launch\, he will take you on a journey of heart felt emotions t hrough Punjabi poetry. Join the event to learn about the details of the boo k\, including its content and Gurinder’s experience writing it.
The event is free and open to the public. Please regi ster for the event to reserve a seat.
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Born and raised in England\, Gurinder grew up surrounded by
UK Bhangra Bands\, many of whom further fueled his innate passion for Punj
abi culture. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at UBC\, where he later ret
urned to earn a Master’s degree in Asian Studies. He has a vast interest in
romantic folktales (qisse) written in poetic form\, and is particularly fa
scinated with the story of Hir Ranjha\, on which he completed his thesis. B
esides his excellence in Punjabi language\, literature\, and culture\, Guri
nder is highly knowledgeable in Hindi-Urdu language as well as South Asian
Film\, and has taught courses in those areas at UBC.
Should you have any questions regarding the event\, please contact Gurinder Mann at gurinder.mann@ubc.ca.
CATEGORIES:Featured Punjabi LOCATION:C.K. Choi\, Room 120 GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/book-launch-jazbaatan-da-kin ara-coastline-of-emotions-by-gurinder-mann/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/02/1200x720_Gurinder-Mann_Book-Launch.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7297-EO-58790-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230224T002024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T225334Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230316T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230316T200000 SUMMARY: 2023 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asi a – to inform and inspire current students. This event will feature a keyno te speech and round robin […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our a nnual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – t o inform and inspire current students. This event will feature a keynote sp eech and round robin networking sessions. You will also have a chance to wi n raffle prizes (Asian Studies Merchandise)! Careers Night is the perfect o pportunity to make connections\, meet fellow Asian Studies students\, and f eel more confident in taking the next steps on your career path.
As a student:
* Ask the burning questions about
what a degree in Asian Studies has to offer
* Gain extremely helpful n
etworking tips (e.g. How to Use LinkedIn 101)
* Meet your fellow under
graduates and learn about their career and academic plans
* Gain an ex
cellent head-start in planning your next move during and after UBC
* Share what you did at UBC that
helped you succeed
* Give back to your alma mater by providing your i
nsights to the students of what they should be expecting
* Meet and ma
ke connections with other alumni\, faculty\, and students
* Meet poten
tial employees among our diligent and passionate students
Carli Rebecca Fink\, Career Strategist\, UBC Career Centre and Faculty of
Arts
Carli supports undergraduate Arts students in their car eer development through 1-1 advising\, educational workshops\, events with alumni and employers\, and collaborations with academic departments. She co mes to UBC by way of Ontario and Massachusetts\, where she studied psycholo gy and education and held roles related to health and wellness promotion\, identity and belonging\, university admissions\, and academic advising at 6 educational institutions and 1 non-profit organization. Outside of her pro fessional and academic pursuits\, Carli enjoys outdoor adventures\, all thi ngs musical theatre\, reading\, writing\, and travelling.
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Kayla Black\, BA ‘ 14 – Digital
Transformation Specialist\, Law Foundation of BC
Kayla holds a Bachelor of Arts in Korean Language & Culture from the University of Bri tish Columbia. Kayla joined the Law Foundation of BC in 2020. As the Digita l Transformation Specialist\, she supports the development of digital tools to streamline organizational processes\, as well as provides training to s upport the successful adoption of these tools. Prior to joining the Foundat ion\, she worked as program coordinator at a charity helping women and chil dren in North Korea.
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Gabriela Chen\, BA ’1
5 – Regional Merchandise Planner\, Lululemon
If there was on e consistency while growing up\, Gabriela found her lifestyle would always revolve around multiple languages. While living in Vancouver\, Hong Kong an d Tokyo\, she continued to be curious about how people lived and communicat ed with changing times.
After graduating from UBC\, she utilized her language skills by working with a Japanese trading company in Vancouver: in teracting with local business owners and chain franchises. After four years with the corporate environment she joined Procurify Technologies\, identif ying market opportunities for the locally-founded financial technology star t-up. In both experiences\, she felt the strong disparity between available data and decision making roles and pursued certification in Data Analytics in hopes of contributing to data pipelines that intuitively guides busines s decisions. Gabriela currently supports lululemon's product team in sales planning and forecasting at their Kerrisdale office.
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Faiz Jaffar\, BA ’17 – Member Services Manager\, AGN Intern
ational
While at UBC\, Faiz took part in all the Asian Studi es events\, spent a year abroad\, and appeared on national television in Ch ina. After graduation\, Faiz received a scholarship to study in China\, whe re he completed a Master’s Degree of Chinese Law (LLM) at Renmin University of China. While in China\, Faiz has worked at a Chinese law firm\, as lega l counsel for a state-owned Fortune 500 company\, and as a management consu ltant for international associations. In his free time in Beijing\, Faiz vo lunteered with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Alumni Ass ociation. Together with the Canadian Embassy to China\, Faiz helped advocat e for Canadian universities in China. For his work\, UBC honoured Faiz with the title of UBC Alumni Ambassador to Beijing. In 2022\, Faiz returned to Vancouver\, where he now works as a member services manager at AGN Internat ional. As manager he oversees membership activities for 10 offices across C anada.
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Richard N. Liu\, BA ’93 –
Honorary Brigade Division President\, St. John Ambulance\, BC/Yukon
Educated at both UBC and Peking University\, Richard’s family has long distinguished Canada-China ties for 3 generations. His career in Asia included areas of public relations\, diplomacy\, major events organisation to education. Richard now advises companies and organisations on a variety of sectors pertaining to Asia.
With both Chinese\, Korean and Italian heritage in his family\, and a passion for storytelling\, Richard has been a Heritage Commissioner since 2018 advising Burnaby City Council on matter s concerning the identification\, management and preservation and/or restor ation of buildings and sites with historical significance in Burnaby. He al so sits on the Barkerville Heritage Trust\, a national historic site with o ne of the oldest Chinatowns in Canada\, as a board member at large for mult iculturalism. Richard is also a leader in the development of a wide variety of volunteer projects from the Terry Fox Run to Special Olympics to the Ol ympics and Paralympics in Beijing\; to St. John Ambulance in BC and across Canada.
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Oliver Mann\, BA ’13 – Communicat
ions Strategist\, UBC Community Engagement + Freelance photographer and vid
eographerOliver was born and raised in Vancouver\, BC. He h as always been passionate about different cultures and languages\, studying French\, Spanish\, Japanese\, and Korean. In his fourth year\, he went on exchange to Ewha Women’s University in South Korea and interned for the BC government’s Trade Office in Seoul. After returning from Korea\, Oliver sta rted working as a Work Learn student in the Department of Asian Studies\, a t UBC\, and was hired full-time as their Communications and Events Coordina tor after graduating in 2013. Over the past decade\, he has continued to wo rk for UBC in a variety of communications roles at the departmental-\, facu lty- and VP-level. Oliver currently works in VP External Relations supporti ng how UBC partners with communities on Indigenous engagement and reconcili ation\, sustainability and climate change\, and other community priorities.
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Melody Pan\, BA ’14 – IT Systems Manager
\, Waterproof Studios & Freelance Translator
Melody is a lif elong fan of Japanese Culture\, Video Games and Technology. After finishing her studies at UBC\, Melody joined Bandai Namco Studios as a J/E Translato r /Interpreter both in Vancouver and remotely with Japan. Next\, she applie d her Japanese language skills at Waterproof Studios\, a Vancouver-based pr ovider of 3D CG services. There\, she was also provided opportunities to le an on the job with the Production and Technology departments\, and ultimate ly settled on a career of Technology\, which has led her to her current pos ition of IT Systems Manager. She also continues to use her Japanese skills on occasion as a Freelance Manga Translator.
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William Strausser\, BA ’17 – Data Analyst\, UBC Arts ISIT
Willi am graduated from UBC in 2017 with an Honours BA in Asian Area Studies. As a student\, William pursued his interest in post-war Japanese cinema and st udied abroad at Osaka University through Go Global in 2016. After graduatin g he joined the Department of Asian Studies as a Project Coordinator workin g on tasks related to conference planning\, faculty recruitment\, and data reporting. In 2019\, he became the department’s first Head’s Assistant befo re leaving UBC in 2020 to enroll in a one-year full-time Japanese language course at ECC Kokusai College of Foreign Languages in Osaka\, Japan. Return ing to UBC in 2022\, William later began his current position as a Data Ana lyst with UBC Arts ISIT\, which he works with student and faculty data in P ython\, SQL\, and Tableau to provide reports that support decision making i n the Faculty of Arts.
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Jennifer Ward\, BA ’12 – Freelance Translato r (Japanese to English)
As
a longtime fan of anime and manga\, Jennifer attended UBC with the goal of
learning Japanese to pursue her passion. During her studies at UBC\, she w
ent on a one year exchange program to Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan\,
where she polished her language skills. After graduating from UBC\, she par
ticipated in the JET Programme as a CIR for one year before beginning as a
freelance translator. She started off working through an agency before maki
ng direct clients and has continued to work from home as a freelancer for t
en years. She has since translated nearly fifty novels and hundreds of volu
mes of manga from Japanese to English for publishers such as Yen Press\, Ko
dansha\, Seven Seas\, and others.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese,Featured Korean,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit,Featured Tibetan LOCATION:2nd floor\, Arts Student Centre GEO:49.258461;-123.244402 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2023-asian-studies-annual-ca reers-night/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/02/CareersNight_PhotoUsed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240314T2206Z-1710453975.2782-EO-58969-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230314T205346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T205346Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230323 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230407 SUMMARY: Traditions of yoga 2023 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: URL;VALUE=URI:https://blogs.ubc.ca/yogatraditions/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/March-9-Newsletter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230315T1014Z-1678875292.2695-EO-58931-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230313T210447Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T222305Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230326T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230326T123000 SUMMARY: “Otherness in literature” and “Other” of literature: Informal hist oriography in Iran DESCRIPTION: March 26\, 2023 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at U BC is hosting a series of panel discussions about “Otherness” in modern Per sian Literature. The question is what it means to be an “Other” as a writer creating and promoting new genres other than the main body of Persian Lite rature or to be “Other” in depicting the experience of the minorities in th e Persianate world. During the Fall\, Winter\, and Spring of the calendar y ear\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Literature.
The sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hosseing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Langua ge\, and Culture Program at UBC. For each session\, they invite a writer in that specific genre\, introduce and analyze genres as varied as science-fi ction\, crime novels\, detective stories\, literature of religious\, racial and ethnic minorities\, and the like.
The fourth session of this ser ies discusses informal historiography in Iran with Mohammad Toloui on the o ccasion of the publication of his new collection of essays: My Ruins.
عنوان جلسه: «ادبیاتِ دیگری و دیگریِ ادبیات» :
تاریخنگاری غیررسمی در ناداستان
به بهانهی انتشار کتاب جدید محمد طلوعی
با عنوان «ویرانههای من»
در این نشست با حضور نویسنده محمد طلوعی و منت
قد امیرحسین یزدان بد به بحث و گفتگو دربارهی چیستی و نسبت ژانر ناداستان با
تاریخ و تاریخنگاری خواهیم پرداخت.
تاریخ
جلسه:
یک شنبه ۲۶ مارچ ۲۰۲۳
ساعت ۱۰:۳۰ صبح به وقت ونکوور ۱۰:۰۰ شب
به وقت تهران
مکان جلسه :
جلسه به صورت حضوری در کتاب خانه مموریال
وست ونکوور و هم آنلاین از طریق لینک گوگل میت برگزار خواهد شد.
Date & Time:
Sunday\, March 26\, 2023
10:30am (PDT) / 9
:00pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Welsh Hall West\, West
Vancouver Memorial Library\, 1950 Marine Dr Welsh Hall\, West Vancouver\, B
C V7V 1J8
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Mee
ting.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public
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محمد طلوعی
طلوعی متولد ۲۱ اردیبهشت ۱۳۵۸ در رشت است. او دان
ش آموختهٔ سینما از دانشگاه سوره و ادبیات نمایشی از پردیس هنرهای زیبای دانشگ
اه تهران است. اولین مجموعه شعر خود را با عنوان خاطرات بندباز در ۱۳۸۲ منتشر
کرد. نخستین رمان او، قربانی باد موافق در سال ۱۳۸۶ منتشر و برندهٔ پنجمین جای
زه ادبی «واو» یا رمان متفاوت سال و همچنین نامزد هشتمین جایزه کتاب سال شهید
حبیب غنیپور گردید. در اسفند ۱۳۹۱ نیز مجموعه داستان «من ژانت نیستم» برندهٔ
دوازدهمین جایزه ادبی گلشیری شد. طلوعی از اعضای نسل نو نویسندگان فارسی است.
او در اردیبهشت ماه ۱۳۹۵ برگزیدهٔ نخستین دورهٔ جایزه ادبی «چهل» شد که از سوی
مکتب تهران به نویسندگان جوان زیر چهل سال و خوش آتیه اهدا میشود.طلوعی بهط
ور مستمر در مجلات همشهری داستان، ۲۴، سان و آنگاه با داستانها و مقالات اختصا
صی حضور دارد. او سردبیر مجلهٔ ناداستان است.
امیرحسین یزدانبد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهران است. او تحصیلاتش را در فیزیک کاربردی با گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام رها کرد. تحصیل ات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱۳۸۴ نوشتن داس تان را جدی گرفت اگرچه پیش از آن هم چند یادداشت و تک داستان از او در نشریات چاپ شده بود. مجموعه داستان «پرترهی مرد ناتمام» او با اقبال بسیاری روبهرو شد و جوایز بنیاد هوشنگ گلشیری وگام اول را نصیب او کرد. همچنین او با همین ا ثر فینالیست جایزه منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریافت جایزه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدانبد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذل عزیز» برنده ٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر افق منتشر کرد ک ه با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامهها و منتقدان مواجه شده است. وی هم اکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقهی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری د ر نشریات معتبر از جمله فصلنامهی تخصصی اتحادیهی نویسندگان کانادا از وی منت شر شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on the “Structura l analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” in 2012. He th en earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between Au gust 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate r esearcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Stud ies where he focused his research on the formation of the Persianate identi ty in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspects of P ersian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College . His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series can be found here. He is also the d irector and founder of Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC\, a public hu manities initiative where the most prominent Persian writers\, academics\, students and the Persianate community at large come together to read about and discuss some of the most pressing human issues raised in the works of M odern Persian Literature.
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian an d Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston C ollege for which he received both teaching and leadership award from that i nstitution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the Univers ity of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Content-based I nstruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifica tions from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technolo gy in teaching Persian and creating open access interactive online textbook s. Implementing the latest findings in Critical Heritage Education and Seco nd Language Acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to the heritage learners of Persian\, they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
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Should you have
any questions\, please contact Dr. Hessam Dehghani at
The 2
022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
with guest spe
aker Professor Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)
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Chop S
uey[/caption]
Chances are good that if you encountered chop suey rece ntly\, it wasn’t at a restaurant with any gourmet aspirations. Fifty years ago\, foodies banished the goopy stir-fry from their menus. Since then\, ch op suey has largely been consigned to the realm of cheap takeout. But chop suey wasn’t always the antithesis of fine Chinese. In centuries past\, it w as a staple of high-end banquets – on both sides of the Pacific. By tracing the journey of chop suey from eighteenth century Yangzhou to San Francisco : I use chop suey to tell a new\, transnational story about the origins of Chinese-American cuisine.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, March 30\, 2023
5
:30pm (PDT) Reception with light refreshments
6:30pm-8:30pm (PDT) Lect
ure
Location:
Marine Drive Ballroom\, 2205 Lower Mall\, Vancouver
(
view map)
Present
ed in English.
Free & open to the public
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In recent years\, humanities scholars have felt the urgency to take their work to the public. But how easy is it for scholars\, especially classicist s\, to pull it off? This research seminar will focus on my on-going efforts to Dumpling Therapy\, which narrates Chinese food history for an American public\, while challenging popular ideas about (culinary) authenti city\, identity\, and heritage. I’ll discuss the technical challenges of ba lancing accessibility with scholarly accuracy\, the intricacies of historic recipe reconstruction\, and the risks and rewards of non-traditional modes of historical writing.
Date & Time:
Friday\, March 31\, 2023
4:00p
m – 6:00pm (PDT)
L
ocation:
Room 111\, Peter A. Allard School\, Allard Ha
ll\, 1822 E Mall Vancouver
(view map)
Presented in English
Free & open to the publ
ic
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Miranda Brown is Profess
or of Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures who
has taught Chinese history at the University of Michigan since 2002. In ol
d age\, she has discovered her true passion: Chinese food. She is now writi
ng a book on the history of Chinese food. In her free time\, she chronicles
her efforts to re-imagine Chinese food with lots of milk in her blog and on Twitter (@Dong_Muda). You can also find her articles ab
out the history of tea\, chop suey\, and Lunar New Years on Atlas Obscura.<
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The Yip So Ma n Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs . Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, an d her passion for Chinese literature and culture.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2022-23-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/230301-Chop-Suey-image_Wat-Lecture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7336-EO-58899-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230308T232209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T173203Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230330T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230330T133000 SUMMARY: World-oriented Crossings: The Covert Globality of Malaysian Chines e Literature DESCRIPTION: No scholar of modern Chinese literary studies in its globalizi ng mode will miss the recent spotlight on Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literat ure. Previously untapped\, works from or about the Southeast Asian country are now read for bracing ideas on language\, ethnicity\, and diaspora. In M alaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Li terature\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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No schol ar of modern Chinese literary studies in its globalizing mode will miss the recent spotlight on Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature. Previously untap ped\, works from or about the Southeast Asian country are now read for brac ing ideas on language\, ethnicity\, and diaspora. In Malaysian Crossing s: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature\, C han shows how the minor literary formation’s grasp of its own marginality i n the world-Chinese literary space constitutes the threshold—instead of a h urdle—to creating signature aesthetic imprints that foster global outlooks.
In the book\, Chan describes the strategic “worlding” of modern Chin ese literature that involves authorial navigation of inter-connected litera ry spaces. Foregrounding the inter-Asian linkages between Malaysia and othe r Sinitic-speaking locales (such as China\, Taiwan and Singapore) in the wr iting practices of Lin Cantian\, Han Suyin\, Wang Anyi\, and Li Yongping\, Chan analyzes narrative representations of multilingual social realities\, and authorial reflections about colonial Malaya or independent Malaysia as valid literary terrain. Both sets of creative discourse underlie the litera ry worlds built out of the physical journeys\, the interactions among socia l groups\, and the mindset shifts entailed in creating distinctive literary languages for the place. Historicizing such “crossings” from the 1930s to the 2000s\, Chan contends that new perspectives from the periphery are esse ntial to understanding the globalization of modern Chinese literature. By e mphasizing the inner diversities and connected histories in the margins\, < em>Malaysian Crossings offers a powerful argument for remapping global Chinese literature and world literature.
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The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies\, the Centre for Southeast Asia Rese arch and the Centre for Chinese Research.
Cheow Thia Chan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese Studies at t he National University of Singapore. His research interests include modern Chinese-Sinophone literature\, Southeast Asian studies\, and diaspora studi es. His book\, Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature\, is published by Columbia University Pre ss as part of the “Global Chinese Culture” series. His articles have appear ed in disciplinary and regionally focused venues such as Modern Chinese Literature and Culture\, SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast As ia\, as well as PRISM: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature. He co-edited the special issue of PRISM on “The Worlds of Southeas t Asian Chinese Literature” (September 2022). As a literary translator and editor\, he has worked with Renditions: A Chinese-English Translation M agazine.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese LOCATION:3rd-floor Boardroom\, Liu Institute for Global Issues GEO:49.268667;-123.199853 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/world-oriented-crossings-the -covert-globality-of-malaysian-chinese-literature/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/Signage_World-oriented-Crossings_March-30-2022.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230318T0558Z-1679119138.209-EO-58988-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230317T192559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T224156Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230331T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230331T180000 SUMMARY: Connecting Past\, Present and Future: Ainu Documentary\, Language and Culture DESCRIPTION: This multilingual event will invite a group of four speakers t o share their experiences and activities of Ainu language and culture revit alization. The panel consists of Naomi MIZOGUCHI\, Film Director of Ainu | ひと (2019) (“Ainu – Indigenous People of Japan”)\, who will talk about why a nd how she made this documentary\, including her friendship […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This multilingual event will invite a group of four speakers to share their experiences and activities of Ainu language and culture revital ization. The panel consists of Naomi MIZOGUCHI\, Film Director of Ainu | ひと (2019) (“Ainu - Indigenous People of Japan”)\, who will talk about why and how she made this documentary\, including her friendship with the Ainu cou ple who invited her to stay home\; Ainu language instructors Kenji SEKINE a nd Rino KIMURA will talk about their Ainu language revival activities in Ni butani\, Hokkaido\, a community with the highest Ainu population\; and Maya SEKINE will discuss her activities of promoting Ainu culture based in the Tokyo capital area.
Attendees are encouraged to watch Naomi Mizoguchi ’s film “Ainu | ひと” (2019) before joining the event. The film is available through UBC Library for UBC member with a CWL:
https://webcat.library. ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=12411127).
Date and Time:
Friday\, March 31\, 2023 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (PT) / Saturday\, April 1\, 2023 | 8:30 am - 10:00 am (JPN)
Location: Online via Zoom
The event will be conduc ted in Ainu\, Japanese and English.
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Kenji SEKINE works as one of the few Ain u language teachers in Japan. He teaches classes in schools and for childre n in Nibutani which is the largest Ainu community. He has been teaching the Ainu language for approximately 15 years and hosting conversation sessions in Ainu online and in person.
Rino KIMURA was born in Nibutani\, Biratori Town\, Hokkaido. She graduated from Sapporo Universi ty where she learned about the Ainu language and culture. She is currently engaged in promoting Ainu cultural revitalization through forming a musical group called "Ankeshi\,' whose main activity is to introduce traditional A inu songs.
Maya SEKINE was born in Nibutani\, Birato ri Town\, Hokkaido\, she has been announcing in Ainu on the Donan Bus since April 2018\, and she was a personality on Hokkaido STV Radio for the Ainu Language Radio Lecture. Currently\, she is active in communicating about Ai nu culture and the Ainu language by appearing on the YouTube channels calle d Shito Channel and Upopoy Radio.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/connecting-past-present-and- future-ainu-documentary-language-and-culture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/Ainu-Event_Digital-Poster_1920x1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230315T2301Z-1678921316.1264-EO-58966-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230313T223509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230322T212354Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230405T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230405T173000 SUMMARY: Celebration of Dr. Sunera Thobani’s induction to the Royal Society of Canada DESCRIPTION: April 5\, 2023 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Department of Asian Studies invites you to cele brate the induction of Dr. Sunera Thobani as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Established in 1882\, the RSC recognizes Canada’s foremost scholars\, artists and scientists. Dr. Thobani is one of four UBC Arts pro fessors who were announced as 2022 Fellows and new Members of the College o f New Scholars\, Artists and Scientists. She is an internationally renowned scholar in the fields of critical race\, postcolonial and feminist theory and politics\; colonialism\, globalization and racial violence\; and South Asian women's\, gender and sexuality studies. She is also a public intellec tual whose academic career is grounded in the scholarship of engagement\, p articularly with regard to advancing the rights of women of colour. Join us as Dr. Thobani’s colleagues\, students and members of the various communit ies she works with come together to commemorate this honour and her work.
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Sunera Thobani’s scholarship foc
uses on critical race and postcolonial theory and politics\; intersectional
ity and social movements\; colonialism\, migration and violence\; Islam\, G
ender and Muslims\; and South Asian Gender & Sexuality Studies. Professor T
hobani has served as Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair (SFU)\; President\, N
ational Action Committee on the Status of Women\; and founding member\, Res
earchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE). She is a recipient of t
he Sarah Shorten (CAUT) and Dean’s Excellence (UBC) Awards.
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LOCATION:Asian Studies Auditorium GEO:30.285854;-97.740426 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/celebration-of-dr-sunera-tho banis-induction-to-the-royal-society-of-canada/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/Dr-Thobani_Digital-Post_1920x1080.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.721-EO-59038-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230322T172040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T215928Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230406T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230406T193000 SUMMARY: Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2023 DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to ou r annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2023. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 6! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Department of Asian Studies at the Universi ty of British Columbia is pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit Kaur S idhu Memorial Program in 2023. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language a nd culture at UBC on April 6!
The program was established in lovi ng memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (nee Gill)\, devoted wife\, mother\, and str ong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women’s iss ues. Our goal is to call attention to important new scholarship on Punjabi language and culture and bring it to our students and the broader Vancouver area audience\; encourage and recognize achievements in Punjabi language c ultural production\; and honor students for their work in learning and usin g the Punjabi language.
Free & open to the public.
Mohan G
ill is a prominent Punjabi writer\, who has made a unique name fo
r himself in the literary world. He is a poet\, satirist\, editor\, and tra
nslator. He has authored numerous publications and also writes articles pub
lished in the Indo-Canadian Times newspaper.
In 2001\, Harjit and Balvindar moved to Vancouver where their you ngest son was a practicing dentist and where\, later\, their oldest son sta rted a career at UBC as a surgeon in the Faculty of Medicine. During her t ime in Vancouver\, Harjit rediscovered her passion for Punjabi language and culture. She was a strong advocate for Punjabi culture\, and for women in Punjabi society.
After two and a half year courageous battle with ca ncer\, she passed away in her home on July 23\, 2007. She is survived by h er husband\, two sons and their wives\, two grandsons and one granddaughter .
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At the University of British Columbia\, the Punjabi language occupies a central place in our South Asia program\, and represents one of the largest and longest-standing Punjabi-language program s in the world\, outside of South Asia. In this video\, hear from students why Punjabi Studies has been integral to their experience at UBC.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:C.K. Choi\, Room 120 GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/harjit-kaur-sidhu-memorial-p rogram-2023/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/03/v.4_NoQR_Harjit-Kaur-Sidhu-Memorial-Program-Poster-2023.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7325-EO-59175-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230405T215038Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230405T230940Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230414T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230414T173000 SUMMARY: FROGBEAR Guest Lecture: What do East Asian Buddhists call their bo oks and why? DESCRIPTION: The Glorisun Global Network for Buddhist Studies\, with admini strative support from FROGBEAR\, proudly presents a lecture by George A. Ke yworth\, University of Saskatchewan (Canada)\, for the Glorisun Distinguish ed Lecture Series. Event Details Time & Location: Speaker: Dr. George A. K eyworth\, University of Saskatchewan Date: Friday\, April 14\, 2023\, 4:00- 5:30 pm PDT Location: UBC C.K. Choi […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Speaker: Dr. George A. Keyworth\, Univ
ersity of Saskatchewan
Date: Friday\, April 14\, 2023\, 4:00-5:30 pm P
DT
Location: UBC C.K. Choi Building\, Room 120
Registrat
ion Details:
In-person: ubcfrogbear-george-keyworth-guest-lect
ure.eventbrite.ca
Zoom: bit.ly/george-keyworth-guest-lecture-zoom
In this presentation I introdu ce the category of shōgyō and demonstrate how it was widely used b y nearly all sectarian denominations through the 19th century. Next\, I sho w how these sacred transmitted documents were kept apart from the “canon” o r “three baskets\,” precisely because these were the important books to be read\, studied\, and used on a daily basis. Then\, I demonstrate where I th ink Japanese Buddhist librarians and scholars got the term shōgyō from and why Xuanzang and Kuiji\, among others\, including Chengguan 澄觀 (Chōkan\, 73 8–839)\, also called their important or venerable books shengjiao (shōg yō).
George A. Keyworth is an Associate Professor of East Asian religions. His research interests include Chinese Buddhism\, Japanese Buddhism\, Daoism\, Shintō\, and East Asian re ligious literature. He is specifically interested in Zen Buddhism in Mediev al China and Japan\, Buddhist and Daoist Spells in China and Japan\, and Es oteric Buddhism in China\, Japan\, and Tibet.
LOCATION:C.K. Choi Building\, Room 120 GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/frogbear-guest-lecture-what- do-east-buddhists-call-their-books-and-why/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/04/Keyworth_lecture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230331T0910Z-1680253805.3737-EO-59072-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230328T235148Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T235148Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230417T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230417T143000 SUMMARY: UBC Transdisciplinary Symposium on Disability Research\, Education \, and Activism DESCRIPTION: Monday\, April 17\, 2023 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This online (Zoom) event aims to bring tog ether UBC faculty\, students\, and staff engaged in disability research\, e ducation\, and justice initiatives. The purpose is to showcase disability-r elated efforts underway at UBC\, create an opportunity for networking and c ommunity-building\, and lay the groundwork for a Centre for Disability Rese arch\, Education\, and Activism. The event will include a keynote address b y Dr. Michelle Owen. She will be speaking about her experiences as a Disabi lity Studies scholar and as the coordinator leading the Disability Studies program at the University of Winnipeg. It will be followed by a panel discu ssion featuring three participants from UBC as well as a showcase of curren t disability advocacy initiatives.
ASL interpretation and CART (live captions) will be provided in this event.
This event is funded by UBC ’s Equity & Inclusion Office and co-sponsored by Department of Asian Studie s and Centre for Workplace Accessibility.
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11:00am-12:30pm (PT): Keynote “Imagining and Re-imagining Disability Studie s in the 21st Century” by Dr. Michelle Owen
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12:30pm-1:00pm (PT): Break
1:00pm-1:15pm (PT): Showcase
1:15-2:30 (PT): Panel “Disability R esearch\, Education\, and Activism at UBC”
Michelle Owen is a P
rofessor in Women’s and Gender Studies\, and Coordinator of Disability Stud
ies\, at the University of Winnipeg. From 2003-2004 she was Research Chair
at the Canadian Centre on Disability Studies. Her research interests are di
sablement\, chronic illness\, gender\, sexuality\, violence\, and theory. S
ome of the courses she teaches are Embodied Subjects\, Theorizing Disabilit
y\, and Sexualities\, Disabilities\, and Rights. Dr. Owen’s publications in
clude three co-edited books\, Not a New Problem: Violence in the Lives
of Women with Disabilities (Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing\, 2018)\,
J Logan Smilges is an assistant professo
r of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia
\, where they write and teach in queer/trans disability studies\, rhetorica
l studies\, and the history of medicine. They are the author of Queer S
ilence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (University of Minnesota
Press\, 2022) and Crip Negativity (University of Minnesota Press\,
2023).
Michelle Stack\, Ph.D.\, is the Academic Director of the UBC Learning Exchange\, an
inaugural Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization Scholar and an associate prof
essor in the Department of Educational Studies. She is author of Global Uni
versity Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge (Open Access Book) and Coops
and Campuses Responding to the COVID-19 pandemic: University rankings or c
o-operatives as a strategy for developing an equitable and resilient post-s
econdary education sector?
Ge
orgia Yee (she/they) is a sixth-year undergraduate student studyin
g Biology with a minor in Health and Society. Georgia is passionate about c
ommunity organizing around climate justice\, mental health\, anti-racism\,
and accessibility\, and currently serves as a Student Governor and Senator-
at-Large at UBC.
This event builds on an earlier initiative led by Shota Iwasaki\, Shara lyn Orbaugh\, Corin Parsons\, and Ayaka Yoshimizu\, “Innovative and Inclusi ve Teaching of UBC Instructors with Disabilities: Compiling and Sharing Exi sting Knowledge and Best Practices.”
The project outcomes include:
Annotated Bibliography on Teaching and Learning with Disabili
ties and Illnesses in Higher Education
UBC’s Accessibility and Support for Disabled In structors Survey 2021
Challenges and Best Practic es of Disabled Instructors at UBC
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Please join us for a celebration of Korean litera ture. Professor Bruce Fulton (UBC) and Kwon Youngmin (Seoul National Univer sity and the UC Berkeley) will discuss The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories\, the first book of Korean literature to be published by Peng uin England\, edited by Professor Fulton with an Introduction by Professor Kwon.
Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton will discuss Togani\, their t ranslation of Gong Jiyoung's bestselling novel of that name\, which with th e film version\, Silenced\, resulted in the Togani Laws (도가니 법)\, which strengthened the penalties for abuse of special-needs children.
UBC students will present short readings from their recently published tra nslations of stories by science fiction writer Kim Ch'oyŏp (김초엽).
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
This eclectic\, moving an
d richly enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean liter
ature.
Journeying through Korea's dramatic recent past\, from the Jap anese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between north and south and the rapid\, disorienting urbanization of later decades\, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captures a hundred years of vivid storytelling.
Here are peddlers and donkeys travelling across moonli t fields\; artists drinking and debating in the tea-houses of 1920s Seoul\; soldiers fighting for survival\; exiles from the war who can never go home again\; and lonely men and women searching for connection in the dizzying modern city. The collection features stories by some of Korea's greatest wr iters\, including Pak Wanso\, O Chonghui and Cho Chongnae\, as well as many brilliant contemporary voices\, such as P'yon Hyeyong\, Han Yujoo and Kim Aeran. Curated by Bruce Fulton\, this is a volume that will surprise\, unse ttle and delight.
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mospheric and fast-paced\, this novel of manners set in a provincial South
Korean city leads readers through the silent corridors of a school for hear
ing-impaired children and the city’s foggy back streets and murky centers o
f power to a stirring courtroom climax. Gong Ji-young’s Togani (Th
e Crucible)\, published in Korean in 2009\, is based on a historic case of
child sexual abuse at a state-run institution. The novel went on to sell ne
arly a million copies and\, along with a 2011 film adaptation directed by H
wang Dong-hyuk\, prompted the South Korean National Assembly to pass the “T
ogani Laws” to provide greater legal protections for children and vulnerabl
e adults under state care and harsher penalties for those convicted of thei
r abuse. At a time when Korean popular culture drives cultural production w
orldwide\, Togani reminds us of the power of fiction to effect mea
ningful societal change.
A story of courage in the face of corruption \, Togani offers nuanced portraits of a failed young businessman s eeking a new life as a teacher and his counterpart\, a young woman committe d to a career in human rights\; a police officer of humble origins who rose through the ranks as he turns a blind eye to the abuse of students by the school’s administrators\; and a hearing-impaired teenage girl\, a victim of that abuse\, who cares deeply for the other children at the school.The boo k testifies to the legacy of neo-Confucian class conflict\, gender disparit y\, and the vulnerability of those near the bottom of the social ladder. It is a heart-wrenching and provocative work that helped bring about change t o a system it dared to challenge.
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Bruce Fulton is Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Liter ature and Literary Translation and Associate Professor at the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia.
Ju-Chan Fulton is a translator of numerous volumes of modern Korean fiction.
Kwon Youngmin is emeritus Professor of Korean literature at Seoul National Universit y and Adjunct Professor of Korean literature at the University of Californi a\, Berkeley. He has written and edited numerous volumes of literary histor y\, literary criticism and reference works on modern Korean literature\, as well as the CD-ROM 100 Years of Modern Korean Literature. He is t he managing editor of the monthly journal Munhak sasang (“Literature and Th ought”).
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/korean-literature-night/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/04/Korean-Literature-Night_Digital-Poster_1280x720-px-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230413T0049Z-1681346996.6622-EO-59193-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230412T172026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T170521Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230506T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230506T123000 SUMMARY: 2023 Quiz on Korea is Happening Offline this Year! DESCRIPTION: Attention to all Hallyu fans in Canada! Hosted by the Consulat e General of the Republic of Korea in Vancouver and in partnership with the Department of Asian Studies at UBC\, Quiz on Korea is an annual gameshow t hat quizzes non-Korean adults on their knowledge of Korean culture\, social news\, history\, etc. Countries around the world […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Attention to all Hallyu fans in Canada!
Hosted by the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Vancouver and in partner ship with the Department of Asian Studies at UBC\, Quiz on Korea is an annu al gameshow that quizzes non-Korean adults on their knowledge of Korean cul ture\, social news\, history\, etc.
Countries around the world will h old preliminary rounds in which one winner is chosen to move to the final r ound in Korea. The finalists will appear on a special television segment br oadcast by the national public broadcaster\, KBS. Flights to Korea and acco mmodations will be provided to each finalist - so don’t miss out on this in credible chance to win a free trip to Korea!
Ple ase read the terms and conditions below.
- Applicants should be 18 years of age or older (as of Ma y 6\, 2023)
- Applicants should hold legal status in Canada or Canadi an citizenship***
***Please note : All applicants are eligible to win the 1st\, 2nd\, and 3rd place prizes (Apple products)\, however only those with a Canadian passport are eligible for the grand prize of travel to Korea and moving forward to the f inal round. Everybody will receive a participation prize (Korean goods).
- Applicant cannot hold and should have never held Korean nationality o r ethnicity (or have any immediate family members holding Korean nationalit y or ethnicity)
- Should be able to participate in the preliminary r ound in-person at UBC (on May 6\, 2023)
- The Grand Prize winner must hold Canadian citizenship and should be available for travel to Korea for the final round of the competition which will take place in early September 2023.
- Applicant should have genuine interest in and knowledge of K orea and Korean culture.
- Individuals who have previously participat ed in the Quiz on Korea Final Round held in Korea are not eligible to apply again.
- Grand prize (1): A free trip t o Korea for the final round.
- 1st place (1): Apple iPad Air
- 2nd place (2): Apple Watch
- 3rd place (3): Apple AirPods
- Par ticipation prizes: Korean goods
Wednesday\, May 3\, 2023
All a pplications will be screened and only qualified applicants will receive an email invitation with full event details to participate in the 2023 Quiz on Korea-Canada Preliminary Round by Thursday\, May 4\, 2023.
Date: Saturday Sep tember 10\, 2023
A week-long tour program (9/03-9/11) in Korea will b e provided for all final round contestants.
All final round contestan ts must participate with their legal name and will be filmed and broadcaste d during their Korea tour and final round.
The tour and the final rou nd will be conducted in Korean only. No translation will be provided.
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Please email kcultureinvan@mofa.go.kr for any further inquiries .
CATEGORIES:Featured Korean LOCATION:UBC Asian Centre GEO:49.266733;-123.258698 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2023-quiz-on-korea-is-happen ing-offline-this-year/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/04/2023-Quiz-on-Korea-Canada-Preliminary-Round.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230507T1704Z-1683479044.8729-EO-59423-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230505T200221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230505T204601Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230603T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230603T123000 SUMMARY: “Otherness” in Literature and the “other” of literature: The Rise of the Crime Fiction DESCRIPTION: This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Irani an and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosti ng a series of panel discussions about “Otherness” in modern Persian Litera ture. The question is what it means to be an “Other” as a writer creating a nd promoting new genres other than the main body […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Cult ure Program at UBC is hosting a series of panel discussions about “Othernes s” in modern Persian Literature. The question is what it means to be an “Ot her” as a writer creating and promoting new genres other than the main body of Persian Literature or to be “Other” in depicting the experience of the minorities in the Persianate world. During the Fall\, Winter\, and Spring o f the calendar year\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Liter ature.
The sessions are hosted by Iranian writer and critic Amir Hoss eing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Lit erature\, Language\, and Culture Program at UBC. For each session\, they in vite a writer in that specific genre\, introduce and analyze genres as vari ed as science-fiction\, crime novels\, detective stories\, literature of re ligious\, racial and ethnic minorities\, and the like.
This is the 5t h and final session in our current series "Otherness" in Literature and the "other" of literature: The Rise of the Crime Fiction". In this panel discu ssion session with literary critics\, writers and academics from North Amer ica and Iran\, we will discuss the essence and power of crime fiction as th e "other" of the mainstream genres of Persian Literature\, its significance with respect to Iran's socio-political issues and the understanding of hum an issues in general.
جلسه پنجم و آخر از
مجموعه جلسات «ادبیات دیگری و دیگری ادبیات» به ژانر کمتر دیده و خوانده شدهی
دیگر یعنی «ادبیاتِ جُرم» اختصاص دارد. بحث میزگرد به پرسشهای زیر میپردازد
:
۱. رمان جرم چیست و در برابر ژانرهای غالب ادب فارسی معاصر چه اهمیت و
کاربردهایی دارد؟
۲. نسبت این ژانر با ژانرهای مشابه مثل ژانر پلیسی چیست
؟
۳. موضوع رمان جرم کدام زیست جهان و تجربهی کدام گروه و افراد است؟
۴. وضعیت این نوعِ ادبی در ایران امروز چکونه است و چالشهای روبروی آن کدا
مند؟
میزبان جلسه: گروه ایرانشناسی و زبان و فرهنگ فارسی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا با مشارکت کتابخانهی نورث ونکوور
Date & Time:
Saturday\, June 3\, 2023
10:30am (
PDT) / 9:00pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Third-floor pro
gram room\, North Vancouver City Library\, 120 14th St W\, North Vancouver\
, BC V7M 1N9
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom
Meeting.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public
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Amirhossein Yazdanbod was born in 1977 in Tehran. H e studied philosophy and physics\, but later changed his area to computer e ngineering. He started writing fiction in 2004 and his short story “For Mar cia\, the Dear Scoundrel” won Ghalam-e Zarrin-e Zamaneh short fict ion prize in 2007. Amir’s first collection of stories\, The Portrait of the Incomplete Man (Cheshmeh\, 2009) won two national book prizes inc luding “Golshiri”. His latest work Stutter (Ofoq\, 2013)\, is a po litical novel that occurs in Iran\, Afghanistan\, and Azerbaijan. He is als o a member of the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group and published essays an d short stories in Canada.
امیرحسین یزدانبد متولد ۱۳۵۶ در تهران است. او تحصیلاتش را در فیزیک کاربردی با گرایش حالت جامد وفلسفهٔ غرب نیمه تمام ر ها کرد. تحصیلات اصلی او در زمینهٔ کامپیوتر و امنیت شبکه متمرکز شد. از سال ۱ ۳۸۴ نوشتن داستان را جدی گرفت اگرچه پیش از آن هم چند یادداشت و تک داستان از او در نشریات چاپ شده بود. مجموعه داستان «پرترهی مرد ناتمام» او با اقبال بس یاری روبهرو شد و جوایز بنیاد هوشنگ گلشیری وگام اول را نصیب او کرد. همچنین او با همین اثر فینالیست جایزه منتقدان و نویسندگان مطبوعات شد و نامزد دریاف ت جایزه روزی روزگاری هم بود. یزدانبد به خاطر داستان کوتاه «برای مارسیای رذ ل عزیز» برندهٔ قلم زرین شد. چهارسال بعد او نخستین رمانش «لکنت» را از نشر اف ق منتشر کرد که با توجه بسیاری از جانب نشریات و روزنامهها و منتقدان مواجه ش ده است. وی هماکنون ساکن کانادا و عضو انجمن پن و حلقهی نویسندگان در تبعید است و آثاری در نشریات معتبر از جمله فصلنامهی تخصصی اتحادیهی نویسندگان کان ادا از وی منتشر شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on t he “Structural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” i n 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 201 9. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow an d associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies where he focused his research on the formation of the Pers ianate identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and B oston College. His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahm adian Lecture Series can be found here. He is also the director and founder of Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC\ , a public humanities initiative where the most prominent Persian writers\, academics\, students and the Persianate community at large come together t o read about and discuss some of the most pressing human issues raised in t he works of Modern Persian Literature.
Besides his research interest\ , he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, a nd Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, h e has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedl y at Boston College for which he received both teaching and leadership awar d from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track po sition as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture a t the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Co ntent-based Instruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received seve ral certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implemen ting technology in teaching Persian and creating open access interactive on line textbooks. Implementing the latest findings in Critical Heritage Educa tion and Second Language Acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, d evised a new method of teaching literacy to the heritage learners of Persia n\, they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
Dr. Farzan Soj
oodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at t
he Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M
.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His
primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semi
otics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in Persian\,
the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and
Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 articl
es on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, li
terature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of
the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian
Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate p
rograms at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Inst
itute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.<
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فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زب
انشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکت
ری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مط
العاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و
مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطال
عات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر ش
ده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات
از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو ا
کو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرای
ی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگن
شتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) رمان فریاد خاموش (کنزابور اوئه
) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نش
انه شناسی تهران است.
Maham Meyghani is an Iranian no velist who also works as radio and stage playwright and university lecturer at the Tehran Fine Arts University and Damghan University. Her works inclu de Heat stroked (2012)\, Transplanting the Index (2013)\, A composition in Scarlet (2014)\, No one gets killed in "Seye d khandan" (2018)\, Sun rises from "Amir A'alam" (2019) and < em>The serial killings of "Abbas Abad" (2021).
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:North Vancouver City Library GEO:49.321129;-123.081585 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/otherness-in-literature-and- the-other-of-literature-the-rise-of-the-crime-fiction/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/05/Persian-Iranian-Studies-Winter-2023-5-03-5th-Meeting-FB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230605T2202Z-1686002554.1273-EO-59686-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230605T172550Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230605T172959Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230607T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230607T120000 SUMMARY: Colonial Modernization from the Perspective of Quantitative Econom ic History DESCRIPTION: Colonial Korea experienced rapid industrialization during the 1930s. Views differ\, however\, on whether this industrialization was inclu sive with the development of local Korean firms. The key question is whethe r the influx of Japanese capital during Korea’s colonial era suppressed ind ustrialization by Korean-owned firms. In this talk\, Dr. Chang-min Lee will discuss whether the advance of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Colonial Korea experienced rap id industrialization during the 1930s. Views differ\, however\, on whether this industrialization was inclusive with the development of local Korean f irms. The key question is whether the influx of Japanese capital during Kor ea’s colonial era suppressed industrialization by Korean-owned firms.
In this talk\, Dr. Chang-min Lee will discuss whether the advance of Japan ese factories into Korea suppressed the entry of Korean factories during th e period of rapid industrialization in the 1930s.
The event is free a nd open to the public. Registration is not required.
Chang-min Le e is a Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies\, and he h as earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Economics from Korea Universit y in Seoul\, Korea. He also obtained Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Economic s from The University of Tokyo in Japan. Before joining Hankuk University o f Foreign Studies\, he was a faculty member at Tokyo Institute of Technolog y and Fukuoka Prefectural University in Japan. His research interests inclu de Japan's contemporary economy\, Korea-Japan economic relations\, and Nort heast Asia's economic history.
CATEGORIES:Featured Korean URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/colonial-modernization-from- the-perspective-of-quantitative-economic-history/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/06/Slide1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230605T2204Z-1686002665.0888-EO-59688-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230605T190658Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230605T190658Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230729T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230729T123000 SUMMARY: Otherness in Literature and the “Other” of Literature: Writing for Young Adults and Children DESCRIPTION: This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Irani an and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosti ng a series of panel discussions about “Otherness” in modern Persian Litera ture. The question is what it means to be an “Other” as a writer creating a nd promoting new genres other than the main body […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This year\, UBC Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC’s Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language and Culture Program at UBC is hosting a series of pan el discussions about “Otherness” in modern Persian Literature. The question is what it means to be an “Other” as a writer creating and promoting new g enres other than the main body of Persian Literature or to be “Other” in de picting the experience of the minorities in the Persianate world. During th e Fall\, Winter\, and Spring of the calendar year\, we will attend to both trends in modern Persian Literature.
The sessions are hosted by Irani an writer and critic Amir Hosseing Yazdan Bod and Dr. Hessam Dehghani from the Iranian and Persianate Literature\, Language\, and Culture Program at U BC. For each session\, they invite a writer in that specific genre\, introd uce and analyze genres as varied as science-fiction\, crime novels\, detect ive stories\, literature of religious\, racial and ethnic minorities\, and the like.
This is the sixth session in our current series “Otherness” in Literature and the “other” of literature: Writing for Young Adults and Children”. During this discussion\, our panelists will delve into the conte nt taught to Iranian children and young adults regarding history and cultur e\, and analyze its evolution over the past few decades. They will critical ly examine a selection of highly regarded Persian books written for childre n and young adults\, exploring subjects pertaining to Iran's historical\, c ultural\, and literary legacy.
Date & Time:
Sat
urday\, July 29\, 2023
10:30am (PDT) / 9:00pm (Tehran Time)
There is also an
option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Presented in Persi
an
Free & open to the public. Registration is required via the form be
low.
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< hr />Ali Asghar Seidabadi\, born in 1971\, is an author\, book promoter\, and researcher in children's and y oung adult literature. He studied journalism at Allameh Tabataba'i Universi ty and has written about 80 books in Persian for children and young adults\ , some of which have also been translated into other languages. He has rece ived prominent awards for his books and research. He has also played a role in establishing influential institutions such as the Association of Childr en and Young Adult Writers\, the Flying Turtle\, and the Reading Clubs for Children and Young Adults.
علیاصغر سیدآبا دی، متولد سال 1350 نویسنده، مروج کتابخوانی و پژوهشگر ادبیات کودک و نوجوان ا ست. او در رشتهی روزنامه نگاری دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی تحصیل کرده است و تا ام روز حدود 80 کتاب به زبان فارسی برای کودکان و نوجوانان نوشته و منتشر کرده که برخی از آنها به زبانهای دیگر هم ترجمه شده است. او تا کنون جوایز مهمی را بر ای کتابها و پژوهشهایش به دست آورده است و در تاسیس نهادهای تاثیرگذاری چون ان جمن نویسندگان کودک و نوجوان، لاکپشت پرنده و جام باشگاههای کتابخوانی کودک و نوجوان نقش داشته است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his f irst PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University working on the “S tructural analysis and Phenomenological study of Persian Literature” in 201 2. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Be tween August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and ass ociate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle East ern Studies where he focused his research on the formation of the Persianat e identity in Persian Mystic Literature. He has presented on different aspe cts of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His latest presentation on Persian Literature at Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series can be found here. He is al so the director and founder of Persian Literature Reading Club at UBC\, a p ublic humanities initiative where the most prominent Persian writers\, acad emics\, students and the Persianate community at large come together to rea d about and discuss some of the most pressing human issues raised in the wo rks of Modern Persian Literature.
Besides his research interest\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Pe rsian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and directed Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received both teaching and leadership award fro m that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track positio n as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in Content -based Instruction and Critical Heritage Language Education for which he ha s passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several c ertifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian and creating open access interactive online textbooks. Implementing the latest findings in Critical Heritage Education and Second Language Acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devise d a new method of teaching literacy to the heritage learners of Persian\, t hey call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
Maryam Mohammadkhan i\, born in 1987 in Tehran\, studied Persian language and literatu re after receiving a gold medal in the Olympiad of Literature and Linguisti cs. She continued her studies at the University of Tehran until she obtaine d her master's degree. For over a decade\, she has been actively involved i n various fields such as creative writing\, criticism and research\, teachi ng\, and journalism\, all centred around children's and young adult literat ure. She is currently a graduate student at the University of British Colum bia\, studying children's literature.
An imism has remained a key feature of Korean culture from premodern times des pite a lack of organizational force of its own. Animism has also extensivel y permeated into institutional religions\, whether directly or indirectly\, in Korean history. Dr. Oh explores why it has been the case and what impac t animism has brought upon Korean culture as a source of life-vitality from a theoretical and comparative perspective.
On the other hand\, in tr
aditional Korean society\, peripatetic troupes of entertainment known as
Date & Time:
Thursday\, Augus
t 3 | 2:00-5:00 PM (PT)
Location:
Room 604 (sem
inar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Dr. Sunmin Oh (Sejong Inmun) on “Animism as a source of life-vitality”
Dr. Yeounsuk Lee (Hitotsu bashi Univ.) on “Liminality as a source of liberation”
Dr. Kangnam Oh (Univ. of Regina)
Dr. Nam-lin Hur (UBC)
To attend the event\, please send RVS P to namlin.hur@ubc.ca by July 31\, 2023
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CATEGORIES:Featured Korean LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/struggles-of-life-between-cu ltural-sensitivity-and-social-reality-in-premodern-modern-korea/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/07/a-special-seminar-on-korean-culture.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230907T2158Z-1694123901.8477-EO-60716-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230901T185917Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230901T190135Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230908T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230908T160000 SUMMARY: [South Asia Research Colloquium] Gandhi’s Silence DESCRIPTION: Friday\, September 8\, 2:00-4:00 PM PST X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium off ers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience.
The first seminar of the year for t he South Asia Research Colloquium is entitled “Gandhi's Silence” and featur es speaker Dr. Faisal Devji (Professor of Indian History at the University of Oxford).
Date & Time:
Friday\, September 8 |
2:00-4:00 PM (PST)
Location:
Auditorium\, UBC
Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
The event is
open to the public\, and refreshments will be provided.
Registration i
s required (please find the registration form above).
After Jesuit mi ssionaries introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549\, the Christian communi ty grew rapidly\, both among the samurai class and the common populace. By 1600 there were an estimated 450\,000 converts amongst a total Japanese pop ulation of approximately twelve million. With the unification of Japan by T okugawa Ieyasu\, there was an increasing need on the part of the shogunate to impose religious and ideological conformity. Christianity\, perceived as a direct threat to the newly established social and political order\, was banned in 1614. Two hundred sixty years of systematic persecution ensued.
In this talk\, M. Antoni J. Ucerler\, S.J. will explore how the concer n over a ”spiritual conquest” of the Japanese populace was the dominant fac tor for prohibition\, persecution\, and the closing of the country to all E uropeans except for Dutch merchants.
The event is free and open to th e public. Registration is not required.
M. Ant oni J. Ucerler\, S.J. (D.Phil.\, Oxon.) is a British-born Canadian-American of Polish and Turkish descent. Since entering the Society of Jesus in Ital y in 1981\, he has spent decades engaged with Japan\, where he taught compa rative intellectual history at Sophia University.
He has also taught at the University of Oxford\, Georgetown University\, and the University of San Francisco. He is the Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Weste rn Cultural History at Boston College\, which engages in interdisciplinary research on the history of Christianity in East Asia in partnership with sc holars from across the world. His main areas of interest are the history of Christianity in premodern Japan\, as well as in China and Korea\, global i ntellectual history in the early modern era\, transcultural translation\, a nd the material and visual culture produced by these encounters\, including the history of the book.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-samurai-the-cross-tempor al-or-spiritual-conquest-in-early-modern-japan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/actually-this-one.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230909T1223Z-1694262218.6614-EO-60956-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230908T192936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T204505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230923T101500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230923T131500 SUMMARY: History and its Representation in Literature: The Bewilderment of Discourses DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The sessions are all i n Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 will focus on: History and its Representation in Literat ure Introduction and Significance of the Topic: Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, i n the preface of his collection of stories “Once Upon a Time”\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording i s now available:
https://youtu.be/TUIYkmoZWic?si=gIJaOq4yPgfORb5-
The sessions are all in Persian
Persian Lite rature Reading Club’s new panel discus sion series in the year 2023-2024 will focus on:
History and its Representation in Literature
< b>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 literat ure\, especially in short stories and novels\, as a critique of the cultura l\, social\, and political lives of people across the world.
About novels\, for example\, he states:
"For those who wish to be informed about the social\, internal\, and spiritual state of other nations and countries and want to convey and understand more about them tha n what is inadequately presented in history books\, which only show the pol itical and military aspects of a nation and its system and people\, there i s no better and more solid way than reading novels about that nation and pe ople..."
Besides \, since novels are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympa thy and identification with the characters and their world\, they not only offer a form of representation of a society's state but also place the read er within the experience< /i> of that world. Thus\, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approaching the one who is most distant and “other”\, allowing for the hearing of the other’s voice.
G iven the foundational importance of novels and their relationship with the lived historical experience\, this series of sessions will focus on the exa mination of some of the most prominent and best novels published in the pas t forty-plus years. The aim is to delve into and shed some light on the his torical experiences and events after the 1979 revolution up to present. In other words\, these sessions will examine the representation of the conditi ons leading to the revolution\, post-revolution events such as wars\, and m ore\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the most significant n ovels of this period.
برنامه ج لسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴
:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع
محمدعلی جمالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رمان را شیوههای نوینی ب رای نقد و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه جای جهان قلمداد کر ده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید
برای کسانی که میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک باخبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسانند و نمیخواهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنها حیات سیاسی و نظامی یک و ملک و م لتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نشان میدهد قانع شوند، هیچ راهی به تر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نیست
مسئ له دیگر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنها نوعی بازنمایی از حیا ت اجتماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خواننده را در معرض تجربهی آن فضا نیز ق رار میدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و حتی آشتی با دیگر ی و دست کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اساسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چن ین برخوردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیاسی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گف تگو بلکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عی ن حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و بستر ف ضای چند صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد
با توجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و ن سبت آن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجموعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرح ترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخیر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبارت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط وقوع انقلاب، وقایع پس ا ز انقلاب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زمان حال در برخی از مهمترین رمانها ی این دوره خواهیم پرداخت
همکارا ن ثابت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی
First Sessio n:
Session Title: "History and i ts Representation in Literature: The Bewilderment of Discourses"
Session Content:
- Theoret ical discussions about the relationship between history\, literature\, and art
- Analysis of the novel "Island of Bewilderment" by Simin Daneshvar
- The world of the “island of bewilderment” and the world of the 1950s until the occurrence of the 1979 revolution
«جلسه نخست: عتوان جلسه: «تاریخ و با زنمایی آن در ادبیات: سرگردانی گفتمانها
:محتوای جلسه
بحثهای نظری دربارهی نسبت تاریخ با ادبیات و هنر •
بررسی رمان «جزیرهی سرگردانی» اثر سیمین دانشور •
جهان ِ جزیرهی سرگردانی و جهان دههیِ پنجاه تا وقوع انقلاب ۵۷ •
میهان جلسه: دکتر امیرعلی نجومیان
:میزبانان
دکتر فرزان سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانیتا ریخ جلسه: شنبه ۲۳ سپتامبر ۲۰۲۳ ساعت ۱۰/۵ صبح به وقت ونکوور
Date & Time:
Saturday\, September 23\, 2023
10:15am (P DT) / 8:45pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Delbrook Community Centre\, Maple Hall (851 W Queens Rd\, North Vancouver\, BC V7N 4E3)
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.Presented in Persian
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Guest Speaker
Amir Ali Nojoumian is an English language and literature professor at Dawson College in Montreal\, Canada. Before this\, he taught English Lit erature and Critical Theory at Shahid Beheshti University\, Tehran\, Iran\, for twenty years. Dr Nojoumian completed his MA and PhD studies at the Uni versity of Leicester\, UK. His doctorate focused on the philosophy of liter ature through readings of Jacques Derrida. He was a member of an interdisci plinary research group called the “Tehran Semiotics Circle” between 2002 an d 2018.
Dr Nojoumian has had various research projects inspired by Ne w Historicism\, leading him to explore the intricate relationship between h istorical narratives\, discourses\, and ideologies. This has culminated in an interest in investigating what Louis Montrose aptly terms the “historici ty of texts and the textuality of history.” In this area\, his recent contr ibution is a book chapter for the Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film a nd Television entitled “Constructing Childhood in Modern Iranian Childr en’s Cinema: A Cultural History.”
امیرعلی نجومیان، استاد زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی در کالج داوسون در مونترالِ کانادا است . وی پیش از این به مدت بیست سال در دانشگاه شهید بهشتی تهران به تدریس ادبیات انگلیسی و نظریه انتقادی پرداخت. دکتر نجومیان تحصیلات کارشناسی ارشد و دکتری خود را در دانشگاه لستر انگلستان به پایان رساند. دکترای او بر روی فلسفه ادب یات و خوانشی از آثار ژاک دریدا متمرکز بود. او بین سالهای 1380 تا 1396 عضو یک گروه پژوهشی میانرشتهای به نام «حلقه نشانهشناسی تهران» بود.
دکتر نجومیان پروژههای تحقیقاتی مختلفی با الهام از تاریخگرایی نو داشته است که او را به کشف رابطه پیچیده بین روایتهای تاریخی، گفتمانها و ایدئولوژیها سوق داده است. این پروژهها به به تحقیق در مورد آن چه که لویی مونتروز به درستی «تاریخی بودن متون و متنی بودن تاریخ» مینامد، ا نجامیده است. یکی از نوشتههای اخیر او در این زمینه، فصلی از کتاب راهنمای فی لم و تلویزیون کودک پالگریو با عنوان «ساخت دوران کودکی در سینمای کودک ایران مدرن: تاریخی فرهنگی» است.
Hosts
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh T abātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Stud y of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosoph y from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he w as a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity Scho ol and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his researc h on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly a t Harvard Unive rsity and Boston College. His m ost recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnava rd-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabi c and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College fo r which he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership awa rd from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track p osition as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in c ontent-based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received sev eral certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about impleme nting technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in c ritical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wif e\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, th at is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusia stic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club throu gh which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts a s part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\ ,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature e specially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature \, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critica l semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural stu dies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics \, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literatu re. He has published nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studi es\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
< p>He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics S ociety of Iran.As an in vited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at t he University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Hu manities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشن اسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زب انشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است. حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فر هنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نش انهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل
و نش انهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسی ر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، اب رساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگ رایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد ها رلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آ لن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.سجودی از بنیان گزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Delbrook Community Recreation Centre\, Maple Hall GEO:49.336019;-123.092151 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-and-its-representati on-in-literature-the-bewilderment-of-discourses/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/Persian-Literature-Reading-Club-2023-2024-1Session-FB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230919T1727Z-1695144457.1288-EO-61067-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230918T181255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230920T201124Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230927T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230927T173000 SUMMARY: Selection Bias and Chinese Translation DESCRIPTION: Not everything can be translated\, and selection of translated texts is neither a neutral nor a random process. This presentation conside rs selection bias in four cases of translation involving Chinese. The first case considers the arrival of Chinese narratives in European languages vs. Southeast Asian languages\; the second considers the choice of Indonesian texts for […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Not everything can be translated\, and selection of t ranslated texts is neither a neutral nor a random process. This presentatio n considers selection bias in four cases of translation involving Chinese. The first case considers the arrival of Chinese narratives in European lang uages vs. Southeast Asian languages\; the second considers the choice of In donesian texts for translation into Chinese in the early PRC\; the third co nsiders practices of self-translation\; and the fourth draws on Dr. Stenber g's recent experiences translating contemporary Chinese-language literature \, including the poet Jiang Tao\, the PRC novelist Su Tong and Taiwanese qu eer author Chen Xue. His purpose in presenting such an eclectic mix of tran slations and transmissions is to draw attention to the ideological and econ omic forces as well as interpersonal networks that generate the motion of l iterary texts into and out of Chinese.
Josh Stenberg is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney and a holder of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Res earch Council. He is the author of Minority Stages: Sino-Indonesian Perf ormance and Public Display (2019) and Liyuanxi: Chinese 'Pear Garden ' Theatre (2022) as well as the translator of five books of contemporar y Chinese literature.
LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/selection-bias-and-chinese-t ranslation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/0918_Selection-Bias-and-Chinese-Translation-Event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230927T0535Z-1695792958.4965-EO-61241-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230926T165955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T165955Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230930T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230930T160000 SUMMARY: Dr. Thomas Hunter Memorial Event DESCRIPTION: Faculty at the Department of Asian Studies and the Indian Clas sical Music Society of Vancouver remember the life and contributions of Dr. Thomas Hunter\, former Lecturer in Sanskrit and South-Southeast Asian Stud ies\, for his one year death anniversary. Join us on Saturday\, September 3 0 at 2:00pm for a memorial program at the Asian Studies Auditorium. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Facu lty at the Department of Asian Studies and the Indian Classical Music Socie ty of Vancouver remember the life and contributions of Dr. Thomas Hunter\, former Lecturer in Sanskrit and South-Southeast Asian Studies\, for his one year death anniversary.
Join us on Saturday\, September 30 a t 2:00pm for a memorial program at the Asian Studies Auditorium.Please fill-out this RSVP form if you are attending: https://forms.gle/5WZnCP8ca5t8r3dR7
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Lu nch and refreshments will be provided by 12:00pm at the Asian Centre Audito rium.
Join us for an open ho use to celebrate the opening of the Collaborative Digital Heritage Studio ( CoDHerS) in the Asian Centre! Come view our new facilities\, walk through t he recently renovated multimedia editing and production lab and game lab de veloped by Dr. Colleen Laird\, see the premiere of two short documentaries created by Dr. Aynur Kadir and Dr. Pasang Sherpa\, and immerse yourself in a multichannel sound installation of Mount Everest glaciers melting\, recor ded by Dr. Sherpa’s team.
Th is initial opening event is reserved for faculty and graduate students.
The Collaborative Digit al Heritage Studio (CoDHerS)\, led by Dr. Aynur Kadir and Dr. Colleen Laird \, is a multimedia production\, exhibition\, and archiving studio that aims to support global Indigenous and minoritized communities in documenting\, preserving\, and sharing endangered traditional knowledge\, language\, and cultural heritage. CoDHerS is based in the Department of Asian Studies and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies\, located on the traditional\ , ancestral\, and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking Musqueam people. The studio currently facilitates six research clusters that focus on advancing community-specific approaches to document\, sustain\, archive\ , revitalize\, and access community memories. Currently\, we are collaborat ing with Indigenous and minority communities in British Columbia\, Turkey\, China\, Taiwan\, Japan\, and the Himalayas. By working directly with commu nities\, CoDHerS aims to address the unique needs and challenges in preserv ing and providing access to local and global cultural heritage. By establis hing connections and partnerships between international Indigenous communit ies and researchers at UBC\, this studio seeks to uplift community knowledg e and experience\, decolonize digital technologies\, and promote a more inc lusive and respectful approach to preserving cultural heritage.
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UBC Asian Studies cordially invite you to the highly anticipa ted annual Welcome Back Night on Oct 5. Come and learn more about the Asian Studies programs while joining our community in celebrating Asian cultures and languages.
You’ll have the chance to meet with the faculty\, sta ff and mingle with other students during an evening filled with fun activit ies and food!
Also check out our Asian Language and Culture Program b ooths to play cultural games\, try out traditional instruments\, test your Asian language knowledge and stand the chance to win raffle prizes (Asian S tudies Merchandise)!
Thursday\, October 5\, 2023
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (PT)
Location: Auditorium\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Va ncouver (map here)
Price: FreeOpen to all UBC students! Ligh t refreshment will be served.
Registration is required and on a first- come-first-served basis. Registration is now closed - walk-ins may be accepted depending on capacity.
Booths D etails:
Here’s a sneak peek at what the Asian Language and C ulture Program booths have to offer!
Arabic\, Hindi-Urdu and Persian: Get a preview of the language programs by learning to wri te your name in all three languages.
Chinese: Join a spinning game and play the traditional Chinese national sport of shuttleco ck\, Jianzi.
Cantonese: Learn and use your strategy skills in the tile game of Mahjong.
Japanese: Come and play traditional Japanese games Fukuwarai and Yo-yo Balloon Fis hing\, and have a hearty laugh together!
Korean: Lea rn the paper craft of folding a Hanbok\, traditional Korean costume\, or ev en better\, have the opportunity to try one on!
Sanskrit: Test your knowledge with the Sanskrit Trivia Quiz.
Tibe tan: Grow your creative skills by practicing Tibetan calligraphy h ere at this booth.
Asian Studies Office: Meet your a dvisor and get to know the university resources available to students.
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Following the successful workshops last year\, we are organizing an informal conversation to share our experience\, knowledge and questions with each other to further Indigenize teaching and learning. This gatherin g is open to both faculty and graduate students. If you are already includi ng Indigenous content and/or incorporating decolonial assessments and teach ing techniques\, this is an opportunity to share them with your colleagues. If you are interested in Indigenizing but are not sure where to start\, th is is an opportunity to share your questions. If you are simply curious\, t his is an opportunity to find out what the Indigenous Asia Initiative is up to!
Join us in room 604 at the Asian Centre on Friday\, October 6 fr om 12-1:30pm.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/brown-bag-session-indigenous -teaching-and-learning-experiences/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/Brown-Bag-Sessions-Thumbnail.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20230916T0807Z-1694851628.0133-EO-60976-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230908T194711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T204601Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231028T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231028T130000 SUMMARY: History and its Representation in Literature: Suppression of Disco urses DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in th e year 2023-2024 will focus on: History and its Representation in Literatur e Introduction and Significance of the Topic: Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of his collection of stories “Once Upon a Time”\, has […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is now available:
https://you tu.be/1pXjWs6NdRE?si=Pz1C8S1n-kAh81Z2
The sessions are all in PersianPersian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 will foc us on:
History and its Represe ntation in Literature
Introduction and Significance of the Top ic:
Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of his collection of stories "Once Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative approaches in literature\, especially in short stories and nove ls\, as a critique of the cultural\, social\, and political lives of people across the world.
About nov els\, for example\, he states:
"For those who wish to be informed about the social\, interna l\, and spiritual state of other nations and countries and want to convey a nd understand more about them than what is inadequately presented in histor y books\, which only show the political and military aspects of a nation an d its system and people\, there is no better and more solid way than readin g novels about that nation and people..."
Besides\, since novels are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy and identification with the characters and their world\, they not only offer a form of representation of a societ y's state but also place the reader within the experience of th at world. Thus\, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approaching the one who is most distant and “other”\, allowing for the hearing of the other’s voice.
Literature pr ovides the safest space for such encounters of a historical\, cultural\, po litical\, and ethnic nature. Novels paradoxically reveal the shared and sin gular experiences of the writers and characters on an emotional and pre-log ical level. Hence\, novels can provide a space for acquaintance with the ot her and a platform or a space for a multiplicity of voices.
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">Given the foundational importance of novels and their relationship with the lived historical experience\, this series of sessions will focus on the examination of some of the most prominent and best novels published in the past forty-plus years. The aim is to delve in to and shed some light on the historical experiences and events after the 1 979 revolution up to present. In other words\, these sessions will examine the representation of the conditions leading to the revolution\, post-revol ution events such as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, with in some of the most significant novels of this period.
برنامه جلسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳ -۲۰۲۴
:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع
محمدعلی ج مالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رمان را شیوههای نوینی برای نقد و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیا سی مردم در همه جای جهان قلمداد کرده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید
برای کسانی که میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک با خبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسانند و نمیخواهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنه ا حیات سیاسی و نظامی یک و ملک و ملتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نش ان میدهد قانع شوند، هیچ راهی بهتر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نیست
مسئله دیگر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنها نوعی بازنمایی از حیات اجتماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خوانند ه را در معرض تجربهی آن فضا نیز قرار میدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آ شنایی با دیگری و حتی آشتی با دیگری و دست کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اس اسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چنین برخوردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیا سی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گفتگو بلکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میت واند محل آشنایی با دیگری و بستر فضای چند صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد با ت وجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجم وعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخیر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انق لاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبارت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنم ایی شرایط وقوع انقلاب، وقایع پس از انقلاب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زما ن حال در برخی از مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خواهیم پرداخت
همکاران ثابت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقان ی
Second Session:
Session Title: "History and its Representation in Litera ture: Suppression of Discourses"
Session Content:
- Existing and suppressed discourses post-revolution\, with a focus on the novel "The Last Move of the Lady"
- Analysis of the novel "The Last Move of the Lady" by Balqis Su laymani
- The political\, social\, intellectual world of the e arly years post-revolution
«جلسه دوم: «تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات: سرکوب گفتمانها
محتوای جلسه:
«گفتم انهای موجود و سرکوب شده پس از انقلاب با نگاهی به رمانِ «بازی آخر بانو・
برر سی رمان «بازی آخر بانو» اثر بلقیس سلیمانی・
جهان سیاسی-اجتماعی و فکری سالها ی اولیه پس از انقلاب・
میهان جلسه:
محمد راغب・
بلقیس سلیمانی・
میزبانان:
دکتر فر زان سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
تاریخ جلسه: شنبه ۲۸ اکتبر ۲۰۲۳ ساعت ۱۰/۳۰ صبح به وقت ونکوور
Date & Time:
Saturday\, Oc tober 28\, 2023
10:30am (PDT) / 9:00pm (Tehran Time)
Loca tion: Delbrook Community Centre\, Maple Hall (851 W Queens Rd\, Nort h Vancouver\, BC V7N 4E3)
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.Presented in Persian
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Guest Speaker
Belgheis Soleimani is one of the most popular and active Iranian authors and\, at t he same time\, a familiar figure in debates related to contemporary Iranian women. She was born in 1964 around Kerman. She finished her MA in philosop hy and has been writing literary reviews in the Iranian press. Soleimani pu blished her first novel ‘The Lady’s last game’ in 2005\, which was hugely n oticed by the literary audience in Iran. She has won many awards\, such as the Mehregan Literary Award and the Isfahan Literary Award. She also receiv ed the Medal of Culture and Art (1st Order). When younger\, she held left-w ing political views. The impact of these views had on a generation of intel lectual men and women in Iran is noticeable in her writings. She is conside red as one of the most prominent Iranian authors looking at the political e vents of the last four decades through the eyes of her female characters. S he considers her own experiences as reasons for her success\, and her deep philosophical and psychological insights reflect in her stories. Some of he r books\, mostly reprinted several times and all well-received by the Irani an audience\, have been translated into different languages.< /p>
Mohammad Ragheb\, an Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literatur e at Shahid Beheshti University. Ragheb's expertise shines through his nota ble monographs\, "Introduction to Contemporary Persian Fiction" and "Histor iographic Narratology of Tarikh-e Bayhaghi." In addition to his scholarly c ontributions\, he has also translated essential texts\, including "An Intro duction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" by Roland Barthes\, "Narra tology" by Manfred Jahn\, and the "Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theo ry." His work is a testament to his dedication to the field of Persian lang uage and literature\, enriching our understanding of these subjects.
Hosts
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi Univer sity\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian Li terature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston C ollege in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-docto ral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Cent er for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his research on the format ion of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented o n different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lect ure exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahma dian Lecture Series at the Univ ersity of British Columbia.
B esides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign l anguage in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for th e past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has direc ted the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he rece ived a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership award from that in stitution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an a ssistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the Universi ty of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based in struction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certificat ions from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technolog y in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritag e education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sird ani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Per sian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the edu cation of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native l and\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students o f his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they h old weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a pro ject titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they intervi ew the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature especially the l iterary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran U niversity of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph .D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semiotics\, d iscourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has pu blished some books in Persian\, the most important of which are < span style="font-weight: 400\;">Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature
. He has published nearly 100 articles on th eoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Sem iotics and Forum for Indo-Irania n Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor \, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University o f Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Humanities and Cu ltural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشان هشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چند ین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتف سیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی
و پسا ساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرای ی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: نظریه< /span> و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی ) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نش انه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Delbrook Community Recreation Centre\, Maple Hall GEO:49.336019;-123.092151 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-and-its-representati on-in-literature-suppression-of-discourses/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/Persian-Literature-Reading-Club-2023-2024-2Session-FB-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231004T1657Z-1696438643.041-EO-61269-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230926T221154Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T222929Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231103T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231103T113000 SUMMARY: The Chosŏn Korean Kingship in the Chosŏn-Ming Relations in the Six teenth Century DESCRIPTION: The talk will begin with an introduction to the framework of t he Dr. Xiuzhi Huang’s forthcoming book The Anxious Kingship: Chosŏn Korea’s “Small China” Mind and Historical Writing Practice\, followed by a discuss ion of the kingship caught in the “Great Ritual Controversy” between Chosŏn and the Ming Dynasty. The “Great Ritual Controversy” of Emperor Shizong [… ] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Th e talk will begin with an introduction to the framework of the Dr. Xiuzhi H uang’s forthcoming book The Anxious Kingship: Chosŏn Korea’s “Small China” Mind and Historical Writing Practice\, followed by a discussion of the king ship caught in the “Great Ritual Controversy” between Chosŏn and the Ming D ynasty.
The “Great Ritual Controversy” of Emperor Shizong profoundly changed the political structure and national sacrifice rituals of Ming Chin a while causing great concerns to the Chosŏn king and his ministers. The Ch osŏn King dispatched envoys to Beijing one after another to celebrate Emper or Shizong’s victories in the “Great Ritual Controversy” – dispatches that helped bring Sino-Korean relations into a new dimension. Nevertheless\, Cho sŏn allusively criticized the “Great Ritual Controversy” against a backdrop of domestic political struggles\, reflecting Chosŏn’s distinctive power st ructure and scholar-bureaucratic politics.
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Speakers
Dr. Xiuzhi Huang is a professor at Ludong University\, Chi na. He earned his PhD from Fudan University and conducted research as a pos tdoctoral fellow at Shandong University.
His research involves Chines e classical philology and ancient literature\, Ming-Qing history\, premoder n East Asian history (especially Sino-Korean relations and Confucianism). C urrently\, he is working on premodern Sino-Korean diplomatic relations in t he context of kingship and East Asian Confucianism with two projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China. His forthcoming publications include a monograph entitled The Anxious Kingship: Chosŏn Korea’s “Small C hina” Mind and Historical Writing Practice (China Social Science Press\, 20 24).
CATEGORIES:Featured Korean LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-choson-korean-kingship-i n-the-choson-ming-relations-in-the-sixteenth-century/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/230926_Choson-Ming-Relations-Event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231021T1217Z-1697890657.3914-EO-61464-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231020T192339Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T210929Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231107T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231107T133000 SUMMARY: Experience the Healing Art of Pastel Nagomi DESCRIPTION: Thrive Month Special – Relax\, Reconnect and Have Fun! With its origin from Japan\, Pastel Nagomi Art presents a simple way of painting that cultivates hope\, healing and happiness. The word “Nagomi” (和) means harmony and calmness. Join our Pastel Nagomi Art Workshop and learn from ce rtified instructor how to create beautiful and heart-warming […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Thrive Month Special - Relax\, Reconnect and Have Fun!
With it s origin from Japan\, Pastel Nagomi Art presents a simple way of painting t hat cultivates hope\, healing and happiness. The word “Nagomi” (和) means ha rmony and calmness.
Join our Pastel Nagomi Art Workshop and learn fro m certified instructor how to create beautiful and heart-warming artwork th rough simple yet unique painting techniques using soft pastels and fingers that will sooth the mind. No previous painting experience required.
F ree and open to all Asian Studies graduate and major students. Register in one of the following two sessions for a new Thrive Month experience now - s pace is limited!
A. 11 - 12 pm\, Nov 7 (Tue)
B. 12:30 - 1:30pm\ , Nov 7 (Tue)
Should you have any questions\, please contact Winnie L ai\, Acting Communications and Events Coordinator\, at winnie.lai@ubc.ca.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/pastel-nagomi-workshop/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/10/Thrive-Month-updated.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231011T1004Z-1697018650.0899-EO-61390-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231010T173252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T212605Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231113T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231113T180000 SUMMARY: Presenting a Red Chamber’s Banquet—Food and Life in Classical Chin ese Novels DESCRIPTION: 獻上一品紅樓宴——中國古典小說裡的飲食與生活: Presenting a Red Chamber’s Banquet—Foo d and Life in Classical Chinese Novels This talk will be presented in Chine se by Professor Chu Chia-wen 朱嘉雯 National Dong Hwa University\, Taiwan Deta ils: Monday\, November 13th\, 4-6pm Room 604\, Asian Centre (map here) The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Please note that […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
獻上一品紅 樓宴——中國古典小說裡的飲食與生活: Presenting a Red Chamber’s Banquet—Food and Life in Clas sical Chinese Novels
This talk will be presented in Chinese by Profes sor Chu Chia-wen 朱嘉雯 National Dong Hwa University\, Taiwan
De tails:
Monday\, November 13th\, 4-6pm
Room 60 4\, Asian Centre (map h ere)The event is free and open to the public. Registration is no t required.
Please note that as Professor Chu will only be in Vancou ver for 2 days\, this event will be held on a holiday.
Speake r
Professor Chia-Wen Chu obtained her Ph.D. degree in Chinese Literature\, National Central University\, Taiwan. She is curren tly the Director of both the Chinese Language Center and International Ph.D . Program in teaching Chinese as a 2nd Language\, National Dong Hwa Univers ity.\, and the Chair of the Taiwan Dream of the Red Mansion Association
Professor Chu is the winner of the 52nd Radio Golden Bell Award of Taiwa n. She is the columnist for "Soka Boys"\, the author of "The Dream of Purpl e Gold". "Where Does This Tenderness Come from"\, "The Violin Girl"\, and " A Dream of Red Mansions and Cao Xueqin"\, amongst many other works. Her lat est research is focused on cross disciplinary education between Technology and Literature.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/presenting-a-red-chambers-ba nquet-food-and-life-in-classical-chinese-novels/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/10/20231010_Chu-Talk-event-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231116T0712Z-1700118723.82-EO-61654-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231114T193226Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231116T231703Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231124T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231124T170000 SUMMARY: Kathāsindhu: A Stream of Ancient Tales DESCRIPTION: Join us for a public event hosted by students and faculty of ASIA 308 at Asian Studies. We will share stories through creative cultural performances\, and the feature will be a dance-drama recital of an episode from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata by Nrityanjali Kathak Dance Academy. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
< p>Join us for a public event hosted by students and faculty of ASIA 308 at Asian Studies. We will share stories through creative cultural performances \, and the feature will be a dance-drama recital of an episode from the San skrit epic Mahabharata by Nrityanjali Kathak Dance Academy. CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/kathasindhu/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/11/event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231116T0055Z-1700096133.8287-EO-61581-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231107T004201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231206T201515Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T121500 SUMMARY: Lament of the Ages: Memory\, Voice\, and Experience with the Dotār is of Torbat-e Jām DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Lament of the Ages: Memory \, Voice\, and Experience with the Dotāris of Torbat-e Jām on November 25\, 2023. Poems are performed to music and understood as part of the spiritual practice of the Mojaddedi Naqshbandi Sufi order in Torbat-e […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The e vent recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/msrTVFUxMTI?si=wAjS yEbsmp39-Moq
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate S tudies presents: Lament of the Ages: Memory\, Voice\, and Experience with t he Dotāris of Torbat-e Jām on November 25\, 2023.
Poems are performed to music and understood as part of the spiritual practice of the Mojaddedi Naqshbandi Sufi order in Torbat-e Jām\, Iran. The practice of the dotār is of Torbat defies the modern notion that poetic texts can be separate d from the matrix uniting poet\, singer\, and audience in a performance whe re poem (as aesthetic artefact)\, music (as the unfolding of a structure in time)\, and ethics (as the “I” facing a “you” in devo tion) become an indivisible whole. Recent scholarship has shed light on the institutionalisation of Persian literature in the twentieth century and th e efforts to mould Persian into emergent narratives of nation and identity. The practice of the dotāris resists co-option to such a discourse: it cannot be understood unless we historicise certain ideas that have becom e axiomatic. By exploring the role of voice\, memory\, and experience in th e iconic piece Navā’i\, this talk seeks to understand the conceptual founda tions of dotāri performance and thereby account for a practice whose origin extends beyond the ruptures of modernity.
Speaker
Marie Huber is an Assistant Professor of Persian and Comparative Literatu re at Stanford University. H er research focuses on Persian poetry and poetic performance\, as well as t he “marginal modernity” of Iranian New Wave filmmakers such as Fereydoun Ra hnema\, Parviz Kimiavi\, and Nasser Taghvaei. She has recently published an article on Kimiavi titled\, “Th e Stone Garden: Meditations on History\, Experience\, and the Nature of the Mystical” (Dibur)\, and she is the author of Memories of an Im possible Future: Mehdi Akhavān Sāles and the Poetics of Time (Brill\, 2016). She is currently developing a diachronic analysis of performativity in Persian poetry along with a new b ook\, provisionally titled\, Inf inite Events: Poetry\, Music\, and Spiritual Practice in the Shadow of Shey kh Ahmad-e Jām. D iscussant
Domenico Ingenito is Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and premodern Persian Literature at the University of Ca lifornia\, Los Angeles\, Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book (Bod leian Libraries\, University of Oxford)\, core faculty member of the Pourda voud Center for the Study of the Iranian World\, and former director of the UCLA Program on Central Asia (2016-2021). His research interests center on ancient and medieval Iran\, Persian poetry\, visual culture of Iran and Ce ntral Asia\, gender and translations studies\, and premodern manuscript cul ture.
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This talk addresses how the pain of advanc ed 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 pric e ceilings. It draws on ethnographic research to show how these regimes of control—reimagined as ‘regimes of pain’—render morphine\, a cheap\, effecti ve opioid pain reliever\, scarce in hospitals. Ironically\, heroin\, morphi ne’s illegal derivative\, proliferates in illicit circuits in Pakistan\, wh ich is a conduit in flows of heroin from Afghanistan to the West. Morphine scarcity propels desperate families\, confronting loved ones in agonizing p ain\, into the illicit realm in search of heroin. The talk argues for exten ding the analytic gaze on pain and palliation beyond the body and the clini c\, the sites at which they are usually studied. Instead\, it implicates in stitutional apparatuses rooted in Western imperialism in the perpetuation o f end-of-life pain. Foregrounding the geopolitics of palliation\, it inscri bes oppressive narcotics and price control regimes with their devastating e ffects: the ‘legal-bureaucratic sustenance’ of unpalliated cancer pain.
The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audien ce. This seminar features speaker Zahra Hayat (University of British Columb ia\, Anthropology).
Date & Time:
Monday\, Novem ber 27\, 2023 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)Location:
UB C Asian Centre\, Room 604\, 1871 West Mall\, VancouverHosted by the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this event i s open to the public.
CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/regimes-of-pain-access-to-mo rphine-and-the-geopolitics-of-palliation-in-pakistan/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231112T0349Z-1699760967.9819-EO-61598-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231106T183556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231122T173443Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231127T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231127T210000 SUMMARY: The Relationship between Chen Yingning’s Immortal Theory and Monk Taixu’s Influence DESCRIPTION: Daoist master Chen Yingning initially promoted his immortal th eory in 1940s Shanghai\, but he later abandoned it. His view towards Buddhi sm had shifted from the three teachings (Confucianism\, Buddhism and Daoism ) to separating immortal theories from Buddhism\, and eventually realigning with Buddhism\, influenced in part by Buddhist monk Taixu. Date: November 27\, 2023\, 7–9 pm […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Daoist master C hen Yingning initially promoted his immortal theory in 1940s Shanghai\, but he later abandoned it. His view towards Buddhism had shifted from the thre e teachings (Confucianism\, Buddhism and Daoism) to separating immortal the ories from Buddhism\, and eventually realigning with Buddhism\, influenced in part by Buddhist monk Taixu.
Date: Nove mber 27\, 2023\, 7–9 pm
Online via ZoomSpeaker: Professor Wu Guo\, Shandong University and visiting scholar\, A sian Studies
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The event r ecording is now available:
https://youtu.be/WmtEUNnBiKc?si=rbtPP4KspN iOnlOD
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Intermixture in Persian Epics: The Case of Kush\, the Elephant-E ared on December 1\, 2023.
Irānshāh b. Abi Khayr’s Kushnāmeh (written ca. 1108-1111 CE) features an unusual protagonist for a Persian e pic poem. With his elephant-ears\, tusks\, and boar-snout\, Kush looks very different from most of the people who populate the epic world\, while his aggressive\, sexually deviant\, and blasphemous behavior set him apart from other epic heroes. As the text rationalizes Kush’s difference through his mixed lineage\, this talk uses the example of Kush to explore how Persian e pics deal with the intermixture of Iranians with peoples of different stock – the racial\, monstrous\, or demonic Other.
Speaker
Alexandra Hoffmann is an Assistant Professor of Classical Persian Literature and Culture at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on masculinities and embodiment in Persian epics and romances from the eleventh to the seventeenth century CE.
Discussant
Cameron Cross is an Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies at t he University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research interests broadly fall in the arena of narrative studies\, examining questions about language and audience\, gender and power\, and selfhood and society as explored in Pers ian\, Arabic\, Greek\, and other literary languages of Southwest Asia and n eighboring regions. He is the author of Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages (U Toronto Press\, 2023)\, and several articles on comparative epic and amorous tales. Registration required. Register here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VW6hdwpNRxCR eKm1pNPNQA
Tea and sweets will be served starting from 6 pm.
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The event recording is now available:
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The sessions are all in Pe rsian
Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 wil l focus on:
History and its Re presentation in Literature
Introduction and Significance of th e Topic:
Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh \, in the preface of his collection of stories "Once Upon a Time”\, has reg arded innovative approaches in literature\, especially in short stories and novels\, as a critique of the cultural\, social\, and political lives of p eople across the world.
Abou t novels\, for example\, he states:
"For those who wish to be informed about the social\, in ternal\, and spiritual state of other nations and countries and want to con vey and understand more about them than what is inadequately presented in h istory books\, which only show the political and military aspects of a nati on and its system and people\, there is no better and more solid way than r eading novels about that nation and people..."
Besides\, since novels are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy and identification with the chara cters and their world\, they not only offer a form of representation of a s ociety's state but also place the reader within the experience of that world. Thus\, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approa ching the one who is most distant and “other”\, allowing for the hearing of the other’s voice.Literatu re provides the safest space for such encounters of a historical\, cultural \, political\, and ethnic nature. Novels paradoxically reveal the shared an d singular experiences of the writers and characters on an emotional and pr e-logical level. Hence\, novels can provide a space for acquaintance with t he other and a platform or a space for a multiplicity of voices.
Given the foundational importance of n ovels and their relationship with the lived historical experience\, this se ries of sessions will focus on the examination of some of the most prominen t and best novels published in the past forty-plus years. The aim is to del ve into and shed some light on the historical experiences and events after the 1979 revolution up to present. In other words\, these sessions will exa mine the representation of the conditions leading to the revolution\, post- revolution events such as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the most significant novels of this period.
برنامه جلسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴
:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع< /b>
محمد علی جمالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً د استان کوتاه و رمان را شیوههای نوینی برای نقد و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه جای جهان قلمداد کرده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید
برای کسانی که میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و مما لک باخبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسانند و نمیخواهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ ک ه تنها حیات سیاسی و نظامی یک و ملک و ملتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی - نشان میدهد قانع شوند، هیچ راهی بهتر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نیست
مسئله دیگر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر د رآمده است نه تنها نوعی بازنمایی از حیات اجتماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خ واننده را در معرض تجربهی آن فضا نیز قرار میدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و حتی آشتی با دیگری و دست کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باش د. اساسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چنین برخوردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی ، سیاسی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گفتگو بلکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی ا فراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و بستر فضای چند صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد
با توجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در ای ن مجموعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چ هل و چند سال اخیر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس ا ز انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبارت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط وقوع انقلاب، وقایع پس از انقلاب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک ب ه زمان حال در برخی از مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خواهیم پرداخت
همکاران ثابت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی
Third Session:
Session Title: "History in Literature and Literature in H istory: War\, the Silence of Narratives and the Poetic Language"
Session Content:
- Theoret ical discussions about the relationship between poetic literature and histo ry
- The meaning of war in the novel "Moon Brow"
Analysis of the novel "Moon Brow" by Shahriar Mandanipour - The political and intellectual world after the revolution up to the war
«جلسه سوم: «تاریخ و بازنمای ی آن در ادبیات: جنگ، سکوت گفتمان و زبان شاعرانه
:محتوای جلسه
بحثهای نظری دربار هی نسبت ادبیات شاعرانه با تاریخ •
«معنای جنگ در رمان «عقربکِشی •
برر سی رمان «عقربکِشی» اثر شهریار مندنی پور •
جهان سیاسی و فکری پس از انقلاب تا جنگ. •
:میهان جلسه
مهرک کمالی •
شهریار مندنی پور • : میزبانان
دکتر فرزان سجودی< /span>
د کتر حسام دهقانی
تاریخ جلسه: شنب ه ۲ دسامبر ۲۰۲۳ ساعت ۱۰/۵ صبح به وقت ونکوور
Date & Time:
Saturday\, December 2\, 20 23
10:15am (PDT) / 8:45pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Delbrook Community Centre\, Maple Hall ( 851 W Queens Rd\, North Vancouver\, BC V7N 4E3)
There is also an option to attend virtually vi a Zoom Meeting.Presented in Persian
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Guest Spe aker
Shahriar Mandanipour
was born on February 15\, 1957 in Shiraz\, I ran. He is a writer\, journalist and literary theorist. In 1975 he moved to Tehran and studied Political Scien ces at the University of Tehran\, graduating in 1980.In 1994\, he was named Best Film Critique at the Press Festival in Tehran. In 1998\, he received the Golden Tablet Award for best fiction in Iran for the past 20 years. In 2004\, he won the Mehregan Award for the best Iranian children's novel. In 2010\, he was awarded The A thens Prize for Literature for his novel Censoring an Iranian Love Story .
Mehrak Kamali has a Ph.D. in Iranian Studies\, University of Arizona\, School of Mi ddle Eastern and North African Studies\, 2016\; an M.A. in Sociology of Literature\, Tehran University\, Tehra n\, Iran\, 2003\; a B.A. in Social Science Research\, Tehran University\, Tehran\, Iran\, 2000.
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">Mehrak’s research interest areas are sociol ogy of modern Persian fiction\, and the history of Iran. Mehrak has publish ed several articles about language learning methods\, modern Persian litera ture\, and the history of Iran in Persian.
Mehrak has published several articles about modern Persian li terature and the history of Iran in Persian. His last article\, “Iranian Ba ha’i Community and Its Encounter with the Process of ‘Othering’ (1941-1983) ” is a part of his ongoing project about position modifications of religiou s minorities and political groups in post-1979-revolutionary Iran. As a tra nslator\, he has translated Politics of Writings in Iran: A history of Mode rn Persian literature by Kamran Talattof into Persian which has been publis hed in Iran by Namak publisher.
Hosts
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenome nological Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another Ph D in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and Decemb er 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focus ed his research on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic l iterature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literatu re regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the w ork of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been te aching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and A rabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Per sian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Bos ton College for which he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian languag e and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his inte rests lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage language educa tion for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops an d received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literac y to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytell ing (CT).
To promote public h umanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persi anates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a te am of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Read ing Club through which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and mon thly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a pane l of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persi an Literature\,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persia n Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
is a retired full professor of semiotics an d linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in Engl ish Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i Uni versity.His primary interes ts are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and int ercultural studies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most impor tant of which are Applied Semiot ics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotic s and Literature. He has publis hed nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, inter cultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature .
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the In stitute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy .
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهش ناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیس انس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
< p style="text-align: right\;">حوزههای اصل ی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتما ن و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منت شر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او م یتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (ا مبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پسا ساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، و یتگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Delbrook Community Recreation Centre\, Maple Hall GEO:49.336019;-123.092151 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-in-literature-and-li terature-in-history-war-the-silence-of-narratives-and-the-poetic-language/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/231121_session-3-landscape-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231102T1344Z-1698932685.4027-EO-61556-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231031T221319Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T224854Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231209T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231209T174500 SUMMARY: Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature DESCRIPTION: In 2022\, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea (LTI) and Seoul Selection Publishing facilitated the English-language translation s of four important literary works by prominent Zainichi (lit. “residing in Japan\; resident) Korean authors: Kim Sŏk-pŏm’s Death of a Crow\, translat ed by Christina Yi\; Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’aryŏng and Other Stories\, transla ted by Cindi Textor and Lee […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In 2022\, the Literature Translation Insti tute of Korea (LTI) and Seoul Selection Publishing facilitated the English- language translations of four important literary works by prominent Zainich i (lit. “residing in Japan\; resident) Korean authors: Kim Sŏk-pŏm’s De ath of a Crow\, translated by Christina Yi\; Lee Yangji’s Nabi T’a ryŏng and Other Stories\, translated by Cindi Textor and Lee Soo Mi\; Kim Tal-su’s The Trial of Pak Tal and Other Stories\, translated b y Christopher D. Scott\; and Yang Seok-il’s Blood and Bones\, tran slated by Adhy Kim.
This symposium will bring together the translator s of these works to collectively consider the state of the field and future directions for Zainichi literary studies. It will conclude with a book tal k by Cindi Textor on her forthcoming monograph\, Intersectional Incoher ence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility (University o f California Press).
Supported by funding from the Department of Asia n Studies at UBC\, the Literature Translation Institute of Korea\, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Date : Saturday\, December 9
Time: 2:00pm – 5:45 pm
Venue: In-person in Room 604 @ UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here) and online.
Reserva tion required:
For in-person registration: https://ubc.ca1.qualtric s.com/jfe/form/SV_9n58S9XTg8tiZvw
For Zoom participation: https://u bc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r6V7DeLdQCCt9AanoFFZpA
Schedule: 2:00pm – 3:45pm: Roundtable discussion with t ranslators\, moderated by Andre Haag
3:45pm – 4:00pm: Coffee break
4:00pm – 5:30pm: Keynote talk by Cindi Textor on Intersectional Inc oherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility
5:3 0pm – 5:45pm: Concluding remarks by Christina Yi
Part icipants:
Andre Haag is an assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Hawai‘i– Mānoa. He received his PhD in Japanese literature from Stanford University. Haag’s research explores how the insecurities and terrors of colonialism a ttendant to the annexation of Korea and internalization of the “Korea Probl em” were inscribed within the literature\, culture\, and vocabularies that circulated within the Japanese imperial metropole. Haag is completing a boo k manuscript on this topic titled “Fear and Loathing in Imperial Japan: Col onial Integration\, Insurgency\, and the Cultures of Korean Peril.” He is t he co-editor\, along with Christina Yi and Catherine Ryu\, of the volume
Passing\, Posing\, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in the Japan’s East Asian Empire (University of Hawaii Press\, 2023).
Adhy Kim is a lecturer in History & Literat ure at Harvard University. His research interests are in Asian/American lit erature and culture from the twentieth century to the present\, with a focu s on Korea\, Japan\, and their diasporas. Starting in Fall 2024\, he will j oin the Literatures in English department at Cornell University as assistan t professor.
Christopher Scott teaches Japanese\, Japanese cultural studies\, and translation studies at T he Nueva School\, an independent school in San Mateo\, California. He recei ved his PhD from Stanford University\, with a doctoral dissertation entitle d “Invisible Men: The Zainichi Korean Presence in Postwar Japanese Culture.” From 2006-2012\, he was an assistant professor of Japanese at Ma calester College in St. Paul\, Minnesota. In addition to Kim Tal-su’s T he Trial of Pak Tal and Other Stories (Seoul Selection\, 2022)\, his o ther published translations from Japanese include: Kim Sa-ryang’s “Into the Light” (University of Hawai’i Press\, 2010)\, Levy Hideo’s A Room Wher e the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (Columbia University Press\ , 2011)\, and Shu Ejima’s Quick Draw (Vertical\, 2014).
Cindi Textor is Assistant Professor in th e Department of World Languages and Cultures at University of Utah. Her wor k on incoherence\, illegibility\, and intersectionality in Korean- and Japa nese-language fiction has appeared in positions: asia critique\, < em>Journal of Korean Studies\, and other venues. Her monograph\, I ntersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibili ty\, is forthcoming from University of California Press. She is also t he translator of Kim Sŏkpŏm’s The Curious Tale of Mandogi’s Ghost (Columbia University Press\, 2010) and Lee Yangji’s Yuhi (in N abi Taryŏng and Other Stories\, Seoul Selection\, 2022).
LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/symposium-on-zainichi-korean -literature/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231121T2142Z-1700602973.111-EO-61582-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231107T004919Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231212T002643Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231209T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231209T171500 SUMMARY: Exploring “Liku”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Exploring “Liku”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty on December 9\, 2023. This lecture will be prese nted in Persian. Liku is an ancient\, monorhyme poetic form consisting of a single verse\, prevalent in Southeast Iran (Baluchistan and the southern areas […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Christina Yi is Associate Professor of M odern Japanese Literature at the University of British Columbia. Her first monograph\, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Polit ics in Modern Japan and Korea\, was published by Columbia University P ress in 2018. She was also the co-editor for a special feature on Zainichi Korean literature and film for Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture 12 (2019) as well as the edited volume Passing\, Posing\, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empi re (with Andre Haag and Catherine Ryu\, 2023).
The event reco rding is now available:
https://youtu.be/v0acesIYOXU?si=Rutkii_eOquWK Dym
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies pr esents: Exploring “
”: Baluchi Folk Poetry’s Brief Beauty on December 9\, 2023. This lecture will beLiku presented in Persian. Liku is an ancient\, monorhyme poet ic form consisting of a single verse\, prevalent in Southeast Iran (Baluchi stan and the southern areas of the Kerman province). It is categorized into two types: the short Liku\, with five syllables\, and the long Liku\, comp rising ten syllables. The short Liku\, possibly among the world's briefest poetic forms\, is unique in its brevity and structure. Each rhythmic and rh yming poem is composed of four words\, with each line containing five sylla bles. The poems are crafted to allow individual interpretation by readers\, enabling personal connections with the situations depicted. Liku typically adopts a pictorial\, symbolic\, and narrative style\, often concluding wit h open-ended narratives. Themes in Liku poetry commonly explore love\, yout hful mortality\, travel\, exile\, and nature's allure. This poetic form evo lves with time\, integrating contemporary elements\, themes\, and social nu ances\, transitioning from traditional motifs to modern expressions.
Speaker
Mansour Alimoradi\, born in 1976\, in Sout h Kerman\, began writing stories and poems during his high school years. He garnered recognition in various independent poetry\, humor\, and storytell ing festivals in Kerman Province. At 22\, Alimoradi embarked on his profess ional journey with Roodbarzamin magazine\, delving into humor\, reporting\, literary criticism\, and folk culture. Concurrently\, he initiated the com pilation of an eighteen-volume encyclopedia on the folk culture and literat ure of Southeast Iran\, with seven volumes currently published. Alimoradi's focus on creative fiction has so far resulted in nine fiction works in adu lt and young adult novel genres. Many of these works have received prestigi ous Iranian literary awards\, including the “Haft Eqlim” award\, the “Fakhe rh-ye Saba” award (jointly with Maestro Ali Nasirian)\, and the “Bastani Pa rizi” award.
Registration required. Register here: http s://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_244_-J9DRnGnQtjAN1kEXQ
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Should you have any questions\, please contact the Departme nt of Asian Studies at Asian.Studies@ ubc.ca.
The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium off ers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Sara Shneid erman (University of British Columbia\, Anthropology and School for Public Policy & Global Affairs).
This talk draws upon one chapter of a book manuscript in progress to explore the relationships between religious\, soc ial\, and political transformation through the intertwined (infra)structura l biographies of several local temples and the newly emergent National Tham i Museum in Dolakha\, Nepal. Building upon twenty-five years of ethnographi c engagement in the region\, I explore how various nodes within this networ k of Indigenous and Hindu religious sites have developed—and undeveloped—in relation to political and environmental upheaval\, and concomitant paradig ms shifts for recognition and funding from both the Nepali state and intern ational donors. I track how ever-evolving tropes of Indigeneity\, secularis m\, marginality\, vulnerability\, risk\, locality\, and domestic tourism ha ve shaped the built environment of religious and cultural practice over tim e\, in relation to the shifting landscapes and forms of governance within w hich such structures are embedded. I argue that since 2015\, the intersecti on of Nepal’s twin processes of post-conflict state restructuring (punar samrachana) and post-earthquake reconstruction (punar nirman) h ave led to the transformation of sacred space at several scales. These spat ial transformations are in turn restructuring discourses and practices of r eligiosity for people whose lives move through these built forms. I tell th e stories of both Hindu and Indigenous religious practitioners who have sou ght to make these spaces their own\, reflecting upon their changing concept ualizations of religion\, ethnicity\, identity\, and the state\, in relatio n to the infrastructure of secularism and the divinities that animate their environment.
Date & Time:
Monday\, January 22\ , 2024 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)Location:
UBC Asian Centre\, Room 604\, 1871 West Mall\, VancouverHosted by the Departm ent of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this event is open to the public.
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: The Persianate Understanding of Japan: The Reach and Limits of Inter-Asian Exchange on January 25\, 2024.
*Please note that this lecture will not be recorded.Following the Japanese defeat of Russia in 1905\, intellectuals from Iran\, India\, and Afghanistan look ed to Japan as a model for achieving military and industrial modernization without adopting Western culture. Probing the secrets of Japan’s success\, they wrote poems\, travelogues\, and histories of Japan in Persian. Yet des pite the new communications infrastructures of the period\, there remained formidable barriers to inter-Asian understanding\, whether through differen ces of language or culture. Drawing on Nile Green’s prizewinning book How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding (Yale\, 2022)\, this talk explores the gap between connection and compre hension that has been overlooked in studies of both Persianate and global h istory.
Speaker
Nile Green holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the University of California\, Los Angeles. A former Gu ggenheim Fellow\, he is the author of nine monographs and seven edited volu mes. His most recent book\, How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercul tural Understanding (Yale\, 2022)\, won the Bentley Prize from the Wor ld History Association.
Discussant
Aria F ani is from Shiraz. He teaches Persian literature and translation studi es at the University of Washington. In his free time\, Aria plants kale and radish in his garden\, to be inevitably enjoyed by the neighborhood squirr els\, Alfonso and Mahmud.
Registration required. Register her e: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Inegxu05SQO2u0Pou1zCDg
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Should you have any questions\, please contact the Dep artment of Asian Studies at Asian.Stu dies@ubc.ca.
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 Litera ture
Introduction and Significance of the Topic:
Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of h is collection of stories "Once Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative appro aches in literature\, especially in short stories and novels\, as a critiqu e of the cultural\, social\, and political lives of people across the world . About novels\, for example \, he states:
"Fo r those who wish to be informed about the social\, internal\, and spiritual state of other nations and countries and want to convey and understand mor e about them than what is inadequately presented in history books\, which o nly show the political and military aspects of a nation and its system and people\, there is no better and more solid way than reading novels about th at nation and people..."
Besides\, since novels are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy and identification with the characters and their world\ , they not only offer a form of representation of a society's state but als o place the reader within the ex perience of that world. Thus\, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approaching the one who is m ost distant and “other”\, allowing for the hearing of the other’s voice.
Literature provides the safest space for such encounters of a historical\, cultural\, political\, and eth nic nature. Novels paradoxically reveal the shared and singular experiences of the writers and characters on an emotional and pre-logical level. Hence \, novels can provide a space for acquaintance with the other and a platfor m or a space for a multiplicity of voices.
Given the foundational importance of novels and their relati onship with the lived historical experience\, this series of sessions will focus on the examination of some of the most prominent and best novels publ ished in the past forty-plus years. The aim is to delve into and shed some light on the historical experiences and events after the 1979 revolution up to present. In other words\, these sessions will examine the representatio n of the conditions leading to the revolution\, post-revolution events such as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the mo st significant novels of this period.
برنامه جلسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴
:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع
محمدعلی جمالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رمان را شیوههای نوینی برای نقد و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه جا ی جهان قلمداد کرده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید
«برای کسانی که میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک باخبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسان ند و نمیخواهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنها حیات سیاسی و نظامی یک و مل ک و ملتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نشان میدهد قانع شوند، هیچ را هی بهتر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نیست…» < /p>
مسئله دی گر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پندار ی و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنها نوعی بازنمایی از حیات اجت ماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خواننده را در معرض تجربهی آن فضا نیز قرار م یدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و حتی آشتی با دیگری و د ست کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اساسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چنین بر خوردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیاسی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گفتگو ب لکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و بستر فضای چ ند صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد
< span style="font-weight: 400\;"> با توجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آ ن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجموعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخیر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبا رت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط وقوع انقلاب، وقایع پس از انق لاب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زمان حال در برخی از مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خواهیم پرداخت
همکاران ثاب ت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی
Fourth Sessi on:
Session Title: "His tory and its Representation in Literature: The Birth and Develo pment of the Beast"
Session Content:
- Examining the relationship between the history of the revolution and the novel 'The Vigilante' be Bahram Moradi
- Explorin g the untold history of the Revolution\, the war\, and the years that follo wed
- The Revolution and the cultivation of the Oblomo vian lifeworld
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات جلسهی چهارم : زایش و بالیدن هیولا
بررسی نسبت تاریخ انقلاب و رمان خودسر اثر بهرام مرادی •
بررسی تاریخ ناگفتهی انقلاب، جنگ و سالهای پس از آن •
انقلاب و بالیدن زیست جهان اُبلُومُوفی •میزبانان ج لسه
حسام دهقانی •
فرزان سجودی •مهمانان جلسه
بهرام مرادی (نویسنده) •
مونا هوروش (منتقد) •Date & Time:
S aturday\, January 27\, 2024
10:00am (PST) / 9:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: North Vancouver Library
There is also a n option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.Presented in Pers ian
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Guest Speaker
M ona Hoorvash
- PhD i n English Literature
- Assistant Professor of English Literature at A lzahra University\, Tehran\, Iran since 2012
- Adjunct Faculty of Lib eral Arts at Yorkville University\, New Westminster\, BC
- Literature and film critic
- Research specialization in psychoanalytic\, femini st\, and postcolonial and decolonial criticism
مونا هوروش (منتقد)
دکترای ادبیات انگلیسی •
استادیار ادبیات انگلیسی و عضو هیات علمی دانشگاه الزهرا از ۱۳۹۱ •
مدرس مدعو دانشگاه یورکویل کانادا پرد یس نیووستمینستر •
منتقد ادبیات و فیلم •
پژوهشگر حو زه نقد روانشناختی، فمینیستی و پسااستعماری •
Bahram Moradi has been living in Germany since 1988. He fled from Iran in the mid-80s\, w here he couldn’t continue the work of theater due to the government censors hip. So far\, he has published four collections of short stories and two no vels in Farsi language. His collection Laughter in the Hause of Solitude wo n the award of the Golshiri Foundation and the Press Critics. His latest no vel The Weight of Others is published by the Alqesseh Publications in 2021.
بهرام مرادی
از سالِ ۱۹۸۸ در آلمان زندگی میکند. میانهی دههی هشتاد میلادی از ایران فرار کرد؛ جایی که نمی توانست کارِ تئاتر را بهدلیل سانسور حکومتی ادا مه دهد. از او تا بهحال چهار مجموعه داستان و دو رُمان به زبانِ فارسی منتشر شده است. در سالِ ۲۰۰۳ مجموعهٔداستان «خنده در خانهی تنهایی» برندهی جایزهی بنیاد گلشیری و منتقدان مطبوعاتی شد. آخرین کتابِ او رُمانِ «سنگینی دیگران» نام دارد که در سال ۲۰۲۱ توسطِ نشر القصه منتشر شده است.
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Dr. H essam Dehghani earned his fir st PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structura l Analysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern St udies\, where he focused his research on the formation of Persianate identi ty in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of P ersian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the litera ry theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columb ia.
Besides his research inte rests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 20 00\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 20 12\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received a teaching award an d was nominated for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of te aching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical h eritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to pre sent. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. I mplementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and second l anguage acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new meth od of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call C ollaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC P erisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature re ading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral H istory of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominent fi gures of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migra tion and exile.
Dr . Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full pro fessor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He ob tained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultur al semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in Pe rsian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cult ural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian lan guage\, and literature.
He w as one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and
Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran. As an invited professor\, he has taught some co urses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modar es University\, the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میزبانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان س جودیفرز ان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لی سانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طبا طبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشا نهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها م قاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطا لعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشن اسی: نظریه و
عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفا ت او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقا لات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-and-its-representati on-in-literature-session-4/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/01/Persian-Literature-Reading-Club-2023-2024-4Session-FB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7423-EO-61886-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240102T183731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240125T160740Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240202T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240202T194500 SUMMARY: 2023/24 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Works\, Networks\, and Good Works: John F. Howes and the early years of Japanese Studies at U BC DESCRIPTION: With Guest Speaker Andrew Horvat (UBC Asian Studies graduate) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2023/ 24 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest Speaker Andrew HorvatWorks\, Networks\, and Good Works: John F. Howes and the early years of Japanese St udies at UBC
Date & Time:
Friday\, February 2\, 2024 f rom 5:30pm to 7:45pm PST5:30-6:10pm (PST) Reception with light refre shments
6:15-7:45pm (PST) Lecture and Q&ALocation:
In-person: Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver BC (map here)
Online: via ZoomPresented in English.
Free & open to the public. Registration (both in-person and online) required here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN _DXHIV_wdQ7qFx5EAyBhVSwLecture abstract:
A fter a day of translating Japanese military maps at General MacArthur’s hea dquarters across the moat from the Imperial Palace\, John Howes would walk to the Ginza to play Bach on the organ of a church\, one of few buildings s till standing in Tokyo in the winter of 1947. On days off\, the Navy-traine d intelligence officer would drive a truck delivering clothing to local sch ools donated by American charities.Arriving at UBC in 1961 to teach Japanese history\, John did not turn his PhD dissertation into a book until after retirement. He was busy arranging overseas study opportunities in Ja pan for promising students\, introducing graduates to employers\, and raisi ng money to complete the construction of the Asian Studies Centre.
Wh ile John was unique in his devotion to students\, he was typical of the div ersity of background of Japan-related faculty in the early years of Asian S tudies at UBC. Shuichi Kato\, trained as a medical doctor\, taught medieval Japanese literature\, when not writing novels and current affairs columns for the Asahi Shimbun from his apartment overlooking English Bay. Ronald Do re had taught Japanese at SOAS while still in his teens\, and Sorbonne-trai ned linguistics Professor Bernard St. Jacques\, started his career as a Jes uit priest at middle schools in Japan. The aim of the talk is to use John H owes’ career and legacy as a prism through which to view changes in Japanes e studies and those who study Japan.
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Andrew Horvat\, a UBC Asian Studies graduate\, covered the Asia Pacific region from the 1970s to the la te 1990s as Tokyo-based correspondent for the Associated Press\, Southam Ne ws of Canada\, the Los Angeles Times\, and other major international media. As Japan representative of the Asia Foundation from 1999 to 2005\, he orga nized programs on immigration\, minority issues and historical reconciliati on. From 2008 to 2013 Horvat directed Stanford University’s overseas studie s program in Kyoto where he taught courses in modern Japanese history and t ranslation which he continued at Josai International University until his r etirement in 2022. Horvat received an Abe Fellowship to study the increased use of the Japanese language by non-native speakers and a Max Bell Fellows hip to do research on cross-cultural communication in business. Among Horva t’s publications are translations of fiction and non-fiction by the Japanes e novelist Kobo Abe\, chapters in edited volumes on international education al exchange\, historical reconciliation in East Asia\, and the role of the Japanese news media in politics. Horvat received his B.A. (1968) and M.A. ( 1971) in Asian Studies from UBC. He is a former student of John Howes.
About the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies:
John Howes was a founding member of UBC’s Department of Asian Studie s\, which he joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia Unive rsity. During his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Howe s was at the forefront of Canada-Japan cultural\, educational and people-to -people relations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. I n 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted for mer students came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund s upports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lectu re for prominent scholars from around the world to speak to the university community and alumni on topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humaniti es. Dr. Howes passed away peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
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Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this is a recurring event that is open to the public.
Should you have any questions\, please contact Christina Yi at christina.yi@ubc.ca.
Upcoming events :
Beyond Monolingual and Monocultural Ideologies: Navigating Japane se as an Additional Language Education in Contemporary Japan
Friday\ , March 27\, 2026 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Yumi Sugi hara\, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies (UBC ) and an Associate Professor at Keio University\, Japan
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/beyond-monolingual-and-mo nocultural-ideologies/
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Local Japan\, Global Japan: T hinking Forward Through the Past
Lectures
Tuesday\, March 10 \, 2026 from 11:00am – 12:30pm (PT)
Guest Speakers: Toeda Hirokazu (W aseda University)\, Tanaka Yukari (Nihon University)
Professional De velopment Seminar
Wednesday\, March 11\, 2026 from 11:00am – 1:00pm (PT)
Guest Speakers: Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University)\, Tanaka Yuka ri (Nihon University)\, Kim Younglong (Otsuma Women’s University)\, Sakasai Akito (Tokyo University)\, Tokinoya Yuri (Waseda Daigaku Kōtō Gakuin)\, an d Bent Yusuke (Waseda University)
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/local-japan-global-japan-thinking-f orward-through-the-past/
The Textual Townsman and the Part icularism of the Early Modern
Thursday\, March 5\, 2026 from 4:30pm – 6:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Thomas Gaubatz\, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Northwestern University
Details he re: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-te xtual-townsman-and-the-particularism-of-the-early-modern/
The Fight for Recognition: Double Abandonment and Resistance from Wartime C anada to Postwar Japan (1942–1965)
Friday\, February 27\, 2026 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Naoko Kato\, Instructor at Corpu s Christi College and St. Mark’s College
Time Out of Joint: War\, Memory\, and the Limits of the Postwar in Grave of the Fireflies
Thursday\, February 5\, 2026 from 4:30pm – 6:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Jiajun Liang\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Global Arts\, Media\, and Writing Studies at the University of California\, Merce d
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/event s/event/time-out-of-joint-war-memory-and-the-limits-of-the-postwar/
A Japanese Work Community in Palestine: Japan’s Foreign Interface through Heritage Tourism Architecture and Construction
Friday\, Jan uary 30\, 2026 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Millie Creig hton\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology at the University o f British Columbia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/e vent/a-japanese-work-community-in-palestine/
Visions of Ma n’yōshū: Reimagining Japan’s Oldest Poetry Collection in the Medieval and M odern Eras
Friday\, January 15\, 2026 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PT)
< p>Guest Speaker: Małgorzata K. Citko-DuPlantis\, Assistant Professor of Jap anese Literature and Culture at the University of Tennessee\, KnoxvilleDetails here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/visions-of-manyoshu/
Emotion and Entertainment in the Mobilization of the Japanese Empire\, 19 37-1945 Friday\, December 5\, 2025 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Sharalyn Orbaugh\, Department Head and Professor\, Departmen t of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia
Details here : https://asia.ubc.ca/event s/event/emotion-and-entertainment-in-the-mobilization-of-the-japanese-empir e-1937-1945/
Contested Frames: Women\, Photography \, and the Politics of Seeing in Modern Japan
Friday\, Nove mber 7\, 2025 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Kelly McCormi ck\, Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia
Details here: https://a sia.ubc.ca/events/event/contested-frames-women-photography-and-the-politics -of-seeing-in-modern-japan/
Stakeholder Perspectiv es on Language Support for Ethnic Minority Children in Japan: Centering Voi ces That Matter
Friday\, October 17\, 2025 from 12:00pm – 1 :30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Michi Ann Saki\, Visiting Scholar from Dosh isha Women’s College of Liberal Arts
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/stakehol der-perspectives-on-language-support-for-ethnic-minority-children-in-japan/
Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and th e Question of Aesthetics\, 1890-1930
Friday\, October 10\, 2025 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Anri Yasuda\, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Virginia
Detai ls here: https://asia.u bc.ca/events/event/beauty-matters-modern-japanese-literature-and-the-questi on-of-aesthetics-1890-1930/
Kyojin\, Taihō…and Rep atriation?: On the Legacies of Repatriation in Postwar Japan
< p>Friday\, September 19\, 2025 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)Guest Speak er: Christina Yi\, Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/kyojin-taiho-and-repatriation/
Translating “pop fiction” from 1000 years ago: Ochikubo monogatari (Lady of the Low Chamber)
Wednesday\, March 26\ , 2025 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Sonja Arntzen\, Prof essor Emerita at University of Toronto
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/t ranslating-pop-fiction-from-1000-years-ago-ochikubo-monogatari-lady-of-the- low-chamber/
Preserving Enemy (Japanese) language Histories
Wednesday\, March 5\, 2025 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Naoko Kato\, Instructor at St. Mark’s College
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/preserving- enemy-japanese-language-histories/
Space Fantasy: Nagaoka Shusei’s Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture
Wednesday\, February 26\, 2025 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Sp eaker: Nathan Hesselink\, Professor of Global Musicology at the School of M usic\, University of British Columbia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/space-fantasy-n agaoka-shuseis-contributions-to-afrofuturist-visual-culture/
< h3>Tanomi shōmon: Political voice and “Democratization” within Toku gawa village societyWednesday\, February 12\, 2025 from 12 :30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Minami Orihara\, Sessional Instruc tor in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
Details here: https:/ /asia.ubc.ca/events/event/tanomi-shomon-political-voice-and-democratization -within-tokugawa-village-society/
Ecce Homo: The M ale Body in Pain in Japanese World War Two Visual Propaganda
< p>Wednesday\, January 22\, 2025 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)Guest Spea ker: Sharalyn Orbaugh\, Department Head and Professor of Modern Japanese Li terature and Popular Culture in the Department of Asian Studies\, Universit y of British Columbia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ecce-homo-the-male-body-in-pai n-in-japanese-world-war-two-visual-propaganda/
Nav igating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction with Gust av Heldt
Wednesday\, November 27\, 2024 from 12:30pm – 2:00 pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Gustav Heldt\, Professor of Japanese Literatur e at the University of Virginia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca /events/event/navigating-narratives-gustav-heldt/
Karayuki-san\, Rashamen\, and Places of Memory: Fieldnotes from Yokohama
Wednesday\, October 30\, 2024 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
< p>Guest Speaker: Ayaka Yoshimizu\, Associate Professor of Teaching in the D epartment of Asian Studies\, University of British ColumbiaDetails h ere: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/ karayuki-san-rashamen-and-places-of-memory-fieldnotes-from-yokohama/
DEFYING RESTRICTIONS: Women-Created\, Women-Read Sexual Writing in Modern Japan
Wednesday\, October 16\, 2024 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa\, Head Li brarian at Asian Library\, University of British Columbia
Details her e: https://asia.ubc.ca/events /event/defying-restrictions-women-created-women-read-sexual-writing-in-mode rn-japan/
Imaginaries of Wartime: Illustrations an d Photographs of Shōjo no Tomo and Shōjo Kurabu
Wednesday\, October 2\, 2024 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Ai Yamamo to\, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of Bri tish Columbia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/imaginaries-of-wartimeillust rations-and-photographs-of-shojo-no-tomo-and-shojo-kurabu/
The Popularization of the Hundred Poets in Edo-Period Japan
Wednesday\, September 18\, 2024 from 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PT)
Guest Speaker: Joshua Mostow\, Professor of Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Art in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
Details here: https://asia.ubc.ca/event s/event/the-popularization-of-the-hundred-poets-in-edo-period-japan/
“Questioning\, ‘What Am I?’” by Hirano Keiichiro
Monday\, March 18\, 2024 from 1:00pm – 2:45pm Pacific Time
I n-person in the Asian Centre Auditorium (map here)
Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/north-american-japanese-lit erature-forum-in-vancouver-tickets-839139006357
HIRANO Keiichiro is an award-winning author from Japan whose novels t ranslated into English include A Man and At the End of the Mat inee. In this talk\, he will share his personal experiences as a write r of Japan’s “Lost Generation\,” defined as a generation whose socio-econom ic stability declined dramatically following the collapse of the country’s asset price bubble. Mr. Hirano will also discuss the characteristics of wri ters of the generation before and after him\, delve into the question of id entity\, and as a current member of the Akutagawa Prize selection committee \, touch upon recent trends in Japanese literature. Also participating will be Professor Ayako Sato (Meiji Gakuin University)\, who will speak on the role of the Japan P.E.N. Club.
For more information\, please visit th e following website: https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/hirano-keiichiro-in-vancouver/
Co-presented by Japan P.E.N. Club\, UBC Asian Studies\, and The Japa n Foundation\, Toronto.
Speaker
Hirano Keiichiro has written more than 15 novels since his debut work The Eclipse\, for which h e won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize at the record age of 23. His deeply p sychological fiction deals with profound and universal themes like self-lov e\, relationships\, and acceptance\, and spans from short stories and histo rical novels to essays\, love stories\, and literary sci-fi. His novel At the End of the Matinee was a runaway bestseller in Japan and releas ed as a movie in November 2019. In 2023\, he published his 20-years-long wo rk Theory on Mishima Yukio.
Coordinator
Ayako Sato is Professor Emerita at Meiji Gakuin University\, a prolific translator\, Pres ident of The Canadian Literary Society of Japan\, and Executive Director of Japan PEN. She specializes in Canadian Literature and American Literature. Her translations include Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride\, Alias Gr ace\, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth\, and The Year o f the Flood as well as Tomson Highway’s Dry Lips Oughta Move to Ka puskasing. She is a co-author of J.D. Salinger Bungaku no Kenkyu\, Kebekku o shiru tame no 54 sho\, and Kanada o t abi suru 37 sho.
Online Book Talk by Matthieu Fel t (University of Florida)\, Meanings of Antiquity
Friday\, February 9\, 2024 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Pacific Time
Online v ia Zoom.
This talk discusses the 2023 book Meanings of Antiquity< /em>\, the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths\, recorde d in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon shoki\, ch anged in meaning and significance between 800 and 1800 CE. Generations of J apanese scholars and students have turned to these two texts and their crea tion myths to understand what it means to be Japanese and where Japan fits into the world order. As the shape and scape of the world explained by thes e myths changed\, the myths themselves evolved in turn. Over the course of the millennium covered in this study\, Japan transforms from the center of a proud empire to a millet seed at the edge of the Buddhist world\, from th e last vestige of China’s glorious Zhou Dynasty to an archipelago on a sphe rical globe. Analyzing historical records\, poetry\, fiction\, religious wr itings\, military epics\, political treatises\, and textual commentary\, Ma tthieu Felt identifies the geographical\, cosmological\, epistemological\, and semiotic changes that led to new adaptations of Japanese myths. Felt de monstrates that the meanings of Japanese antiquity and of Japan’s most anci ent texts were – and are – a work in progress\, a collective effort of writ ers and thinkers over the past 1300 years.
Matthieu Felt is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of Florida. After receiving his Ph.D. in Japanese literature fro m Columbia University in 2017\, he spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies. He is the author of Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan (Ha rvard University Asia Center\, 2023)\, which examines the varying interpret ations of mythical texts in pre-modern and early modern Japan. He is also a ctive as a translator\, including the introduction and translation of “Tale of the Dirt Spider\,” in Monsters and the Fantastic: A Collection of S hort Medieval Japanese Fiction\, ed. Keller Kimbrough et al. (Columbia University Press\, February 2018). His two-volume translation of The C hronicles of Japan\, produced with the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities individual fellowship\, is under contract with the Hsu- Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature\, Oxford University Press.
Why Play This Way?—Examining Approaches to Premodern Game s via Heian-period Uta-awase
Tuesday\, January 23\ , 2024 from 12:00pm – 1:30pm Pacific Time
Now online via Zoom. Please email
ubcjapanlectures@gmail.com< /a> to request the access link.In the early 200 0s\, game studies underwent an energetic period of innovation and discussio n\, driven largely by the explosion of digital games that continues to the present. However\, these new theories have largely been applied to digital games or non-digital games still in play today—but what of games from premo dern periods? One such game is the Japanese tradition of uta-awase (Poetry Matches)\, in which teams presented poems to compete head-to-head for adjudication on which side had the better poems. In this talk\, Kurtis will explore and explain the approach to understanding games that has infor med the methodology in his dissertation. Using C. Thi Nguyen’s concept of s triving play and temporary agency taken on by the players of a game\, the t alk will examine how this framework helps explain several uta-awase that break the mold in Japan’s Heian period (794–1185) and illuminate why they were played the way they were.
Kurtis Hanlon is a sessional lecturer and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia\, researching the intersection of litera ry and ludic cultures in premodern Japan. He is writing his dissertation ab out poetry matches in the 10-12th centuries under the supervisio n of Joshua Mostow\, and is interested in many ludic forms that combined po etry and play in premodern Japan. His most recent publication was as a co-e ditor on Ise monogatari: Contexts and Receptions—A Reader—\, which includes two essays by Japanese scholars that he translated for the collec tion.
Symposium on Zainichi Korean Literature
Saturday\, December 9\, 2023 from 2:00pm – 5:45pm Pacific Time
< p>This event will be a special symposium on the topic of translating Zainic hi (lit. “residing in Japan”\; resident) Korean literature\, to be held as a hybrid session.For more information\, please visit the symposium w ebsite below:
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Michiko Suzuki (UC Davis): Reading the Kimono i n Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film
Frida y\, November 10\, 2023 from 4:00pm – 5:30pm Pacific Time
Online via Z oom
Often considered an exotic garment of “tra ditional Japan\,” the kimono is in fact a vibrant part of Japanese modernit y. Reading the Kimono examines its vital role within twentieth-cen tury stories\, both textual and visual\, while also presenting a modern his tory of the kimono. By approaching this garment as an item to be closely “r ead” and interpreted on the page or the silver screen\, we discover that it reveals inner lives of characters\, hidden plot points\, intertextual mean ings\, resistant messages\, and social commentary. Heterogeneous and eloque nt\, kimonos also speak of wartime and postwar histories and shed light on everything from gender politics to censorship. Reading the Kimono pays close attention to “kimono language”—what these garments communicate w ithin their literary\, historical\, and cultural contexts—to illuminate thi s once powerful shared vernacular and achieve new ways of reading both narr atives and objects. In this talk\, Dr. Suzuki will focus specifically on
The Makioka Sisters (Sasameyuki\, 1943-48)\, considered Tanizaki Jun ’ichirō’s masterpiece\, and two of its film adaptations\, one directed by A be Yutaka in 1950 during the U.S. Occupation\, and the other directed by Ic hikawa Kon in 1983. Michiko Suzuki is associate prof essor of Japanese and comparative literature at the University of Californi a\, Davis. Her work examines narratives in light of cultural discourses and historical contexts and focuses on issues including modernity\, sexuality\ , sexology\, women writers\, and kimono culture. She is the author of R eading the Kimono in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature and Film (U niversity of Hawai‘i Press) and Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture (Stanford Universit y Press). Currently\, she is working on several projects\, including an exp loration of contemporary Japanese women writers and the so-called modern li terary canon.
Professional Development Workshop by Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura: Using Japanese Visual Materials
Friday\, October 20\, 2023\, 1:00 – 2:30pm Pacific Time
In-person in Room 604 (seminar room) @ UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here )
This workshop will introduce you to how to use visual materials inc luding artworks\, manga\, photographs and films for presentation and public ation. The topics will include copyright issues\, obtaining permission to r eproduce images\, and preparing images. The implications of the use of visu al materials in research will also be considered. Note: this workshop will be in-person only.
Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultur al anthropologist and curator trained at Oxford. She is cross appointed wit h the Department of Asian Studies and the Museum of Anthropology at UBC. Fu yubi taught in the Graduate School at the Australian National University an d also at the University of Tokyo\, and curated exhibitions internationally prior to joining UBC in 2014. Her research through exhibition curation as public scholarship includes A Future for Memory: Art and Life after the Great East Ja pan Earthquake (2021) and Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia (2017). Among her publications are Asia through Art and Anthropology: Cultural Translation across Borders (with Olivier Krischer and Morgan Perkins\, Bloomsbury Academic\, 2013) and Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and In digeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond (with Tristin Grunow\, 2019).
Ayaka Yoshimizu: Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama
Wednesday\, September 20\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Auditoriu m\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here) and online via Zoom
Guest Speakers: Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu\, Assistant Professor of Teaching\, Depa rtment of Asian Studies UBC and Dr. Kirsten Emiko McAllister\, P rofessor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.
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Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics\, poetics\, and ethics of remembering the lives o f transnational migrant sex workers in Japan. Drawing on ethnographic field work in the port city of Yokohama\, the book focuses on the “water trade” i n the Koganecho neighbourhood where exploitative and stigmatised labour too k place\, involving sexual services performed by migrant women. In recent y ears the city has sought to rebrand Koganecho\, evicting transnational migr ant sex workers who had been integral to postindustrial development and era sing their past presence. The author explores Yokohama’s memoryscapes in th e aftermath of displacement through embodied knowledge\, engaging her sense s and ethics as a colonizer-researcher as she navigates the elusive past th rough traces that remain in the present. She examines the city’s built envi ronment\, official historical narratives\, films\, and photographic works. With few brothels and workers remaining\, Yoshimizu fills the gap with her own interactions\, encounters\, and imaginings. Yoshimizu also writes throu gh the imagery of water in ways that are informed by the local usage and im aginations—the ocean\, flowing rivers\, swamps\, humidity\, alcohol\, the f luidity of relationships\, and transient lives. The water also offers a way to sense the “ghost”\, or the displaced lives and the effects of displacem ent\, that\, like humid air\, stick to those who occupy or inhabit the site of displacement today.
Archive\, Text\, and Geospatia l Data: Three Views of Japanese Shipping in the Pacific in the 1930s
Wednesday\, April 5\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here ) and online via Zoom
Guest Speaker: Dr. Elijah Greenstein\, Honorary Research Ass ociate\, Centre for Japanese Research\, IAR
The 1930s saw the high ti de of imperial Japan's expansion in world oceans. While this period is stro ngly associated with Japan's imperial expansion in continental Asia\, the d ecade also saw Japanese shipping firms rapidly recover from the Great Depre ssion and develop an expanding array of shipping services in the Pacific Oc ean and beyond. In the past\, a combination of company histories (shashi )\, diplomatic archives\, and newspaper articles made it possible for s cholars to examine the business decisions and government policies that prop elled these shipping activities. Recent years\, however\, have seen a growi ng investment in digital repositories of Japanese texts and other archival materials. In this presentation\, I reflect on the potential of this wealth (and even\, overabundance) of data to transform how historians engage with archives in Japan. In particular\, I will discuss how I used a combination of archival documents and digital methods (including text mining and GIS a nalysis) to develop new views on the kinds of expansionary projects at sea that paralleled Japanese empire building on land.
Naok o Kato\, Kaleidoscope: The Uchiyama Bookstore and its Sino-Japanese Visiona ries
Wednesday\, April 12\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver ( map here) and online via Zoom
Guest Speaker: Naoko Kato\, indepen dent scholar
Learn more about the speaker: Naoko Kat o is scholar-in-residence at the University of Victoria for Past Wrongs and Future Choices (Spring\, 2023). She teaches East Asian history at St. Mark ’s College and is an information resources specialist for the North America n Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources. Formerly she was the Japanese-language librarian at UBC Library\, where she developed Meiji-rel ated digital teaching resources. Her publications include a chapter in Tran slating the Occupation: The Japanese Invasion of China\, 1937-1945 (UBC Pre ss\, 2021).
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In the 1920s\, a Japanese businessman set up a bookshop in the city of Shanghai which changed the course of history by providing a forum for Ch inese and Japanese intellectuals to meet and discuss the great issues of th e day. Now\, Naoko Kato’s powerful book Kaleidoscope looks at the story of Uchiyama Kanzo and his bookstore from a fresh perspective\, breaking it dow n into a series of reflections that shift as the years turn. Uchiyama’s boo kstore was a fulcrum of Sino-Japanese contacts\, many of the members of Uch iyama’s salon were intellectuals behind the Chinese Communist Party\, then an illegal organization in Shanghai. The ability of Uchiyama and his bookst ore to transcend intellectual divisions and borders makes his story of uniq ue inter-cultural interest. And the context of Uchiyama’s efforts to bring peace between his home country of Japan and his chosen home of China is one of the most intellectually uplifting stories of the 20th century.
From Place Names to Utamakura through the Lens of “Yosh ino”
Monday\, March 27\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Host: Dr. Christina Laffin\, Associate Professor of Classical Japanese in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
Gue st Speaker: Yumiko Watanabe \, Professor of Medieval Japanese Literature in the Department of Literatur e at Rissho University
Yumiko Watanabe is a Professor of Medieval Jap anese Literature in the Department of Literature at Rissho University who r esearches Japanese poetry and poetics\, waka treatises\, and visual culture . Her most recent publications include a collaboratively edited annotation and analysis of the One Hundred Poets\, One Poem Each (Hyakuni n isshu no genzai\, Seikansha\, 2022)\, a coedited collection on priva te poetry collections as ego documents (Shikashū: waka to jikokatari\, Koten Raiburarī\, 2021)\, and a translated and annotated selection of the poems of Fujiwara no Shunzei (Kasama Shoin\, 2018). Her monographs cons ider waka and authority in material culture and the expressive style in the ShinKokin era. Dr. Watanabe has also produced a complete translat ion and annotation of the Saishō Shitennō-in screen poems which won the 200 8 Sekine Prize for the study of classical Japanese literature. In 2022 she contributed to the Suntory Museum summer exhibition on utamakura a nd material culture\, research from which will draw for this lecture.
Today\, for many in Japan the place name “Yoshino” brings to mind the imag e of cherry blossoms. The concept of connecting place name with landscape o riginates in the tradition of utamakura (poetic toponyms\; literal ly\, “poem pillows”). Utamakura emerged within the world of wa ka (Japanese poetry) eleven thousand years ago\, in the latter half of the ninth century\, and continued to develop alongside a deep connection t o paintings. Early in the medieval period\, Retired Emperor Toba (1103–1156 ) commanded famous places from throughout Japan to be painted on all of the sliding doors (known as shōji) of his Saishō Shitennō-in palace. Poets were then commissioned to compose poetry based on these famous sites.
Later\, with shifting social conditions\, physical mobility increased \, resulting an increase in travel literature (kikōbun) that recor ded actual visits to the sites of poetic toponyms (utamakura).
In this lecture\, I will focus on the example of “Yoshino” as we trace th e origins\, development\, and transformation in the function of this ut amakura.Japan-educated Korean Christian Elites i n Colonial and Post-Colonial Korea
Wednesday\, March 1\, 20 23\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC Asian Centre\ , 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Matsutani Motokazu ( Tohoku Gakuin University)\, Visiting Associate Professor of Modern History of Korea and Japan in the Department of Asian Studies\, University of Briti sh Columbia
Rabbit Holes\, Wormholes\, and Black Holes : Translating the Science Fiction of Izumi Suzuki
Thursday\ , March 2\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 316 (Boardroom)\, Liu In stitute for Global Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. David Boyd\, Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Languages and Culture Studies\, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Izumi Suzuki was born in Shizuoka in 1949 and came of age during the sixties. After working for a short time as a keypunch operator\, she moved on to acting\, modelin g\, and writing. By the early seventies\, Suzuki had carved out a space for herself in Japan’s male-dominated science fiction scene\, writing stories that were often set in strange worlds but explored deeply domestic themes.< /p>
Terminal Boredom\, the first collection of Suzuki’s work to appear in English\, was published by Verso Books in 2021. This year\, Verso is publishing Suzuki’s second collection of stories: Hit Parade of Tea rs. In this talk\, David Boyd will focus on one of his contributions t o this eleven-story volume\, “Hey\, It’s A Love Psychedelic!” (Nanto\, koi no saikederikku!\; 1982). He will discuss the translation process in detail\, from first read to final draft\, paying particular attention to the “rabbit holes\,” “wormholes\,” and “black holes” that emerged while tr anslating Suzuki’s frenetic fiction.
Surviving Queer: A Reading of Shinkurōdo monogatari
Wednesday\, Feb ruary 1\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, UBC A sian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here) and online via Zoom< /p>
Guest Speaker: Dr. Kimura Saeko\, Professor\, Department of International Cooperation and Multicultural Studies\, the College of Liberal Arts at Tsuda University
Shinkurōdo monogatari (The New Chamberlain) is an illustrated scroll produced in the Muromachi period (1336–1573) which was painted by w omen for their own amusement. The story depicts a girl who wishes to become a man and who enters court society as a man\, thus suggesting it was the d ream of girls to become men in order to walk around freely. In this present ation I will read Shinkurodo monogatari as a text revealing forms of freedom as a woman and as a queer woman.
“The Contrib utions of Religions to Modern Japanese Identity”
Wednesday\ , February 15\, 2023 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room)\, U BC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here) and online via Z oom
Guest Speaker: Dr. Peter Nosco\, Professor of Japanese History and Culture in the Dep artment of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
A report on a recent special issue of Japanese Journal of Religious Studies ( 48:2) into the contributions of religions and religious ideas to the constr uction of both individual and collective identity in Japan since 1940.
< hr />Japanese Cinema and the Video Essay
Wednes day\, January 18\, 2023\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Room 604 (seminar room )\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Colleen Laird\, Assistant Professor of Japanese Popular Culture in the Departme nt of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
“Although some s cholars have been practicing videographic criticism for over twenty years a nd many of the pioneers of the form worked with actual film in the pre-digi tal age\, videographic scholarship is an as-yet emerging form in film\, med ia\, and digital humanities studies. In the last decade\, and particularly during the pandemic\, audiovisual essays (or “video essays”) have prolifera ted across public and public-facing platforms as well as in digital peer-re viewed journals. This has resulted in the creation of new sub-genres of the form (e.g. the desktop documentary\, videographic deformations\, the super cut\, the epigraph\, and embodied performances/interactions)\, as well as a diversification of creators (e.g. scholars\, artists\, YouTubers\, cinephi les\, and of course intersections thereof). The diversification of the vide o essay\, which was never crystalized in form to begin with\, has inspired numerous debates\, articles\, and\, yes\, video essays to ask and analyze j ust what is a video essay? In this presentation\, UBC Japanese Cinema schol ar Dr. Colleen Laird discusses her own experiences in learning some of the differences between the “video essay” and “videographic criticism\,” as wel l as her thoughts on another question: what might Asian Studies have to off er videographic criticism?”
Japanese Propaganda and th e Power of Love: Mobilizing the Wartime Empire
November 16\ , 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh\, Department Head\ , Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture in the Depart ment of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
Moving beyond two homes: Counter-stories of young Canadian immigrants of K orean and Japanese descent surrounding identity and sense of belonging
October 19\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Guest Speaker: < a href="https://migration.ubc.ca/profile/jiin-yoo/">Jiin Yoo\, Doctoral Student in the Department of Educational Studies
Digi tal Disruptions to Designing in Japan\, 1965-85
September 2 1\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Sarah Teasley\, Professor of Design at RMIT University
A Conversation on Translation\, with Kanako Nishi and Allison Markin Powell
September 7\, 2022\, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PT)
Guest Spea ker: Nishi Kanako\, author\, and Allison Markin Powell\, translator
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-japan-lecture-series/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240209T2310Z-1707520254.1302-EO-62087-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240205T192118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240206T210357Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240213T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240213T193000 SUMMARY: “Dear Mother” Screening and Q&A with Dir. Sk Shuvo Shadique DESCRIPTION: Join the Indigenous Asia Committee for a screening of Dear Mot her\, followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Sk Shuvo Shadique! The mov ie presents the resilience of the Mro community\, the oldest and most margi nalized tribe in the Chittagong Hill Tracts area\, conveyed in their native language. Date: Tuesday\, February 13\, 2024 Time: 5:30 – […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Jo in the Indigenous Asia Committee for a screening of Dear Mother\, followed by a Q&A with the film's director Sk Shuvo Shadique!
The mov ie presents the resilience of the Mro community\, the oldest and most margi nalized tribe in the Chittagong Hill Tracts area\, conveyed in their native language.
Date: Tuesday\, February 13\, 2024
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Location: Seminar room (604)\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vanc ouver BC and online via ZoomRegistration is required for both online and in-person attendance.
*Trigger warning: the movie contains sensi tive material depicting violence faced by Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh< /p>
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/dear-mother-screening/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/02/Dear-Mother_Poster_Low-Res-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240211T1801Z-1707674510.3911-EO-62097-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240206T232939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240209T002455Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240229T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240229T190000 SUMMARY: Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity\, Sexuality\, and Violence in Post-Conflict Punjab DESCRIPTION: Date and Time: Thursday\, February 29\, 2024 from 5:00pm-7:00p m (PST) 5:00pm-5:30pm (PST) Reception 5:30pm-7:00pm (PST) Talk and Discussi on Location: xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees) Liu Institute for Global Iss ues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, UBC *There is also an option to watch the even t virtually. The lecture will be live-streamed. This event is free and ope n […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Date and Time:
Th ursday\, February 29\, 2024 from 5:00pm-7:00pm (PST)5:00pm-5:30pm (P ST) Reception
5:30pm-7:00pm (PST) Talk and Discussion
Location:xʷθ əθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
Liu Institute for Global Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, UBC*There is also an option to watch the event virtually. The lecture will be live-streamed.
This event is fr ee and open to the public. Registration required via https://forms.gle/y3qKTzLXpFAqKHUq8
UBC A sian Studies welcomes Dr. Harjant Gill to UBC! This event has been sponsore d by the Onkarbir Singh Toor Memorial Punjabi Studies Enhancement Fund.
Co-sponsored by CISAR and the Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality & Social Justice\, with many thanks to our community partners The Surrey Art Gallery\, Sher Vancouver\, and Punjabi Market!
In Indian Punjab\, a c ulture dominated almost entirely by men\, learning to become a man is a pro cess fraught with violence. Disillusioned by lofty promises for power and c ontrol\, Gill’s research shows how Punjabi men contend with patriarchy: by submitting to it\, by attempting to transgress it\, by migrating away from it\, or by coming undone by it. Based on long-term fieldwork research and d ocumentary filmmaking\, Gill takes readers deep inside men’s worlds to show how on one hand\, masculinity is produced through pervasive violence\, on the other\, it’s underlined with intimacy and tenderness men express freely towards each other without the fear of homophobic ridicule. In his forthco ming book\, Gill posits an indictment of patriarchy as a system that not on ly oppresses women but also constricts men’s choices regarding their intima te and sexual lives. Gill makes a convincing argument for why men everywher e must divest from patriarchy if they don’t wish for their lives to be defi ned by relentless conflict and violence.
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Harj ant Gill is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Towson Unive rsity. His research examines the intersections of masculinity\, modernity\, transnational migration\, and popular culture in India. Gill is also an aw ard-winning filmmaker and has made several ethnographic films that have scr eened at international film festivals and on television channels worldwide including BBC World News\, Doordarshan (Indian National TV) and PBS. Gill i s also the recipient of the Point Foundation Scholarship\, Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship\, American Institute of Indian Studies Performing Arts Fellowship\, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars' Career Enhancement Fell owship\, and the Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship. He is als o the president of Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival (2 024 - 2026) and co-edited the Multimodal Anthropologies section of the jour nal American Anthropologist (2017-2020).
CATEGORIES:Featured Punjabi LOCATION:The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/coming-of-age-in-macholand-m asculinity-sexuality-and-violence-in-post-conflict-punjab/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/02/COMING-OF-AGE-IN-MACHOLAND-MASCULINITY-SEXUALITY-AND-VIOLENCE-IN-POST-CONFLICT-PUNJAB.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7398-EO-61173-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230927T214423Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240212T235452Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240302 SUMMARY: Complete Political Independence: The Curious Genealogy of a Nation alist Indian Demand DESCRIPTION: The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for spec ialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplin ary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan). The Indian National Congress\, the mainstream old anti-colon ial political institution in British India\, passed a resolution in 1929 in which it […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum fo r specialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdis ciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Mrinalini Sinha (Univ ersity of Michigan).
The Indian National Congress\, the mainstream ol d anti-colonial political institution in British India\, passed a resolutio n in 1929 in which it officially demanded complete political independence f or India from the British empire. The question of political independence – against other modes of exit from the existing colonial situation – had been in the air for at least a few decades before the Congress signed on to it. Although immortalized immediately afterwards in the famous Gandhi-led Salt Satyagraha against the British in 1930\, the historical conditions that ha d necessitated the resolution in the first place have remained obscure. Thi s talk will attempt to defamiliarize the history of this political demand. It does so by locating the question of the future of India alongside the fu ture of Indians in the British empire. Its aim is to intervene in both a lo ng-standing scholarship that had naturalized the transition from empires t o nations and in the recent academic fascination with political forms that offered an alternative to\, or by-passed\, the nation-state.
Date & Time:
Friday\, March 1\, 2024 | 2:00 - 4:00pm
Location:
UBC Asian Centre\, Auditorium\, 1871 West Mal l\, VancouverHosted by the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this event is open to the public.
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The event recording is now available:
https://www.youtu be.com/watch?v=2SAatS889vM
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 prefac e of his collection of stories "Once Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative approaches in literature\, especially in short stories and novels\, as a c ritique of the cultural\, social\, and political lives of people across the world.
About novels\, for e xample\, he states:
"For those who wish to be informed about the social\, internal\, and spi ritual state of other nations and countries and want to convey and understa nd more about them than what is inadequately presented in history books\, w hich only show the political and military aspects of a nation and its syste m and people\, there is no better and more solid way than reading novels ab out that nation and people..."
Besides\, since novels are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy and identification with the characters and their world\, they not only offer a form of representation of a society's state b ut also place the reader within the experience of that world. T hus\, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approaching the one wh o is most distant and “other”\, allowing for the hearing of the other’s voi ce.
Literature provides the safest space for such encounters of a historical\, cultural\, political\, a nd ethnic nature. Novels paradoxically reveal the shared and singular exper iences of the writers and characters on an emotional and pre-logical level. Hence\, novels can provide a space for acquaintance with the other and a p latform or a space for a multiplicity of voices.
Given the foundational importance of novels and their relationship with the lived historical experience\, this series of sessions will focus on the examination of some of the most prominent and best novel s published in the past forty-plus years. The aim is to delve into and shed some light on the historical experiences and events after the 1979 revolut ion up to present. In other words\, these sessions will examine the represe ntation of the conditions leading to the revolution\, post-revolution event s such as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the most significant novels of this period.
برنامه جلسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴
:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع
محمدعلی جمالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رم ان را شیوههای نوینی برای نقد و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه جای جهان قلمداد کرده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید
برای کسان ی که میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک باخبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسانند و نمیخواهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنها حیات سیاس ی و نظامی یک و ملک و ملتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نشان میدهد ق انع شوند، هیچ راهی بهتر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و مل ت نیست
مسئله دیگر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنه ا نوعی بازنمایی از حیات اجتماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خواننده را در معر ض تجربهی آن فضا نیز قرار میدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دی گری و حتی آشتی با دیگری و دست کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اساسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چنین برخوردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیاسی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گفتگو بلکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آش نایی با دیگری و بستر فضای چند صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد
با توجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجموعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخی ر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبارت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط و قوع انقلاب، وقایع پس از انقلاب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زمان حال در بر خی از مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خواهیم پرداخت
همکاران ثابت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی
Fifth Session:
< strong>Session Title: "History and its Representation in Literature: The Life of the Hopeless"
Session Content:
Date & Time:
Saturday\, March 2\, 2024
10
:00am (PST) / 9:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: West Van
couver Library
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoo
m Meeting.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public.
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Hossein Sanapour\, born in 1339 (1960) in Tehran\, Iran\, is a di stinguished Iranian author renowned for his contributions to contemporary P ersian literature. Sanapour began his foray into self-taught fiction writin g in the early 1980s and embarked on a new phase of his literary career in 1988 under the tutelage of Houshang Golshiri\, a prominent Iranian writer. Sanapour\, a graduate in Natural Resources from the University of Tehran\, ventured into journalism in the 1990s\, contributing to newspapers such as Hamshahri and Zen-o-Hayat-e-No. His early works include two novels for youn g adults\, "Pesaraneh Dehkadeh" (Boys of the Village) in 1989 and "Afsaneh va Shabe Toolani" (The Legend and the Long Night) in 1991. He also played a key role in editing and compiling stories for the magazine Gerdoun.
Sanapour's first novel\, "Nimeh Gha ib" (The Absent Half)\, published in 1999\, is among the best-selling conte mporary Persian novels and has reached its twenty-second print. This novel brought him several accolades\, including the Mehregan Award in 1999 and th e Yalda Award in 2000. In addition to his novelistic endeavors\, Sanapour h as an extensive portfolio in short stories and poetry\, with notable works like "Viran Miayi" (You Come Devastated)\, "Ba Gard Baz" (With Open Guard)\ , and "Sefidtar az Ostokhan" (Whiter than Bone). His collection "Samte Tari k-e Kalamat" (The Dark Side of Words) won the best short story collection a t the 6th Houshang Golshiri Awards. Furthermore\, Sanapour has contributed significantly to literary criticism\, with publications analyzing the works of Houshang Golshiri and other notable Iranian authors. Since 2000\, he ha s been actively involved in teaching fiction writing\, sharing his insights and expertise with aspiring writers.
حسین سناپور، متولد ۱۳۳۹ در تهران، یکی از نویسندگان برجسته ایرانی است. او داستاننویسی را از اوایل دهه شصت به صورت خودآموز شروع کرد و از سال ۱۳۶۸ با شرکت در کلاسهای هوشنگ گلشیری، دوره جدید ی در داستاننویسی خود آغاز کرد. سناپور، که تحصیلاتش را در رشته منابع طبیعی از دانشگاه تهران به پایان رسانده، در دهه هفتاد به روزنامهنگاری روی آورد و با روزنامههایی چون همشهری و زن و حیاتنو همکاری کرد. او همچنین در گردآوری و چاپ داستانهای مجله گردون نیز نقش داشته است.
اولین رمان سناپور، "نیمه غایب "، که در سال ۱۳۷۸ منتشر شد، از جمله پرفروشترین رمانهای معاصر فارسی است و به چاپ بیستودوم رسیده است. این رمان برای او جوایز متعددی به همراه آورد، از جمله جایزه مهرگان در سال ۱۳۷۹ و جایزه یلدا در سال ۱۳۸۰. سناپور، علاوه بر ر ماننویسی، در حوزه داستان کوتاه و شعر نیز فعالیت داشته و آثار متعددی منتشر کرده است. از جمله آثار او میتوان به "ویران میآیی"، "با گارد باز"، "سمت تا ریک کلمات"، که برنده بهترین مجموعه داستان کوتاه در ششمین دوره جایزه هوشنگ گ لشیری شد، و "مخلوقات غریب" اشاره کرد. او همچنین در زمینه تحلیل آثار ادبی فع الیت دارد و کتابهایی در این حوزه منتشر کرده است. از سال ۱۳۷۹ تاکنون، سناپو ر به تدریس داستاننویسی مشغول بوده و به اشتراکگذاری دانش و تجربیات< span style="font-weight: 400\;"> خود با دیگران پرداخته است.
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Farhad Akbarzadeh was born in 1976 in Tehran. MA in Western Philosophy from Allameh Tabatabai University. Translator in the field of critical aesthetics\, especially works by Jacques Rancière\, A ntonio Negri and Giorgio Agamben. The editor of the Aghah publication for 4 years and the chief editor of the Ban publication from the beginning until 2020.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabā tabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Study o f Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy f rom Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his research o n the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at < /span>Harvard Universi ty and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnavard- i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North Am erica for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic a nd has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for w hich he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track posi tion as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in cont ent-based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received severa l certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementi ng technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in crit ical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage lea rners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).< /p>
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside th eir native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiasti c students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as p art of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature espe cially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at
the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\,
M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University. <
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His primary interests are critical s
emiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural studie
s. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are
Applied Semiotics
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">He was one of the founders of the Tehran So ciety of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Soci ety of Iran.
As an invit ed professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Human ities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میزبانا
ن جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبا نشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتر ی زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعا ت فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظ ری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است . نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو) ، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه س اختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچار د هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی< /span> و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین< /span>: نظریه و هنر (ریچا رد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
سجودی از ب نیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-and-its-representati on-in-literature-session-5/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/01/Persian-Literature-Reading-Club-2023-2024-5Session-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231212T0359Z-1702353585.8389-EO-61584-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231107T005353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T225245Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240302T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240302T121500 SUMMARY: Twelver Shiite Martyrologies in Turkic: The Politics of Translatio n and Ritual in Early Modern Iran DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Twelver Shiite Martyrologi es in Turkic: The Politics of Translation and Ritual in Early Modern Iran o n March 2\, 2024. The talk will discuss the political\, social\, and ritual function of Turkic in early modern Iran through the genre of martyrology. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is now available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=YufrDhZurOM&list=PLV4tCChJ7aFg8Txk3lD5FFVKM16CML0et&index=26
The Al ireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Twelv er Shiite Martyrologies in Turkic: The Politics of Translation and Ritual i n Early Modern Iran on March 2\, 2024.
The talk will di scuss the political\, social\, and ritual function of Turkic in early moder n Iran through the genre of martyrology. It analyzes the otherwise unknown Riżā Khāksārī’s Jannat al-muʾminīn (‘The Paradise of the Believers ’)\, a late seventeenth-century Turkic translation of Kāshifī’s Rawżat al-shuhadā\, one of the most popular Alid martyrologies in early moder n Iran. The presentation will analyze the work as a base text for Shiite mo urning ceremonies against the background of the Ṣafavids’ attempt to define and control religious ritual among their Turkophone following.
Ferenc Csirkés studies the literary and cultural history of medieval and early moder
n Iran\, Central Asia\, and the Ottoman Empire. He holds a PhD in Near East
ern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and is curre
ntly an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Birmingham\; pr
ior to that\, he worked at Simon Fraser and Sabancı Universities\, the Univ
ersity of Tübingen and Central European University. He is currently complet
ing a book manuscript about the politics of Turkic in medieval and early mo
dern Iran.
Kathryn Babayan specializes in the social h istory and culture of the early-modern Persianate world\, gender studies\, and the history of sexuality. She has just been awarded a National Endowmen t for the Humanities Fellowship for 2024-25. Babayan is the author of two a ward winning books\, Mystics\, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscap es of Early Modern Iran (Cambridge M.A.: Harvard University Press\, 20 03)\, and The City as Anthology: Eroticism & Urbanity in Early Modern I sfahan (Stanford: Stanford University Press\, 2021). Babayan has also co-authored Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran\, with S ussan Babaie\, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe\, and Massumeh Farhad (London: I.B. Ta uris\, 2004)\, and co-edited two books Islamicate Sexualities: Translat ions Across Temporal Geographies of Desire with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Cam bridge M.A.: Harvard University Press\, 2008)\, and An Armenian Mediter ranean: Words and Worlds in Motion with Michael Pifer (Cham\, Switzerl and: Palgarve Macmillan\, 2018).
Registration required. Regis ter here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bU5LZtl4STi4czN7AL9yiQ< /strong>
Rethinking Global J
apanese Studies Symposium
March 10-11\, 2024
Co-organizers: Christina Yi and Ayaka Y oshimizu
This two-day international sympos ium will bring UBC graduate students in conversation with leading Japanese studies scholars from around the world in order to collectively think toget her about multiple competing centers and peripheries witnessed in the socia l imaginaries and global dissemination of Japanese (-language) studies. The symposium will feature six panel sessions and a keynote speech by the Akut agawa-award-winning author Li Kotomi. Focusing in particular on literature and other forms of cultural production\, we seek to take a decolonial and a nti-racist approach to Japanese studies and critically consider both its li mits and possibilities. Together\, we hope to contribute new interdisciplin ary methodologies and collaborative possibilities that will be of relevance to a wide range of scholars and students in the global humanities today.
Schedule:<
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Sunday\, March 10\, 2024 | CK Choi Conference Room 120
(view map)
9: 30: Opening Remarks by Ayaka Yoshimizu
9 :45 - 11:30: Panel 1 on Japanese Digital Humanities Today with Aliz Horvath \, Hoyt Long\, Miaoling Xue
12:50 - 13:3 5: Panel 2.1 on Diasporic Dialogues and (Dis)connections with David Roh\, A nne Sokolsky\, Ying Han
13:45 -14:30: Pa nel 2.2 on Diasporic Dialogues and (Dis)connections with Rebecca Hausler\, Andrew Leong\, Darcy Tamayose
14:30 - 15 :30: Q&A for Panels 2.1 & 2.2
15:45 - 17 :30: Panel 3 on Crossing Literary/Genre/Temporal Borders with Daniel Poch\, Yoshida Kaori\, Ai Yamamoto
Monday\, March 11\, 2024 | Asian Centre Auditorium (view map)
10:00 - 11:45: Panel 4 on Premodern Transculturations and Alternative Global Imaginings with Phuon g Ngo\, Vyjayanthi Selinger\, Lavanya Verma
13:15pm - 15:00: Panel 5 on Global Japanese Studies in Japan with Young long Kim\, Akito Sakasai\, Pau Pitarch Fernandez
15:15 - 17:15: Keynote Speech by Li Kotomi\, 「日本でクィアを書くということ」 (Wr iting About Queerness in Japan)
17:15: C losing remarks by Christina Yi
Free & open to the public.
To register for the symposium\, please fill out the following fo
rm:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_86xkEeyCtq5ARue
For more information on the symposium\, please email < a href="mailto:ubcglobaljp@gmail.com">ubcglobaljp@gmail.com.
Generously co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies at UBC\, Japan Foundation Toronto\, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Co uncil of Canada (SSHRC)\, and Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO).
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The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offe rs a forum for specialists in South Asia to share their research in front o f an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features speaker Kiran Sunar (University of Briti sh Columbia).
Date & Time:
Monday\, March 18\,
2024 | 12:30-2:00 PM (PT)
Location:
UBC Asian C
entre\, Room 604\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Hosted by the Departmen
t of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this event is open to
the public.
Registration is required (please find the registration fo
rm above).
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The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual C areers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so each year w e bring in reputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home a nd in Asia – to inform and inspire current students.
This event will feature keynote speeches from an Asian affairs luminary and a UBC career st rategist\, as well as round-robin networking sessions where you can connect face-to-face with fellow Asian Studies graduates from a wide array of back grounds.
You will also have a chance to win various raffle prizes\, i ncluding an invaluable opportunity to job shadow a faculty member from the Asian Studies department\, dining at the stunning Top of Vancouver Revolvin g Restaurant (where you can literally reach for the sky!)\, as well as a my riad of Asian Studies swag!
Careers Night is the perfect opportunity to gain career insights\, make connections\, meet fellow Asian Studies stud ents\, and feel more confident in taking the next steps on your career path .
As a student:
* Ask your burning que
stions about what a degree in Asian Studies has to offer
* Gain helpfu
l networking tips and experience (e.g. How to Use LinkedIn 101)
* Meet
your fellow undergraduates and learn about their career and academic plans
* Get an excellent head-start in planning your next move during and a
fter UBC
As an alumni:
* Share what yo
u did at UBC that helped you succeed
* Give back to your alma mater by
providing helpful insights to students on what they should expect post-gra
d
* Meet and make connections with other alumni and students
* Me
et potential future hires among our diligent and passionate students
H.E. Mr. Shawn Steil\, Am
bassador of Canada to Vietnam
Shawn Steil joined the Global Affairs Canada in 2002. In Ottawa\, he has served as director for foreign p olicy planning and executive director for Greater China. In 2004\, he began back-to-back postings in China\, first in Beijing\, with responsibility fo r foreign policy and relations with Mongolia\, then as head of the consulat e in Chongqing. From 2011 to 2014\, he served as head of the consulate in I stanbul\, Turkey\, and as senior trade commissioner for Turkey\, Georgia\, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. In 2014\, he was appointed ambassador to Kazak hstan\, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. Mr. Steil presented his credent ials and officially became the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Canada to Vietnam on May 26\, 2022.
Robyn Stalkie\, Career St
rategist\, UBC Career Centre and Faculty of Arts
Robyn Stalkie (she/her) is the Career Strategist for the Faculty of Arts. As an Arts graduate herself\, she is committed to supporting students within the Faculty to feel confident as they seek out meaningful work during their deg rees and beyond. In her role as Career Strategist\, Robyn spends time deliv ering workshops (resume/cover letter\, interview tips\, job search strategy \, etc.)\, facilitating career development events like the Arts Career Desi gn Studio\, and having 1-1 advising conversations. Outside of work Robyn lo ves to play word-/video-/board-games of all sorts and dive into on her cour sework for the Certificate of Organizational Coaching program through UBC!< /p>
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Kayla holds a Bachelor of Arts in Kor ean Language & Culture from the University of British Columbia. One of the highlights of Kayla's time as a student was studying abroad in Seoul\, Sout h Korea. Currently Kayla works at the Law Foundation of BC as the Team Lead of Digital Transformation where she works cross-functionally with staff an d grantees\, leveraging experience and expertise with technology\, operatio ns\, process improvement and change management to optimize processes.
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Ellie Cho\, BA ’16 – CG Artist
Ellie Cho graduated from UBC with honours in Asian Languages and Cultures (Mandar in) and a minor in English (literature). She found her passion in learning the language in Taiwan through scholarships and went back again through Go Global. During her time at UBC\, she also studied and worked under Dr. Ross King\, as well as studying translation in Korean. After graduating\, she f ound a position in a credit union\, but she left in order to pursue a more creative career.
After further schooling\, Ellie is now in the visual effects industry as a CG artist and has worked on games\, feature animatio n\, and live action films in companies like Electronic Arts\, MPC\, and Son y Pictures Imageworks. She has also taught as an instructor at Centre for E ntertainment Arts at Langara and as a trainer for Technicolor Academy.
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Karen Fayemi\, BA ’21 – Canada Emergency Benefits Offi
cer\, Canada Revenue Agency
Karen Fayemi is a UBC graduate c urrently working at Canada Revenue Agency as a Canada Emergency Benefits Of ficer. She has experience working as a legal assistant\, cultural assistant and coach/camp leader for English language learners.
Karen grew up i n Vancouver and lived here her whole life. She grew up bilingual speaking E nglish and French and she now speaks Japanese although she’s still learning . Karen enjoys photography\, movies\, reading comics\, visiting cafes and t ravelling. She likes taking pictures of natures and historical buildings. H er favourite Asian studies class was Japanese horror with Professor Laird.< /p>
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Kristy Lin\, BA ’21 – Communications Strategist\, VP Fi
nance & Operations at UBC
Kristy Lin is a second generation Chinese Canadian born and raised in Vancouver. Growing up\, she’s always be en interested and curious about many different aspects of life\, and so thr ough studying both Asian Studies and ACAM\, she was able to learn from many disciplines such as psychology\, philosophy\, sociology\, film\, media\, a nd entertainment but through the lens of Asia. One of her favourite memorie s from her time at UBC is studying abroad at Yonsei University in Seoul dur ing her 3rd year.
Outside of work\, she loves traveling\, watching th e latest k-dramas\, eating around Vancouver and documenting her life experi ences on TikTok.
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Richard N. Liu\, BA ’93 – Honorary Brigade
Division President\, St. John Ambulance\, BC/Yukon
Educated at both UBC and Peking University\, Richard Liu’s family has long distingui shed Canada-China ties for 3 generations. His career in Asia included areas of public relations\, diplomacy\, major events organisation to education. Richard now advises companies and organisations on a variety of sectors per taining to Asia.
With both Chinese\, Korean and Italian heritage in h is family\, and a passion for storytelling\, Richard recently completed two terms as Heritage Commissioner advising Burnaby City Council on matters co ncerning the identification\, management and preservation and/or restoratio n of buildings and sites with historical significance in Burnaby since 2018 . He was recently appointed as the Chief Ambassador for the Chinese Canadia n Reconciliation Project for the City of Burnaby. As a board member at larg e for multiculturalism\, he also sits on the Barkerville Heritage Trust\, a national historic site with one of the oldest Chinatowns in Canada. Richar d is also a leader in the development of a wide variety of volunteer projec ts from the Terry Fox Run to Special Olympics to the Olympics and Paralympi cs in Beijing\; to a leadership role with St. John Ambulance in BC and Cana da.
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Anh Luu\, BA ’22 – ESL Instructor
Anh Luu graduated from UBC in 2022 majoring in Asian Language and Culture with a focus on Japan\, minoring in Asian Language and Culture with a focus on China\, and a certificate in TESL. During Anh's time at UBC\, s he was involved in the Asian Studies Department starting as a student volun teer and shortly after\, work-learn positions. She was also a Teaching Assi stant for ASIA 351 (Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation)\, which is a cou rse she recommends because the readings are amazing.
After graduating from UBC\, Anh worked in Japan as an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) for JET Programme Canada. She lived in the countryside in Niigata prefecture te aching 7 (at the most) elementary schools. It was a valuable experience for her as she was able to connect with people of all ages and she enjoyed man y cultural events and festivals in the community. She was also able to put her language specialization to use and take the JLPT (Japanese Language Pro ficiency Test) while she was in Japan. After working as an ALT\, Anh grew a n even deeper love for teaching and decided to return to Canada to pursue a career in education and become the best teacher she could be! Anh is now p ursuing adult ESL teaching following the completion of her TESOL Diploma.
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Yuji Mats
on\, BA ‘ 02 – Lawyer
In 2014\, Yuji Matson became a lawyer in British Columbia\, specializing in corporate and commercial law\, immigr ation\, employment law\, real estate\, and wills and estates. With many Jap anese clients\, he leverages his fluency in Japanese and understanding of J apanese culture.
His academic journey began with a Bachelor of Arts i n Asian Studies from UBC in 2002\, with a focus on Japanese studies. After participating in the JET Programme and earning a Master of Arts in Modern J apanese Literature and Film from the University of Victoria in 2008\, he pu rsued legal studies. Yuji obtained his law degree from the University of Vi ctoria in 2011\, followed by a Master of Laws in International Economic and Business Law from Kyushu University in 2012. Yuji received his law degree from the University of Victoria in 2011 and completed an LL.M. in Internati onal Economic and Business Law at Kyushu University in 2012. Active in the local Japanese community\, he serves on several boards including the Greate r Vancouver Japanese Canadian Citizen's Association and the Japan-Canada Ch amber of Commerce.
William Strausser\, BA ’17 – Data Analyst\, UBC Art
s ISIT
William graduated from UBC in 2017 with an Honours BA in A sian Area Studies. As a student\, William pursued his interest in post-war Japanese cinema and studied abroad at Osaka University through Go Global in 2016. After graduating he joined the Department of Asian Studies as a Proj ect Coordinator working on tasks related to conference planning\, faculty r ecruitment\, and data reporting. In 2019\, he served as Department Head’s A ssistant before leaving UBC in 2020 to enroll in a one-year full-time Japan ese language course at ECC Kokusai College of Foreign Languages in Osaka\, Japan. Returning to UBC in 2022\, William began his current position as a D ata Analyst with UBC Arts ISIT\, which he works with student and faculty da ta in Python\, SQL\, and Tableau to provide reports that support decision m aking in the Faculty of Arts.
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Jennifer Ward\, BA ‘ 12 – Freelance Translator<
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As a longtime fan of anime and manga\, Jennifer Ward attende d UBC with the goal of learning Japanese to pursue her passion. During her studies at UBC\, she went on a one year exchange program to Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan\, where she polished her language skills.
After g raduating from UBC\, she participated in the JET Programme as a CIR for one year before beginning as a freelance translator. She started off working t hrough an agency before making direct clients and has continued to work fro m home as a freelancer for ten years. She has since translated nearly fifty novels and hundreds of volumes of manga from Japanese to English for publi shers such as Yen Press\, Kodansha\, Seven Seas\, and others.
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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 dy nasty (1392-1910) who tried to radically reform the Korean state\, firmly g rounded in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism\, into one that protects the well-bei ng of the people effectively through various practical reform plans. In hig hlighting the practical side of Chŏng’s moral and political philosophy\, sc holars have concentrated on the notable difference between the Neo-Confucia n orthodoxy and Chŏng’s interpretation of Confucian classics\, but little a ttention has been paid to the distinctive characteristics of Chŏng’s vision for good government relative to the traditional Confucian ideal of humane government.
In this talk\, Sungmoon Kim shows that what is central to Chŏng’s political thought is the institutional system of the government\, which is motivated by the ruler’s “tough compassion” for the well-being of the people. Instead of appealing to the ruler’s “heart-mind that cannot bea r the sufferings of people\,” which Mencius famously declared as the locomo tive of humane government\, tough compassion is mainly concerned with (re)e stablishing an enduring governmental system that can promote the overall we ll-being of the people by making the state rich and strong. Chŏng’s statecr aft of tough compassion\, in which law figures centrally\, may make him loo k like a Legalist\, but Chŏng believed he was rekindling the original spiri t of Confucianism\, which had long been eclipsed by the dominant version of Korean Confucianism.
Sungmoon Kim is Chair Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Center
for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the City University of Hong Ko
ng. His research interests include Confucian democratic and constitutional
theory\, East Asian political thought\, and comparative political theory\,
and his essays have appeared in journals such as American Political Sci
ence Review\, British Journal of Political Science\, Cont
emporary Political Theory\, European Journal of Political Theory\, History of Political Thought\, Journal of the History of
Ideas\, Journal of Politics\, Law & Social Inquiry\
, Philosophy East and West\, and The Review of Politics a
mong others. Kim is the author of six books -- Confucian Democracy in E
ast Asia: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press\, 2014)\,
Organized by Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies) and Ervin Malakaj (CE
NES)\, this symposium brings together scholars at UBC working in any area o
f queer/trans cinema studies.
The event is open to the public and no prior registration is required.
Join us on Saturday\, March 30 from 1 2:00pm-5:30pm in Buchanan Tower room 997 for an afternoon of conversation a nd community around emerging scholarship at UBC.
12:00-12:15 Welcome and Introductions
Moderator: Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies) and Ervin Malakaj (CENES)
12:15-13:45 Session 1
Moderator: Ervin Malakaj (CEN ES)
14:00-15:30 Session 2
Moderator: Haruki Sekiguc hi (Asian Studies)
15:45-17:15 Session 3
Moderator: Ervin Malakaj (CENE S)
17:30 Symposium En d
Moderator: Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies)
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Room 997\, Buchanan Tower GEO:49.268580;-123.253452 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/queer-trans-cinema-studies-a -symposium/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/03/queer-trans-cinema-website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240211T1844Z-1707677056.0335-EO-62037-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240210T011416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240311T184202Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240403T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240404T200000 SUMMARY: 2023/24 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: The Allegorical American: Positioning the United States in Chinese-Language Cinema DESCRIPTION: 2023/24 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture hosted by the UBC Depa rtment of Asian Studies X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The 2023/24 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
Cinema can play many roles\, from entertainment to escapism\, and from t he pedagogical to the propagandistic. Within the matrix of Chinese language cinema\, representations of the United States and the figure of the Americ an have served a particularly powerful role in helping Chinese audiences im agine new global possibilities as well as themselves. Since 1949\, the imag e of the American in Chinese-language cinema has undergone radical transfor mations. This history of representation is further complicated by radically different portrayals in different regions that produce Chinese-language fi lm\, including the PRC\, Hong Kong\, and Taiwan. These representations have also often served as a political tool to alternately temper or fuel global dreams\, contend with new forms of nationalism\, and establish a more comp lex understanding of China\, Taiwan\, and Hong Kong’s place in the world. T his talk will provide a critical overview of some of the major tropes\, tre nds\, and permutations that the United States has gone through in Chinese-l anguage cinema. Turning to the present\, it will also address the curious w ays in which\, against the backdrop of a so-called “New World Order\,” it i s actually old tropes and well-worn stereotypes that have found renewed cul tural and political capital.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, April 4\, 2024
Reception: 5:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Lecture: 6:00pm-8:00pm (PDT)
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Presented in English
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During the early days of the COVID-19 health c
risis\, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for p
eople around the world to understand the outbreak\, local response\, and ho
w the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the
international publication of Wuhan Diary appeared online in early
April of 2020\, Fang Fang’s writings became the target of a series of onli
ne attacks by “Chinese ultra-nationalists.” Over time\, these attacks morph
ed into one of the most sophisticated and protracted hate Campaigns against
a Chinese writer in decades. Meanwhile\, as controversy around Wuhan D
iary swelled in China\, the author was transformed into a global icon\
, honored by the BBC as one of the most influential women of 2020 and featu
red in stories by dozens of international news outlets.
This seminar w
ill draw upon first-hand experience of translating Wuhan Diary int
o English\, alternating between a first-hand account of the translation pro
cess and more critical observations on how a diary became a lightning rod f
or fierce political debate and the target of a sweeping online campaign tha
t many described as a “cyber Cultural Revolution.” The seminar will chronic
le how Berry would be pulled into the attacks and targeted by thousands of
online trolls and how that experience would change his perspectives on the
act and ethics of literary translation.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, April 3
\, 2024
3:30pm – 5:30pm (PDT)
Location:
The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place o
f Many Trees\, Liu Institute for Global Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Dr\, Vancou
ver\, BC
(view map
)
Presented in English
Free & open to the public
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Michael Berry is an author and translator who is Profe
ssor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center fo
r Chinese Studies at UCLA. He has written and edited ten books on Chinese l
iterature and cinema\, including Speaking in Images: Interviews with Co
ntemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2006)\, A History of Pain: Trauma i
n Modern Chinese Literature and Film (2008)\, Jia Zhangke on Jia Z
hangke (2022) The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Upris
ing in Colonial Taiwan (2022) and Translation\, Disinformation and
Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Trans Pacific Disinformation Campaign (2022
). He has served as a film consultant and a juror for numerous film festiva
ls\, including the Golden Horse (Taiwan) and the Fresh Wave (Hong Kong). A
Guggenheim Fellow and two-time National Endowment for the Arts Translation
Fellow\, Berry's book-length translations include The Song of Everlasti
ng Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai (2008) by Wang Anyi\, shortlisted for t
he Man Booker International Prize\, To Live (2004) by Yu Hua\, a s
election in the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read library\, and
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City (2020) by Fang Fang. H
is latest translation projects include the dystopian science fiction Ho
spital Trilogy by Han Song\, which includes the novels Hospital (2023)\, Exorcism (2023) and Dead Souls (2024)\, and t
he novels Soft Burial (2024) and The Running Flame (2024)
by Fang Fang.
The 2023-2024 Wat Lecture is dedicated to the memory of Chi Shum Watt.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2023-24-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/01/Website-Both.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231219T0916Z-1702977388.142-EO-61874-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20231218T205744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T202519Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T210000 SUMMARY: “Two Hearts / Two Solitudes”: Jahan Malek Khatun’s and Forugh Farr okhzad’s Proto-Feminist Self-Defense in Medieval and Modern Iran DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: “Two Hearts / Two Solitude s”: Jahan Malek Khatun’s and Forugh Farrokhzad’s Proto-Feminist Self-Defens e in Medieval and Modern Iran on April 5\, 2024. It is not surprising that\ , having lived six centuries apart\, Persian poet-princess Jahan Malek Khat un (d. after […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The e vent recording is now available:
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The Al ireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: “Two Hea rts / Two Solitudes”: Jahan Malek Khatun’s and Forugh Farrokhzad’s Proto-Fe minist Self-Defense in Medieval and Modern Iran on April 5\, 2024.
It
is not surprising that\, having lived six centuries apart\, Persian poet-p
rincess Jahan Malek Khatun (d. after 1382 CE) and modernist Iranian poet Fo
rugh Farrokhzad (1934-1967) have very few traits in common. Born into an ar
istocratic family that reigned in Shiraz until 1357 and which offered her t
he privilege of literacy and education in the same court where Hafez began
his career\, Jahan sought literary patronage under foreign rule and\, in he
r old age\, she completed what we regard today as the most important poetry
collection composed by a medieval Iranian woman.
Farrokhzad\, who rec
eived no formal literary training\, was raised between Mazandaran and Tehra
n in the bosom of a family that belonged to the emerging middle class on wh
ich Reza Shah Pahlavi heavily relied to advance Iran’s vertiginous process
of modernization. She published four collections of poetry\, made an arrest
ingly beautiful short film\, and died in a tragic car accident at the age o
f 32.
Jahan strove to respect the social prescriptions of medieval Shi
raz. In order to fulfill the homonormative aesthetic expectations of her ti
me\, she adopted in her lyric texts (ghazals) a male lyric persona
that expressed longing and desire for young men. Farrokhzad\, on the contr
ary\, imbued her modernist poetry with the celebration of heterosexual desi
re from the perspective of a woman who does not shy away from gazing upon t
he male body. Against all societal expectations\, she developed an approach
to the literary expression of sexuality that defies the boundaries of norm
ativity.
Despite such remarkable differences\, the two poets happened
to develop kindred lines of thought in two pieces of writing in which they
defend the right of women to write erotic poetry in a society dominated by
patriarchal values. This talk will present and compare these two exceptiona
lly lucid documents of self-defense\, which\, for different reasons\, are y
et to receive the critical attention they deserve. Moreover\, this comparat
ive approach will offer the opportunity to appreciate Jahan’s and Farrokhza
d’s poetry through the lens of female creative agency and beyond preconceiv
ed gender binaries.
Domenico Ingenito is the Associate Professor of Iranian Studies and premodern Persian Liter ature at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, Bahari Fellow in the Persian Arts of the Book (Bodleian Libraries\, University of Oxford)\, core faculty member of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World \, and former director of the UCLA Program on Central Asia (2016-2021). His research interests center on ancient and medieval Iran\, Persian poetry\, visual culture of Iran and Central Asia\, gender and translations studies\, and premodern manuscript culture.
This event will be held in
-person. Light refreshments will be provided.
Registr
ation required. Register here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e7862L
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The sessions are all in Persian
Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion s eries in the year 2023-2024 will focus on:
History and its Representation in Literature
Intr oduction and Significance of the Topic:
Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of his collection of stori es "Once Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative approaches in literature\, especially in short stories and novels\, as a critique of the cultural\, so cial\, and political lives of people across the world.
About novels\, for example\, he states:
"For those who wish to be informed about the social\, internal\, and spiritual state of other nation s and countries and want to convey and understand more about them than what is inadequately presented in history books\, which only show the political and military aspects of a nation and its system and people\, there is no b etter and more solid way than reading novels about that nation and people.. ."
Besides\, sin
ce novels are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy an
d identification with the characters and their world\, they not only offer
a form of representation of a society's state but also place the reader wit
hin the experience
Literature provides the safest space for such encoun ters of a historical\, cultural\, political\, and ethnic nature. Novels par adoxically reveal the shared and singular experiences of the writers and ch aracters on an emotional and pre-logical level. Hence\, novels can provide a space for acquaintance with the other and a platform or a space for a mul tiplicity of voices.
Given t he foundational importance of novels and their relationship with the lived historical experience\, this series of sessions will focus on the examinati on of some of the most prominent and best novels published in the past fort y-plus years. The aim is to delve into and shed some light on the historica l experiences and events after the 1979 revolution up to present. In other words\, these sessions will examine the representation of the conditions le ading to the revolution\, post-revolution events such as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the most significant novels of this period.
برنامه جلسات ب اشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴
:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع
محمدعلی جمالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی ب ود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رمان را شیوههای نوینی برای نق د و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه جای جهان قلمداد کرده است . وی در مورد رمان میگوید
برای کسانی که میخواهند از حال اجتماع ی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک باخبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسانند و نمیخو اهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنها حیات سیاسی و نظامی یک و ملک و ملتی را - آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نشان میدهد قانع شوند، هیچ راهی بهتر و ر اسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نیست
مسئله دیگ ر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنها نوعی بازنمایی از حیات اجتم اعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خواننده را در معرض تجربهی آن فضا نیز قرار می دهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و حتی آشتی با دیگری و دس ت کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اساسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چنین برخ وردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیاسی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گفتگو بل که در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و بستر فضای چن د صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد
با توجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجموعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخیر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبار ت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط وقوع انقلاب، وقایع پس از انقل اب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زمان حال در برخی از مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خواهیم پرداختهمکاران ثابت : دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی
Sixth Session :
Session Title: "Histo ry and its Representation in Literature: The Immigrant's Perspective"
Session Content:
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Date & Time:
Saturday\, April 6\, 202410:00am (PST) / 9:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: No rth Vancouver Library
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Presented in Persian
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Guest Speaker
Mohammad Asef Soltanzadeh\, a contemporary Afg han writer\, was born in 1964 in Kabul. He studied pharmacy at his local un iversity. His early adulthood coincided with the peak of Soviet attacks on his country. In 1985\, as a 20-year-old student and after being arre sted twice\, he fled Afghanistan with his brother\, first arriving in Pakis tan and then moving to Iran\, where he lived for 17 years. During this time in Iran\, Soltanzadeh\, who had been forced to abandon his studies and was longing for his homeland\, began writing short stories. He also gained exp erience in filmmaking.
His first col lection of short stories\, "We Disappear in Flight\," was published in 2000 in Iran and won the Golshiri Literary Award. This book\, along with his su bsequent works\, which were later translated into several languages\, delve s into themes of identity\, the pain and suffering of migrants. His charact ers often experience feelings of being "the other" in foreign lands\, leadi ng to a crisis of identity. Soltanzadeh employs narrative elements like unc ertainty\, multiple endings\, and the blending of dreams and reality to viv idly portray the experiences of migrants.
In 2002\, Soltanzadeh immigrated to Denmark and continued writ ing\, producing more works that were published in Iran. He is a three-time recipient of the Golshiri Award and has also won the Copenhagen Literary Pr ize. His collections of stories and novels offer fresh perspectives on the experiences of migration and identity.
محمدآصف سلطانزاده، نویسنده مع اصر اهل افغانستان، در سال ۱۳۴۳ در کابل به دنیا آمد. او که در دانشگاه زادگاه ش داروسازی خوانده بود، در اوج حملات شوروی به کشورش در سال ۱۳۶۴، به همراه بر ادرش از افغانستان گریخت و ابتدا به پاکستان و سپس به ایران وارد شد، جایی که ۱۷ سال زندگی کرد. در ایران، سلطانزاده به نوشتن داستانهای کوتاه پرداخت و در فیلمسازی نیز تجربه کسب کرد.
اولین مجموعه داستان او، "در گریز گم میشویم"، د ر سال ۱۳۷۹ منتشر شد و برنده جایزه ادبی گلشیری شد. این کتاب و دیگر آثار او، که بعدها به چندین زبان ترجمه شدند، به موضوع هویت، رنج و درد مهاجران پرداخته اند. شخصیتهای داستانهای او غالباً احساس "دیگری" بودن در کشوری بیگانه را تجربه میکنند. سلطانزاده توانسته است با استفاده از عناصر داستانی مانند عدم قطعیت، پایانهای چندگانه و درهم آمیختن خواب و واقعیت، تجربیات مهاجران را به تصویر بکشد.
در سال ۱۳۸۰، سلطانزاده به دانمارک مهاجرت کرد و آثار بیشتری نوشت که در ایران منتشر شدند. او سه بار برنده جایزه گلشیری شده و برنده جایزه ادب ی کپنهاگ نیز شدهاست. مجموعههای داستانی و رمانهای او نظرگاه جدیدی به تجرب ه مهاجرت و هویت میافزایند.
Nafiseh Mousavi is Senior Lecturer in Intermedial Studies at t he department of Arts and Cultural Sciences\, Lund University\, Sweden. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature and a background in Persian Literature \, French Literature\, and Anthropology. In her research\, she explores the entanglements of media cultures\, memory practices\, and politics of diffe rence. She has researched migratory authorial and communicative strategies in migration literature\, film\, comics\, and adaptation practices\, among other things. Her latest publication is the co-edited anthology Truth Claims across Media(Palgrave\, 2 024). نفیسه موسوی استادیارِ رشتهی مطالعات بینر سانهای در دپارتمان «هنر و علوم فرهنگی» دانشگاه لوند، سوئد، است. او دارای د کتری در ادبیات تطبیقی با پیشینهای در ادبیات فارسی، ادبیات فرانسه، و انسان شناسی است. در تحقیقات خود، او پیچیدگیهای فرهنگهای رسانهای، رویههای حافظ ه، و سیاست تفاوت را مطالعه میکند. او در مورد استراتژیهای نویسندگی و ارتب اطیِ مهاجرتی در ادبیات مهاجرت، فیلم، کمیکها، و شیوههای اقتباس، بین سایر م وضوعات، تحقیق کرده است. آخرین انتشار او مجموعه مقالات مشترک Truth Claims ac ross Media (پالگریو، 2024) است.
Hosts
Dr. Hessam Dehghani
earned his first PhD in Linguistics from All ameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenologica l Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Phi losophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\ , he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinit y School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his r esearch on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literatur e. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regul arly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of R ahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia. Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching E nglish as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston Coll ege for which he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadersh ip award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-t rack position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Cu lture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests li e in content-based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and receiv ed several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about i mplementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest finding s in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and h is wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to her itage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT) .
To promote public humanitie s\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates o utside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of en thusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lec tures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of exp erts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Liter ature\,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Litera ture especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and lingui stics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Lite rature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are c ritical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultur al studies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Li terature. He has published near ly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguis tics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate program s at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy< span style="font-weight: 400\;">.
میزبانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودیفرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشن اسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسا نس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه م طالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتش ر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او می توان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (ام برتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساس اختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، وی تگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد. < /span>
س جودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-and-its-representati on-in-literature-session-6/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/01/Persian-Literature-Reading-Club-2023-2024-FB-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240315T0336Z-1710473797.8934-EO-62412-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240314T220810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T202004Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240406T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240406T220000 RDATE;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240317T183000,20240406T183000,20240407T183000,20240316T183000 SUMMARY: Persian Spread of the Gift DESCRIPTION: *Please note that registration for this event is now full. Sho uld you have any questions\, please reach out to hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca. Th e University of British Columbia’s Persian Literature Reading Club cordiall y invites you to a series of enchanting evenings dedicated to the harmoniou s convergence of Nowrouz and Ramadan\, two pivotal moments that celebrate t he spiritual and […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
*Please note that registration for this event is now full. Shou ld you have any questions\, please reach out to hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca.
The University of B ritish Columbia's Persian Literature Reading Club cordially invites you to a series of enchanting evenings dedicated to the harmonious convergence of Nowrouz and Ramadan\, two pivotal moments that celebrate the spiritual and natural rejuvenation. This unique amalgamation of traditions underscores th e rich tapestry of Persianate cultures during the sacred month of Ramadan—a time of inner transformation and renewal—and Nowrouz\, the jubilant celebr ation of spring and new beginnings.
Dates: Saturday\ , March 16\; Sunday\, March 17\; Saturday\, April 6\; Sunday\, April 7
Time: 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Venue: Aud itorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6T 1Z2
Ple ase note\, the facility is fully wheelchair accessible.Our gathering s\, aptly themed "The Persian Spread of the Gift\," aim to illuminate the m anner in which Persianate communities honor the month of Ramadan\, a period devoted to the soul's revival and reflection\, especially when it serendip itously aligns with the festivities of Nowrouz\, marking nature's transform ation.
The evenings' itineraries are imbued with cultural and spiritu al activities including:
- Recitations of the Qur'ān commencing th irty minutes prior to Iftār\, the moment of breaking the fast.
- Coll ective prayers (Salāt Jamā'at)
- A shared iftār feast
- An oppo rtunity to mingle\, reconnect\, and forge new friendships amidst the backdr op of cultural celebration.
We extend this invitation with open hearts and joyous spirits\, hoping to share this momentous occasion with f riends\, scholars\, and enthusiasts of Persian culture. Join us in embracin g the dual joy of Nowrouz and Ramadan\, as we engage in reflective practice s\, communal dining\, and the renewal of bonds under the auspices of these revered traditions.
زان می عشق، کز او پخته شود هر خامی
< p dir="rtl">گرچه ماه رمضان است بیاور جامیباشگاه ادبیات فار سی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا با کمال مسرت شما را به سلسلهای از شبهای انس و مع نویت به مناسبتِ همزمانی نوروز با ماه رمضان، دو رویداد محوری که نماد تجدید ح یات روحی و طبیعیاند، دعوت مینماید.
جزئیات برنامه:
تاریخها: شنبه، ۱۶ مارچ؛ یکشنبه، ۱۷ مارچ؛ یکشنبه، ۲۴ مارچ؛ شنبه، ۶ آوریل؛ یکشنبه، ۷ آوریل
زمان: ۶:۳۰ تا ۱۰:۰۰ شب
مکان: تالار مطالعات آسیایی دانشگاه، واقع در مرکز آسیایی به آدرس ۱۸۷۱ وست مال، ونکوور، بیسی، V6T 1Z2.
محور برنامههای ما، که با عنوان "سفرهی هدیه فارسی" نامگذاری شدهاند، به نمایش گذاشتن نحوه جشن گرفت ن جامعههای فارسیزبان در ماه رمضان است، ماهی که به تزکیه نفس اختصاص دارد، بهویژه زمانی که با جشن نوروز همراه است.
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همصحبتی با دوستان و بازسازی و تحکیم دوستیها
در این جشن معنوی و فرهنگ ی به ما بپیوندید تا با هم در عبادت، ضیافت و تجدید پیوندها در زیر چتر این د و سنت بزرگ، شرکت کنیم.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/persian-spread-of-the-gift/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/03/persian-spread-of-the-gift-web.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20231001T0216Z-1696126566.4669-EO-61175-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20230927T214338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240326T165910Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240408T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240408T140000 SUMMARY: The Marginal Archive and the Probable Event: Reflections on an Imp erial Twilight Zone DESCRIPTION: The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for spec ialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplin ary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Naveena Naqvi (University o f British Columbia). Questions about how archives are constituted\, by whom \, and to what end\, have occupied numerous postmodern meditations on the a ct […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium off ers 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).
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The Saulat Public Library\, Rampur\, India (cred it: NN)[/caption]
Questions about how archives are constituted\, by w hom\, and to what end\, have occupied numerous postmodern meditations on th e act of writing history. At the same time\, the idea of “discovering” unco nventional sources of history to sidestep the limitations of more tradition al archives has also revealed its inherent problems. While keeping this cri tical lens in mind\, the present talk will analyze a written work from a ma rginal archive in an attempt to demonstrate the historical potential that i t holds.
The example that I will spotlight from Persianate South Asia indicates that one of the features that sets marginal archives apart is th at\, among their myriad materials\, they are frequently the custodians of u nconfirmed and improbable historical accounts\, rarely to be found in more established collections. The particular work at hand\, Tārīkh-i-‘Abbāsī< /i>\, is a first-person Persian-language narrative of an event that may nev er have happened—a diplomatic mission headed by a runaway Mughal prince to the Durrani Afghan court in Kabul. This mission is thought to have taken pl ace in the late 18th century in the years leading up to the East India Comp any’s annexation of most of Mughal north India. The author was a minor go-b etween who found himself in a position to record what appears to have been the last attempt at instating a Mughal prince as the Timurid sovereign of a much-shrunken empire.
What does the documentation of this delegation and its availability to us mean? What does it definitively tell us even as we acknowledge its tenuous claims on the objective truth? Are we to deduce that the Durrani Afghan empire continued to present a challenge to the pol itical future of the East India Company in a way that the dismembered Mugha l empire could not? Was the possibility of reviving an older form of imperi al rule under a Muslim dynast truly at stake\, and if so\, whose vision was this?
Date & Time:
Monday\, April 8\, 2024 | 1 2:30-2:00 PM (PT)Location:
UBC Asian Centre\, Room 604\, 1871 West Mall\, VancouverHosted by the Department of Asi an Studies\, University of British Columbia\, this event is open to the pub lic.
CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/south-asia-research-colloqui um-naveena-naqvi/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2023/09/pastedImage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240326T1704Z-1711472647.38-EO-62413-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240320T195949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T180707Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240412T184500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240412T203000 SUMMARY: 13 Bedar Celebration DESCRIPTION: Date/Time: Friday\, April 12 from 6:45pm (PDT) Location: Audit orium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here) Featuring a sp eech contest\, live music\, and stand-up comedy for students! Should you be interested in participating in the speech contest\, please reach out to he ssam.dehghani@ubc.ca. This event is free but registration is required. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Registration is required (please find the registration form above ).
Date/Time: Friday\, April 12 from 6:45pm (PDT)
Location: Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, V ancouver (map here)Featuring a speech contest\, live music\, and stand-up comedy for st udents!
Should you be interested in participating in the speech contes t\, please reach out to hessam.dehg hani@ubc.ca.This event is free but registration is required.
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Open to all FCCS (UBCO) and Department of Asian Studies (UBCV) Students
Did you k now that you may be eligible to work abroad without first getting a job? If you completed your program at UBC\, you might be interested in embarking o n this adventure! Both Hong Kong and Japan offer a range of visa programs a imed at attracting recent graduates from overseas. These programs are desig ned to encourage individuals to work\, and in some cases\, reside in these regions\, contributing to their economic and cultural diversity.
Gues t Speakers:
Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto)
Consula te-General of Japan in VancouverDate: April 24th\, 2024
Time: 1 1 am- 12pm PDT
Venue: CCS 141 or Zoom (Hybrid)Coordinated by Pr of. Annie Wan (Creative Studies / FCCS (UBCO))
In collaboration with D epartment of Asian Studies (UBCV)For more information please contact Vanessa Costa da Silveira at vanessa.costadasilveira@ubc.ca or Winnie Lai at flai02@mail.ubc.ca
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This event is a joint collaboration with KPU’s Faculty of Arts and UBC’s Department of Asian Studies. This talk is free\, open to the public\, and will be delivered in an accessible mix of English and Punjabi . Registration is required (please find the registration form above).
In colonial Punjab\, several Punjabi authors\, reformers\, and prac titioners of Ayurveda\, Unani\, and/or western medicine – Daktari\, wrote books and pamphlets on improving sexual and reproductive health of Pu njabis. In this talk\, Azad will discuss some of the contexts that enabled them to write on such subjects as well as how these discussions and debates influenced popular conceptions of masculinity\, love\, and sex. The talk w ill provide an overview of key debates on health\, sexuality\, and gender d uring this period.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, June 6\, 2024 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm PDTLocation:
Newto n Branch Library Meeting Room\, 13795 70 Avenue Surrey\, BC V3W 0E1Speaker
Nikita Azad (they/she) is a final-year PhD candidate in History at the University of Oxford where she works on the his tory of medicine and embodiment\, particularly\, gender\, sexuality\, and e motions in the colonial Punjabi print sphere from 1898 to 1948. She is also a Rhodes Scholar and a Welcome Trust Doctoral Scholar at Oxford. Born and brought up in Jalandhar\, she often writes about gender\, selfhood\, the na tural world\, and human-nonhuman relationships. She is a Nan Shepherd Prize longlisted author (2021) and the author of Dakhalandazi (Autumn Art \, 2022)\, a Punjabi essay collection on gender\, sexuality\, and feminism in Punjab. Her writings have appeared (and been featured) in The Guardi an\, BBC\, Bad Lilies\, Longreads\, Aeon\, The Willowherb Review\, Dust Poe try Magazine\, History Workshop Journal\, The Quint\, The Indian Express\, Punjabi Tribune\, and more.
This event has been sponsored by the Canada Research Chair in South Asian Literary and Cultural Studies (KPU) and the Onkarbir Singh Toor Memorial Punjabi Studies Enhancement Fund (UBC)\, with many thanks to our community partner Punjabi Market!
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Newton Branch Library Meeting Room GEO:49.130370;-122.840141 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/love-lust-and-life-in-coloni al-punjab/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/05/love-lust-life-colonial-punjab.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240612T2144Z-1718228677.6251-EO-63016-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240612T211457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T212237Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240622T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240622T160000 SUMMARY: History and its Representation in Literature: The Birth of the Sto ry in the Enchantment of Phantoms DESCRIPTION: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Clu b’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 will focus on: Histor y and its Representation in Literature Introduction and Significance of the Topic: Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of his collection of stori es “Once Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative approaches in literature\, especially […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[caption id="attachment_63014" align="alig ncenter" width="620"]
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T he sessions are all in Persian
Persian Literature Readi ng Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2023-2024 will focus on:
History and its Representation in Literature
Introducti on and Significance of the Topic:
Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of his collection of stories "On ce Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative approaches in literature\, especi ally in short stories and novels\, as a critique of the cultural\, social\, and political lives of people across the world.
About novels\, for example\, he states:
"For those who wish to be infor med about the social\, internal\, and spiritual state of other nations and countries and want to convey and understand more about them than what is in adequately presented in history books\, which only show the political and m ilitary aspects of a nation and its system and people\, there is no better and more solid way than reading novels about that nation and people..."
Besides\, since nov els are created to engage the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy and iden tification with the characters and their world\, they not only offer a form of representation of a society's state but also place the reader within th e experience of that world. Thus\, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approaching the one who is most distant and “other”\, al lowing for the hearing of the other’s voice.
Literature provides the safest space for such encounters o f a historical\, cultural\, political\, and ethnic nature. Novels paradoxic ally reveal the shared and singular experiences of the writers and characte rs on an emotional and pre-logical level. Hence\, novels can provide a spac e for acquaintance with the other and a platform or a space for a multiplic ity of voices.
Given the fou ndational importance of novels and their relationship with the lived histor ical experience\, this series of sessions will focus on the examination of some of the most prominent and best novels published in the past forty-plus years. The aim is to delve into and shed some light on the historical expe riences and events after the 1979 revolution up to present. In other words\ , these sessions will examine the representation of the conditions leading to the revolution\, post-revolution events such as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the most significant novels of thi s period.
برنامه جلسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">:عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات
:مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع
محمدعلی جمالزاده در دیباچه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رمان را شیوههای نوینی برای نقد و بر رسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه جای جهان قلمداد کرده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">برای کسانی که میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و دا خلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک باخبر بوده و وقوفی به هم برسانند و نمیخواهند ب ه خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنها حیات سیاسی و نظامی یک و ملک و ملتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نشان میدهد قانع شوند، هیچ راهی بهتر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نیست
مسئله دیگر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و برانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفق ت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنها نوعی بازنمایی از حیات اجتماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خواننده را در معرض تجربهی آن فضا نیز قرار میدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و حتی آشتی با دیگری و دست کم ش نیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اساسا ادبیات امنترین محمل و محل چنین برخوردهای ی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیاسی و قومیتی است. رمانها نه در گفتگو بلکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجربهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی م ینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری و بستر فضای چند صدای ی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد
با توجه به این اهمیت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آن با تج ربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجموعه نشستها به بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهتری ن رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخیر خواهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها ا ز تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیریم و دست یازیم. به عبارت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط وقوع انقلاب، وقایع پس از انقلاب مان ند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زمان حال در برخی از مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خ واهیم پرداخت
همکاران ثابت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی
Seventh Session:
Session Title: "History and its Representation in Literature : The Birth of the Story in the Enchantment of Phantoms"
Session Content:
Date & Time:
Saturday\, June 22\, 2024
2:
00pm (PDT) / June 23 at 12:30am (Tehran Time)
Location: UBC Asian Center Seminar Room 604 | 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6
T 1Z2
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting
.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public. Registrat
ion is required via the form below.
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Hadi Keikav
ousi was born on December 15 \, 1978 in Tehran. Hadi\, a wr
iter and novelist\, began his literary career with notable recognition\, wi
nning his first award in 2003 at the Tehran Nights Literary Festival. He co
ntinued to gain acclaim with the Isfahan Literary Award in 2004 for his sto
ry "Giant Dog of Red Brick House\," which was subsequently published in the
"Literature and Philosophy" magazine\, earning praise from writers and cri
tics. Keikavousi's early works\, such as "Attallo" and "Davaran\," garnered
multiple awards\, including the country's youth award in 2005 and commenda
tion in the Tehran Award in 2006. His involvement in theater also saw him a
ttend the SKENA UP theater festival in Kosovo in 2007 as a playwright and a
ctor. In 2009\, he won the Roshanaye Nazdik award in Mashhad for the story
"Davaran."
After emigrating from Iran to I taly in 2010\, Keikavousi published his first fiction collection\, "Khate F asele\," with Cheshmeh Publishing in Tehran in 2011. His work continued to receive international attention\, reaching the finals of the Cuneo Literary Award in Italy in 2017 with "The Extinction of Polar Bears." In 2019\, his second collection of stories\, "ABC for Badgers\," was published by Mehri Publishing in London. Keikavousi's literary journey reached a new milestone in 2022 with the publication of his first novel\, "The Phantom of the Oper ator: A Cat Prophecy\," also by Mehri Publishing House in London.
هادی کیکاووسی روزنامهنگار و داستاننویس. متولد 15 دسامبر 1978. از سال 2000 داستاننویسی را در بندرعباس آغاز کرد و دو جایزه ک شوری را در سالهای 2002و2003 کسب کرد. فعالیت روزنامهنگاری را با روزنامههای محلی شهر بندرعباس آغاز کرد و تا سال 2010 پیش از خروجش از ایران ادامه داد. در ماه مارس 2011 اولین مجموعه داستانش با عنوان «خط فاصله» در نشر «چشمه» ایر ان منتشر و کاندیدای جوایزی شد. از سال 2017 در شهر تورین ایتالیا پایهگذار ج لسات ادبی با عنوان «راویون» در مرکز حلقه ادبی نویسندگان شهر تورین شد که تا پیش از همهگیری کوید ادامه داشت. از اهداف این جلسات دعوت از نویسندگان تبعید ی و گفتگو با آنها پیرامون چیستی ادبیات در جوامع بسته و بررسی آثار این نویسن دگان در وضعیت سرکوب بود. سال 2019 دومین مجموعه داستانش با عنوان «الفبای گور کنها» را در نشر مهری لندن منتشر کرد .در سال 2022 اولین رمان خود با عنوان « شبح اپراتور: یک پیشیگویی» را منتشر کرد که توسط همین ناشر منتشر شد. کیکاووسی در این سالها حرفه روزنامهنگاری را با رسانههای بیبیسی فارسی و ایندیپندن ت فارسی ادامه داده است.وی هم اکنون ساکن شهر پراگ است و دومین رمانش با عنوان «اطلس جیبی انقراض» را در دست نوشتن دارد.
«شبح اپراتور» داستان ویرانی یک سرزمین است که آنچه باعث ویرانی این زمین شده قصه است. راوی داستان که گربهای بیخانمان است برای نجات سرزمین با شمشیری کوچک-همانند شازده کوچولو- راهی سفر میشود تا قصه را به انتها برساند. به دنب ال منشأ قصه مدام با کشتی «غراب شیطان» -که افسانهای محلی است- به گذشته میر ود تا ناف قصه را ببرد و آغازی نو برای انسان و حیوان به ارمغان بیاورد. در ای ن دیستوپیای ترسیم شده، انسان و حیوان در کنار هم نابود شدهاند.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his fi rst PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structur al Analysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associat e researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern S tudies\, where he focused his research on the formation of Persianate ident ity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the liter ary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Colum bia.
Besides his research int erests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2 000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2 012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received a teaching award a nd was nominated for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr . Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of t eaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL an d STARTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to pr esent. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new met hod of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\ , Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature r eading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\ , accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominent f igures of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migr ation and exile.
D
r. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full pr
ofessor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He o
btained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from
Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultu ral semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in P ersian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, < /span>and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cul tural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian la nguage\, and literature.
He
was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, an
d he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
میزبانان جلسه فر
زان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او ل
یسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طب
اطبایی گرفته است. حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نش
انهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها
مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مط
العات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهش
ناسی: نظریه و [gravityform id="122"
title="true" description="true"] The Asian Studies Department at the University of Bri
tish Columbia is honored to announce an upcoming commemorative event in hon
or of the esteemed Professor Wasef Bakhtari\, a luminary in Persian poetry
and thought. This solemn ceremony is organized in collaboration with the di
stinguished Bakhtari family\, notably Ms. Manizheh Bakhtari\, esteemed facu
lty members from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Colu
mbia\, and Farsi Dar BC Campaign. Date: Saturday\, J
uly 20 at 6:30pm Vancouver Time T
he event will be livestreamed through our YouTube channel. Please access our channel once the even
t starts\; you will be able to find the video at the top under our "Home" t
ab. This event is free and open to the public. Registration is requir
ed. This memorable occasion will feature a rich program designed to c
elebrate the profound legacy of Wasef Bakhtari. Attendees will bet treated
to: Co-hosted by the Persian Language and Culture Program at UBC\, Wasif
Bakhtari Foundation\, Farsi Dar BC Campaign\, and Simon Fraser University.<
/p> We hope that this program will provide deeper insights into Wasef Bak
htari’s unparalleled contributions to Persian literature and culture. We in
vite all scholars\, students\, and admirers of Persian literature to join u
s in honoring the enduring impact of Wasif Bakhtari’s work. اطلاعیه نشست بزرگداشت اندیشمند و شاعر بز
رگ زبان فارسی واصف باختری دپارتم
ان آسیاپژوهی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا با افتخار اعلام میدارد که مراسم بزرگداش
تی به مناسبت اولین سالگرد درگذشت استاد گرانقدر، واصف باختری، شاعر و اندیشه
پرداز برجسته زبان فارسی برگزار خواهد شد. این مراسم باشکوه با همکاری خانواده
محترم باختری، به ویژه سرکار خانم منیژه باختری، اعضای محترم هیئت علمی دانشگ
اههای سایمون فریزر و دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا، و کارزار فارسی در بی سی برگزار
میگردد. این رویداد بهیادماندنی
شامل برنامهای متنوع و غنی خواهد بود که به پاسداشت میراث عمیق استاد واصف ب
اختری اختصاص یافته است. برنامهی جلسه به قرار زیر است: سخنرانی اصلی توسط دکتر ولی پرخاش احمدی اجرای نمایشی کوتاه از آثار ایشان، همراه با اجرای موسیقی و خوانش
اشعار میزگردی پیرامون مسائل آموزش و بزرگ
داشت زبان و فرهنگهای فارسی تجلیلهای کوت
اه توسط دانشمندان و چهرههای فرهنگی برجسته از سراسر جهان زمان: شنبه ۲۰ جولای - ساعت ۶/۵ به
وقت ونکوور مکان: سالن اج
تماعات دانشگاه سایمون فریزر، مرکز شهر ونکوور فرمت: حضوری و آنلاین این برنامهی به یادماندنی با برنامههای متنوعی همراه خواهد بود که
به پاسداشت میراث عمیق استاد واصف باختری اختصاص یافته است. شامل اجرای نمایشی
کوتاه از آثار ایشان، همراه با اجرای موسیقی و خوانش اشعار، و همچنین برگزاری
میزگردی و سخنرانیهای کوتاه توسط صاحبنظران برجسته. این رویداد فرصتی استثنا
یی برای گرامیداشت سهم بیبدیل استاد واصف باختری در تاریخ ادبیات و فرهنگ فار
سی، به ویژه ادبیات افغانستان، فراهم میآورد. این مراسم فرصتی ویژه برای ارج نهادن به یک چهره برجسته در دنیای ادبیات ا
ست. از همه دانشمندان، دانشجویان، و علاقهمندان به ادبیات فارسی دعوت میکنیم
تا در این مراسم بزرگداشت و ادای احترام به آثار جاودان استاد واصف باختری شر
کت نمایید Watch short films from different Indigenous c
ommunities\, join discussions\, and enjoy some food. Films to be announced
closer to date. Date & Time: This event is free and open to the public.[buttons][button link_t
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30pm - 1:30pm 1:30pm - 2:
00pm 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 Lite
rature Introduction and Significance of the Topic: <
span style="font-weight: 400\;">Mohammad Ali Jamālzādeh\, in the preface of
his collection of stories "Once Upon a Time”\, has regarded innovative app
roaches in literature\, especially in short stories and novels\, as a criti
que of the cultural\, social\, and political lives of people across the wor
ld. About novels\, for examp
le\, he states: "
For those who wish to be informed about the social\, internal\, and spiritu
al state of other nations and countries and want to convey and understand m
ore about them than what is inadequately presented in history books\, which
only show the political and military aspects of a nation and its system an
d people\, there is no better and more solid way than reading novels about
that nation and people..." Besides\, since novels are created to engage the reader and evok
e a sense of sympathy and identification with the characters and their worl
d\, they not only offer a form of representation of a society's state but a
lso place the reader within the
experience of that world. Thus\
, novels can serve as a means of acquaintance or approaching the one who is
most distant and “other”\, allowing for the hearing of the other’s voice.
Literature provides the safe
st space for such encounters of a historical\, cultural\, political\, and e
thnic nature. Novels paradoxically reveal the shared and singular experienc
es of the writers and characters on an emotional and pre-logical level. Hen
ce\, novels can provide a space for acquaintance with the other and a platf
orm or a space for a multiplicity of voices. Given the foundational importance of novels and their rela
tionship with the lived historical experience\, this series of sessions wil
l focus on the examination of some of the most prominent and best novels pu
blished in the past forty-plus years. The aim is to delve into and shed som
e light on the historical experiences and events after the 1979 revolution
up to present. In other words\, these sessions will examine the representat
ion of the conditions leading to the revolution\, post-revolution events su
ch as wars\, and more\, up to nearly the present time\, within some of the
most significant novels of this period. برنامه جلسات باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی در سال ۲۰۲۳-۲۰۲۴ :عنوان
تاریخ و بازنمایی آن در ادبیات :مقدمه و اهمیت موضوع محمدعلی جمالزاده در دیبا
چه مجموعه داستان «یکی بود یکی نبود»، ادبیات و خصوصاً داستان کوتاه و رمان ر
ا شیوههای نوینی برای نقد و بررسی حیات فرهنگی، اجتماعی و سیاسی مردم در همه
جای جهان قلمداد کرده است. وی در مورد رمان میگوید برای کسانی که
میخواهند از حال اجتماعی و داخلی و روحی سایر ملل و ممالک باخبر بوده و وقوف
ی به هم برسانند و نمیخواهند به خواندن کتابهای تاریخ که تنها حیات سیاسی و
نظامی یک و ملک و ملتی را- آن هم به طور ناقص و غیر کافی- نشان میدهد قانع
شوند، هیچ راهی بهتر و راسختر از خواندن رمانهای راجع به آن مملکت و ملت نی
ست مسئله دیگر این است که از آنجا که رمان به هدف جذب خواننده و ب
رانگیختن حس همذات پنداری و شفقت خواننده به رشته تحریر درآمده است نه تنها نو
عی بازنمایی از حیات اجتماعی یک ملت ارائه میدهد، بلکه خواننده را در معرض تج
ربهی آن فضا نیز قرار میدهد. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی با دیگری
و حتی آشتی با دیگری و دست کم شنیدن شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد. اساسا ادبیات امن
ترین محمل و محل چنین برخوردهایی با دیگری تاریخی، فرهنگی، سیاسی و قومیتی است
. رمانها نه در گفتگو بلکه در سطح احساسی و پیشا منطقی افراد را بر سر یک تجر
بهی مشترک و در عین حال فردی مینشانند. بدین ترتیب رمان میتواند محل آشنایی
با دیگری و بستر فضای چند صدایی و شنیدن صدای دیگری باشد با توجه به این اهمی
ت بنیادین رمان و نسبت آن با تجربه زیستهی تاریخ، در این مجموعه نشستها به
بررسی برخی ازمطرحترین و بهترین رمانهای منتشر شده در چهل و چند سال اخیر خو
اهیم پرداخت تا از دریچه آنها از تجربه تاریخی انسان پس از انقلاب ۵۷ خبر بگیر
یم و دست یازیم. به عبارت دیگر در این سلسله نشستها به بازنمایی شرایط وقوع
انقلاب، وقایع پس از انقلاب مانند جنگ و غیره تا نزدیک به زمان حال در برخی ا
ز مهمترین رمانهای این دوره خواهیم پرداخت همکاران ثابت: دکتر فرزان سجودی - دکتر حسام دهقانی Eighth Session: Date & Time: Pre
sented in Persian [buttons][button link_text="Register for this eve
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Hossein Atashparvar (born on November 10\, 1952\, Iran) is
a prominent member of the “Third Generation” of writers in Iran. The publi
shing of his first stories dates to the beginning of the 1970s. His m
ost successful and influential short stories Sorrow (1987)
and The Song of Rain (1990) were published in prestigious
literary magazines. The novel Bahar Street was Blue was o
ne of the finalists of the Distinctive Literature Award in 2005. T
he short story collection Fish in the Wind won the first a
nnual Simin Daneshvar's Gold Plaque Literary Press Award in 2013.
The novel On Snow at Fourteen received honorable mention b
y the Association for the Study of Distinctive Fiction (WAW) in 20
18. Atahshparvar is since 2006 the editor of the literary magazine Neve
shta (56 issues). He has been one of the literary judges on the Li
terary Prize of Mehregan since 2015. From the Moon to
the Well (Mah Ta Chah)\, Novel\, 2020 حسین آتش پرور متو
لد 1331 از نویسندگان مطرح نسل سوم ایران است. آتش پرور داستان نویسی را از سال 1350 آغاز و اولین داستانهای وی در روزن
امه های ادبی منتشر شدند. اما موفقترین و
اثرگذارترین داستان کوتاه آتش پرور به نام اندوه در سال 1366 و بعد از آن
داستان آواز باران از او در سال 1369 در مجلات معتبر ادبی به چاپ رسید. اولین مجموعه داستان او بنام اندوه در سال 13
72 منشر شد. کتاب خیابان بهار آبی بود در
سال ۱۳۸۴به عنوان یکی از برگزیدگان نهایی رمان متفاوت از سوی انجمن مطالعاتی آ
ثار داستانی برگزیده شد. مجموعه داستان ماه
ی در باد در سال ۱۳۹۰ در اولین دوره جایزه مطبوعات ادبی را به دست آورد. کتاب چهارده سالگی بر برف در سال 1398 از سوی ان
جمن مطالعاتی آثار داستانی شایسته تقدیر شناخته شد. حسین آتشپرور از سال 1385 تا کنون دبیر داستان مجله بین المللی نوش
تا، و از سال 1394 تا کنون داور ارشد در جایزه ادبی مهرگان است. آثار ادبی حسین آتشپرور: 1- اندوه، مجموعه داستان کوتاه، سال 1372 2- خیابان بهار آبی بود، رمان، سال 1384 3- ماهی در باد، مجموعه داستان کوتاه، سال 1389 4- خانهی سوم داستان (جلد اول)، بررسی آثار نسل سوم داستان نویسا
ن ایران، سال 1394 5- چهارده سالگی بر برف،
داستان بلند، سال 1398 6- من و کوزه، شکل
و ساخت داستانیِ ترانههای خیام، سال1398 7
- آتش پرور و هنر داستان نویسی، سال 1398 8
- ماه تا چاه، داستان بلند، سال 1399 M. R. Ghanoonparvar is P
rofessor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature at The University o
f Texas at Austin. Professor Ghanoonparvar has also taught at the Universit
y of Isfahan\, the University of Virginia\, and the University of Arizona\,
and was a Rockefeller Fellow at the University of Michigan. He is the reci
pient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Teac
hers of Persian (2021) as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award for his cont
ributions to presenting Persian culinary arts to the non-Iranian public fro
m Encyclopædia Iranica (2009). He has published widely on Persian
literature and culture in both English and Persian and is the author of: م. ر. قانونپرور استاد ممتاز زبان
و ادبیات فارسی و تطبیقی در دانشگاه تگزاس در آستین است. او در دانشگاههای اصفهان، ویرجینیا و آریزوناتدریس کرده و همچنین همکار
پژوهشی راکفلر در دانشگاه میشیگان بوده است. او جایزه
یک عمر دستاورد از انجمن معلمان زبان فارسی آمریکا(۲
۰۲۱) و همچنین جایزه یک عمر دستاورد برای معرفی هنرها
ی آشپزی فارسی به غیرایرانیان از دایرهالمعارف ایرانیکا (۲۰۰۹) را دریافت کرده است.او در زمینه ادبیات و فرهنگ فارسی به زبانهای انگلیسی و فارسی به طور گستر
دهای منتشر کرده و نویسنده کتابهای متعددی از جمله: "
حسام دهقانی
فرزان
سجودیعمل
و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیف
ات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی
(ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مق
الات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد. 
Venue: Simon Fraser U
niversity Downtown Vancouver Campus\, Fletcher Challenge Canada Theatre | <
a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/jpXy3USRS5aZiGhn9">Address
Format: In-person and onlineKeynote Speaker
Wali (“Parkhash”) Ahmadi holds a B.A. in Political and Social Sciences from California State
University\, Hayward (now East Bay) and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature f
rom UCLA. Since 2000 he has served as a professor of Persian literature an
d comparative cultural studies at the University of California\, Berkeley.
He is the author of Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistan: Anomalous
Visions of History and Form and has edited Converging Zones: Pers
ian Literary Tradition and the Writing of History. He has published wi
dely (in English and Persian) on Persian/Dari literature\, Afghanistan stud
ies\, and literary theory and criticism. He is the founding editor of N
aqd wa Arman (Critique & Vision)\, an interdisciplinary journ
al of the humanities and social sciences (1995-2004). From his youth years
in Kabul in the 1980’s to his current endeavors as an established academic
in America\, he had the unique distinction and honor of benefiting from the
late Ustad Wasef Bakhtari’s guidance\, scholarly advice\, and mentorship.<
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Com
e celebrate the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples with us
with movies and momos!
Friday\, August 9\
, 2024 at 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Asian Centr
e Auditorium and CoDHerS space (room 508)
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\,
BCSchedule
Momos and social time
Film screenings including:
Social time and film discussion
بازنمایی تاریخ در ادبیات، نشست هشتم: هویت و مکانمندی
Saturday\, August 10\, 2024
11:00am (PDT) / 9:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Asian Centre Seminar Room (Room 604)
T
here is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Free & open to the public. Registration is required
via the form below.
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h3>Guest Speakers
ترجمههای او شامل آ
ثار جلال آلاحمد، صادق چوبک، سیمین دانشور، احمد کسروی، صادق هدایت، نیما یوش
یج، داوود غفارزادهگان، محمدرضابایرامی و بهرام بیضایی میشود. همچنین، وی ویراستار مجموعههایی همچون "ن
مایشنامه ایرانی: یک آنتولوژی"، "در گذار: مقالاتی دربار
ه فرهنگ وهویت در جوامع خاورمیانه"،
"اتللو در سرزمین عجایب" و
"قصهگویان آینهپرداز غلامحسین ساعدی" و "سنگهای شیطان" و "کنیزو" از منیروروانیپور بوده است. جدیدترین ترجمههای او شامل آثار شاهرخ مسکوب، هوشنگ گلشی
ری، منیرو روانیپور، حمید شوکت، غزاله علیزاده و شهرنوشپارسیپور است. او در سال ۲۰۰۸ جایزه ترجمه ادبی لوئیس راث را دریافت کرد. کتابهای آینده او شامل "بیم
اریها، مرگ و میر در داستانهایفارسی" و "رودخانه خاطرات: خاطراتی از زندگی و اد
بیات" و ترجمههای آیندهاش شامل "<
/span>خانه ادرسیها" از غزاله علیزاده، "از ماه تا چاه" ازحسین آتشپرور، "شکوفههای عناب" از رضا جولایی و<
span class="s1"> "خرافات" از احمد کسروی هستن
د.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Stu dy of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosop hy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity Sch ool and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his resear ch on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard Univ ersity and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnav ard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching Englis h as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in Nort h America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arab ic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College f or which he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership aw ard from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage language education for whic h he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received se veral certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implem enting technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wi fe\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, t hat is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outsid e their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusi astic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club thro ugh which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature \,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
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Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics
at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literatur
e\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University. His primary interests are critic al semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural st udies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literat ure. He has published nearly 10 0 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural stud ies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of the founders of the Tehra n Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an i nvited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for H umanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میز
بانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطال عاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مط العات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعا ت نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، < span style="font-weight: 400\;">نشانهشناسی
: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیاتسجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/history-and-its-representati on-in-literature-identity-and-spatiality/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/07/Persian-Literature-Reading-Club-2023-2024-8Session-FB-3.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240807T2106Z-1723064804.6671-EO-63511-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240807T163010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240808T204120Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240812T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240812T160000 SUMMARY: Medicine and Geomancy in Premodern Korea DESCRIPTION: Date & Time: Monday\, August 12\, 2024 at 10:00am – 4:00pm Loc ation: Room 604\, Asian Centre 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC This event i s 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 […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Date & Time:
Monday\, August 12\, 2024 at 10:00am – 4:00pm
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Centre
1871 West M
all\, Vancouver\, BC
This event is free and open to the public. No re gistration is required. These seminars will be presented in Korean.
Seminar 1 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM)
Hŏ Chun (1546-1615) authored the Tongŭi bogam based
on King Sŏnjo’s wishes that included the following: to systemize medical k
nowledge by crosschecking a variety of medical books that contained confusi
ng and conflicting information\; to pay more attention to how to prevent di
sease rather than how to cure disease\; and to promote the use of domestic
medicinal herbs than imported ones. Utilizing his vast knowledge of medicin
e\, including Zhang Zhongjing’s theory of fever\, in the Tongŭi bogam Hŏ Chun was able to produce his own scholarship of preventive medicine
that featured the importance of vitalizing life than how to control disease
and\, thereby\, to elevate medical knowledge to the realm of philosophy of
lifestyle and daily habit. In this seminar\, Eun also discusses how the
Eun Seok Min (Professor\, Woosuk University )
Eun Seok Min (PhD\, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medic ine) is an expert of the academic school of Chinese medicine and\, currentl y\, works on the issue of the interactions between Confucianism and medicin e. His works include\, among many\, “the deduction of the concept of mi ngmen as the monarch of the body\,” “the concept and therapeutic appli cation of dragon fire in ministerial fire theory\,” “the concept of hidden yin in summer by Zhu Danxi\,” and “the treatment of yiyuan based o n the concepts of dryness and dampness.”
Seminar 2 (2 :00 PM – 4:00 PM)
Pung-Su (風水 Fung-Shui\, Geomancy) includes two f
ields: the theory of housing for living (陽宅風水) and finding a good lot for d
eceased persons (陰宅風水) in Korea traditionally. However\, due to a part of c
ultural trend of acquiring fortune by placing of ancestor’s tomb on good lo
cation\, Pung-Su has been considered as a superstition such as shamanism or
fortune telling. But it is undeniable that it contains the knowledge and w
isdom which has been developed and handed down for a longtime regarding sit
e locating\, space plan and delicate layout of architectural component to e
stablish a pleasant and healthy building. In the seminar\, Jang reviews a n
umber of theories oftraditional Pung-Su briefly\, and crosschecks with mode
rn scientific and architectural theories\, and then discusses about this to
pic to consider utilizing and applying Pung-Su to our modern culture and ar
chitecture.
Thomas Won Seok Jang (BCIT Faculty\, Architect AIBC\, Ph.D\, LEED AP\, WELL AP)
Dr. Thomas Won Seok Jang is a faculty member of Architectural and Build ing Technology (ABT) in British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and has earned degrees from Yonsei University\, Seoul\, Korea. He is a member of Architectural Institute of British Columbia (AIBC) as an Architect\, and the Director of P3 Architecture Ltd. He is an Accredited Professional of L eadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED AP) and WELL Building st andard (WELL AP) for sustainable building and construction. He has particip ated in many research regarding historical heritage buildings and villages.
CATEGORIES:Featured Korean LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/summer-seminar-medicine-and- geomancy-in-premodern-korea/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/08/20240806_Summer-Korean-Seminars_Event-Poster_v1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240702T2102Z-1719954173.2348-EO-63141-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240702T194442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T223306Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240815T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240815T160000 SUMMARY: The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan DESCRIPTION: The event will feature a slide lecture on incense\, Japanese i ncense ceremony\, and beneficial effects of incense. The participants will also experience the fragrance of kyara which is the highest quality of agar wood and sandalwood as well as the original fermented neri-koh along with a demonstration of Japanese incense ceremony. This event is free and open to the public. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event will feature a slide lecture on incense\, Japanes e incense ceremony\, and beneficial effects of incense. The participants wi ll also experience the fragrance of kyara which is the highest qua lity of agarwood and sandalwood as well as the original fermented neri- koh along with a demonstration of Japanese incense ceremony.
Thi s event is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Profes
sor Eriyo Watanabe\, affiliated with Nihon Pharmaceutical Universi
ty in Tokyo\, is the Director of the Incense Research Institute and a maste
r of Ren Shin Ryu School of Incense in Japan. Her professional training inc
ludes study of expressive arts therapy at Lesley University. She is one of
the foremost experts of Japanese incense culture. For information on the In
cense Research Institute\, please visit https://www.arts-wellness.com.
Event organized by Professor Nam-lin Hur\, Asian Studies\, UBC
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-incense-ceremony-in-trad itional-japan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/07/incense-ceremony-in-japan-event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240807T2105Z-1723064745.2398-EO-63553-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240807T173538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240807T173613Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240822T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240822T120000 SUMMARY: The Spatial Structure under the Treaty Regime and its Dismantling (1876-1910) DESCRIPTION: 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 forci ng them to agree to a treaty in European terms. In […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
From a Europ
ean perspective\, all “lands” were either European territories or their pot
ential colonies. In contrast\, the “sea” remained a free space outside all
territorial orders and was open to all countries. In the 19th century\, Eur
ope created new spaces in Asian countries by forcing them to agree to a tre
aty in European terms. In the case of Korea\, the spatial structure under t
he treaty regime resembled concentric circles centered around the “foreign
settlement\,” an “mixed residence zone within a distance of ten miles from
the foreign settlement\,” and then the “interior.”
This structure was a kind of spatial representation of
the view as to the “interior\,” which lay beyond the boundary of the foreig
n settlement\, and a plan of spatial division for the “land\,” the Korean p
eninsula. The process of colonization of Korea was also a process of disman
tling this structure. Until the annexation of Korea in 1910\, the Korean pe
ninsula became a huge “sea\,” and it was upon the “sea” that a new order of
colonial Korea named the “exterior” of the Japanese archipelago began to d
evelop.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, August 22\, 202
4 at 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location:
Room 604\, Asia
n Centre
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
This event is free and open to the public. No registration required. The seminar will be presented in Korean and English.
Dr. Jun-
hyung Park is a Professor at University of Seoul\, and he has
earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Korean history from Seoul Nationa
l University in Korea. He obtained a Ph.D. degree in Asian history from Was
eda University in Japan. Before joining University of Seoul\, he was a facu
lty member at Center for Korean Studies of Inha University in Korea. His re
search involves foreign settlements in East Asia in the late 19th century u
sing genealogical methods.
Join Kiran K. Sunar at VIFF's Pantheon series as they introduce the classic 1955 Saty ajit Ray film "Pather Panchali\," hailed as one of the greatest films ever made.
A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italia n neorealism\, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and\, just as esse ntially\, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister\, Durga\; his harried mother\, Sarbajaya\, who\, with her husband away\, mus t hold the family together\; and his kindly and mischievous elderly “auntie \,” Indir—vivid\, multifaceted characters all.
Pantheon is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time”\, inspir ed by the mother of all film lists\, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.
Sunday’s Panthe on screening will be preceded by a 15 minute introductory lecture and featu re a book club-style discussion afterwards.
Date & Time:
Sunday\, September 15 | 11:00AM onwards
Location:
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre\, 1181 Seymour St\, Vancouver
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Kiran K. Sunar is t
he new Assistant Professor in Punjabi Language\, Literature\, and Culture.
Kiran’s research focuses on literature\, religion\, and performance in Sout
h Asia with a special focus on Punjab and its diasporas. In particular\, th
ey explore questions around gender\, sexuality\, and ecology.
JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
This talk\, featuring Profe ssor Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia\, Asian Studies)\, w ill explore how knowledge of the Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred P oets\, One Poem Each) collection spread among the commoner class in Ja pan’s early modern Edo period (1603-1868)\, becoming the foundation of popu lar literary literacy through the booming print culture\, especially by mea ns of illustrated commentaries in books and popular prints. A distinctly ve rnacular interpretative tradition will be revealed\, which even influenced the earliest English translations of these poems.
This talk is free a nd open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Ti
me:
Wednesday\, September 18\, 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location:
CK Choi Building\, Room 351\, 1855 West Mal
l\, Vancouver
The Department of Asian Studies is excited to invite you to our annual Welcome Back Night on September 19!
Whet her you're brand new to UBC or returning for another year\, come celebrate Asian cultures and languages and learn more about the Asian Studies program s. You’ll get the chance to meet our faculty and staff\, and mingle with ot her students during an evening filled with fun activities! Check out our As ian Language and Culture booths to play cultural games\, try on traditional clothing\, and test your Asian language knowledge. You'll also have the ch ance to win raffle prizes (Asian Studies Merchandise)!
Thursday\, September 19\, 20
24
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (PT)
Location: Auditorium\, U
BC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver (map here)
Price: Free
Open to all UBC students! Light refreshments will be served.
Re
gistration is required and on a first-come-first-served basis.
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Asian Studies Office: Meet our undergrad advisor and l earn about student resources available to you!
Asian Studies Sustainability Committee: Learn about the climate action plan and play a "sort it out" game and see if you know how to recycle! ♻️
Cantonese: Utilize your strategy skills in the tile game of Mahjong 🀄️
< strong>Chinese: Play various small games such as character matchin g\, diabolo\, pitch-pot\, and shuttlecock or Jianzi\, a traditiona l Chinese sport.
Japanese: Challenge yourself with J apanese card games such as karuta and hiragana shinkei suijaku\, which will test both your memory and speed ⚡️
Korean: Get crafty and fold yourself a Hanbok – a traditional Korean costume – or better yet\, try a real one on!
Sanskrit: Test your knowledge with the Sanskrit Trivia Quiz!
Tibeta n: Practice calligraphy... in Tibetan script!
5:30pm Doors open
6:00pm W elcome and Performance
6:20pm Refreshments served
7:25pm Raffle Draw
7:30pm Closi ng
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العربية أدناه
Join us for a conversation around proficiency based second-language Arabic teaching!
“From "What to teach?" to "How to teach?": Practices in light of Language Proficiency\,” a conversation with Dr. Amr Madi\, Precep tor in Arabic\, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Ha rvard University.
This talk aims to address two core questions in L2 education: "What do we teach?" and "How do we teach?" The first question wi ll explore insights from the Proficiency Movement and its principles\, whil e the second will focus on the theoretical principles of Communicative Lang uage Teaching (CLT) and their practical applications. The session will crit ically examine various pedagogical practices\, both in and out of the class room\, assessing their effectiveness in enhancing language proficiency. The discussion will draw on the speaker’s practical experience\, interactions with attendees\, and relevant academic research.
The event will be mo derated by Dr. Nesri ne Basheer and presented in Arabic.
Date & Time:
Friday\, September 27\, 2024 at 4:00 PM UTC [9:00 AM PDT\, 12:00 PM EDT\,
7:00 PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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After registe ring\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about j oining the meeting.
This is the first event in TAFL Talks\, a series of events in Arabic designed to foster discussions that bridge theo ry and practice in the teaching of Arabic as a second language. The initiat ive aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and expertise across geogr aphic and linguistic boundaries. Topics will include strategies for enhanci ng language proficiency\, the use of artificial intelligence in Arabic lang uage instruction\, assessment principles\, and other key issues shaping Ara bic classrooms.
The series is organized and hosted by Dr. Nesrine Bas heer (The University of British Columbia)\, Dr. Lama Nassif (Carnegie Mello n University in Qatar)\, and Dr. Radwa Barouni (The University of Pennsylva nia).
ندعوكم لحض ور أول لقاء في سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وعنوانه: من "ماذا نعلّم؟" إلى "كيف نعلّم؟": ممارسات في ميزان الكفاءة اللغوية!
الحوار مع الزميل الدكتور عمرو ماضي، المح اضر في قسم لغات وحضارات الشرق الأدنى ، جامعة هارفارد
يحاول الحوار الإجابة عن سؤالين أساسيين في عم لية التعلم: "ماذا نعلم؟" و"كيف نعلم؟". للإجابة عن السؤال الأول سيتناول اللق اء ما أثمرته حركة الكفاءة اللغوية ومعاييرها. أما بالنسبة للسؤال الثاني، ستت ناول المداخلة مجموعة المبادئ النظرية للتعلم التواصلي وتشرح الإستراتيجيات ال تطبيقية لهذه المبادئ. سيركز الحوار في أغلبه على تفكيك بعض الممارسات الصفية وغير الصفية وتقييم مدى إسهامها في رفع الكفاءة. ستعتمد المداخلة مصدرين أساسي ين في طرحها: التجربة العملية للضيف، ومناقشات مع الزملاء والزميلات الحضور، و كذلك بعض البحوث الأكاديمية.
تدير اللقاء د. نسرين بشير.
يعقد اللقاء على منصة "زووم" يوم الجمعة ٢٧ سبتمبر/أيلول ٢٠٢٤ في ت مام الساعة ٤م بتوقيت غرينتش (٩ ص بتوقيت كاليفورنيا ،١٢ظ بتوقيت نيويورك، ٧م بتوقيت القاهرة والدوحة).
برجاء التسجيل عبر هذا الرابط: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi ster/u5UpceytrTMsGt3SjcQW5BJTBuLoeIP_dTN ، وستصلكم رسالة تأكيد عبر الب ريد الإلكتروني تحتوي على معلومات حول كيفية الانضمام إلى الاجتماع.
هذا اللقاء هو الأول في سلسلة "ح وارات التافل" وهي مجموعة من اللقاءات الدورية مقدمة باللغة العربية تسعى إلى إقامة نقاشات تربط بين النظرية والتطبيق في تعليم اللغة العربية لغةً ثانيةً، وتهدف إلى تبادل المعارف والخبرات في المجال وتسهيل الوصول إليها عبر الحدود ا لجغرافية واللغوية. تتناول السلسلة مواضيع متنوعة من بينها ممارسات تعزيز الكف اءة اللغوية، توظيف الذكاء الاصطناعي في تعليم اللغة العربية، أسس التقييم، وغ يرها من القضايا التي تلامس صفوف العربية بشكل مباشر. السلسلة من تنظيم واستضا فة كل من الدكتورة نسرين بشير من جامعة بريتيش كولومبيا، والدكتورة لمى ناصيف من جامعة كارنيغي ميلون في قطر، والدكتورة رضوى الباروني من جامعة بنسلفانيا.< /p>
CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/from-what-to-teach-to-how-to -teach-practices-in-light-of-language-proficiency/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/09/240927_TAFL-talk-poster-e1727201695203.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240907T1521Z-1725722471.673-EO-63700-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240906T233556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T212155Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240928T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240928T171500 SUMMARY: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India DESCRIPTION: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary Histor y between Iran and India on September 28\, 2024. For a millennium\, Persian was a preeminent language of learning far beyond Iran\, stretching from th e Balkans to China. In this talk on his recent book\, Alexander Jabbari […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies pr esents: The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History b etween Iran and India on September 28\, 2024.
For a millennium\, Pers ian was a preeminent language of learning far beyond Iran\, stretching from the Balkans to China. In this talk on his recent book\, Alexander Jabbari explores what became of the vast Persian literary heritage in the nineteent h and twentieth centuries in Iran and South Asia\, as nationalism took hold and the Persianate world fractured into nation-states. He shows how Irania ns and South Asians drew from their shared past to produce a ‘Persianate mo dernity.’ Drawing from both Persian and Urdu sources\, he reveals how intel lectual and literary exchange between South Asian Muslims and Iranians resu lted in the modernization of literary history\, sexuality\, national identi ty\, and print culture.
Alexander Jabbari is an Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of The Making of Persianate Mo dernity (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\, as well as scholarly arti cles published in Iranian Studies\; Journal of Persianate Studies\; PMLA\; Philological Encounters\; Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East\; and elsewhere.
Hasan Sid diqui is an Assistant Professor of South Asian History at the Univ ersity of British Columbia. A historian of South Asia specializing in early -modern intellectual history\, his research interests include the history o f encyclopedias\, the history of political thought\, and the history of the book. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
The gender category shōjo (lit. “girl”)\, which emerged in the early 20th century\, underwent a radical transformation during wartime. With the introduction of shōkoku min ( junior citizens) as a representation of children in girls’ magaz ines\, shōjo became both genderless and classless. While girls con tinued to be portrayed within the traditional norms of being a good wife an d wise mother\, they were also depicted as equally capable of contributing to the war effort.
This presentation will demonstrate the various ways in which girls were
shown as active participants in the war through photographs and illustratio
ns in Shojo no tomo and Shojo kurabu from 1937 to 1945 -
whether visiting injured soldiers\, serving as nurses\, working in factori
es\, or even becoming pilots.
This talk is free and open to the publi c. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
We
dnesday\, October 2\, 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location:
CK Choi Building\, Room 351\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver
The sessions are all in Persian
Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on:
The Literature of Awakening
< p>Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi< span style="font-weight: 400\;">Locati on: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies
Throughout history\, the political role of poetics (and a rtistic creation in general) has been a subject of interest for scholars. P lato criticized poets for misleading the public and advocated for their exp ulsion from his ideal republic\, while Aristotle regarded poetics as superi or and more philosophical than historiography\, considering poetry essentia l for examining reality. Literature and art reflect and reproduce the preva iling discourses in a society. Furthermore\, literary and artistic works ca n either reinforce dominant ideologies or challenge them\, opening new hori zons of meaning for various concepts. For example\, literature can serve as a propaganda tool to glorify war\, or it can depict the realities surround ing it\, fostering social awareness.
In the upcoming academic year's series of panels organized by the P ersian Literature Reading Club at the University of British Columbia\, unde r the initiative of Dr. Farzan Sojoodi and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, we will ex plore the literature of awakening. These panels will feature guest writers and researchers who will examine examples of literary works across various genres\, including poetry\, short stories\, and novels\, that employ a deco nstructive approach to counter dominant discourses. By revealing the intern al cracks or contradictions within the dominant discourse\, these works pav e the way for social awakening.
Each specialized panel will focus on a particular genre—such as poetry\, short stories\, or novels—centered around a specific theme.< /p>
میزگردهای تخصصی ادبیات بیداری<
br />به ابتکار
دکتر فرزان سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
مکان: اتاق سمینار گروه آسیاپژوهی
از رو زگاران کهن، نقش سیاسی بوطیقا (آفرینش هنری به طور کلی) مورد توجه اندیشمندان بوده است. افلاطون شاعران را مسئول آموزش ناصواب و گمراهی عامهی مردم میداند و حکم به اخراج آنها از آرمانشهر فرضیاش میدهد در حالیکه ارسطو بوطیقا را برتر و فلسفیتر از تاریخنگاری قلمداد و شعرپردازی را برای مداقه در امور واق ع لازم میداند. ادبیات و هنر گفتمانهای موجود در یک جامعه را بازنمایی و باز تولید میکند. در ضمن، آثار ادبی و هنری گاه در خدمت طبیعیسازی عامه و مسلط ه ستند، و گاه قادرند آنها را به چالش کشیده و افقهای معنایی نوینی را پیش رو ی مفاهیم مختلف بگشایند. به فرض ادبیات هم میتواند ابزار تبلیغاتی برای مقدس جلوه دادن جنگ باشد و هم با به تصویر کشیدن واقعیتهای پیرامون آن، زمینه بیدا ری اجتماعی در این خصوص را فراهم .آورد
در سلسله نشستهای سال جاری تحصیلی در ب اشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا به ابتکار دکتر فرزان سجودی و دکتر حسام دهقانی سلسله نشستهایی را برگزار خواهیم کرد که به بررسی ادبیات ب یداری میپردازد. در این نشستها با حضور نویسندگان و پژوهشگران مهمان به بررس ی نمونههایی از آثار ادبی در ژانرهای مختلف از جمله شعر، داستان کوتاه و رمان خواهیم پرداخت که با رویکردی واسازانه عملی پاد گفتمانی را در برابر گفتمان م سلط سامان میدهند و بدین ترتیب ترکها یا تناقضات درونی گفتمان غالب را آشکار میکنند تا زمینه بیداری اجتماعی در آن خصوص فراهم آید.
در هر یک از این میزگ ردهای تخصصی، آثاری از یک ژانر مثلا شعر، داستان کوتاه یا رمان، در مورد موضوع ی واحد بررسی خواهد شد.
First Session:
The Origins of Awakening Literature in Modern Iran: A Study
of the First Persian Short Stories
ج
لسهی نخست:
خاستگاه ادبیات بیداری در عصر مدرن در ایران: برر
سی اولین داستان کوتاههای فارسی
۱. قابلیتهای ساختاری داستان کوتاه برای نقد اج
تماعی
۲. واقع گرایی نقادانه و
اجتماعی
۳. بررسی آثاری چند ا
ز هدایت، جمالزاده و علوی
تاریخ:
Date &
Time:
Saturday\, October 5\, 2024
11:00am to 1:00 pm (P
DT) / 9:30pm to 11:30pm (Tehran Time)
Location: Asian
Centre Seminar Room (Room 604)
There is also an option to attend
virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Presented in Persian
Free & ope
n to the public. Registration is required via the form below.
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Hassan Mirabedini studied Persian literature and journalism. He teached literature and litera ry criticism at the University of Zanjan and University of Hafez (shiraz) . He has published extensively on the history and development of modern Pers ian fiction. Mirabedini is a frequent contributor to the Encyclopaedia of L iterature\, the Encyclopaedia of Persian Languages and Literature\, and Enc yclopaedia Iranica\, as well as\, the renowned journals\, such as Bukhara\, andishe pouya\, and Negah-e Now. He has delivered lectures in many nationa l and international literary seminars\, and has served as jury on selection committees of numerous literary awards. He is the author of several books on various aspects of modern Persian fiction\, and trends in modern Persian prose literature\, including: Bio-bibliography of Persian Novelists (1990) and most recently\, A Hundred Years of Fiction Writing in Persia (four vol umes\, 2003).
حسن میرعابدینی
منتقد و مورخ ادبیات داستانی ایران.
E-Mail:hassan.mirabedini@gmail.com
پژوهشگر ارشد گروه ادبیات معاصرِ فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی (از 1381 به بعد)؛ مدرس ادبیات معاصر در دانشگاه زنجان (1382 تا 1385) و دانشگاه حافظِ شیراز (1392) و چند م رکز آموزشی دیگر.
کتابهای منتشر شده
صد سال داستاننویسیِ ایران، چهار جلد در دو مجلّد، نشر چشمه، 1366 تا 1383، چاپ دوازدهم1400 (ترجمه به تُرکی استانبولی از سوی استادان دانشگاه آنکارا،2 جلد، 2002)؛
فرهنگ داستاننویسان ایران، 1386؛ وی راست جدید، نشر چشمه، فروردین1401
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">هشتاد سال داستان کوتاه ایرانی، 3جلد ،کتاب خ ورشید، 1384؛ چاپ هشتم در دو جلد، 1401؛
سیر تحول ادبیات داستانی و نمایشی، دو جلد، فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی، 1387 و 1391 (چاپ دوم، 1397)؛
مروری بر تاریخ نگاریِ ادبیات معاصر، چهار دفتر، فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی، 1388و1389 و139 4؛
در ستایش داستان- مقالهها و گفتوگوها، نشر چشمه 1389؛
تاریخ ادبیات داستانیِ ایران، انتشارات سخن، 1392؛
تک چهرۀ نویسنده، فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی، دفتر اول، 1395؛ دفتر دوم 1397؛
شهروند شهرهای داستانی- زندگی و آثار سید محمدعلی ج مال زاده، دنیای اقتصاد، 1396؛ نشرچشمه، 1397؛
سرگذشت تاریخنگاریِ ادبیات معاصر ایران، نشر نو، 1396؛
پیشۀ دربهدری- زندگی و آثار بزرگ علوی، نشر چشمه،1397؛
ده ۀ هشتاد: داستان کوتاه ایرانی، کتاب خورشید، اسفند 1397.
سرگردان در میدانهای پ یِر بوردیو (مجموعه مقاله)، نشر چشمه، پائیز 1399.
دختران شهرزاد: زنان نویسندۀ ایرانی، نشر چشمه، 1400؛ چاپ دوم 1401.
همه چیز فرومیپاشد: زندگی و آثار صادق چوبک، نشر چشمه،1403
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Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātab āi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Study of P ersian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a p ost-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his research on t he formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has pr esented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North Ameri ca for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for whic h he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership award fro m that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track positio n as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content -based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he ha s passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several c ertifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critica l heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Ma htab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learne rs of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\ , the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic s tudents of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through whi ch they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Per sian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” the y interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature especia lly the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A \, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semi otics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Se miotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 artic les on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, l iterature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the Uni versity of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Humaniti es and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میزبانان ج
لسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات ف رهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. ن شانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل < span style="font-weight: 400\;">و ن شانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفس یر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ا برساختگرایی: فلسفه ساخت گرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد ه ارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
سجودی از بنیان گزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-origins-of-awakening-lit erature-in-modern-iran-a-study-of-the-first-persian-short-stories/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/09/Awakening-Literature-Short-Stories_website-cover-Bilingual.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241005T0046Z-1728089189.045-EO-63918-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241004T223417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241007T164748Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241008T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241008T200000 SUMMARY: Film Screening of “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle) and Discussion Sessi on DESCRIPTION: The Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee\, Department of Asian Studies at UBC invites you to the screening of Chakma language fi lm “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle). The film was produced by Indigenous directo r Aung Rakhaine in 2015. It was banned by the censorship board in Banglades h until 2024. In light of the recent tragic incidents in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee\, Department o f Asian Studies at UBC invites you to the screening of Chakma language film “Mo Thenggari” (My Bicycle). The film was produced by Indigenous director Aung Rakhaine in 2015. It was banned by the censorship board in Bangladesh until 2024. In light of the recent tragic incidents in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT)\, Indigenous activists and researchers Muktasree Chakma and Di nalo Chakma will share their remarks followed by Q&A after the screening.
The film depicts the socio-economic condition of the Chakma people in a village. It shows how the main character\, Kamal\, bringing a bicycle to the village complicates his relationship with the villagers. By illustratin g the complicated relationships revolving around the bicycle\, the film sho ws how modernity has complicated impacts on the lives of Indigenous people.
Date & Time: Tuesday\, October 8\, 2024 from 6:30 p
m to 8:00 Pm (PDT)
Location: Online
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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الع ربية أدناه
We would like to invite you to the second event in “TAFL Talks” this fall\, “Employing AI in Arabic Teachi ng: Principles and Applications\,” a conversation with Dr. Attia Youseif\, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University.
This talk aims to address multiple core questi ons\, including the role of AI in enhancing L2 Arabic teaching\, principles to consider to ensure optimal AI use\, challenges\, practical applications \, and recommendations for successful AI use in the L2 Arabic classroom. Th e discussion will draw on the speaker’s practical experience\, interactions with attendees\, and relevant academic research.
The event will be m oderated by Dr. Lama Nassif and presented in Arabic.
Date & T
ime: Wednesday\, October 11\, 2024 04:00 PM UTC [9 AM PDT\, 12 PM
EDT\, 7 PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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نعوكم لحضور اللقاء الثاني في فصل الخريف ضمن سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وعنوانه: توظيف الذكاء الاصطناعي في تعليم اللغة العرب ية: مبادئ وتطبيقات، حوار مع الدكتور عطية يوسف، المحاضر الدائم في في قسم لغا ت الشرق الأوسط وثقافاته في جامعة إنديانا. نرفق طيًا الملصق الإعلاني للقاء.< /p>
يحاول الحوار الإجابة عن أسئلة متعددة، ومن
ها دور الذكاء الاصطناعي في تعزيز تعليم اللغة العربية، ومبادئ يجب أن يعي بها
المعلمون والمعلمات لضمان الاستخدام الأمثل لتقنياته، وبعض التحديات والتساؤل
ات المتعلقة باستخدامه، إضافة إلى تطبيقات عملية وتوصيات تعزز نجاحه في صفوف ا
لعربية.
ستعتمد المداخلة على مصدرين أساسيين في طروحها: التجربة العملية
للضيف، ومناقشات مع الزملاء والزميلات الحضور، وكذلك بعض البحوث الأكاديمية
يعقد اللقاء على منصة "زووم" يوم الجمعة ١١ أ كتوبر /تشرين الأول ٢٠٢٤ في تمام الساعة ٤م بتوقيت غرينتش (٩ ص بتوقيت كاليفور نيا ،١٢ظ بتوقيت نيويورك، ٧م بتوقيت القاهرة والدوحة). تدير اللقاء الدكتورة ل مى ناصيف
الرجاء التسجيل عبر الرابط أدناه، وستصلكم رسالة تأكيد عبر البريد الإلكتروني تحتوي على معلومات حول كيفية الان ضمام إلى الاجتماع
"حوارات التافل" مجموعة من اللقاءات الدورية مقدمة باللغة العربية تسعى إلى إقامة نقاشات تربط بين الن ظرية والتطبيق في تعليم اللغة العربية لغةً ثانيةً، وتهدف إلى تبادل المعارف و الخبرات في المجال وتسهيل الوصول إليها عبر الحدود الجغرافية واللغوية. تتناول السلسلة مواضيع متنوعة من بينها ممارسات تعزيز الكفاءة اللغوية، توظيف الذكاء الاصطناعي في تعليم اللغة العربية، أسس التقييم، وغيرها من القضايا التي تلام س صفوف العربية بشكل مباشر. السلسلة من تنظيم واستضافة كل من الدكتورة نسرين ب شير من جامعة بريتيش كولومبيا، والدكتورة لمى ناصيف من جامعة كارنيغي ميلون في قطر، والدكتورة رضوى الباروني من جامعة بنسلفانيا
CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/employing-ai-in-arabic-teach ing-principles-and-applications/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/10/TAFL-talks_Oct.-11_Dr.-Attia-Youseif1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241029T1737Z-1730223420.7314-EO-63843-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241002T171509Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T171606Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241011T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241011T140000 SUMMARY: A conversation – Living Spiritually with Climate Change X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://buddhism.arts.ubc.ca/conversation-living-spiritually- with-climate-change/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/09/Spiritually-Climate-Change_newsletter.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7521-EO-63944-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241009T175812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T184431Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241016T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241016T140000 SUMMARY: DEFYING RESTRICTIONS: Women-Created\, Women-Read Sexual Writing in Modern Japan DESCRIPTION: JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025 In this pr esentation\, Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa will provide an analysis of award-winni ng stories from the By Women\, For Women R-18 Literary Prize\, which featur es sexual writing created by women and for women readers. She will also dis cuss the broader impact of libraries\, government and publishers on the cre ation and […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
In this presentation\, Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa will provide an analysis of awar d-winning stories from the By Women\, For Women R-18 Literary Prize\, which features sexual writing created by women and for women readers. She will a lso discuss the broader impact of libraries\, government and publishers on the creation and reception of women’s sexual writing in Japan\, and how thi s relates to sexuality education and women’s empowerment.
This talk i s free and open to the public. No registration is required.
D
ate & Time:
Wednesday\, October 16\, 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm<
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Location:
CK Choi Building\, Room 351\, 1855 We
st Mall\, Vancouver
Shirin Eshghi Furuzawa recently completed her PhD in Asian Studies at UBC and is the Head o f UBC’s Asian Library.
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Join us for the Onkarbir Toor Memorial Lecture\, "Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab".
Navyug Gill is a histo rian specializing in modern South Asia and global history. He is Associate Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. He r eceived a PhD from Emory University\, and a BA from the University of Toron to. Gill’s research explores broad questions of agrarian change\, labor pol itics\, caste hierarchy\, postcolonial critique and global capitalism.
< p>His first book\, "Labors of Division: Global Capitalism and the Emergence of the Peasant in Colonial Panjab\," was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. It examines the relationship between landholding peasants an d landless laborers and their implications for a new form of capitalist hie rarchy in colonial India and across the globe. Gill’s writings have appeare d in venues such as Past and Present\, the Journal of Asian Studies\, Econo mic and Political Weekly\, and Al Jazeera.Date & Time:
Thursday\, October 17\, 2024 at 5:30pm – 8:00pm
Locat
ion:
The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees
Liu I
nstitute for Global Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver\, V6T 1Z2
This event is free and open to the public. The lecture will be presented in English and Punjabi.
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This event is being org anized by UBC Asian Studies with support from the Onkarbir Singh Toor Memor ial Punjabi Studies Enhancement Fund\, and co-sponsored by the Centre for S outh Asia and India Research (CISAR).
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The event recording is now available:
https://youtu.be/7VVvCJ6iO9 4?si=sEiDci4GHV93JEHw
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Per sianate Studies presents: What Did the People of Iran Laugh About for 50 Ye ars?: The Social\, Cultural\, and Political Role of Towfigh Satiri cal Paper on October 19\, 2024.
In this talk\, Dr. A bbas Towfigh will explore the social\, cultural\, and political significanc e of Towfigh Satirical Paper\, which was published in Iran for 50 years. He will discuss the newspaper’s impact on Iranian society during its run and its role in shaping public discourse. Additionally\, Dr. Towfigh w ill share examples of the humor and satire featured in Towfigh\, o ffering insight into what made it such an influential publication in modern Iranian history.
Please note that the talk will be delivered in Persian\, with much of the English translation being displayed simultaneous ly on-screen.
“Since truth is bitter\, let me sweeten it with some storytelling\, but you know where this is going—I’m about to reveal s ome uncomfortable truths.”
The satirical ne wspaper Towfigh was first published on May 20\, 1923. Its founder was Hossein Towfigh. After his death\, Mohammad Ali Towfigh took over as th e managing director in 1930. In the wake of the 1953 coup\, Mohammad Ali To wfigh was imprisoned\, the newspaper faced challenges and was exiled to Kha rk Island. In 1954\, the management of Towfigh was passed to the T owfigh brothers\, marking the start of the third and final period of the ne wspaper (1951-1978).
The third era of Towfigh was its golden age\, as it became the only independent and critical newspaper in Iran\, r apidly gaining immense popularity. It sharply criticized the political and economic conditions in the country\, making it a favourite among prominent figures\, intellectuals\, and university professors. Many praised Towfi gh for its boldness\, something no other publication in Iran had achie ved.
Towfigh continued to be published until mid-1976. By th e time of its closure\, it was not only the largest satirical newspaper in Iran but also the oldest publication in the history of Iranian journalism.< /p>
Note: It is important to acknowledge that Towfig h has been rightly criticized by some scholars for how it addressed is sues of race and ethnicity\, especially through its depiction of its titula r character as well as in certain instances of its humor and satire. As the Department of Asian Studies\, by reproducing images or content from To wfigh\, we do not aim to perpetuate these problematic aspects. Instead \, we treat the periodical as a historical document\, open to critical deba te and reflection. Our goal is to engage with its historical significance w hile making it clear that we do not endorse or support any of the offensive or discriminatory depictions it contained.
For an instance of the ri ghtful criticism of these problematic aspects\, see Beeta Baghoolizadeh’s < em>The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University P ress\, 2024).
Abbas Towfigh earned h is Ph.D. from Sorbonne University\, Paris. He began his career as a satiris t and editorial cartoonist for Towfigh magazine\, of which he was an editor and served as Editor-in-Chief from 1957 to 1972. He has also serv ed as a Professor of Sociology\, Social Psychology\, and Press Sociology at several universities in Iran. He has also published in\, and served as the president of\, Humor in Los Angeles.
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The sessions are all in Persian
Persia n Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on:
The Literature of Awakening
Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam
Dehghani
Location: Seminar Ro om\, Department of Asian Studies
Throughout history\, the political role of poetics (and artistic creati on in general) has been a subject of interest for scholars. Plato criticize d poets for misleading the public and advocated for their expulsion from hi s ideal republic\, while Aristotle regarded poetics as superior and more ph ilosophical than historiography\, considering poetry essential for examinin g reality. Literature and art reflect and reproduce the prevailing discours es in a society. Furthermore\, literary and artistic works can either reinf orce dominant ideologies or challenge them\, opening new horizons of meanin g for various concepts. For example\, literature can serve as a propaganda tool to glorify war\, or it can depict the realities surrounding it\, foste ring social awareness.
In the upcoming academic year's series of panels organized by the Persian Literat ure Reading Club at the University of British Columbia\, under the initiati ve of Dr. Farzan Sojoodi and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, we will explore the lite rature of awakening. These panels will feature guest writers and researcher s who will examine examples of literary works across various genres\, inclu ding poetry\, short stories\, and novels\, that employ a deconstructive app roach to counter dominant discourses. By revealing the internal cracks or c ontradictions within the dominant discourse\, these works pave the way for social awakening.
Each specia lized panel will focus on a particular genre—such as poetry\, short stories \, or novels—centered around a specific theme.
میزگردهای تخصصی ادبیات بیداری
به ابتکار
دکتر فرزان سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
مکان: اتاق سمینار گروه آسیاپژوهی
از روزگاران کهن، نق ش سیاسی بوطیقا (آفرینش هنری به طور کلی) مورد توجه اندیشمندان بوده است. افلا طون شاعران را مسئول آموزش ناصواب و گمراهی عامهی مردم میداند و حکم به اخرا ج آنها از آرمانشهر فرضیاش میدهد در حالیکه ارسطو بوطیقا را برتر و فلسفیت ر از تاریخنگاری قلمداد و شعرپردازی را برای مداقه در امور واقع لازم میداند . ادبیات و هنر گفتمانهای موجود در یک جامعه را بازنمایی و بازتولید میکند. در ضمن، آثار ادبی و هنری گاه در خدمت طبیعیسازی عامه و مسلط هستند، و گاه قا درند آنها را به چالش کشیده و افقهای معنایی نوینی را پیش روی مفاهیم مختلف بگشایند. به فرض ادبیات هم میتواند ابزار تبلیغاتی برای مقدس جلوه دادن جنگ باشد و هم با به تصویر کشیدن واقعیتهای پیرامون آن، زمینه بیداری اجتماعی در این خصوص را فراهم .آورد
در سلسله نشستهای سال جاری تحصیلی در باشگاه ادبیات ف ارسی خوانی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا به ابتکار دکتر فرزان سجودی و دکتر حسام دهق انی سلسله نشستهایی را برگزار خواهیم کرد که به بررسی ادبیات بیداری میپرداز د. در این نشستها با حضور نویسندگان و پژوهشگران مهمان به بررسی نمونههایی ا ز آثار ادبی در ژانرهای مختلف از جمله شعر، داستان کوتاه و رمان خواهیم پرداخت که با رویکردی واسازانه عملی پاد گفتمانی را در برابر گفتمان مسلط سامان مید هند و بدین ترتیب ترکها یا تناقضات درونی گفتمان غالب را آشکار میکنند تا زم ینه بیداری اجتماعی در آن خصوص فراهم آید.
در هر یک از این میزگردهای تخصصی، آ ثاری از یک ژانر مثلا شعر، داستان کوتاه یا رمان، در مورد موضوعی واحد بررسی خ واهد شد.
Second Session:
Political Resi
stance in Post-Revolutionary Poetry: Mohammad Mokhtari and Baktash Abtin
جلسهی دوم: مقاومت سیاسی
در شعر پس از انقلاب : بازخوانی و تحلیل آثار محمد مختاری و بکتاش آبتین
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Saturday\, October 26\, 2024
11:00am
to 1:00 pm (PDT) / 9:30pm to 11:30pm (Tehran Time)
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There is also an opt
ion to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Presented in PersianFree & open to the public. Registration is required via the form below.
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مهمانان برنامه:
علیرضا بهنام، علیرضا آبیز
Alireza Abiz is a multi-award-winning poet\, literary scholar\, and translator.
Born in South Kh orasan\, Iran in 1968\, Abiz studied English Literature in Mashhad and Tehr an universities and received his PhD in Creative Writing –Poetry from Newca stle University in the UK. Abiz has written extensively on Persian contempo rary literature and culture. His scholarly book ‘Censorship of Literature i n Post-Revolutionary Iran: Politics and Culture since 1979’ was published i n 2020 by I. B. Taurus (Bloomsbury). He has so far published five collectio ns of poetry in Persian\; ‘Stop! We Must Get Off!’\, ‘Spaghetti with Mexica n Sauce’\, ‘I Hear My Desk as a Tree’\, ‘13/1 Koohsangee Street’\, and ‘Bla ck Line- London Underground’ (winner of the Shamlou Award). A selection of his poetry translated into English ‘The Kindly Interrogator’ was published by Shearsman in 2021.
Abiz h as translated some leading poets including Rainer Maria Rilke\, Basil Bunti ng\, Derek Walcott\, Jack Kerouac\, and C.K. Williams into Persian. His tra nslation of ‘African Contemporary Art’ won him the Iranian Book of the Seas on Award for the best translation in visual arts in 2007.English\, German\, Italian\, Romanian\, Czech\, Slovak\, Bosnian\, Bengali\, and Arabic trans lations of his poetry have been published in numerous journals including th e Rialto\, Asymptote\, Modern Poetry in Translation\, as well as different anthologies and have been showcased in public places including Stuttgart Un derground. He has performed at many international festivals and acted as ju dge in numerous Persian language literary prizes. He is a board member in P oetry Translation Centre and chaired the judges in Sarah Maguire Poetry in Translation Prize 2020-2021.
Abiz is the co-founder of MAHA\, a Persian language online platform for ar t and literature\, and Editor of Radio Now podcasts. He lives in London whe re he works as a creative writing lecturer\, translator and researcher.
علیرضا آبیز
شاعر، مترجم، پژوهشگر ادبی
از علیرضا آبیز تاکنون پنج مجموعه شعر فارسی به عناوین نگه دار باید پیاده < b>شویم (نارنج، ۱۳۷۷)، اسپاگت ی با سس مکزیکی (ث الث، ۱۳۸۳)، از میز من صدای درختی می آید (نگاه، ۱۳۹۲)، کوهسنگی، پلاک ۱۳ ممیز ۱ (هندز مدیا، ۱۳۹۶)، خط سیاه، متروی لندن ( فانوس، ۱۳۹۶) منتشر شده است و مج موعه ی کوی فراموشان زیر چاپ است. کتاب شعر خط سیاه، متروی لندن برنده جایزه شاملو و ترجمه وی از کتاب هنر معاصر آفریقا برنده جایزه کتاب فصلِ ترجمه شدهاست. وی شعر شاعران نامداری نظیر درک والکات، راینر ماریا ریلکه، جک کرواک و شماری دیگر را به فارسی برگردانده و آثار شما ر قابل توجهی از شاعران فارسی زبان را به انگلیسی ترجمه و منتشر کردهاست. اثر پژوهشی وی به زبان انگلیسی با عنوان Censorship of Literature in Post-Revol utionary Iran: Politics and Cult ure Since 1979 ( سانسور ادبیات در ایران پس از انقلاب : سیاست و فرهنگ از سال ۱۹۷۹ به بعد) را انتشارات بلومزبری در سال ۲۰۲۰ و تر جمه گزیدهای از شعرهایش با عنوان The Kindly Interrogator )بازجوی مهربان) را انتشارات شیرزمن در سال ۲۰۲۱ منتشر کردهاست. شعرهای بلند On London Bridge و Desert Monitor از آبیز به ترتیب در نشریهی Asymptote و The Rialto منتشر شدهاند. ترجمه شعرهای او به زبانهای عربی، آلمانی ، انگلیسی، رومانیایی، فر انسوی، ایتالیایی، بنگالی، چک\, ، بوسنیایی و اسلواک در نشریات و آنتالوژیهای متعدد منشر شده و در مکانهای عمومی از جمله مترو اشتوتگارت به نمایش در آمده است. وی در چندین جایزه ادبی بینالمللی داور بوده و از جمله ریاست هیات داور ان جایزه سارا مگگوایر را بر عهده داشتهاست.
علیرضا آبیز در جنوب خراسان به د نیا آمده و در رشته ی زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی در دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد و دانشگا ه تهران تحصیل کرده و از دانشگاه نیوکاسل انگلستان دکترا در رشته ی ادبیات خلا ق – شعر کسب کرده است. آبیز عضو هیأتامنای مرکز ترجمهی شعر در انگلستان است و به کار ترجمه، پژوهش، و تدریس ادبیات خلاق اشتغال دارد.
Alireza Behnam\, an
Iranian poet\, writer and critic\, was born in 1973 in Tehran. He has publi
shed 10 collections of poetry\, 2 collections of short stories\, 9 book tit
les in the field of criticism and research\, and 20 translations in the fie
lds of poetry\, fiction and drama in Iran and abroad. Behnam's poems have b
een translated into English\, German\, French and Danish languages and ha
ve been published as books or in authoritative anthologies
علیرضا بهنام ، شاعر ، نویسنده و منتقد ایرانی متولد ۱۹۷
۳ در تهران است. از او ۱۰ مجموعه شعر، ۲ مجموعه داستان کوتاه ، ۹ عنوان کتاب د
ر زمینه نقد و پژوهش و ۲۰ ترجمه در زمینههای شعر، داستان و نمایشنامه در داخ
ل و خارج ایران منتشر شده است.
اشعار بهنام به زبانهای ان
گلیسی، آلمانی، فرانسه و دانمارکی ترجمه شده و به صورت کتاب یا در قالب آنتولو
ژیهای معتبر منتشر شده است.
Dr. Hessa m Dehghani earned his first P hD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural An alysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between Augu st 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate res earcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studie s\, where he focused his research on the formation of Persianate identity i n Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persi an mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary t heory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.< /span>
Besides his research interest s\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program sing le-handedly at Boston College for which he received a teaching award and wa s nominated for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Deh ghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teachi ng Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In p edagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical herit age language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STA RTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present . He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Imple menting the latest findings in critical heritage education and second langu age acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method o f teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Colla borative Storytelling (CT).
T o promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Peris an Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature readin g sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, acc ompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral Histo ry of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominent figure s of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Fa
rzan Sojoodi is a retired full profess
or of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtain
ed his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Alla
meh Tabataba’i University.
H is primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural s emiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in Persia n\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian languag e\, and literature.
He was o ne of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some course s in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares U niversity\, the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm Int ernational Academy.
میزبانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
فرزان س جودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبای ی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهش
ناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله
تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات
انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی<
/span>: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او
هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه
ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/political-resistance-in-post -revolutionary-poetry-mohammad-mokhtari-and-baktash-abtin/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/09/Political-Resistance_website-cover-Bilingual.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241016T2212Z-1729116740.1362-EO-63987-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241016T171223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T171223Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241030T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241030T140000 SUMMARY: Karayuki-san\, Rashamen\, and Places of Memory: Fieldnotes from Yo kohama DESCRIPTION: JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025 Ayaka Yosh imizu will share her work-in-progress research based on her multi-sited fie ldwork\, which examines the memories of Japanese women involved in interrac ial and transnational sex trade between 1853 and 1945 in the transpacific w orld. In this talk\, she will specifically focus on her performance ethnogr aphic work in Yokohama\, where […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
Ayaka Yoshimizu will share her work-in- progress research based on her multi-sited fieldwork\, which examines the m emories of Japanese women involved in interracial and transnational sex tra de between 1853 and 1945 in the transpacific world. In this talk\, she will specifically focus on her performance ethnographic work in Yokohama\, wher e she studies a miniature shrine called Ganki Inari as a memorial-in-becomi ng to commemorate the mass deaths of sex workers\, using a place-based\, em bodied approach to memory studies. She will present fragments of her fieldn otes to explore what it means to grieve and how to grieve the losses that a re little known to us.
This talk is free and open to the public. No r egistration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday
\, October 30\, 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location:
CK Choi Building\, Room 351\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver
Ayaka Yoshimizu is Associate Professor of Teaching in the Departmen t of Asian Studies at UBC.
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Join
us for a special Halloween screening (and screaming!) of the long-lost Chin
ese spider-women film: CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB
Date & Time: Thursday\, Octob
er 31 at 12pm
Location: Auditorium\, UBC Asian Centre
Format: 60-min film screening\, followed by 30-min d
iscussion
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Cave of the Silken Web (Pan si do ng\; Dan Duyu\, dir.) is a silent feature film adapted from an episode in the Ming-dynasty novel Journey to the West in which the monk T ripitaka is kidnapped and held prisoner in a cave of spider women. Will his traveling companions the Monkey King\, Pigsy\, and Sandy be able to rescue him before Tripitaka is forced to marry the Spider Queen?
The film w as lost for nearly a century before a partial copy was discovered in Norway with both Chinese and Norwegian intertitles. The National Library of Norwa y made this restored copy available to the Chinese Film Classics Project headed by UBC professor Christ opher Rea\, whose new translation of the film\, with new music by Donald Sosin\, is premiering at U BC this Halloween!
After the screening\, join UBC professors Mila Zuo and Christopher Rea for a discu ssion of this remarkable film. Costumes encouraged!
If you have any questions regarding the event\, please contact chris.rea@ubc.ca.
This event was made possible by the National Library of Norway\, the Chinese Film Classics Project\, the UBC De partment of Asian Studies\, and the UBC Centre for Chinese Research.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/special-halloween-screening- cave-of-the-silken-web-1927/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/10/Halloween-poster-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241015T1840Z-1729017608.1921-EO-63965-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241015T171100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241015T171205Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241101T130000 SUMMARY: ‘Don’t Be a Gap-Filler’\, and Other Writing Advice for Graduate St udents DESCRIPTION: “My study fills a gap in the literature” is a common—and terri ble—way that researchers justify their studies. For one thing\, “gaps in th e literature” are infinite. Why fill this one? More importantly\, by embrac ing this metaphor\, the author presents themselves as a mere gap-filler and ignores their true potential as a researcher trying to solve […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
“My study fills a gap in the literature” is a common—and terrible—wa y that researchers justify their studies. For one thing\, “gaps in the lite rature” are infinite. Why fill this one? More importantly\, by embracing th is metaphor\, the author presents themselves as a mere gap-filler and ignor es their true potential as a researcher trying to solve a problem. During t his one-hour session\, Dr. Christopher Rea will share several simple and pr actical writing practices that can make your writing more authentic\, persu asive\, and—yep!—enjoyable\, both for you and for your readers. Which reade rs? Thesis examiners\, editors at journals and presses\, peers in your fiel d and discipline\, grant evaluators\, search committees\, the general publi c. Bring your writing challenges (and your lunch) to this session\, and com e away with some writing techniques you can put into practice right away.
This talk is open to all Graduate Students. No registration is require d.
Date & Time:
Friday\, November 1\, 2024 | 12
:00pm – 1:00pm (PDT)
Location:
Asian Centre\, R
oom 604\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Dr. Christopher Rea is a literary and cultural historian whose research focuses on the mod ern Chinese-speaking world.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/dont-be-a-gap-filler-and-oth er-writing-advice-for-graduate-students/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/10/C.Rea-Dont-Be-a-Gap-Filler-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250123T0835Z-1737621345.762-EO-64151-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241104T180205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T180205Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241108T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241108T170000 SUMMARY: Language Standardization in South Korea: An Ideological Perspectiv e X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Korean LOCATION:The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/language-standardization-in -south-korea-an-ideological-perspective/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/11/eunseon-kim-talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250123T0835Z-1737621345.7738-EO-64190-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241107T000750Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241107T190949Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241121T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241121T184500 SUMMARY: Intiha: An Evening of Conversation with Ali Sethi X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/intiha-an-evening-of-conversation -with-ali-sethi-tickets-1073673308769?utm-campaign=social&utm-content= attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-sour ce=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/11/Ali-Sethi-event-graphics-1-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241114T0147Z-1731548829.9834-EO-64228-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241114T002656Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241114T193406Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241122T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241122T110000 SUMMARY: Teaching Arabic Literature to Non-native Speakers: Facilitating th e Balance between Content and Language Acquisition DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the third event of “TAFL Talks” titled: “Te aching Arabic Literature to Non-native Speakers: Facilitating the Balance b etween Content and Language Acquisition” by Dr. Radwa EL-Barouni (Universit y of Pennsylvania). The talk attempts to answer a number of questions inclu ding how to prepare and support students as they engage with Arabic literar y texts […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
You are invited to the third event of "TAFL Talks" titled: "Teaching Arabic Literature to Non-native Speakers : Facilitating the Balance between Content and Language Acquisition" by Dr. Radwa EL-Barouni (University of Pennsylvania).
The talk attem pts to answer a number of questions including how to prepare and support st udents as they engage with Arabic literary texts especially Advanced learne rs who may have not encountered literary texts at the novice or intermediat e levels. How to balance language acquisition\, text comprehension\, and li terary text appreciation through practical tips.
The event will be pr esented in Arabic.
Date & Time: Friday\, November 22
\, 2024 05:00 PM UTC [9 AM PST\, 12 PM EST\, 8PM AST]
Location
: Online via Zoom
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ندع
وكم لحضور اللقاء الثالث في فصل الخريف ضمن سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وعنوانه: تد
ريس الأدب العربي للناطقين بغيرها: كيفية مساعدة المتعلمين على فهم المحتوى مع
اكتساب اللغة، حوار مع الدكتورة رضوى الباروني، المحاضر ة ومنسقة ومديرة برنا
مج اللغة والثقافة العربية في قسم لغات الشرق الأوسط وثقافاته في جامعة بنسلفا
نيا.
يحاول الحوار الإجابة عن أسئلة متعددة ومنها كيفية إعداد ومعاونة ال
متعلمين على التعامل مع النصوص العربية الأدبية خصوصاً مع عدم التعرّض للغة ال
أدب في مراحل تعلّم اللغة الأولية، وما هي معايير اختيار النصوص الأدبية، وكيف
ية عمل التوازن بين اكتساب اللغة وفهم المحتوى وتذوق النَّص كنصٍّ أدبيٍّ عن ط
ريق تطبيقات عمليةٍ وتوصيات تعزز نجاح المتعلمين في صفوف العربية.
ستعتمد
المداخلة على مصدرين أساسيين في طروحها: التجربة العملية للضيفة، ومناقشات مع
الزملاء والزميلات الحضور، وكذلك بعض البحوث الأكاديمية.
JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
The Japan Studies Lunchtime Speaker Series welco mes all for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Gustav Heldt on his new monog raph\, Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki’s Tosa Diary as History a nd Fiction.
Drawing on both contemporaneous historical sources a nd modern literary criticism\, Navigating Narratives offers unique i nsights into Heian Japan through a close reading of one of its most enigmat ic and consequential texts. Named after the province once governed by its c reator\, Ki no Tsurayuki (d. 946)\, Tosa nikki (The Tosa Diary) purp orts to be the record of a voyage kept by an anonymous woman in the entoura ge of an ex-governor returning to the capital. This split between fictional narrator and historical author has usually led readers to place the diary in narratives privileging one of those two figures\, with the result that < i>Tosa nikki has been valued primarily as either the first Heian woman’ s memoir or the last aesthetic manifesto of a man whose writings shaped the Japanese poetic tradition for centuries afterward. Navigating Narrative s attempts to steer away from the anachronistic assumptions and author- centric readings informing these accounts. By focusing instead on the diary ’s reception as a parody by its earliest readers\, Heldt argues that it mer its attention for the discursive practices\, representational conventions\, and non-elite social contexts it illuminates as the world’s first short no velistic work of fiction.
This talk is free and open to the public. N o registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednes
day\, November 27\, 2024 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm
Location:
CK Choi Building\, Room 351\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver
Gustav Heldt is a professor of Japanese literature at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on early Japanese mythology\, Heian vernacular narratives\, waka poetry and poetics\, and Japan’s larger place in early medieval global history. His publications include a monograph on the connections between ritual\, community and authority in ea rly Heian waka poetry (The Pursuit of Harmony: Poetry and Power i n Early Heian Japan\, Cornell East Asia Program\, 2008)\, a translation of the earliest surviving Japanese narrative (The Kojiki: An Acc ount of Ancient Matters\, Columbia University Press\, 2014)\, a co-edit ed collection of essays about cross-cultural connections in early medieval Eurasia (China and Beyond in the Mediaeval Period: Cultural Crossings an d Inter-regional Connections\, Cambria Press\, 2014) and a monograph on the earliest extant vernacular Japanese diary (Navigating Narratives: T surayuki’s Tosa Diary as History and Fiction\, Har vard Asia Center\, 2024).
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Room 351\, C.K. Choi Building GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/navigating-narratives-gustav -heldt/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/11/241127_Heldt-book-talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241107T0203Z-1730945001.0861-EO-64185-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241106T235949Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T235949Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241129T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241129T115000 SUMMARY: On the Correlations between Lee Sang’s Poems and the Film An Andal usian Dog: Why do Invisible Needles Prick his Skin? DESCRIPTION: This seminar aims to compare and analyze the artistic spirit o f Lee Sang’s poetry and the film An Andalusian Dog which was co-produced by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Lee Sang was a representative Korean poet o f the 1930s who frequently mentioned renowned film directors such as Jean C octeau and René Clair in his poetry\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This seminar aims to compar
e and analyze the artistic spirit of Lee Sang's poetry and the film An
Andalusian Dog which was co-produced by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
Lee Sang was a representative Korean poet of the 1930s who frequently ment
ioned renowned film directors such as Jean Cocteau and René Clair in his po
etry\, novels\, and essays\, leaving behind many records related to his exp
eriences with film.
Despite the genre differ
ences between poetry and film\, the seminar seeks to interpret the correlat
ion between the two works based on surrealistic imagery. An Andalusian
Dog is a surrealist film composed of complex images that make it diffi
cult to analyze the narrative in detail\; however\, specific scenes in the
film are considered closely related to Lee Sang's poetry. In particular\, b
y focusing on the specific scenes of An Andalusian Dog and Lee San
g's poems “Poem No. 10 – Butterfly” and “I Wed Toy Bride\,” this seminar ai
ms to discuss the artistic spirit and aesthetic power embedded in these wor
ks.
Date & Time:
Friday\, November 29\, 2024 at
10:00am – 11:50am
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Ce
ntre
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
This event is free and open to the public. No registration required. The seminar will be presented in Korean.
Should you try to turn that paper you wro te for graduate seminar into a journal article? If so\, how? What additiona l work do you need to do to create an article manuscript—and how much? Whos e advice should you request during the revision process? To which journal s hould you send the completed draft? What should you expect from the peer re view process? During this 1-hour session\, Dr. Christopher Rea will discuss some basic considerations for aspiring article authors\, and share methods for getting your research into print. Bring to this session your lunch—and \, if you like\, the title and abstract of a seminar paper—and come away wi th some ideas for what might be the best next steps for you.
This tal k is open to all Graduate Students and will be held both in-person and onli ne. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
F
riday\, November 29\, 2024 | 12:00pm – 1:00pm (PST)
Location:
In-person: Asian Centre\, Room 604\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancou
ver
Online: via Zoom here
Professor Christopher Re a is co-author\, with Tom Mullaney\, of the bestselling guide Where Research Begins< /a>: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World). CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/turning-your-seminar-paper-i nto-a-journal-article/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/10/C.Rea-Turning-Your-Seminar-Paper-into-Journal-Article-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7459-EO-63743-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20240911T211813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241105T195723Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241130T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241130T130000 SUMMARY: Anti-War Literature: Realism vs. Idealism DESCRIPTION: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Clu b’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on: The Li terature of Awakening Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hessam Dehghani Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies Throughout history\, t he political role of poetics (and artistic creation in general) has been a […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The sessions are all in Persian
Persia n Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on:
The Literature of Awakening
Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam
Dehghani
Location: Seminar Ro om\, Department of Asian Studies
Throughout history\, the political role of poetics (and artistic creati on in general) has been a subject of interest for scholars. Plato criticize d poets for misleading the public and advocated for their expulsion from hi s ideal republic\, while Aristotle regarded poetics as superior and more ph ilosophical than historiography\, considering poetry essential for examinin g reality. Literature and art reflect and reproduce the prevailing discours es in a society. Furthermore\, literary and artistic works can either reinf orce dominant ideologies or challenge them\, opening new horizons of meanin g for various concepts. For example\, literature can serve as a propaganda tool to glorify war\, or it can depict the realities surrounding it\, foste ring social awareness.
In the upcoming academic year's series of panels organized by the Persian Literat ure Reading Club at the University of British Columbia\, under the initiati ve of Dr. Farzan Sojoodi and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, we will explore the lite rature of awakening. These panels will feature guest writers and researcher s who will examine examples of literary works across various genres\, inclu ding poetry\, short stories\, and novels\, that employ a deconstructive app roach to counter dominant discourses. By revealing the internal cracks or c ontradictions within the dominant discourse\, these works pave the way for social awakening.
Each specia lized panel will focus on a particular genre—such as poetry\, short stories \, or novels—centered around a specific theme.
میزگردهای تخصصی ادبیات بیداری
به ابتکار
دکتر فرزان سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
مکان: اتاق سمینار گروه آسیاپژوهی
از روزگاران کهن، نق ش سیاسی بوطیقا (آفرینش هنری به طور کلی) مورد توجه اندیشمندان بوده است. افلا طون شاعران را مسئول آموزش ناصواب و گمراهی عامهی مردم میداند و حکم به اخرا ج آنها از آرمانشهر فرضیاش میدهد در حالیکه ارسطو بوطیقا را برتر و فلسفیت ر از تاریخنگاری قلمداد و شعرپردازی را برای مداقه در امور واقع لازم میداند . ادبیات و هنر گفتمانهای موجود در یک جامعه را بازنمایی و بازتولید میکند. در ضمن، آثار ادبی و هنری گاه در خدمت طبیعیسازی عامه و مسلط هستند، و گاه قا درند آنها را به چالش کشیده و افقهای معنایی نوینی را پیش روی مفاهیم مختلف بگشایند. به فرض ادبیات هم میتواند ابزار تبلیغاتی برای مقدس جلوه دادن جنگ باشد و هم با به تصویر کشیدن واقعیتهای پیرامون آن، زمینه بیداری اجتماعی در این خصوص را فراهم .آورد
در سلسله نشستهای سال جاری تحصیلی در باشگاه ادبیات ف ارسی خوانی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا به ابتکار دکتر فرزان سجودی و دکتر حسام دهق انی سلسله نشستهایی را برگزار خواهیم کرد که به بررسی ادبیات بیداری میپرداز د. در این نشستها با حضور نویسندگان و پژوهشگران مهمان به بررسی نمونههایی ا ز آثار ادبی در ژانرهای مختلف از جمله شعر، داستان کوتاه و رمان خواهیم پرداخت که با رویکردی واسازانه عملی پاد گفتمانی را در برابر گفتمان مسلط سامان مید هند و بدین ترتیب ترکها یا تناقضات درونی گفتمان غالب را آشکار میکنند تا زم ینه بیداری اجتماعی در آن خصوص فراهم آید.
در هر یک از این میزگردهای تخصصی، آ ثاری از یک ژانر مثلا شعر، داستان کوتاه یا رمان، در مورد موضوعی واحد بررسی خ واهد شد.
Third Session:
Anti-War Lit
erature: Realism vs. Idealism
جلسهی سوم، ادبیات ضد جنگ: واقعیتگرایی در برابر آرمان
گرایی
بررسی مجموعه داستان کوتاه «از این مکان»اثر قاضی ربیحاوی
تاریخ:
Date & Time:
Saturday\, November 30
\, 2024
11:00am to 1:00 pm (PST) / 10:30pm to 12:30am (Tehran Time)
Location: Asian Centre Seminar Room (Room 604)
There is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
P
resented in Persian
Free & open to the public. Registration is require
d via the form below.
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مهم
ان جلسه:
قاضی ربیحاوی
Ghazi Rabihavi is an Iranian writer\, playwright\, and filmmaker\, known for his work
s that often explore themes of war\, social justice\, and the human conditi
on. Born in 1956 in Abadan\, Iran\, Rabihavi was initially active in the Ir
anian literary and cultural scene\, particularly in the years following the
Iranian Revolution.
Rabihavi 's work gained attention for its critical portrayal of the socio-political issues in Iran\, especially during and after the Iran-Iraq War. His writing s often reflect the struggles of ordinary people caught in the turmoil of w ar and political oppression. He is known for his realism and his ability to capture the complexities of life in Iran during a time of significant uphe aval.
One of his notable work s is the short story collection titled "Az In Makan" (From This Place)\, wh ich delves into the effects of war and political repression on individuals and society. Rabihavi's writing is often characterized by its stark realism and deep empathy for his characters\, many of whom are depicted as struggl ing against overwhelming odds in a world marked by violence and despair.
Due to his outspoken views and the nature of his work\, Rabihavi faced censorship and persecution in Iran\ , leading him to eventually leave the country. He has lived in exile for ma ny years and continues to write and create\, contributing to the broader di scourse on Iranian society\, politics\, and culture from a distance.
Rabihavi's work remains influential \, particularly among those who seek to understand the human cost of war an d repression\, as well as the broader struggles for justice and freedom in the context of Iran and beyond.
قاضی ربیحاوی (زادهٔ ۱۳۳۵ در آبادان) ن ویسنده ایرانی-بریتانیایی است. ربیحاوی یکی از آغازکنندگان ادبیات ضد جنگ در ا یران بهشمار میرود.
در پاییز سال پنجاه و نُه جنگ ایران و عراق شروع شد. شهر زادگاه قاضی، آبادان به دلیل همسایگی با عراق، بزودی در محاصره نیروهای ارتش ع راق درآمد. قاضی که در میان مردم همشهریاش بود و مصیبت ناگهانی فرود آمده بر مردم بی دفاع و بیپناه را میدید داستانی نوشت بنام «وقتی که دود جنگ بر آسما ن دهکده دیده شد». این کتاب یک نوول کوچک بود و اولین داستان منتشر شده در ژان ری که بعد عنوان ژانر «ادبیات ضد جنگ» نامیده شد.
یک سال بعد مجموعه داستان «خا طرات یک سرباز» او منتشر شد، مجموعه پنج داستان پیوسته که همه در جبهههای جنگ جنوب میگذرد و از زبان یک سرباز کم سواد و کاملاً بیطرف بیان میشود. استقبا ل از آن کتاب باعث دستگیری و حبس نُه ماهه قاضی در زندان اوین شد.
< p style="text-align: right\;">بعد از آزادی از زندان مدتی به فیلمنامهنویسی پرداخت. نام فیلم «گلهای داوودی» ساخته رسو ل صدر عاملی که فیلمنامه اش را قاضی نوشته به عنوان نخستین فیلم ایرانی در ژان ر خانوادگی ثبت شده است. بعد از آن فیلمنامه «سایههای غم» بود که توسط شاپور قریب ساخته شد؛ و بعد چند فیلمنامه دیگر.در نیمه دهه شصت مجموعه داستان «از ای ن مکان» شامل هشت داستان کوتاه از او منتشر شد.
در اواخر دهه شصت او رمان گیسو
را برای کسب اجازه انتشار به وزارت ارشاد اسلامی فرستاد که پس از پنج سال در ن
یمه دهه هفتاد اجازه انتشار گرفت. سپس رمان لبخند مریم به وزارت ارشاد اسلامی
فرستاد شد اما موفق به کسب اجازه انتشار نشد. «لبخند مریم» در اواخر دهه هفتاد
در سوئد چاپ و در اروپا منتشر شد. هردو رمان گیسو و لبخند مریم بالاخره در او
اخر دهه نود توسط نشرمشر در ایران منتشر شدند.
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Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi Univers ity\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian Lit erature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston Co llege in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctor al fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Cente r for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his research on the formati on of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lectu re exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmad ian Lecture Series at the Unive rsity of British Columbia.
Be sides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign la nguage in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has direct ed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he recei ved a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership award from that ins titution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an as sistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the Universit y of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based ins truction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed m ultiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certificati ons from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirda ni\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Pers ian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the educ ation of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native la nd\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they ho ld weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In t hese monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a proj ect titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they intervie w the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature especially the li terary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran Un
iversity of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.
D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semiotics\, di
scourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has pub
lished some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: T
heory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semi otics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\ , he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Humanities and Cul tural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میزبانان جلسه
ح
سام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگ اه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند ا
ز نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از
او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناخ
تی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی
کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی
ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر
و
بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرای
ی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، سا
ختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعا
ت ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حل قه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/anti-war-literature-realism- vs-idealism/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/09/Realism-vs.-Idealism-Final_FB-Event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7583-EO-64024-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241204T173414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T173414Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241206T110000 SUMMARY: Translanguaging and L2 Arabic: From Theory to Practice DESCRIPTION: You are invited to the fourth event of “TAFL Talks” titled: “T ranslanguaging and L2 Arabic: From Theory to Practice” by Dr. Khaled Al Mas aeed (University of Carnegie Melon). The talk aims to address translanguagi ng\, its theoretical framework\, strategies and stratigies of its applicati on in the L2 Arabic classroom. The event will be presented in Arabic […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
You a re invited to the fourth event of “TAFL Talks” titled: “Translanguaging and L2 Arabic: From Theory to Practice” by Dr. Khaled Al Masaeed (University o f Carnegie Melon).
The talk aims to address translanguaging\, its the oretical framework\, strategies and stratigies of its application in the L2 Arabic classroom.
The event will be presented in Arabic and will be moderated by Dr. Lama Nassef (Carnegie Melon-Qatar).
Date & T
ime: Friday\, December 6\, 2024 05:00 PM UTC [9 AM PST\, 12 PM EST
\, 8PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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ندعوكم لحضور اللقاء
الرابع في فصل الخريف ضمن سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وعنوانه: " نظرية الانتقال ال
لغوية في تعليم العربية لغة ثانية: من النظرية إلى التطبيق"، حوار مع الدكتور
خالد المساعيد، الأستاذ المشارك في قسم اللغات الحديثة وثقافاتها واللغويات ال
تطبيقية في جامعة كارنيغي ميلون.
يحاول الحوار الإجابة عن أسئلة متعددة و
منها: مفهوم الانتقال اللغوي ، وإطاره النظري، واستراتيجيات اعتماده في تعليم
العربية لغة ثانية وبعض تحدياتها، إضافة إلى توصيات ومبادئ تعزز نجاحه في صفوف
العربية.
يعقد اللقاء على منصة "زووم" يوم الجمعة ٦ ديسمبر/كانون الأول ٢٠٢٤ في تمام الساعة ٥م بتوقيت غرينتش (٩ ص بتوق يت كاليفورنيا ،١٢ظ بتوقيت نيويورك، ٨م بتوقيت الدوحة). تدير اللقاء الدكتورة لمى ناصيف.
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The Book of Swin dles 杜騙新書 (1617 preface) is said to be the first Chinese collection of stories about fraud. Addressed primarily to traveling merchants of the lat e Ming era\, the work offers eighty-odd tales of swindles attempted and acc omplished\, most of which are followed by an author’s comment that drives h ome the lesson for the traveling businessman. The work’s combination of ala rmism about endemic bad faith in society and got-to-hand-it-to-‘em acknowle dgment of the con artist’s skill chimes with certain concerns our own age. The Book has been translated into English as The Book of Swind les (Columbia\, 2017) and More Swindles from the L ate Ming (Columbia\, 2024).
While mostly written in simple c lassical Chinese\, the original work presents a host of challenges for the scholar-translator. The Book has multiple titles. The table of con tents don’t match the contents. Entire stories are missing from some copies . Multiple stories share traces of a common\, obscure\, origin. Other stori es drop in a word or two of local slang. Printer errors abound. Here and th ere appear unmarked puns\, allusions\, subtexts\, and intertexts. Translati ons of the work into modern Chinese mislead. The author\, Zhang Yingyu\, is an enigma. In this talk\, co-translators Bruce Rusk and Christopher Rea wi ll talk about how they identified and navigated these and other challenges\ , and share wise\, wise words for scholars treading into similarly perilous terrains.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, January 16
\, 2025 | 12:30pm – 1:30pm
Location:
CK Choi Bu
ilding\, Room 120\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver
This event is co-hosted by th e Department of Asian Studies at UBC and the Centre for Chinese Research at UBC.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events LOCATION:C.K. Choi Building\, Room 120 GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/adventures-in-translating-th e-book-of-swindles/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/12/241211_Adventures-in-Translating-poster_v1.1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241221T0528Z-1734758903.4324-EO-64687-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241220T211440Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T205724Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250118T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250118T171500 SUMMARY: Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Rumi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge on January 18\, 2025. In this talk\, Mahdi Tourage will discuss what we should do with the ample evidence of mis ogyny\, racism\, and male-supremacy in the poetry of a […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is n ow available:
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Ru mi’s Misogyny and Racism and the Limits of Mystical Knowledge on January 18 \, 2025.
In this talk\, Mahdi Tourag e will discuss what we should do with the ample evidence of misogyny\, raci sm\, and male-supremacy in the poetry of a globally celebrated mystic like Rumi. He will begin with a survey of the overlooked passages in Rumi’s poet ry containing “non-mystical” vulgar stories\, jokes\, reproving other Sufis \, mocking other men\, slaves\, Jews\, and loathing women. Moderated only b y the degree of our passion for justice and compassion\, and judging Rumi b y his own standards of the Quran and Sunnah\, Tourage will argue that Rumi is irrelevant to our time and our concerns. Because of Rumi's inexcusably h armful beliefs\, he was also harmful to his own time as he upheld and perpe tuated elite male supremacist\, sexist\, and racist aspects of his culture. Tourage will conclude that mystical knowledge is not a guarantee against p ersonal flaws\; nor is it evidence of a recoverable internal core in mystic al experiences claimed or conceptualized by Sufis.
Mahdi Tourage\, PhD (2005\, Un iversity of Toronto)\, is currently Associate Professor of Religious Studie s and Social Justice and Peace Studies at King’s University College\, Londo n\, Ontario. He is the author of Rumi and the Hermeneutics of Eroticism (Brill 2007) and the edited volume Esoteric Lacan (wit h Philipp Valentini\, Roman & Littlefield 2019). His publications have appe ared in Iranian Studies\, International Journal of Zizek Studies and Body and Relig ion Journal. His areas of inter est are Islamic religious thought\, Sufism and postmodern theories of gende r and sexuality.
Abolfazl Moshiri is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and lecturer in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He also serves as the senior research associate for the Women Poets Iranica project at the Elahé Omidyar Mir-D jalali Institute of Iranian Studies\, in collaboration with the Encyclopedi a Iranica Foundation. His research focuses on Iranian mysticism\, antinomia n and heterodox Sufism\, and the intellectual history of the Persianate wor ld from the 10th to the 16th century.
At the University of Toronto\, he has taught undergraduate courses on Sufi tradition\, classical Persian literature\, and Islamicate culture. His work has been published in journals such as Iranian Studies (2014)\, Iran Namag (2021)\, and the series Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600-1 914 (2023). He is currently wor king on two chapters for two upcoming publications by De Gruyter\, which wi ll explore various aspects of heterodox Sufism in 13th- and 14th-century Ir an and Anatolia.
Registration is required. Register he re:
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JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
Graphic depictions of the painful injuries and deaths of soldiers are commo
n in one of the most widely disseminated and widely viewed forms of Japanes
e mobilization propaganda in World War II: kamishibai (literally\, paper pl
ays). The realistic style and vivid colors of the illustrations of kamishib
ai plays make the sufferings of Japanese soldiers and munitions factory wor
kers painfully clear\, raising questions: how could such depictions be inte
nded to encourage soldiers to enlist\, or to encourage those on the home fr
ont to continue their backbreaking labor to support the war effort? How did
these depictions in kamishibai compare with images of the male body in fin
e art of the same period? This presentation will explore the strategies of
persuasion that relied on depictions of male bodies in pain for the purpose
s of mobilizing the Japanese people to support the war effort.
This t alk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Wednesday\, January 22\, 2025 | 12:30pm – 2:
00pm (PST)
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\,
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor of Modern Japane
se Literature and Popular Culture at UBC in the department of Asian Studies
. Her current research engages WWII Japanese propaganda aimed at a working
class audience.
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The sessions are all in Persian
Persi an Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on:
The Literature of Awakening
Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam
Dehghani
Location: Seminar R oom\, Department of Asian Studies
Throughout history\, the political role of poetics (and artistic creat ion in general) has been a subject of interest for scholars. Plato criticiz ed poets for misleading the public and advocated for their expulsion from h is ideal republic\, while Aristotle regarded poetics as superior and more p hilosophical than historiography\, considering poetry essential for examini ng reality. Literature and art reflect and reproduce the prevailing discour ses in a society. Furthermore\, literary and artistic works can either rein force dominant ideologies or challenge them\, opening new horizons of meani ng for various concepts. For example\, literature can serve as a propaganda tool to glorify war\, or it can depict the realities surrounding it\, fost ering social awareness.
In th e upcoming academic year's series of panels organized by the Persian Litera ture Reading Club at the University of British Columbia\, under the initiat ive of Dr. Farzan Sojoodi and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, we will explore the lit erature of awakening. These panels will feature guest writers and researche rs who will examine examples of literary works across various genres\, incl uding poetry\, short stories\, and novels\, that employ a deconstructive ap proach to counter dominant discourses. By revealing the internal cracks or contradictions within the dominant discourse\, these works pave the way for social awakening.
Each speci alized panel will focus on a particular genre—such as poetry\, short storie s\, or novels—centered around a specific theme.
میزگردهای تخصصی ادبیات بیداری
به ابتکار
د
کتر فرزان سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
مکان: اتاق سمینار گروه آسیاپژوهی
از روزگاران کهن، نقش سیاسی بوطیقا (آفرینش هنری به طور کلی) مورد توجه اندیشمندان بوده است. افلاطون شاع ران را مسئول آموزش ناصواب و گمراهی عامهی مردم میداند و حکم به اخراج آنها از آرمانشهر فرضیاش میدهد در حالیکه ارسطو بوطیقا را برتر و فلسفیتر از تا ریخنگاری قلمداد و شعرپردازی را برای مداقه در امور واقع لازم میداند. ادبیا ت و هنر گفتمانهای موجود در یک جامعه را بازنمایی و بازتولید میکند. در ضمن، آثار ادبی و هنری گاه در خدمت طبیعیسازی عامه و مسلط هستند، و گاه قادرند آ نها را به چالش کشیده و افقهای معنایی نوینی را پیش روی مفاهیم مختلف بگشاین د. به فرض ادبیات هم میتواند ابزار تبلیغاتی برای مقدس جلوه دادن جنگ باشد و هم با به تصویر کشیدن واقعیتهای پیرامون آن، زمینه بیداری اجتماعی در این خصو ص را فراهم .آورد
در سلسله نشستهای سال جاری تحصیلی در باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خو انی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا به ابتکار دکتر فرزان سجودی و دکتر حسام دهقانی سلس له نشستهایی را برگزار خواهیم کرد که به بررسی ادبیات بیداری میپردازد. در ا ین نشستها با حضور نویسندگان و پژوهشگران مهمان به بررسی نمونههایی از آثار ادبی در ژانرهای مختلف از جمله شعر، داستان کوتاه و رمان خواهیم پرداخت که با رویکردی واسازانه عملی پاد گفتمانی را در برابر گفتمان مسلط سامان میدهند و ب دین ترتیب ترکها یا تناقضات درونی گفتمان غالب را آشکار میکنند تا زمینه بید اری اجتماعی در آن خصوص فراهم آید.
در هر یک از این میزگردهای تخصصی، آثاری از یک ژانر مثلا شعر، داستان کوتاه یا رمان، در مورد موضوعی واحد بررسی خواهد شد .
Fourth Session:
Awakening Literature: The Other Gender
An exploration of the novel Khanesh< /i> by Raana Soleimani
جلسهی چهارم، ادبیات بیداری: جنسیت دیگر
بررسی رمان «خَنِش» اثر رعنا سلیمانی
تاریخ:
Saturday\, Ja
nuary 25\, 2025
11:00 am to 1:
00 pm (PST)/ 10:30pm to 12:30am (Tehran Time)
Location:
Asian Centre Seminar Room (Room 604)
There is also an op
tion to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Presented in Persian< br />Free & open to the public. Registration is required via the form below .
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Raana Soleimani< /strong>
Rana Soleimani was born in Tehran in 1976 . She studied Commercial Economy at Tehran University. She has published on e short story collections called ‘Lorca in Fereshteh Avenue’. She won the s econd prize in a short story competition for one of her stories. She took p art in many story competitions but she was not successful due to not comply ing with the Islamic Republic’s regulations.
In 2014\, she moved to Sweden with her two children and the following year she published the short story collection "?" which had not been allowed to be published in Iran\, at the publisher Arzan in Stockholm. In the same year\, she became a member of the Iranian PEN club in exile.
In 2018\, she published the no vel "Ulysses Syndrome" with the main theme of migration and women at Mehri publishing house in London. The book has been translated into English. Afte r that\, she joined the Swedish Writers' Association and continued to write .
In 2020\, she published the book ""\, about four women sentenced to death in the infamous prison in Ir an\, on Arzan publishing house. At the same time\, a nationwide campaign "N o to executions" was launched.
The book became one of the best-selling Persian books outside of Iran and was translated into Swedish in 2022.
The book has since been translated into Kurdish \, Turkish \, Fren ch and Swedish . A theatre production based on the book will premiere in th e spring of 2024.
Some critic s have argued that the novel "Long live life" is an "autopsy" of an Iranian woman's soul. On March 8\, 2022\, International Women's Day\, Rana Soleima ni won the award for one of the most influential women of the year in Belgi um.
In 2021\, the social nove l "One day with seven-year-olds" was also published by the book publisher A rzan. The novel has been considered by critics to be one of Rana Soleimani' s best books and it has become one of her most famous works.
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">Her latest published book "Khansh"\, was re leased in 2023 at No Censor Exhibition by the book publisher Arazen. The bo ok tackles the life situation of LGBTQ people in Iran. A trans person whose existence is constantly denied by society. The book has been considered by many to be one of the most significant for shining a light on the life sit uation of LGBTQ people in Iran.
Her characters are lost in their dead-end lives\, struggling to come to terms with the emotional absurdities of their lives. At the end of each sto ry the reader finds out that each main protagonist is condemned to a life i n ruins.
E-mail: raana14sol@gmail.com
بیوگرافی رعنا سلیمانی:
رعنا سلیمانی در سال ۱۳۵۵ در تهران متولد ش د. او در دانشگاه تهران در رشته اقتصاد بازرگانی تحصیل کرد و مجموعه داستان کو تاهی به نام «لورکا در خیابان فرشته» منتشر کرد. یکی از داستانهای او در یک م سابقه داستان کوتاه برنده جایزه دوم شد، اما به دلیل عدم تطابق با قوانین جمهو ری اسلامی، در بسیاری از مسابقات داستاننویسی موفق نبود.
در سال ۲۰۱۴، رعنا س لیمانی به همراه دو فرزندش به سوئد مهاجرت کرد و سال بعد، مجموعه داستانی را ک ه اجازه انتشار در ایران را نداشت، در استکهلم توسط انتشارات ارزان منتشر کرد. در همان سال، او به عضویت انجمن قلم ایرانیان در تبعید درآمد.
در سال ۲۰۱۸، رم ان «سندروم اولیس» با محوریت مهاجرت و زنان توسط انتشارات مهری در لندن منتشر شد. این کتاب به انگلیسی نیز ترجمه شده است. پس از آن، رعنا سلیمانی به انجمن نویسندگان سوئد پیوست و به نویسندگی ادامه داد.
در سال ۲۰۲۰، کتابی درباره چها ر زن محکوم به اعدام در زندانهای بدنام ایران توسط انتشارات ارزان منتشر کرد. همزمان، یک کمپین سراسری به نام «نه به اعدام» آغاز شد. این کتاب به یکی از پ رفروشترین کتابهای فارسی در خارج از ایران تبدیل شد و در سال ۲۰۲۲ به زبان س وئدی ترجمه شد. این کتاب همچنین به کردی، ترکی و فرانسوی ترجمه شده و یک تئاتر بر اساس آن در بهار ۲۰۲۴ به روی صحنه خواهد رفت.
برخی منتقدان، رمان «زنده باد زندگی» را به عنوان "کالبدشکافی" روح یک زن ایرانی توصیف کردهاند. در ۸ مارس ۲۰۲۲، روز جهانی زن، رعنا سلیمانی به عنوان یکی از تأثیرگذارترین زنان سال د ر بلژیک برنده جایزه شد.
در سال ۲۰۲۱، رمان اجتماعی «یک روز با هفتسالهها» نی ز توسط انتشارات ارزان منتشر شد. این رمان از سوی منتقدان به عنوان یکی از بهت رین کتابهای رعنا سلیمانی شناخته شد و به یکی از آثار مشهور او تبدیل شد.
آخر ین کتاب منتشر شده او به نام «خنش»، در سال ۲۰۲۳ در نمایشگاه «بدون سانسور» تو سط انتشارات ارزان منتشر شد. این کتاب به زندگی افراد LGBTQ در ایران میپرداز د و داستان یک فرد ترنس را که جامعه به طور مداوم وجود او را انکار میکند، رو ایت میکند. این کتاب از سوی بسیاری به عنوان یکی از مهمترین آثار برای روشن کردن وضعیت زندگی افراد LGBTQ در ایران شناخته شده است.
Farhad Akbarzadeh was born in 1976 in Tehran. MA in Western Philosophy from Allameh Tab
atabai University. Translator in the field of critical aesthetics\, especia
lly works by Jacques Rancière\, Antonio Negri and Giorgio Agamben. The edit
or of the Aghah publication for 4 years and the chief editor of the Ban pub
lication from the beginning until 2020.
فرهاد اکبرزاده متولد ۱۳۵۵ در تهران است. او از سال ۱۳۸۱ فعا
لیت نوشتن نقد و معرفی کتاب را در مطبوعات آغاز كرد. اکبرزاده از سال ۱۳۹۳ به
عنوان ويراستار و مترجم در حوزۀ فلسفه مشغول به فعالیت است. رماناش با عنوان
« اين فرمون دست كيه؟ » در نشر نگيما منتشر شده است.
ترجم
ههای اکبرزاده از این قرار است:
ناخودآگاه زيباشناختي، ژا
ك رانسير، نشر چشمه
استتيك و ناخرسنديهايش، ژاك رانسير، ن
شر اميد صبا
آيندهی تصوير، ژاك رانسير، نشر اميد صبا<
b>
جورجو آگامبن، الكس ماري، نشر ديبايه
هنر و
مالتيتود، آنتونيو نگري، نشر چشمه
فوكو و ادبيات داستاني:
كتاب تجربه، تيموتي اليري، نشر بان
الفباي ناممكنها، ساي
مون كريچلي، نشر مانيا هنر
حرفهايي با دخترم دربارهي اق
تصاد: تاريخ مختصر سرمايهداري، يانيس واروفاكيس، نشر بان
D r. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Struc tural Analysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Betw een August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and assoc iate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Easter n Studies\, where he focused his research on the formation of Persianate id entity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the li terary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 1 8\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series< /span> at the University of British Co lumbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran sinc e 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Sinc e 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian prog ram single-handedly at Boston College for which he received a teaching awar d and was nominated for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor o f teaching Persian language and Culture at the University of British Columb ia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critic al heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technology in teaching Persia n. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and seco nd language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they ca ll Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 20 21\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started U BC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literatur e reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessio ns\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Or al History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominen t figures of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in m igration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full
professor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. H
e obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics f
rom Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cu ltural semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has published some books i n Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\ , and Semiotics and Literature. He has published nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">As an invited professor\, he has taught som e courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat M odares University\, the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میزبانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرز
ان سجودی
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. ا و لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری،
نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و ده
ها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و
مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشان
هشناسی: نظریه و
عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تا
لیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسف
ه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهرا ن است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/awakening-literature-the-oth er-gender/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/The-Other-Gender-v2_FB-Event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250123T0835Z-1737621345.8223-EO-64707-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250107T151029Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250107T151029Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250128T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250128T140000 SUMMARY: Thinking through Prose: The Social Life of Poets in Early-Medieval India X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit URL;VALUE=URI:https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5aTkQuvysMoF5xI ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/Janet-Um-QR.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250123T0835Z-1737621345.8278-EO-64810-18@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250122T232047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T232227Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250129T170000 SUMMARY: 2025 Lunar New Year Celebration DESCRIPTION: Celebrate the Lunar New Year with us on January 29! Enjoy affo rdable bites\, performances\, and more 🧧🐍 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Korean LOCATION:AMS Student Nest GEO:49.266553;-123.249839 URL;VALUE=URI:https://chinese.arts.ubc.ca/2025-lunar-new-year-celebration/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/Lunar-New-Year-Celebration-2025_IG_v4-e1737588106674.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250118T0307Z-1737169654.4975-EO-64787-18@10.19.146.2 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250117T234018Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T234018Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250129T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250129T193000 SUMMARY: Framing Asia: Through the Lens of Iranian Women DESCRIPTION: Screening of acclaimed films Hair (2022) & A Move (2024) follo wed by a Q&A with directors Samaneh Yadollahi & Elahe Esmaili\, & producer Hossein Behboudi Rad\, moderated by poet\, critic & researcher Leila Sadegh i. This talk is free. Registration is required by January 25\, 11:59pm. Que stions? Email the student organisers at framingasia@gmail.com Date & Time: […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Screening of acclaimed films Hair (2022) & A Move ( 2024) followed by a Q&A with directors Samaneh Yadollahi & Elahe Esmaili\, & producer Hossein Behboudi Rad\, moderated by poet\, critic & researcher L eila Sadeghi.
This talk is free. Registration is required by January 25\, 11:59pm.
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Date & Time:
Wed
nesday\, January 29\, 2025 | 6:00pm – 7:30pm (PST)
Doors open at 5:30 PM for some delicious Persian food
Location:
As
ian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Strategic E quity & Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund. It is supported by the Indige nous Asia Initiative Steering Committee and the Anti-Racism and Racial Just ice Committee.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre Auditorium GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/framing-asia-through-the-len s-of-iranian-women/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/Framing-Asia-poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7411-EO-64389-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241122T183403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250116T230414Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250130T194500 SUMMARY: 2024/25 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Samurai\, Knights\ , and Nationalisms: Japan and the Medievalization of the Modern World DESCRIPTION: With Professor Oleg Benesch (University of York) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:2024/
25 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies
With Guest
Speaker Professor Oleg Benesch (University of York)
Date & Time:< br />Thursday\, January 30\, 2025 from 5:30pm to 7:45pm PST
5
:30-6:00pm (PST) Reception with light refreshments
6:00-7:45pm (PST) L
ecture and Q&A
Loc
ation:
In-person: Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 Wes
t Mall\, Vancouver BC (map here
)
Online: Asian Studies YouTube Channel (link here)
Presented in English.
Free
& open to the public. Registration is required for in-person attendance
.
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Lecture abstract:
Almost e xactly 150 years after their abolition\, the samurai are a global icon. Thr ough video games\, anime\, manga\, films\, and other media\, samurai are a staple of popular culture produced not only in Japan but around the world. This is a significant departure from how they were viewed in the 1870s\, as a rapidly modernizing Japan sought to leave behind samurai\, castles\, and other relics of Japan’s recent “feudal” past. Around the turn of the twent ieth century\, however\, the samurai were rehabilitated and reinvented into symbols of a new Japanese national identity that quickly became known arou nd the world.
This talk examines the process by which the samurai bec ame a global icon\, placing this into the context of a wider celebration of the Middle Ages that took place from the late nineteenth century onward. B eginning in Europe\, medievalist symbols and ideals were widely invoked in art\, architecture\, literature\, and culture as a response to rapid indust rialization and social change. Meanwhile\, many colonial officials\, soldie rs\, and settlers saw themselves as modern heirs of medieval knighthood\, c arrying Christianity and ideals of “civilization” to distant societies as p art of their imperial mission. Medieval symbols and narratives were eagerly taken up in countries dominated by European settlers\, especially in the A mericas.
During this age of imperialism\, colonialism\, and nationali sm\, societies around the world searched for their own supposedly medieval pasts in order to mine these for national symbols and legitimacy. In Japan\ , samurai came to play an important symbolic role in the creation of the mo dern nation\, as well as in defining views of Japan in other countries. In this way\, Japanese medievalism came to be recognized and even celebrated t hroughout much of the world in the early twentieth century\, with many peop le holding up idealized samurai virtues as a model for their own societies.
O
leg Benesch is Professor and Head of the Department of History at
the University of York in the UK. He earned his PhD in Asian Studies at the
University of British Columbia\, and is the author of Inventing the Wa
y of the Samurai: Nationalism\, Internationalism\, and Bushido in Modern Ja
pan (Oxford 2014)\, co-author of Civilizing Emotions: Concepts in
Nineteenth Century Asia and Europe (Oxford 2015)\, co-author of Ja
pan’s Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace (Cambridge 2019)
\, and co-editor of Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan
(Brill 2023). For more on Oleg’s research and publications\, please see www.olegbenesch.com.
John Howes was a founding member of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, which h e joined in 1961 after earning his doctorate from Columbia University. Duri ng his 30 years of active teaching and research\, Professor Howes was at th e forefront of Canada-Japan cultural\, educational and people-to-people rel ations and inspired countless young Canadians to dedicate their careers and lives to the Canada-Japan relationship in one way or another. In 2012\, a number of UBC faculty\, staff\, and Professor Howes’ devoted former student s came together to launch an endowment in his honour. The fund supports the John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies\, an annual public lecture for prom inent scholars from around the world to speak to the university community a nd alumni on topics in Japanese Studies with a focus on Humanities. Dr. How es passed away peacefully on February 4th\, 2017\, at the age of 92.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2024-25-john-howes-lecture-i n-japanese-studies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/11/option-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250125T1241Z-1737808881.2763-EO-64807-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250124T191433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250124T191518Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250131T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250131T110000 SUMMARY: Assessment in the Arabic Classroom: From Achievement to Proficienc y DESCRIPTION: Join the first “TAFL Talks” conversation this Spring titled: “ Assessment in the Arabic Classroom: From Achievement to Proficiency” by Dr. Nesrine Basheer\, Assistant Professor of Teaching (UBC). The event address es the difference between achievement and proficiency\, how to move from as sessment ‘of’ learning to assessment ‘for’ learning. Key principles of asse ssment design will be introduced\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Joi n the first "TAFL Talks" conversation this Spring titled: “Assessment in th e Arabic Classroom: From Achievement to Proficiency” by Dr. Nesrine Basheer \, Assistant Professor of Teaching (UBC).
The event addresses the dif ference between achievement and proficiency\, how to move from assessment ' of' learning to assessment 'for' learning. Key principles of assessment des ign will be introduced\, including authenticity\, backward designm\, and co nstructive alignment.
The event will be presented in Arabic and will be moderated by Dr. Lama Nassef (Carnegie Melon-Qatar).
Date
& Time: Friday\, January 31\, 2025 05:00 PM UTC [9 AM PST\, 12 PM
EST\, 8PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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ندعوكم لحضور اللقاء الأول في فصل الربيع ضمن سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وعنوان ه: "التقييم في صف العربية: من التحصيل إلى الكفاءة"، حوار مع الدكتورة نسرين بشير الأستاذ المساعد (فرع التعليم) ومديرة برنامج العربية المعاصرة في قسم ال دراسات الآسيوية بجامعة كولومبيا البريطانية - كندا. نرفق طيًا الملصق الإعلان ي للقاء.
يحاول الحوار الإجابة عن أسئلة مت عددة منها: ما الفرق بين التحصيل والكفاءة؟ كيف ننتقل من تقييم التعلم إلى الت قييم من أجل التعلم؟ ما أهمية مراعاة الأصلية واعتماد التصميم العكسي والمحاذا ة البناءة عند تصميم مهام التقييم؟ يشمل اللقاء نشاطًا عمليًّا لتطبيق بعض الم فاهيم التي يتناولها الحوار على أمثلة من مهام التقييم الشائع استخدامها في صف وفنا.
يعقد اللقاء على منصة "زووم" يوم الج معة ٣١ يناير/كانون الثاني ٢٠٢٥ في تمام الساعة ٥م بتوقيت غرينتش (٩ ص بتوقيت كاليفورنيا ، ٧م بتوقيت القاهرة، ٨م بتوقيت الدوحة). تدير اللقاء الدكتورة لمى ناصيف.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/assessment-in-the-arabic-cla ssroom-from-achievement-to-proficiency/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/Slide1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20241106T2335Z-1730936145.845-EO-64174-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20241106T183324Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241220T032453Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250201T171500 SUMMARY: Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black DESCRIPTION: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Color Black on February 1\, 2025. In this talk\, Beeta Baghoolizadeh will discuss her first book\, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran\, where she examines const ructions of race\, particularly Blackness\, through enslavement and aboliti on in the 19th and 20th centuries. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian an d Persianate Studies presents: Remembering an Erased Past in Iran: The Colo r Black on February 1\, 2025.
In this talk\, Beeta Baghoolizadeh will discuss her first book\, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in I ran\, where she examines constructions of race\, particularly Blacknes s\, through enslavement and abolition in the 19th and 20th< /sup> centuries. Through an analysis of archival\, visual\, and spatial sou rces\, Beeta Baghoolizadeh unearths an intentionally hidden histor y within both institutional spaces and collective memory. Baghoolizadeh dra ws on photographs\, architecture\, theater\, circus acts\, newspapers\, fil ms\, and more to document how the politics of visibility framed discussions around race and freedom in the modern period. In this way\, Baghoolizadeh makes visible the people and histories that were erased from Iran and its d iaspora.
Beeta Baghoolizadeh (PhD\, History\, University of Pennsylvania) is Associate Research Scholar at Prin ceton University's Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and P ersian Gulf Studies. Her book\, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasur e in Iran (Duke University Press\, March 2024) examines questions of r ace and enslavement through memory and visuality\, and has won the Scholars of Color First Book Award at Duke University Press. Beeta's scholarship is featured in American Historical Review (AHR)\, Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle East (CSSAAME)\, and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Prior to joining Princet on\, Beeta was an Assistant Professor of History and Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. Her research has been supported by the Social Scie nce Research Council (SSRC)\, and she has also been a Research Fellow at th e Bard Graduate Center and a Regional Faculty Fellow at the University of P ennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center.
Chou ki El Hamel is a Professor in the History Department (now School o f Historical\, Philosophical and Religious Studies) at Arizona State Univer sity\, specializing in West and Northwest Africa. His training and Ph.D. st udies in France at the Centre de Recherches Africaines (University of Sorbo nne\, Paris I & VII) were in African History and Islamic Societies. His res earch interests focus on the spread and the growth of Islamic culture and t he evolution of Islamic institutions in Africa. He is particularly interes ted in the subaltern relationship of servile and marginalized communities t o Islamic ruling institutions.
Registration is required. Regi ster here: https://ubc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t23LR04qQdi_dyesiKP-bg
Jo in us for the second event of the screening series\, Framing Asia\, organiz ed by graduate students in the Department of Asian Studies. This event incl udes a screening of two films\, followed by a discussion and Q&A section wi th one of the directors and panelists (all details listed below). Snacks wi ll be provided.
Films:
This is an in-person event. The deadline to register is February 6\, 11:59PM.
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Date & Time:
Tuesday\, February 11\, 20 25 | 6:00pm – 8:00pm (PST)
Doors open at 5:30PM
Locatio n:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
< p>Panelists:Moderator: Sarah Shamash\, PhD\, Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Studi es at Emily Carr University
About Framing Asia: Fram ing Asia is a series of community film screenings and programming initiated by a group of graduate students in UBC’s Department of Asian Studies. For any queries about the series\, please write to us at framingasia@gmail.com
Student organizers : Fahad Naveed (PhD student\, Asian Studies)\, Ying Han (MA studen t\, Asian Studies)\, Skyler Wolf (MA student\, Asian Studies) and Farimah M ahmoodi (MA student\, Asian Studies)
This event is co-sponsored by th e Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (S tEAR) Enhancement Fund. It is supported by the Indigenous Asia Initiative S teering Committee and the Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Committee.
CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic,Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre Auditorium GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/framing-asia-palestine-in-fo cus/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250129T1439Z-1738161566.2976-EO-64835-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250128T184145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T184145Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250212T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250212T140000 SUMMARY: Tanomi shōmon: Political voice and “Democratization” within Tokuga wa village society DESCRIPTION: JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025 In this ta lk\, Minami Orihara will share her ongoing research on quasi-legal agreemen ts called tanomi shōmon. The presentation will involve primary source analy sis and historiographical background on how this class of documents not pre viously studied in English emerged and evolved in the face of growing intra -village conflict and trans-village […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
In this talk\, Minami Orihara will share her ongoi
ng research on quasi-legal agreements called tanomi shōmon. The pr
esentation will involve primary source analysis and historiographical backg
round on how this class of documents not previously studied in English emer
ged and evolved in the face of growing intra-village conflict and trans-vil
lage associational activity in rural Tokugawa Japan.
This talk is fre e and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date &
Time:
Wednesday\, February 12\, 2025 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PST
)
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West
Mall\, Vancouver
Minami Orihara is a sessional instructor at UBC’s Asian Studies Department.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/tanomi-shomon-political-voic e-and-democratization-within-tokugawa-village-society/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/250212_japan-lunchtime-talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250224T2140Z-1740433253.3755-EO-64930-18@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250203T193456Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T193832Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250212T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250212T133000 SUMMARY: Panel Talk x LunarFest 2025: Places of Memory in Graphic Novels X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Coach House\, Green College GEO:49.270834;-123.256008 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/places-of-memory-in-graphic- novels/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/UBC-Event-Banner.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250224T1916Z-1740424581.9128-EO-65222-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250224T174842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T174842Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250221T103000 SUMMARY: Interweaving Intercultural Competence & Communication in the Arabi c Classroom: Standards\, Practice and Assessment DESCRIPTION: Join the “TAFL Talks” conversation titled: “Interweaving Inter cultural Competence & Communication in the Arabic Classroom: Standards\, Pr actice and Assessment” by Dr. Radwa Al-Barouni\, Dean Amro Distinguished Le cturer and Director of the Arabic Language and Culture Program in the Depar tment of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsyl vania. The conversation aims to answer […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join the "T AFL Talks" conversation titled: “Interweaving Intercultural Competence & Co mmunication in the Arabic Classroom: Standards\, Practice and Assessment” b y Dr. Radwa Al-Barouni\, Dean Amro Distinguished Lecturer and Director of t he Arabic Language and Culture Program in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pennsylvania.
The convers ation aims to answer key questions such as: What are the standards for inte rcultural competence and communication and how do we modify the “global” st andards to fit the Arabic language and its levels? How do we make teaching and integrating intercultural competence a daily practice in our classrooms without reducing it? Can we measure and assess our students' cultural comp etence and how?
The event will be presented in Arabic and will be mod erated by Dr. Lama Nassef (Carnegie Melon-Qatar).
Date & Time
: Friday\, February 21\, 2025 05:00 PM UTC [9 AM PST\, 12 PM EST\,
8PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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غلغلة الكفاءة والتواصل بين الثقافات في صفوف العربية: من المعا يير للممارسة وكيفية القياس والتقييم”– حوار مع الدكتورة رضوى الباروني محاضرة ومديرة برنامج اللغة والثقافة العربية في قسم لغات وثقافات الشرق الأوسط بجام عة بنسلفانيا.
الجمعة ٢١ فبراير/شباط ٢٠٢٥ في تمام الساعة ٥م بتوقيت غرينتش (١٢ظ بتوقيت نيويورك، ٩ ص بتوقيت كاليفورنيا، ٧م بتوقيت القاهرة، ٨م بتوقيت الدوحة. تدير اللقاء الدكتورة لمى ناصيف.
يحاول الحوار الإجابة عن أسئلة متعددة منها: ما هي المعايير للكفاءة والتواصل بين الثقافات وكيف نقوم بتعديل المعايير “العالم ية” لتناسب اللغة العربية ومستوياتها؟ كيف نجعل من تدريس ودمج الكفاءة بين الث قافات ممارسة يومية في صفوفنا بدون اختزالها؟ وهل لنا قياس وتقييم كفاءة طلابن ا الثقافية وكيف؟ يشمل الحوار أمثلة على إدماج الثقافة في الصفوف وطرق للقياس والتقييم
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CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/interweaving-intercultural-c ompetence-communication-in-the-arabic-classroom-standards-practice-and-asse ssment/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/Screenshot-2025-02-19-at-9.16.56u202fPM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250224T2140Z-1740433253.3817-EO-64931-18@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250203T193709Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250203T193744Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250221T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250221T190000 SUMMARY: 給香港樂壇寫笑忘書 – 與陳嘉銘一席話 The Book of Unforgetting Canto-pop – A Convers ation with Chan Ka Ming X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://cantonese.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/cantopop-sharing/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/Masterclass-Feb22.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7694-EO-65085-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250211T183449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T175633Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250222T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250222T130000 SUMMARY: Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetry DESCRIPTION: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Clu b’s new panel discussion series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on: The Li terature of Awakening Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hessam Dehghani Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies Throughout history\, t he political role of poetics (and artistic creation in general) has been a […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The sessions are all in Persian
Persian Litera ture Reading Club’s new panel discussi on series in the year 2024-2025 will focus on:
The Literature of Awakening
Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam Dehghani
Location: Seminar Room\, Dep artment of Asian Studies
Thro ughout history\, the political role of poetics (and artistic creation in ge neral) has been a subject of interest for scholars. Plato criticized poets for misleading the public and advocated for their expulsion from his ideal republic\, while Aristotle regarded poetics as superior and more philosophi cal than historiography\, considering poetry essential for examining realit y. Literature and art reflect and reproduce the prevailing discourses in a society. Furthermore\, literary and artistic works can either reinforce dom inant ideologies or challenge them\, opening new horizons of meaning for va rious concepts. For example\, literature can serve as a propaganda tool to glorify war\, or it can depict the realities surrounding it\, fostering soc ial awareness.
In the upcomin g academic year's series of panels organized by the Persian Literature Read ing Club at the University of British Columbia\, under the initiative of Dr . Farzan Sojoodi and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, we will explore the literature o f awakening. These panels will feature guest writers and researchers who wi ll examine examples of literary works across various genres\, including poe try\, short stories\, and novels\, that employ a deconstructive approach to counter dominant discourses. By revealing the internal cracks or contradic tions within the dominant discourse\, these works pave the way for social a wakening.
Each specialized pa nel will focus on a particular genre—such as poetry\, short stories\, or no vels—centered around a specific theme.
میزگردهای تخصصی ادبیات بیداری
به ابتکار
دکتر فرزان
سجودی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
مکان: اتاق سمینار گروه آسیاپژوهی
از روزگاران کهن، نقش سیاسی بوطیقا ( آفرینش هنری به طور کلی) مورد توجه اندیشمندان بوده است. افلاطون شاعران را مس ئول آموزش ناصواب و گمراهی عامهی مردم میداند و حکم به اخراج آنها از آرمان شهر فرضیاش میدهد در حالیکه ارسطو بوطیقا را برتر و فلسفیتر از تاریخنگاری قلمداد و شعرپردازی را برای مداقه در امور واقع لازم میداند. ادبیات و هنر گ فتمانهای موجود در یک جامعه را بازنمایی و بازتولید میکند. در ضمن، آثار ادب ی و هنری گاه در خدمت طبیعیسازی عامه و مسلط هستند، و گاه قادرند آنها را ب ه چالش کشیده و افقهای معنایی نوینی را پیش روی مفاهیم مختلف بگشایند. به فرض ادبیات هم میتواند ابزار تبلیغاتی برای مقدس جلوه دادن جنگ باشد و هم با به تصویر کشیدن واقعیتهای پیرامون آن، زمینه بیداری اجتماعی در این خصوص را فراه م .آورد
در سلسله نشستهای سال جاری تحصیلی در باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی دانشگ اه بریتیش کلمبیا به ابتکار دکتر فرزان سجودی و دکتر حسام دهقانی سلسله نشسته ایی را برگزار خواهیم کرد که به بررسی ادبیات بیداری میپردازد. در این نشسته ا با حضور نویسندگان و پژوهشگران مهمان به بررسی نمونههایی از آثار ادبی در ژ انرهای مختلف از جمله شعر، داستان کوتاه و رمان خواهیم پرداخت که با رویکردی و اسازانه عملی پاد گفتمانی را در برابر گفتمان مسلط سامان میدهند و بدین ترتیب ترکها یا تناقضات درونی گفتمان غالب را آشکار میکنند تا زمینه بیداری اجتما عی در آن خصوص فراهم آید.
در هر یک از این میزگردهای تخصصی، آثاری از یک ژانر مثلا شعر، داستان کوتاه یا رمان، در مورد موضوعی واحد بررسی خواهد شد.< /p>
Fifth Session: Anti-War Literature: Afghanistan Poetr y
جلسهی پنجم، ادبیات ضد جنگ: شعر افغانستان
بررسی م
جموعه کوچه دلفینها اثر مُجیب مهرداد
Saturday\,
February 22\, 2025
11:00 am to
1:00 pm (PST)/ 10:30pm to 12:30am (Tehran Time)
Locati
on: Asian Centre Seminar Room (Room 604)
There is also an
option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Presented in Persi
an
Free & open to the public. Registration is required via the form be
low.
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Muj ib Mehrdad ( مجیب مهرداد)
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenolo gical Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2 020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Div inity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused h is research on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic liter ature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature r egularly at Har vard University and Boston Coll ege. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teachi ng English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabi c in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received a teaching award and was nominated for a lead ership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenu re-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language an d Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interest s lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and re ceived several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate abo ut implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest fin dings in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he a nd his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public human ities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianat es outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team o f enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian L iterature\,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Li terature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and li
nguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English
Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i Univers
ity.
His primary interests a re critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercu ltural studies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics< /span>\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics an d Literature. He has published nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercult ural studies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Lin guistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate pro grams at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Instit ute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
میزبانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشان هشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوق لیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای
اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گف
تمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمی
نه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر
منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی،
نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای ا
و میتوان به تفسیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/anti-war-literature-afghanis tan-poetry/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/Afghanistan-Poetry-V2-Social-Media-Website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250124T1826Z-1737743168.7363-EO-64816-18@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250123T183532Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T180909Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250222T171500 SUMMARY: Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Debating Islam at the Cour t of the Great Mughal on February 22\, 2025. How did Muslims in early moder n South Asia debate what constituted correct Muslim practice? This presenta tion explores the intersection of politics and piety by examining religious […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is now available:
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=9GuOXEh9S34
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Debating Islam at the Court of the Great Mughal on Februa ry 22\, 2025.
How did Muslims in early modern South Asia debate what constituted correct Muslim practice? This presentation explores the interse ction of politics and piety by examining religious debates around the arriv al of a Prophetic relic to the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar in the lat e sixteenth century.
Usman Hamid (No rthwestern University) is a historian of Islam in early modern South Asia w ith its connections across the Persianate and Indian Ocean worlds. His rese arch explores the devotional and cultural histories of Muslim communities\, focusing on the discursive and material expressions of their lived experie nces. His current book project examines the role of early modern travel bet ween North India and the Hejaz on Muslim discourses and practices of devoti on focusing on the Prophet Muhammad. By examining the histories of the Prop het’s textual and material traces\, the work shows how circulation of books \, people\, and objects gave rise to new and times overlapping religious se nsibilities and subjectivities. Usman Hamid received his PhD from the Unive rsity of Toronto and taught at Hamilton College before joining Northwestern University as Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. He has published o n relics of the Prophet Muhammad\, gender and politics in late-15th century Iran and Central Asia\, and early modern circulation between South Asia an d Iran.
S ajjad Nejatie (PhD\, University of Toronto) is Assistant Pr ofessor in the Department of History and Sociology at The University of Bri tish Columbia Okanagan. His current research focuses on processes of empire - and state-building in the early modern Persianate world\, how the activit ies and ideologies of polities in this region are commemorated in the histo riography\, and the ways in which pre-modern histories are re-imagined and re-presented in modern nationalist discourses.
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JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
The foundations of Afrofuturism lie in the e
fforts and aspirations of African\, African American\, and other African di
asporic actors. And yet in the realm of African American popular music ther
e was a special window in time when a diasporic Japanese illustrator based
in Los Angeles\, California—Nagaoka Shusei (1936-2015)—worked to create som
e of the most iconic and well-loved album covers in the Afrofuturist panthe
on. This talk examines in detail his contributions to such Afrofuturist vis
ual culture\, primarily through the lens of his album cover work with the A
frican American super group Earth\, Wind & Fire. Organized around the image
s of space and fantasy (including the Japanese renaming of the classic EWF
track “Fantasy” as “Space Fantasy”)\, it is a story of Japanese and African
American synergies\, sympathies\, and respect.
Co-sponsored by UBC’s Music Colloquium Series\, African Studies\, and the Asian Library.
T his talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, February 26\, 2025 | 12:30p
m – 2:00pm (PST)
Location:
Asian Centre Auditor
ium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Nathan Hesse link is Professor of Global Musicology at the University of Britis h Columbia. He is the author of P’ungmul: South Korean Drumming and Dan ce (University of Chicago\, 2006\, winner of the 2008 Lee Hye-Gu Award by the Korean Musicological Society)\, SamulNori: Contemporary Korean Drumming and the Rebirth of Itinerant Performance Culture (University of Chicago\, 2012)\, and Finding the Beat: Entrainment\, Rhythmic Play\ , and Social Meaning in Rock Music (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2023).
The Asian Library exhibit Space Fantasy: Nagao ka Shusei's Contributions to Afrofuturist Visual Culture showcases the visionary universe of the diasporic Japanese illustrator Nagaoka Shusei th rough album covers\, interviews\, artworks\, and books highlighting his leg acy in Japan. This exhibit\, which notably includes the first known example of Afrofuturistic artwork attributed to Nagaoka\, will run from mid-Februa ry to late April in the Asian Library Upper Level. The exhibit will include a self-paced guide to what’s on display.
On Wednesday\, February 26\ , 2025\, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. the library will also stream music f rom the albums on display.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Studies Auditorium GEO:30.285854;-97.740426 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/space-fantasy-nagaoka-shusei s-contributions-to-afrofuturist-visual-culture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/01/250226-japan-studies-lunchtime-poster_v1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250128T0259Z-1738033191.6532-EO-64831-18@10.19.146.14 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250127T235144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T001253Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250226T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250226T180000 SUMMARY: Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present DESCRIPTION: This talk offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the structural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by examining the fields of international relations and Iraqi studies to show how the story of Assyria ns is invisible or unintelligible across these fields of […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:This talk offers a critical reflection of the invisibility in working on Indigeneity in southwest Asia within the str uctural imperatives of the academy. It takes up each of these themes by exa mining the fields of international relations and Iraqi studies to show how the story of Assyrians is invisible or unintelligible across these fields o f political science and Middle East studies. Moreover\, what the Assyrian s tory tells us about these disciplines and the multiplicity of coloniality ( Patel 2019) is also rendered invisible. Despite the absence of Assyrians fr om Indigenous studies\, Dr. Georgis sees this field as a site from which to potentially globalize Indigeneities. Specifically\, she uses Indigenous fe minism to construct a more nuanced framework into Assyrian histories\, a fr amework that uses the lens of colonialism\, land theft\, erasure\, and geno cide to reframe the Assyrian experience as a remnant of the colonial global order.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, February 26\,
2025 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PST)
Location:
Room 120
\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
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M
ariam Georgis is Assistant Professor of Global Indigeneity in the
Department of Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser Univer
sity. She is Assyrian\, Indigenous to present-day Iraq and currently living
on and sustained by the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salis
h Peoples\, including the Tsleil-Waututh\, Kwikwetlem\, Squamish\, and Musq
ueam Nations. Grounded in embodied decolonial feminist epistemologies\, her
scholarship is located at the nexus of global politics\, critical Indigeno
us studies\, and Middle East studies. Her research interests include issues
of global violence and security\; global colonialism\, Indigeneities\, and
decolonization\; and politics of southwest Asia.
This event
is hosted by the UBC Asian Studies Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Comm
ittee.
Contact: Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura\, the committee chair
Email:
fuyubi.nakamura@ubc.ca
JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
In Canada\, with the onset of WW II\, Japanese was deemed the enemy language\, resulting in the erasure of c ultural heritage\, archival sources\, and histories based on the Japanese-l anguage. My aim is to recover the undocumented loss and perseverance of war -time Japanese-language literary spaces\, through tracing the journey of a Japanese-language book collection in Canada\, from pre-war\, war-time\, to postwar. I deal with questions of archives and memory\, cultural and lingui stic loss\, and forms of resistance.
This talk is free and open to th e public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, March 5\, 2025 | 12:30pm – 2:00pm (PST)
Loca
tion:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Naoko Kato is an instruc
tor at St. Mark’s College and an information resources specialist at the No
rth American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources.
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2025 Capstone Lectures with Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke
Taiwan’s peaceful transformation from authoritarian rule to a liberal democracy in the early 1990s has been praised as a remarkable political achievement. This achievement\, despite the many challenges it has faced and still confronts\, has been thriving in the face of China’s claim of sovereignty over the island and its constant threats of serious coercion. To be sure\, Taiwan’s production of the world’ s most sought for semiconductor chips has already made Taiwan a pivotal lin k in the world supply chain.
What should be noted is that Taiwan toda y is also the only place where Chinese culture\, especially with regard to the values embedded in the Confucian humanistic tradition\, has been best p reserved since 1949 without being deliberately destroyed as it was during t he Chinese Cultural Revolution.
In her talk\, Dr. Chiu-Duke will disc uss why Taiwan’s successful search for liberty and democracy has yet to bri ng about a consensus on Taiwan’s dealing with China. She will also discuss how Confucius’ innovative re-interpretation of the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven laid the foundation for the Chinese humanistic tradition. This tr adition was the key reason for China being identified as one of the “Axial civilizations.” However\, it has never being able to make an institutional breakthrough in its pursuit of the Confucian ideal of a humane government\, not even during the 1915 May Fourth New Culture movement when liberal demo cracy and science were advocated as the necessary goals for China’s path to modernity.
The establishment of the People’s Republic of China has l eft no room for liberal democracy\, but it is precisely in this respect tha t Dr. Chiu-Duke will argue that if China today is genuinely serious about i ts 2023 projected “global civilization initiative”\, it should see Taiwan a nd its democracy as a most viable reference for the success of this project instead of as a target for annexation. Only in this way can Taiwan democra cy continue its support for the healthy development of the Chinese humanist ic tradition with the values of this tradition continuing on to serve as a source for elevating the civility and quality of Taiwan democracy. Perhaps\ , only in this way can Taiwan democracy and the Chinese humanistic traditio n also make a contribution to the twin goals of world peace and stability.< /p>
This talk is free and open to the publ ic. Registration is encouraged for planning purposes.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, March 6\, 2025 | 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
3:00pm - 3:30pm (PST) Recept
ion with light refreshments
3:30pm - 5:00pm (PST) Lecture and Q&A
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She is the author of To Rebuild the Empire: Lu Chih< em>’s Confucian Pragmatist Approach to the Mid-Tang Predicament (2000)\, and In Search of Liberty: Lin Yusheng’s Life and Thought (2023).
Her edited works include Liberalism and the Humanistic Tradition – Essays in Honor of Professor Lin Yü-sheng (2005) [winner of Taiwan’s United Daily News award for best non-fiction book of 2 005] and The Spirit of the Modern Intellectual Aristocracy: Li n Yusheng’s Recent Works in Intellectual History (2020).
She is also co-editor of Ying-shih Yü\, Chinese History and Culture Volume 1: Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century C.E\, (2016) and Chine se History and Culture Volume 2: Seventeenth Through Twentieth Century (2016).
She co-translated Ge Zhaoguang’s two-volume An Intellect ual History of China (2014\, 2018) [Winner of the 2014 Choice Outstand ing Academic Title Award]\, and Yü Ying-shih’s From Rural China to the Ivy League: Yü Ying-shih’s Reminiscences of His Life and Times (2021).
She has presented and published many essays on Chinese and Taiwanese history\, political thought\, and literature.
Her many services to t he field and the department include Director of the Chinese Language Progra m\, and Co-Director (and later Director) of the Centre for Chinese Research in the Institute for Asian Research. Her many media presentations led to h er being chosen by the Vancouver Sun as one of the “100 Chinese-Ca nadians who are making a difference in British Columbia.”
The Capsto ne Lectures at the Department of Asian Studies recognize the retirement fro m teaching of professors of the Department. They are an occasion for collea gues\, students\, former students and the public to hear from faculty membe rs—who have\, in many cases\, taught and researched for decades at UBC—expl aining questions that have inspired their career-defining studies.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/taiwan-democracy-and-the-chi nese-humanistic-tradition/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/2025-Capstone-Lecture-Website-1200x628-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250213T2155Z-1739483759.0845-EO-65099-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250213T200900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250321T185450Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250308T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250308T171500 SUMMARY: Translating Persian\, Universalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Mo ses and the Shepherd” DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian Lec ture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Translating Persian\, Univ ersalizing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd” on March 8\, 2025. The tale of Moses and the Shepherd is one of the best-known stories f rom Rumi’s Masnavi. In this lecture\, Austin O’Malley examines how […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The event recording is now available:
https://y outu.be/P4Ma05uto88?si=2rYd_3iO7SjEqAw3
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Translating Persian\, Universal izing Islam: The Case of Rumi’s “Moses and the Shepherd” on March 8\, 2025.
The tale of Moses and the Shepherd is one of the best-known stories from Rumi’s Masnavi. In this lecture\, Austin O’Malley examines how the episode has been translated and understood in English-speaking environm ents\, paying special attention to the ways in which its form and meaning h ave been changed to accord with the universalizing religious expectations o f the modern era. A close translation of the Persian text\, he suggests\, f rustrates this surreptitiously Protestant universalism and thereby makes ou r own assumptions visible.
Austin O’Malley is an assistant professor of Persian literature at the University of Chicago. His monograph\, The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al -Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism\, was published by Edinburgh U niversity Press in 2023.
Francesc a Chubb-Confer's research takes an interdisciplinary approach to t he fields of religious studies and comparative literature to advance the st udy of Islamic literary and poetic traditions\, particularly in South Asia and the Persianate world. With interests in Sufism\, poetry\, religion and colonialism\, and translation\, her current book project focuses on Muhamma d Iqbal\, the early 20th-century reformer\, philosopher\, and poet\, and an alyzes how the relationship between form and content in his work navigates between classical Islamic tradition and the demands of colonial modernity. Francesca's published work has appeared in the International Journal of Isl am in Asia\; Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, and the Middle Ea st\; and Afghanistan.
Registration is required. Register here :
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Join us for a screening of director Fawzia Mirza's critically celebrated fe ature film\, followed by a discussion with Kiran Sunar (assistant professor \, Asian Studies) and Fahad Naveed (PhD student\, Asian Studies).
Syn opsis: Azra\, a Pakistani Canadian woman who has had a strained relationshi p with her parents since coming out as a lesbian\, finds herself on a Bolly wood-inspired journey to Pakistan — guided by memories of her mother's yout h in Karachi and her own coming-of-age in rural Canada.
This is an in -person event. Free entry & South Asian dinner/iftaar. Registration require d:
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Date & Time:
Tuesday\, March 18\, 2025 | 5:00pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Doors open at 4:30PM.
Location:
Norm Theatre\, UBC Life Building\, 6138 St udent Union Blvd\, Vancouver
About Framing Asia: Fra ming Asia is a series of community film screenings and programming initiate d by a group of graduate students in UBC’s Department of Asian Studies. For any queries about the series\, please write to us at framingasia@gmail.com
Student organizer s: Fahad Naveed (PhD student\, Asian Studies)\, Ying Han (MA stude nt\, Asian Studies)\, Skyler Wolf (MA student\, Asian Studies) and Farimah Mahmoodi (MA student\, Asian Studies)
This event is co-sponsored by t he Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism ( StEAR) Enhancement Fund. It is supported by the Indigenous Asia Initiative Steering Committee and the Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Committee. This s creening is co-presented by UBC Film Society.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:The Norm Theatre GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/framing-asia-the-queen-of-my -dreams/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/Poster1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250305T2354Z-1741218860.9137-EO-65353-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250305T211703Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T211136Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250321T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250321T180000 SUMMARY: Drawing the Holocaust: The “Documentary” Manga of Satonaka Machiko DESCRIPTION: This talk examines the presence of the Holocaust in shōjo mang a from the 1960s to the 1980s. Why is the Holocaust an enduring thematic co ncern within postwar Japanese manga and what are implications of these repr esentations for Japan’s own processes of remembrance and education about th e war? I begin with an analysis of the influence and reception […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This talk examines the presence of the Holocaust in shōjo manga from the 1960s to the 1980s. Why is the Holocaust an enduring thematic concern within postwar Japanese manga and what are imp lications of these representations for Japan's own processes of remembrance and education about the war? I begin with an analysis of the influence and reception of Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl (1947 Dutch\, 1952 Japanese) in Japan\, which has resonated deeply with Japanese readers and fostered a subgenre of fictional Holocaust-themed shōjo manga loosely inspired by Frank's narrative. I then turn my attention to three k ey works by Satonaka Machiko (b. 1948) arguing that these manga reformulate the widely disseminated image of Anne Frank as the quintessential child vi ctim of war in an effort to better acquaint readers with the realities of l ife in the camps. Furthermore\, Satonaka’s incorporation of quasi-“document ary”-style drawings alongside her manga-style artwork demonstrates shōj o manga's expansion of its own narrative and visual lexicon in an atte mpt to convey the profound pathos of genocide.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Friday\, March 21\, 2025 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm (PDT)
Asian Centre Room 604\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouv
er
Ben Whaley is Associate Professor of Japanese in the School of Languages\, Linguistics\, Literatures and Cultures at the Un iversity of Calgary. His research examines ethno-racial identity and nation al trauma in Japanese popular culture. He is the author of Toward a Gam eic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games (Michigan \, 2023). His essays on manga and video games have appeared in the Jour nal of Asian Studies\, positions asia critique\, and the Journal of Japanese Studies.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre Room 604 GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/drawing-the-holocaust-the-do cumentary-manga-of-satonaka-machiko/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/Drawing-the-Holocaust.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250403T0036Z-1743640594.6177-EO-65443-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250317T234739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250318T211349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250321T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250321T203000 SUMMARY: Nowruz 1404 Persian Speech Contest: “Why I Learn\, Why I Speak: My Persian Language Journey” X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/persian-program-nowrouz-speech-c ontest-tickets-1287074617829?aff=oddtdtcreator ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/nowruz-speech-contest.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250304T1112Z-1741086724.0252-EO-65251-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250304T003352Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T211409Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T140000 SUMMARY: Translating “pop fiction” from 1000 years ago: Ochikubo monogatari (Lady of the Low Chamber) DESCRIPTION: JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025 This talk will discuss the features of the 10th century Ochikubo monogatari as a piec e of popular fiction in the Heian period. These features include an emphasi s on plot and a narrative style that relies heavily on dialogue and interio r monologue. The tale is considered a parody of the […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES\, 2024-2025
This talk will discuss the features of the 10th century Ochikubo monogatari as a piece of popular fiction i n the Heian period. These features include an emphasis on plot and a narrat ive style that relies heavily on dialogue and interior monologue. The tale is considered a parody of the genre of the “wicked stepmother” scenario. Th e speaker is in the completion stage of a new translation of the work and w ill read excerpts to illustrate strategies she has developed to bring the t ale to life for a 21st century audience. She will also comment o n how this process has pushed her to significantly revise (even abandon) th e approach she followed in her previous translations of the Heian diarie s\, Kagerō Diary and Sarashina Diary.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, March 26\, 2025 | 12:30pm – 2:
00pm (PDT)
Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\,
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Sonja Arntzen\, MA ( 1970) and PhD (1979) University of British Columbia\, taught at the Univers ity of Alberta and University of Toronto. Now living in Vancouver\, B.C.\, she continues her research and writing on Japanese literature of the Heian and Medieval eras. Her monographs include: Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud An thology (Tokyo University Press\, 1986 revised and expanded edition\, Quirin Press\, 2022)\, The Kagerō Diary (University of Michigan\, 1997)\, The Sarashina Diary: A Woman’s Life in Eleventh Century Japan< /em>\, (Columbia University Press\, 2014\, Reader’s Edition\, 2018 ) Her current project is a new translation of the Ochikubo monogatari\, working title\, Lady of the Low Chamber.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/translating-pop-fiction-from -1000-years-ago-ochikubo-monogatari-lady-of-the-low-chamber/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/02/250326_japanese-lunchtime-series-poster_v1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250315T0603Z-1742018581.8616-EO-65400-18@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250313T212056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T233110Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250326T170000 SUMMARY: Reading Group on Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation DESCRIPTION: The Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation Committee wo uld like to invite you to its first reading group session on appreciation a nd appropriation\, led by Siyun Pan. Participants are encouraged to read “B etween Appreciation and Appropriation: Race-Transitioning among Hallyu Fans ” by Min Joo Lee\, a chapter in an edited volume ahead of the session – an […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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he Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Transformation Committee would like to in
vite you to its first reading group session on appreciation and appropriati
on\, led by Siyun Pan.
Participants are encouraged to read "Between Appreciation and Approp riation: Race-Transitioning among Hallyu Fans" by Min Joo Lee\, a chapter i n an edited volume ahead of the session - an electronic copy can be accesse d via UBC library: https://go.exli bris.link/654xDN7f.
To learn more about KATSEYE (a K-pop group\,) Siyun recommends their the music video “Debut” (https://youtu.be/bYg6aMDQ_TA?s i=3vQuonrfIOCFLXd1).
Date & Time:
Wednesday
\, March 26\, 2025 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Location:
Asian Studies Grad Lounge (Auditorium Annex B\, 1924 West Mall)
The session is open to Asian Studies graduate students\, their friends and colleagues from other departments who may be interested\, and Asian Studie s faculty and staff.
Snacks\, tea and coffee will be served.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Korean LOCATION:Asian Studies Grad Lounge\, Auditorium Annex B GEO:49.266434;-123.256714 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/reading-group-on-anti-racism -and-racial-justice-transformation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/Reading-group-1-poster-landscape-e1741908599320.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7386-EO-65614-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250401T210301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T192922Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250403T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250403T163000 SUMMARY: Abul Mansur Ahmad’s America: A Global Intellectual History of the Language Movement in East Pakistan/Bangladesh DESCRIPTION: The UBC South Asia Research Colloquium offers a forum for spec ialists in South Asia to share their research in front of an interdisciplin ary audience. This seminar features speaker Dr. Rochona Majumdar (Universit y of Chicago). The politics of language and linguistic sovereignty drove a wedge in the unity of the new nation-state of Pakistan. Through a […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The UBC South Asia Res
earch Colloquium offers a forum for specialists in South Asia to share thei
r research in front of an interdisciplinary audience. This seminar features
speaker Dr. Rochona Majumdar (University of Chicago).
The politics o f language and linguistic sovereignty drove a wedge in the unity of the new nation-state of Pakistan. Through a close reading of select works by Abul Mansur Ahmad (1898-1979)\, noted Bengali Muslim journalist\, editor\, write r\, and political leader\, I propose a global intellectual history of the q uest for autonomy in East Pakistan/Bangladesh.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, April 3\, 2025 | 3:00 - 4:30pm
Locati
on:
UBC Asian Centre\, Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouve
r
Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies\, University of British C
olumbia\, this event is open to the public.
Registration is required (
please find the registration form above).
Date & Time:
Friday\, April 4\, 2025 | 9:30 AM – 1
2:00 PM
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Centre
1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
This event is free and open to the pu blic. No registration is required. These seminars will be presented in Kore an.
Seminar 1 (9:30 AM – 10:40 AM)
At this seminar. Dr. Kim compares the ideal concept of hu manity in Confucian and Christian societies\, often represented by the Kore an sŏnbi (선비\, 士) spirit and the Western gentlemanly ideal\, respectively. In contemporary Korean society\, historical sŏnbi figures are still honored as national role models\, and their spirit is regarded as a noble value sy stem. At the same time\, the Western concept of gentlemanly virtue is also recognized as an essential quality of a mature citizen. Dr. Kim broadens ou r understanding of these two cultural ideals and explores how sŏnbi values and gentlemanly virtues can coexist and contribute positively to contempora ry society.
Dr. Jae-hwa Kim< /strong> (PhD\, Seoul National University\, a visiting professor at UBC) is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at Republic of Kore a Naval Academy. His research involves the Confucian traditions of Korea an d East Asia. His major publications include Shim Dae-Yoon - A Star of Chosŏ n Korea’s Confucian Classics Studies: The Last Pragmatic (Silhak) Scholar i n Chosŏn\, Re-established Confucianism in the 19th Century (selected as a 2 024 Se-jong Book in the academic category) and Maritime Studies and the Hum anities (2022).
Seminar 2 (10:50 AM -12:00 PM)
In 2022\, South Korea comprehensively revised educational programs for ele
mentary and secondary students. The revised programs were designed to empow
er students to prepare themselves for future society challenged by digital
environment and climate-ecological changes\, as well as to be engaged in le
arning and life on their own initiatives of positive manner. In line with t
he guiding principles of the revised educational programs\, history educati
on programs were also entirely redesigned with an emphasis on investigative
learning\, environment-friendly humanity\, the spirit of citizenship\, and
learner-centered approach. At this seminar\, Dr. Lee discusses the key fea
tures of the revised history educational programs and explores the future d
irections of history education in Korea.
Dr. Hae Young Lee (PhD\, Korea National University of Education\, a visiting professor at UBC) is an associate professor of hist ory education at Gongju National University of Education. Dr. Lee’s researc h involves the development of history education programs for elementary and middle school students\, as well as publication of history textbooks. Dr. Lee’s recent publications include “A Study of Directions for Elementary His tory Education Based on Preservice Teachers' Lesson Analysis Responses\,” B rain\, Digital & Learning 13(3)\; “Narrative Analysis of Children’s History Books Using Systemic Functional Linguistics\,” KOED 133\; and “Analysis of Students’ Concept of Time Using a Linguistic Approach\,” Korean Journal of Teacher Education 37(4).
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The sessions are all in Persian
Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion s eries in the year 2024-2025 will focus on:
The Literature of Awakening
Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam Dehghani
Location: Seminar Room\, Departm ent of Asian Studies
Througho ut history\, the political role of poetics (and artistic creation in genera l) has been a subject of interest for scholars. Plato criticized poets for misleading the public and advocated for their expulsion from his ideal repu blic\, while Aristotle regarded poetics as superior and more philosophical than historiography\, considering poetry essential for examining reality. L iterature and art reflect and reproduce the prevailing discourses in a soci ety. Furthermore\, literary and artistic works can either reinforce dominan t ideologies or challenge them\, opening new horizons of meaning for variou s concepts. For example\, literature can serve as a propaganda tool to glor ify war\, or it can depict the realities surrounding it\, fostering social awareness.
In the upcoming ac ademic year's series of panels organized by the Persian Literature Reading Club at the University of British Columbia\, under the initiative of Dr. Fa rzan Sojoodi and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, we will explore the literature of aw akening. These panels will feature guest writers and researchers who will e xamine examples of literary works across various genres\, including poetry\ , short stories\, and novels\, that employ a deconstructive approach to cou nter dominant discourses. By revealing the internal cracks or contradiction s within the dominant discourse\, these works pave the way for social awake ning.
Each specialized panel will focus on a particular genre—such as poetry\, short stories\, or novels —centered around a specific theme.
میزگردهای تخصصی ادبیات بیداری
به ابتکار
دکتر فرزان سجو
دی
دکتر حسام دهقانی
از روزگاران کهن، نقش سیاسی بوطیقا (آفری نش هنری به طور کلی) مورد توجه اندیشمندان بوده است. افلاطون شاعران را مسئول آموزش ناصواب و گمراهی عامهی مردم میداند و حکم به اخراج آنها از آرمانشهر فرضیاش میدهد در حالیکه ارسطو بوطیقا را برتر و فلسفیتر از تاریخنگاری قلم داد و شعرپردازی را برای مداقه در امور واقع لازم میداند. ادبیات و هنر گفتما نهای موجود در یک جامعه را بازنمایی و بازتولید میکند. در ضمن، آثار ادبی و هنری گاه در خدمت طبیعیسازی عامه و مسلط هستند، و گاه قادرند آنها را به چا لش کشیده و افقهای معنایی نوینی را پیش روی مفاهیم مختلف بگشایند. به فرض ادب یات هم میتواند ابزار تبلیغاتی برای مقدس جلوه دادن جنگ باشد و هم با به تصوی ر کشیدن واقعیتهای پیرامون آن، زمینه بیداری اجتماعی در این خصوص را فراهم .آ ورد
در سلسله نشستهای سال جاری تحصیلی در باشگاه ادبیات فارسی خوانی دانشگاه ب ریتیش کلمبیا به ابتکار دکتر فرزان سجودی و دکتر حسام دهقانی سلسله نشستهایی را برگزار خواهیم کرد که به بررسی ادبیات بیداری میپردازد. در این نشستها با حضور نویسندگان و پژوهشگران مهمان به بررسی نمونههایی از آثار ادبی در ژانره ای مختلف از جمله شعر، داستان کوتاه و رمان خواهیم پرداخت که با رویکردی واساز انه عملی پاد گفتمانی را در برابر گفتمان مسلط سامان میدهند و بدین ترتیب ترک ها یا تناقضات درونی گفتمان غالب را آشکار میکنند تا زمینه بیداری اجتماعی د ر آن خصوص فراهم آید.
در هر یک از این میزگردهای تخصصی، آثاری از یک ژانر مثلا شعر، داستان کوتاه یا رمان، در مورد موضوعی واحد بررسی خواهد شد.
< hr />Sixth Session: Awakening Literature: The Voice of the Other\, th e Rights of Religious and Ethnic Minorities
جلسهی ششم، ادبیات بیداری: صدای دیگری و حقوق اقلیتهای قوم ی
بررسی رمان «غروب پروانه» اثر بختیارعلی به زبان کردی و ترجمهی مریوان حلبچهای
Date & Time:
Saturday\, April 5\, 2025
11:00
am to 1:00 pm (PDT)/ 9:30pm to 11:30am (Tehran Time)
Location:
Asian Centre Seminar Room (Room 604)
There
is also an option to attend virtually via Zoom Meeting.
Present
ed in Persian
Free & open to the public. Registration is required via
the form below.
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Marivan Halabjaei\, born on August 30\, 1980\, in Halabja\, Iraq\, s
urvived the chemical bombing of the city by Saddam Hussein and migrated to
Iran with his family at the age of seven. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in J
ournalism and a Master’s degree in Communications from Tehran’s University
of Science and Research.
For over two decades\, Halabjaei has been an influential figure in translating Persian literature into Kurdish and vice versa. His contributions include translations of works by renowned Kurdish authors such as Sherko Bekas and Bakhtiar Ali into Persian\, and his Kurdi sh translations of Persian authors like Forough Farrokhzad and Sadegh Heday at are highly respected.
In addition to his extensive work as a trans lator\, Halabjaei has authored over 100 articles in both Kurdish and Persia n\, and his interviews with key figures in Kurdish and Persian literature h ave been widely published. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of the Kur dish literary magazine “Galawij Now\,” which has published 80 issues to dat e.
Halabjaei has won numerous awards for his translations\, including the Golden Award of Ahmad Herdy (2011) for best translator in Iraqi Kurdis tan and the Sulaimani International Book Fair Award for Best Translator in 2020. He also received the UNESCO award in 2021 for his work in fostering c ultural exchange between Kurdish and Persian literature.
بیوگرافی مریوان حلبچهای
مریوان حلبچه ای متولد هشت شهریورماه ۱۳۵۹ حلبچه. در سن هفت سالگی و در پی بمباران شیمیایی حلبچه توسط صدام حسین، دچار عارضهی شیمیایی شد و با همراه خانواده در کنار انبوه همشهریانش که از بمباران شیمیایی جان سالم به در برده بودند به ایران آمد. مدتی در کرمانشاه و سپس به تهران نقل مکان کرد . وی لیسانس علوم ارتباطات گرایش روزنامهنگاری است و کارشناسی ارشد علوم ارتباطات اجتماعی از دانشگاه علوم تحقیقات تهران است. مریوان حلبچهای در طی سالهای م تمادی حضورش در ایران با بسیاری از چهرههای سرشناس ادبیات ایران اعم از شاعرا ن، نویسندگان، مترجمان و اهالی سینما و تئاتر در ارتباط نزدیک بوده و تاکنون آ ثار بسیار زیادی از ادبیات فارسی را ، که در ذیل به آنها اشاره خواهد شد را ب ه کردی ترجمه نموده است. به گونهای که میتوان او را پرکارترین مترجم آثار اد بیات فارسی به دیگر زبانها دانست.
اما شهرت او در ایران به دلیل ترجمههای موفقِ آثار نویسندگان و شاعران سرشن اس کرد زبان همچون شیرکو بیکس، بختیار علی، فرهاد پیربال، شیرزاد حسن، لطیف ه لمت و رفیق صابرو هیواقادر و دلشادعبداللە، ماردین ابراهیم، به فارسی میباشد. چاپ صد مقاله به زبان کردی و فارسی در نشریات فارسی و کردی در ایران و عراق د رباره ترجمه، نمایش، ادبیات ایران و ادبیات کردستان و جهان. در دوهه گذشته از فعال ترین دبیران اموزش زبان فارسی به اتباع و افراد خارجی بوده است.
< p style="text-align: right\;">همچنین مریوان حلبچه ای در طول دو دههای ا خیر همکاری مستمر و نزدیکی با مطبوعات کردی در عراق و نشریات فارسی در ایران د اشته و بیش از صد مصاحبه ي او با چهرههای شاخص ادبیات فارسی و کردی در این ن شریات به چاپ رسیده است. مدیرمسئول مجله کردی "گلاویژ نو " است مجله فرهنگی اد بی است و تاکنون هشتاد شماره از این مجله منتشر شده است.کتابهای ترجمه شده از ادبیات کردی به فارسی
۱ـ حصار و سگهای پدرم 84 ( رمان- شیرزاد حسن – نشر چشمه سال 84، چاپ دوازدهم)
۲ ـ لامارتین ( مجموعه داستان – فرهاد پیربال ـ نشر ویستار84)
۳ـ مار و پله ( مجموعه داستان – فرهاد پیربال- نشر ن ی ۸۵)
۴- آخرین انار دنیا (رمان - بختیار علی ـ نشر ثالث ۹۳ چاپ بیست و ششم) ثالث
۵ـ غروب پروانه ( رمان- بختیار علی – نشر نیماژ ٩٦ چاپ ششم
۶ـ جمشیدخان عمویم که باد همیشه او را با خود میبرد ( رمان – بختیارعلی)نشر نیماژچاپ ششم
۷ـ شهر موسیقیدانهای سپید ( رمان – بختیارعلی – نشر ثالث چاپ ا ول پنجم)
۸ـ سانتاگو دی کامپوستلا ( رمان- فرهاد پیربال نشر ثالث )
۹ـ خداحافظ دلدادگی ( مجموعه داستان ـ شیرزاد حسن- نشر ثالث چاپ چهارم)
۱۰- حاشیه نشینان اروپا ( مجموعه داستان- فرهاد پیربال – نشر ثالث _ چاپ چهارم)
۱۱ـ مرثیهی حلبچه ( شعر- رفیق صابر – نشر آهنگدیگر) چاپ ١٣٨٦
۱۲ـ عاشقانههای جنگ و صلح (گزیده شعر فرهاد پ یربال – نشر نیماژ)
۱۳- عاشقانهه ای شیرکو بیکس ( مقالات، گفتگوها وگزیده اشعار شیرکو بیکس – نشر چشمە)
۱۴- عاشقانههای لطیف هلمت ( گزیده اشعار لطیف هلمت ـ نشر نیماژ)
۱۵- عاشقان ههای رفیق صابر (گزیده اشعار رفیق صابر- نشر ثالث)
١٦ـ دریاس و جسدها، بختیارعلی _ نشرثالث چاپ ششم
١٧ـ خندە غمین ترت می کند_ بختیارعلی-نشرثالث_ چاپ هشتم
١٨ ـ تصاحب تاریکی_ بختیار علی_مترجم_مریوان حلبچەای نشر ثالث
١٩_ خانه گربه ها . هیواقادر. نشرثالث. چاپ پنجم
٢٠_ سقوط آسمان ها جبارجمال غریب نشر ثالث
21 ـ بندر فیلی. بختیارعلی. رمان. نشرثالث
22 ـ ابرهای دانیال، رمان، بختیارعلی، نشرثالث< /b>
23 ـ به دوزخ ای بی گناهان . بختیار علی . نشرثالث چاپ پنجم
24ـ رویای مردان ایرانی. ماردین ابراهیم . نشر چشمه
آثار ترجمه شده از فارسی به کوردی توسط مریوان حلبچهای:
نمایشنامهها
۱ـ چهار صندوق ( بهرام بیضایی- نمایشنامه)
۲ـ چوب به دستان ورزیل ( غلامحسین ساعدی- نمایشنامه)
< p style="text-align: right\;">۳ـ به کدام گناه ما را کشتید ( عبدالحی شماس ی- نمایشنامه)۴ـ خشکسالی و دروغ ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۵ـ یک دقی قه سکوت ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۶ـ زمستان ۶۶ ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۷ـ ماه در آب ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۸ـ گلهای شمعدانی ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۹ـ رقص کاغذ پارهها ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۱۰ـ برلین ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)< /b>
۱۱ـ نوشتن در تاریکی ( محمد یعقوبی – نمایشنامه)
۱۲ـ مصاحبه ( محمد رحم انیان)
۱۳ـ خرده جنایتهای زناشویی ( اریک امانوئل اشمیت)
۱۴ـ داستان خ رسهای پاندا به روایت ساکسیفونیستی که معشوقهای در فرانکفورت داشت ( ماتئی و یسنی یک)
۱۵ـ پیکر زن همچون میدان ن برد در جنگ بوسنی ( ماتئی ویسنی یک)
۱۶- برای خرید که نباید پول پرداخت ( داریو فو)
۱۷ـ رابطهی باز زن و شوهری ( داریو فو – فرانکا رامه )< br />۱۸- همه دزدها که دزد نیستند ( داریو فو)
۱۹- روز از نو روزی از نو ( داریو فو )
۲۰-زندگی یک هنرمند ( ژان آنوی)
۲۱- مرگ در میزند ( وودی آلن)
۲۲ـ مجردها ( دیوید فوئنکینو)
٢٣_ اناکارنینا ، آرش عباسی
٢٤ _سقراط ، محمدرضا نعیمی
٢٥- درد سرهای مرد مردە_کامران شهلایی
٢٦_ حرفهایها
٢٧_روبینسون وک روزو_ نینادینترونا_جیاکوموراویچیو
٢٨_ دروغ_ فلوریان زلر
٢٩_ اولئانا_ دیویدممت
٣٠_کمدی هنر در تئاتر_ اد وارد دفیلیپو
٣١_هنر_ یاسمینا رضا
٣٢_ خدای کشتار _ یاسمینا رضا
مجموعه شعرها
۲۳- مرگ من روزی (گزیده اشعار فروغ فرخزاد( تولد دیگر. ایمان بی اوریم با آغازفصل سرد( به همراه گفتگو و مقالاتی درباره اشعار و زندگی شاعر)
۲۴- برهنه باید زیر باران رفت (گزیده _ چهار کتاب از هشت کتاب. صدای پای آب، مسافر، حجم سبز، ماهیچ ، ما نگاە. شع ر سهراب سپهری به همراه مقالاتی درباره اشعار و زندگی شاعر)
۲۵- من فقط سفیدی اسب را گریستم ( گزیده شعر احمدرضا احمدی)
۲۶- پنجاه و سه ترانه عاشقا نه ( شمس لنگرودی)
۲۷- باغبان جهنم (شمس لنگرودی)
۲۸- ملاح خیابانها ( شمس لنگرودی)
۲۹- زن، تاریکی، کلمات (حافظ موسوی)
۳۰- سطرهای پنهانی (حافظ موسوی)
۳۱ـ خردهریز خاطرات و شعرهای خاورمیانه (حافظ موسوی)
۳۲ـ اگر عاشق نباشیم میمیریم ( گزیده اشعار سیدعلی صالحی)
۳۳ـ یک بسته سیگار در تبعید (غلامرضا بروسان)
۳۴ـ مرثیه برای درختی که به پهلو افتاده است ( غلامرضا بروسان)
۳۵ـ رنگهای رفته د نیا ( گروس عبدالملکیان)
۳۶ـ سطرها در تاریکی جا عوض میکنند ( گروس عبدالملکیان)
۳۷ـ حفرهها ( گروس عبدالملکیان)
۳۸ـ روز بخیر محبوب من (رسول یونان)
۳۹ـ کنسرت در جهنم (رسول یونان)
۴۰ـ من یک پسر بد بودم ( رسول یونان )
۴۱ـ پابرهنه تا صبح ( گراناز موسوی)
۴۲ـ زیباییام را پشت در میگذارم ( آیدا عمیدی)
۴۳ـ سوت زدن در تاریکی ( شهاب مقربین)
۴۴ـ خاطرات ماه، چاه، باغچه ( افشین شاهرودی)< /p>
۴۵ـ دهانم بوی گل مریم میدهد ( کیوان م هرگان)
داستان و رمان
۴۶ـ گاو خونی ( جعفر مدرس صادقی – رمان)
< p style="text-align: right\;">۴۷ـ جیرجیرک (احمد غلامی – رمان)۴۸ـ ها کردن (پیمان هوشمندزاده – مجموعه داستا ن)
۴۹ـ آدمها ( احمد غلامی – مجموع ه داستان)
۵۰ـ حتی وقتی میخندیم ( فریبا وفی-مجموعه داستان)
٥١_ مای ن یم ایز لیلا _ بیتا ملکوتی رمان
٥٢_ خاطرات محرمانهی خانوادگی رمان محمد قاسم زادە
٥٣ _ چهل سالگی ناهید طباطبایی
برندهی جایزهی طلایی احمدهردی ( بە عنوان بهترین مترجم سال اقلیم کردستان) ٢٠١١
برندهی جا یزهی بهترین مترجم سال ٢٠٢٠ از طرف نمایشگاە بین الملل کتاب سلیمانیه
رئیس هیئت داوران بخش شعر جشنوارە بین الم لل گلاویژ ٢٠٢٠ سلیمانیه
برندە جایز ە شهید معروف برزنجی سال (داستان نویسی بزرگ که بعث اعدامش کرد)٢٠٠٩
جایزە کانون نویسندگان کرد برای ترجمه ادب ی سال ٢٠١٣
جایزە کانون فرهنگی ادب یات ایران _ تهران _ ٢٠١٧
رئیس هیئت داوران بخش فیلمنامه کوتاە در جشنوارە بین الملل فیلم سلیمانیه ٢٠١٦
< p style="text-align: right\;">داوردر جشنوارە بین الملل جشنوارە تئاتر سلی مانیه ٢٠١٧۲۰۲۰ داور شعر در جشنوار ه بین المللی ادبی گلاویژ
2021 بر نده جایزه یونسکوی جهانی به عنوان مترجم فعال و رابط بین دو فرهنگ
مهدی رف یع پژوهشگر و مولفی مستقل است. او در تهران سکونت دارد، و در حوزههای فلسفه، هنر و روانکاوی با رویکردی (پسا-)دلوزی- گتاریایی کار و تدریس میکند، رویکردی که در پی اتصالهای تراگذر یا ترارشتها ی میان عرصههای ناهمگون اندیشه است. وی مطالعاتش را با روانکاوی لکانی آغاز کرد، ولی سپس در یک برههی «انتقادی و بالینیِ» شیزوکاوانه مسیر ش را تغییر داد تا بهشکلی متفاوت به فلسفهورزی بپردازد. او مولف چندین کتاب به زبان فارسی است از جمله : مساحت احساس: سهراب سپهری و هنر عرفانی در جهان معاصر (1394)، و سیاست عشق : میان هنر و فلسفه (1395)، نیز ترجمهی کتابهای اکوسوفیا (سه بومشناسی) (فلیکس گتاری ،1399)، فرهنگ اصطلاحات دلوز و گتاری (یوجین. ب. یانگ و دیگران، 1401)، ریزوم (دلوز و گتاری، 1403) و غ یره تاکنون از او منتشر شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguis tics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Ph enomenological Study of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned anoth er PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and D ecember 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Ha rvard Divinity School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his research on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mys tic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic lit erature regularly at Harvard University and Bo ston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of t he Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has be en teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taugh t Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly a t Boston College for which he received a teaching award and was nominated f or a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian la nguage and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK worksho ps and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passi onate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the l atest findings in critical heritage education and second language acquisiti on\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching li teracy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Stor ytelling (CT).
To promote pub lic humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature reading sessions an d monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern P ersian Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi<
/b> is a retired full professor of semioti
cs and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in
English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’
i University.
His primary in terests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, an d intercultural studies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied S emiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Sem iotics and Literature. He has p ublished nearly 100 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and liter ature.
He was one of the fou nders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member o f the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-gra duate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, t he Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Ac ademy.
میزبانان جلسه
حسام دهقانی
فرزان سجودی
فرزان سجودی، استاد پ یشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلی سی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی،
نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترج
مه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبی
ات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/awakening-literature-the-voi ce-of-the-other-the-rights-of-religious-and-ethnic-minorities/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/The-Voice-of-the-Other-v2-Social-Media-Website.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250314T2302Z-1741993358.7776-EO-65160-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250314T210327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250314T223948Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250410 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250412 SUMMARY: 2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: Journey into Exile: The R are Books of the National Peiping Library\, 1933–1941 DESCRIPTION: The 2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Sophie Volpp (UC Berkeley) Lecture: Journey into Exile: The Rare Books of the National Peiping Library\, 1933–1941 In fall of 1941\, the Na tional Library of Peiping\, now the National Library of China\, sent 100 cr ates of rare books to the Library of Congress […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[image_spread img_url="https://asia.cms.ar ts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/WEBSITE-FEATURED-24.25-Wat-Le cture.png" caption="" width="website"]
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strong>The 2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
wi
th guest speaker Professor Sophie Volpp (UC Berkeley)
In fall of 1941\, the National Library of Peiping\, now the National Library of China\, sent 100 crates of rare books to the Library of Congress and the University of California for safe keeping. These books we re the rarest of the rare\, many from the Ming dynasty imperial library. Th ey had been hidden in Shanghai since 1933\, when the Ministry of Education ordered them to be safeguarded from Japanese troops. The shipment of these books to the United States in 1941 took place just weeks before Pearl Harbo r and was the result of a year of increasingly fraught negotiation between the National Library\, the Ministry of Education\, and the Department of St ate.
In this research\, I pair the published letters between the prin cipal figures in this negotiation—Hu Shih\, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S.\ ; Wang Zhongmin\, bibliographer of the National Library\; and Yuan Tung Li\ , Director of the National Library—with unpublished files from the archives of the Department of State as well as the University of California. I piec e together the story of why the shipment of these rare books encountered su ch perilous delay\, how they finally made it to the United States\, and ask what it might mean for rare books to be in exile.
Date & Time:
Thursday
\, April 10\, 2025
Reception: 5:00pm-6:00pm (PDT)
Lecture: 6:00pm
-8:00pm (PDT)
Loca
tion:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vanco
uver
(view map
)
Presented in English
Free & open to the public
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It seems self-evident that we should care about historical objects that bear the marks of use. But why sh ould we care about literary objects? In this seminar\, I take as a case stu dy the relation between Cao Xueqin’s mid-eighteenth-century novel The St ory of the Stone and the scenic illusion paintings (tongjing hua) of th e Forbidden City. Scholars of Chinese art history have understood these pai ntings to be mimetic and described them as employing a monofocal perspectiv alism that creates a three-dimensional verisimilitude.
In this semina r\, we will consider the way in which The Story of the Stone itself thinks of perspectivalism\, and use that information to reread both chapter 41 of The Story of the Stone and the scenic illusion paintings. Ult imately\, this work will help us to rethink the conceptions of verisimilitu de as well as mimetic illusion. How can the metamorphosis of space—and in particular the dynamic appearance and disappearance of recessionary spaces— help us reconceptualize the problem of reference? How can it help us recons ider the relation of vernacular fiction to the world beyond its pages?
< p>Date & Time:< /span>Location:
Asian Centre Auditorium\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
(view map)
Presented in Eng
lish
Free & open to the public
A reading to prepare in a dvance will be circulated to participants who RSVP.
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Sophie Volpp is professor of East As
ian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature\, and Faculty Chair o
f the Center for Chinese Studies\, at the University of California\, Berkel
ey. She works primarily on Chinese literature of the 16th throug
h 19th centuries. She is the author of Worldly Stage: Theatri
cality in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard\, 2011) and of The Subs
tance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China\, 1550-1775 (Columbia\, 202
2)\, and has translated the work of pre-modern women poets and dramatists.<
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The Yip So Ma n Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs . Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. Wat\, an d her passion for Chinese literature and culture.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2024-25-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/WEBSITE-FEATURED-24.25-Wat-Lecture.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7494-EO-65392-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250313T181205Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250517T004214Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250412T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250412T210000 SUMMARY: Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran\, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion\, 1797-1800 DESCRIPTION: The event recording is now available: The Alireza Ahmadian L ecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran\, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion\, 1797-1800 on April 12\, 2025. Abstract At the turn of the 19th century Qajar Iran encou ntered the thrust of European imperial expansion stretching from Egypt to t he […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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The Alireza Ahmadian Le cture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Anxious Onlookers: Qajar Iran\, Tipu Sultan of Mysore and British colonial expansion\, 1797-1800 on April 12\, 2025.
At the turn of the 19th century Qaj ar Iran encountered the thrust of European imperial expansion stretching fr om Egypt to the Caucasus to India. How did Iran respond to a call for an an ti-colonial alliance by Tipu Soltan and then witness his downfall\, offers a remarkable case of connected histories with long-term repercussions that relates even to the plight of today’s Iran.
A bbas Amanat is William Graham Sumner Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University. A graduate of Alborz high school\, he received his B.A . from Tehran University in 1971 and his Doctorate of Philosophy from the S chool of Oriental Studies\, University of Oxford\, in 1981. He taught at Ya le University between 1983 and 2021. He has written about early modern and modern history of Iran\, the Middle East\, the Muslim world and the Persian ate world.
Join us for our last event! A screening of Vancouver-based artist Cindy Mochizuk i's 2024 documentary film\, Between Pictures: The Lens of Tamio Wakayam a\, followed by a discussion with Cindy and local photographer Tadafumi Tamura\, and Mayumi Takasaki \, local leader and partner of the late Tamio Wakayama\; moderated by Dr. T ara Lee (UBC School of Journalism\, Writing\, & Media).
Synopsis: Through archival footage\, interviews\, animations
\, and Wakayama's own unpublished memoir\, follow the Japanese-Canadian pho
tographer as he joins the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
during the American civil rights movement to his journey back home to Vanco
uver's Paueru Gai/Powell Street neighborhoods.
This is an in-person e vent. Free entry & Japanese light snacks. Registration required:
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Date & Time:
Thursday\, April 17\, 2025 | 5:30pm – 8:00pm (PDT)
Doors open at 5:00pm.
< strong>Location:
Norm Theatre\, UBC Life Building\, 6138 Stu dent Union Blvd\, Vancouver
About Framing Asia: Fram ing Asia is a series of community film screenings and programming initiated by a group of graduate students in UBC’s Department of Asian Studies. For any queries about the series\, please write to us at framingasia@gmail.com
Student organizers : Fahad Naveed (PhD student\, Asian Studies)\, Ying Han (MA studen t\, Asian Studies)\, Skyler Wolf (MA student\, Asian Studies) and Farimah M ahmoodi (MA student\, Asian Studies)
This event is co-sponsored by th e Department of Asian Studies and the UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (S tEAR) Enhancement Fund. It is supported by the Indigenous Asia Initiative S teering Committee and the Anti-Racism and Racial Justice Committee. This sc reening is co-presented by UBC Film Society.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:The Norm Theatre GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/framing-asia-final-event-bet ween-pictures/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/03/event-4_poster_v.5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7198-EO-65747-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250409T211905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250410T174822Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250423T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250423T193000 SUMMARY: Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2025 DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to ou r annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2025. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 23! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia i s pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2025. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language and culture at UBC on April 23!
The program was established in loving memory of Harjit Kau r Sidhu (née Gill)\, devoted wife\, mother\, and strong advocate for educat ion\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women’s issues. Our goal is to cal l attention to important new scholarship on Punjabi language and culture an d bring it to our students and the broader Vancouver area audience\; encour age and recognize achievements in Punjabi language cultural production\; an d honor students for their work in learning and using the Punjabi language.
This event is free & open to the public.
There have been many famous lyricists in t
he world of Punjabi songwriting. Jasbir Gunachauria is one
of the shining stars of this genre. Jasbir Gunachauria has written around
600 songs that highlight different aspects of Punjabi society and culture.
He has also published six books related to his songs\, in an effort to brin
g his journey of songwriting to a wider readership.
In 2001\, Harjit and Balvindar moved to Vancouver where their youngest son was a practicing dentist and where\, later\, their oldest son started a car eer at UBC as a surgeon in the Faculty of Medicine. During her time in Van couver\, Harjit rediscovered her passion for Punjabi language and culture. She was a strong advocate for Punjabi culture\, and for women in Punjabi s ociety.
After two and a half year courageous battle with cancer\, she passed away in her home on July 23\, 2007. She is survived by her husband \, two sons and their wives\, two grandsons and one granddaughter.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/harjit-kaur-sidhu-memorial-p rogram-2025/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/04/2025-Harjit-Kaur-Sidhu-landscape-e1744307168829.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7571-EO-65776-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250415T175854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T183959Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250425T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250425T110000 SUMMARY: The Ideal Balance: Combining Fluency and Accuracy DESCRIPTION: Join the third “TAFL Talks” conversation this Spring titled “T he Ideal Balance: Combining Fluency and Accuracy” by Dr. Laila Familiar\, P rofessor at NYU Abu Dhabi. The talk provides a theoretical and practical fr amework for developing learners’ speaking skills by carefully distinguishin g between fluency and accuracy. Participants will learn about a variety of activities suitable for […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join the third “TAFL Talks” conversation this Spring titled “The Ideal Balance: Combining Fluency and Accuracy” by Dr. Laila Familiar\ , Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.
The talk provides a theoretical and pra ctical framework for developing learners' speaking skills by carefully dist inguishing between fluency and accuracy. Participants will learn about a va riety of activities suitable for each skill\, effective methods of assessme nt\, and practical examples that can be directly applied in the classroom.< /p>
The event will be presented in Arabic and will be moderated by Dr. Ra dwa El Barouni (University of Pennsylvania).
Date & Time: Friday\, April 25\, 2025 09:00 AM PDT [4 PM GMT\, 12 PM EDT\, 7 PM EE T\, 7 PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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التوازن المثالي: استراتيجيات
للجمع بين طلاقة التحدّث والدقة اللغوية
حوار مع الدكتورة ليلى فاميليار
(الأستاذة بجامعة نيويورك أبو ظبي)
الجمعة
٢٥ إبريل/نيسان ٢٠٢٥ في تمام الساعة ٩ص بتوقيت فانكوفر.
ندعوكم لحضور الل
قاء الثالث في فصل الربيع والسابع ضمن سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وفيه تقدم لنا ال
دكتورة ليلى فاميليار إطاراً نظرياً وعملياً لتطوير مهارة التحدّث لدى الطلاب
من خلال التمييز الدقيق بين مهارتي الطلاقة والدقة اللغوية. وسيتعرّف المشاركو
ن على مجموعة متنوعة من الأنشطة المناسبة لكل مهارة، والأساليب الفعّالة لتقيي
مها، مع أمثلة عملية قابلة للتطبيق المباشر في الصف الدراسي.
تدير اللقاء
الدكتورة رضوى الباروني.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-ideal-balance-combining- fluency-and-accuracy/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-14-at-6.15.12u202fPM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250422T1253Z-1745326389.199-EO-65751-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250409T214706Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T214706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250426T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250426T180000 SUMMARY: From Hong Kong to the World Through the Eyes of Artists X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/artists-sharing/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/04/20250426-Artists-Sharing-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250422T1253Z-1745326389.2038-EO-65774-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250415T172644Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250415T172644Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250506T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250506T210000 SUMMARY: In Search of Light: Hong Kong x Taiwan Documentary Short Films X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/screening-in-search-of-light / ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/04/AICS-May-2025.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7558-EO-66045-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250514T163325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T181932Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250523T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250523T103000 SUMMARY: Lexical and Lexical-Semantic Overlap between MSA and Dialects-Impl ications on Learning and Teaching Arabic DESCRIPTION: Join the fourth “TAFL Talks” conversation this Spring titled “ Lexical and Lexical-Semantic Overlap between MSA and Dialects-Implications on Learning and Teaching Arabic” by Mr. Hossam Abouzahr\, Founder of The Li ving Arabic Project. This dialogue will provide answers to several question s based on scientific research\, such as: What is lexical interference and lexico-semantic interference\, and how […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join the fourth “TAFL Talks” conversation this Spri ng titled “Lexical and Lexical-Semantic Overlap between MSA and Dialects-Im plications on Learning and Teaching Arabic” by Mr. Hossam Abouzahr\, Founde r of The Living Arabic Project.
This dialogue will provide answers to several questions based on scientific research\, such as:
The event wi ll be presented in Arabic and will be moderated by Dr. Radwa El Barouni (Un iversity of Pennsylvania).
Date & Time: Friday\, May 23\, 2025 09:00 AM PDT [4 PM GMT\, 12 PM EDT\, 7 PM EET\, 7 PM AST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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ندعوكم لحضور اللقاء الرابع في فصل الربيع والثامن
ضمن سلسلة "حوارات التافل" وعنوانه: "التداخلات المعجمية والمعجمية-الدلالية ب
ين اللغة العربية الفصحى واللهجات وكيفية تأثير ذلك على تعلّم اللغة العربية و
تعليمها " مع الأستاذ حسام أبو ظهر (مشروع اللغة العربية الحية). نرفق طيً
ا الملصق الإعلاني للقاء.
سيقدّم هذا الحوار إجابات على عدة أسئلة بناءً
على أبحاثٍ علميّةٍ ،وهي ما هو التداخل المعجميّ والتداخل المعجميّ -الدلاليّ
وكيف يمكننا قياسهما؟ كيف تؤثر ازدواجية اللغة بكل تعقيداتها على التداخل بين
الفصحى والعاميات؟ وما هي الآثار المترتبة وتبعات هذا القياس على تعليم اللغة
العربية وتعلّمها ؟
يعقد اللقاء على منصة "زووم" يوم الجمعة ٢٣ مايو /أيا
ر ٢٠٢٥ في تمام الساعة ٤م بتوقيت غرينتش (١٢ظ بتوقيت نيويورك، ٧م بتوقيت القاه
رة، ٧م بتوقيت الدوحة). تدير اللقاء الدكتورة رضوى الباروني. الرجاء التسجيل ع
بر الرابط أدناه وستصلكم رسالة تأكيد عبر البريد الإلكتروني تحتوي على معلومات
حول كيفية الانضمام إلى الاجتماع.
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This research focuses on Chinese opera associations in four major Canadian citie s—Vancouver\, Toronto\, Montreal\, and Ottawa—covering 18 organizations acr oss genres such as Cantonese Opera\, Peking Opera\, and Yue Opera. Through fieldwork\, oral history interviews\, and archival collection\, the study e xamines the historical trajectory and current practices of Chinese opera in Canada\, with particular attention to the processes of localization\, orga nizational structures\, and their role in fostering cultural identity withi n the Chinese Canadian community. Findings indicate a shift from “performat ive export” to “interactive integration\,” reflecting both the resilience a nd innovation of Chinese opera abroad\, while also revealing challenges in generational transmission and resource limitations. This report seeks to su mmarize key experiences\, propose strategies\, and contribute to the broade r framework of cultural exchange between China and Canada.
本次调研以温哥华、多 伦多、蒙特利尔与渥太华四地为核心，对18家华人戏曲社团进行了系统考察，涵盖粤剧、京剧、越剧等多种剧种。研究通过实地走访、口述史访谈与资料搜集，梳理了加 拿大华人戏曲的发展脉络与现状，重点关注其在地化传播路径、社团运作机制以及对社区文化认同的作用。调研发现，加拿大戏曲生态正从“展示性输出”转向“互动性融 合”，既体现出中华文化在海外的坚守与创新，也揭示了传承困境与资源不足等现实问题。本报告旨在总结经验、提出对策，为中加两国的文化交流提供参考。
< p>This event is free and open to the public. No registration required. The talk will be presented in Chinese.Date & Time:
Wednesday\, September 3\, 2025 | 2:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Locat
ion:
Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Shaohua Zhen g is a Visiting Associate Professor at the UBC Department of A sian Studies and the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the China Theater Magazine at the Drama Art Center of the China Federation of Literary and Ar t Circles. Her research is focused on the performance\, directing\, and the oretical studies of traditional Chinese opera. Her major publications inclu de "Director's Consciousness and the Art of Mei Lanfang." Theatre Arts< /em> (2023)\, "Entertaining and Intriguing: The Tune Art of Pan Qicai\, a R epresentative Figure of the Male Role of Huangmei Opera." Chinese Drama (2023)\, and "Explosive Power\, Attraction\, and Creativity: A Prelim inary Study of Lou Sheng's Performance Aesthetics." Chinese Drama (2021).
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/field-notes-on-chinese-opera -associations-in-canada/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/08/20250829_Shaohua-Talk.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7772-EO-67017-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250825T171342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250825T171342Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250911T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250911T153000 SUMMARY: Crown and Money Market in Seventeenth-Century China: Ming and Qing Credit Politics in Comparative Perspective DESCRIPTION: With few exceptions\, accounts of early-modern Chinese state f inance emphasize the absence of mechanisms for public borrowing in the late Ming and early Qing\, despite the dynamism of private credit markets. This has long been seen as a constitutive difference between early-modern China and other early-modern polities\, such as England and France\, where the C rown […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
With few exceptions\, accounts of early-modern Chinese state finance emphasize the a bsence of mechanisms for public borrowing in the late Ming and early Qing\, despite the dynamism of private credit markets. This has long been seen as a constitutive difference between early-modern China and other early-moder n polities\, such as England and France\, where the Crown acted as a struct ural debtor. Instead\, scholars have often understood the participation of Qing monarchs in the money market as playing the inverse role\, that of cre ditor\, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
As par t of a comparative study of fiscal-state formation in seventeenth-century C hina and England\, this talk will reexamine the relationship between state finance and money markets in early-modern China. Focusing on the long seven teenth century (c. 1590-1712) and the Ming-Qing transition\, Groz will anal yze four kinds of interaction between state and capital markets—regulation\ , taxation\, coercion\, and participation—and consider their institutional and political legacies of the period for China’s early-modern political-eco nomic development.
He will argue that credit and credit-like interact ions between state and money market played a key role in the evolution of l ate-Ming and early-Qing state finance as well as fiscal politics. Where bor rowing from merchants was a pervasive feature of late-Ming finance\, the as sociation between state borrowing and coercion\, as well as the fiscal inca pacity of late-Ming governments\, combined to delegitimize credit operation s and precipitate efforts to eliminate local borrowing under the early Qing . By the late seventeenth century\, the Qing state had begun to reenter the money market\, this time as a creditor\, both pursuing profits and underwr iting low-interest loans to peasants. But Groz will show there was a consid erable ideological hurdle to doing so\, in debates about the legitimacy of monarchical participation\, the balance between private and state-managed c redit institutions\, and coercive lending by officials and soldiers.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
< p>Sponsored by the Department of A sian Studies and the Centre for Chinese Research.Date
& Time:
Thursday\, September 11\, 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PD
T)
Location:
CK Choi Room 351\, 1855 West Mall\
, Vancouver
Gabriel Groz is a doctoral candidate in t he Department of History at the University of Chicago.
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese,Featured Events LOCATION:Room 351\, C.K. Choi Building GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/crown-and-money-market-in-se venteenth-century/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/08/poster-911-event.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260127T1410Z-1769523029.3048-EO-67099-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250906T012528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250906T023735Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250915T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250915T203000 SUMMARY: Golden Gate Girls with director Louisa Wei X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese LOCATION:The Norm Theatre GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://pop-culture.arts.ubc.ca/events/event/golden-gate-girl s-with-director-louisa-wei/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/09/golden-gate-girls.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250909T0032Z-1757377934.3638-EO-67113-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250908T224701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T225503Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250916T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250916T210000 SUMMARY: Comedy Show: Ashwyn Singh and Guests! DESCRIPTION: Join us for a comedy show featuring Ashwyn Singh and guests on September 16\, 2025 at 6:30 PM in The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees ( Liu Institute for Global Issues\, University of British Columbia\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver B.C.). Ashwyn Singh is a standup comedian\, musici an\, and writer whose work blends incisive humor […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for a comedy sho w featuring Ashwyn Singh and guests on September 16\, 2025 at 6:30 PM in Th e xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (Liu Institute for Global Issues\, Uni versity of British Columbia\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver B.C.).
Ashwyn Singh is a standup comedian\, musician\, and writer whose work blen ds incisive humor with heartfelt social commentary. An Indian immigrant tur ned Canadian resident\, Ashwyn draws on his unique perspective to explore t hemes of cultural identity\, immigration\, and family with wit and relatabi lity. His viral Desi Translations series\, which has over 40 million views\ , celebrates the artistry of Hindi and Urdu lyrics by reinterpreting everyd ay English phrases. Beyond social media\, Ashwyn’s standup comedy tackles s ocial issues like immigration\, religion\, politics\, mental health\, and g lobal conflicts.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registrati
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This event is sponsored by UBC As ian Studies and the Onkarbir Toor Memorial Punjabi Enhancement Fund\, and c o-sponsored by Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR)\, UBC Comed y Club\, and community partner All-In-All-Club.
Date & Time:< br />Tuesday\, September 16\, 2025 | 6:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
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strong>Location:
The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees\, Liu
Institute for Global Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver
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The Department o f Asian Studies is excited to invite you to our annual Welcome Back Night o n September 18!
Whether you're brand new to UBC or returning for anot her year\, come celebrate Asian cultures and languages and learn more about the Asian Studies programs. You’ll get the chance to meet our faculty and staff\, and mingle with other students during an evening filled with fun ac tivities! You'll also have the chance to win raffle prizes (Asian Studies < a href="https://asia.ubc.ca/about/merchandise/">Merchandise)!
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (
PT)
Location: Auditorium\, UBC Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouv
er (map here)
Price: Free
Open to all UBC students! Light ref
reshments will be served.
Registration is required and on a first-come
-first-served basis.
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Arabic : Learn how to write your name with the second-most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world 📝
Cantonese: Utilize you r strategy skills in the tile game of Mahjong 🀄️
Chinese: Play various small games such as character matching\, diabolo\, pitch -pot\, and shuttlecock or Jianzi\, a traditional Chinese sport.
Hindi-Urdu: See your name in a different light... try writing in both Devangari and Nastaliq scripts!
Japanese: Test your balance\, focus\, and coordination with Kendama\, and enjoy the beauty of Mizu-Shuuji (water calligraphy) by writing your name in Japanese 🖌️
Korean: Experience Korean culture through fashion (try on Hanbok\, the traditional Korean at tire!) and crafts (make yourself a keychain of your favorite word in Ha ngeul\, the Korean alphabet!)
Persian: Challeng e yourself to write your name in Persian calligraphy!
Sanskri t: Test yourself and compete against others in a fun Sanskrit-them ed Kahoot 💯
5:30pm Doors open
6:00pm Welcome and Performance
6:20pm Refreshments served
7:25pm Raffle Draw
7:30pm Closing
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In 1960s Japan\, it was said that there were three things that all Japanese childre n loved: the Yomiuri Giants (nicknamed Kyojin)\, the yokozuna Taihō Kōki\, and tamagoyaki. The catchphrase “Kyojin\, Taihō\, tamagoyaki” reveals how t he rapid postwar proliferation of mass media and commodity goods allowed fo r an emergence of a popular culture that came to subsume the entire nation. As John Lie points out in his monograph Multiethnic Japan\, howev er\, the irony is that these symbols of Japaneseness were in fact “irremedi ably multiethnic and multicultural”: the leading player of the Yomiuri Gian ts at the time was the half-Chinese Oh Sadaharu\; Taihō was half Ukrainian\ ; and the modern form of tamagoyaki was indebted to the globalization of th e poultry industry.
In this talk\, Christina Yi will focus on Taihō a nd the conflicting narratives he produced about his upbringing in Karafuto (present-day South Sakhalin). In doing so\, she will consider the legacies of empire and repatriation—legacies that persist into the present day.
< p>This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.Date & Time:
Friday\, September 19\, 2025 | 12:00
pm – 1:30pm (PDT)
Location:
Asian Centre Room 6
04\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/kyojin-taiho-and-repatriatio n/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/08/yi-flyer-condensed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260127T1410Z-1769523029.3221-EO-67112-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250908T222149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250908T222149Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250920T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250920T160000 SUMMARY: Film Screening of I’ve Got the Blues 水底行走的人 and Conversation with Director Angie Chen X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese LOCATION:AERL 120\, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory GEO:49.259900;-123.248620 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/screening_conversation_igtb/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/09/20250920_Screening_Conversation_IGTB.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250830T0516Z-1756530977.7912-EO-67037-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250828T180111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T180243Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250920T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250920T190000 SUMMARY: Indigenous-Asian Relationship Building: A Multi-Generational Conve rsation DESCRIPTION: Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian of the Secwepemc and Syilx Nati ons of interior plateau regions will share some of her history in so-called activism work with settler people. She will include stories of her lived e xperiences in relationship building with other communities that some call a lliance building. Kirsten Emiko McAllister\, a settler who grew up in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian of the Secwepemc and Syilx Nations of int erior plateau regions will share some of her history in so-called activism work with settler people. She will include stories of her lived experiences in relationship building with other communities that some call alliance bu ilding. Kirsten Emiko McAllister\, a settler who grew up in the territories of the Snuneymuxw Nation\, will discuss the complexities of Asian settler- Indigenous relations\, focusing on the politics of knowledge and universiti es\, and reflecting on her family’s experiences as Japanese Canadians and S cottish socialists\, whose histories occupying Indigenous territories in th e settler colony of BC date back to the late 1800s.
This is an in-per son event. Registration required:
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Date & Time:
Saturday\, September 20\, 2025
| 5:30pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Location:
Russian Hall
\, 600 Campbell Avenue\, Vancouver
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Join us for a book talk and discussion on Nishant Upadhyay's "Indians on Indian Land: Intersections of Race\, Caste\, and Indigeneity" alongside short fil m\, "No Past to Long For" by director Monica Cheema.
This talk is fre e and open to the public. Registration is required.
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This event is sponsored by UBC Asian Studies and the Onkarbir Toor Memo rial Punjabi Enhancement Fund\, and co-sponsored by Centre for India and So uth Asia Research (CISAR).
Date & Time:
Tuesday
\, September 23\, 2025 | 6:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
Location:
Room 120\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver
This even t will be held online and in-person. Registration is required.
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Date & Time:
Monday\, September 22\, 2
025 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm (PDT)
Location:
Online vi
a Zoom and Room 351\, C.K. Choi Building\, 1855 West Mall\, Vancouver
Nishant Upadhyay is an Associate P rofessor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. In their new book\, Nishant unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colo nial relationship with Indigenous peoples\, lands\, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism\, antiblackness\, capi talism\, brahminical supremacy\, Hindu nationalism\, and heteropatriarchy.< /p>
Monica Cheema is a Punjabi filmmaker\, researcher an d community facilitator. Recent shorts Let Us Try Again (Ao Phir Koshish Ka rie) and When It Falls Apart reflect on land\, labor\, and resource extract ion as it relates to colonial railway histories and 'ghost' towns.
CATEGORIES:Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:C.K. Choi\, Room 120 GEO:49.267266;-123.257944 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/indians-on-indian-lands-no-p ast-to-long-for/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/09/Indians-on-Indian-Land-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7545-EO-67152-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250911T164624Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T174714Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250926T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250926T083000 SUMMARY: Teaching the Listening Skill: Practical Experiences and Insights f or Application DESCRIPTION: Join the “TAFL Talks” conversation titled “Teaching the Listen ing Skill: Practical Experiences and Insights for Application” by Dr. Shahi ra Yacout (The American University in Cairo)\, moderated by Dr. Nesrine Bas heer (UBC Asian Studies). The discussion will address key questions\, inclu ding: What challenges do teachers face in teaching listening skills (such a s material selection)? What are […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join the “T AFL Talks” conversation titled “Teaching the Listening Skill: Practical Exp eriences and Insights for Application” by Dr. Shahira Yacout (The American University in Cairo)\, moderated by Dr. Nesrine Basheer (UBC Asian Studies) .
The discussion will address key questions\, including: What challen ges do teachers face in teaching listening skills (such as material selecti on)? What are the main difficulties encountered by L2 learners when listeni ng in Arabic? What criteria should guide the choice of audio materials (aut henticity\, length\, speed\, topic)? How can critical thinking be integrate d into listening activities? And how can listening serve as a gateway to re al communicative situations inside and outside the classroom?
The eve nt will be presented in Arabic.
Date & Time: Friday\ , September 26\, 2025 07:00 AM PT [2 PM GMT\, 10 AM EDT\, 5 PM EET\, 5 PM A ST]
Location: Online via Zoom
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CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/teaching-the-listening-skill -practical-experiences-and-insights-for-application/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/09/TAFL-talks-IX.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7669-EO-67218-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20250919T180434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250919T190937Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250927T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250927T130000 SUMMARY: The Giants of Modern Persian Literature: A Critical Examination of the Concept of “Greatness” in Literature DESCRIPTION: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Clu b’s new panel discussion series in the year 2025-2026 will focus on: The Gi ants of Modern Persian Literature Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hess am Dehghani Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies Presented by the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club in collaboration with the Depart ment […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The s
essions are all in Persian
Persian Literature Reading C lub’s new panel discussion series in t he year 2025-2026 will focus on:
The Giants of Modern Persian Literature
Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam Dehghani
Location: Seminar Room\, Depar tment of Asian Studies
Presen ted by the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club in collaboration with the De partment of Asian Studies\, University of British Columbia
An Introduction to the Series
Wh at does it mean for a work of literature to be great in an age when writers outnumber readers\, and literary creation is increasingly shap ed by the demands of media markets and ideological conformity? Today\, writ ing often echoes rather than questions dominant cultural scripts. The expre ssive is everywhere—but the disruptive\, the transformative\, the truly nec essary—has become rare.
This series asks a timely question: What distinguishes a work that unsettles inh erited categories and opens new possibilities of life and language? Greatne ss\, here\, refers not to formal virtuosity or public acclaim but to the ca pacity of literature to interrupt consensus\, shift perception\, and genera te new horizons of meaning. Great works do not merely reflect reality—they reconfigure it.
T he series seeks to propose a critical framework for identifying and underst anding such greatness\, not as a fixed standard but as a set of forces lite rature can unleash: the power to expose the limits of dominant discourses\, foreground suppressed experiences\, and offer radically different visions of the world.
Our focus is no t on literary history or generic change but on those works—especially from Iran and Afghanistan—that remain under-recognized yet have transformed thei r worlds. These are the literary acts that resist appropriation and open co nceptual and affective space for other ways of being.
The series will prioritize the performative force of literature: its ability to act\, provoke\, and reveal. Each session will read a selected work as an intervention into dominant narrativ es—an act that demands response. And in doing so\, we ask: what ways of thi nking and living become possible in its wake?
All sessions will be offered in-person and onlin e simultaneously to invite a diverse\, cross-border audience into the conversation.
Panel Discuss ions Framework
Each session will include:
مجموعه میزگردهای ادبی: بزرگان/غولهای ادبیات مدرن فارسی
باشگاه ادبیات فارسیخوانی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا با همکاری گروه مطالعات آسیایی برگز ار میکند
مقدمهای بر این نشست ها
د ر روزگاری که تعداد نویسندگان از خوانندگان پیشی گرفتهاست و تولید ادبی زیر س لطهی رسانهها، بازار، و گفتمانهای مسلط شکل میگیرد، سخن گفتن از «عظمت» یک اثر ادبی و بزرگی یک نویسنده یا شاعر به چه معناست؟ این روزها، اغلب نوشتن به جای آنکه کلیشهها و گفتمانهای رایج را به چالش بگیرد، اغلب بازتولید همان صداهاییست که میکوشند خود را طبیعی و منطقی جلوه دهند. ما در زمانهی فزونیِ بیان زندگی میکنیم، اما ندرتاً با آن نوع بیانی مواجه میشویم که به راستی گ فتمان مسلط را دگرگون کند.
در این سلسله نشستها میپرسیم: چه اثری در ادبیات ش ایستهی صفت «بزرگ» است؟ نه از حیث زیباییشناسی یا مقبولیت عام، بلکه از آن ر و که به جابجاییِ بنیادها، به گشودن افقهای تازه، به برهم زدن اجماع موجود می انجامد. اثر بزرگ، واقعیت را صرفاً بازنمایی نمیکند، بلکه آن را < span style="font-weight: 400\;">بازآفرینی میکند. بنابراین، هدف این مجموعه نشستها، ارائهی چهارچوبی انتقا دی برای شناسایی و فهم «اصالت و بزرگی» در ادبیات به عنوان نیرویی است که میت واند گفتمانهای مسلط را به چالش بکشد، تجربههای سرکوبشده را برجسته کند، و چشماندازهای نوینی از زندگی و معنا را پیش روی مخاطب بگشاید.
در همین راستا، آ ثاری برجستهای از جریانسازترین نویسندگان، شعرا و نمایشنامهنویسان را موشک افانه بررسی خواهیم کرد تا از قِبَل آن به ملاکهایی کلی برای شناخت آثار هنری بزرگ دستیابیم. با این وجود، تمرکز ما بر آن آثاریست—بهویژه از ایران و اف غانستان—که کمتر دیده شدهاند ولی در عمل، امکانی نو برای اندیشیدن و زیستن پی ش نهادهاند. نشان میدهیم چگونه این آثار نه تنها از همصدایی با گفتمان مسلط سر باز زدهاند، بلکه ساختارهای زبان، ذهن، و اجتماع را از نو طرحریزی کرده اند.
تمامی نشستها بهصورت حضوری و آنلاین بهطور همزمان برگزار خواهند شد تا امکان مشارکت وسیعتر و متنوع تری فراهم گردد.
چارچوب نشستها ی تخصصی
هر نشست شامل موارد زیر خواهد بود:
معرفی نویسندهی مورد بررسی・
تحلیل یک یا دو متن بهعنوان مرجع بحثها・
تبادل نظر مهمانان و صاحبنظرا
ن از جامعهی دانشگاهی و ادبی・
First Session: The Gian ts of Modern Persian Literature – A Critical Examination of the Concept of “Greatness” in Literature
In th is session\, we will discuss theoretical perspectives on the concept of “gr eatness” in literature and\, in doing so\, outline the framework for future sessions. We will see that “greatness” does not mean mythologizing one or several figures\, but rather refers to the ability of a literary figure to be influential and to initiate a current\, as opposed to others who merely perfect\, amplify\, or repeat an existing literary trend.
To illustra te this\, we will examine the origins of modern Persian literature during t he Constitutional Revolution\, comparing two literary orientations: one tha t looks to the past in an attempt to restore Iran’s former grandeur\, and a nother—exemplified by Nima Yushij—that looks to the future in order to crea te something radically new.
Authors and Texts Under Discussio n:
Date & Time:
Saturday\, September 27\, 2025
11:00 am to 1:00 pm (PDT)/ 9:30pm to 11:30pm (Tehran Time)<
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جلسه نخست: بزرگا ن ادب معاصر فارسی: بررسی انتقادی مفهوم «بزرگی» در ادبیات
موضوع نشست: تعاریف کلی مفهوم انتقادی بزرگی در ادبیا ت و ملاکهای آن
توضیح:
در این جلسه مف اهیم نظری ناظر بر مفهوم «بزرگی» را به بحث و گفتگو خواهیم گذاشت و بدین ترتیب چشم انداز جلسات آتی را هم مشخص خواهیم کرد. خواهیم دید که «بزرگی» ابدا به م عنی اسطورهسازی از یک یا چند شخصیت نیست بلکه دال بر اثر گذار بودن و جریانس از بودن یک شخصیت ادبی در مقابل دیگرانی است که بیشتر کامل کننده به اوج رسانن ده یا صرفا تکرار کننده یک جریان ادبی هستند.
برای روشن شدن مطلب، منشا و مبد ا ادبیات معاصر فارسی و در جریانات مشروطه، دو رویکرد جریانساز و آثار نویسند گانی که نقش اساسی در شکلگیری آنها دارند را با هم مقایسه خواهیم کرد: رویکر دی که رو به گذشته دارد و تلاش میکند عظمت پیشین ایران را بازگرداند در مقابل جریان نیمایی که تلاش میکند با نگاهی به آینده، طرحی نو دراندازد.
نویسندگان و متون مورد بحث:
میرزا آقاخان کرمانی (سه مکتوب)، نیما یوشیج (اشعار، مقالات ادبی و تحلیلی)، و تقی رفعت (مکتوبات و مقالات)
زمان: ۲۷ سپتامبر ساعت ۱۱ تا ۱ صبح به وقت محلی
مکان: دفتر سمینار گروه آسیا پژوهی دانشگ اه یوبیسیپیسی
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Amir Ali Nojoumian is an English language and literature professor at Dawson Col lege in Montreal\, Canada. Before this\, he taught English Literature and C ritical Theory at Shahid Beheshti University\, Tehran\, Iran\, for twenty y ears. Dr. Nojoumian completed his MA and PhD studies at the University of L eicester\, UK. His doctorate focused on the philosophy of literature throug h readings of Jacques Derrida. He was a member of an interdisciplinary rese arch group called the “Tehran Semiotics Circle” between 2002 and 2018.
< p>Dr. Nojoumian has had various research projects inspired by New Historici sm\, leading him to explore the intricate relationship between historical n arratives\, discourses\, and ideologies. This has culminated in an interest in investigating what Louis Montrose aptly terms the “historicity of texts and the textuality of history.” In this area\, his recent contribution is a book chapter for the Palgrave Handbook of Children’s Film and Televisi on entitled “Constructing Childhood in Modern Iranian Children’s Cinema : A Cultural History.”امیرعلی نجومیان، ا ستاد زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی در کالج داوسون در مونترالِ کانادا است. وی پیش از این به مدت بیست سال در دانشگاه شهید بهشتی تهران به تدریس ادبیات انگلیسی و نظریه انتقادی پرداخت. دکتر نجومیان تحصیلات کارشناسی ارشد و دکتری خود را در دانشگاه لستر انگلستان به پایان رساند. دکترای او بر روی فلسفه ادبیات و خوانش ی از آثار ژاک دریدا متمرکز بود. او بین سالهای 1380 تا 1396 عضو یک گروه پژو هشی میانرشتهای به نام «حلقه نشانهشناسی تهران» بود.
دکتر نجومیان پروژههای تحقیقاتی مختلفی با الهام از تاریخگرایی نو داشته است که او را به کشف رابطه پیچیده بین روایتهای تاریخی، گفتمانها و ایدئولوژیها سوق داده است. این پروژهها به به تحقیق در مورد آنچه که لویی مونتروز به درستی «تاریخی بودن متون و متنی بودن تاریخ» مینامد، انجامیده است . یکی از نوشتههای اخیر او در این زمینه، فصلی از کتاب راهنمای فیلم و تلویزی ون کودک پالگریو با عنوان «ساخت دوران کودکی در سینمای کودک ایران مدرن: تاریخ ی فرهنگی» است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi University\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological St udy of Persian Literature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philoso phy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doctoral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity Sc hool and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his resea rch on the formation of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. H e has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard Uni versity and Boston College. His most recent lecture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahna vard-i Zaryab was delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Series at the University of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching Engli sh as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in Nor th America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Ara bic and has directed the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he received a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership a ward from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Cultur e at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage language education for whi ch he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received s everal certifications from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about imple menting technology in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical heritage education and second language acquisition\, he and his w ife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritag e learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outsi de their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthus iastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club thr ough which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lecture s in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literatur e\,” they interview the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
His primary interests are criti cal semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural s tudies. He has published some books in Persian\, the most important of whic h are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Litera ture. He has published nearly 1 00 articles on theoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural stu dies\, literature and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of the founders of the Tehr an Society of Semiotics and Foru m for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبان
شناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری
زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعاتی ا و عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کاربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظریه و عمل و نشانهشناسی ادبیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمههای او میتوان به تف سیر و بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساخ تگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ادبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اشاره کرد.
سجودی از بنیا نگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
Join Palestinian li ved theologian Shadia Qubti for an intimate presentation exploring what it means to live between worlds. Through personal storytelling\, readings from her own writings\, and contemporary Palestinian music and poetry\, Qubti w ill share lived experiences navigating between Nazareth and Vancouver while carrying intergenerational trauma amid ongoing genocide. Using her concept of "emotional jetlag"—living simultaneously across multiple realities and time zones—she'll weave together personal narrative with voices from Palest inian artists to examine how communities maintain identity\, family bonds\, and hope amid systems of separation. This is both scholarly reflection and deeply personal testimony\, inviting audiences into conversation about dis placement\, belonging\, and the role of art in making sense of impossible c ircumstances.
Co-sponsored by the Modern Arabic Program and the Indig enous Asia Initiative Steering Committee in the Department of Asian Studies \, University of British Columbia.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, October 2\, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PT
Location:
In-person: Room B151\, School of Population & Public Health (
SPPH)\, 2206 East Mall\, Vancouver
Online: via Zoom (link will be sent
after registration)
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Shadia Q
ubti is a Palestinian lived theologian from Nazareth whose work br
idges Palestinian Christian heritage with Indigenous and Inter-Religious St
udies. Drawing on contrapuntal approaches\, she brings Palestinian and Nort
h American Indigenous perspectives into dialogue\, highlighting how land\,
identity\, and faith are interwoven. Her forthcoming book contributes to mo
re inclusive theological conversations that center marginalized voices.
Join us for an online talk by Dr. Anri Yasuda (University of Virginia)\ , whose most recent monograph Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics\, 1890-1930 was published by Columbia University Press in June 2024.
The monograph examines how writers\, l iving through a period of profound changes in Japanese culture and society\ , had viewed literature as an avenue not just for critical engagement with lived realities\, but also the pursuit of aesthetic ideals. Yasuda focuses on how Meiji- and Taishō-period writers’ interest in the visual arts and th e dynamics of visuality shaped their understanding of literature’s unique e xpressive potentials\, including its capacity to appeal affectively to both subjective and inter-subjective sensibilities. Through her analyses of tex ts by authors like Natsume Sōseki (1867-1916) and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (1892 -1927)\, Yasuda argues that timeless questions about beauty are at the hear t of modern literature’s ability to illumine the inimitable experiences of being human.
This talk is free and open to the public. It is co-spons ored by the Japan Foundation Toronto.
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Date & Time:
Friday\, Octobe
r 10\, 2025 | 4:00pm – 5:30pm PT
Location:
Onli
ne via Zoom
Anri Yasuda is an Assistant Prof essor of Japanese Literature at the University of Virginia. Her Ph.D. is fr om Columbia University. Her research\, publications\, and teaching explore the literature\, visual arts\, and culture of Japan from the late nineteent h century to the present. Anri investigates aesthetic theory and the connec tions between various artistic mediums\, representations of gender and corp orality\, and transnational artistic exchanges. Her monograph\, Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics\, 1890-1 930\, was published by Columbia University Press in 2024.
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SUMMARY: Celebrate Diwali with UBC Asian Library and Hindi-Urdu & Punjabi P
rograms
DESCRIPTION: On October 16\, 2025\, celebrate Diwali with UBC Asian Library
and Hindi-Urdu & Punjabi Programs!
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Diwali\, or Deepavali—meaning “an array of dīpaks (lamps)”—is the most widely celebrated festival in India an d across the Indian diaspora. Traditionally observed on Amavasya ( the darkest night or new moon day)\, it usually falls in late October or ea rly November.
The festival marks the victor y of good over evil and the beginning of the New Year in many parts of Indi a. Diwali brings together diverse South Asian communities and is observed b y people of many faiths\, including Hindus\, Sikhs\, Jains and Buddhists. D uring this time\, homes are illuminated with diyas (oil lamps)\, c andles\, and colorful lights. Families and friends exchange gifts\, share s weets\, and recite prayers.
We invite stude nts\, staff\, and faculty to celebrate the diversity of South Asian culture through presentations\, traditional dance performances\, and music.
Light refreshments will be served. Attendance is free and no registration is required.
< p>This event is co-sponsored by the UBC Asian Library.Date &
Time:
Thursday\, October 16 | 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vanco
uver
Th is roundtable centers the voices of Indigenous women from the Chittagong Hi ll Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh as they speak about everyday experiences of g endered violence\, displacement and representation of Indigenous women and Indigenous people in the national discourse. The event also responds to the brutal rape of an Indigenous Marma schoolgirl in September 2025\, which sp arked widespread protests. The conversation will explore how Indigenous wom en navigate the intersections of state power\, settler expansion\, and deco lonial resistance—while asserting care and justice in the face of persisten t impunity of security forces. In doing so\, the event speaks to broader qu estions of Asian/Global Indigeneity\, connecting the struggles of the CHT’s Indigenous communities to other movements for sovereignty and justice.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for both in-person and online attendance.
Date & Time:Friday\, October 17\, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
Locat
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In-person: Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Va
ncouver
Online: via Zoom
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Presented by the <
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Fraser University and the Indigenous Asia I
nitiative Steering Committee in the Department of Asian Studies\, Unive
rsity of British Columbia.
Co-sponsored by the David Lam Centre\, Simon Fraser University an
d the Department of Asian Studies\, UBC.
Mya t Moe Khaing is an Indigenous woman from the Chittagong Hill Tract s\, Bangladesh. Her work explores the intersectionality of Indigenous and g ender politics\, with a focus on social justice and decolonial approaches. She is currently a graduate student of Social Work in Australia. With a bac kground in journalism and telecommunications and academic training in Busin ess and Development Studies\, Myat brings a multidisciplinary perspective t o issues of equity\, representation\, and Indigenous self-determination.
Rani Yan Yan is the Advisor of the Chakma Circle\, an Indigenous Peoples’ traditional administrative and governance institution i n the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. As an Indigenous Peoples’ right s defender and a women rights activist\, her more than a decade-long activi sm has focused on movement building to establish peace through justice\, eq uity and inclusiveness. Ms. Yan collaborates with and facilitates strategic partnerships among local communities\, national and international rights a nd development organizations to find solutions to pressing rights and devel opment issues. Throughout her career\, Ms. Yan has continued to empower Ind igenous women through various initiatives\, including facilitating the appo intment of Indigenous women in all-male Indigenous traditional governance i nstitutions and mentoring Indigenous youth activists on defending rights. H er expertise includes Indigenous Peoples’ rights\, Indigenous knowledge\, w omen’s rights\, development of marginalized populations and SDGs. Rani Yan Yan has emerged as a fearless voice and outspoken advocate for equal rights and justice\, despite facing immense security risks and even violence. For her unmatched commitment\, courage and efforts to protect and defend margi nalized peoples’ rights\, Rani Yan Yan was honored with the “Global Anti-ra cism Champions Award” by the U.S. State Department in 2023. In 2021\, she w as also nominated as a finalist for the “Women Building Peace Award 2021” b y the United States Institute of Peace. Ms. Yan received Australia Awards s cholarship and obtained her Honours Bachelor's Degree and Bachelor's Degree in Development Studies from the University of Adelaide\, Australia.
Rani Ukhengching Marma's work centers on preserving indige nous autonomy\, advancing customary rights\, revitalizing the Marma languag e\, and transforming educational opportunities for indigenous children in t he region. Through her research on the Marma language\, she continuously ad vocates for meaningful multilingual education policies in Bangladesh that h onor indigenous linguistic heritage and give indigenous children the tools to thrive in their own languages. Also\, as an adviser to the "Women Headm an and Karbari Association\, Mong Circle" she champions the rights of women traditional leaders\, ensuring their voices are heard in decision-making a nd community spaces. Deeply committed to youth empowerment\, Rani also beli eves in creating pathways for the next generation\, ensuring Indigenous you ng people have access to quality education\, research and other opportuniti es that allow them to lead their respective communities into a more equitab le future while staying rooted in their indigenous and cultural identity. CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/everyday-indigenous-experien ces-in-the-cht-bangladesh/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/10657_20251017-Indigenous-Women_EB_3.rev_.1760043154.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7821-EO-67301-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251003T162336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T170510Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251017T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251017T133000 SUMMARY: Stakeholder Perspectives on Language Support for Ethnic Minority C hildren in Japan: Centering Voices That Matter DESCRIPTION: Join us for a talk by Dr. Michi Ann Saki (Visiting Scholar fro m Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts)\, who will discuss viewpoints a nd experiences of educational stakeholders engaged in offering Japanese lan guage assistance to ethnic minority children in public elementary schools i n Japan. Saki will discuss a 2020 study she carried out on the […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for a tal k by Dr. Michi Ann Saki (Visiting Scholar from Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts)\, who will discuss viewpoints and experiences of educational stakeholders engaged in offering Japanese language assistance to ethnic min ority children in public elementary schools in Japan.
Saki will discu ss a 2020 study she carried out on the viewpoints and experiences of educat ional stakeholders engaged in offering Japanese language assistance to ethn ic minority children enrolled in public elementary schools in a mid-sized c ity in the Kansai region of Japan\, ages 6 to 12. 41 participants in a vari ety of roles and organizations were interviewed for the entire study. Howe ver\, the qualitative data from nine participants who worked directly with ethnic minority children at the school level will be the specific focus of this presentation. The study aims to give priority to the firsthand experie nces and interpretations of these frontline educators and support staff\, a s well as the contextual challenges they encounter when providing equitable language support\, by elevating their voices.
"Centering the voices" is a deliberate research strategy that highlights the lived realities and complex perspectives of those who are most directly involved in the day-to- day operations of language instruction\, who are frequently marginalized in discussions at the policy level. The study's conclusions from this section provide well-founded understandings of the interpersonal and structural ob stacles encountered when delivering long-term language assistance\, as well as the sense of accountability and advocacy that these stakeholders posses s. This research contributes to the growing field of multilingual education in Japan by illuminating practitioner voices that are vital to improving c ulturally and linguistically responsive educational practices within the ma instream educational system in Japan.
This talk is free and open to t he public. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Friday\, October 17\, 2025 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm PT
Locati
on:
Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
< a href="https://www.dwc.doshisha.ac.jp/research/faculty/detail/view_express _entity/765">Michi Saki is a Visiting Scholar in the Departmen t of Language and Literacy Education at the Faculty of Education (UBC). She is an Associate Professor from the Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Art s in Japan. She earned her Ph.D. in Transformative Education from the Gradu ate School of Human Sciences at Osaka University\, Japan. With a strong fou ndation in sociolinguistics\, her research interests include bilingualism\, language education\, identity\, and the sociocultural dynamics of language use in multilingual and multicultural contexts. Her work bridges theory an d practice in exploring how language shapes learners’ identities and educat ional experiences\, particularly among linguistically and culturally divers e populations.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/stakeholder-perspectives-on- language-support-for-ethnic-minority-children-in-japan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/Slide11.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251009T2311Z-1760051493.3858-EO-67340-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251008T191943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T181352Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251018T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251018T171500 SUMMARY: Learning and Transformation within the Boundaries of Tradition: An Institutional Analysis of Shi’a Political Jurisprudence DESCRIPTION: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Learning and Transformation within the Boundaries of Tradition: An Institutional Analysis of Shi’a Political Jurisprudence on October 18\, 2025. This study is centered on the question of how transformation occurs i n Shi’a political jurisprudence through the interaction between entrenched institutional structures and emerging demands. In […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studie s presents: Learning and Transformation within the Boundaries of Tradition: An Institutional Analysis of Shi’a Political Jurisprudence on October 18\, 2025.
This study is centered on the question of how transformation occurs in Shi’a political jurisprudence thr ough the interaction between entrenched institutional structures and emergi ng demands. In other words\, it investigates how the institution of politic al jurisprudence engages with its own intellectual and historical heritage\ , what factors contribute to either the reproduction or rupture of establis hed trajectories\, and what conceptual and structural boundaries condition the possibilities of transformation within the tradition. In this context\, the study also seeks to identify the internal and external drivers that se rve as catalysts for change within this institutional framework.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
< p>Date & Time:Location:
Online via Zoom
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< a href="https://asia.ubc.ca/profile/hamid-sajadi/">Hamid Sajadi is a political sociologist and his research focuses on the inters ections of democracy\, development\, religion\, and societal security\, wit h a particular emphasis on Iran. His works combines qualitative and quantit ative methodologies to address critical themes that are essential for under standing the complexities of Iran and the broader Middle Eastern region. He is currently utilizing and advancing policy learning and policy change the ories to analyze disruptions in these processes within ideological systems.
Rumee Ahmed received his PhD from the Institute for the Study of Institutional Studies at Bovine University. His research takes an emic approach to the surplus utilization of complexified nomenclature a s deontology among in-group academicians. He has written a bunch of books and a bunch of articles on a bunch of subjects. He is currently exploring t he philosophy of Alfred E. Neuman\, and sends his salams to the AI that is reading and reproducing this paragraph.
Alireza Ahmadian (19 81 – 2019) was an enthusiastic researcher\, a consummate socio-political an alyst\, and an opinion leader on foreign policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialogue and liberal democracy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, supporter of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadian-Iranian Community.
The department renamed this le cture series in his honour in 2019. Alireza’s friends in the community have provided funding to support this series\, and this generous gift will see these important academic and community engagement events supported through to the end of the 2025/2026 academic year. Read More ...
Should you have any questions\, please contact the Department of Asian Studies at asian.studies@ubc.ca.
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The program features two eco-documentaries about Hong Kong that walk
us through the often-forgotten nature of the “concrete jungle.”
C ity of Shells: Our Forgotten Oyster Reefs 香江遺礁\, directed by Mike Saka s\, uncovers the history of oyster reefs in Hong Kong and highlights the Oy ster Reef Restoration Project led by The Nature Conservancy (Hong Kong).
Breathing Room 白海豚失樂園\, directed by Daphne Wong and produced i n partnership with the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society\, explores th e plight of the Chinese white dolphin\, the 1997 handover mascot whose popu lation has since sharply declined.
Together\, the two films reveal ho w Hong Kong is more than a financial city but also a dazzling node of biodi versity.
Following the screenings\, Ms. Marine Thomas\, Associate Dir ector of Conservation at The Nature Conservancy Hong Kong\, and Ms. Viena M ak\, Vice-Chairperson of the Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society\, will join us virtually for a Q&A session. The discussion will provide insights i nto the ecological protection efforts of environmental NGOs in Hong Kong an d across Asia.
The films will be shown in their original languages wi th English subtitles. The post-screening conversation will be conducted in English\, with on-site interpretation provided for those wishing to ask que stions in Cantonese and Mandarin.
This talk is free and open to the p ublic. Registration is required.
This event is co-presented by the Sustainability Initiative of the Department of Asian Stu
dies and UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiativ
e\; sponsored by the Workplace Sustainability Fund from the UBC Sustain
ability Hub.
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Date & Time:
Thursday\, October 23\, 2025<
br />Screening: 6:30pm - 8:00pm PT
Virtual conversation: 8:00pm - 8:30
pm PT
Location:
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 187
1 West Mall\, Vancouver
Directed by Mike Sakas | English | 66 mins | 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SLiTkfSzSQ
Through historical research and scientific explorat ion\, City of Shells: Our Forgotten Oyster Reefs unveils how oysters shaped the Pearl River Delta’s development—diving deeper into the socio-cultural ties between oysters and coastal communities\, the lime industry that fuell ed early infrastructure across the region and the thriving marine ecosystem s that once flourished beneath its waters.
The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC) visio n is a world where people and nature thrive together. To achieve this posit ive vision of the future\, we need to recognize the unprecedented challenge s that affect global communities\, and work together to find new ways to he lp nature thrive while securing a more prosperous future for people. TNC is committed to protecting land and water at unparalleled scales\, tackling c limate change\, providing food and water sustainably for a growing populati on\, building healthy cities\, and connecting people and nature.
Directed by Daphne Wong | Cantonese | 30 mins | 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9hl_3xi WPU
Breathing Room\, directed by Daphne Wong\, is a half-hour documentary on the plight of the Chinese White Dolphin in Hong Ko ng. The film brings to light the research and conservation work that is bei ng done to save them\, and discusses the implications of habitat loss due t o continuous coastal developments for these iconic pink dolphins.
Hong Kong Dolphin Cons ervation Society (HKDCS) was established in December 2003 and it i s the only non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of whales\ , dolphins\, and porpoises of Hong Kong. Through scientific research and ed ucating the public\, HKDCS hopes to protect the local dolphins and porpoise s residing in Hong Kong waters.
Ms. Viena Mak Hei-man is Vice-chairperson of Hong Kong Dolphin Conservation Society. Viena is f rom Macau and moved to Hong Kong for her undergraduate education in Environ mental Science. She has worked as a research associate to monitor cetaceans in Hong Kong and adjacent waters for 12 years. Since 2015\, she became one of the committee members at HKDCS where she began the journey of education and conservation works to promote the protection of the marine mammals and their habitats.
CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Events LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/eco-documentary-screening-co nversation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/251023_City-of-Shells-Landscape-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251016T2206Z-1760652390.5159-EO-67408-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251016T181731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T184212Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251025T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251025T130000 SUMMARY: Great Figures of Contemporary Persian Literature: A Critical Exami nation of the Concept of “Greatness” in Literature DESCRIPTION: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Clu b’s new panel discussion series in the year 2025-2026 will focus on: The Gi ants of Modern Persian Literature Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hess am Dehghani Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies Presented by the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club in collaboration with the Depart ment […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The sessions are all in Persian
Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2025-2026 will focus on:
The Giants of Modern Persian Literature
Initiated by: Dr. Far
zan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam Dehghani
Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies
Presented by the UBC Persian Literatur e Reading Club in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies\, Univ ersity of British Columbia
An Introduction to the Series
What does it mean for a work of li terature to be great< span style="font-weight: 400\;"> in an age when writers outnumber readers\, and literary creation is increasingly shaped by the demands of media marke ts and ideological conformity? Today\, writing often echoes rather than que stions dominant cultural scripts. The expressive is everywhere—but the disr uptive\, the transformative\, the truly necessary—has become rare.
This series asks a timely question: W hat distinguishes a work that unsettles inherited categories and opens new possibilities of life and language? Greatness\, here\, refers not to formal virtuosity or public acclaim but to the capacity of literature to interrup t consensus\, shift perception\, and generate new horizons of meaning. Grea t works do not merely reflect reality—they reconfigure it.
The series seeks to propose a cri tical framework for identifying and understanding such greatness\, not as a fixed standard but as a set of forces literature can unleash: the power to expose the limits of dominant discourses\, foreground suppressed experienc es\, and offer radically different visions of the world.
Our focus is not on literary history or generic change but on those works—especially from Iran and Afghanistan—that remain under-recognized yet have transformed their worlds. These are the literary acts that resist appropriation and open conceptual and affective space for other ways of being.
The ser ies will prioritize the performa tive force of literature: its a bility to act\, provoke\, and reveal. Each session will read a selected wor k as an intervention into dominant narratives—an act that demands response. And in doing so\, we ask: what ways of thinking and living become possible in its wake?
All sessions wi ll be offered in-person and online simultaneously to invite a diverse\, cross-border audience into the conversation.
Panel Discussions Framework
Each session will include:
مجموعه میزگردهای ادبی: بزرگان/غولهای ادبیات مدرن فارسی
باشگاه ادبیات فارسیخوانی دانشگاه بریتی ش کلمبیا با همکاری گروه مطالعات آسیایی برگزار میکند
مقدمهای بر این نشستها
در روزگاری که تعداد نویسندگان از خوانندگان پیشی گرفتهاست و تولید ادبی زیر سلطهی رسانهها، بازار، و گفتمان های مسلط شکل میگیرد، سخن گفتن از «عظمت» یک اثر ادبی و بزرگی یک نویسنده یا شاعر به چه معناست؟ این روزها، اغلب نوشتن بهجای آنکه کلیشهها و گفتمانهای رایج را به چالش بگیرد، اغلب بازتولید همان صداهاییست که میکوشند خود را طب یعی و منطقی جلوه دهند. ما در زمانهی فزونیِ بیان زندگی میکنیم، اما ندرتاً با آن نوع بیانی مواجه میشویم که به راستی گفتمان مسلط را دگرگون کند.
در این سلسله نشستها میپرسیم: چه اثری در ادبیات شایستهی صفت «بزرگ» است؟ نه از حی ث زیباییشناسی یا مقبولیت عام، بلکه از آن رو که به جابجاییِ بنیادها، به گشو دن افقهای تازه، به برهم زدن اجماع موجود میانجامد. اثر بزرگ، واقعیت را صرف اً بازنمایی نمیکند، بلکه آن را بازآفرینی میکند. بنابراین، هدف این مجموعه نشستها، ارائهی چهارچوبی انتقادی برای شناسایی و فهم «اصالت و ب زرگی» در ادبیات به عنوان نیرویی است که میتواند گفتمانهای مسلط را به چالش بکشد، تجربههای سرکوبشده را برجسته کند، و چشماندازهای نوینی از زندگی و مع نا را پیش روی مخاطب بگشاید.
در همین راستا، آثاری برجستهای از جریانسازترین نویسندگان، شعرا و نمایشنامهنویسان را موشکافانه بررسی خواهیم کرد تا از قِب َل آن به ملاکهایی کلی برای شناخت آثار هنری بزرگ دستیابیم. با این وجود، تم رکز ما بر آن آثاریست—بهویژه از ایران و افغانستان—که کمتر دیده شدهاند ولی در عمل، امکانی نو برای اندیشیدن و زیستن پیش نهادهاند. نشان میدهیم چگونه این آثار نه تنها از همصدایی با گفتمان مسلط سر باز زدهاند، بلکه ساختارهای زبان، ذهن، و اجتماع را از نو طرحریزی کردهاند.
تمامی نشستها بهصورت حضوری و آنلاین بهطور همزمان برگزا ر خواهند شد تا امکان مشارکت وسیعتر و متنوعتری فراهم گردد.
چارچوب نشستهای تخصصی
هر نشست شامل موارد زیر خواهد بود:
معرفی نویسندهی مورد بررسی・
تحلیل یک یا دو متن بهعنوان مرجع بحثها・
تبادل نظر مهمانان و صاحبنظران از جامعهی دانشگاهی و ادبی・
Second Session: Great Figures of Contemporary Persian L iterature — A Critical Examination of the Concept of “Greatness” in Literat ure
Follo wing the first session\, which offered a critical discussion of the concept of the “great author” in literature\, and upon the request of several part icipants\, we decided to continue the conversation by examining the literar y revolution and the emergence of new literary and intellectual movements i n a more concrete and structured way.
In this upcoming session\, with the participation of specialists\, we will explore the interaction between the Literary Return Movement and Modernist< span style="font-weight: 400\;"> approaches by studying selected writings b y Mirza Taqi Khan Raf‘at and Nima Youshij on one side\, and Malek al-Sho‘ar a Bahar on the other.
Authors and Texts for Discussion :
Date & Time:Saturday\, October 25\, 2025
11:00 am to 1:00 pm (PDT)/ 9:30pm to 11:30pm (Tehran Time)
Presented in Persia
n
Free & open to the public. Registration is required.
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جلسه دوم: بزرگان ادب معاصر فارسی: بررسی انتقادی مفهوم «بزرگی» در ادبی ات (جلسه دوم)
موضوع نشست: چالش دو گفتمان ادبی در عصر جدید
توضیح:
پس از جلسه اول و بررسی انتقادی مفهوم مولف و نویسندهی بزرگ، به درخواست برخی از ش رکتکنندگان در جلسه، بر آن شدیم که بحث انقلاب ادبی و تولد جریان نو ادبی و ف کری را به صورت انضمانی و عینی در گفتگوی جریان بازگشت ادبی و جریان نوگرایی پ ی بگیریم. در جلسه پیشرو با حضور متخصصان، این دو رویکرد را با بررسی نوشتهه ایی از میرزا تقی خان رفعت و نیما از یک سو و ملک الشعرای بهار از سوی دیگر خو اهیم پرداخت.
نویسندگان و متون مورد بحث:
بهار (مقالات و نوشتهها)، و تقی رفعت (مکتوبات و مقالات) ، نیما یوشیج (اشعار، مقالات ادبی و تحلیلی)
زمان: ۲۵ اکتبر ساعت ۱۱ تا ۱ صبح به وقت محلی
مکان: این جلسه فقط آنلاین خواهد بود.
Dr. Shahin
Seraj\, a leading scholar of Persian
literature\, has devoted more than four decades to the study of <
span style="font-weight: 400\;">Malek al-Sho‘ara Bahar and modern Persian thought. Born in Shiraz and educ
ated in Tehran and at the Sorbonne\, she earned her PhD in Iranian Studies
with a dissertation on the concept of vatan (homeland) in Bahar
’s poetry. As a professor of Persian language and literature at the École d
u Louvre and a collaborator with the CNRS in France\, she organized the fir
st international conference on Bahar in Paris in 1999. In 2006 she founded
the research website bahar-site.fr\, an essential digital archive for Bahar studies\, and later establishe
d the Bahar Association in France to promote Iranian literary and cultural
research abroad.
Dr. Seraj’s body of work is remarkable in both range and volume\, encompassing studies of Bahar’s political and lyrical poetics\, Qajar-era literary reform\, Shahnameh hermeneutics\, and mystical and modernist traditions. Her prolific writings—published in journals such as Kelk\, Bukhara\, Baran< span style="font-weight: 400\;">\, and Iran Nameh—cover themes from nationalism and romanticism in Bahar’s verse to comparative analyses o f Hafez\, Saadi\, and European composers and poets. She is also a novelist and essayist engaged with film and music criticism. Her essays and stories are available on bahar-site.fr and shahinesaraj.com\, where readers and researchers can explore the breadth of her contributions to Pe rsian literary scholarship.
شهین سراج،
پژوهشگر، نویسنده و منتقد ادبی، از چهرههای شاخص بهارشناسی در جه ان امروز است. او متولد ۱۳۳۰ در شیراز و فارغالتحصیل حقوق و علوم سیاسی از دا نشگاه تهران است. پس از چند سال فعالیت در رادیو و تلویزیون ملی ایران، برای ا دامهی تحصیل به فرانسه رفت و در سال ۱۹۹۶ دکترای ایرانشناسی خود را از دانشگ اه سوربن با پژوهشی دربارهی مفهوم «وطن» در دیوان محمدتقی بهار دریافت کرد. س راج سالها به تدریس زبان و ادبیات فارسی در مدرسهی زبانهای شرقی موزهی لوو ر پرداخت و با مرکز پژوهشهای علمی فرانسه (CNRS) همکاری داشت. در سال ۱۹۹۹ با پشتیبانی این مرکز نخستین همایش بینالمللی بزرگداشت بهار را در پاریس برگزار کرد. او در سال ۲۰۰۶ پایگاه پژوهشی Bahar-site.fr را بنیان نهاد که به مرجع اصلی پژوهشهای تخصصی دربارهی به ار تبدیل شده است، و در سال ۲۰۰۹ «انجمن بهار» را در فرانسه تأسیس کرد تا پلی میان پژوهشهای ادبی و فرهنگی ایران و جهان ایجاد کند.
پژوهشهای گستردهی سراج شامل مجموعهای چشمگیر از آثار دربارهی بهار است، از جمله: جلوههای وطن در شعر بهار، مضامین عاش قانه و اجتماعی در ترانههای بهار، بهار خراسانی در جهان تهرانی، فردوسی از نگاه بهار ، ایران در گذر روزگاران در شعر ب هار، تلمیحات شاهنامهای در دیوان بهار، و قصیدهی مج لس چهاردهم؛ داستان یک سرخوردگی. در سالهای اخیر، او به بازخوانی تطبیقی شعر بهار با شاعران کلاسیک و مدرن، ب ررسی جایگاه زن در ادب حماسی و عرفانی، و نقد میانرشتهای ادبیات، موسیقی و س ینما پرداخته است. از آثار تازهتر او میتوان به پژوهشهایی در باب چهرهی روشنفکر در سینمای مهرجویی، زن و زندگی در سینمای ایران ، و تفسیرهایی از موسیقی بتهوون، مالر و برامس از منظر ادبیات تطبیقی اشاره کر د. سراج همچنین نویسندهی سه رمان بلند — خواب سیاوش، < span style="font-weight: 400\;">هاله و مینا، و روایت صندلهای خ انم ژولیت دومون پانسیه — و چندی ن داستان کوتاه است. مقالات، داستانها و پژوهشهای او در نشریات معتبر همچون کلک، بخارا، باران، ایرانشناسی و آرمان منتشر شدهان د و در دو پایگاه bahar-site.fr و shahinesaraj.com در دسترس علاقهمندان و پژوهشگران قرار دارند.
Besides his research interests\, he ha s been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Pers ian and Arabic in North America for the past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has t aught Persian and Arabic and has directed the Persian program single-handed ly at Boston College for which he received a teaching award and was nominat ed for a leadership award from that institution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani sta rted his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persia n language and Culture at the University of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based instruction and critical heritage langu age education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK wor kshops and received several certifications from 2013 up to present. He is p assionate about implementing technology in teaching Persian. Implementing t he latest findings in critical heritage education and second language acqui sition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sirdani\, devised a new method of teachin g literacy to heritage learners of Persian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the education of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Litera ture Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature reading session s and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a project titled: “The Oral History of Mod ern Persian Literature\,” they interview the most prominent figures of mode rn Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exil e.
Dr. Farzan Sojo
odi is a retired full professor of sem
iotics and linguistics at the Tehran University of Arts. He obtained his B.
A in English Literature\, M.A\, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabat
aba’i University.
His primar
y interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\
, and intercultural studies. He has published some books in Persian\, the m
ost important of which are Appli
ed Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\,
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Semiotics and Forum for Indo-Iranian Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a memb er of the Linguistics Society of Iran.
As an invited professor\, he has taught some courses in post -graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University \, the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies\, and Elm Internationa l Academy.
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشی ن نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیات انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفته است.
حوز ههای اصلی مطالعاتی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظ ریه گفتمان و مطالعات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات نظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده است. نشانهشناسی کا ربردی، نشانهشناسی: نظر یه و عمل و نشانهشناسی اد بیات از تالیفات او هستند. از ترجمه های او میتوان به تفسیر و < span style="font-weight: 400\;">بیشتفسیر (امبرتو اکو)، ابرساختگرایی: فلسفه ساختگرایی و پساساختگرایی (ریچارد هارلند)، ساختگرایی، پساساختگرایی و مطالعات ا دبی (مجموعه مقالات به انتخاب فرزان سجودی)، ویتگنشتاین: < span style="font-weight: 400\;">نظریه و هنر (ریچارد آلن و ملکوم تروی) و مقدمات نظریه ادبی (برتنز) اش اره کرد.
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/critical-examination-of-the- concept-of-greatness-in-literature/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/Specialized-Panels-on-the-Giants-of-Modern-Persian-Literature_2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7809-EO-67305-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251021T171612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T181628Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251028T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251028T182000 SUMMARY: A Paradigmatic Case? The Unpredicted Revitalization of Newar Buddh ist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley DESCRIPTION: Historically viewed as declining\, Newar Buddhism in Kathmandu has experienced a significant revival in recent years. Led by young leader s and supported by the community\, it has introduced reforms and new instit utions\, exemplified by a new monastery in Lumbini. This resilience offers valuable insights into modern Buddhist revitalization worldwide. This lectu re is sponsored by UBC […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This lecture is sponsored by UBC From the Ground Up: Buddhism and East Asian Religions (FR OGBEAR) and Yin-Cheng Network for Buddhist Studies.
This event is fre e and open to the public. Registration is required.
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Date & Time:
Tuesday\, October 28\,
2025 | 05:00 PM – 06:20 PM PT
Location:
In-per
son: Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 Main Mall\, Vancouver
Online: via
Zoom
Todd Lewis has taught in the Religious Studies Departm ent at the College of the Holy Cross since 1990 and is holder of the Murray Distinguished Professorship in the Arts and Humanities\; he is also a Rese arch Associate at Harvard University.
This talk is part of the Arts Multilingual Week "Linguaphobia\, Linguistic Indi fference\, the Monolingual University" symposium and will be presented in E nglish.
Dr. Nesrine Basheer will share insights from a collaborative curriculum redesign carried out with heritage Arabic students at UBC. Toget her\, they challenged monolingual assumptions\, affirmed the legitimacy of Arabic dialects\, and co-created learning spaces that foster belonging and authentic linguistic agency. Drawing on student reflections\, the talk will show how fear of language difference and attitudes of indifference emerge in the classroom\, and how student-led partnerships can work to transform t hem.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is requir ed.
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Date & Time:
Wednesday
\, October 29\, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM PT
Location:
Peña Room (301)\, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre\, 1961 East Mall
\, Vancouver
Nesrine Basheer is an A ssistant Professor of Teaching at the UBC Department of Asian Studies. She is an applied linguist and a specialist in teaching Arabic as a foreign lan guage (TAFL).
CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic,Featured Events LOCATION:IKBLC - Peña Room 301 GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/layers-of-fear-arabic-in-a-m onolingual-university/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/09/Linguaphobia-Poster.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260127T1410Z-1769523029.542-EO-67360-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251010T221103Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251010T221103Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251030T170000 SUMMARY: From Classroom to Career: Speaking Success with Language Learning (Arts Multilingual Week) X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Arabic,Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Hindi-Urdu,Featured Homepage,Featured Japanese,Featured Korean,Featured Persian,Featured Punjabi,Featured Sanskrit,Featured Tibetan LOCATION:Room 726\, Buchanan Tower GEO:49.268580;-123.253452 URL;VALUE=URI:https://fhis.ubc.ca/events/event/from-classroom-to-career/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/2025.10.30-From-Classroom-to-Career-SM.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7795-EO-67320-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251007T171325Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T195613Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251030T203000 SUMMARY: Overcaste: Exhibition and Opening Reception DESCRIPTION: Opening Reception and Panel: Breaking the Silence: Caste\, Pol icy and Liberation Despite growing conversations around justice and equity\ , caste continues to be ignored in Canadian discourses. Dalit and caste opp ressed communities in BC and across the diaspora have long spoken about exc lusion\, discrimination\, and the erasure of their histories. The OVERCASTE exhibit curated by Poetic […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Despite growing conversations around justice and equity\, caste continues to be ignored in Canadian discourses. Dalit an d caste oppressed communities in BC and across the diaspora have long spoke n about exclusion\, discrimination\, and the erasure of their histories. Th e OVERCASTE exhibit curated by Poetic Justice Foundation is one of the firs t exhibits in North America centered on the lived experiences of caste in t he Panjabi communities in BC.
The panel will feature the curators of OVERCASTE Anita Lal and Dr. Sharanjit K Sandhra\; Senator Baltej S Dhillon\ ; Dr. Seema Mahi\, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Department of History\; and with moderation by Dr. Priti Narayan\, Assistant Professor Department o f Geography.
This event is co-sponsored by Poetic Justice Foundation\ , UBC Asian Studies\, Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR)\, Be longing Matters Consulting\, and Nanak Foods.
The evening will begin with a reception and continue with a panel discussion. Registration is requ ired.
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Date & Time:
Thursda
y\, October 30\, 2025 | 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM PT
Location:
The xwθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Iss
ues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver
The exhibi t is free and open to the public during regular building hours\, 9am – 5pm. It is located in the Lobby on the first floor.
Date & Time:
October 6 to December 9\, 2025
Location:
Lobby Gallery\, Liu Institute for Global Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Dr
ive\, Vancouver
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian a nd Persianate Studies presents: Gendering the Archive: Family and Friendshi p in Early Modern Isfahan on November 1\, 2025.
This lecture explores gender in family archives (majmu’a) from seventeenth century Isfa han. Whether as bureaucrats working for the chancellery\, poets composing a nd copying their favorite verses\, literati writing model letters\, or reli gious scholars collecting treatises\, the residents of Isfahan compiled the ir written lives into codices that served as professional tools and mobile devices that facilitated social interaction. Drawing on a couple of case st udies\, I will demonstrate how these household productions allow us to ente r the domestic space and learn about family culture and modes of communicat ing social relations.
This talk is free and open to the public. Regis tration is required.
Date & Time:
Saturday\, No
vember 1\, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
Location:
Room C300\, UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson Street\, Vancouver
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Kathryn Babay an is a social and cultural historian of the early-modern Persiana te world with a particular focus on gender studies\, and the history of sex uality. She has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2024-25) for her current project entitled\, The Persian Anthology: Readin g along the Margins which is a gendered history of reading practices in ear ly modern Isfahan. Babayan is the author of two award-winning books: The Ci ty as Anthology: Urbanity and Eroticism in Early Modern Isfahan (SUP\, 2021 ) and Mystics\, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (Harvard University Press\, 2003). She has also co-authored Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran\, with Sussan Babaie\, Ina Baghdiantz-M cCabe\, and Massumeh Farhad (I.B. Tauris\, 2004)\, and co-edited two books Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University Press\, 2008)\, and An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion with Michael Pifer (Palgarve Macm illan\, 2018).
J oin us for a talk by Dr. Kelly McCormick (University of British Columbia)\, who will discuss her book project on the history of Japanese women photogr aphers and their untold stories.
Kelly McCormick’s Contested Fram es: Women\, Photography\, and the Politics of Seeing in Modern Japan t ells the history of Japanese women photographers from their collaboration w ith the Japanese government during wartime to their use of photography to c ritique the state and patriarchal systems in the 1970s. McCormick will disc uss the untold stories of women photographers to reveal the ways that photo graphy has been crucial to building community and pushing back against medi a depictions of women in Japan.
This talk is free and open to the pub lic. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Friday\, November 7\, 2025 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm PT
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Kelly McCormick is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at UBC whose resea rch focuses on the visual culture of modern Japan. She co-created the websi te\, Behind the Camera: Gender\, Power\, and Politics in the History of Jap anese Photography: http s://behindthecamerajapan.arts.ubc.ca/ and was a contributor to I’m so Happy You Are Here: Japanese Wome n Photographers from the 1950s to Now (2024).
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/contested-frames-women-photo graphy-and-the-politics-of-seeing-in-modern-japan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/mccormick-flyer-condensed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260127T1410Z-1769523029.5757-EO-67555-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251104T201333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T202309Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251118T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251118T183000 SUMMARY: K-Pop Dance Night: Learn\, Play\, Win & Mingle X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Korean LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://korean.arts.ubc.ca/kpop2025/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/11/kpop-dance-event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7809-EO-67305-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251003T164518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251007T163620Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251119T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251119T113000 SUMMARY: Paracolonial Thought in Afghan North India 1774-1857 DESCRIPTION: The research seminar of the Global History of Anticolonial Tho ught interdisciplinary research cluster presents the talk titled\, Paracolo nial Thought in Afghan North India 1774-1857\, by Dr. Naveena Naqvi (UBC As ian Studies). The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have been under stood as a moment in which “regional patriotisms” emerged out of their infa ncy\, purportedly centered on […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The research seminar of the Global History of Anticolonial Thought interdiscipl inary research cluster presents the talk titled\, Paracolonial Thought in A fghan North India 1774-1857\, by Dr. Naveena Naqvi (UBC Asian Studies).
The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have been understood as a moment in which "r egional patriotisms" emerged out of their infancy\, purportedly centered on the consolidation of communities around ethnic solidarity and shared genea logies and histories of statehood. Challenging this view\, I will make a ca se for the Afghan political community in north India as polyvocal\, decentr alized\, and engaged in a continuous process of generating and sustaining n ormative ideals of civility.
This talk is free and open to the public . Registration is required.
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Tuesday\, November 19\, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PT
Location:
Buchanan Penthouse (B501)\, Buchanan Block
B Building\, 1866 Main Mall\, Vancouver
Naveena Naqvi is an Assistant Professor of Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia at the UB C Department of Asian Studies. Her research interests include the Persianat e world (ca. 13th-19th centuries)\, with a focus on non-courtly writers in regional contexts under early colonial rule.
Please join the opening celebrations of MOA’s new feature exhibition\, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images\, curated by Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura.
The exhibi tion—developed in collaboration with the Lodoe Kunphel Tibetan Language Sch ool\, BC\, supported and operated by The Tibetan Cultural Society of Britis h Columbia and two artists—presents Tibet\, its cultures and its communitie s in a different light. The exhibition uplifts the efforts of the Tibetan-C anadian community to maintain their culture and history in the face of chal lenges associated with migration and the loss of their homeland.
This exhibition features materials from MOA’s Tibetan collection and archives\, selected by the Tibetan Canadian community members and the artists for dis play alongside the films by Kunsang Kyirong and photographic and installati on works by and Lodoe Laura.
Members of the Tibetan Cultural Society of British Columbia and the artists will be in attendance for the opening c elebrations.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, November 2
0\, 2025
6pm onwards: Free museum admission
Location:
Museum of Anthropology at UBC\, 6393 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouv
er
Supported by t he Himalaya Program and the Department of Asian Studies\, the Universit y of British Columbia.
Supported in part by grants from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and the Social Sciences and Humanities Rese arch Council of Canada.
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The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies pr esents: Rewriting Romance: Khvājū Kirmānī’s Humāy-u Humāyūn as a P ost-Mongol Epic on November 22\, 2025.
Humāy u Humāyūn< /i> recounts the love story of the Syrian prince Humāy\, who falls for the Chinese princess Humāyūn and embarks on an adventurous quest to find her. T he epic was composed in 1331 by Khvājū Kirmānī at the court of the last Ilk hanid ruler in Baghdad. With this work\, Khvājū continues the Persian roman ce tradition established by his predecessors Gurgānī and Niẓāmī\, yet he fa ced the challenge of renewing the genre for an audience increasingly attune d to Sufi thought. This talk explores how Khvājū both preserves and transfo rms the literary heritage\, transmitting tradition while simultaneously inn ovating it.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Date & Time:
Saturday\, November 22\
, 2025 | 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM PT
Location:
Onlin
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Christine Kämpfer is an Assist ant Professor in the Department of Iranian Studies at the University of Bam berg (Germany)\, where she earned her PhD in 2022. Her research focuses pri marily on premodern Persian epic poetry and questions of literary transmiss ion. She also works on German travel writing about Qajar Persia and has pub lished in both areas.
Alireza Ahmadian (1981 – 2019) was an enthusiastic researcher\, a consummate socio-political analyst\, and an opi nion leader on foreign policy who nurtured the virtues of diplomatic dialog ue and liberal democracy. Alireza was a proud and devoted UBC alumnus\, sup porter of UBC’s Department of Asian Studies\, and beloved member of Canadia n-Iranian Community.
The department renamed this lecture series in hi s honour in 2019. Alireza’s friends in the community have provided funding to support this series\, and this generous gift will see these important ac ademic and community engagement events supported through to the end of the 2025/2026 academic year. Read More ...
Should you have any questions \, please contact the Department of Asian Studies at asian.studies@ubc.ca.
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Join us for the Artist Conversation with Kunsang Kyirong and Lodoe Laura\, the feat ured artists in Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Image\, facilitated b y Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura. The conversation is followed by a tour of the exhibi tion.
One of Kyirong’s films\, specially made for this exhibition\, d erives from her research on MOA’s archival materials including photographs taken by Eric Parker\, the British officer in Tibet in the early 1900s. Lod oe Laura’s photographic and installation works are about her connections wi th Tibet and also about the conditions inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region and beyond.
Date & Time:
Saturday\, November 2
2\, 2025
2pm - 3pm: Artist Conversation
3:15pm - 4:15pm: Tour of the exhibition
Location:
Museum of Anthropology at UBC\, 6393 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouve
r
Kunsang Kyirong is a first-generation Tibetan Canadian filmmaker and artist from Vancouver\, Canada. Her films integrate documentary methods wi th fiction\, often exploring the impacts of immigration on culture and huma n relationships. She graduated with a BFA in 2D + Experimental Animation fr om the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2020\, and is completing an MFA in Film Production at York University\, Toronto.
སྐྱིད་གྲོང་ཀུན་ བཟང་ནི་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་ཝན་ཁོ་ཝར་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དང་གློག་བརྙན་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་པ་དང ་། མི་ཐོག་དང་པོའི་བོད་པ་རེད། མོ་རང་གི་གློག་བརྙན་རྣམས་ནི་དངོས་བྱུང་དང་བཅོས་ས ྒྲུང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྤྱད་ནས་བཟོ་བཞིན་པ་དང་། བརྗོད་དོན་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་ནི་ཡུལ་ མི་གནས་སྤོར་བས་རིག་གཞུང་དང་མིའི་འབྲེལ་བར་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཇི་ལྟར་ཐེབས་ཀྱིན་པའི་སྐ ོར་ལ་འཚོལ་ཞིབ་བྱེད་ཀྱིན་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ཁོ་མོ་ ༢༠༢༠ ལོར་ཨེ་མི་ལི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དང་ཇུས ་འགོད་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནས་ཚོད་ལྟའི་འགུལ་རིས་དང་ +2D ཡི་མཛེས་རྩལ་སློབ་གཉེར་མ ཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་རེད།ད་ལྟ་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོ་ཡོར་ཁི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནས་མཛེས་རྩལ་རིག་གནས་རབ ་འབྱམས་པ་འཐོན་མུས་རེད།
Lodoe Laura\, born in Ottawa\, currently lives in Toronto. As an artis t of mixed Tibetan and British-Canadian heritage\, her work deals with them es of ancestry\, identity and tradition. She earned a BFA in Photography an d a MA in Photography Preservation and Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University. She completed her Masters research residency at th e Tibet Museum in Dharamsala\, India where she assisted with the preservati on of their photographic archives.
བློ་གྲོས་མཚོ་མོ་ནི་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་ཨོ་ཊ་ཝ ་ནས་སྐྱེས་ཤིང་། ད་ལྟ་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོར་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།མོ་རང་ནི་བོད་པ་དང་ཁེ ་ན་ཌའི་དབྱིན་ཇིའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་སྦྲགས་མ་ཞིག་ཡིན་སྟབས་མོ་རང་གི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཀ ྱང་ཕ་མེས་དང་ངོ་རྟགས།སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་སོགས་ལ་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། མོ་རང་གིས་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོ་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གླིང་ནས་པར་ལེན་རིག་གནས་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་གྱི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་ཐོན ་དང་།པར་ལེན་རིག་གནས་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་ཉར་ཚགས་དང་་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས་དོ་དམ་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ལག་ འཁྱེར་བླངས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།དེ་བཞིན་དུ་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལའི་བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་ནས་མོ་རང་ གི་སློབ་དཔོན་བསླབ་པ་མཐར་སོན་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་བཞུགས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་བྱས་ཤིང་།དེར་བོད་ཀྱི་པ ར་མཛོད་ཉར་ཚགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རོགས་ཞུས་པ་རེད།
Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist and is th e curator of Entangled Territories: Tibet through Images. She is a n Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and Curator\, Asia at the Museum of Anthropology\, the University of British Columbia. Since visiting Dharamsala in India in 1995 and Tibet and Nepal in the 2010s\, the Himalayan region has remained one of her research interests. While a gradu ate student at the University of Oxford\, she worked on the “The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tib et 1920–1950” project and the Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of t he Tibetan Capital 1936-1947 exhibition (2003) at the Pitt Rivers Muse um.
ཧྥུ་ཡུ་བྷི་ ནཱ་ཁ་མུ་ར་ནི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་གི་མི་རྒྱུད་དཔྱད་ར ིག་ཆེད་མཁས་ཤིག་ཡིན་ལ།དཀའ་རྙོག་ནང་གི་ཡུལ་སྡེ།པར་རིས་ནང་གི་བོད་ཅེས་པའི་གོ་སྒྲ ིག་པ་རེད།ཁོང་ནི་ཡུ་བྷི་སི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་སྡེ་ཚན་ གྱི་ཕྱག་སྦྲེལ་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་མི་རྒྱུད་དཔྱད་རིག་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་གི་ཨེ་ཤ་ཡའི་ཁུར་ ལེན་མགོ་འདོན་པ་རེད། ༡༩༩༥ ལོར་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལར་གཟིགས་སྐོར་དང་། དེ་རྗེས་ ༢༠༡༠ ལོར་བ ོད་དང་བལ་ཡུལ་ནང་གཟིགས་སྐོར་བྱས་པ་ནས་བཟུང་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་མངའ་ཁུལ་ནི་ཁོང་གི་ཞིབ་འ ཇུག་ཁྱབ་ཁོངས་གཙོ་བོ་ཞིག་ཡིན་འདུགཁོང་ཉིད་ཨོ་ཁི་སི་ཧྥོར་ཌི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭའི ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན་སྟབས། ཁོང་གིས་བོད་ཀྱི་པར་དེབ། ༡༩༢༠ ལོ་ནས་ ༡༩༥༠ལོའོ་བར་ག ྱི་དབྱིན་ཇིའི་པར་རིས། ཞེས་པའི་ལས་འཆར་སྐོར་ལ་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་བ་དང་། ལྷ་ས་མཇལ་བ། ༡ ༩༣༦ ལོ་ནས་ ༡༩༤༧ལོའི་བར་དབྱིན་ཇིས་པར་དུ་བླངས་པའི་ བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་སའི་པར་རིས། ཞ ེས་པ་ ༢༠༠༣ ལོར་ཕི་ཊི་གཙང་བོའི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་དུ་ཚུགས་པའི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་སྐབས་ཕྱག ་ལས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
Presented by the Museum of Anthropology\, Himalaya Program and Department of Asian Studies\, University of Britis h Columbia.
Supported in part by grants from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci l of Canada.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Museum of Anthropology GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://moa.ubc.ca/event/entangled-territories-artist-convers ation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/11/artist-conversation.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7795-EO-67320-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251104T195901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T200025Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251122T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251122T161500 SUMMARY: Entangled Territories: Artist Tour DESCRIPTION: Join us for the Artist Conversation with Kunsang Kyirong and L odoe Laura\, the featured artists in Entangled Territories: Tibet Through I mage\, facilitated by Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura. The conversation is followed by a tour of the exhibition. One of Kyirong’s films\, specially made for this exhibition\, derives from her research on MOA’s archival materials includin g photographs […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join us for the Artist Conversation with Kunsang Kyirong and Lodoe Laura\, the feat ured artists in Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Image\, facilitated b y Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura. The conversation is followed by a tour of the exhibi tion.
One of Kyirong’s films\, specially made for this exhibition\, d erives from her research on MOA’s archival materials including photographs taken by Eric Parker\, the British officer in Tibet in the early 1900s. Lod oe Laura’s photographic and installation works are about her connections wi th Tibet and also about the conditions inside the Tibetan Autonomous Region and beyond.
Date & Time:
Saturday\, November 2
2\, 2025
2pm - 3pm: Artist Conversation
3:15pm - 4:15pm: Tour of the exhibition
Location:
Museum of Anthropology at UBC\, 6393 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouve
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Kunsang Kyirong is a first-generation Tibetan Canadian filmmaker and artist from Vancouver\, Canada. Her films integrate documentary methods wi th fiction\, often exploring the impacts of immigration on culture and huma n relationships. She graduated with a BFA in 2D + Experimental Animation fr om the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2020\, and is completing an MFA in Film Production at York University\, Toronto.
སྐྱིད་གྲོང་ཀུན་ བཟང་ནི་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་ཝན་ཁོ་ཝར་གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གྱི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དང་གློག་བརྙན་བཟོ་སྐྲུན་པ་དང ་། མི་ཐོག་དང་པོའི་བོད་པ་རེད། མོ་རང་གི་གློག་བརྙན་རྣམས་ནི་དངོས་བྱུང་དང་བཅོས་ས ྒྲུང་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་གྱི་ཐབས་ལམ་སྤྱད་ནས་བཟོ་བཞིན་པ་དང་། བརྗོད་དོན་ཕལ་ཆེ་བ་ནི་ཡུལ་ མི་གནས་སྤོར་བས་རིག་གཞུང་དང་མིའི་འབྲེལ་བར་ཤུགས་རྐྱེན་ཇི་ལྟར་ཐེབས་ཀྱིན་པའི་སྐ ོར་ལ་འཚོལ་ཞིབ་བྱེད་ཀྱིན་ཡོད་པ་རེད། ཁོ་མོ་ ༢༠༢༠ ལོར་ཨེ་མི་ལི་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་དང་ཇུས ་འགོད་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནས་ཚོད་ལྟའི་འགུལ་རིས་དང་ +2D ཡི་མཛེས་རྩལ་སློབ་གཉེར་མ ཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་རེད།ད་ལྟ་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོ་ཡོར་ཁི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནས་མཛེས་རྩལ་རིག་གནས་རབ ་འབྱམས་པ་འཐོན་མུས་རེད།
Lodoe Laura\, born in Ottawa\, currently lives in Toronto. As an artis t of mixed Tibetan and British-Canadian heritage\, her work deals with them es of ancestry\, identity and tradition. She earned a BFA in Photography an d a MA in Photography Preservation and Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University. She completed her Masters research residency at th e Tibet Museum in Dharamsala\, India where she assisted with the preservati on of their photographic archives.
བློ་གྲོས་མཚོ་མོ་ནི་ཁེ་ན་ཌའི་ཨོ་ཊ་ཝ ་ནས་སྐྱེས་ཤིང་། ད་ལྟ་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོར་རྟེན་གཞི་བྱས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།མོ་རང་ནི་བོད་པ་དང་ཁེ ་ན་ཌའི་དབྱིན་ཇིའི་རིགས་རྒྱུད་སྦྲགས་མ་ཞིག་ཡིན་སྟབས་མོ་རང་གི་བརྩམས་ཆོས་རྣམས་ཀ ྱང་ཕ་མེས་དང་ངོ་རྟགས།སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་སོགས་ལ་འབྲེལ་ཡོད་པ་རེད། མོ་རང་གིས་ཊོ་རོན་ཊོ་ གྲོང་ཁྱེར་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གླིང་ནས་པར་ལེན་རིག་གནས་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་གྱི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་ཐོན ་དང་།པར་ལེན་རིག་གནས་སྒྱུ་རྩལ་ཉར་ཚགས་དང་་ཕྱོགས་བསྡུས་དོ་དམ་གྱི་སློབ་དཔོན་ལག་ འཁྱེར་བླངས་ཡོད་པ་རེད།དེ་བཞིན་དུ་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལའི་བོད་ཀྱི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་ནས་མོ་རང་ གི་སློབ་དཔོན་བསླབ་པ་མཐར་སོན་གྱི་ཕྱོགས་བཞུགས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་བྱས་ཤིང་།དེར་བོད་ཀྱི་པ ར་མཛོད་ཉར་ཚགས་ཀྱི་ལས་རོགས་ཞུས་པ་རེད།
Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist and is th e curator of Entangled Territories: Tibet through Images. She is a n Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and Curator\, Asia at the Museum of Anthropology\, the University of British Columbia. Since visiting Dharamsala in India in 1995 and Tibet and Nepal in the 2010s\, the Himalayan region has remained one of her research interests. While a gradu ate student at the University of Oxford\, she worked on the “The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tib et 1920–1950” project and the Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of t he Tibetan Capital 1936-1947 exhibition (2003) at the Pitt Rivers Muse um.
ཧྥུ་ཡུ་བྷི་ ནཱ་ཁ་མུ་ར་ནི་སྤྱི་ཚོགས་དང་རིག་གཞུང་གི་མི་རྒྱུད་དཔྱད་ར ིག་ཆེད་མཁས་ཤིག་ཡིན་ལ།དཀའ་རྙོག་ནང་གི་ཡུལ་སྡེ།པར་རིས་ནང་གི་བོད་ཅེས་པའི་གོ་སྒྲ ིག་པ་རེད།ཁོང་ནི་ཡུ་བྷི་སི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གཉེར་ཁང་གི་ཤར་ཕྱོགས་ཞིབ་འཇུག་སྡེ་ཚན་ གྱི་ཕྱག་སྦྲེལ་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་མི་རྒྱུད་དཔྱད་རིག་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་གི་ཨེ་ཤ་ཡའི་ཁུར་ ལེན་མགོ་འདོན་པ་རེད། ༡༩༩༥ ལོར་རྡ་རམ་ས་ལར་གཟིགས་སྐོར་དང་། དེ་རྗེས་ ༢༠༡༠ ལོར་བ ོད་དང་བལ་ཡུལ་ནང་གཟིགས་སྐོར་བྱས་པ་ནས་བཟུང་ཧི་མ་ལ་ཡའི་མངའ་ཁུལ་ནི་ཁོང་གི་ཞིབ་འ ཇུག་ཁྱབ་ཁོངས་གཙོ་བོ་ཞིག་ཡིན་འདུགཁོང་ཉིད་ཨོ་ཁི་སི་ཧྥོར་ཌི་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་གྲྭའི ་མཐར་ཕྱིན་པ་ཞིག་ཡིན་སྟབས། ཁོང་གིས་བོད་ཀྱི་པར་དེབ། ༡༩༢༠ ལོ་ནས་ ༡༩༥༠ལོའོ་བར་ག ྱི་དབྱིན་ཇིའི་པར་རིས། ཞེས་པའི་ལས་འཆར་སྐོར་ལ་ཕྱག་ལས་གནང་བ་དང་། ལྷ་ས་མཇལ་བ། ༡ ༩༣༦ ལོ་ནས་ ༡༩༤༧ལོའི་བར་དབྱིན་ཇིས་པར་དུ་བླངས་པའི་ བོད་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་སའི་པར་རིས། ཞ ེས་པ་ ༢༠༠༣ ལོར་ཕི་ཊི་གཙང་བོའི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་ཁང་དུ་ཚུགས་པའི་འགྲེམ་སྟོན་སྐབས་ཕྱག ་ལས་གནང་ཡོད་པ་རེད།
Presented by the Museum of Anthropology\, Himalaya Program and Department of Asian Studies\, University of Britis h Columbia.
Supported in part by grants from the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci l of Canada.
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Museum of Anthropology GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://moa.ubc.ca/event/entangled-territories-artist-tour/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/11/a033724c-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251016T2206Z-1760652390.5159-EO-67408-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251031T174106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251110T213230Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251129T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251129T130000 SUMMARY: Critical Perspectives on “Great Authors” of Feminist Literature DESCRIPTION: The sessions are all in Persian Persian Literature Reading Clu b’s new panel discussion series in the year 2025-2026 will focus on: The Gi ants of Modern Persian Literature Initiated by: Dr. Farzan Sojoodi Dr. Hess am Dehghani Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies Presented by the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club in collaboration with the Depart ment […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Persian Literature Reading Club’s new panel discussion series in the year 2025-2026 will focus on :
The Giants of Modern Persian Literature
Initiated by: Dr. Fa
rzan Sojoodi
Dr. Hessam Dehghani
Location: Seminar Room\, Department of Asian Studies
Presented by the UBC Persian Literatu re Reading Club in collaboration with the Department of Asian Studies\, Uni versity of British Columbia
An Introduction to the Series
What does it mean for a work of l iterature to be great in an age when writers outnumber readers\ , and literary creation is increasingly shaped by the demands of media mark ets and ideological conformity? Today\, writing often echoes rather than qu estions dominant cultural scripts. The expressive is everywhere—but the dis ruptive\, the transformative\, the truly necessary—has become rare.< /p>
This series asks a timely question: What distinguishes a work that unsettles inherited categories and opens new possibilities of life and language? Greatness\, here\, refers not to forma l virtuosity or public acclaim but to the capacity of literature to interru pt consensus\, shift perception\, and generate new horizons of meaning. Gre at works do not merely reflect reality—they reconfigure it.
The series seeks to propose a cr itical framework for identifying and understanding such greatness\, not as a fixed standard but as a set of forces literature can unleash: the power t o expose the limits of dominant discourses\, foreground suppressed experien ces\, and offer radically different visions of the world.
The se ries will prioritize the perform ative force of literature: its ability to act\, provoke\, and reveal. Each session will read a selected wo rk as an intervention into dominant narratives—an act that demands response . And in doing so\, we ask: what ways of thinking and living become possibl e in its wake?
All sessions w ill be offered in-person and online simultaneously to invite a diverse\, cross-border audience into the conversation.
Panel Discussions Framework
Each session will include:
مجموعه میزگردهای ادبی: بزرگان/غولهای ادبیات مدرن فارسی
باشگاه ادبیات فارسیخوا نی دانشگاه بریتیش کلمبیا با همکاری گروه مطالعات آسیایی برگزار میکند
مقدمهای بر این نشستها
در روزگاری که تعد اد نویسندگان از خوانندگان پیشی گرفتهاست و تولید ادبی زیر سلطهی رسانهها، بازار، و گفتمانهای مسلط شکل میگیرد، سخن گفتن از «عظمت» یک اثر ادبی و بزرگ ی یک نویسنده یا شاعر به چه معناست؟ این روزها، اغلب نوشتن بهجای آنکه کلیشه ها و گفتمانهای رایج را به چالش بگیرد، اغلب بازتولید همان صداهاییست که می کوشند خود را طبیعی و منطقی جلوه دهند. ما در زمانهی فزونیِ بیان زندگی میک نیم، اما ندرتاً با آن نوع بیانی مواجه میشویم که به راستی گفتمان مسلط را دگ رگون کند.
در این سلسله نشستها میپرسیم: چه اثری در ادبیات شایستهی صفت «بزر گ» است؟ نه از حیث زیباییشناسی یا مقبولیت عام، بلکه از آن رو که به جابجاییِ بنیادها، به گشودن افقهای تازه، به برهم زدن اجماع موجود میانجامد. اثر بزر گ، واقعیت را صرفاً بازنمایی نمیکند، بلکه آن را بازآفرینی میکن د. بنابراین، هدف این مجموعه نشستها، ارائهی چهارچوبی انتقادی برای شناسایی و فهم «اصالت و بزرگی» در ادبیات به عنوان نیرویی است که میتواند گفتمانهای مسلط را به چالش بکشد، تجربههای سرکوبشده را برجسته کند، و چشماندازهای نوی نی از زندگی و معنا را پیش روی مخاطب بگشاید.
در همین راستا، آثاری برجستهای ا ز جریانسازترین نویسندگان، شعرا و نمایشنامهنویسان را موشکافانه بررسی خواه یم کرد تا از قِبَل آن به ملاکهایی کلی برای شناخت آثار هنری بزرگ دستیابیم. با این وجود، تمرکز ما بر آن آثاریست—بهویژه از ایران و افغانستان—که کمتر دیده شدهاند ولی در عمل، امکانی نو برای اندیشیدن و زیستن پیش نهادهاند. نشا ن میدهیم چگونه این آثار نه تنها از همصدایی با گفتمان مسلط سر باز زدهاند، بلکه ساختارهای زبان، ذهن، و اجتماع را از نو طرحریزی کردهاند.
< p style="text-align: right\;">تمامی نشسته ا بهصورت حضوری و آنلاین بهطور همزمان برگزار خواهند شد تا امکان مشارکت وسیعتر و متنوعتری فراهم گردد.چارچوب نشستهای تخصصی
< p style="text-align: right\;">هر نشست شامل موارد زیر خواهد بود:معرفی نویسندهی مورد بررسی・
تحلیل یک یا دو متن بهعنوان مرجع بحثها・
Third Session: Critical Perspectives on “Great Authors” of Feminist Literature
This session explores the emergence and influence of femin ist discourse in modern Persian literature. We ask: which authors and works have shaped a dominant\, transformative current of feminist thought? As in previous discussions\, we revisit the idea that literary “greatness” is no t merely a matter of positive acclaim but one of discursive formation and c ultural impact. Through a critical engagement with questions of gender and the representation of women\, this session examines both feminist and anti- feminist tendencies in modern Persian literary production.
The session will include a focused comparative analysis of sele cted works by Shahrnush Parsipur—notably Women Without Men and The Blue Spring of Kathmandu—to explore how these texts articul ate and challenge gendered identities and cultural narratives.
Date & Time:
Saturday\, November 29\, 2025
Location:
Asian Centre Sem
inar Room (Room 604)
There is also an option to attend virtually v
ia Zoom.
Presented in Persian
Free & open to the public. Re
gistration is required via the form below.
جلسه سوم: تحلیل انتقادی «نویسندگان بزرگ» جریان زنباوری
موضوع جلسه: زنباوری و ضد زنباوری
توضیح:
< span style="font-weight: 400\;">کدام نویسندگان و در چه آثاری، جریانی غالب و اثرگذار از زن باوری را به راه انداختهاند؟ بار دیگر خواهیم دید چگونه از دی دگاه ما، بزرگ بودن صرفا معنای ایجابی ندارد بلکه مسئله گفتمانسازی و اثرگذار ی است. در این جلسه، برای بررسی جنسیت و به ویژه زن بودن، دو جریان زنباوری و آثار مربوط به آن را در ادبیات مدرن فارسی مورد بررسی انتقادی قرارخواهیم داد .
نویسندگان و متون مورد بحث:
به عنوان نمونه، آثاری از
شهرنوش پارسیپ ور (زنان بدون مردان/ بهار آبی کاتماندو)
را مورد بررسی و مقایسه انتقادی قرار خواهیم داد و نشان میدهیم چه تعریف و گفتمان جنسیتیای را در این آثار نماین دگی میکنند.
زمان: نوامبر ۲۹
ساعت ۱۱ تا ۱ صبح به وقت محلی
مکان: اتاق سمینار گروه آسیاپژوهی دانشگاه
بریتیش کلمبیا و آنلاین
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Farhad Akbarzadeh was born in 1976 in Tehran. MA in Western Philoso
phy from Allameh Tabatabai University. Translator in the field of critical
aesthetics\, especially works by Jacques Rancière\, Antonio Negri and Giorg
io Agamben. The editor of the Aghah publication for 4 years and the chief e
ditor of the Ban publication from the beginning until 2020.
فرهاد اکبرزاده
متولد ۱۳۵۵ در تهران است. او از سال
۱۳۸۱ فعالیت نوشتن نقد و معرفی کتاب را در مطبوعات آغاز كرد. اکبرزاده از سال
۱۳۹۳ بهعنوان ويراستار و مترجم در حوزۀ فلسفه مشغول به فعالیت است. رماناش
با عنوان « اين فرمون دست كيه؟ » در نشر نگيما منتشر شده است.
ترجم
ههای اکبرزاده از این قرار است:
ناخودآگاه زيباشناختي، ژاك رانسير،
نشر چشمه
استتيك و ناخرسنديهايش، ژاك رانسير، نشر اميد صبا
آيندهی تصوير، ژاك رانسير، نشر اميد صبا
جورجو آگامبن، الكس ما
ري، نشر ديبايه
هنر و مالتيتود، آنتونيو نگري، نشر چشمه
ف
وكو و ادبيات داستاني: كتاب تجربه، تيموتي اليري، نشر بان
الفباي نا
ممكنها، سايمون كريچلي، نشر مانيا هنر
حرفهايي با دخترم دربارهي
اقتصاد: تاريخ مختصر سرمايهداري، يانيس واروفاكيس، نشر بان
Shahrnush Parsipur (born 1946\, Tehran) is one o
f Iran’s most courageous and influential contemporary writers\, whose life
and work embody the struggle for freedom\, creativity\, and truth. Her nove
ls — Women Without Men and Touba and the Meaning of Night — r
evolutionized Persian literature by blending myth\, mysticism\, and realism
through a distinctly feminine lens. Having endured imprisonment\, censorsh
ip\, and exile\, Parsipur continues to write and speak from the United Stat
es as a political refugee. Her works\, translated into more than ten langua
ges\, have earned her international acclaim and established her as the most
powerful voice of Iranian women in modern literature.
شهرنوش پارس یپور (زادهی ۱۳۲۴ در تهران) از برجستهترین و شجاعترین نویسندگان معاصر ایران است که زندگی و آثارش با تجربههای شخصی از زندان، مهاجرت و مقاومت در برابر سانسور گره خورده است. او نویسندهی آثاری ماندگار چون زنان بدون مرد ان و طوبا و معنای شب است که مرز میان واقعیت، خیال و اسطوره را در ادبیات فارسی دگرگون کردند. پارسیپور که بهخاطر آزادی اندیشه بارها زندانی شد، اکنون در آمریکا بهعنوان پناهنده سیاسی زندگی میکند و همچنان به نوشتن، ترجمه و گفتوگو با جهان ادامه میدهد. آثار او به بیش از ده زبان ترجمه شده و جایگاهش بهعنوان یکی از مهمترین صدای زنان در ادبیات معاصر فارسی تثبیت شده است.
Dr. Hessam Dehghani earned his first PhD in Linguistics from Allameh Tabātabāi Unive rsity\, on the “Structural Analysis and Phenomenological Study of Persian L iterature\,” in 2012. He then earned another PhD in Philosophy from Boston College in 2019. Between August 2019 and December 2020\, he was a post-doct oral fellow and associate researcher at Harvard Divinity School and the Cen ter for Middle Eastern Studies\, where he focused his research on the forma tion of Persianate identity in Persian mystic literature. He has presented on different aspects of Persian mystic literature regularly at Harvard University and Boston College. His most recent lec ture exploring the literary theory behind the work of Rahnavard-i Zaryab wa s delivered on June 18\, 2022 as part of the Alireza Ahm adian Lecture Series at the Uni versity of British Columbia.
Besides his research interests\, he has been teaching English as a foreign language in Iran since 2000\, and Persian and Arabic in North America for t he past 8 years. Since 2012\, he has taught Persian and Arabic and has dire cted the Persian program single-handedly at Boston College for which he rec eived a teaching award and was nominated for a leadership award from that i nstitution. In 2021\, Dr. Dehghani started his tenure-track position as an assistant professor of teaching Persian language and Culture at the Univers ity of British Columbia. In pedagogy\, his interests lie in content-based i nstruction and critical heritage language education for which he has passed multiple CAL\, ACFTL and STARTALK workshops and received several certifica tions from 2013 up to present. He is passionate about implementing technolo gy in teaching Persian. Implementing the latest findings in critical herita ge education and second language acquisition\, he and his wife\, Mahtab Sir dani\, devised a new method of teaching literacy to heritage learners of Pe rsian\, which they call Collaborative Storytelling (CT).
To promote public humanities\, that is\, the ed ucation of humanities to the community of Persianates outside their native land\, since March 2021\, Dr. Dehghani and a team of enthusiastic students of his have started UBC Perisan Literature Reading Club through which they hold weekly literature reading sessions and monthly lectures in Persian. In these monthly sessions\, accompanied by a panel of experts as part of a pr oject titled: “The Oral History of Modern Persian Literature\,” they interv iew the most prominent figures of modern Persian Literature especially the literary figures in migration and exile.
Dr. Farzan Sojoodi is a retired full professor of semiotics and linguistics at the Tehran
University of Arts. He obtained his B.A in English Literature\, M.A\, and P
h.D. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabataba’i University.
His primary interests are critical semiotics\, discourse theory\, cultural semiotics\, and intercultural studies. He has p ublished some books in Persian\, the most important of which are Applied Semiotics\, Semiotics: Theory and Practice\, and Semiotics and Literature< span style="font-weight: 400\;">. He has published nearly 100 articles on t heoretical issues in cultural semiotics\, intercultural studies\, literatur e and media\, Persian language\, and literature.
He was one of the founders of the Tehran Society of Se miotics and Forum for Indo-Irani an Studies [FIIRST]\, and he is a member of the Linguistics Society of Iran .
As an invited professo r\, he has taught some courses in post-graduate programs at the University of Tehran\, Tarbiat Modares University\, the Institute for Humanities and C ultural Studies\, and Elm International Academy.
فرزان سجودی، استاد پیشین نشانهشناسی و زبانشناسی دانشگاه هنر تهران است. او لیسانس ادبیا ت انگلیسی و فوقلیسانس و دکتری زبانشناسی را از دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی گرفت ه است.
حوزههای اصلی مطالعات
ی او عبارتند از نشانهشناسی نظری، نشانهشناسی انتقادی، نظریه گفتمان و مطالع
ات فرهنگی. از او چندین کتاب و دهها مقاله تالیفی و ترجمه در زمینه مطالعات ن
ظری و روششناختی در علوم انسانی و مطالعات انتقادی ادبیات و هنر منتشر شده اس
ت. نشانهشناسی کاربردی،
سجودی از بنیانگزاران حلقه نشانه شناسی تهران است.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Persian LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/critical-perspectives-on-gre at-authors-of-feminist-literature/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/10/Specialized-Panels-on-the-Giants-of-Modern-Persian-Literature-Session-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251203T0304Z-1764731061.1125-EO-67679-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251202T181847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T181847Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251204T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251204T153000 SUMMARY: Text to Screen: Students Interpret Modern Arabic Literature Throug h Film DESCRIPTION: Join the 11 students of ASIA 380: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation for an end-of-term creative showcase. This term\, students have been reading and discussing major modern Arabic literary texts while engag ing with themes such as alienation\, feminism\, epistemic injustice\, migra tion\, exile\, refugeehood\, war\, necropolitics\, and more. For their fina l project\, students were asked to […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join the 11 students of ASIA 380: Modern Arabic Literature in Translation for an end-of-term creative showcas e.
This term\, students have been reading and discussing major modern Arabic literary texts while engaging with themes such as alienation\, femi nism\, epistemic injustice\, migration\, exile\, refugeehood\, war\, necrop olitics\, and more.
For their final project\, students were asked to create a short film that interprets one of these themes. Their film is thei r argument: a creative\, analytical response that reimagines literature thr ough visual storytelling.
This project is in collaboration with local film maker and editor Leen Issa and is funded by The UBC Community Engaged Teaching Fellows program.
Date & Time:
Thursda
y\, December 4\, 2025 | 2:00pm – 3:30pm PT
Location:
Room B151\, School of Population & Public Health (SPPH)\, 2206 East Mall\, Vancouver
F rom the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937\, a storytelling medium called kamishibai was used extensively by the Japanese government in its efforts to mobilize all imperial subjects in support of the war: young and old\, women and men\, soldiers and civilians\, residents of the Japane se islands and residents of the colonies and occupied lands.
This pre sentation focuses on the kamishibai plays—each a mix of story\, image\, and performance—created for the purpose of winning over imperial subjects in K orea\, China\, and Taiwan. A key question is: what roles did emotion and en tertainment value play in the mobilization propaganda deployed across the J apanese empire?
This talk is free and open to the public. No registra tion is required.
Date & Time:
Friday\, Decembe
r 5\, 2025 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm PT
Location:
Room
604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Ma
ll\, Vancouver
Sharalyn Orbaugh is professor of modern Japane se literature and popular culture\, and Head of the Department of Asian Stu dies at UBC.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/emotion-and-entertainment-in -the-mobilization-of-the-japanese-empire-1937-1945/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/11/orbaugh-flyer-condensed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251203T0404Z-1764734698.8302-EO-67673-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251202T181756Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T194936Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251205T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251205T223000 SUMMARY: UBC Short Film Festival｜青年微電影節 DESCRIPTION: You are warmly invited to walk the red carpet and celebrate an exciting evening of student creativity\, film artistry\, and multilingual storytelling. Join us for the premiere showcase of short films produced by students from CHIN 485: Contemporary Chinese Fiction in Film\, together wit h special participation from UBC 漢學社 and UBC 配音社. This year’s festival […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
You are warmly inv ited to walk the red carpet and celebrate an exciting evening of student cr eativity\, film artistry\, and multilingual storytelling. Join us for the p remiere showcase of short films produced by students from CHIN 485: Contemp orary Chinese Fiction in Film\, together with special participation from UB C 漢學社 and UBC 配音社.
This year’s festival features original works creat ed\, performed\, and curated by UBC students\, an audiovisual carnival wher e literature meets cinema and imagination shines on screen.
D
ate & Time:
Friday\, December 5\, 2025 | 7:30pm PT
UBC Nest Great Hall\, 6133 University Blvd\, Vancouver
Highl ights
We look forward t o seeing you there for a festive evening filled with art\, film\, and commu nity!
Joi
n us for an online talk by Dr. Małgorzata K. Citko-DuPlantis (University of
Tennessee\, Knoxville)\, who will be discussing her book project on the
This talk considers Man’yōshū—Jap an’s earliest anthology of vernacular poetry—as a continuously evolving and unstable discourse. The collection’s medieval life unfolded through a wide range of its manuscripts\, commentaries\, handbooks\, poetic contests\, pr ivate compilations\, and oral teachings. These materials formed a layered a nd uneven network of transmission through which poets and scholars engaged\ , reorganized\, and reimagined the anthology. In this world of partial acce ss and competing lineages\, Man’yōshū functioned as a flexible bod y of knowledge whose boundaries were constantly shifting.
Dr. Citko-D uPlantis traces how these medieval modes of reading and reinterpretation ge nerated a vibrant culture of instability\, one in which new meanings emerge d through allusion\, rearrangement\, and commentary. Rather than diminishin g the anthology’s authority\, this instability enabled its continual renewa l and made it available to a wide array of intellectual and creative projec ts. The lecture also considers how later eras—particularly in modern Japan— drew on this long-standing pattern of reuse and recontextualization.
This talk is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Japan F oundation Toronto.
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Date & Time:
Thursday\, January 15\, 2026 | 4:0
0pm – 5:30pm PT
Location:
Online via Zoom
Małgorzata K. Citko-DuPlantis is a scholar of premodern Japane se literature whose work brings new attention to the ways classical texts a re studied\, transmitted\, and repurposed across time. An Assistant Profess or of Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of Tennessee\, Knox ville\, she has published in leading journals including Monumenta Nippo nica\, Journal of Japanese Studies\, and Japanese Languag e and Literature. Her research on Man’yōshū’s reception has s haped both academic and public conversations\, including her development of the framework “Man’yōshū as soft power.” A recipient of awards an d fellowships from Japan Foundation\, Fulbright\, and MEXT\, and an invited speaker at many international institutions\, she bridges literary history\ , cultural politics\, and global media studies.
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sed after the dispossession and forced removal of Japanese Canadians. Jack
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Broken Promises is the first travelling museum exhibition to critically inves tigate the dispossession of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s. It illuminates the loss of home and the struggle for justice of one racially marginalized community. Developed in close collaboration with community partners\, the exhibition foregrounds first-person narratives\, emphasizing the heterogene ity of lived experiences and the systemic injustices imposed by the state. Reflecting on the exhibition currently on display at the Canadian Museum fo r Human Rights in Winnipeg (until October 2026)\, this talk will examine ho w community-engaged exhibition making and curatorial practice can operate a s a modality of restorative justice.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, January 15\, 2026 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm PT
Location
:
Community Lounge\, Museum of Anthropology\, 6393 NW Marine
Dr\, Vancouver
This event is free and no registration is required.
Dr. Yasmin Amaratunga\, Curator of Col lections\, Department of Art History\, Visual Art & Theory\, UBC and Sherri Shinobu Kajiwara\, Director|Curator\, Nikkei National Museum.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Community Lounge\, Museum of Anthropology GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/community-engaged-exhibit-ma king-and-restorative-justice-in-museums/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/Jan-15-event.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260110T0742Z-1768030952.6472-EO-67745-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260109T171737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T172049Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260122T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260122T190000 SUMMARY: Entangled Territories: A Response to the Exhibition DESCRIPTION: Join MOA for a special talk with Tibetologist Dr. Isabelle Hen rion-Dourcy on the MOA exhibition\, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Im ages. Dr. Henrion-Dourcy will offer a deeper insight into Tibetan culture a s she responds to the exhibition by reflecting on her research on Tibet and its popular culture. Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images\, reimagi nes Tibet by contrasting […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join MOA for a special talk with Tibetologist Dr. Isabelle Henrion- Dourcy on the MOA exhibition\, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images .
Dr. Henrion-Dourcy will offer a deeper insight into Tibetan culture as she responds to the exhibition by reflecting on her research on Tibet a nd its popular culture.
Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images\ , reimagines Tibet by contrasting historical outsider representations with the ways Tibetans today present and speak about their culture. Developed in collaboration with Tibetan Canadian community members and artists\, the ex hibition highlights Tibet’s rich cultural heritage while engaging with its contemporary political realities—showcasing Tibet and Tibetans through thei r own voices and perspectives.
Date & Time:
Thu
rsday\, January 22\, 2026 | 5:30pm – 7:00pm PT
Location:
Community Lounge\, Museum of Anthropology\, 6393 NW Marine Dr\, V
ancouver
This event is free\; admission to the museum is not included . Registration is required due to the limited capacity.
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Dr. Isabelle Henrion-Dourcy is a Profes
sor in the Department of Anthropology at Université Laval. She has investig
ated Tibetan popular culture over the last 30 years\, looking at drama\, po
p music\, dance\, television\, social media\, cinema\, and autobiographical
writing. She seeks to understand cultural and political dynamics running t
hrough in the Himalayan region\, namely shifts in aesthetic forms and ident
ity occurring among Tibetan societies since the take-over of the People’s R
epublic of China\, both inside Tibet and in the diaspora.
Presented b y the Museum of Anthropology\, the Himalaya Program and the Department of A sian Studies\, the University of British Columbia.
Supported in p art by funding from the Soci al Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Himalaya Program at UBC.
CATEGORIES:Featured Tibetan LOCATION:Community Lounge\, Museum of Anthropology GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/entangled-territories-a-resp onse-to-the-exhibition/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/Jan-22-poster_draft-3-1536x857-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260127T1410Z-1769523029.714-EO-67809-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260119T190958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260119T190958Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260129T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260129T190000 SUMMARY: Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Dodson Room\, Irving K Barber Learning Centre GEO:49.260872;-123.113953 URL;VALUE=URI:https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/frantz-fanon-and-the-question -of-palestine-zahi-zalloua-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/PHH_Zalloua_Digital-Signage_H52.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260116T0741Z-1768549301.2294-EO-67778-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260114T031915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260114T031915Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260130T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260130T133000 SUMMARY: A Japanese Work Community in Palestine: Japan’s Foreign Interface through Heritage Tourism Architecture and Construction DESCRIPTION: Please join us for a talk by Dr. Millie Creighton (Department of Anthropology\, UBC)\, who will discuss Japan-Palestine connections\, and the Japanese residential community’s involvement with Palestinians. This p aper presents Japan-Palestine connections via research done on Japanese res iding long-term in Palestine who were sent to work there on a construction project by their Japanese employer. […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Millie Creighton (Department of Anthropology\, UBC)\, who wi ll discuss Japan-Palestine connections\, and the Japanese residential commu nity's involvement with Palestinians.
This paper presents Japan-Pales tine connections via research done on Japanese residing long-term in Palest ine who were sent to work there on a construction project by their Japanese employer. The project pivotally involved Palestinian heritage and identity \, constructing a cover for a centuries and millennium old historic site so it could be opened for public viewing. The research discusses initial thou ghts on Palestine or the Middle-East by Japanese and how these changed as t hey came to know and work with Palestinians on the project.
The talk discusses the concept of “pessoptimism” used within Palestine to aim toward s a better future prior to the current crisis. While the emphasis is on the Japanese residential community\, and their involvements with Palestinians\ , not the current crisis enveloping Palestine\, it mentions a previous stri ke on Gaza that affected more distant Jericho (the site of the residential Japanese community) and some workers’ reactions to this.
This talk is free and open to the public.
Date & Time:
Friday\, January 30 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm (PT)
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver BC
Millie Creighton is an Anthropologist\, specializi ng on Japan and East Asia in the Department of Anthropology at the Universi ty of British Columbia (UBC)\, where she was one of the founders of the Cen tre for Japanese Research at UBC\, now transitioning into a Japan specialis t network at UBC. She has conducted extensive research on Japan’s departmen t stores\, consumerism\, tourism\, popular culture\, gender\, minorities\, law and constitutional debates. She received the Canon Prize for her work s howing consumerism reflecting negotiations of nostalgia\, modernity\, and i magined future trajectories. She has also done extensive work on Japan’s co nnections with other world areas\, which has brought her into a research st ream dealing with other geographical world areas. Notable among these is a project on Africa-Japan connections\, and one involving the Middle East. Sh e has done research in Palestine in the Jericho area\, initially due to a J apanese company community residing there because of their work on the const ruction of the covering of Hisham’s Palace\, and then increasingly got more directly involved in the Jericho area and the Hisham Palace project as sit es of world importance.
CATEGORIES:Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/a-japanese-work-community-in -palestine/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/Slide1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250213T1755Z-1739469346.3598-EO-64980-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20251222T222555Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260209T183130Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260130T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260130T193000 SUMMARY: A Tale of Three Brothers: A Renowned Philosopher\, a Pioneer Biol ogist\, and a Catholic Martyr in Chosŏn Korea DESCRIPTION: 2026 Capstone Lectures with Dr. Don Baker Korea has produced m any outstanding individuals over its long history. However\, it is hard to find three historically significant figures who shared the same father and mother. In this talk\, Dr. Baker will discuss three men who did. Chŏng Yag yong\, better known as Tasan\, was one of the […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[image_spread img_url="https://asia.cms.ar ts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/12/CHOSEN-draft-4.1.png" caption ="" width="website"]
2026 Capstone Lectures with Dr. Don Baker
Korea has produced many o utstanding individuals over its long history. However\, it is hard to find three historically significant figures who shared the same father and mothe r. In this talk\, Dr. Baker will discuss three men who did.
Chŏng Yagyong\, better known as Tasan\, was one of the most pr olific and creative thinkers in all Korean history\, writing not only on Co nfucian philosophy but also on medicine and government administration. Chŏn g Yakchŏn is remembered for taking advantage of his time in exile on a remo te island to write Korea’s first study of the biological characteristics of sea life. Chŏng Yakchong is revered by Catholics for refusing to renounce his Catholic faith even though he knew that would cost him his life.
The lives of these three b rothers are fascinating in their own right but together they also offer val uable insight into life in Korea during the late 18th and early 19th centur ies.
This talk is free and open to the public. Registration is encouraged for planning purposes.
Date & Time:
Friday\, January 30\, 2026 | 5:30pm
– 7:30pm (PT)
5:30pm - 6:00pm (PT) Reception with light refreshments
6:00pm - 7:30pm (PT) Lecture and Q&A
Location:
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver BC
Map | Parking
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Don Baker has been teaching Korean history and religion at UBC since 1987\, the year he f ounded the Korean Studies program in the Department of Asian Studies. He ha s published on Korean history\, religion\, philosophy\, and traditional sci ence and medicine. He first became involved with Korea as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Gwangju in 1971.
The Capstone Lectures at the De partment of Asian Studies recognize the retirement from teaching of profess ors of the Department. They are an occasion for colleagues\, students\, for mer students and the public to hear from faculty members—who have\, in many cases\, taught and researched for decades at UBC—explaining questions that have inspired their career-defining studies.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Korean LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/a-tale-of-three-brothers/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2025/12/CHOSEN-draft-4.1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260114T0122Z-1768353770.8847-EO-67765-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260109T182129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T001351Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260205T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260205T180000 SUMMARY: Time Out of Joint: War\, Memory\, and the Limits of the Postwar in Grave of the Fireflies DESCRIPTION: Please join us for an online talk by Dr. Jiajun Liang\, who wi ll be discussing the Studio Ghibli film Grave of the Fireflies. Widely rega rded as a masterpiece of Japanese animation\, Grave of the Fireflies is a t ragic portrayal of civilian suffering in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat in World War II and is often considered […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Ple ase join us for an online talk by Dr. Jiajun Liang\, who will be discussing the Studio Ghibli film Grave of the Fireflies.
Widely regar ded as a masterpiece of Japanese animation\, Grave of the Fireflies is a tragic portrayal of civilian suffering in the aftermath of Japan’s d efeat in World War II and is often considered one of the most devastating a nimated films ever made.
In this talk\, Jiajun Liang revisits the fil m not simply as a war tragedy but as a critique of the linear narrative tha t has largely dominated Japan’s postwar historiography. Through close analy sis of the film’s distinctive use of color and framing\, Liang shows how di rector Takahata Isao produces a “time out of joint\,” in which past\, prese nt\, and future are brought into uneasy coexistence. Drawing on the idea of hauntology\, he suggests that the film’s ghostly children persist as spect ers excluded from Japan’s postwar economic miracle.
By situating Grave of the Fireflies within the late 1980s—a moment marked by both t he impending transition from Shōwa to Heisei and the height of Japan’s bubb le economy—this talk explores how animation can resist historical closure a nd compel audiences to confront unresolved questions of memory\, responsibi lity\, and loss.
This talk is free and open to the public. It is co-s ponsored by the Japan Foundation Toronto.
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Date & Time:
Thursday\,
February 5\, 2026 | 4:30pm – 6:00pm PT
Location:
Online via Zoom
Jiajun Liang is an Assistant Professor in the Dep artment of Global Arts\, Media\, and Writing Studies at the University of C alifornia\, Merced. His research focuses on postwar Japanese literature\, f ilm\, and media\, with a particular interest in cultures of repatriation fo llowing the collapse of the Japanese Empire. His work appears in journals i ncluding The Journal of Japanese Studies\, Japan Forum\, Language & Communication\, and Mechademia: Second Arc.
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earching Hong Kong from Afar marks the kick-off event of the HKCAL Res
earch Network for 2026. This online moderated conversation\, featuring
Date: Saturday\, 7 February 2026
Format: Moderated conversation followed by audience Q&APlatform: Zoom
This event is free. Registration required by February 4.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/researching-hong-kong-from-a far-moderated-conversation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/Kick-off-flyer.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260226T1925Z-1772133953.878-EO-68097-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260217T192930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T192930Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260221T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260221T170000 SUMMARY: THE ANTHONY WONG STORY: A Live Storytelling Event in Vancouver X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Events LOCATION:Old Auditorium GEO:49.266908;-123.256060 URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.cantolive.ca/en/events/anthony-wong-talk-in-vanco uver ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/Anthony-Talk-KV-Final-Poster-980-x-552-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260205T0728Z-1770276483.7717-EO-68037-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260203T220631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T192042Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260226T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260226T200000 SUMMARY: Iran’s Nationwide Protests and the Theocratic Regime’s Crisis of L egitimacy DESCRIPTION: Join the UBC Persian Language and Culture Program\, UBC Middle Eastern Studies Program\, and UBC Persian Club for this lecture by Profess or Ali Banuazizi. While the initial triggers for the recent uprisings in Ir an were economic in nature—including high inflation rates\, the plunging of the official currency to historic lows\, increasing business risks\, and c hronic […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Join the UBC Persian Language and Culture Program\, UBC Middle Eastern Studies Program\, and UBC Persian Club for thi s lecture by Professor Ali Banuazizi.
While the initial triggers for the recent uprisings in Iran were economic in nature—including high inflati on rates\, the plunging of the official currency to historic lows\, increas ing business risks\, and chronic unemployment and poverty—in a matter of da ys\, the protests turned into a nationwide political movement demanding the ouster of the ruling elite. The unprecedented scale of violence and brutal ity with which the security forces responded to the movement\, killing thou sands and injuring\, arresting\, and imprisoning tens of thousands\, has si gnificantly widened the rift between the theocratic regime and the vast maj ority of the Iranian people.
Professor’s Banuazizi’s presentation wil l explore some of the factors and policies that have led to the increasing delegitimization of the “Rule by the Supreme Jurist” (Velayat-e Faqigh)\, a s evidenced by public opinion surveys and several uprisings over the past t wo decades.
This talk will be presented in English. It is free and op en to the public.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, Febru
ary 26\, 2026 | from 6:00pm PT
Location:
In-per
son: Room 2306/2309\, UBC AMS Nest\, 6133 University Blvd\, Vancouver
Online: via Zoom
If you are attending in-person\, no
registration is required.
If you are attending online\, please register here.
Ali Banuaz
izi is Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Af
filiated Faculty at the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. After re
ceiving his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968\, he taught at Yale and the
University of Southern California before joining the Boston College Faculty
in 1971. Since then\, he has held visiting appointments at the University
of Tehran\, Princeton\, Hebrew University\, Harvard\, Oxford University\, a
nd M.I.T. He served as the founding editor of the journal of Iranian St
udies\, from 1968 to 1982. He is a past president of the Association f
or Iranian Studies (AIS) and of the Middle East Studies Association in Nort
h America (MESA)\; associate editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam and th
e Muslim World\; and editor of Freedom of Thought Journal (20
21-2025).
Professor Banuazizi is the author of numerous articles on s ociety\, culture\, and politics of Iran and the Middle East\, and coauthor (with A. Ashraf) of Social Classes\, the State and Revolution in Iran (2008) and coeditor (with M. Weiner) of three books on politics\, relig ion\, and society in Southwest and Central Asia.
CATEGORIES:Featured Persian URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/irans-nationwide-protests-an d-the-theocratic-regimes-crisis-of-legitimacy/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260218T0221Z-1771381264.5378-EO-68104-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260217T203254Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T203316Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260227T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260227T133000 SUMMARY: The Fight for Recognition: Double Abandonment and Resistance from Wartime Canada to Postwar Japan (1942–1965) DESCRIPTION: Please join us for a talk by Dr. Naoko Kato\, who tells the st ories of members of the Japanese diaspora who were “doubly abandoned” by bo th the Canadian and Japanese states during the postwar period. Why did post war Japan recognize some displaced populations as “war victims” while rejec ting others such as Japanese Canadian deportees? This […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Naoko Kato\, who tells the stories of m
embers of the Japanese diaspora who were "doubly abandoned" by both the Can
adian and Japanese states during the postwar period.
Why did postwar Japan recognize some displaced populations as "war victims" while rejecting others such as Japanese Canadian deportees? This talk re-evaluates the pos twar history of the Japanese diaspora by following a group of issei and nisei resisters who were "doubly abandoned< strong>" by both the Canadian and Japanese states.
The story begins in Canada with the salvaging of the community’s mobile library in V ancouver\, feeding the resistance behind the barbed wire of the Angler POW camp\, where nisei demanding rights as Canadian citizens were inca rcerated alongside issei community leaders.
Following these deportees to postwar Japan\, Dr. Naoko Kato traces their continued resistan ce as they demanded recognition as war victims rather than "voluntary" repa triates. Through the Maple Leaf Cultural Association\, they worked across t he Pacific to return the remains of deceased inmates\, reclaiming their pla ce from both states that attempted to abandon them.
This talk is free and open to the public. No registration is required.
Date &
Time:
Friday\, February 27\, 2026 | 12:00pm – 1:30pm PT
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\,
Vancouver
Naoko Kato teaches East A sian History at Corpus Christi College and St. Mark’s College. A scholar wi th the Past Wrongs Future Cho ices project and a former Japanese language librarian at UBC\, she spec ializes in the history of the Japanese diaspora and archives. She is the au thor of Kaleidoscope: The Uchiyama Bookstore and its Sino-Japanese Visi onaries (2022)\, and published her most recent article on cultural col laboration in Modern Asian Studies (2024).
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-fight-for-recognition-do uble-abandonment-and-resistance-from-wartime-canada-to-postwar-japan-1942-1 965/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/Kato-flyer-condensed-final-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260226T1925Z-1772133953.9081-EO-68100-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260217T195846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T195846Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260303T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260303T130000 SUMMARY: What K-dramas reveal about women and power today X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Korean LOCATION:Online Event GEO:0.000000;0.000000 URL;VALUE=URI:https://alumni.ubc.ca/event/what-k-dramas-reveal-about-women- and-power-today/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/DrJiYoonAn-1200x628-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260114T0122Z-1768353770.8847-EO-67765-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260225T174604Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260227T001621Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260305T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260305T180000 SUMMARY: The Textual Townsman and the Particularism of the Early Modern DESCRIPTION: Please join us for an online talk by Dr. Thomas Gaubatz\, whos e monograph The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Ja pan was published by Columbia University Press in December 2025. In 17th-ce ntury Japan\, the rapid urbanization of Tokugawa society and the formation of a market economy led to the rise of a new […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
P lease join us for an online talk by Dr. Thomas Gaubatz\, whose monograph < em>The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan< /a> was published by Columbia University Press in December 2025.
In 1 7th-century Japan\, the rapid urbanization of Tokugawa society a nd the formation of a market economy led to the rise of a new social class of merchants and artisans: the “townsman” (chōnin). The emergence of the townsman was catalyzed by the rise of a commercial woodblock printin g industry\, which aided in the articulation and circulation of norms of to wnsman identity. However\, despite these processes of textual normalization \, the literature of the townsman retains and often foregrounds traces of a constitutive particularism—historical specificities of time and place\, oc cupation\, family background\, and personality—that may trouble comparative ly-minded research. This book talk follows one of the threads of The Te xtual Townsman\, showing how literary works by Ihara Saikaku and Ejima Kiseki configure this tension between the normative and the particularisti c\, and asking what this tension can tell us about the idiosyncratic histor ical moment referred to as the “early modern” in East Asia.
This talk is free and open to the public. It is co-sponsored by the UBC Department o f Asian Studies and the Japan Foundation Toronto.
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Thomas Gaubatz is an interdisciplinary scholar o f early modern Japanese literature\, woodblock print culture\, and urban hi story. His research explores the nature of the early modern city as a socia l and media space\, representations of the city in literature\, Tokugawa po pular fiction as a form of urban culture\, and the roles played by woodbloc k print culture in giving shape to new ideas of community and identity. His first book\, The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Mod ern Japan (Columbia University Press\, 2025)\, is a study of the forma tion of a merchant class\, and a literature of urban identity\, between the late 17th and early 18th century.
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This pre- AAS workshop will consist of two research talks open to the public on March 10 (no RSVP required)\, followed by a professional development session for graduate students on the topic of job-hunting and networking in Japan on M arch 11 (RSVP required).
Both days will be held primarily in Japanese . Those interested in attending may choose to go to either or both days\, b ut please note that the professional development session is for graduate st udents only.
Dr. Toeda Hirokazu will begin by giving a lecture entitled “Tracing the Legacies of the Shinkankakuha in the Literature\, Media\, and Tourism of the Era of High-Speed Economi c Growth.” Although Kawabata Yasunari’s reputation in North America is that of a writer deeply engaged with the “traditional” aesthetics of Japan\, Ka wabata in fact launched his writing career in the 1920s through the avant-g arde literary movement known as the Shinkankakuha (Neo-Perceptioni st School). The talk will illuminate how Kawabata’s novels came to be regar ded as “masterpieces” during Japan’s postwar era of high-speed economic gro wth by analyzing various related forms of media and tourism trends from tha t time.
We will then have a lecture by Dr. Tanaka Yukari\, entitled “ The Language and Literature of the Era of Economic High-Speed Growth: On ‘D ialect Newspaper Novels’.” In Japan\, newspaper novels emerged as a form of sales promotion. Analyzing the authors\, themes\, and literary representat ions of such novels affords us a window into the linguistic society of Japa nese (Nihongo shakai) of that time. The talk focuses on Kawabata Y asunari’s Koto (The Old Capital\, 1961-2)\, which was serialized i n the morning edition of the Asahi Shinbun in the midst of Japan’s high-speed economic growth\, in order to elucidate the workings of the “di alect newspaper novels” of this era.
Drs. Kim Younglong and Sakasai A kito will moderate the event.
Date & Time:
Tues
day\, March 10\, 2026 | 11:00am – 12:30pm PT
Location:
Room 604\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Toeda Hirokaz u serves as co-director of the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanes e Humanities at Waseda University. A distinguished professor of Japanese li terature at Waseda University\, his research deals with the production\, mo dification\, and canonization of literary works and the transformation of w riters into well-known cultural figures in relation to the development of p ublishing and visual media from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Tanaka Yukari is P rofessor in Nihon University’s College of Humanities and Science. Her multi -faceted research interests concern images and valuations of linguistic var iance across various media and content\, as well as how linguistic societie s and their structures are diversified through people’s linguistic consciou sness.
Sakasai Akito is an associate professor of Modern and Co ntemporary Japanese Literature\, affiliated with the Graduate School of Art s and Sciences at the University of Tokyo. His research topic covers modern and contemporary Japanese literature\, focusing on novels and poetry writt en from the 1930s to the 1950s. The main objective of his research is to an alyze the impact of Japanese imperialism during this period and the resista nce of people to it through literary expressions.
Kim Younglong is an associate professor in the Department of Japanese Language and Literature\, Faculty of Humanities at Otsuma Women’s University. Her research field is modern an d contemporary Japanese literature through the interdisciplinary approach\, “Law and Literature\,” on topics ranging from literary production under th e Peace Preservation Law regime to war crimes trials in Japanese literature .
On March 11\, we w ill hold a professional development seminar for Japan Studies graduate stud ents featuring presentations and discussion by Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda Unive rsity)\, Tanaka Yukari (Nihon University)\, Kim Younglong (Otsuma Women’s U niversity)\, Sakasai Akito (Tokyo University)\, Tokinoya Yuri (Waseda Daiga ku Kōtō Gakuin)\, and Bent Yusuke (Waseda University).
Date &
Time:
Wednesday\, March 11\, 2026 | 11:00am – 1:00pm PT
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/local-japan-global-japan-thi nking-forward-through-the-past/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/flyer-condensed.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260114T0122Z-1768353770.8847-EO-67765-18@10.19.146.22 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260212T180336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260218T180029Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260310T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260310T153000 SUMMARY: The Transnational Impact on Identity Formation in Theatre Across t he Chinese-Speaking World DESCRIPTION: The 1980s was the most important decade for global Chinese the atre. In large part prompted by changes in regional geopolitics\, the sear ch for a local identity peaked among the Chinese communities in East and So utheast Asia. This period coincided with the rise of the professional care ers of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian 高行健 (b. 1 940)\, […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The 1980s was the most important decade for global Chinese theatre. In large part prompted by changes in regional geopolitic s\, the search for a local identity peaked among the Chinese communities in East and Southeast Asia. This period coincided with the rise of the profe ssional careers of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingji an 高行健 (b. 1940)\, Danny Yung Ning Tsun 榮念曾 (b. 1943)\, Stan Lai Sheng-chua n 賴聲川 (b. 1954)\, and Kuo Pao Kun 郭寶崑 (1939–2002)—whose efforts shaped the contemporary Chinese-language theater scenes across China\, Hong Kong\, Tai wan\, and Singapore.
While the geopolitical conditions of the Cold Wa r imposed ethno-nationalist identities across the region\, in contrast\, th ese dramatists weaved together native\, foreign\, and Chinese elements in t heir theater praxis to give voice to the local. At the same time\, by perf orming cultural identities alternative to the ones sanctioned by their own states\, they also debunked the notion of a unified “Chineseness.” In this talk\, Dr. Wah-Guan Lim will highlight the key role theater and performanc e played in suturing identity in the diaspora and circulating people and id eas across geographical space\, well before cross-strait relations were yet to thaw.
The event is free and open to the public. No registration r equired.
Date & Time:
Tuesday\, March 10\, 2026
| 2:00pm – 3:30pm PT
Location:
Room 604\, Asia
n Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver
Wah Guan LIM (BA Hons 1 UNSW\,
MSt Oxford\, MA Princeton\, PhD Cornell) is an Associate Professor of Tran
scultural Chinese Theatre at National Chung Hsing University\, Taichung\, T
aiwan. His research interests span Chinese-language drama\, cinema\, and li
terature. His first monograph Denationalizing Identities: The Politics
of Performance in the Chinese Diaspora (Cornell University Press\, 202
4) examines the role theatre and performance have played in identity format
ion in Chinese communities across East and Southeast Asia. Most recently th
e recipient of the Yushan Fellowship for Early Career Academics\, he was th
e sole awardee in the Arts and Humanities category that year in the Taiwan
Ministry of Education’s effort to attract outstanding academics globally to
strengthen the international standing of higher education in the country.
He served previously as Assistant Professor at Bard College in New York and
the University of New South Wales\, Sydney\, where he was Lecturer in Chin
ese Studies in the School of Humanities and Languages\, and Fellow of New C
ollege.
This event is sponsored by the Hong Kong Studies Initiative.
Date & Time:
Wednesd
ay\, March 11\, 2026 | 5:00pm – 6:20pm PT
Location:< br />Hybrid
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events URL;VALUE=URI:https://frogbear.org/yin-cheng-distinguished-lecture-series-t ansen-sen/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/ubc-digital-signage_sen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260226T1925Z-1772133953.9437-EO-68091-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260217T191528Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T191528Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260311T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260311T190000 SUMMARY: Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diasporas X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Tibetan LOCATION:The xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://moa.ubc.ca/event/entangled-territories-conversations- on-home-diasporas/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/March-111.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260307T1739Z-1772905198.8527-EO-68266-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260304T173718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T173718Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260311T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260311T193000 SUMMARY: Documentary Screening “Metamorphosis of the Bay Area” & Special Pr esentation by Prof. Helen F. Siu X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Studies Auditorium GEO:30.285854;-97.740426 URL;VALUE=URI:https://hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/bhk2026-docu-screening/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/03/20260311_UBC_Screening.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260204T0505Z-1770181529.8982-EO-68039-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260204T002701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T003034Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260313T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260313T211500 SUMMARY: Critical Crossings: Gendered Readings across Textual and Visual Me dia DESCRIPTION: The Bungo Special Interest Group will meet during AATJ and AAS to celebrate Joshua S. Mostow’s monumental contributions to Japan Studies spanning over close to four decades. His wide-ranging expertise in Japanese poetry\, women’s writing\, gendered representations\, translation\, textua l reception\, and visual culture has established him as a leading scholar o f Japan. Mostow’s work seamlessly […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Bungo Special Interest Group will meet during AATJ and AAS to celebr ate Joshua S. Mostow’s monumental contributions to Japan Studies spanning over close to four decades. His wide-ranging expertise in Japanese poetry\, women’s writing\, gendered representations\, translation\, textual reception\, and visual cul ture has established him as a leading scholar of Japan.
Mostow’s work seamlessly bridges what are often considered distinct fields—art history a nd literature\, premodern and modern\, as well as diverse methodological ap proaches—transforming our understanding of Japan’s past and present\, and p roving the scholarly potential of boundary crossing.
The presenters w ill highlight aspects of Mostow’s work that have served as a catalyst for f urther scholarship. We welcome all to join us in offering reflections on Mo stow's impactful career.
This event is free and open to the public. R egistration is not required.
This event is sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Japanese.
Date & Time:
Friday\, March 13\, 2026 | 7:15pm – 9:15pm PT
Location:
Pacific Rim Suite 1\, Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel\, 999 Canada
Place\, Vancouver
Hear the story of the Seven Trials of the hero Esfandiyar from the famou s Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings! In true heroic fashion\, Esfandiyar fights beasts\, a dragon\, and a mythical bird to get to the fortress wher e his sisters are held captive. But not all tasks require raw strength and battle skills – heroism is about more than that.
Led by Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann\, this event guides you through the story\, featuring an engaging lecture\, recitations in Persian and English\, and an opportunity for disc ussion. Join us for an afternoon immersed in Persian culture and learn how one might go about killing a dragon.
This event is organized by Ashka n Doremami\, BA (UBC)\, Dr. Alexandra Hoffmann\, Assistant Professor of Cla ssical Persian Literature and Culture (UBC)\, and Dr. Hessam Dehghani\, Ass istant Professor of Teaching in Persian Language and Culture (UBC).
I n partnership with the Persian Language and Culture Program at UBC and PanB eh Bookstore (Vancouver's Iranian/Persian Bookstore).
Light refreshme nts will be available.
Date: Saturday\, March 14\, 2
026
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (PT)
Venue:<
/strong> Vancouver Public Library\
, Central Branch\, Alice MacKay Room\, Lower Level\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Persian LOCATION:Alice MacKay Room\, Lower Level\, Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch GEO:49.279659;-123.115614 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/nowruz-the-seven-trials-of-e sfandiyar/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/03/VPL-image-suggestion.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260226T1925Z-1772133953.9842-EO-68095-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260217T192251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260217T192251Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260314T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260314T161500 SUMMARY: Curator Tour of Entangled Territories DESCRIPTION: Join Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura for a special tour of MOA's feature e xhibition\, Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images\, before it closes on March 29\, 2026. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Tibetan LOCATION:Museum of Anthropology GEO:49.260872;-123.113952 URL;VALUE=URI:https://moa.ubc.ca/event/curator-tour-of-entangled-territorie s/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/March-14-tour.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260312T2121Z-1773350465.4951-EO-68312-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260309T221636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260310T160417Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260318T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260318T133000 SUMMARY: Tang-Song Transition in Japanophone Academia Today: An Academic Re flection on Research Approaches and Reorientation DESCRIPTION: On March 18\, join Professor Iiyama Tomoyasu as he guides us t hrough the Tang-Song transition hypothesis and the Chinese studies in Japan ophone academia. Participants can read his co-authored article from the lin k below. The event will be divided in two parts. For the first 30 minutes\, Professor Iiyama will speak\, and the latter half will […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
On March 18\, join Pro fessor Iiyama Tomoyasu as he guides us through the Tang-Song transit ion hypothesis and the Chinese studies in Japanophone academia. Participant s can read his co-authored article from the link below.
The event wil l be divided in two parts. For the first 30 minutes\, Professor Iiyama will speak\, and the latter half will be a forum for discussion. Anyone who is interested in doing research on\, related to Japan or China\, please come j oin and chat!
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Tomoyasu Iiyama is a Professor in the Faculty of Let ters\, Arts\, and Sciences and the Associate Director of the Waseda Institu te of Advanced Study at Waseda University. His research interests cover the acculturation\, social transition\, and the emergence of new ancestry in h istorical China. He has published several monographs concerning these topic s\, including Civil Service Examinations in North China under the Jin an d Yuan Dynasties: Another Trajectory of the Evolution of Literati Community in Chinese History (Kin gen jidai no Kahoku shakai to Kakyo seido: Mou hit otsu no shijin sō) (Tokyo: Waseda daigaku shuppanbu\, 2011 (in Japanese ))\; Another Literati Society: Civil Service Examinations in North China under the Jin and Yuan Dynasties (Translated by Zou Di. Hangzhou: Zhej iang daxue chubanshe\, 2021 (in Chinese))\; and Genealogy and Status: He reditary Office-Holding and Kinship in North China under Mongol Rule (H arvard University Asia Center\, 2023).
CATEGORIES:Featured Chinese LOCATION:Buchanan Tower 1133 GEO:49.268580;-123.253452 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/tang-song-transition-in-japa nophone-academia-today-an-academic-reflection-on-research-approaches-and-re orientation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/03/Screenshot-2026-03-09-142903.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260227T1934Z-1772220850.3967-EO-68153-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260227T175520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T174953Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260319T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260319T193000 SUMMARY: 2026 Asian Studies Careers Night DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our biennial Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so we ask reputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home an d in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This event will feature keynote speeches from an ex-Consul General […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our biennia
l Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard\, so we ask r
eputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia –
to inform and inspire current students.
This event will feature keyn ote speeches from an ex-Consul General Asian Studies alum and a UBC career strategist\, as well as round-robin networking sessions where you can conne ct face-to-face with fellow Asian Studies graduates from a wide array of ba ckgrounds.
You will also have a chance to win various raffle prizes\, including a Kindle\, a subscription to Duolingo\, and an Asian Studies-the med coffee chat starter pack!
Careers Night is the perfect opportunit y to gain career insights\, make connections\, meet fellow students\, and f eel more confident in taking the next steps on your career path.
Da
te & Time:
Thursday\, March 19\, 2026 | 5:30pm - 7:30pm PT
Location:
Ponderosa Ballroom\, Ponderosa Commons
- Oak House\, 6445 University Blvd\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2
This even t is open to all UBC students - undergraduate and graduate. Dress code is b usiness casual.
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5:30 pm – Check -in and reception starts
6:00 pm – Welcome remarks
6:05 pm – Ke ynote Speech by Jennie Chen (BA ’99)\, Director of Operations (China)\, For eign and Defense Policy at Privy Council Office\, Government of Canada
< p>6:20 pm – Keynote Speech by Robyn Stalkie\, Career Strategist\, UBC Caree r Centre and Faculty of Arts6:35 pm – Networking Round Tables: Ask M e Anything with the Alumni
7:30 pm – Event concludes
Jennie Chen\, BA ’99 – Director of Operations (China)\, Priv y Council Office\, Foreign and Defense Policy\, Government of Canada
Jennie is currently the Director o f Operations (China) at the Privy Council Office (PCO)\, Foreign and Defens e Policy Secretariat\, at the Government of Canada. She started at Global Affairs Canada (GAC) in 2003\, with foreign assignments in Beijing on two o ccasions\, Kandahar\, and Washington. From 2017 to 2020\, she worked at En vironment and Climate Change Canada before returning to GAC as the Director of the Northeast Asia and Oceania Division and then Executive Director for the Greater China Political Division. Before joining PCO\, she served as the Consul General of Canada in Shanghai\, China. She has a B.A. from the University of British Columbia and an M.A. from McGill University. She was born and raised in Vancouver.
Robyn Stalkie – Career Strateg
ist\, UBC Career Centre and Faculty of Arts
Robyn Stalkie (
she/her) is the Career Strategist for the Faculty of Arts. As an Arts gradu
ate herself\, she is committed to supporting students within the Faculty to
feel confident as they seek out meaningful work during their degrees and b
eyond. In her role as Career Strategist\, Robyn spends time delivering work
shops (resume/cover letter\, interview tips\, job search strategy\, etc.)\,
facilitating career development events like the Arts Career Design Studio\
, and having 1-1 advising conversations. Outside of work Robyn loves to pla
y word-/video-/board-games of all sorts and dive into on her coursework for
the Certificate of Organizational Coaching program through UBC!
Logan Anschell\, BA ’25 – Clerk\, Business and Government Relations
Logan is a University of British Columbia (UBC) political scienc
e graduate preparing to start a Juris Doctor (JD) in Fall 2027\, with a pro
fessional interest in global order\, international security\, and Canada–U.
S. relations.
He currently serves as Clerk within the City of Surrey’s
Business and Government Relations division\, helping to shape intergovernm
ental strategy and external stakeholder engagement. His work supports senio
r leadership in advancing the City’s priorities across multiple levels of g
overnment\, grounding his global policy interests in hands-on public sector
experience and practical governance.
In parallel\, he is actively pu rsuing service in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves\, reflecting a practic al commitment to defense\, security\, and public service that complements h is professional and academic trajectory.
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Gabriela Chen\, BA ’15 – System and Process Specialist/ Me
rchandise Planning
Shaped by Vancouver\, Gabriela has built her career in the outdoor and technical apparel industry and currently lead s product demand forecasting processes and tools at Arc'teryx Equipment. Be fore transitioning into the retail industry\, she developed a strong founda tion in sales\, retail management\, and warehouse operations at a publicly traded Japanese trading company. Gabriela attributes much of her success to the broadened global perspective she gained through UBC’s language program s and her participation in Go Global.
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Tinnie Chow\, BA ’99 – Digital Content Strategist/Founder
Tinnie Chow is a TV executive and digital strategist with 20+ years of experience building global audiences across broadcast\, streaming\, and social platforms. She has led programming\, digital channel\, social media strategy and partnerships at MTV\, Facebook/Meta in London. She is a pionee r of K-pop launching Asian American MTV channels in New York bringing artis ts like Rain\, Big Bang\, 2NE1 Se7en to perform for MTV TRL studios. She is the founder of The Collectiv Digital Entertainment\, focused on scaling di scoverability for Canada’s BIPOC storytellers.
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Casey Collins\, BA ’09 – Director of Inter-Religious S
tudies and Professor of Asian Religions
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area\, Casey moved to Vancouver in 2005 for university\, completing a BA in Asian Area Studies in 2009. He lived in Tokyo from 2009 through 2012 while working for a Buddhist lay organization that later becam e the subject of his graduate research on Japanese new religions. He earned his PhD in 2023\, defending a dissertation on the Japanese religion Shinny o-en. For nearly a decade\, Casey has been an instructor and lecturer at UB C\, Columbia College\, and now at the Vancouver School of Theology where he is Director of Inter-Religious Studies and Professor of Asian Religions.
Bryan Dunn\, BA ’81 – Senior F
oreign Counsel\, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune Law Offices
Bryan
is a 1981 graduate of UBC\, Asian Studies (Japanese language major). Follo
wing his BA\, he spent a few years in Japan\, two of which in the resource
trading division of a major Japanese trading company. On his return to Vanc
ouver\, he entered UBC Law School and qualified as lawyer in 1991\, followi
ng which he went back to Japan where he continues to practice as Canadian l
awyer in Tokyo.
Other than his career as a lawyer\, he published his w
riting in Japanese as a foreign author last year.
Lisa gr
aduated from UBC in 2022 with a BA in English Literature and Languages\, al
ongside an Asian Area Studies minor. She began her career through WorkLearn
as a Communications Assistant for the Department of Asian Studies\, suppor
ting initiatives like this very Careers Night! Lisa also spent a semester a
broad as an exchange student at National Taiwan University\, where she deep
ened her connection to her cultural background by experiencing everyday lif
e\, and got to work on her language skills firsthand.
After returning
from Taiwan\, Lisa transitioned into tech as a Communications Specialist at
SAP\, while freelance UX writing on the side. This led to her first in-hou
se UX Writer role at Later\, a Vancouver-based tech company building social
media marketing software. Fast forward 5 years\, and she is now working as
a UX Writer at Samsung. Lisa hopes sharing her story can help show current
students how curiosity\, arts\, and non-linear paths can lead you to meani
ngful careers in tech and/or design.
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Oliver Mann\, BA ’13 – Senior Manager\, Marketing & E
vents at the University of British Columbia
If you'd asked O liver in fourth year what he'd do after graduation\, he probably would have told you something in Canada-Asia relations. He was on exchange in Seoul a nd interning at BC's Trade Office.
Instead\, he graduated and became a professional musician. He signed with a record label\, toured internation ally\, and had a day job doing communications for UBC's Department of Asian Studies. When he stopped playing music\, he started doing photography—shoo ting models\, musicians\, actors—and he taught rock climbing in the morning .
Then the pandemic hit. He earned an MA in Communications and now he 's regularly invited to speak on his research (communications and Indigenou s engagement) across Canada. In 2026\, he started a new role at Innovation UBC where he helps researchers launch companies and bring their ideas to ma rket.
His career path wasn't what he expected (and nowhere near finis hed). He hopes he can inspire students to follow their curiosity wherever i t leads.
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Mason Margott
a\, BA ’17 – Manager\, FTMBA Student Experience
Mason is cur rently the Manager\, Student Experience for the Full-Time MBA program at th e Robert H. Lee Graduate School at UBC Sauder. In his role\, he coordinates all of the logistics and administration of the MBA program\, provide acade mic advising\, and help organize community building initiatives for student s. He previously worked in the Faculty of Arts and Residence Life at UBC\, and has worked at the University of Victoria in curriculum development and housing. In his free time\, he enjoys eating at new restaurants around Vanc ouver\, and owns almost 200 board games!
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Melody Pan\, BA ’14 – IT Systems Manager / Freelanc
e Translator
Melody has made a career out of her passion for Japanese pop culture\, video games and technology. After six years of unde rgrad at UBC (including one year abroad in Japan)\, Melody landed her first job as a J-E Translator/Interpreter at Bandai Namco Studios\, where she pa rticipated in game development and localization. Her Japanese skills (and w ord of mouth) led to her next opportunity at Waterproof Studios\, where she was introduced to the world of CG Animation. What started out as a six-mon th contract for translation/interpreting would turn into a one-year stint i n production\, and finally into a career in IT. She continues to brush up o n her Japanese skills as the translator of Yen Press's Final Fantasy Lost S tranger.
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In times of war and political conflict\, s ocieties are often pushed toward division—across political views\, ethnic i dentities\, and religious differences. Yet throughout history\, language an d culture have often been the strongest forces bringing people back togethe r.
For Iran and the wider Iranian cultural world\, Persian language a nd shared cultural traditions have long connected diverse communities despi te differences in region\, ethnicity\, and belief.
This speech contes t invites students to reflect on their own experience as learners of Persia n and students of Iranian culture.
If you want to participate in the speech contest\, learn more here. Submissions are due by March 20 at 11:59 PM.
This event i s free and registration is required to attend as a guest. The event will be held in Persian\, and a small reception will follow.
Date &
Time:
March 24\, 2026 | 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM PT
Lo
cation:
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouve
r
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In this book talk\, renowned Palestinian feminist scholar Nad a Elia will be speaking to the questions and contentions of global anti-col onial struggle and Palestinian feminist practices by elaborating from her b ooks Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts (2023)\, Palestine and Feminist Liberation (2025)\, and Falastiniyyat: A Century of Pales tinian Feminisms (forthcoming).
Palestine and Feminist Liberation will be available for p urchase at the event from Iron Dog Books.
Date: Tuesday\, March 24\, 2026
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM PT
- Doors Open at 6 PM
Location: SFU Harbour Centre\,
Labatt Hall Theatre (1700)
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This event is supported by the SFU Cent re for Comparative Muslim Studies\, UBC Asian Studies\, UBC Middle East Stu dies\, UBC Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster\, and the Centre for India and South Asia Research.
Nada Elia is Associate Profe ssor of Ethnic Studies at Western Washington University. She is the author or editor of six books\, ranging from academic titles to organizers' toolki ts. A scholar-activist\, she served for many years on the steering collect ives of AWSA\, (the Arab Women's Solidarity Association)\, RAWAN\, (the Rad ical Arab Women's Activist Network)\, and INCITE! Women of Color Against Vi olence\, and is a past president of AMEWS\, the Association of Middle East Women's Studies. Elia is a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective.
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Should you try to turn that paper you wrote for graduate seminar into a journal article? If so\, how? What additional work do you need to do to cre ate an article manuscript—and how much? Whose advice should you request dur ing the revision process? To which journal should you send the completed dr aft? What should you expect from the peer review process?
During this 1-hour session\, Dr. Christopher Rea will discuss some basic consideration s for aspiring article authors\, and share methods for getting your researc h into print. Bring to this session your lunch—and\, if you like\, the titl e and abstract of a seminar paper—and come away with some ideas for what mi ght be the best next steps for you.
This talk is open to all Graduate Students and will be held in-person. No registration is required.
Date & Time:
Wednesday\, March 25\, 2026 | 12:00pm – 1:
00pm PT
Location:
Asian Centre\, Room 604\, 187
1 West Mall\, Vancouver
Professor Christopher Rea is co-author\, with Tom Mullaney\, of the bestselling guide Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Mat ters to You (and the World).
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/turning-your-seminar-paper-i nto-a-journal-article-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/260110_Chris-Rea-Workshop-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260211T0038Z-1770770315.9039-EO-68070-18@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260210T233108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260326T181011Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260326 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328 SUMMARY: 2025/26 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: The Cantonese heritage an d the heritage child DESCRIPTION: The 2025/26 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Virginia Yip (CUHK) and Emeritus Professor Stephen Matthews (HKU ) Lecture: The Cantonese heritage and the heritage child Cantonese speakers take pride in their linguistic and cultural heritage. They maintain that p oetry from the Tang and Song Dynasties is best recited in Cantonese\, becau se […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:[imag e_spread img_url="https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/ 2026/02/20252026-Yip-So-Man-Wat-Memorial-Lecture-Poster-1920px-x-1080.jpg" caption="" width="website"]
The 2025/26 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture
wit
h guest speaker Professor Virginia Yip (CUHK) and Emeritus Professor Stephe
n Matthews (HKU)
Cantonese speakers take pride in their linguistic and c ultural heritage. They maintain that poetry from the Tang and Song Dynastie s is best recited in Cantonese\, because the sounds of Cantonese are relati vely close to the language of the poets. The rich system of tones both enab les and requires a uniquely complex matching between linguistic tone and mu sical melody\, developed in Cantonese opera and reflected in contemporary C anto-pop. Cantonese films and dim sum inspire people around the world to le arn the language. These aspects of the Cantonese heritage will be illustrat ed with examples from popular music and culture.
Although Cantonese h as an estimated eighty million speakers\, many Cantonese-speaking parents a re concerned both about the future of the language and the transmission of their linguistic and cultural heritage to the next generation. The future o f Cantonese depends on its acquisition by children who will necessarily be bilingual\, if not trilingual. We will discuss the role of bilingual childr en in keeping Cantonese and other varieties of Chinese in heritage contexts \, drawing on recent work of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre.
Studying how children develop Cantonese as a heritage language reveals some surprising findings: for example\, children in Canada preserve the six tones even better than those in the Hong Kong “homeland” of the language. The grammar of Cantonese is naturally influenced by that of English\, in pa rticular areas where the grammar overlaps with English. Finally\, we show t hat the trend towards loss of Chinese as a heritage language can be reverse d.
Date & Time:
Thursday\, March 26\, 2026
Reception: 5:30pm-6:00pm
(PDT)
Lecture: 6:00pm-8:00pm (PDT)
Location:
Asian Centre Auditori
um\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC
Map | Parking
Presented in English. This event is free and open t
o the public.
Light refreshments provided. Registration is required.
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What\, if anything\, is special about bilingual children’s Cantonese? W hen we observe the Cantonese of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English\, we find that they produce some ‘non-target’ forms. For example\, children produce dative sentences with the order “give-recipient-obj ect”\, as in (1)\, which differs from the distinctive order (“give-o bject-recipient”) of adult Cantonese:
(1) 耶穌俾我錢呀
Je4sou1 bei2 ngo5 cin2 aa3 (“Jesus gives me money”)
Children also ‘misplace’ prepositional phrases (PPs) by putting th em after the verb\, as in (2) where hai2li1dou6 “here”) is mi splaced:
(2) 又食喺呢度呀，你
Jau6 sik6 ha i2 li1dou6 aa4\, lei5? (“eating here again\, are you?”)
In answering questions\, bilingual children often use 係 hai6 (to be) inappropriately to mean “yes”\, as in (3)\, where ad ult Cantonese requires the adjective 好食 hou2sik6 ‘tasty’ of the ‘A-not-A’ question to be repeated in the response:
< p class="p2" style="padding-left: 40px\;">(3) 好唔好食㗎 係呀
Child: hai6 aa3 (“yes”)<
/p>
We may suspect that the children who produce these non-tar get forms are influenced by their English\, which would be an instance of c ross-linguistic influence or language transfer. But there are other plausib le explanations to consider\, such as over-generalization of patterns alrea dy present in Cantonese. Indeed\, all three patterns -- the “give-re cipient-object” order in dative sentences\, prepositional phrases after the verb\, and answers using 係 hai6 to mean “ye s” -- exist in Cantonese.
In this seminar we will tackle t he question of why bilingual children produce such patterns in their speech \, and attempt to tease apart alternative explanations by comparing the lan guage development of monolingual and bilingual children.
Date & Time:
Fr
iday\, March 27\, 2026
2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)
Location:
xʷθəθiqətəm
(Place of Many Trees)\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver\, BC
Map | Parking
Presented in English. This
event is free and open to the public.
Light refreshments provided. Re
gistration is required.
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Virginia Yip is Professor of Linguistics and Director of the Chi
ldhood Bilingualism Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She received her BA in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin
and PhD in linguistics from the University of Southern California. Her res
earch interests include bilingualism\, bilingual acquisition and Cantonese
grammar. Her monograph The Bilingual Child: Early Development and Langu
age Contact (co-authored with Stephen Matthews\, Cambridge University
Press\, 2007) received the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award from the Linguisti
c Society of America (2019). She has also co-authored a series of books on
Cantonese grammar.
Stephen Matt
hews is Emeritus Professor in Linguistics at the University of Hon
g Kong and Co-Director of the Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre. He st
udied Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity Hall\, Cambridge before purs
uing doctoral and postdoctoral work in Linguistics at the University of Sou
thern California. His research focuses on Cantonese\, the grammar of Chines
e dialects\, bilingualism and language contact. His publications co-authore
d with Virginia Yip include Cantonese: a Comprehensive Grammar\, <
em>Basic Cantonese and Intermediate Cantonese\, as well as
The Yi p So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honour of their mother\, the late Mrs. W at\, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Cantonese,Featured Chinese,Featured Events,Featured Homepage URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/2025-26-yip-so-man-wat-memor ial-lecture/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/02/20252026-Yip-So-Man-Wat-Memorial-Lecture-Poster-1920px-x-1080.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260320T0317Z-1773976661.8455-EO-68341-18@10.19.146.21 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260318T174232Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T174232Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260327T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260327T133000 SUMMARY: Beyond Monolingual and Monocultural Ideologies: Navigating Japanes e as an Additional Language Education in Contemporary Japan DESCRIPTION: This talk explores how Japanese as an Additional Language educ ation can navigate and move beyond monolingual and monocultural ideologies deeply embedded in contemporary Japanese society. Drawing on current Japane se government policies and K–12 educational contexts\, Dr. Yumi Sugihara wi ll first outline the key challenges faced by educators and learners\, inclu ding the tensions between institutional circumstances […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
This talk explores how Japanese as an Additional Language education can navigate and move beyond monolingual and monocultural ideologies deeply embedded in cont emporary Japanese society. Drawing on current Japanese government policies and K–12 educational contexts\, Dr. Yumi Sugihara will first outline the key challenges faced by educators and learners\, including the tensions between institutional c ircumstances and increasingly diverse student identities.
She will th en highlight three empirical studies conducted in collaboration with collea gues in Japanese university settings: 1) Valuing “My Language” (Watashi no Kotoba): Exploring how plurilingual learners can resist AI-driven linguisti c homogenization and reclaim their unique voices\; 2) Critical Intercultura l Communication: Challenging the Japanese/foreigner binary through examinin g cultural homogeneity critically and self-reflectively\; and 3) Creating T ranslanguaging Spaces: Acknowledging diverse linguistic repertoires in a bi lingual graduate seminar to decenter the dominance of hegemonic languages.< /p>
The talk demonstrates how the potential of small-scale pedagogical sh ifts can empower learners’ agency and contribute to transforming broader so cietal ideologies toward a more inclusive\, multilingual and multicultural society.
Yumi Sugihara\, PhD\, is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies (UBC)\, and an Associate Professor at Keio Uni versity\, Japan. Her work explores Japanese language education and intercul tural education\, focusing on critical interculturality and ideologies of l anguage\, culture\, and ethnicity in Japan and beyond. Her most recent co-a uthored article is “Learner Self-Reflexivity in a Japanese Critical Intercu ltural Communication Classroom.” Intercultural Education\, 2025. d oi:10.1080/14675986.2025.2555751
CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Japanese LOCATION:Asian Centre\, Room 604 GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/beyond-monolingual-and-monoc ultural-ideologies/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/03/Sugihara-flyer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260203T2035Z-1770150915.8723-EO-67962-18@10.19.146.23 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260202T211739Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T211739Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260331T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260331T182000 SUMMARY: The Politics of Common Reading Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday T echnics in China\, 1894–1954 DESCRIPTION: What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions t hat punctuated China’s long Republic (1894-1954)? How did they manage the c hallenges of the era—from new technologies to novel diseases\, from institu tional failure to commercial globalization? What did they know and how did they know it? These are the questions that animate The Politics […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
What did common readers read in the mids t of the revolutions that punctuated China’s long Republic (1894-1954)? How did they manage the challenges of the era—from new technologies to novel d iseases\, from institutional failure to commercial globalization? What did they know and how did they know it?
These are the questions that animate The Politics of Common Reading: Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China. In this book talk\, Joan Judge introduces a gallery of common readers. She examines the practical problems they confronted\, the informal knowledge infrastructure that served them\, and a consequential politics of accommodation that enga ged them as knowers rather than as an unenlightened mass.
Time: 5:
00 PM - 6:20 PM (PST)
Venue: Coach House\, Green Coll
ege\, 6201 Cecil Green Park Rd\, Vancouver
Open to the public. No registration required (but ple ase note that seating is limited).
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< p>This event is co-organized with the Centre for Chinese Research and Green College. CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Coach House\, Green College GEO:49.270834;-123.256008 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/the-politics-of-common-readi ng-vernacular-knowledge-and-everyday-technics-in-china-1894-1954/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/01/poster-joan-judge.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7198-EO-65747-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260331T184251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260401T174949Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260410T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260410T200000 SUMMARY: Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2026 DESCRIPTION: The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to ou r annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2026. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi language at UBC on April 10! X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The Department of Asian Studies at the Uni versity of British Columbia is pleased to invite you to our annual Harjit K aur Sidhu Memorial Program in 2026. Join us in celebrating over 30 years of Punjabi langu age and culture at UBC on April 10!
The program was established i n loving memory of Harjit Kaur Sidhu (née Gill)\, devoted wife\, mother\, a nd strong advocate for education\, Punjabi culture and language\, and women ’s issues. Our goal is to call attention to important new scholarship on Pu njabi language and culture and bring it to our students and the broader Van couver area audience\; encourage and recognize achievements in Punjabi lang uage cultural production\; and honor students for their work in learning an d using the Punjabi language.
This event is free & open to the public . Registration is required.
Date & Time:
Friday
\, April 10\, 2026 | 5:30pm - 8:00pm PT
Location:
Auditorium\, Asian Centre\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2
Harjit Kaur Sidhu (née Gill) was born in Amr
itsar in 1937. She grew up in what is now Pakistan and resettled with her
parents\, brothers and sisters in Ludhiana after partition. She received b
oth an MA and MEd. She went on to lecture at Sidwa College in 1966 and 196
7. She immigrated to Canada with her husband\, Balvindar Singh Sidhu\, in 1
968. The couple lived in the Yukon for 32 years\, during which time Mrs. S
idhu’s passion became early childhood education. After the birth of her so
ns Ravindar (1971) and Rajvindar (1972)\, she worked as a teacher in multip
le early childhood settings: preschool\, prekindergarten programs and in k
indergarten.
In 2001\, Harjit and Balvindar moved to Vancouver where their youngest son was a practicing dentist and where\, later\, their oldes t son started a career at UBC as a surgeon in the Faculty of Medicine. Dur ing her time in Vancouver\, Harjit rediscovered her passion for Punjabi lan guage and culture. She was a strong advocate for Punjabi culture\, and for women in Punjabi society.
After two and a half year courageous battl e with cancer\, she passed away in her home on July 23\, 2007. She is surv ived by her husband\, two sons and their wives\, two grandsons and one gran ddaughter.
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CATEGORIES:Featured Events,Featured Homepage,Featured Punjabi LOCATION:Auditorium\, Asian Centre GEO:49.263704;-123.254783 URL;VALUE=URI:https://asia.ubc.ca/events/event/harjit-kaur-sidhu-memorial-p rogram-2026/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://asia.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2026/03/Harjit-Kaur-Sidhu-2026.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251008T2231Z-1759962681.7494-EO-65392-18@10.19.146.24 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260405T065303Z CREATED:20260219T194832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T194916Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260418T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260418T210000 SUMMARY: Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between DESCRIPTION: The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: Between Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living i n Between on April 18\, 2026. This presentation brings together Forugh Farr okhzad’s poetry\, film\, letters\, interviews\, and prose to offer a portra it of a writer who reshaped modern Iranian literature by inhabiting its in- between […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The Alireza Ahmadian Lecture in Iranian and Persianate Studies presents: B
etween Dusk and Dawn: Forugh Farrokhzad and the Art of Living in Between on
April 18\, 2026.
This presentation brings together Forugh Farrokhzad ’s poetry\, film\, letters\, interviews\, and prose to offer a portrait of a writer who reshaped modern Iranian literature by inhabiting its in-betwee n spaces. Standing at the threshold of private and public\, inside and outs ide\, silence and speech\, Farrokhzad expanded Iran’s literary language\, r each\, and imaginative boundaries. The talk listens closely to a voice that continues to travel across time and borders\, drawing an ever-widening cir cle of listeners.
This talk will be presented in English. It is free and open to the public.
Date & Time:
Saturday\,
April 18\, 2026 | 6:30pm - 9:30pm PT
Location:
Room C300\, UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson St\, Vancouver\, BC V6Z 3B7
Farzaneh Milani is Raymond J. Nelson Pr ofessor Emerita of Iranian literature and Gender Studies at the University of Virginia. She has published several articles and books\, most recently T he Literary Biography of Forugh Farrokhzad with Unpublished Letters. The No bel Committee of the Swedish Academy invited Milani to join it as a member of its Board of External Experts for Literature in 2021. Milani served in t hat capacity for three years.
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This talk is free and open to the public . Registration is required.
Date & Time:
Thursd
ay\, April 23\, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (PT)
Location:
The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees\, Liu Institute for Global
Issues\, 6476 NW Marine Drive\, Vancouver
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