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Meet the 2024/2025 Lecturers of the Year

 
Each year, the Department of Asian Studies awards prizes to two Lecturers to recognize and celebrate excellence in teaching in the Lecturer rank. It is with great pleasure that we announce Zheng (Tim) Cai and Jeonghye Son as our 2024/2025 Lecturers of The Year.
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Online Tour of Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images

 
Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images—on now at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) until March 29, 2026—reimagines Tibet by showing how it has been represented historically by outsiders, and how Tibetans themselves now present and

Entangled Territories: Conversation with Drs. Tsering Shakya and Fuyubi Nakamura

 
Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images—on now at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) until March 29, 2026—reimagines Tibet by showing how it has been represented historically by outsiders, and how Tibetans themselves now present and

Call for Applications: Ways of Undoing

 
We invite videographic makers, scholars, and artists working in videographic and digital media forms to apply to one of three workshops for Ways of Undoing: Craft, Collaboration, and Videographic Practice, a three-year international initiative
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Local Japan, Global Japan: Thinking Forward Through the Past

 
March 10, 2026 - March 11, 2026
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Free
place Asian Centre, Room 604

Critical Crossings: Gendered Readings across Textual and Visual Media

 
March 13, 2026
7:15 pm - 9:15 pm
place Pan Pacific Vancouver Hotel
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