Undergraduate Event Survey: What would you like to see in an Asian Studies webinar?
(Closing this Thursday night!) Thinking about majoring in Asian Studies? We’re is planning a June webinar that answers your questions! To help us plan your best online experience in attending, we’d love to hear your thoughts via our 2-minute survey.
NEW SERIES: Inspiration in Isolation
Good thing our department has thousands of years of history to draw upon when it comes to dealing with challenging times! Asian Studies faculty, staff and students are sharing their tips and challenges from working from home. Plus the best inspirational quotes.
ASIA 365: “Punjabi Cinema” student videos
ASIA 365, “Punjabi Cinema,” explores the history and ongoing, unfolding phenomenon of Punjabi film. Students in the class watch classics of Punjabi film — for example, classics like Nanak Naam Jahaaz Hai (1969), Chann Pardesi (1980), Put Jattan de (1981), and Long da Lishkara (1986), and newer classics, like Khamosh Pani (2003), Munde UK De […]
COVID-19 Update – Advancement in Language Programs
As part of our adjustments to the impact of COVID-19, any course requiring a grade of 60% or higher to be achieved in the pre-requisite course will now require a grade of 55% or higher.
“Paper,” Binding, Book: Perspectives from Japan, India, and Tibet
On Thursday, February 6th, three Asian Studies faculty joined book history expert Dr. Takahiro Sasaki (Keio University) in a discussion of Japanese paper production, binding techniques, and book formats.
Punjabi-Canadian family of Onkarbir Singh Toor honours his memory through new enhancement fund
Learning about Punjabi language and culture through UBC’s Punjabi Oral History class made a lasting impression on former science student, Onkarbir Singh Toor (BSc’16).
At the Border: An Exhibition of Artists’ Work in Response to the Partition of Punjab
On display until October 1, 2019 at the I.K. Barber Learning Centre (1st floor): Curated by Dr. Anne Murphy and CISAR Research Associate Raghavendra Rao K.V. The works on view on the ground floor of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre resulted from a series of residencies and exhibitions in India and the UK in 2018-9 […]
Student Spotlight 2019
Harsimran Sachdeva Tell us a little about yourself, your background, and how you became interested in the Punjabi Studies program? I come from a Sikh Punjabi background and basically grew up in Minnesota, which is in the mid-west of the United States. I was perhaps the only girl of South Asian ethnicity in my high […]
Documenting Punjabi Canada
By Lovneet Aujla, UBC ’19 ASIA 475, Documenting Punjabi Canada, is a unique opportunity for students at UBC to engage with the history of Punjabi Canada, and the many stories of Punjabi Canadians. In exploring written work, archives, documentaries, and oral histories students in ASIA 475 are able to foster a rich understanding of Punjabi […]
UBC–PUP Joint Undergraduate Research Forum, February 16–23, 2019
Over reading week 2019, 15 UBC students led by Dr. Anne Murphy, boarded a plane to India to take part in a weeklong conference, coordinated by Go Global. There, they joined colleagues at the Punjabi University Patiala to explore heritage and memory in the Punjabi landscape. Through the week, students and Faculty worked through lectures, […]