Announcements

Ritual Culture in Early India: The 2013 Junior-Senior Scholarly Symposium in Sanskrit Studies

Thursday, April 4 – Omens in the Fire: the Ritual Formation of Astrological Vedism


Friday, April 5 – How Brahmins Invented Themselves 3306 Times

UBC students represent proudly in 2013 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest

UBC students represent proudly in 2013 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest

On Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 the BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest for University Students was held at BCIT. This contest was sponsored by the Consulate General of People’s Republic of China in Vancouver and organized by the Confucius Institute at BCIT and the Canadian TCSL Association. Seventy-three students from UBC, SFU, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, […]

India in the Chinese Buddhist Imagination – Buddhist Studies Forum

Thursday, March 28th – “Ways in which Indian Buddhism was adduced and deployed in context of medieval China”

Two Talks by Anita Anantharam – March 27th and 28th

The Department of Asian Studies and the Center for India and South Asia Research at the University of British Columbia present: Two Talks by Anita Anantharam, University of Florida Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 4-6PM: “Private and Communal Kitchens as Spaces for Rethinking Gender, Identity, & Citizenship” Asian Centre Auditorium • 1871 West Mall • Vancouver, […]

Chasing China Dreams and Telling China Stories With Speaker Geremie R. Barmé

Tuesday, March 26th – In recent times the ‘dream’ has been been used metaphorically in discussions of the country’s re-emergence as a major power, and to describe contemporary party-state-led national aspirations.

Christopher Rea Discusses Chinese Humor on “The Coast”, CBC Radio

Christopher Rea, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, made an appearance on CBC Radio’s “The Coast” on March 15th, 2013. To listen to his discussion click here. He starts just after minute 12:30

Public Lecture – National Amnesia and Literary Memory

Monday, March 25th – Public lecture and Book Signing with Yan Lianke, author of Lenin’s Kisses

The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

Thursday March 7th – Rajinder Singh Bedi as Moral Philosopher: Domesticity as Political Frontier

The Department of Asian Studies Presents – The 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference

Saturday, March 9th – Adventures in Academic Publishing: Voices from the Field

The Virani Lecture Series of Islamic Studies Presents

Thursday, March 14th – The Pity of Partition, Manto’s Life, Times and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

Friday, March 15th – Separating at Close Quarters, a seminar on interpreting partition violence