The Third Annual Celebration of Punjabi
in honour of the memory of Harjit K. Sidhu Saturday, April 2, 2011 :: 2-5:30PM Arvind-pal Singh Mandair, University of Michigan “Beyond Secular and Religious Apologetics: Re-evaluating the Concept of Shabad Guru” UBC Asian Centre Auditorium 1871 West Mall :: Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 (map:http://bit.ly/ed52OR) Dr. Arvind Mandair is Associate Professor and S.B.S.C. Chair of […]
YSMWML: 2010-2011 David Der-wei Wang
Writing History after “Post-History”: On Contemporary Chinese Fiction Wednesday, March 9th at 7:00 PM UBC Asian Centre Auditorium 1871 West Mall, Vancouver Reception to Precede event (6:00PM Asian Centre foyer) Fiction was taken up by enlightened Chinese intellectuals as a vehicle of reforming politics and remaking history as early as the turn of the […]
YSMWML: 2011-2012 Leung Ping-Kwan
Transformative Identities: Literary Adaptation and Cultural Negotiation in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1950s Leung Ping-Kwan (Ye Si) Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Lingnan University, Hong Kong A recording of the lecture can be found here. Wednesday, October 5 19:00-21:00 (Reception 18:00) Auditorium, Asian Centre, UBC RSVP to ubcasianstudies(at)gmail.com Events in Conjunction Oct 3: Research Seminar Oct 6: Chinese and […]
Call for Papers! Topics: “Women in Chosŏn and Colonial Korea” and “‘Publicness’ in the Confucian Tradition of Korea”
August 14th (Wed) -15th (Thu), 2013 At University of British Columbia There will be a Yonsei-UBC joint-conference on two topics (“Women in Chosŏn and Colonial Korea” and “Publicness in the Confucian Tradition of Korea”) which will be to be held in August 2013 at UBC. 6-7 faculty members in the fields of Korean history, Korean […]
Still looking for a Term 2 course?
Seats are still available in the following courses! ASIA 208: Cultural Foundations of South Asia ASIA 330: Islam in South Asia ASIA 360D: A Specific Asian Literature in Translation (focusing on the “Tale of Genji”, by Murasaki Shikibu) ASIA 365: Punjabi Cinema ASIA 441B: Masterworks of Chinese Fiction and Drama in Translation ASIA 457: The […]
Lunch With a Prof! – Hosted by UBC ASIA Club
January 13, 2012
