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• Iran’s Nationwide Protests and the Theocratic Regime’s Crisis of Legitimacy

  26th Feb 2026 6:00 pm to 26th Feb 2026 8:00 pm

  Join the UBC Persian Language and Culture Program, UBC Middle Eastern Studies Program, and UBC Persian Club for this lecture by Professor Ali Banuazizi. While the initial triggers for the recent uprisings in Iran were economic in nature—including high inflation rates, the plunging of the official currency to historic lows, increasing business risks, and chronic...

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  The Fight for Recognition: Double Abandonment and Resistance from Wartime Canada to Postwar Japan (1942–1965)

  27th Feb 2026 12:00 pm to 27th Feb 2026 1:30 pm

  Asian Centre, Room 604

  Please join us for a talk by Dr. Naoko Kato, who tells the stories of members of the Japanese diaspora who were “doubly abandoned” by both the Canadian 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...

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  What K-dramas reveal about women and power today

  3rd Mar 2026 12:00 pm to 3rd Mar 2026 1:00 pm

  Online Event

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