[Literary Hong Kong] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024 Time: 16:00-17:00 PDT Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Founded by Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in 2019, Voice of Verse is a poetry preservation project with the aim to build an online inventory of Hong Kong poets’ sounds. The team recorded […]

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[Literary Hong Kong] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024 Time: 17:30-18:45 PDT Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Language: English Dr. Mary Shuk Han Wong, writer and associate professor at the Department of Chinese of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, will visit UBC in person and talk about the development of Hong […]

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National Postdoc Appreciation Week Barbecue

AMS Nest 6133 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. UBC, and especially the PDFO, would like to take this opportunity to thank our Postdocs for their hard work and for all the contributions they have made to the UBC community. We would like to celebrate the […]

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Documentary Screening “Liu Yichang: 1918” and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join us for the screening of documentary film Liu Yichang: 1918 and meet award-winning filmmaker, scriptwriter, and scholar Dr. Ben Wong in person. Film with English subtitles; post-screening conversation to be conducted in English. Born in Shanghai, Liu Yichang 劉以鬯 (1918-2008) is one of the most influential writer and literary editor in Hong Kong’s cultural scene. […]

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Climate Anxiety & Creativity: Workshop with Kate Schapira

Online/Virtual Event

Can we write our way out of the climate crisis? Not exactly—but imagining, discussing, recording and reimagining a livable present and future can expand our interest and flexibility, building us a vision to work toward and reasons to work toward it—even in the context of the climate realities we know. Bring your anxiety, rage, despair, […]

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Event Series Open UBC Working Group

Open UBC Working Group

Online/Virtual Event

The Open UBC Working Group, which is composed of faculty, students, and staff, meets regularly to advise, communicate, and partner on open scholarship activities and projects happening at UBC. In addition to serving as a place of community for those interested in various areas of open scholarship, the working group develops projects and events and […]

NCTR Lunch & Learn Webinar

Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) 1985 Learners' Walk, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Topic: Allyship and Confronting Unconscious Bias This webinar will be hosted by NCTR during their Truth and Reconciliation Week (September 23-27, 2024). We will be streaming the talk in our gallery space at 10:00 AM PDT with light breakfast refreshments. Our daily Lunch and Learn webinars are an immersive experience to UN-learn the myths of […]

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CMS Community Luncheon

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Welcome (back)! CMS is thrilled to invite you to the first Community Luncheon of the 2024-25 academic year. Come and join us at the C.K. Choi building for lunch and captivating conversations among CMS affiliates, both familiar and new faces! Whether you’re a CMS faculty member, student, staff, visiting scholar, community partner, or simply intrigued […]

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Mosquitos and Us: The Intricate Interplay Between Human History and the Transmission of Mosquito-Borne Viruses

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Roenick P. Olmo, Centre national de la recherche scientifique Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, September 24, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow This event is co-sponsored with the Cultural and Scientific Office of the French Embassy in Canada. Mosquitoes are major vectors for many significant viral diseases in humans. Aedes mosquitoes, particularly […]