UBC Creative Writing Faculty Reading & Reception

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Please join us to hear from UBC Creative Writing faculty who are publishing new work this year. Come relax and listen to readings, mingle with students, faculty and staff, and have a drink and a snack. Billy-Ray Belcourt will read from his short story collection Coexistence. Frances Koncan will read from their play Women of […]

Free

Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows – Fall 2024

Ponderosa Commons North (Oak and Cedar Houses) 6445 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's Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows will cover a range of important […]

Free

Beginner R Part 1

Online/Virtual Event

If you have never opened R, do not know what R packages are, do not know how to read files into R, this workshop is for you! At the end of this workshop you will: Know what R and RStudio are Know what the parts of R Studio are called Know how to organize R […]

Free

[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 […]

Free