Join us for a discussion and workshop on how technology, communities, and diplomacy all intersect in the pursuit to save cultural heritage.
Graduate students today have a plethora of academic and professional obligations as well as opportunities they may engage in during their graduate journey. There are also many ways to define success both within and after graduate school. How do you choose which opportunities to take advantage of? Are you setting yourself up to succeed in […]
All the Lonely People brings together an interdisciplinary panel of UBC researchers from health, economics, philosophy and creative writing to explore the roots and realities of social isolation.
The UBC Faculty of Education and the CMS Borders research group invite you to attend “Afghan Women—Resisting, Redefining, and Reclaiming” on June 20, 2025, World Refugee Day. This symposium centers on the experiences of Afghan women shaped by forced displacement, political upheaval, and gendered exclusion. We aim to explore the complex constructs of “Afghan Women” […]
The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]
The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]
