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Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? The Case of China’s Email-Order Brides with Dr. Monica Liu

Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join the CMS Mobilities Research Group and UBC Asian Studies for “Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? The Case of China’s Email-Order Brides” with Dr. Monica Liu. Join our invited speaker or a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, November 27, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM in ANSO 119. Dr. Liu, author of Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides […]

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UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase x TFAI Taiwan Docs: “In Search of the Self” Documentary Shorts from Taiwan

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

The UBC Indigenous Science Colloquium presents a conversation with Dr. Salena Hill, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) and Amaskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) Tribal Nations and Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program of Leadership Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Montana. Rooted in Indigenous philosophies, her work emphasizes […]

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Research Seminar: Why Should We Care About Literary Objects?

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rethink the conceptions of verisimilitude as well as mimetic illusion with Professor Sophie Volpp (University of California, Berkeley) as she examines scenic illusion paintings of the Forbidden City through the lens of perspectivalism in Cao Xueqin’s mid-eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone.

Free

Event Series The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

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Event Series The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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 […]

Free