From Yuquot to Leicester Square: Indigenous Northwest Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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

The Department of English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to the 2024 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture, featuring Professor Robbie Richardson (Department of English and Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative, Princeton University). Dr. Richardson, who is a member of the Pabineau First Nation (Mi’kmaw), will present a talk entitled “From Yuquot to Leicester […]

Translation, Multilingualism, Poetics: Language Work in Muslim and Jewish Diasporas

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

At a moment when ethnonationalist and heteropatriarchal narratives erase the intertwined histories of global Jewish and Muslim communities and portray us as inherently antagonistic, diasporic scholars and artists connect through resonant forms and questions to find pleasure in differences. On September 19, 2024 at 3:30 pm PT, please join the Department of English Language & Literatures […]

Free

Symposium | Keywords: Literature and Politics

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

What is the relationship between literature and politics, and how does it shape the wider field of literary studies today? What are some of the most important historical permutations of this fraught relationship, and how do they continue to inform the vocabulary and critical methods in use today? How is the tension between literature and […]

Free

It Didn’t Have to Be This Way

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

UBC English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite you to “It Didn’t Have to Be This Way,” a visiting speaker lecture featuring Dr. Ian Smith (University of Southern California). Join us virtually or in-person on Monday, November 4th at 3:00 pm PT for an enlightened conversation about Blackness and humanism on the early modern stage.