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Timothy Garton Ash: From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back

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

In his new book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Timothy Garton Ash gives a unique account of the history of Europe since 1945. This is history illustrated by memoir and reportage. Garton Ash draws on his extensive personal notes from 50 years of events witnessed, places visited and history makers encountered (from Margaret Thatcher […]

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Tunku Zain Al‘Abidin: “Divergence in Malaysia: Who and what will prevail?”

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

His Highness Tunku Zain Al‘Abidin is a Malaysian public intellectual, the Founding President of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), director or advisor of several educational organizations, and patron of numerous cultural initiatives. He has written widely on issues of democratization and reform, and is a Royal Fellow of the National University of […]

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Featured Featured Event Series The Phil Lind Initiative 2024

The Phil Lind Initiative: Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste

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

Celebrated artists and life partners, Academy Award-winning musician Jon Batiste and Emmy Award-winning writer Suleika Jaouad gave the world an intimate look into their life in the 2023 Netflix documentary American Symphony which chronicled the year that Batiste was nominated for 11 Grammy awards and Jaouad’s leukemia returned after almost a decade of remission. Their […]

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Featured Featured Event Series The Phil Lind Initiative 2024

The Phil Lind Initiative: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

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

 Xiuhtezcatl Martinez (first name pronounced Shoe-Tez-Caht) is an advocate, leader, activist and hip hop artist with Indigenous Mexica roots. Now 23 years old, he has been on the frontlines of the climate and environmental movement since the young age of 6 and is widely recognized for his passionate and unwavering fight for climate justice. Named […]

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Featured Featured Event Series The Phil Lind Initiative 2024

The Phil Lind Initiative: Sasha Velour

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

Critically acclaimed gender-fluid drag queen, visual artist, speaker and author Sasha Velour has been a force in the international drag scene long before her scene-stealing, rose-petal-filled win on season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Her Phil Lind Initiative talk titled The Big Reveal: Why Drag Matters, delves into queer history and the importance of drag […]

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Mobilizing Knowledge Against Today’s Totalitarian Trends: Building an International Consortium of Concerned Academics

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

This mini-conference will feature twenty presentations by academics on global trends centralizing political authority, undermining judicial power, oppressing political opposition and independent journalism, and promoting cultural-cum-racial chauvinism. It will also hold open discussions and a planning session to better institutionalize Today's Totalitarianism consortium. Open to the public.

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