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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Coastal Livelihoods: A visual anthropology exhibit by Zana Mody

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

Photography Exhibit: Aug 30 – Sept 29, 2023 Opening Reception: Aug 30, 2023 5:00pm RSVP NOW Approximately 3.3 billion people around the world rely on fish and seafood as their primary source of protein and for their local economies, yet the methods for catching fish vary greatly in their impacts on the marine ecosystems. The […]

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Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire

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

We are pleased to welcome writer and organizer Harsha Walia on April 6th for a talk on climate migration, racial capitalism, and border imperialism. Harsha Walia has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, abolitionist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements for over two decades, including No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, and the DTES Women’s Memorial March Committee. She […]

How Ancestral Voyaging Mobilizes Knowledge of Biodiversity & Climate Change

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

Reception to follow xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2   The future of the ocean is essential to the planet’s future and human life. Climate change intersects profoundly with biodiversity, food security for billions of humans, culture, and economy and peace. […]

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Policy Communications Workshop (Sciences)

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

Professor Heidi Tworek and KJ Sharan will lead a 90 minute hybrid workshop on the different strategies of policy communication and how to use communication as an advocacy tool. We will work on communicating your research to a diverse set of policy audiences. We will discuss how to create and disseminate effective, inclusive, and powerful […]

Policy Communications Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)

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

Professor Heidi Tworek and KJ Sharan will lead a 90 minute hybrid workshop on the different strategies of policy communication and how to use communication as an advocacy tool. We will work on communicating your research to a diverse set of policy audiences. We will discuss how to create and disseminate effective, inclusive, and powerful […]

(De)humanizing? Critiquing Representations of Human Rights in Film

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

How can media and film fetishize, be dehumanizing or further shape the discussion around human rights. How are human rights represented, reinforced or challenged in film? What goes into making human rights representation authentic? What are the hurdles in achieving authentic human rights representation? Examine what you know about human rights representation in media by […]

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Film Screening of Courage (2021) & Panel Discussion on Academic Freedom in Belarus

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

The UBC Human Rights Collective (HRC) is hosting an in-person screening of the critically acclaimed film Courage (2021) as an expression of solidarity with wrongfully imprisoned Belarusian students. The film captures the state of the pro-democracy movement in Belarus amidst the ongoing human rights violations under the oppressive regime of Alexander Lukashenko. It follows three […]

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