Events
Nov 28, 2024 | Join PhD students Raey Costain and Cal Smith as they present their research on how visual methods such as comic drawing have a unique capacity to explore and document human stories in the past and present. They will challenge some of the traditional terminology applied to art and aesthetics, in conversation […]
Nov 26, 2024 | Everyone is welcome to come along to a free screening of Les Filles du Roi, the acclaimed musical written and directed by Corey Payette. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with UBC alumni Corey Payette (writer/director) and Christian Díaz Durán (editor).
Nov 27, 2024 | The UBC Comic Studies Cluster invites you to the final frontier to discuss Brain K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga Vol. 1 (2012). Join them on Nov 20 for a casual chat about the work. If you’re interested in an academic discussion, come back on Nov 27 to discuss an academic […]
Feb 5, 2025 | Please join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Antje Ziethen where she will speak about her PHH Faculty Fellowship project, “Reverse Diaspora: The ‘Brazilians’ in West Africa”. This lecture is also part of the Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS) Research Seminar.
Mar 6, 2025 | Please join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Beth Coleman, where they will be in conversation to discuss “The Politics of Freedom: Generative AI, Race as Technology, and Postcolonial Computing”. This lecture is co-hosted with the Centre for Computational Social Science.
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Research Cluster Grants support interdisciplinary research cluster development among Humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts and Education and Allard Law at UBC-V. The grants are intended to promote research activity and collaboration among humanities scholars at UBC and beyond and to help collaborators leverage funding to secure additional support. Deadline: Dec 9, 2024
Dr. Bernard Perley, Director and Professor in Critical Indigenous Studies and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about his work in language revitalization, experiential pedagogy, and the crucial role art plays in both scholarship and activism.
Dr. Kavita Philip, Professor of English and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, sits at the epicentre of multiple networks, fostering interdisciplinary research within and beyond the academy. In this Scholar Spotlight, she talks about what it means to speak to a rapidly shifting global public, and finding spaces that allow for experimentation and collaboration.
Oct 19, 2023 | UBC Faculty of Arts Statement of Solidarity | Dear Arts community, In recent days, we have been devastated by the outbreak and escalation of violence and the ongoing suffering and loss among Israeli and Palestinian peoples. The current situation is part of a long history that has deeply affected, and continues […]
The Public Humanities Hub would like to offer its sincere condolences to Chris Patterson (GRSJ), former Hub Advisory Board Member, on the death of his life-partner, UBC-Vancouver Humanities scholar Y-Dang Troeung, on November 27th, 2022 after a year-long battle with cancer. Those of you who knew her know that Y-Dang was a model colleague: generous, […]
June 16, 2022 | The Public Humanities Hub is a co-applicant on the newly awarded “Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education”, a SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Charlotte Schallié, University of Victoria, which will gather and commemorate the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity survivors, including survivors of the Holocaust, […]