Events
What Kind of University do we Want? A Symposium
What Kind of University Do We Want? is a two-day gathering of academics, students, and community members—teachers, artists, organizers, and poets—who care about the university’s future. Through shared conversation, we reflect on the university’s history and imagine what it could become. In Canada, the humanist university has been critiqued for its exclusionary foundations and failure to […]
What Kind of University Do We Want? is a two-day gathering of academics, students, and community members—teachers, artists, organizers, and poets—who care about the university’s future. Through shared conversation, we reflect on the university’s history and imagine what it could become. In Canada, the humanist university has been critiqued for its exclusionary foundations and failure to […]
Increasing Impact through Strategic Storytelling & Public Discourse
In this two-hour training session, former newspaper columnist, TV producer and now Catalyst of Informed Perspectives, Shari Graydon, draws on years of media, communications and advocacy experience to offer insights into how humanities scholars can more effectively engage beyond the academy, and — as importantly — why it’s critical that they do, despite the perceived […]
In this two-hour training session, former newspaper columnist, TV producer and now Catalyst of Informed Perspectives, Shari Graydon, draws on years of media, communications and advocacy experience to offer insights into how humanities scholars can more effectively engage beyond the academy, and — as importantly — why it’s critical that they do, despite the perceived […]
Collaborative Futures: Humanities Beyond the Crisis Discourse
A Workshop with Dr. Michael Facius, Tokyo College, Institutes of Advanced Studies, The University of Tokyo Moderated by Dr. Mark Turin, Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Department of Anthropology, UBC The Chronicle of Higher Education recently declared that the “crisis of the humanities is over.” Even if we want to believe this, […]
A Workshop with Dr. Michael Facius, Tokyo College, Institutes of Advanced Studies, The University of Tokyo Moderated by Dr. Mark Turin, Associate Professor, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies and Department of Anthropology, UBC The Chronicle of Higher Education recently declared that the “crisis of the humanities is over.” Even if we want to believe this, […]
Personal Histories in the Public Archive: Archiving the Klaus Zwilsky Story
photo credit: Dr. Charlotte Schallié What happens when family history becomes part of the public archive? Join us for a presentation and discussion with Head Archivist Aubrey Pomerance (Jewish Museum Berlin), Holocaust survivor Klaus Zwilsky, and Dr. Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria) as they examine how archives with personal histories can be developed with […]
photo credit: Dr. Charlotte Schallié What happens when family history becomes part of the public archive? Join us for a presentation and discussion with Head Archivist Aubrey Pomerance (Jewish Museum Berlin), Holocaust survivor Klaus Zwilsky, and Dr. Charlotte Schallié (University of Victoria) as they examine how archives with personal histories can be developed with […]
Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine – a lecture by Dr. Zahi Zalloua
While Frantz Fanon never wrote on the Palestinian question, his work on violence and colonialism is often evoked in scholarship on Palestine/Israel. Turning to Fanon at this moment for ways to better understand and respond to the Gaza War seems unavoidable. Liberal humanism’s response to Palestinian dehumanization is frequently to call for empathy. At the […]
While Frantz Fanon never wrote on the Palestinian question, his work on violence and colonialism is often evoked in scholarship on Palestine/Israel. Turning to Fanon at this moment for ways to better understand and respond to the Gaza War seems unavoidable. Liberal humanism’s response to Palestinian dehumanization is frequently to call for empathy. At the […]
The Nest: Free film screening and filmmaker conversation
Nov 5, 2025 | UBC, the NFB, and Doc Northwest present a free screening of Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt’s acclaimed documentary The Nest, voted a Top 20 Audience film at the 2025 Hot Docs International Film Festival, and by a talk with Julietta Singh hosted by Dylan Robinson, Professor and Arts Associate Dean Equity.
Nov 5, 2025 | UBC, the NFB, and Doc Northwest present a free screening of Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt’s acclaimed documentary The Nest, voted a Top 20 Audience film at the 2025 Hot Docs International Film Festival, and by a talk with Julietta Singh hosted by Dylan Robinson, Professor and Arts Associate Dean Equity.
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Announcements
New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Mary Liston
Dr. Mary Liston, Associate Professor at Allard Law and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about her work in administrative law, reimagining legal accountability and justice in Canada, and how to engage diverse publics in meaningful dialogue about law and society.
Dr. Mary Liston, Associate Professor at Allard Law and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about her work in administrative law, reimagining legal accountability and justice in Canada, and how to engage diverse publics in meaningful dialogue about law and society.
Welcoming Prof. Althea Thauberger as incoming Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub
Dean of Arts Clare Crowston has announced the appointment of Professor Althea Thauberger as Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. Professor Althea Thauberger is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory. Prior to joining UBC in 2018, Professor Thauberger […]
Dean of Arts Clare Crowston has announced the appointment of Professor Althea Thauberger as Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. Professor Althea Thauberger is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory. Prior to joining UBC in 2018, Professor Thauberger […]
New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Bernard Perley
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. 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.
New Scholar Spotlight Story – Dr. Kavita Philip
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.
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.
Statement of Solidarity
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 […]
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 […]
Remembering Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
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, […]
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, […]
