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    2024-25 Public Humanities Hub grants and awards

    The Public Humanities Hub is pleased to announce this year’s funding and award opportunities. Click through title to view.

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    2024-25 PHH Noted Scholar Lecture Series

    Please join us for this year’s Public Humanities Noted Scholar Lecture Series. Click through title to see full details.

  • Latest Toolkit: Infographics

    Thinking of creating infographics in the classroom or as part of your scholarly research output? Check out our latest collaborative toolkit we built with the UBC Learning Exchange and the UBC Library.

  • Check Out Our Scholar Spotlight Series

    Our Scholar Spotlight Series showcases the breadth and depth of public humanities research at UBC. Check out our scholar spotlights to read more about the important work humanities scholars do.

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    Visit Our Video Archive

    Did you miss an event or want to re-watch one? Need to catch up on our #HumaniSeries? Visit our YouTube channel! We’re continually adding videos.

Events

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Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility: Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Jasbir Puar
Sep 10, 2025 | The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms research cluster) presents: “Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility: Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Jasbir Puar”. Dr. Lara Sheehi is a clinical psychologist and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for […]

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Geography Atmospheric Apparitions Symposium Guest Lecture Javier Arbona-Homar
Sep 18, 2025 | This lecture and book discussion is part of the UBC Department of Geography’s Atmospheric Apparitions Symposium presented with the Liu Lobby Gallery at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs on September 18-19 2025. It is free and open to the public. We encourage you to visit the departmental Atmospheric […]

Queer and Trans Salon
Oct 1, 2025 | The Queer and Trans Salon is a new gathering space dedicated to showcasing emerging research and writing from queer and trans scholars and students at UBC and across Vancouver. Meeting twice each semester, the salon offers an intimate and intellectually vibrant setting for sharing work-in-progress. The format for presentations ranges and […]

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Call for Expressions of Interest for the Queer and Trans Salon
The Queer & Trans Salon is a new gathering space dedicated to showcasing emerging research and writing from queer and trans scholars and students at UBC and across Vancouver. Meeting twice each semester, the salon offers an intimate and intellectually vibrant setting for sharing work-in-progress. The format for presentations ranges and can include experimental forms […]

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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 […]

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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.

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.

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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 […]

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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, […]

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Upcoming Events

An open book against a purple background with codeMeet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines

The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network, co-led by Sydney Lines (EL&L; PHH Advisory Board), co-authors a new TEI schema for digital texts to develop antiracist, inclusive text markup practices.

Universities should respond to cuts and corporate influence with co-operative governance

Dr. Michelle Stack (EDUC) and Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein (U of T) advocate for moving existing educational models from a rankings-based system to a cooperative framework.

Graphic novel depicting history of relocated Vancouver Island First Nation nears completion

With support from the UBC Comics Studies Cluster, a forthcoming graphic novel illustrated by Indigenous artists shares the history of the Homalco First Nation (HFN) as remembered by Elders.

The enduring appeal of a century-old German film about queer love

Dr. Ervin Malakaj discusses the silent German movie Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others), which hoped to dispel public misconceptions of same-sex relations and abolish Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code.

Gaming the System

Dr. Christopher Patterson’s work examines the intersection of race and video games—across both game development and play. Learn about what drew him to this topic, how he views the role of his own identity in his research, and about some of his key projects.

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Call for Expressions of Interest for the Queer and Trans Salon

The Queer & Trans Salon is a new gathering space dedicated to showcasing emerging research and writing from queer and trans scholars and students at UBC and across Vancouver. Meeting twice each semester, the salon offers an intimate and intellectually vibrant setting for sharing work-in-progress. The format for presentations ranges and can include experimental forms […]

Prof. Althea Thauberger wearing a black top, blue jeans, and glasses, smiling

Althea Thauberger

Prof. Althea Thauberger wearing a black top, blue jeans, and glasses, smiling

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 […]

Headshot of Lara Sheehi wearing a black top and earrings, smiling

Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility: Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Jasbir Puar

Sep 10, 2025 | The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms research cluster) presents: “Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility: Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Jasbir Puar”. Dr. Lara Sheehi is a clinical psychologist and a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for […]

Black and white headshot of Javier Arbona-Homar who is wearing glasses, smiling

Geography Atmospheric Apparitions Symposium Guest Lecture Javier Arbona-Homar

Sep 18, 2025 | This lecture and book discussion is part of the UBC Department of Geography’s Atmospheric Apparitions Symposium presented with the Liu Lobby Gallery at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs on September 18-19 2025. It is free and open to the public. We encourage you to visit the departmental Atmospheric […]

Queer and Trans Salon

Oct 1, 2025 | The Queer and Trans Salon is a new gathering space dedicated to showcasing emerging research and writing from queer and trans scholars and students at UBC and across Vancouver. Meeting twice each semester, the salon offers an intimate and intellectually vibrant setting for sharing work-in-progress. The format for presentations ranges and […]

An open book against a purple background with code

Meet the Faculty of Arts PhD students decolonizing the future of digital humanities across disciplines

The Adaptive Text Encoding Initiative Network, co-led by Sydney Lines (EL&L; PHH Advisory Board), co-authors a new TEI schema for digital texts to develop antiracist, inclusive text markup practices.

Headshot of Dr. Bernard Perley

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.

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.

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Dennis Britton



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