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  • Watch Now! Games in Action: Interactivity / Activation \ Activism

    Conference recordings are now available from the November 4-5, 2022 Games in Action conference hosted at the UBC Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Click through title to view.

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    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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Events

Detail from Taqralik Partridge installation view in Among All These Tundras at the Esker Foundation, curated by Heather Igloliorte and Amy Prouty. Photo by John Dean. From Esker Foundation press release: “​​Taqralik Partridge, 'Tusarsauvungaa,' 2018 Series of NINE elements Cotton, polyester, wool, silk, glass beads, metal beads, Canadian sealskin, reindeer leather, thermal emergency blanket, Pixee lures, plastic tarp, Canadian coins, tamarack tree cones, dental floss, artificial sinew, goose feather and river grass.”
Contemporary Inuit Art Curating and Making
Feb 8, 2023 | Dr. Heather Igloliorte and Taqralik Partridge will discuss their previous collaborations as well as broader issues in curating and producing contemporary Inuit Art in institutional and community contexts. Presented by AHVA with support from the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies, and The Critical Image Forum, a PHH-funded research cluster.

Publishing in the Public Humanities
Feb 9, 2023 | How do you publish on a co-creative community collaboration, a scholarly podcast, or a multimedia project that respects Indigenous protocols? How do you co-publish with a non-university community partner? What does peer review look like for publicly engaged scholarship? Hear about publication opportunities and bring your questions to the breakout session. 

Eliyahu HaNabi Synagogue, Damascus, Syria (post-destruction)
Resisting erasure: geo-mapping destroyed and forgotten Jewish communities
Feb 14, 2023 | Hear about two geo-mapping projects that resist those erasures. Diarna is the Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life, and Mnemonics, which includes details on lost Jewish communities in Ukraine, promotes the “formation of inclusive memory culture in Ukraine.” Co-sponsored by PHH, UBC History and the Holocaust Education Committee.

Painting of blue bare tree branches intertwining against a fiery orange sky, framed within a dark grey arch border
Law & Humanities Graduate Writing Workshop
March 17-18, 2023 | Doctoral and postgrad students at Canadian universities whose projects, themes, methodology or approaches are at the intersection of law and the humanities are invited to a free writing workshop hosted by the PHH-funded research cluster, Canadian Network of Law & Humanities. Register by Feb 15.

Thelonius Monk seated, fingers blurred in quick motion over piano keys, a still from Alain Gomis' documentary film Rewind & Play, courtesy Grasshopper Film
Rewind & Play film screening and discussion
Feb 16, 2023 | Rewind & Play reworks a 1969 interview with jazz icon Thelonious Monk, exposing the casual racism at work in French television production at the time. Catch a free screening of the film by award-winning French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis, presented by Cinema Thinks the World, a PHH-supported research cluster.

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A Workshop on Book Proposals
Feb 21, 2023 | 10 UBC Humanities Scholars who are completing monograph manuscripts and will have a book proposal ready to exchange by early February will be selected to participate in a 2-hour workshop, followed by virtual half-hour one-on-ones with Courtney Berger, Executive Editor, Duke University Press.

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Announcements

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Work with us
The Public Humanities Hub at UBC-Vancouver is hiring a Program Assistant. Apply by January 16, 2023, 11:59PM Pacific Time.

Y-Dang Troeung is smiling on a sunny day in the UBC Rose Garden with trees, water, mountains in the background
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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“Visual Storytelling and Graphic Art in Genocide and Human Rights Education” awarded SSHRC Partnership Grant
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, […]

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CES Events and Resources in Response to Ukraine Invasion
As the crisis in Ukraine unfolds, the Centre for European Studies (CES) is compiling resources and developing events that provide background information, teaching resources, reliable news sources, and ways to help. See their page of resources for more information, which will be continuously updated. The Public Humanities Hub will be working to promote events and […]

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Call for Proposals | #HumaniNights: Celebrating the Engaged Humanities with Arts Amplifier and the Public Humanities Hub
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 23 MARCH, 2022 @ 9:00 AM PST. Are you a Humanities scholar? Have you been recently inspired? Perhaps by a book, film, or video game? A special pet theory or a niche research interest? Or a public, applied research, or creative project you’ve been involved in? The Public Humanities Hub and Arts […]

Heather Tam, Senior Program Assistant, Awarded Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence
We are thrilled to announce that Heather Tam, the Public Humanities Hub’s Senior Program Assistant, has been awarded the Dean’s Award for Staff Excellence. The award “recognizes exceptional staff contributions in executing the academic mission of the Faculty of Arts through support in administrative, technical, and other specialized areas.” Heather joined the Hub at its […]

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Upcoming Events

In Danielle Smith’s fantasy Alberta, Indigenous struggle is twisted to suit settlers

Dr. Daniel Heath Justice highlights the way Canadian political rhetoric appropriates Indigenous symbols and identities to perpetuate negative stereotypes and build up false settler-colonial mythologies.

What is ‘blended learning’ and how can it benefit post-secondary students?

Dr. Siobhán McPhee and Micheal Jerowsky discuss the opportunities and possibilities of creating more flexible classrooms with expanded technological and pedagogical approaches.

Scholar Spotlight: David Ng

David Ng (PhD Candidate, GRSJ) discusses intersections between art, activism, and academia, and how relationality is key to bridging these roles.

UBC Professor shakes up Romance studies in experimental course

Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray raises questions of disciplinarity and method while experimenting with open, decentralized, and student-centered practices like open-access content, flexible pathways, and contract grading.

UBC historian examines the dynamics of digital technology in the Russian invasion

Dr. Heidi Tworek, with other historians and communication scholars, discusses “the interplay between old and new media” and the complexities of cyberwar in the Russian war in Ukraine.

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Highlights

Detail from Taqralik Partridge installation view in Among All These Tundras at the Esker Foundation, curated by Heather Igloliorte and Amy Prouty. Photo by John Dean. From Esker Foundation press release: “​​Taqralik Partridge, 'Tusarsauvungaa,' 2018 Series of NINE elements Cotton, polyester, wool, silk, glass beads, metal beads, Canadian sealskin, reindeer leather, thermal emergency blanket, Pixee lures, plastic tarp, Canadian coins, tamarack tree cones, dental floss, artificial sinew, goose feather and river grass.”

Contemporary Inuit Art Curating and Making

Feb 8, 2023 | Dr. Heather Igloliorte and Taqralik Partridge will discuss their previous collaborations as well as broader issues in curating and producing contemporary Inuit Art in institutional and community contexts. Presented by AHVA with support from the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies, and The Critical Image Forum, a PHH-funded research cluster.

Publishing in the Public Humanities

Feb 9, 2023 | How do you publish on a co-creative community collaboration, a scholarly podcast, or a multimedia project that respects Indigenous protocols? How do you co-publish with a non-university community partner? What does peer review look like for publicly engaged scholarship? Hear about publication opportunities and bring your questions to the breakout session. 

Eliyahu HaNabi Synagogue, Damascus, Syria (post-destruction)

Resisting erasure: geo-mapping destroyed and forgotten Jewish communities

Feb 14, 2023 | Hear about two geo-mapping projects that resist those erasures. Diarna is the Geo-Museum of North African and Middle Eastern Jewish Life, and Mnemonics, which includes details on lost Jewish communities in Ukraine, promotes the “formation of inclusive memory culture in Ukraine.” Co-sponsored by PHH, UBC History and the Holocaust Education Committee.

Painting of blue bare tree branches intertwining against a fiery orange sky, framed within a dark grey arch border

Law & Humanities Graduate Writing Workshop

March 17-18, 2023 | Doctoral and postgrad students at Canadian universities whose projects, themes, methodology or approaches are at the intersection of law and the humanities are invited to a free writing workshop hosted by the PHH-funded research cluster, Canadian Network of Law & Humanities. Register by Feb 15.

Thelonius Monk seated, fingers blurred in quick motion over piano keys, a still from Alain Gomis' documentary film Rewind & Play, courtesy Grasshopper Film

Rewind & Play film screening and discussion

Feb 16, 2023 | Rewind & Play reworks a 1969 interview with jazz icon Thelonious Monk, exposing the casual racism at work in French television production at the time. Catch a free screening of the film by award-winning French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis, presented by Cinema Thinks the World, a PHH-supported research cluster.

A spiral-bound notebook is opened to a blank, lined page, beside a pen and ruler.

A Workshop on Book Proposals

Feb 21, 2023 | 10 UBC Humanities Scholars who are completing monograph manuscripts and will have a book proposal ready to exchange by early February will be selected to participate in a 2-hour workshop, followed by virtual half-hour one-on-ones with Courtney Berger, Executive Editor, Duke University Press.

In Danielle Smith’s fantasy Alberta, Indigenous struggle is twisted to suit settlers

Dr. Daniel Heath Justice highlights the way Canadian political rhetoric appropriates Indigenous symbols and identities to perpetuate negative stereotypes and build up false settler-colonial mythologies.

UBC clock tower, trees and surrounding buildings in panorama under a sunny blue sky, by Hover Collective / UBC Brand & Marketing

Work with us

The Public Humanities Hub at UBC-Vancouver is hiring a Program Assistant. Apply by January 16, 2023, 11:59PM Pacific Time.

Y-Dang Troeung is smiling on a sunny day in the UBC Rose Garden with trees, water, mountains in the background

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, […]

Watch Now! Games in Action: Interactivity / Activation \ Activism

Conference recordings are now available from the November 4-5, 2022 Games in Action conference hosted at the UBC Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Click through title to view.



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