Events
Reimagining Graduate Scholarship
Feb 25, 2021 | This panel of UBC graduate students, faculty, and staff will showcase UBC initiatives, units, and graduate students that have critically engaged with Humanities graduate education, professionalization, public scholarship, and/or opportunities for diverse careers both within and outside academia.
Feb 25, 2021 | This panel of UBC graduate students, faculty, and staff will showcase UBC initiatives, units, and graduate students that have critically engaged with Humanities graduate education, professionalization, public scholarship, and/or opportunities for diverse careers both within and outside academia.
Translating Research into Public Writing
Feb 12, 2021 | Join Dr. Jennifer Wilson for a two-hour writing workshop on translating research into public writing. Dr. Wilson will give a talk about her experience breaking into media writing during and after a career in academia, covering topics like pitching, working with editors, making research publicly accessible, and more.
Feb 12, 2021 | Join Dr. Jennifer Wilson for a two-hour writing workshop on translating research into public writing. Dr. Wilson will give a talk about her experience breaking into media writing during and after a career in academia, covering topics like pitching, working with editors, making research publicly accessible, and more.
Podcasting the Dissertation: A Presentation by Anna Williams and Judith Pascoe
Jan 28, 2021 | The PHH Grad Committee invites you to a two-part event that explores the podcast as a form of public scholarship. Dr. Anna Williams will present on her scholarly podcast, “My Gothic Dissertation,” followed by a discussion with her doctoral supervisor, Dr. Judith Pascoe, produced while both were both at U Iowa.
Jan 28, 2021 | The PHH Grad Committee invites you to a two-part event that explores the podcast as a form of public scholarship. Dr. Anna Williams will present on her scholarly podcast, “My Gothic Dissertation,” followed by a discussion with her doctoral supervisor, Dr. Judith Pascoe, produced while both were both at U Iowa.
Massy Reads: Speculative Fiction by Humanities Scholars
Jan 20, 2021 | Please join us for a book launch and panel with three UBC authors of speculative fiction: Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Faculty of Science), Kawika Guillermo (GRSJ) , and Patrick Moran (FHIS). These texts are inspired by each author’s scholarly interests and demonstrate creative forms of public scholarship.
Jan 20, 2021 | Please join us for a book launch and panel with three UBC authors of speculative fiction: Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Faculty of Science), Kawika Guillermo (GRSJ) , and Patrick Moran (FHIS). These texts are inspired by each author’s scholarly interests and demonstrate creative forms of public scholarship.
Refugees and Borders: Remapping the World We Think We Know
Dec 5, 2020 | This free webinar begins with a virtual screening of Erin Goheen Glanville’s Borderstory, a Worn Words short documentary and dialogue-opener about what the word ‘border’ means to us. Following the film, cross-sector experts will engage questions as part of a panel discussion.
Dec 5, 2020 | This free webinar begins with a virtual screening of Erin Goheen Glanville’s Borderstory, a Worn Words short documentary and dialogue-opener about what the word ‘border’ means to us. Following the film, cross-sector experts will engage questions as part of a panel discussion.
Community Engagement and the Teaching-Intensive Institution
Dec 2, 2020 | Can engaging with community make you a better instructor in the social sciences or humanities? This event invites those interested in becoming educators to consider how community engagement sets them apart in a competitive job market. Though targeted towards Arts graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, this event is open to all.
Dec 2, 2020 | Can engaging with community make you a better instructor in the social sciences or humanities? This event invites those interested in becoming educators to consider how community engagement sets them apart in a competitive job market. Though targeted towards Arts graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, this event is open to all.
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Announcements
The Hub Sends Team to MLA Virtual Summit for the Future of Doctoral Education
The Public Humanities Hub has sponsored a UBC team to participate in the MLA Virtual Summit for the Future of Doctoral Education: Dr. Kyle Frackman (Associate Professor and Acting Head, Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies), Dr. Letitia Henville (Coordinator, PhD Arts Co-op), and Sydney Lines (PhD Student, English).
The Public Humanities Hub has sponsored a UBC team to participate in the MLA Virtual Summit for the Future of Doctoral Education: Dr. Kyle Frackman (Associate Professor and Acting Head, Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies), Dr. Letitia Henville (Coordinator, PhD Arts Co-op), and Sydney Lines (PhD Student, English).
Attend Bystander Intervention Training
This summer, the PHH team attended a Hollaback! training session to learn the best tools and strategies for bystander intervention. Learn more about how to practice better public allyship by attending a workshop.
This summer, the PHH team attended a Hollaback! training session to learn the best tools and strategies for bystander intervention. Learn more about how to practice better public allyship by attending a workshop.
NEW Graduate Student Survey Report
Graduate students, faculty advisors, and department heads: this summer we conducted a survey of graduate students in the humanities about their interests, concerns, and anxieties about public scholarship, alt-ac career prospects, and the precarity of the academic job market. The results are in.
Graduate students, faculty advisors, and department heads: this summer we conducted a survey of graduate students in the humanities about their interests, concerns, and anxieties about public scholarship, alt-ac career prospects, and the precarity of the academic job market. The results are in.
Letter from the Director
Dear colleagues and community partners: deep breaths. Since the COVID-19 pandemic put us all in quarantine, I have been thinking a lot about breath. Deep breaths sustain us, comfort us, and empower our voices. We breathe the same air. We are in this together.
Dear colleagues and community partners: deep breaths. Since the COVID-19 pandemic put us all in quarantine, I have been thinking a lot about breath. Deep breaths sustain us, comfort us, and empower our voices. We breathe the same air. We are in this together.
Noh Theatre Legends Come to UBC
Noh Theatre enthusiasts found themselves a treat at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre on September 8. At the cost of $20 — or free for students — Hisa Uzawa and her daughter, Hikaru Uzawa, presented the tale of Atsumori.
Noh Theatre enthusiasts found themselves a treat at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre on September 8. At the cost of $20 — or free for students — Hisa Uzawa and her daughter, Hikaru Uzawa, presented the tale of Atsumori.
UBC Exhibit of Rare Books and Artifacts Chronicles 100 Years of Queer History
A new exhibit of rare books, flyers, postcards and pamphlets on display at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna unveils some unique artifacts of queer history. A Queer Century, first shown at the university’s Vancouver campus, highlights some of the changing perceptions of gender and sexuality between 1869 to 1969, say the exhibit’s curators.
A new exhibit of rare books, flyers, postcards and pamphlets on display at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna unveils some unique artifacts of queer history. A Queer Century, first shown at the university’s Vancouver campus, highlights some of the changing perceptions of gender and sexuality between 1869 to 1969, say the exhibit’s curators.
