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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar wearing a suit and tie, sitting at an office desk speaking on the phone

Dr. Ambedkar International Symposium on Emancipation

DATE: April 21-26, 2023 LOCATION: UBC Vancouver, University of Victoria The Dr. Ambedkar International Symposium on Emancipation explores the topics of caste, Buddhism, and emancipation based on the philosophy of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar, and provides a forum for thinkers to gather and reflect on the progress made and challenges experienced over the past twenty […]

International Comic Arts Forum details are hand-written with illustrations of smiling presenters and the trees, building, and coastal mountains at the conference location of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, taking place April 20-22. Names of guest speakers and artists are shown within ornamental frames: Ebony Flowers, Meghan Parker, Birgit Weyhe, Priscilla Layne, Susan Kirtley, and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

International Comic Arts Forum 2023

Cover of Birgit Weyhe’s Rude Girl (2022)

Birgit Weyhe’s Rude Girl (2022): Comics, Blackness, and Transnational Dialogue

DATE: April 20, 2023 TIME: 7:30pm – 9:00pm LOCATION: The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees, 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver Join the Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies on April 20 at 7:30 pm Pacific Time for the Ziegler Lecture Series, featuring Priscilla Layne of the University of North Carolina at Chapel […]