2021

Photo of Fyodor Dostoevsky sitting in an interior with crown moulding resting one hand on top of another leaning on an armrest, with colourful balloons, striped conical hat, and party horn superimposed on him

Birthday Party for Dostoevsky

Nov 11, 2021 | The North American Dostoevsky Society invites you to a multimedia extravaganza birthday party for Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth.

Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson playing the characters of Clare and Irene respectively in the film Passing from Netflix, based on the novel by Nella Larsen. They are wearing cloche hats sitting side by side with a staircase in the background. Close-up on their faces: Irene looking at Clare who has her eyes closed and is out of focus in the foreground. Text overlaid on image: "Virtual watch party & panel discussion. Nella Larsen's Passing. Wednesday, November 10, 6:15 - 9pm PST. Panelists Alexis McGee, Crystal Webster, Ervin Malakaj. Image from the trailer of Passing." UBC Public Humanities wordmark at lower left corner.

Nella Larsen’s Passing: A Watch Party & Panel Discussion

DATE: November 10, 2021 TIME: 6:15pm – 9:00pm LOCATION: Zoom The Public Humanities Hub invites you to a watch party of Netflix’s new film Passing (dir. Rebecca Hall) based on Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel of the same name. Larsen’s novel has been read by scholars across intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. Post-screening we […]

PBS host and author/journalist/historian Alexander Heffner wearing a floral tie and dark pinstriped jacket smiling at the camera, with text advertising his talk, part of the Department of English Language and Literatures' Dorothy Black Lecture Series

Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age/Uncivil and Unwell in America

Nov 3, 2021 | Join PBS host Alexander Heffner for a discussion on the effects of divisiveness on discourse, campaigns, and governance as well as the influence of new media, dis/misinformation, and filter bubbles that polarize information intake and society.