2021

Book covers for Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley by Sherrill Grace, with black-and-white close-up of Timothy Findley leaning forward toward the camera, smiling slightly, wearing collared shirts, and Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel, with portrait of Roth reclining in a chair in a room with bare wall and a rug, beside a stack of books on the wood floor

Biography Writing as Public Scholarship

DATE: March 11, 2021 TIME: 3:00pm – 4:15pm LOCATION: Zoom A book launch and conversation with Sherrill Grace and Ira Nadel Please join us for a conversation with two UBC authors on their recent biographies of writers Timothy Findley and Philip Roth. They will discuss their writing process, how they approached telling the life story […]

Fireside chat with Dr. Margaret Price, author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, moderated by Dr. Judy Segal, Professor of English, taking place March 2, 4-5:30pm PST online. Dr. Price is shown in front of a tree, smiling and holding a small brown dog in one hand. Co-sponsor logos line the bottom: Women's Health Research Cluster, Science and Technology Studies program with black crow motif, Rational Trust Research Cluster, and UBC Public Humanities Hub

A Fireside Chat with Margaret Price

DATE: March 2, 2021 TIME: 4:00pm – 5:30pm LOCATION: Zoom The Public Humanities Hub, partnering with the Women’s Health Research Cluster, is pleased to offer this opportunity to sit down with Dr. Margaret Price to discuss issues she addresses in her work on mental health and academic life. In conversation with Dr. Judy Segal, Dr. […]

three smiling graduate students sit at a table with laptops

Reimagining Graduate Scholarship

DATE: Feb 25, 2021 TIME: 12:30pm – 2:00pm LOCATION: Zoom “Reimagining Graduate Scholarship” is part of a series of events designed for graduate students and supervisors centred around reimagining Humanities graduate programs, forms of graduate scholarship, and graduate career diversity and professional development. This event panel will be made up of UBC graduate students, faculty, […]