2024

Raey Costain wearing a black leather jacket and Cal Smith wearing a red paisley scarf, smiling, beside details about the webinar they are giving on the Art of Comics-Engaged Research on Thursday, November 28, 9 AM Pacific Time as part of the Art and Testimony Webinar Series, co-hosted by the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives project at the University of Victoria and the UBC Public Humanities Hub.

The Art of Comics-Engaged Research with Raey Costain and Cal Smith

DATE: November 28, 2024 TIME: 9:00am – 10:15am VENUE: Zoom Join PhD students Raey Costain and Cal Smith as they present their research on how visual methods such as comic drawing have a unique capacity to explore and document human stories in the past and present. In conversation with Dr. Mary Chapman, they will challenge […]

Actor Kaitlyn Yott as Kateri singing amid tall trees, a still from Les Filles du Roi, beside details of a free screening of the film and Q&A discussion, on November 26 at the Chan Centre UBC, 1:30PM.

Free Screening of Les Filles Du Roi

DATE: November 26, 2024 TIME: 1:30pm – 4:30pm VENUE: Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre Everyone is welcome to come along to a free screening of Les Filles du Roi, the acclaimed musical written and directed by Corey Payette. The screening takes place on Tuesday, November 26, in the Royal Bank Cinema in the Chan Centre. […]

Painting of blue bare tree branches intertwining against a fiery orange sky, framed within a dark grey arch border, with details of the CNLH event on "Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies", including quoted commentary: "Gillo Pontecorvo's undervalued 1969 film Burn! offers an ideological critique of abolitionism and holds untapped potential for the radicalization of human rights discourse today. Refusing the debilitating narrative that abolition was a legally encoded humanitarian gift, Burn! insists upon Black agency as a central historical force in the story of an as yet incomplete struggle for liberation." Full details at the link below.

Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies

DATE: November 22, 2024 TIME: 12:30pm – 1:45pm LOCATION: Room 335, Allard Law, UBC and Online via Zoom Webinar Come hear Dr. Philip Kaisary talk about about black agency, human rights, and slavery through the 1969 film Burn! The talk will be followed by a conversation with the audience and conveners of the Canadian Network […]