Scholars @ Work

hands moving tiles and dice around, birds eye view

Board games can help build connections and reduce stress

UBC Pop Culture Cluster Director Dr. Biz Njidam discusses how tabletop gaming encourages community-building, and the Cluster’s Critical Play Lab and Fellows Program.

program of the (anti)colonial seas symposium, featuring a dark, moody, tumultuous sea with a crescent moon at the top

Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster hosts their second symposium “(Anti)Colonial Seas”

May 2026, the Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster brings together scholars from institutions around the world to discuss global connections across lands and seas.

dr. georgeson-usher in a black top and red dress looking to the right as she speaks with hand gestures, at the vancouver art gallery

What it means to “exist at the edges of the Pacific Ocean”

UBC AHVA’s Dr. Camille Georgeson-Usher curates “We who have known tides” at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Nov. 2025–Apr. 2026), which looks at how the ocean has shaped the work of Indigenous artists.