The Public Humanities Hub (PHH) hosts (or co-hosts) a number of speakers each year who are actively engaged in public-facing research and community-engaged scholarship. These events include both lectures and panels and are designed to showcase exemplary forms of public scholarship. PHH is particularly interested and open to co-sponsoring events with departments and units on campus with advanced humanities research.
Please stay tuned for announcements about the 2024/25 Public Humanities Noted Scholar Lecture Series.
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Upcoming Events
Talk and Q&A with Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada (September 11th, 2024)
Her Excellency Yuliya Kovaliv – Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada is pleased to share the latest developments of Ukraine’s resistance against Russia’s war on Ukrainian soil, as well as in the international arena: Canadian and global assistance to Ukraine; a Peace Formula as a path to a just peace in Europe; opportunities to improve and strengthen cooperation between Ukraine, Canada and the world during and after the war.
Event offered by: Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, UBC Public Humanities Hub, Centre for European Studies, the Office of Global Engagement, the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, the Department of History, and the Program in International Relations.
Educate, Agitate, Organize: Trans/Queer/Caste Workshop (September 17th, 2024)
Can an anti-caste movement politics found trans/queer histories? Using the framework of caste abolition and queer/trans legal struggles in South Asia, our workshop will offer some potential pathways for radical trans/queer/caste futurites. Two (rather ambitious!) questions will animate our gathering: (1) How has the escalation of authoritarianism and religious violence in South Asia impacted queer/trans/caste projects of dissent? (2) What do trans/queer/caste movements teach us about navigating crisis amidst a climate of constant conflict?
Speaker: Dr. Anjali Arondekar is Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Professor of Feminist Studies. She was the founding Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020-24.
Event offered by: The Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster (funded by the UBC Public Humanities Hub), Department of Asian Studies, Centre for Migration Studies, Centre for Climate Justice, Department of Geography, Department of English Language & Literatures, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice.
Archives of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History (September 18th, 2024)
Suturing histories of caste and sexuality to histories of dissent in South Asia, this talk rearranges the grammar of our ethical engagements with the past and present. At stake here are the historical vernaculars -the data- that found the evidentiary regimes of rights and representation for subaltern subjects. On offer here are figurations of andolan/protest, meditations that move between the heady inspirations of dissent and the stultifying violence of state practices. Andolan is after all a movement in Hindustani music, an alankar (combination/ornamentation of notes) that oscillates between one fixed note and its counterpart, touching, suffusing, all that lies in between. Let us imagine such an historical andolan together.
Speaker: Dr. Anjali Arondekar is Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Professor of Feminist Studies. She was the founding Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2020-24.
Event offered by: The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice, UBC Public Humanities Hub, Department of Asian Studies, Centre for Migration Studies, Centre for Climate Justice, and Department of English Language & Literatures.
Symposium | Keywords: Literature and Politics (October 28th and October 29th, 2024)
What is the relationship between literature and politics, and how does it shape the wider field of literary studies today? What are some of the most important historical permutations of this fraught relationship, and how do they continue to inform the vocabulary and critical methods in use today? How is the tension between literature and politics being reconfigured under the specific pressures of our own present, and what new interdisciplinary avenues might scholarship on literature and politics pursue in the future? This symposium addresses these questions via a series of talks on four political keywords of topical concern in our contemporary political landscape: “Discipline,” “Human Rights,” “Indigeneity,” and “Vulnerability.” This two-day symposium brings together scholars in dialogue to address a political keyword from distinct theoretical perspectives and historical angles.
Event offered by: Department of English Language & Literatures, UBC Public Humanities Hub, Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Faculty of Arts, Universität Regensburg, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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