View all of our events here since PHH started in 2019. For ones that were recorded, the event webpage will be updated with a link to the video on our YouTube channel as they are made ready.
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Conference / SymposiumPHH-SupportedAugust 10-14, 2026TEI 2026: Creating Connections, Unsettling Practices
Presented by a team of UBC and SFU organizers, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WorkshopJuly 29, 2026Anti-Ableist Research Cultures: A Research Presentation, Discussion and Zine Workshop
Antonios KtenidisNadena DohartyTerra PoirierPresented in partnership with Nadena Doharty (EDST). -
WorkshopPublic Humanities Workshop SeriesJuly 22, 2026Appraising AI: A Student-Led Approach to Critical Evaluation
Kate GreensladePresented in partnership with UBC Department of Educational Studies and Office of Research in Education. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableJune 30, 2026Out Of Office Hours Collective: The Mega-Event and The City
Beverly HoMaddie Clark-JonesSamona MarshDelilah GreggLaura MacintyrePresented in partnership with Pivot Legal Society and The Mainlander. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueJune 19, 2026Curatorial Practice as Public Scholarship: On fluid geographies and transdisciplinary forms
Martha KirszenbaumPresented in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery (Emily Carr University). -
Conference / SymposiumMay 28-30, 2026Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis – Symposium
Presented in partnership with Allard Law and Centre for Climate Justice. -
WebinarSCVN: Archiving with Care (2026)May 5, 2026Oral Histories in the Archive: Stories from Turtle Island and Rwanda
Duncan McCueErin JesseeFransiska LouwagieElizabeth Nijdam (moderator)Presented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableLet's Talk HumanitiesMay 4, 2026Let’s Talk Humanities: A New International Order?
Heidi TworekMax CameronPresented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. -
WebinarSCVN: Archiving with Care (2026)April 22, 2026Trauma-Informed Archiving: Lessons from the War Childhood Museum
Dr. Ajnura AkbašMatt Huculak (moderator)Olivia Kozlovic (moderator)Presented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableLet's Talk HumanitiesApril 13, 2026Let’s Talk Humanities: Mining, AI, and Warfare
M. V. RamanaJess DempseySara GhebremussePresented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueApril 7, 2026Disability Justice: Fighting for a Better World
Heidi JanzPresented in partnership with Carnegie Learning Centre and Capilano University. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedApril 7, 2026US-China Relations: Rivalry, Strategy, and the Future of Global Power
Alex Yu-Ting LinPresented by UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WebinarSCVN: Archiving with Care (2026)March 24, 2026Risk in the Archives: Preserving Anonymity, Access, and Cultural Memory
Franziska ZauggNathaniel BruntisKjell Anderson (moderator)Presented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableMarch 23, 2026Evolving Climate Justice Agendas Through Student Research: Graduate Research Showcase
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WorkshopMarch 20, 2026Before the Public: Rethinking Public Scholarship through Community-Based Education
Adi BurtonItamar ManoffPresented in partnership with the UBC Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Studies. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedMarch 17, 2026
“Opting Out?” Narratives of Non-Motherhood in Our Era of Democratic Change
Holly HummerPresented by UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WorkshopPublic Humanities Workshop SeriesMarch 16, 2026Publish that Book! with Caitlin Tyler-Richards
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Conference / SymposiumMarch 14, 2026What kind of University do we want? A Symposium
Presented in partnership with Audain Gallery and the Institute for the Humanities at SFU. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueMarch 13, 2026Keynote Lecture: Is the University Recognizing the Gifts of Indigenous Knowledges?
Dorothy Cucw-la7 ChristianWenona Hall (respondent)Presented in partnership with Audain Gallery and the Institute for the Humanities (SFU). -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedMarch 11-12, 2026
The Great Entanglement: Reframing East Eurasian Histories in the Longue Durée
Presented by Shoufu Yin (UBC CENES) and Mara Yue Du (Cornell University), with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WorkshopPublic Humanities Workshop SeriesMarch 4, 2026Increasing Impact through Strategic Storytelling & Public Discourse
Shari Graydon -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedMarch 2, 2026
Book Talk: ‘Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922’
Edith ClowesPresented by UBC CES and UBC CENES, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WorkshopPublic Humanities Workshop SeriesFebruary 25, 2026Collaborative Futures: Humanities Beyond the Crisis Discourse
Michael FaciusMark Turin (moderator) -
SeminarStudent Reading GroupJanuary 30, 2026Solidarity with the Palestinian Cause: A Workshop with Dr. Zahi Zalloua
Zahi ZallouaMagnolia Pauker (facilitator) -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureJanuary 29, 2026Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine
Zahi ZallouaDina Al-Kassim (discussant)Priti Narayan (discussant)Presented in partnership with UBC ASIA, UBC ENGL, UBC GEOG, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. -
WebinarSCVN: Archiving with Care (2026)January 29, 2026Personal Histories in the Public Archive: Archiving the Klaus Zwilsky Story
Aubrey PomeranceKlaus Max ZwilskyCharlotte SchalliéPresented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableDecember 8, 2025Navigating Image Archives: Graduate Research Showcase
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Special presentationPHH-SupportedNov 16, 2025
Long Live Kings
Presented by UBC ACRE, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedNovember 5, 2025
The Nest: Free film screening and filmmaker conversation
Julietta SinghDylan Robinson (host)Presented by the Chan Centre, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureOctober 29, 2025Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Storytelling
Nilo TabrizyNeda Maghbouleh -
SeminarStudent Reading GroupOct 27, 2025Student Reading Group: For the Sun After Long Nights
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ScreeningPHH-SupportedOctober 24, 2025
The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024): A screening and discussion
Ólöf GarðarsdóttirBirna BjarnadóttirSofiya ZahovaBrynjarr Þór Mendoza (moderator)Presented by UBC Pop Culture Cluster, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureOctober 14, 2025“Occupying Selves” or “How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain”
Audra SimpsonPresented in collaboration with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, the Centre for Climate Justice and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. -
SeminarPHH-SupportedOctober 1, 2025
Queer and Trans Salon
Jasbir Puar (organizer)Ervin Malakaj (organizer)Elif Sari (organizer)Presented by Queer and Trans Anti-Fascism Research Cluster. with support from Public Humanities Hub -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueSeptember 18, 2025after explosivity, what remains?
Javier Arbona-HomarPeter Hudson (respondent) -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedSeptember 10, 2025
Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility
Lara SheehiJasbir Puar (discussant)Presented by UBC GRSJ, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedMarch 28, 2025
Fostering Trustworthy Science
Heather DouglasPresented by UBC Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedMarch 27, 2025
Responsible Innovation within the Social Contract for Science
Heather DouglasPresented by UBC Graduate Program in Science and Technology Studies. with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Special presentationMarch 21-27, 2025UBC Slow Fashion Season – RECLAIM, REMAKE, REBEL!
Presented by The Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre, Slow Fashion Research Cluster with the SEEDS Sustainability Office, Museum of Anthropology, Hatch Art Gallery, DreamsStill and UBC Arts & Culture; with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Panel discussion / RoundtablePublic Scholarship SeriesMarch 11, 2025Arts-Based Approaches to Public Engagement with Research
George BelliveauAmanda Claudia WagerChristina CookJS ValdezMarika Kunnas (moderator) -
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Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedMarch 7, 2025
Keynote Address: Euripides in the Ukraine
Claire CatenaccioPresented by the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest and the Classical Association of the Canadian West, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureMarch 6, 2025The Politics of Freedom: Generative AI, Race as Technology, and Postcolonial Computing
Alex HannaBeth Coleman -
Special presentationPHH-SupportedMarch 2, 2025
Lessons in Drag: A Lecture-Performance by LaWhore Vagistan
LaWhore VagistanPresented by UBC Asian Canadian Research and Engagement, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureFebruary 26, 2025Life and Death Off the Record
Amanda CheongPresented in partnership with UBC ACRE, UBC ACAM, UBC CMS. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureFebruary 12, 2025Condemned: How America’s Courts and Prisons Terrorized Black Children
Crystal WebsterPresented in partnership with UBC HIST. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureFebruary 5, 2025Return Migration across the Black Atlantic: The “Brazilians” in Francophone West Africa
Antje ZiethenMarco Schaumloeffel (discussant)Presented in partnership with UBC FHIS. -
Special presentationJanuary 30, 2025Art as Indigenous Pedagogy
Shelley NiroShannon LeddyPresented in partnership with the Vancouver Art Gallery. -
WebinarSCVN: Art and Testimony (2024)November 28, 2024The Art of Comics-Engaged Research with Raey Costain and Cal Smith
Raey CostainCal SmithPresented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedNovember 26, 2024Free Screening of Les Filles Du Roi
Corey PayetteChristian Díaz DuránPresented by X̱wi7x̱wa Library, Arts Indigenous Student Advising, and the UBC Film Society, with the support from Public Humanities Hub -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedNovember 22, 2024Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies
Philip KaisaryPresented by the Canadian Network of Law and Humanities Research Cluster, funded by Public Humanities Hub. -
SeminarPHH-SupportedNovember 20 and 27, 2024November Comic Book Club
Hosted by the UBC Comic Studies Cluster, a Public Humanities Hub-funded research cluster. -
WorkshopPHH-SupportedOctober 31, 2024Violent Intimacies, Trans Worldmaking, and LGBTI+ Organizing in Turkey
Lalu OzbanAsli ZenginPresented by the Queer and Trans Antifascisms Research Cluster, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Conference / SymposiumPHH-SupportedOctober 28-29, 2024Keywords: Literature and Politics
Presented by UBC Department of English, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedOctober 17, 2024From Ground Zero: 22 untold short stories in film from Gaza
Mohannad AbwahAlia HijaabArtists 4 PalestinePresented by the from the river to the sea collective, with special thanks to the Critical Image Forum Research Cluster, funded by Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedOctober 17, 2024Book Launch: Camera Geologica By Siobhan Angus
Siobhan AngusKelly McCormickPresented by the Critical Image Forum Research Cluster, funded by Public Humanities Hub. -
Panel discussion / RoundtablePHH-SupportedOctober 15, 2024CNLH Presents: The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies
Karen CrawleyThomas GiddensTimothy D PetersPresented by the Canadian Network of Law and Humanities Research Cluster, funded by Public Humanities Hub., Presented by the Canadian Network of Law and Humanities Research Cluster, funded by Public Humanities Hub. -
Conference / SymposiumPHH-SupportedOctober 4-6, 2024Connected Past
Presented by UBC Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedOctober 3, 2024Visit of Swiss-Congolese Film Director, Rachel M’Bon
Rachel M’BonMila Zuo (moderator)Presented by UBC Centre de la Francophonie, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedOctober 3, 2024Not Your China Doll: A Conversation on Anna May Wong, the First Asian American Film Star
Katie Gee SalisburyMila ZuoPresented by the Winnifred Eaton Archive, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedOctober 3, 2024A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science
Roberto BarriosPresented by UBC Department of Anthropology, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedSeptember 26, 2024Science and the Public
Angela PotochnikPresented by the Reasonable Trust: Fostering Humanities Methods in Public Engagement with Science and Technology Research Cluster, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WebinarSCVN: Art and Testimony (2024)September 26, 2024The Art of Testimony in the Classroom
Andrea WebbAlyssa WoodPresented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedSeptember 18, 2024Archives of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History
Anjali ArondekarPresented by UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, with support from Public Humanities Hub -
WorkshopPHH-SupportedSeptember 17, 2024Educate, Agitate, Organize: Trans/Queer/Caste Workshop
Anjali ArondekarPresented by the Queer and Trans Antifascisms Research Cluster, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedSeptember 11, 2024Talk and Q&A with Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada
Yuliya KovalivPresented by UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Special presentationPHH-SupportedAugust 24 and 31, 2024Sapin-Sapin: Filipinx Art Festival
Presented by the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Special presentationResiStories (2024)August 22, 2024ResiStories: Living Archives of Pride
Presented in partnership with the Museum of Vancouver. -
Conference / SymposiumPHH-SupportedAugust 15-16, 2024Communicating Climate Hope: Countering eco-anxiety and climate doomism in research and practice
Organized in collaboration by UBC and Tilburg University scholars, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WorkshopPHH-SupportedJuly 12, 2024New Cantonese Input Tools 粵語好打得
Jon ChuiChaak Ming LauPresented by UBC Cantonese Language Program 卑詩大學粵語, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableResiStories (2024)June 29, 2024ResiStories: Building Community Futures
Andy GrellmannHannah RoordaYoung Tack-OhEugen McCann (moderator)Presented in partnership with the Museum of Vancouver. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedJune 17, 2024Discussion and Reading with Comics Author Tobi Dahmen
Tobi DahmenPresented by the German Consulate General in Vancouve and the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Special presentationPHH-SupportedJune 1, 2024Kuwentong Pamamahay: Stories and Storytelling of Home and Identity from Filipino Canadian Perspectives
Presented in partnership with Sliced Mango Collective, Heritage Vancouver Society, and UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies. -
Conference / SymposiumPHH-SupportedMay 16-18, 2024Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference and Graduate Workshop 2024
Presented by the Assocation for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WorkshopPHH-SupportedMay 11, 2024Teaching Cantonese Through Storytelling 講故仔 講技巧
Peg ChuiPresented by UBC Cantonese Language Program 卑詩大學粵語, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Panel discussion / RoundtablePublic Scholarship SeriesApril 23, 2024Witnessing Genocide in Palestine
Brenna BhandarAdel IskandarAndre MazawiJasbir PuarCait McKinney (moderator) -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedApril 16, 2024“Blood, Borders and Diaspora’s Horizons”
Rachel LeowPresented by UBC Department of History, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedApril 12, 2024AICS Closing Film: Leaving in Sorrow and Conversation with Director Vincent Chui
Vincent ChuiPresented by Asian Independent Cinema Showcase, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WebinarSCVN: Art and Testimony (2024)April 4, 2024Empowering Narratives: Videotaped Interviews vs Graphic Novels
Uğur Ümit ÜngörPeter KleinPresented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedMarch 22, 2024Foragers Film Screening
Presented by by DocUBC, UBC Film Society, and Cinema Thinks The World (PHH Research Cluster). -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedMarch 22, 2024In Search of Home: Short Films Selection and Conversation with Filmmakers
Yu-Fen WuZune KwokTze Wei TohPresented by Asian Independent Cinema Showcase, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Conference / SymposiumPHH-SupportedMarch 21-22, 2024Games for Decolonization
Ta7talíya Michelle NahaneeChristopher MarmolejoMimi KhúcEvan TornerEvent offered by The Waterloo Centre for German Studies, German Studies Canada, the UBC Centre for European Studies, the Narratives Group in the UBC Centre for Migration Studies, and UBC Comics Studies Cluster (UBC Public Humanities Hub Research Cluster). -
WebinarSCVN: Art and Testimony (2024)March 20, 2024Drawing Memories
Barbara YelinCharlotte SchalliéAndrea Webb (host)Presented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
WorkshopPHH-SupportedMarch 18-22, 2024Unwellness and Care in the University: A Workshop Series with Dr. Mimi Khúc
Mimi KhúcResidency hosted by the UBC Centre for European Studies, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WebinarSCVN: Art and Testimony (2024)March 7, 2024Why Comics?
Fransiska LouwagieVéronique SinaElizabeth Nijdam (moderator)Presented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Panel discussion / RoundtablePHH-SupportedMarch 7, 2024Refugee Lifeworlds: Celebrating Dr. Y-Dang Troeung
Presented by UBC Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program and UBC Department of English Language & Literatures, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedMarch 1, 2024An Unusual Summer Screening
Presented by by DocUBC, UBC Film Society, and Cinema Thinks The World (PHH Research Cluster). -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedFebrurary 29, 2024Black History Month Film Screening
Crystal WebsterPresented by UBC Latin American Studies, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedFebrurary 29, 2024Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction
Tamara MitchellPresented by the Sound and Humanities Research Cluster, with support from the Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureFebruary 7, 2024Between Reparations and Freedom
Rinaldo WalcottPeter Hudson (discussant)Presented in partnership with the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, UBC Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. -
SeminarStudent Reading GroupFebruary 5, 2024The Long Emancipation Reading Group
Event offered by The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Committee. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedFebruary 2, 2024
AICS: Away From Home Short Films Selection
Presented by Asian Independent Cinema Showcase, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
WebinarSCVN: Art and Testimony (2024)January 25, 2024Listening, Telling, Showing (and back): The Practice of a Holocaust
Henry GreenspanPresented in partnership with Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives. -
Talk / Lecture / DialoguePHH-SupportedJanuary 25, 2024Sounds That Mark Our Words: Sonic Agencies & Intimacies in the Filipinx Diaspora
Casey MecijaPresented by the Sound and Humanities Research Cluster, with support from the Public Humanities Hub. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedJanuary 20, 2024
AICS Spotlight Event: Drifting Petals
Clara Law (director)Eddie Fong (producer/writer)Presented by Asian Independent Cinema Showcase, with support from Public Humanities Hub. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureJanuary 17, 2024Nimrods: A Conversation
Christopher PattersonMila Zuo (discussant)Presented in partnership with UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. -
SeminarStudent Reading GroupJanuary 12, 2024Nimrods Graduate Student Reading Group
Hosted by the Public Humanities Hub Graduate Committee. -
Panel discussion / RoundtableResiStories (2024)January 11, 2024ResiStories: Reimagining Refugee Memoirs
Carmen AguirreY-Dang TroeungChristopher Patterson / Kawika GuillermoAmanda Cheong (moderator)Presented in partnership with the Museum of Vancouver. -
ScreeningPHH-SupportedNovember 24, 2023
Though I Am Gone screening and discussion
David Martin-JonesPresented by Cinema Thinks the World (funded by PHH), DocUBC, and The Cinematheque. -
Talk / Lecture / DialogueNoted Scholar LectureNovember 16, 2023Seven Cautionary Tales for Publicly Engaged Humanities in 2023
Antoinette BurtonJenny L. DavisCo-presented with the Faculty of Arts, and co-sponsored by St. John’s College.