Past Events

2025-2026

June 19, 2026: Curatorial Practice as Public Scholarship: On fluid geographies and transdisciplinary forms
Presented in partnership with Libby Leshgold Gallery (Emily Carr Univeristy) and UBC Curatorial Research Cluster.

May 28-30, 2026: Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis – Symposium
Symposium organised by Brenna Bhandar, Jon Goldberg-Hillier, and Isabella Pojuner; co-sponsored with the Centre for Climate Justice and the Allard Research Conference Fund.

May 4, 2026: Let’s Talk Humanities: A New International Order?
Presented in collaboration with the Vancouver Public Library. 

May 5, 2026: Oral Histories in the Archives: Stories from Turtle Island and Rwanda
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Archiving with Care Series. 

April 22, 2026: Trauma-Informed Archiving: Lessons from the War Childhood Museum
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Archiving with Care Series. 

April 13, 2026: Let’s Talk Humanities: Mining, AI, and Warfare
Presented in collaboration with The Vancouver Public Library.

April 7, 2026: Disability Justice: Fighting for a Better World
Presented in collaboration with Capilano University and Carnegie Community Centre.

March 23, 2026: Evolving Climate Justice Agendas Through Student Research: Graduate Research Showcase
Presented in partnership with the Centre for Climate Justice.

March 24, 2026: Risk in the Archives: Preserving Anonymity, Access, and Cultural Memory
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Archiving with Care Series. 

March 20, 2026: Before the Public: Rethinking Public Scholarship through Community-Based Education
Presented in partnership with the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Studies, with funding from the European Union.

March 16, 2026: Publish that Book! A Workshop with Caitlin Tyler-Richards

March 13, 2026: Is the University Recognizing the Gifts of Indigenous Knowledges? Keynote Lecture by  Dr. Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian

March 13-14, 2026: What Kind of University do we Want? A Symposium
Presented in partnership with Audain Gallery and the Institute for the Humanities at SFU.

March 4, 2026: Increasing Impact through Strategic Storytelling & Public Discourse: A Workshop with Shari Graydon

March 2, 2026: Online Book Talk: ‘Shredding the Map: Imagined Geographies of Revolutionary Russia, 1914-1922’ with Dr. Edith Clowes
Presented in partnership with the UBC Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies.

February 25, 2026: Collaborative Futures: Humanities Beyond the Crisis Discourse: A Workshop with Dr. Michael Facius

January 29, 2026: Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine: Lecture by Dr. Zahi Zalloua.
Presented in collaboration with Department of Asian Studies, Department of English Language and Literatures, Department of Geography, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies.

January 29, 2026: Personal Histories in the Public Archive: Archiving the Klaus Zwilsky Story
Presented as part of the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Archiving with Care Series. 

December 8, 2025: Navigating Image Archives: Graduate Research Showcase
Presented in collaboration with Critical Image Forum.

November 16, 2025: Long Live Kings
Presented by Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE). Co-sponsored with UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies; and the Pop Culture Cluster.

November 5, 2025: Free screening of The Nest by Julietta Singh and Chase Joynt, and post-film discussion.
Presented in collaboration with with the National Film Board of Canada & Doc Northwest.

October 29, 2025: Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Storytelling: An engaged dialogue with Nilo Tabrizy and Dr. Neda Maghbouleh
Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Arts.

October 24, 2025: The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024): A screening and discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic women’s strike
Presented by UBC Pop Culture Cluster, as part of their Pop Film Series. Co-sponsored with UBC Arts Multilingual Week, Comics Studies Cluster, Film Society, Centre for European Studies, Pop Culture Cluster, Nordic Studies, the Social Justice Institute, and the Icelandic Canadian Club of BC.

October 14, 2025: “Occupying Selves” or “How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain”: Lecture by Dr. Audra Simpson
Presented in collaboration with the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Centre for Climate Justice, and Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice.

September 18, 2025: after explosivity, what remains? Lecture by Javier Arbona-Homar
Presented as part of the UBC Department of Geography’s Atmospheric Apparitions Symposium. Co-sponsored with the Liu Lobby Gallery at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs.

September 10, 2025: Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility: Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Jasbir Puar
Presented by the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster. Co-sponsored with UBC Middle East Studies.

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2024-2025

March 28, 2025: Fostering Trustworthy Science
A Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, funded by the Public Humanities Hub-supported Research Cluster, Reasonable Trust: Fostering Humanities Methods in Public Engagement with Science and Technology.

March 27, 2025: Responsible Innovation within the Social Contract for Science
A Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, funded by the Public Humanities Hub-supported Research Cluster, Reasonable Trust: Fostering Humanities Methods in Public Engagement with Science and Technology.

March 11, 2025: “Arts-Based Approaches to Public Engagement with Research” with Dr. George Belliveau, Dr. Amanda Claudia Wager, Dr. Christina Cook, JS Valdez, Dr. Marika Kunnas.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series 2019-2025.

March 8, 2025: Thomas Heywood’s The Golden Age
Co-sponsored with the Department of Theatre and Film.

March 7, 2025: Keynote Address: Euripides in the Ukraine
Presented as part of the joint conference of the Classical Association of the Canadian West (CACW) and the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest (CAPN) 2025.

March 6, 2025: The Politics of Freedom: Generative AI, Race as Technology, and Postcolonial Computing: Lecture by Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Beth Coleman
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Noted Scholar Lecture Series 2024-25, with the Centre for Computational Social Science.

February 26, 2025: Life and Death Off the Record: Lecture by Dr. Amanda Cheong
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Noted Scholar Lecture Series 2024-25, with the Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM), Centre for Asian Canadian Research & Engagement (ACRE) and Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), and with promotional support from the Department of Sociology.

February 12, 2025: How America’s Courts and Prisons Terrorized Black Children: Lecture by Dr. Crystal Webster
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Noted Scholar Lecture Series 2024-25, with the Department of History.

February 5, 2025: Return Migration across the Black Atlantic: The “Brazilians” in Francophone West Africa: Lecture by Dr. Antje Ziethen
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Noted Scholar Lecture Series 2024-25, with the Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies.

January 30, 2025: Art as Indigenous Pedagogy with Shelley Niro and Dr. Shannon Leddy.
Presented with the Vancouver Art Gallery, as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series 2019-2025.

November 28, 2024: “The Art of Comics-Engaged Research” with Raey Costain and Cal Smith, moderated by Dr. Mary Chapman
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Art and Testimony Series. 

November 26, 2024: Free Screening of Les Filles Du Roi
Presented with UBC’s Department of Theatre and Film, in partnership with the X̱wi7x̱wa Library, Arts Indigenous Student Advising, and the UBC Film Society.

October 31, 2024: Violent Intimacies, Trans Worldmaking, and LGBTI+ Organizing in Turkey: A workshop and film screening with Lalu Ozban and Asli Zengin
Presented by PHH-funded Queer and Trans Anti-Fascisms Research Cluster. Co-sponsored by the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice, Middle East Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the UBC Film Society.

October 28-29, 2024: Symposium | Keywords: Literature and Politics
Offered in collaboration with UBC Department of English Language & Literatures, UBC Institute of Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, UBC Faculty of Arts, Universität Regensburg, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

October 4-6, 2024: Connected Past Conference
Event offered in collaboration with The Connected Past, The Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions, UBC Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, UBC Centre for Computational Social Sciences, Green College UBC,  UBC Centre for Migration Studies, UBC History, UBC Anthropology, the Vancouver Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, the Database of Religious History, UBC Advanced Research Computing, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

October 3, 2024: Dr. Roberto Barrios: A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science
Event offered by UBC Department of Anthropology. Co-sponsored with the Disaster Resilience Research Network, Department of Civil Engineering, Centre for Climate Justice, and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs.

October 3, 2024: Not Your China Doll: A Conversation on Anna May Wong, the First Asian American Film Star
Event offered by Winnifred Eaton Archive. Co-sponsored withUBC Asian Studies, Centre for Cinema Studies, Centre for European Studies, Department of History, Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, and the UBC Film Society.

October 3, 2024: Visit of Swiss-Congolese Film Director, Rachel M’Bon
Event offered by Centre de la Francophonie. Co-sponsored with Consulate General of Switzerland in Vancouver, UBC’s Coordinated Arts Program, the Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, and the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (Erasmus Hogeschool Brussels).

September 26, 2024: “The Art of Testimony in the Classroom” with Dr. Andrea Webb and Alyssa Wood
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Art and Testimony Series.

September 26, 2024: Science and the Public
A Science and Technology Studies Colloquium, funded by the Public Humanities Hub-supported Research Cluster, Reasonable Trust: Fostering Humanities Methods in Public Engagement with Science and Technology.

September 18, 2024: Archives of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History
Event offered by The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice. Co-sponsored with the Department of Asian Studies, Centre for Migration Studies, Centre for Climate Justice, and Department of English Language & Literatures.

September 17, 2024: Educate, Agitate, Organize: Trans/Queer/Caste Workshop
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.

September 11, 2024: Talk and Q&A with Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada
Event offered by Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies. Supported with 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.

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2023-2024

August 24 and August 31, 2024: Sapin-Sapin: Filipinx Art Festival
Event offered with NPC3, Baklangtasan, GRSJ, and UBC Department of Theatre and Film.

August 22, 2024: ResiStories: Living Archives of Pride 
Presented as the final installation of our “ResiStories” series of programming. Event offered in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, UBC Public Humanities Hub, and UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund.

August 15-16, 2024: Communicating Climate Hope: Countering eco-anxiety and climate doomism in research and practice
Conference co-sponsored by: UBC Public Humanities Hub.

July 12, 2024: New Cantonese Input Tools 粵語好打得
Event offered in collaboration with UBC Department of Asian Studies, UBC Cantonese Language Program, Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), UBC Language Sciences Institute.

June 29, 2024: ResiStories: Building Community Futures
Presented as the second installation of our “ResiStories” series of programming. Event offered in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, UBC Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE), UBC Strategic Equity & Anti-Racism (StEAR) Enhancement Fund, Heritage Vancouver Society, Powell Street Festival Society, Punjabi Market Collective, and Sliced Mango Collective.

June 17, 2024: Discussion and Reading with Comics Author Tobi Dahmen
Event offered in collaboration with the German Consulate General in Vancouver, Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, and UBC Comics Studies Cluster (PHH-funded).

June 1, 2024: Kuwentong Pamamahay: Stories and Storytelling of Home and Identity from Filipino Canadian Perspectives
Event offered in collaboration with ACAM, Sliced Mango Collective, and Heritage Vancouver Society.

May 16-18, 2024: Law, Culture and the Humanities Conference and Graduate Workshop 2024
Event offered by Peter A. Allard School of Law. Co-sponsored with UBC Green College, UBC Department of History, UBC Department of Philosophy,  Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; UBC Department of Anthropology, UBC Department of English Language and Literatures.

May 11, 2024: Teaching Cantonese Through Storytelling 講故仔 講技巧
Event offered in collaboration with UBC Department of Asian Studies, UBC Cantonese Language Program, Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), UBC Language Sciences Institute.

April 23, 2024: “Witnessing Genocide in Palestine”, with Dr. Brenna Bhandar, Dr. Adel Iskandar, Dr. Jasbir Puar, Dr. André Elias Mazawi, and moderated by Dr. Cait McKinney.
Co-hosted with Massy Arts Society and Massy Books. Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series 2019-2025.

April 16, 2024: “Blood, Borders and Diaspora’s Horizons”: Lecture by Dr. Rachel Leow
Presented as UBC Department of History’s 2024 Burge Lecture. Co-sponsored with the Department of Asian Studies, the Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Program, the Center for Migration Studies, the Center for Chinese Research, and the Center for Southeast Asian Research.

April 12, 2024: [Screening+Conversation] AICS Closing Film: Leaving in Sorrow and Conversation with Director Vincent Chui
Presented as part of the inaugural edition of the Asian Independent Cinema Showcase. Event offered by UBC’s Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI), SFU’s Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, with funding from the Department of Asian Studies, the Watt family – HKSI Fund, Centre for Chinese Research, and Public Humanities Hub Seed Grant.

April 4, 2024: “Empowering Narratives: Videotaped Interviews vs Graphic Novels” with Dr. Uğur Ümit Üngör in conversation with Dr. Peter Klein
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Art and Testimony Series.

March 22, 2024: [Screening+Conversation] In Search of Home: Short Films Selection and Conversation with Filmmakers 
Presented as part of the inaugural edition of the Asian Independent Cinema Showcase. Event offered by UBC’s Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI), SFU’s Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, with funding from the Department of Asian Studies, the Watt family – HKSI Fund, Centre for Chinese Research, and Public Humanities Hub Seed Grant.

March 22, 2024: Foragers Film Screening
Event offered by DocUBC, the UBC Film Society, and Cinema Thinks The World (PHH Research Cluster).

March 21-22, 2024: Games for Decolonization Workshop
Event 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).

March 20, 2024: “Drawing Memories” with Barbara Yelin in conversation with Charlotte Schallié
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Art and Testimony Series.

March 18-22, 2024: Unwellness and Care in the University: A Workshop Series with Dr. Mimi Khúc
Residency hosted by the UBC Centre for European Studies. Co-sponsored with UBC Asian Canadian and Asian Migration Studies, the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice, the and the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Diversity Grant.

March 7, 2024: “Why Comics?” with Dr. Véronique Sina and Dr. Fransiska Louwagie, moderated by Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Art and Testimony Series.

March 1, 2024: An Unusual Summer Film Screening
Event offered by Cinema Thinks The World, the UBC Film Society, and DocUBC.

February 29, 2024: Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction
Event offered in collaboration with the Sound and the Humanities Research Cluster, Green College.

February 29, 2024: Black History Month Film Screening
Event offered in collaboration with UBC Latin American Studies, the National Film Board, UBC Film Society, UBC Department of History, Cinema Thinks The World, and the Public Humanities Hub.

February 7, 2024: “Between Reparations and Freedom”: Lecture by Dr. Rinaldo Walcott
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub 2023-2024 Noted Scholar Lecture series. Event offered in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, UBC Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice (GRSJ).

February 5, 2024: The Long Emancipation Reading Group
Event offered by The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Committee.

February 2, 2024: AICS: Away From Home Short Films Selection
Event offered by: UBC’s Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI), SFU’s Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, with funding from the Department of Asian Studies, the Watt family – HKSI Fund, Centre for Chinese Research, and Public Humanities Hub Seed Grant.

January 25, 2024: Sounds That Mark Our Words: Sonic Agencies & Intimacies in the Filipinx Diaspora
Event offered by The Sound and Humanities Research Cluster. Co-sponsored with Green College.

January 25, 2024: “Listening, Telling, Showing (and back): The Practice of a Holocaust scholar-teacher-playwright-actor” with Dr. Hank Greenspan and Dr. Charlotte Schallié
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Art and Testimony Series.

January 20, 2024: AICS Spotlight Event: Drifting Petals
Event offered by: UBC’s Hong Kong Studies Initiative (HKSI), SFU’s Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, with funding from the Department of Asian Studies, the Watt family – HKSI Fund, Centre for Chinese Research, and Public Humanities Hub Seed Grant.

January 17, 2024:“Nimrods: A Conversation”: Lecture by Dr. Christopher Patterson
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub 2023-2024 Noted Scholar Lecture series. Event offered in collaboration with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice (GRSJ).

January 12, 2024: Nimrods Graduate Student Reading Group
Event offered by The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Committee.

January 11, 2024: ResiStories: Reimagining Refugee Memoirs
Presented as the first installation of our “ResiStories” series of programming. Event offered in collaboration with the Museum of Vancouver, and co-sponsored by UBC StEAR Grant. 

November 16, 2023: Seven Cautionary Tales for Publicly Engaged Humanities in 2023
Event offered in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts and St. John’s College.

November 9, 2023: Between Exile and Holocaust: Fred Wander’s Hôtel Baalbek
Event offered in collaboration with Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Centre for European Studies, UBC Arts SSHRC Visiting Speakers Exchange Grant, and the UBC Holocaust Education Committee.

November 8, 2023: Humanities Without Walls: Graduate Student Reading Group
Event offered by The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Committee.

November 3, 2023: “A Genealogy of Indigenous Law: A Writer’s Journey” by Dr. John Burrows.
Co-hosted with the Canadian Network of Law & Humanities, a Public Humanities Hub-funded research cluster, and Indigenous Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law.

November 2, 2023: “Oral History in the Shadow of the International Criminal Court” with Dr. Kjell Anderson
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Ethics of Trauma-informed Research Series.

October 27, 2023: “Querying AI: Social Science and Humanities Perspectives on AI in Research and Politics“.
In partnership with the UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), UBC Centre for Computational Social Sciences (CCSS), UBC Language Science Institute, UBC Centre for Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making and Action (CAIDA), and SFU Digital Democracies Institute (DDI), SFU.

October 22, 2023: “Metropolis Reworked” by the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF).
Co-sponsored with the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany Vancouver, UBC Department of Theatre and Film, UBC CENES, and Goethe Institut.

October 11, 2023: “UBC Comic Book Club: Roaming (2023)” by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki.
Hosted by the UBC Comic Studies Cluster, a Public Humanities Hub-funded research cluster, and co-sponsored with UBC Creative Writing.

October 3, 2023: “Imagining Capital: Debt, Trade, and the Fantasy of ‘Infinite’ Resources” by Dr. Robert Markley.
Hosted by the Department of English Language & Literatures and co-sponsored with the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS).

September 15, 2023: “Trauma, Storytelling and Respect: A Journalist’s Perspective” hosted by Esther Enkin, in conversation with Kathy Gannon, Duncan McCue, and Dr. Anthony Feinstein
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Ethics of Trauma-informed Research Series.

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2022-2023

July 6, 2023: “Using Research-based Theatre with Post-traumatic Stress Survivors” with Dr. George Belliveau and Christina Cook
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Ethics of Trauma-informed Research Series.

May 23, 2023: “Learning Together in a Good Way: Ethical Relationality and Indigenous Storywork” with Dr. Shannon Leddy
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Ethics of Trauma-informed Research Series.

May 4, 2023: “The Ethics of Oral History Research in Genocide-affected Contexts” with Dr. Erin Jessee
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Ethics of Trauma-informed Research Series.

April 27, 2023: “Participatory Action Research” with Dr. Tim Cole
Presented in collaboration with the Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project, as part of the Ethics of Trauma-informed Research Series.

April 5, 2023: “Broad Brush Strokes and Fine Lines: Courtroom Drawing and the Visual History of the 20th Century” by Dr. Charlotte Lerg.
Co-hosted with the Department of History.

March 23, 2023: “Pictures of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde in Weimar Germany” by Dr. Yvonne Ivory.
Hosted by the Department of English Language & Literatures and co-sponsored with Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Theatre and Film, and the Centre for European Studies.

March 8-9, 2023: A public talk and graduate colloquium by Dr. Olivette Otele.
Co-sponsored with the Department of History, Political Science, English Language & Literatures, Allard Law, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice.

March 7, 2023: “Preparing for the Public: A Conversation” with Dr. Xine Yao and Dr. Danielle Wong.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

February 21, 2023: “A Workshop on Book Proposals” with Courtney Berger.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

February 16, 2023: “Key Messaging: Effectively Articulating the Whys and Hows of Your Research” with Dr. Greg Garrard, Dr. Heidi Tworek, Dr. Katrina Plamondon, Dr. Ori Tenenboim, and Sydney Lines.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025), in partnership with Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.

February 14, 2023: “Resisting erasure: geo-mapping destroyed and forgotten Jewish communities” with Dr. Nataliia Ivchyk, Dr. Frances Malino, and Jason Guberman-Pfeffer.
Co-sponsored with the Department of History and the Holocaust Education Committee.

February 9, 2023: “Publishing in the Public Humanities” with Darcy Cullen, Dr. Teresa Mangum, Siobhan McMenemy, and Dr. Paige Raibmon.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

January 23, 2023: “If We Had Followed the Rules, I Wouldn’t Be Here” with David Schaffer, Miriam Libicki, Dr. Andrea Webb, and Dr. Richard Menkis.
In partnership with Hillel BC and the Embassy of Israel.

January 19, 2023: “Publishing Your First Book: A Seminar for Pre-Tenure Faculty” with Dr. Christopher Lee, Dr. Christopher Rea, and Dr. Heidi Tworek.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

December 8, 2022: “Writing and Pitching to University Presses” with James MacNevin, Mark Thompson, Jonathan Crago, and Dr. Mary Chapman.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

November 21, 2022: “How to Engage Community: A Project Showcase” with Dr. Ben Bryce, Noah James, Dr. Maria Carbonetti, Sydney Lines and Kyle Nelson.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

November 19, 2022: “Making Space: Banning Cantonese BBQ Meats” with Dr. Imogene Lim, Christy Fong, and Denise Fong.
In partnership with Museum of Vancouver and Heritage Vancouver Society.

November 1, 2022: “Policy Communication Workshop” with Dr. Heidi Tworek and Kshitij (KJ) Sharan.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

October 26, 2022: “Lifting from the Centre: Health and Culture in Anishinaabe Communities – talk and reception” by Dr. Tim Frandy, Assistant Professor of Nordic Studies, UBC.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies and the Faculty of Arts.

September 20, 2022: “Plagued to Death by Systemic Ableism: What the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Expansion of Eligibility for MAID Reveal About the Lethal Dangers of Systemic Ableism in Canada” by Dr. Heidi Janz, Associate Adjunct Professor with the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Physical Therapy, Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship, and the Department of Educational Studies.

August 30, 2022: “Critical Diversity Literacy: A View from Europe” by Dr. Alisha M.B. Heinemann, Professor for diversity education and learning passages at the University of Bremen, Germany.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Educational Studies, Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, and Centre for Culture, Identity & Education.

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2021-2022

April 19, 2022: “Frigid, Inscrutable: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Unfeeling” by Dr. Xine Yao, Lecturer in American Literature to 1900 at University College London.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English Language & Literatures.

April 12, 2022: “Massy Reads: On Interdisciplinary Approaches to Film” with Dr. Kyle Frackman (CENES), Dr. Ervin Malakaj (CENES), and Dr. Christopher Rea (ASIA)
Presented in collaboration with Massy Arts Society and Massy Books, as a part of the Massy Reads Book Launch Series 2020-2022.

April 7, 2022: “Speculative Futures: Artificial Intelligence Symposium” moderated by Dr. Melissa Karmen Lee (Director of Education and Public Programs, Vancouver Art Gallery) and Dr. Kavita Philip (UBC President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures and Professor of English). View the full Vimeo Showcase here.
Presented with the Vancouver Art Gallery and co-sponsored by the University of British Columbia’s Library and the School of Information, the English Language & Literatures Department, the President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures and the School of Creative Writing, with additional media support from Canadian Literature.  

March 24, 2022: “Infographics as Public Scholarship” with Dr. Kirby Manià, Dr. Evan Mauro, Dr. Lupin Battersby, and Dr. Valerie Hruska; co-moderated by Nick Ubels and Shannon Murray.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

February 17, 2022: “Creative Writing for Academics” with Dr. Carla Nappi , Dr. Minelle Mahtani and Dr. Chris Patterson; moderated by Dr. Carrie Jenkins.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

January-February 2022: “Writing Compelling Commentary,” a two-part, two-cohort op-ed workshop facilitated by Shari Graydon and Laura Shine of Informed Opinions.
Co-sponsored with VPRI and Faculty of Arts. Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

November 3, 2021: “Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age/Uncivil and Unwell in America,” Alexander Heffner, Author and Host of PBS The Open Mind.

Co-sponsored with the Department of English Language & Literatures, School of Public Policy & Global Affairs, and Political Science.

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2020-2021

March 11, 2021: “Massy Reads: Arts-based approaches to well-being education” with Dr. Derek Gladwin (LLED), Dr. George Belliveau (LLED), and Dr. Graham W. Lea (University of Manitoba)
Presented in collaboration with Massy Arts Society and Massy Books, as a part of the Massy Reads Book Launch Series 2020-2022.

March 11, 2021: “Biography Writing as Public Scholarship” with Dr. Sherill Grace (UBC English) and Dr. Ira Nadel (UBC English); moderated by Dr. Minelle Mahtani (UBC Social Justice Institute).
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

March 2, 2021: “A Fireside Chat with Margaret Price,” Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University
Co-sponsored with the Women’s Health Research Cluster.

February 12, 2021: “Translating Research into Public Writing” with Dr. Jennifer Wilson (freelance writer); moderated by Dr. Katia Bowers (UBC Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies).
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

January 28, 2021: “Podcasting the Dissertation: A Presentation by Anna Williams and Judith Pascoe” with Dr. Anna Williams, creator of My Gothic Dissertation, and Dr. Judith Pascoe, George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

January 20, 2021: “Massy Reads: On Speculative Fiction” with Silvia Moreno-Garcia (STS), Dr. Kawika Guillermo/Christopher B. Patterson (GRSJ), and Dr. Patrick Moran (FHIS)
Presented in collaboration with Massy Arts Society and Massy Books, as a part of the Massy Reads Book Launch Series 2020-2022.

November 25, 2020: “Curating Exhibitions as Public Scholarship” with Dr. Gregory Mackie (UBC English), Chelsea Shriver (UBC Library), Dr. Alvaro Santana-Acuña (Whitman College), Dr. Nicola Levell (UBC Anthropology), Anna Nielsen (UBC Anthropology, PhD Student), and Michael Schwartz (Jewish Museum and Archives of BC); moderated by Dr. Shelly Rosenblum (Belkin Art Gallery).
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

November 18, 2020: “Massy Reads: On Interrogating the Colonial Frame” with Dr. David Gaertner (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies) and Dr. Hannah Turner (iSchool)
Presented in collaboration with Massy Arts Society and Massy Books, as a part of the Massy Reads Book Launch Series 2020-2022.

November 3, 2020: “Working in Public: Generosity and the Knowledge Commons” by Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University
Co-sponsored with the UBC Library as part of the “Open Scholarship in Practice” series

November 2, 2020: “Screening of The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel and Q & A with Co-Director Joel Bakan,” Professor, Allard School of Law, UBC
Co-sponsored with Allard School of Law’s International Justice & Human Rights Clinic and Centre for Business Law.

October 27, 2020: “Religion and the U.S. Presidential Election,” a UBC panel moderated by Dr. Paul Quirk, Phil Lind Chair in U.S. Politics and Representation at UBC
Co-sponsored with the Program in the Study of Religion, and Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

September 22, 2020: “Massy Reads: On Ethics, Rights and Democracy” with Prof. Joel Bakan (Law) and Dr. Kimberley Brownlee (Philosophy)
Presented in collaboration with Massy Arts Society and Massy Books, as a part of the Massy Reads Book Launch Series 2020-2022.

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2019-2020

June 17, 2020: “Marketing the Monograph: A Conversation on How to Promote Your Book” with Heidi Tworek (UBC History) and Renisa Mawani (UBC Sociology); moderated by Dr. Letitia Henville (UBC PhD Arts Co-op).
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

May 14, 2020: “CityLife: A Community Storytelling Project” by Prof. Tessa McWatt, Author of Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging and Professor of Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
Co-sponsored with UBC Creative Writing and the Centre for Community-Engaged Learning

March 6, 2020: “Podcasting as Peer-Reviewed Scholarship” with Dr. Hannah McGregor, Assistant Professor in Publishing, SFU and creator of Secret Feminist Agenda.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

January 28, 2020: “Exploring Environmental Humanities Through Media-Rich Visualizations” by Dr. Aleksandra Dulic, Director of the Centre for Culture and Technology and Associate Professor of the Department of Creative Studies, UBC-Okanagan.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Language and Literacy Education

January 21, 2020: Writing and Publishing Trade Books, with Westwood Creative Artists agent John Pearce and Joel Bakan (Law professor and author of the bestselling trade book The Corporation).
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

January 8, 2020: “George Luks, Mark Twain, and the Comic Grotesque” by Dr. Jean Lee Cole.
Co-sponsored with the SFU Department of English and the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures and History 

December 5, 2019: “How to Write an Op-Ed,” with Scott White and Dr. Michelle Stack.
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

November 14-15, 2019: Lightning Talks on Public Scholarship
Co-sponsored with the UW-Simpson Center for the Humanities

November 4, 2019: Introduction to UBC Media Relations
Presented as part of the Public Humanities Hub Public Scholarship Series (2019-2025).

October 24, 2019: “Why Humanity Needs the Humanities Now: Five Ways to Move the Humanities Into Public Space and Public Action” by Dr. Paul Yachnin.
Co-sponsored with the Department of English Language and Literatures