Let’s Talk Humanities: Does AI Love Me Back?
September 26, 2026
October 26, 2026 | Wendy Wong, Kimberley Brownlee, and Victoria Hetherington will come together for this talk to discuss what is at stake for us as individuals and society at large when we outsource our relationships to technology.CALL FOR PROPOSALS | New Insights on Migration and Mobilities: Graduate Research Showcase
September 22, 2026
Deadline: November 1 | The Centre for Migration Studies and PHH invite UBC graduate students from any discipline and at any research stage to submit a proposal for a seven-minute presentation.Graphic Theory: on the production of knowledge and culture for Palestine today
September 1, 2026
October 22, 2026 | Xaytun Ennasr and Jasbir Puar come together to discuss This Death Is Not One, a collaborative project (co-authored with Nasser Abourahme and edited by Adam HajYahia) unfolding across theory, image, translation, land, and the wounded body.“Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone: Deepening Climate Justice Against Extraction”
September 1, 2026
October 10, 2026 | Dr. Tiara Na'puti will be opening the five-part public lecture series on "Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures."Research Through Film
August 29, 2026
October 16, 2026 | In a workshop led by Jessica Hallenbeck, explore how film can be used as a tool for community-engaged research and knowledge mobilization.The Art of Unsilencing: Research, Testimony, and the Stories We Tell
August 29, 2026
October 13, 2026 | Drawing on two decades of work on political violence, Lilia Topouzova reflects on an interdisciplinary practice spanning oral history, archival research, documentary film, creative nonfiction, and installation art.Fascism without the West?
August 29, 2026
September 28, 2026 | Alberto Toscano will explore vital theories of fascism that have emerged outside, and without, the West, and how they might be shaped by changing forms of "Western" imperialism.AI and Trust Public Event
August 28, 2026
September 18 | CHAISE will host their evening public event on AI and trust: "Do You Trust AI? Finding the Humanity in Canada’s AI Strategy."Centre for Humanities AI Scholarship and Teaching (CHAISE) Launch Event
August 28, 2026
September 18, 2026 | The Centre for Humanities AI Scholarship and Teaching is launching its first event, a full day of panels and workshops examining the theme "“AI for All? Humanities and Social Science Perspectives on Trust and Artificial Intelligence."Sex and the War on Terror at 25
August 28, 2026
September 11, 2026 | The year 2026 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the formal declaration of the War on Terror. This event brings together leading queer and feminist scholars to examine how gender and sexuality function as technologies of governance and securitization, and sites through which terror is produced, rendered legible, and mobilized.