Appraising AI: A Student-Led Approach to Critical Evaluation
June 16, 2026
July 22, 2026 | Based on her reflections developing new curriculum around AI use, Kate Greenslade offers actionable recommendations to inspire critical approaches to generative AI and student agency.Cluster/Incubator Grants 2025-2026 Awardees
June 16, 2026
Congratulations to the recipients of the PHH Cluster/Incubator Grants! This grant provides $15,000 per grant to support early stage interdisciplinary and collaborative activities. Find out more about their projects here.Out Of Office Hours Collective: The Mega-Event and The City
June 12, 2026
June 30, 2026 | As Vancouver hosts FIFA World Cup 2026 matches, our first Out of Office Hours session explores how large-scale sporting events reshape urban space, housing, policing, policy enactment, and community life.Curatorial Practice as Public Scholarship: On fluid geographies and transdisciplinary forms
June 9, 2026
June 19, 2026 | Hear Martha Kirszenbaum think through the fluid negotiation between art institutions and experimental, non-traditional spaces, and talk about how to navigate differing cultural terrains while resisting sometimes rigid institutional frameworks.Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis – Symposium
May 12, 2026
May 28-30, 2026 | This symposium gathers critical legal scholars, psychoanalysts, artists and political theorists from around the world to discuss legality, impunity and crisis in historical and contemporary forms, drawing on a wide range of contexts, methods and approaches.Call for Graduate Student Submissions – Evolving Climate Justice Agendas Through Student Research: Graduate Research Showcase
March 3, 2026
The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Research Showcase is a semi-annual series in which interdisciplinary graduate research on thematic topics is presented and celebrated. This term’s thematic showcase is co-organized with UBC’s Centre for Climate Justice.Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship Grant 2025-2026 Awardees
February 17, 2026
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025-2026 Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship (CEDS) Grant, co-presented by UBC's Public Humanities Hub (PHH) and Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA). Find out more about their projects here.Cluster/Incubator Grant
January 12, 2026
Deadline 9am, April 7, 2026 | The Public Humanities Cluster/Incubator Grant supports innovative public humanities research and emergent stages of collaboration, and/or knowledge mobilization among interdisciplinary teams of public humanities scholars at UBC and beyond.Dr. Mary Liston
September 12, 2025
New Scholar Spotlight Story | Dr. Mary Liston, Associate Professor at Allard Law and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member, talks about her work in administrative law, reimagining legal accountability and justice in Canada, and how to engage diverse publics in meaningful dialogue about law and society.Welcoming Prof. Althea Thauberger as incoming Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub
June 30, 2025
Dean of Arts Clare Crowston has announced the appointment of Professor Althea Thauberger as Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2027. Professor Althea Thauberger is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory.