Informed Opinions Workshops: Call for Interest
November 10, 2021
Informed Opinions is an organization that aims to raise the profile of women and gender-diverse experts in news media. We’re partnering with IO to host virtual workshops on “Op-Eds: Writing Compelling Commentary” in Spring 2022. 30 sponsored spots are available to UBC faculty, grad students, and postdocs. Submit an Expression of Interest by Nov 30, […]Announcing the winners of the Hub’s new Public Engagement Awards
May 26, 2021
May 26, 2021 Announcing the winners of the Public Humanities Hub’s new Public Engagement Awards! These awards were created to honour individuals who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years. The Hub received 30 outstanding nominations in this inaugural year. The Hub’s Awards Committee was blown away by the variety of […]Annual Report 2019/20
March 30, 2021
Read about our inaugural year in the UBC-V Public Humanities Hub 2019/20 Annual Report.That week, before things changed
March 9, 2021
One year ago today, we hosted an afternoon tea for 120 humanities scholars, staff, and community partners to celebrate the Public Humanities Hub’s first year at UBC Vancouver. As we sat with one another, enjoyed hors d’oeuvres, and shared ideas about potential collaborations for the upcoming year, we didn’t realize that in just one week, […]The Hub Sends Team to MLA Virtual Summit for the Future of Doctoral Education
November 3, 2020
The Public Humanities Hub has sponsored a UBC team to participate in the MLA Virtual Summit for the Future of Doctoral Education: Dr. Kyle Frackman (Associate Professor and Acting Head, Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies), Dr. Letitia Henville (Coordinator, PhD Arts Co-op), and Sydney Lines (PhD Student, English).Attend Bystander Intervention Training
October 8, 2020
This summer, the PHH team attended a Hollaback! training session to learn the best tools and strategies for bystander intervention. Learn more about how to practice better public allyship by attending a workshop.NEW Graduate Student Survey Report
September 24, 2020
Graduate students, faculty advisors, and department heads: this summer we conducted a survey of graduate students in the humanities about their interests, concerns, and anxieties about public scholarship, alt-ac career prospects, and the precarity of the academic job market. The results are in.Letter from the Director
April 23, 2020
Dear colleagues and community partners: deep breaths. Since the COVID-19 pandemic put us all in quarantine, I have been thinking a lot about breath. Deep breaths sustain us, comfort us, and empower our voices. We breathe the same air. We are in this together.Noh Theatre Legends Come to UBC
November 15, 2019
Noh Theatre enthusiasts found themselves a treat at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre on September 8. At the cost of $20 — or free for students — Hisa Uzawa and her daughter, Hikaru Uzawa, presented the tale of Atsumori.UBC Exhibit of Rare Books and Artifacts Chronicles 100 Years of Queer History
September 15, 2019
A new exhibit of rare books, flyers, postcards and pamphlets on display at UBC Okanagan in Kelowna unveils some unique artifacts of queer history. A Queer Century, first shown at the university’s Vancouver campus, highlights some of the changing perceptions of gender and sexuality between 1869 to 1969, say the exhibit’s curators.