The Public Humanities Hub (PHH) hosts (or co-hosts) a number of speakers each year who are actively engaged in public-facing research and community-engaged scholarship. These events include both lectures and panels and are designed to showcase exemplary forms of public scholarship. PHH is particularly interested and open to co-sponsoring events with departments and units on campus with advanced humanities research.
For announcements about upcoming PHH events, visit this webpage.
March 6th, 2025: PHH Noted Scholar Lecture: Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Beth Coleman
‘Digital Colonialism’ and its racial, gendered, social and political norms are baked into the algorithms that drive AI. This set of enduring problematics provides, in the present, unique ethical, regulatory, juridical and conceptual challenges. In this exciting Public Humanities Hub Noted Scholar Lecture, Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Beth Coleman will explore “The Politics of Freedom: Generative AI, Race as Technology, and Postcolonial Computing”.
Event offered by: Public Humanities Hub and the Centre for Computational Social Science.
February 26th, 2025: PHH Noted Scholar Lecture: Dr. Amanda Cheong
Join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Amanda Cheong, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, where she will speak about her PHH Faculty Fellowship project, “Life and Death Off the Record”.
Event offered by: Public Humanities Hub, Asian Canadian & Asian Migration Studies program (ACAM), Centre for Asian Canadian Research & Engagement (ACRE) and Centre for Migration Studies (CMS), with promotional support from the Department of Sociology.
February 12th, 2025: PHH Noted Scholar Lecture: Dr. Crystal Webster
Join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Crystal Webster, Associate Professor, Department of History, where she will speak about her PHH Faculty Fellowship project, “Condemned: How America’s Courts and Prisons Terrorized Black Children”.
Event offered by: Public Humanities Hub and Department of History.
February 5th, 2025: PHH Noted Scholar Lecture: Dr. Antje Ziethen
Join us for a PHH Noted Scholar Lecture by Dr. Antje Ziethen, Associate Professor of French, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS), where she will speak about her PHH Faculty Fellowship project, “Reverse Diaspora: The “Brazilians” in West Africa”. This lecture is also part of the FHIS Research Seminar.
Event offered by: Public Humanities Hub and Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies.
2023-2024
February 7, 2024: Between Reparations and Freedom
In The Long Emancipation, Dr. Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. This talk tackles the question, “What is (Black) freedom?”. In dialogue with Dr. Peter James Hudson, Dr. Walcott will survey a range of recent events to begin to make sense of Black non-freedom, including present initiatives in Canadian postsecondary settings, such as programs designed to increase numbers of Black faculty.
Speakers:
Dr. Rinaldo Walcott is Professor and Granger Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo.
Dr. Peter James Hudson is Associate Professor, Department of Geography, UBC.
Event offered by: Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, Public Humanities Hub, UBC Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice (GRSJ).
January 17, 2024: Nimrods: A Conversation
Dr. Christopher B. Patterson will discuss his newly released prose-poetry book, Nimrods, in a conversation with Dr. Mila Zuo about poetry, pictures, and parents. Nimrods shamelessly mixes autotheory, queer punk poetry, musical ekphrasis, haibun, academic (mis)quotations, and bad dad jokes to present a bold new take on the autobiography: the fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir.
Speakers:
Dr. Christopher B. Patterson is Associate Professor, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice (GRSJ), Faculty of Arts, UBC.
Dr. Mila Zuo is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Film, Faculty of Arts, UBC.
Event offered by: Public Humanities Hub with the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality & Social Justice (GRSJ).