Building Decolonial Futures at the Confluence of Mae-Nam Khong and Salish Waters

26 June 2024 2:00 pm

Venue: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Categories: Featured Events

The Centre for Southeast Asia Research presents an urgent panel discussion on the work of Indigenous water protectors in the Mekong River area and in Salish Waters.

Mobilizing Knowledge Against Today’s Totalitarian Trends: Building an International Consortium of Concerned Academics

11 July 2024

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This mini conference will feature 20 presentations by academics on global trends centralizing political authority, undermining judicial power, oppressing political opposition and independent journalism, and promoting cultural-cum-racial chauvinism.

Relationships on the Ground: How Community Health Workers Navigate “Community” in Malawi

20 September 2024 12:15 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Democratic Planning: Theoretical Debates, Social & Political Implications

26 September 2024 5:00 pm

Venue: Case Room - Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Listen as Audrey Laurin-Lamothe gives insight on concrete models for postcapitalist ways of reorganizing of our economic and political systems.

A Revelatory Pandemic? COVID-19 and Disaster Social Science: Dr. Roberto Barrios

03 October 2024 12:30 pm

Venue: ANSO 134
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Dr. Roberto Barrios unpacks the COVID-19 pandemic, utilising disaster social science to analyse hidden social structures and Eurocentric ideas of change.

The ”Migrante” Struggle for Belonging in Post-Katrina New Orleans: Dr. Roberto Barrios

03 October 2024 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Disaster anthropology expert Dr. Roberto Barrios talks about the intersections of crisis, migration, solidarity, and resilience based on his research.

The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China

07 October 2024 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events

This talk by centres on Dr. Kimberley Manning’s latest book which explores how networks of family and social ties contributed to state capacity and failure in the early years of the People’s Republic of China.

BC Leaders’ Debate Watch Party

08 October 2024 6:30 pm

Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us to watch the BC Leaders’ Debate! Stick around for reflections from students and faculty. Hosted by UBC Political Science & SPPGA.

Japanese Politics at a Crucial Transition Point

17 October 2024 5:00 pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events

Join the Centre for Japanese Research for an insightful online discussion assessing the three years of Kishida administration and its key policies, achievement and leadership from multiple aspects.

Approaches to Ameliorate the Impact of Climate Change to Women’s Health in Northern Kenya

17 October 2024 6:30 pm

Venue: Canfor Room, YWCA Hotel
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

We are pleased to invite you to an evening dialogue about “Approaches to Ameliorate the Impact of Climate Change to Women’s Health in Northern Kenya”.

Australia – Japan: Middle Power Strategies in a Contested Indo-Pacific

25 October 2024 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC
Categories: Featured Events

Join Professor Guibourg Delamotte for an insightful discussion into the growing security partnership between Australia and Japan.

In Conversation with Ambassador David Sproule

28 October 2024 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Join Ambassador David Sproule in discussing Canada’s approach to human rights concerns following the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

Forging the Nation: Land Struggles in Myanmar’s Transition Period by Myanmar Initiative

31 October 2024 9:00 am

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events

Forging the Nation examines how democratic institutions were fought over and built from 2011 to 2020 through the lens of land politics.

Nuclear is Not the Solution: Book Launch with M.V. Ramana

04 November 2024 6:00 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

A book launch and discussion for M.V. Ramana’s newest book Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change

Language Standardization in South Korea: An Ideological Perspective

08 November 2024 3:30 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events

Dr. Eunseon Kim draws from her research on language standardization to explores the ideologies behind language policy and attitudes in South Korea

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Dialogues on Humanity

20 November 2024 - 10 January 2025

Venue: Lobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events

We invite you to visit the Liu Lobby Gallery’s latest photography exhibition, “Dialogues on Humanity,” a space to explore the impact of global crises on humanity’s future.

Intiha: An Evening of Conversation with Ali Sethi

21 November 2024 5:30 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events

Join us for a special conversation with Pakistani-American singer and artist Ali Sethi about transcending borders through music.

Ingat: An Anthology of Works by Migrant Domestic Worker Creatives in Hong Kong

22 November 2024 5:30 pm

Categories: Featured Events

Join us for a discussion about “Ingat”, an anthology of works by migrant domestic worker creatives in Hong Kong featuring poetry, photography and visual art.

Are Tibetans Indigenous? The Political Stakes and Potentiality of the Translation of Indigeneity

22 November 2024 6:00 pm

Venue: The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Categories: Featured Events

Join us for a talk titled with Dawa Lokyitsang exploring how Asian Indigeneities complicate existing discourse on settler colonialism and imperialism.

Application Workshop – Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs – Nov 26

26 November 2024 8:30 am

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us for a MPPGA Application Workshop, where we provide you with all the essential information and guidance you need to prepare a strong application.

The Future of International Humanitarian Law: Adapting to New Realities

28 November 2024 5:30 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This event explores contemporary challenges to International Humanitarian Law, and how it must evolve to remain relevant and effective against new threats.

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams

09 December 2024 3:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events

Join us for a book talk with Dr. Jane Ferguson and North America’s first screening of the classic Burmese film Tender are the Feet (1973).

Faculty Coffee Chat

10 December 2024 3:00 pm

Venue: National Gallery of Canada Cafeteria
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage

Join us on December 10 at the National Gallery of Canada Cafeteria to chat with the Program Director about what MPPGA can offer its students.

Application Workshop – Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs – Dec 10

10 December 2024 6:00 pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us for a MPPGA Application Workshop, where we provide you with all the essential information and guidance you need to prepare a strong application.

Rethinking Wartime Yan’an – Toward a Social History of China’s Holy Land

06 January 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

CCR is excited to present a talk by Professor. Joseph Esherick focusig which delves into his new book titled “Accidental Holy Land”.

MPPGA Alumni & Careers Information Session – Jan 9

09 January 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Use this opportunity to connect with MPPGA Alumni and hear the stories on how the program propelled their career in the Policy field.

MPPGA Drop-In Advising Sessions

13 January 2025 8:00 am - 15 January 2025 2:00 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Applications are closing soon! Join us at one of our virtual admissions advising sessions to speak with a member of the MPPGA program staff team.

Graduate Student Research Showcase

15 January 2025 4:00 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join our Graduate Student Research Showcase where participants will have the opportunity to hear directly from faculty about current unit priorities and activities, as well as from student researchers about their current projects.

What It Means To Be “American” – Smriti Keshari & Eric Schlosser

16 January 2025 6:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre RBC Theatre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us in conversation as we step into the chilling world of the bomb, an immersive art installation by filmmaker Smriti Keshari and writer Eric Schlosser.

Shinnenkai 2025: New Year Celebration with the Centre for Japanese Research

23 January 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events

Join the Centre for Japanese Research on January 23 to celebrate the new year with us!

Cornerstone of the Nation: The Defense Industry and the Building of Modern Korea under Park Chung Hee

24 January 2025 3:30 pm

Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events

Join us for a talk with Dr. Peter Banseok Kwon to explore South Korea’s rapid emergence as a leading arms exporter and economic powerhouse.

US Election Post-Mortem: What Lies Ahead?

29 January 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us to dive into the aftermath of the US election and discuss what the future holds for Canada, US, and the world.

Shared Horizons: Canada and ASEAN in a Changing World

30 January 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: UBC Allard Hall (ALRD) - Franklin Lew Forum (Room 101)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join CSEAR and Allard Law for a roundtable with policy experts from Canada and Southeast Asia on the future of Canada-ASEAN relations.

IAR Indo-Pacific Symposium: Challenges in 2025 and Implications for Canada

31 January 2025 9:45 am

Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Welcome to the IAR Indo-Pacific Symposium where we’ll be diving into the challenges that lie ahead in 2025 and how they relate to Canada.

AIIMS New Delhi and the Tumultuous Beginnings of Indian Biomedicine

07 February 2025 12:00 pm

Venue: Room 604, Asian Centre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

AIIMS New Delhi and the Tumultuous Beginnings of Indian Biomedicine, with Dr. Kiran Kumbhar.

The Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency

11 February 2025 4:00 pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

The Centre for Japanese research invites you to this timely online panel to discuss the implication of the second Trump Administration on key global states including Japan, Canada, China, and others

Women and Music in the South Asian Diaspora

11 February 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Women and Music in the South Asian Diaspora: Methods for Hearing Women’s Transoceanic Voices, With Dr. Nicole Ranganath.

What It Means To Be “American” – Adam Kinzinger

13 February 2025 6:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join Adam Kinzinger as he takes us into the deeply polarized and fractured system that facilitated the Republican party’s transformation under Trump.

When Indoctrination Fails: Education, Economic Growth, and Resistance Against Authoritarian Rule in Myanmar

20 February 2025 1:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This exciting talk by Htet Thiha Zaw will offer new insights about the dynamics of state consolidation through education in developing economies such as Myanmar.

The Architects of Dignity with Kevin D. Pham

27 February 2025 3:00 pm

Venue: Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join Kevin D. Pham for a book talk exploring the intergenerational debates of six influential Vietnamese figures in response to French colonialism.

What It Means to be “American” – Ramy Youssef

27 February 2025 6:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

A singular voice in comedy and storytelling, Egyptian-American artist and creator Ramy Youssef brings heart, humor, and sharp social commentary to the Phil Lind Initiative.

Indigenous Resilience in Bangladesh

04 March 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join CISAR for an exclusive screening of two powerful short documentaries highlighting Indigenous resistance and resilience in Bangladesh.

Building Journalism Around Community

06 March 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Pia Ranada will discuss how community building can help journalism survive in a troubling era of AI, big tech, and increasing polarization.

Diverse Citizenship in East Asian Democracies

06 March 2025 5:30 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This talk will examine elite attitudes, party structures, and policy roadblocks that contribute to Japan’s ongoing gender and inclusion gaps.

Epistemologies and Emplacements with Theara Thun and Kisho Tsuchiya

10 March 2025 3:00 pm

Venue: Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Categories: Featured Events

Come and hear from Dr. Theara Thun as he delves into Cambodia’s intellectual traditions during the precolonial, colonial and post-independence eras.

Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation

11 March 2025 3:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This talk explores the unique resources that democracies posses for climate action through institutional flexibility, accountability, and information flows.

What It Means To Be “American” – Ziwe

13 March 2025 6:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us for a conversation on race and identity with Ziwe as she brings her own take on what it means to navigate identity in America today.

A Fractured Liberation: Korea under U.S. Occupation

14 March 2025 3:30 pm

Venue: xʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events

Join Kornel Chang as he delves into his latest book narrating the story of Korean liberation and the shock, great expectations and challenges faced by a newly emancipated people.

Screening of Bribe, Inc.

14 March 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre RBC Theatre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

We welcome you to join three-time Emmy Award-winning director and producer, and Professor at JWAM, Peter Klein, as he presents his documentary, Bribe, Inc.

Commercial Determinants and Industry Influence of Youth Education as Corporate Political Activity

17 March 2025 12:30 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join CSDI for an introduction to the field of the commercial determinants of health and the concept of corporate political activity by Dr. van Schalkwyk.

Changing Geoeconomics in the Age of Trump: The Insider View from Japan

17 March 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Koin CJR for a talk exploring Japan’s response to challenging domestic conditions, global frictions, and the unraveling of the international order.

Documentary Screening: The Silent Epidemic

18 March 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

CISAR presents a screening of The Silent Epidemic, a documentary about the devastating social impact of road crashes in India.

Municipal Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversations – March 19

19 March 2025 12:30 pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us for a discussion of how local governments can foster productive conversations about climate policies in today’s chaotic information environment.

Study in Japan Information Session

19 March 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Come and Join this session if you are Interested in studying in Japan or learning about the amazing career opportunities available in Japan.

Municipal Matters: Building Capacity for Local Climate Conversations – March 20

20 March 2025 12:45 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us over lunch at the Liu Institute’s Place of Many Trees for the official in-person launch of the UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions’s’ new report on local climate communications in Canada.

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Patterns as Poetic Practice

25 March 2025 9:00 am - 28 April 2025 6:00 pm

Venue: Lobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events, Featured News & Events

The Liu Lobby Gallery’s new series features Roots and Reflections: On Personal and Collective Identity, bringing together over 200 textiles from 17 countries, Patterns as Poetic Practice.

Book Launch: “We, the Kindling” by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

26 March 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us as we celebrate the launch of “We, the Kindling,” the stunning debut novel from acclaimed author and poet Otoniya J. Okot Bitek.

Book Talk: From Confucius to Xi Jinping The DNA of Chinese Politics

26 March 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This talk with Willy Lam will centre around his book “From Confucius to Xi Jinping The DNA of Chinese Politics”.

Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare

27 March 2025 5:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join Dr. Alex Yu-Ting Lin to explore how states compete for status and instrumentalize misinformation through international institutions.

What It Means To Be “American” – Raven Chacon

27 March 2025 6:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Come watch Raven Chacon’s performance and chat with him about the lasting impacts of colonialism and how they affect ideas of “American” identity.

From Landscapes to Seascapes: The Future of Indonesia’s Environmental Policies

28 March 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Come and hear from five Indonesian PhD students as they discuss the intersection of their research and environmental policy in Indonesia.

Hot Stuff: Exposing Indonesia’s Geothermal Dreams

31 March 2025 2:00 pm

Venue: Dodson Room, Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join CSEAR for a simulcast screening of he award winning Indonesian documentary Hot Stuff followed by a discussion with the film makers.

Year-End Showcase: Global Community Engagement in Action

02 April 2025 4:00 pm

Venue: Liu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Third Worldism and its Discontents with Cindy Ewing

03 April 2025 3:00 pm

Venue: Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Categories: Featured Events

In this fascinating book talk, Dr. Cindy Ewing will explore the circulation of postcolonial ideas in Asia during the early postwar era through the Asian Relations Conferences 1947 and 1949.

IAR-CKR Fellow Research Showcase

03 April 2025 3:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join the Centre for Korean Research (CKR) on April 3rd for an exciting research showcase by the IAR Fellows.

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

07 April 2025 12:00 pm

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This book talk by Marietje Schaake will draw attention to the pressing danger of the unrestrained influence of private tech companies.

Seeing Vietnamese History from the Sea

07 April 2025 1:00 pm

Venue: Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Categories: Featured Events

Li Tana’s book talk will explore her powerful argument about the role of the sea in key political changes in Vietnamese history.

Turning Concepts Into Norms with Dr. Shazelina Z. Abidin

08 April 2025 3:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join the High Commissioner of Malaysia to Canada to hear insights from her extensive experience with governance and diplomacy

Dreams of Equality and Nepal’s Federal Constitution: Experiences of Indigenous Peoples and Marginalized Communities

08 April 2025 5:30 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

This talk will reflect on the experiences of Nepal’s Indigenous and marginalized communities on the journey towards its collective dream.

What It Means To Be “American” – Heather Cox Richardson

10 April 2025 6:30 pm

Venue: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join Heather Cox Richardson as she draws from a deep well of historical knowledge to contextualize the current threats to American democracy.

The Tamil Question in Post-Crisis Sri Lanka

28 April 2025 10:00 am

Venue: Virtual (Zoom)
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

Join us for a critical conversation on Tamil self-determination, Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism, and Sri Lanka’s shifting political landscape.

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Weaving Belonging

01 May 2025 9:00 am - 11 July 2025 6:00 pm

Venue: Lobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

The Liu Lobby Gallery invites you to the latest exhibition in the series Roots and Reflections: On Personal and Collective Identity. Weaving Belonging: Stories from Unceded Territories features artwork by Aaniya Asrani co-created in conversation with Antje Ellermann, Chief Janice George, Elmir lsmayilov, Gloria Tsui, Sussan Yanez, Valentina Voloshko and Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph. Visit the […]

POSTPONED Ingat: A Transnational Palimpsest of Creative Writing

10 May 2025 6:00 pm

Categories: Featured Events, Featured Homepage, Featured News & Events

The UBC Centre for Southeast Asian Research is proud to sponsor this transnational community event, taking place at the UBC Learning Exchange in the Downtown Eastside