Events

Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Entangled Territories: A Response to the Exhibition

January 22, 2026 | 5:30 PM - March 14, 2026 | 7:30 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

America First, America Alone? - Charity Weeden

February 5, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Rethinking the Representation of ‘Japanese Women’ in Korean Popular Culture

February 6, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
room1855 West Mall (CK Choi Building) RM 351, UBC Vancouver Campus
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

New Waves of Dissent: Understanding Gen Z Protest Movements in South Asia

February 6, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Gender, Power, and Policy Influence in an Era of DEI Retrenchment

February 12, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Feb 12 Application Workshop

February 12, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

America First, America Alone? - Hasan Piker

February 12, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

State of the Union Address Watch Party & Debrief

February 24, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

America First, America Alone? - Dread Scott

February 25, 2026 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomThe Polygon Gallery
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

America First, America Alone? - Rachel Maddow

March 5, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Entangled Territories: Conversations on Home + Diasporas

March 11, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Himalaya Program

Entangled Territories: A Panel Discussion

March 14, 2026 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Curator Tour of Entangled Territories

March 14, 2026 | 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

"Opting Out?" Narratives of Non-Motherhood in our Era of Demographic Change

March 17, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Policy, Power, and the Shaping of Public Discourse

March 18, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

America First, America Alone? - Carlos Lozada

March 26, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

US-China Relations: Rivalry, Strategy, and the Future of Global Power

April 7, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Shinnenkai 2026: Celebrate the New Years with the Centre for Japanese Research

January 29, 2026 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Between the Pillar of State and Social Stigma: The Military Exile Practice in Chosŏn Korea, 1863–1894

January 23, 2026 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 1112, Buchanan Tower
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

America First, America Alone? - Thomas L. Friedman

January 22, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

From Campus to Council: UBC Alumni Leading Vancouver’s Policy Future

January 14, 2026 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

What the China Dream Means to Me Ten Years On—Reading and Translating China's Contemporary Intellectuals

December 12, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Dec 11 Application Workshop

December 11, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Lobby Gallery

Liu Lobby Gallery: Road Stories

December 5, 2025 | 9:00 AM - December 19, 2025 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan

November 28, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Gender+ and Intersectional Considerations when Designing and Conducting Research

November 26, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 101, Geography Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Diplomacy Beyond Diplomats: Working in the Field on Asia

November 25, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Bridging Global Water Policy and Practice: A Conversation with Leaders in Environmental Governance

November 25, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Human Rights Activism Across Professions

November 24, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Sino-Korean Relations and Anti-Catholicism in Late Chosŏn Korea

November 21, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCase Room - Liu Institute for Global Issues
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Opening Celebrations of Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images

November 20, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Nov 19 Application Workshop

November 19, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Between Mountains and Mother Tongues: A Roundtable Discussion

November 18, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Film Screening and Discussion: Sikkidre Shikari, Illadiddare Bhikari (Bird Trapper or Beggar)

November 17, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Institute of Asian Research

IAR Hosts Pita Limjaroenrat

November 13, 2025 | 12:00 AM - November 14, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomVarious
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

POSTPONED - From Tech to Parliament: A Conversation with Taleeb Noormohamed

November 12, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Railway Infrastructure, Socialist Subject-Making, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1945-1962

November 7, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Nov 4 Application Workshop

November 4, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Nov 4 Info Session

November 4, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomOTTAWA / ZOOM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Late Industrialization, Tradition, and the Emergence of Neofamilism in South Korea

October 31, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: OVERCASTE Opening Reception and Panel Discussion

October 30, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs - October 29 Info Session

October 29, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Possibilities for Myanmar’s Post-conflict Future

October 27, 2025 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
roomHybrid: Buchanan Penthouse / Zoom
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Beyond Fires & Floods (BFF): Indigenous Narratives in an Era of Extremes

October 24, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Older than Israel: Work-in-Progress Screening and Discussion

October 21, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Nepal in Conversation: Protest and Pathways Forward

October 17, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomSFU Harbour Centre Room 1600
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - October 16 Alumni & Careers Info Session

October 16, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

The Circle Way: A Collaborative Practice for Community-Based Research

October 6, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomThe Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute, UBC
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: OVERCASTE Exhibit

October 3, 2025 | 12:00 AM - December 4, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Film Screening of Intercepted (2024) & Director Q&A on War and Resilience in Ukraine

September 29, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomNormand Bouchard Memorial Theatre
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Knowledge Decolonisation and Identity Politics in Chinese IR

September 26, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Reimagining China Studies: Taiwan as a Platform for Engaging with the Sinosphere

September 25, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs - September 25 Info Session

September 25, 2025 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

CANCELLED - Indonesia Since Independence 80 Years Ago: Decolonization, Afro-Asian Solidarity, and the US Empire

September 24, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
roomPena Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Voices of Dissent from Nepal: Causes and Consequences of the Current Unrest

September 23, 2025 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

MPPGA at Graduate Program Fairs

September 23, 2025 | 12:00 AM - November 6, 2025 | 11:59 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Indians on Indian Lands: No Past to Long For

September 22, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Geography Atmospheric Apparitions Symposium Guest Lecture Javier Arbona-Homar

September 18, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Lobby Gallery

“Atmospheric Apparitions” Mini-Symposium

September 18, 2025 | 12:00 AM - September 19, 2025 | 11:59 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Ashwyn Singh Comedy Show

September 16, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Gendered Undermatch and Imagined Futures

September 15, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

From Hybrid to Fusion Innovation— Taiwan’s Green Revolution of Offshore Wind

September 10, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Technology and the Future of Democracy: Pre-APSA Workshop

September 10, 2025 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Climate Change Science-Policy-Society Interface in the High Himalaya

August 28, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs - August 26 Info Session

August 26, 2025 | 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Liu Institute for Global Issues, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 80 years of the nuclear age

August 5, 2025 | 9:00 AM - August 7, 2025 | 9:45 PM
roomThe Roundhouse Community Arts
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Mark Vicol: An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar's Central Dry Zone

July 29, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Liu Lobby Gallery Exhibit: Atmospheric Apparitions

July 22, 2025 | 12:00 AM - September 26, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Have People Stopped Listening to Expertise?

July 15, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Supply Chain Strategy and Economic Security in a Geopolitical Era

July 15, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
room1855 West Mall (CK Choi Building) RM 351, UBC Vancouver Campus
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

POSTPONED Ingat: A Transnational Palimpsest of Creative Writing

May 10, 2025 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Transformative Memory International Network

Dancing with Our Ancestors Exhibit

May 5, 2025 | 4:00 PM - May 19, 2025 | 7:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Weaving Belonging

May 1, 2025 | 9:00 AM - July 11, 2025 | 6:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Tamil Question in Post-Crisis Sri Lanka

April 28, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Possible Complicity in Genocide? Australia, Pine Gap and Gaza

April 14, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

What It Means To Be "American" - Heather Cox Richardson

April 10, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Myanmar Initiative

Book Sale for Myanmar Earthquake Relief

April 10, 2025 | 10:00 AM - April 11, 2025 | 3:00 PM
room1855 West Mall (CK Choi Building) RM 351, UBC Vancouver Campus
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Myanmar Initiative

Book Sale for Myanmar Earthquake Relief

April 9, 2025 | 10:00 AM - April 10, 2025 | 3:00 PM
room1855 West Mall (CK Choi Building) RM 351, UBC Vancouver Campus
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research, Office of Regional and International Community Engagement, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

April 8, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Turning Concepts Into Norms with Dr. Shazelina Z. Abidin

April 8, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Seeing Vietnamese History from the Sea

April 7, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Fabricating Homeland Security

April 7, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Institute of Asian Research

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

April 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

IAR-CKR Fellow Research Showcase

April 3, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Third Worldism and its Discontents with Cindy Ewing

April 3, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Year-End Showcase: Global Community Engagement in Action

April 2, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Hot Stuff: Exposing Indonesia's Geothermal Dreams

March 31, 2025 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomDodson Room, Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

March 28, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

What It Means To Be "American" - Raven Chacon

March 27, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Creating Status Loss: Delegitimation through Information Warfare

March 27, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Transformative Memory International Network

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

March 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

March 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Patterns as Poetic Practice

March 25, 2025 | 9:00 AM - April 28, 2025 | 6:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

March 20, 2025 | 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Study in Japan Information Session

March 19, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

March 19, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Documentary Screening: The Silent Epidemic

March 18, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

March 17, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

March 17, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Screening of Bribe, Inc.

March 14, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:45 PM
roomChan Centre RBC Theatre
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

A Fractured Liberation: Korea under U.S. Occupation

March 14, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

What It Means To Be "American" - Ziwe

March 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Resisting the Authoritarian Temptation

March 11, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Epistemologies and Emplacements with Theara Thun and Kisho Tsuchiya

March 10, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Diverse Citizenship in East Asian Democracies

March 6, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Institute of Asian Research

Building Journalism Around Community

March 6, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Indigenous Resilience in Bangladesh

March 4, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

What It Means to be "American" - Ramy Youssef

February 27, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Event Series: Histories of Anti-Colonial Thought in Southeast Asia

February 27, 2025 | 3:00 PM - April 3, 2025 | 5:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

The Architects of Dignity with Kevin D. Pham

February 27, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

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

February 20, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

What It Means To Be "American" - Adam Kinzinger

February 13, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Women and Music in the South Asian Diaspora

February 11, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

The Geoeconomics of the Second Trump Presidency

February 11, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

AIIMS New Delhi and the Tumultuous Beginnings of Indian Biomedicine

February 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Institute of Asian Research

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

January 31, 2025 | 9:45 AM - 5:00 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Shared Horizons: Canada and ASEAN in a Changing World

January 30, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomUBC Allard Hall (ALRD) - Franklin Lew Forum (Room 101)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

US Election Post-Mortem: What Lies Ahead?

January 29, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

January 24, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

January 23, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

What It Means To Be "American" - Smriti Keshari & Eric Schlosser

January 16, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre RBC Theatre
Centre for Chinese Research

《杜騙新書》如何譯? Adventures in Translating the Ming Dynasty Book of Swindles

January 16, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Graduate Student Research Showcase

January 15, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

MPPGA Drop-In Advising Sessions

January 13, 2025 | 8:00 AM - January 15, 2025 | 2:00 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Jokowi's Decade in Power: What Will Remain?

January 9, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

MPPGA Alumni & Careers Information Session - Jan 9

January 9, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

January 6, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

December 10, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Faculty Coffee Chat

December 10, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomNational Gallery of Canada Cafeteria
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Silver Screens and Golden Dreams

December 9, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Future of International Humanitarian Law: Adapting to New Realities

November 28, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

November 26, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Combatting Grand Corruption: National & Global Responses

November 25, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

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

November 22, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

November 22, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Intiha: An Evening of Conversation with Ali Sethi

November 21, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Dialogues on Humanity

November 20, 2024 | 12:00 AM - January 10, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Application Workshop – Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs – Nov 12

November 12, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Language Standardization in South Korea: An Ideological Perspective

November 8, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Paths to Equal: Innovative Tools for Measuring Gender Progress

November 7, 2024 | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Nov 5 Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

November 5, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

November 4, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Church That Lays Money, Honour, and Power: Catalysts for Hereditary Succession of Head Ministers in South Korean Churches

November 1, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

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

October 31, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

In Conversation with Ambassador David Sproule

October 28, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

October 25, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Oct 22 Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

October 22, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Film Screening-Of Colour and Ink: Chang Dai-chien After 1949

October 18, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

October 17, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomCanfor Room, YWCA Hotel
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Global Capitalism and the Peasant Question in Colonial Panjab

October 17, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Japanese Politics at a Crucial Transition Point

October 17, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea

October 15, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Witnessing The Himalayan (M)Anthropocene

October 10, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

BC Leaders' Debate Watch Party

October 8, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm, Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Oct 8 Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

October 8, 2024 | 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

October 7, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Freedom of the Purse: Why the Indian Media Have a Structural Compulsion to Lie

October 4, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

October 3, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

October 3, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomANSO 134
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Breaking the Cycle: A Simulcast Film Screening and Discussion

October 1, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Unfinished Quest: India's Search for Major Power Status

September 27, 2024 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Democratic Planning: Theoretical Debates, Social & Political Implications

September 26, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomCase Room - Liu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Sept 24 Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

September 24, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

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

September 20, 2024 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Global Legacies of the “spring thunder”: Indian People’s Association in North America (IPANA)

September 18, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomSFU Harbour Centre
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Talk and Q&A with Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine to Canada

September 11, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Book Talk: Colonizing Kashmir and Hostile Homelands

August 14, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Public Policy Beyond State Intervention: A View from Rural India

July 16, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Cosmopolitan Identity on Digital Canvas

July 15, 2024 | 12:00 AM - September 27, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

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

July 11, 2024 | 12:00 AM - July 12, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

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

June 26, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomBeaty Biodiversity Museum
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

"Stewarding Mae-Nam Khong": A Community-based Art Exhibition

June 18, 2024 | 12:00 AM - August 30, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomBeaty Biodiversity Museum
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Twin Presentations: Floating Schools in Bangladesh & Slogans as Public Pedagogy

April 24, 2024 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Phil Lind Initiative: Sasha Velour

April 18, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Timor-Leste’s Struggle for Self-Determination and Its Implications for Palestine

April 18, 2024 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Transformative Memory International Network

4th Annual Art + Memory + Justice Symposium

April 5, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Dr. David Boyd: Authoritative Environmental Repression in the Case of Nilou

April 4, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Seoul: Tale of a Smart City

April 4, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Keynote Lecture-Jakarta: The City of a Thousand Dimensions

March 28, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Asian Urbanisms: An Institute of Asian Research Symposium

March 28, 2024 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Heaven Has Eyes: Judicial Populism In The Chinese Legal Imagination

March 27, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomGreen College
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Centre for Japanese Research Open House 2024

March 25, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Phil Lind Initiative: Xiuhtezcatl Martinez

March 21, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Making Sense of Civil Society in Southeast Asia

March 21, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Go Global Study in Japan Session

March 20, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomThe Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute, UBC
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Film Screening: Untouchable – Laughing Out Caste

March 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Arpilleras of Migration

March 15, 2024 | 12:00 AM - May 31, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Phil Lind Initiative: Viet Thanh Nguyen

March 14, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Untouchable: Stand-Up Comedy Solo by Manjeet Sarkar

March 14, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomYork Theatre, The Cultch
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Earth as Refuge: Embracing Our Ecological Selves in the Anthropocene

March 13, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Rethinking Social Categories in Indonesian History

March 12, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 1112, Buchanan Tower
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

US-Japan Alliance and the Taiwan Strait

March 12, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Knowledge Circles 知識界 in Colonial Hong Kong 1945-1997: From Offshore Publics to Civic Communities

March 11, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Seto Inland Sea Islands International Triennale Art Festival as Global Tour

March 7, 2024 | 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Online Forum: Am I Chinese? Postcolonial Chinese Identity between Cultural Heritage and Liberal Activism

March 7, 2024 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Zines and Phillipines

March 4, 2024 | 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
room1855 West Mall (CK Choi Building) RM 351, UBC Vancouver Campus
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

China Urbanizing in Global Context: Impacts and Transitions

February 28, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomGreen College
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Phil Lind Initiative: Suleika Jaouad & Jon Batiste

February 15, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Celebrating Mother Languages

February 15, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Social Media Strategy for Policy Workshop

February 9, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Living with Xi? Intellectuals and Public Life in China Today

February 5, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Shadow of Authoritarian Patronage in Democratizing South Korea

February 2, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Reporting on Mass Atrocities: How can Myanmar Remain on the Radar?

February 1, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Challenges Following the Ratification of the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearance in South Korea

January 26, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Phil Lind Initiative: Jia Tolentino

January 25, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Urban Growth and Social Vulnerability in the Kathmandu Valley

January 24, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Chaxugeju: The Construction of an Ideal Type as a Mechanism of Organizing China

January 24, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Logic Of Governance In China: An Organizational Approach

January 24, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Tales of Ecuador

January 24, 2024 | 12:00 AM - March 8, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Mediation Then and Now: Changing Global Order's Impact on Mediation

January 11, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Application Workshop - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

January 9, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Application Workshop - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

December 12, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

The Kings Priests’ Tale: Lives & Work of Royal Chaplains of Mustang Nepal

December 6, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

UBC Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs - Application Workshop

December 5, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Thai Politics in 2023: The Road Ahead

November 30, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

November 29, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Why Were They Arrested? Religious Leaders and the Kwangju Democratization Movement

November 24, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Room 312
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Setsuko Thurlow: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

November 24, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Institute of Asian Research, Myanmar Initiative

Exploring Activism in Myanmar by Dr. Elliott Prasse-Freeman

November 22, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Dr. Alsu Tagirova, Tumen River: The Formation of Soviet, North Korean and Chinese Borderlands

November 17, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Briefs 1

November 17, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

G7/G20 Youth Japan Policy Design Workshop

November 16, 2023 | 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building, UBC
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Seed to Sky

November 9, 2023 | 12:00 AM - December 29, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Reports

November 8, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

November 7, 2023 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Pain Medicine and Labour in India

November 6, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomCase Room - Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Impact of Social Capital on the Successful Localization of Chinese Enterprises in ASEAN

November 3, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Japan’s Role in Indo-Pacific Security

November 2, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Doing Global Urban Comparisons: Making A Case for China

November 1, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Op-Eds for Policy

October 30, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Wombs of Empire: The Gendered and Racial Politics of Motherhood

October 27, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Querying AI: Symposium on Generative AI in Research and Society

October 27, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Age of Disruption in Public Policy: DRIPA and Social Media

October 27, 2023 | 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
roomTheatre C300, UBC Robson Square
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Reassessing Public Support for China’s Leadership: Social Desirability And Misreporting

October 25, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Towards a Socialist Community: Bulgaria and the Korean War

October 20, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

October 19, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Action Amplified: ORICE Annual Symposium on Global Community Engagement

October 19, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 9:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Book Discussion: An Ecological History of Modern China

October 18, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Book Talk: The Confucian Communist Comeback in Contemporary China

October 16, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

October 12, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

October 12, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

China, the Overseas Chinese and Global China: Instruments, Intentions and Outcomes

October 10, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Liu Lobby Gallery: The Story of the Seeds

October 5, 2023 | 12:00 AM - November 3, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Threads of a Past Life: Kimono Talk and Demonstration

October 3, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Documentary Screening: When the Tide Goes Out

October 3, 2023 | 4:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Himalaya Program

The Sakya Jetsunmas–The Hidden World of Tibetan Female Lamas

September 27, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Institute of Asian Research

Tunku Zain Al‘Abidin - Divergence in Malaysia: Who and what will prevail?

September 26, 2023 | 5:15 PM - 6:45 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Introduction to Policy Communications

September 25, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Timothy Garton Ash: From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe - and Back

September 20, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees) 1st floor, Liu Institute for Global Issues
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

SPPGA Book Fair

September 19, 2023 | 12:00 AM - September 21, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Korea-Canada Relations in the Indo-Pacific

September 7, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM

The Climate Emergency and the Future of Global Food Trade Governance: IRES Faculty Seminar with Matias Margulis

September 5, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Coastal Livelihoods: A visual anthropology exhibit by Zana Mody

August 30, 2023 | 12:00 AM - September 29, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Communications Strategy for Policy Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)

May 24, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Communications Strategy for Policy Workshop (Sciences)

May 23, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Reports Workshop (Sciences)

May 18, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Reports Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)

April 26, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Jonathan Haidt

April 20, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Shadow Negotiators: Matias E. Margulis Book Launch

April 19, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomGreen College
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Social Media Strategy for Policy Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)

April 18, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Briefs Workshop (Sciences)

April 14, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Harsha Walia - Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire

April 6, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Careers & Employment with the Federal Government

April 5, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Youth and Human Rights: Can young people save the world?

April 3, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Black Youth in Policy: Opportunities & Barriers

March 31, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Himalaya Program

The Kathmandu Bookshop as a Literary-Historical Event

March 28, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Lobby Gallery

Film Screening - The Liu Lobby Gallery: Seeds of Our Ancestors

March 28, 2023 | 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Reparations in Social Work: A Progressive Model for Change

March 27, 2023 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Linda Greenhouse

March 23, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Social Media Strategy for Policy Workshop (Sciences)

March 23, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Text in Motion: Unofficial Handwritten Entertainment from the Chinese Cultural Revolution

March 21, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Digital Policy Rounds: Mis/disinformation and the Question of Authenticity

March 16, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Korean Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Henry Yeung – Semiconductors, Geopolitics & Post-Pandemic East Asia

March 13, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Op-Eds for Policy Workshop (Sciences)

March 10, 2023 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Op-Eds for Policy Workshop (Humanities and Social Sciences)

March 8, 2023 | 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

China and its Changing Nuclear Weapons Policies

March 6, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Safiya Noble

March 2, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Book Talk: The Trauma of Caste

March 2, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Interactive Roundtable on Asian Career Trajectories

March 2, 2023 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Heavy Metal Lecture Series: The Role of Investors & International Institutions

March 1, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Seeds of Our Ancestors

March 1, 2023 | 9:00 AM - March 31, 2023 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Seeds of Our Ancestors

March 1, 2023 | 9:00 AM - March 31, 2023 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Virtual Panel Series: Security Competition and Our Digital Future

February 28, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Briefs Workshop

February 27, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: John McWhorter

February 16, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Human Rights and the Environment: Are Human Rights only about Humans?

February 16, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Digital Policy Rounds: Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence

February 16, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Killam Lecture Series - Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

February 15, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Michael B. Dwyer - Upland Geopolitics: Postwar Laos and the Global Land Rush

February 15, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Global Significance of the Indo-Pacific

February 13, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Lobby Gallery

The Liu Lobby Gallery: Millions of Kitchens. Are They Safe?

February 8, 2023 | 12:00 AM - February 24, 2023 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

How Ancestral Voyaging Mobilizes Knowledge of Biodiversity & Climate Change

February 2, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Communications Workshop (Sciences)

February 2, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Opportunities and Frictions

February 1, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Policy Communications Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)

February 1, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

(De)Mystifying Gender+ in Research: A Workshop Series and Conversation Space

February 1, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Dialectics of Labor: Working in Postwar North Korea

January 27, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Masha Gessen

January 26, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Heavy Metal: Killam Lecture Series - Sheri Meyerhoffer

January 25, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAllard School of Law- Franklin Lew Forum (Room 101)
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Trauma-Informed Community Care

January 23, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomAllard School of Law- Franklin Lew Forum (Room 101)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Digital Policy Rounds: Health Communications

January 19, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Study in Japan Information Session

January 18, 2023 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Lobby Gallery

The Memory Project

January 17, 2023 | 9:00 AM - January 31, 2023 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Kingdom of Pines: State Forestry and the Making of Chosŏn Korea, 1392-1910

January 13, 2023 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs - Application Workshop

January 11, 2023 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Liu Institute for Global Issues

Africans in BC Townhall: How the African Diaspora Can Contribute to the Development of the Continent

December 17, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs - Application Workshop

December 13, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Site-Image-Object: Rethinking Place in Chinese Visual and Material Culture

December 9, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomFrederic Lasserre Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Fighting for Life? Environmental Law in India

December 8, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Site-Image-Object: Rethinking Place in Chinese Visual and Material Culture

December 8, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomFrederic Lasserre Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Site-Image-Object: Rethinking Place in Chinese Visual and Material Culture

December 7, 2022 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomFrederic Lasserre Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Mind the Gap: Digital Trade Explosion vs Fragmented Data Governance

December 6, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

A Revolutionary State: What is North Korea’s End Goal?

December 5, 2022 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Reflections on the 20th Party Congress and the Future of Chinese Politics

December 2, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Partner or Predator? China and the Global Land Grab

November 30, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Through the Lens: Image Use and Implications

November 30, 2022 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Uncivilized City: Urban Tibetans and China’s State-led Urbanization

November 29, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Science, Academia and Politics: Lessons from the Honourable Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim

November 25, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Information Session @ UBC Robson Square - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

November 24, 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Exposing Normalized Violence in Canada

November 24, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

What About Gender+? Intersectional Research Design in Practice

November 22, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

India and China's State Power and the Role of a Mid-Size Power: Thailand

November 18, 2022 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Decoding G20 Indonesia Summit

November 17, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomVirtual (Zoom)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Citizenship and Borders in South Asia: A Visual Contemplation

November 16, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Biological Sciences Building, Room 2200
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Seeds of Mobilization Discussion: The Authoritarian Roots of South Korea's Democracy

November 16, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues, Room 312
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual Information Session - Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs

November 9, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

(De)humanizing? Critiquing Representations of Human Rights in Film

October 28, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Covering the Apocalypse: What it is Like Being an Indigenous Journalist in Canada with Tanya Talaga

October 27, 2022 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Institute of Asian Research

Centre for Study of Democratic Institutions and Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research: Student and Research Showcase

October 27, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

State-Level Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Learnings from Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu

October 27, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Transparency Traps: Global Development and the Politics of Aid Data

October 25, 2022 | 12:40 PM - 1:50 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Can Democratic Elections Survive the Digital Age?

October 18, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Book Launch – The Rise of the Infrastructure State

October 13, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Book Discussion – Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey

October 6, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues

LINA's Re-Imagining Sustainable Development Conference

September 28, 2022 | 12:00 AM - September 30, 2022 | 11:59 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

A Moment of Collective Reflection on Gender+

September 27, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Book Discussion - High-Risk Feminism in Colombia by Dr. Julia Zulver

September 26, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
School of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Book Discussion - Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha with Dr. Robert Jacobs

September 16, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Liu Institute for Global Issues

Resistencia del Corazón Verde with Marisol García Apagüeno

September 14, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Film Screening of Courage (2021) & Panel Discussion on Academic Freedom in Belarus

June 29, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Impact of the Tokyo Quad Summit on Emerging Indo-Pacific Strategies

June 16, 2022 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Institution-led Social Reform and Justice: Modernizing Gender Expression on Government-Issued ID

May 25, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies: Book Launch with Tsering Yangzom Lama

May 19, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Relevancy of Public Policy in a Digital Age

May 16, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Institute of Asian Research

CSIS: Protecting National Security in Partnership with All Canadians

May 4, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Future of Security Relations between Korea and Japan: Challenges and Pathways

April 27, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Ed Yong

April 19, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Engaging China Today

April 8, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

A Policy with a Vision for Self-Determined Development for Indigenous Peoples Globally

April 5, 2022 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Kara Swisher

April 4, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Diasporic Youth Culture of the Korean Wave

April 4, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The Crisis In Long Term Care: Richard B. Splane Lecture in Social Policy

March 31, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Scholars at Risk Canada Student Advocacy Day

March 31, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Reconnecting to the Himalaya: Connection and Conflict, A Roundtable Discussion with UBC Graduate Students

March 28, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Decolonizing Global Health

March 24, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

How to Overcome Diversity and Create Homogeneity - The CCP's Current Minority Policies in Historical and International Perspectives

March 18, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Liu Institute for Global Issues, Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Advancing Climate Justice and Humanitarian Action: Celebrating African Women's Leadership

March 18, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Phil Lind Initiative

Cancelled - The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Matt Taibbi

March 17, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Negotiating at the Brink: How Does the World Solve the Climate Crisis?

March 17, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Hope for the Future of Youth in Asia

March 15, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Negotiating at the Brink: How Does the World Solve the Climate Crisis?

March 10, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

A Roundtable on the 2022 Korean Presidential Election: Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations

March 10, 2022 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Contested Spaces, Contested Impact: 2022 Symposium on Global Community Engagement

March 10, 2022 | 3:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Beyond Debt-Trapping: Encompassing Accumulation, Infrastructure, and China’s Spatiotemporal Fix

March 9, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Gender in Himalayan Buddhism: Glacial Shifts in Attitudes and Institutions

March 7, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Soledad O’Brien

March 3, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Institute of Asian Research

Book Launch: Active Non-Alignment by Ambassador Jorge Heine

February 28, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Hope for the Future of Youth in Asia

February 24, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

The Evolving Economic and Geopolitical Landscape in the Indo-Pacific: CPTPP, RCEP and Beyond

February 23, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Making Markets and Valuing Natures in a Himalayan 'Frontier'

February 16, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Noted Scholars Series: Being with Water by Rita Wong in Conversation with Aimée Craft

February 16, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomMichael Smith Laboratories, Room 102

Book Launch: Infinity Fish by Dr. Rashid Sumaila

February 10, 2022 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

International Development Week 2022: Women’s Leadership in the Pursuit of Peace and Security

February 7, 2022 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: The Future of Media

February 3, 2022 | 6:00 PM - April 19, 2022 | 7:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Douglas Rushkoff

February 3, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Anti-China Sentiment and China’s Influence in US’ Allies: Australia, Japan and Korea

February 2, 2022 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Reunification Online Screening

January 28, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Himalaya Program, Institute of Asian Research

Gender Justice in Nepal: Political Power and Dignified Menstruation

January 26, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Allyship: What does this really mean?

January 26, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

2022 Virtual UBC MPPGA Q&A Info Session

January 13, 2022 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

North Korea’s Nuclear Maturation

December 9, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual UBC MPPGA Info Session: Co-op Program, Professional Development, Career Paths

December 8, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Institute of Asian Research

Global Consequences of the U.S.’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan

December 3, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research

Book Discussion - Redesign the World: A Global Call to Action

November 24, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

BOOK TALK - China's Civilian Army: The Making of Wolf Warrior Diplomacy"

November 22, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Webinar Covid-19 & Human Rights: How Human Rights can contribute to building forward fairer

November 22, 2021 | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Centre for Korean Research, Institute of Asian Research

Korean Diasporic Citizenship: Two Tales of Political Incorporation in Japan and the United States

November 19, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual UBC MPPGA Info Session: Scholarships and Funding; International Students

November 18, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

“Living resurgence: dreaming in dangerous times.” – Dr. Dian Million

November 17, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Activism in the Age of Cancel Culture

November 17, 2021 | 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

[SYMPOSIUM EVENT]: Seeing Like an Empire: Chinese Political Thought and Practice in Changing Times

November 17, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

[Book Discussion]: What Is the Path to “Common Prosperity” under Xi Jinping?

November 16, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Patriarchal Capitalism with Chinese characteristics: Gendered Discourse of ‘Double Eleven’ Shopping Festival

November 10, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Policy in Practice: Q&A with The Honourable David Eby

November 9, 2021 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Moving Forward: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

November 4, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age/Uncivil and Unwell in America

November 3, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Navigating the Age of Disruption: Where is Japan Going After the Election?

November 1, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The Honourable Robert Rae in Conversation with the SPPGA: Reshaping the Multilateral Order

October 27, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

“Refugee Archives across the Transpacific: Activating Anecdotes and Family Photography – A Conversation”

October 27, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Digesting the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit: What next for ending hunger?

October 13, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Institute of Asian Research

Speaking From the Heart: Translating Xinjiang's Diverse Voices

October 9, 2021 | 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomMorris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

After Meng Wanzhou: Roundtable on Canada/US-China Relations

October 8, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual UBC MPPGA Info Session: Why Choose the MPPGA Program

October 7, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Can Small Modular Reactors Deliver?

October 6, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM

Book Launch - The Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis

September 29, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Toward Radical Humanism in Anthropology – Ethnographic Praxis, Relationality, Multi-modality

September 23, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

“Performance, Memory, Repair: Reflections on the Politics of Pandemics” by Diana Taylor

September 22, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Post-Election Analysis

September 21, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2021 Virtual SPPGA Policy Salon: Shaping the Post-COVID World

September 17, 2021 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

2021 Election: Policy Promises, Candidates, and Challenges

September 16, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Canada’s 2021 Federal Election & the Climate Crisis

September 14, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Canada’s 2021 Federal Election Webinar Series

September 14, 2021 | 12:30 PM - September 21, 2021 | 2:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Women Shifting the Technology Landscape in Africa

August 11, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Indigenous Bodies of Evidence and Counter-Mapping in the “Green” Nuclear Archive

July 14, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Critical Hope in the Public Sphere

July 6, 2021 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Liu Institute for Global Issues

Re-Imagining Agenda 2063: A Socio-Legal Foundation of the Africa We Want

June 21, 2021 | 9:00 AM - June 24, 2021 | 4:30 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

The Creative Power of Disagreement in the Face of Wicked Problems

June 11, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Can We Cut Emissions Fast Enough? With Joyce Msuya, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNEP Deputy Executive Director

June 9, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan’s Response to COVID-19 from a Political and Historical Perspective

June 1, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Overcoming Online Challenges in Hosting Events and Planning Projects

May 20, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Online Book Talk: Japan’s Eminently Avoidable Socio-Economic Decline

May 20, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

After the Verdict: Dominic Ongwen & the Many Sides of Justice

May 7, 2021 | 6:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Book Launch – Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater

May 6, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Centre for Chinese Research

Book Launch Event: “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives”

May 6, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

The Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance became Policy and Politics

April 27, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

The Instrumental Use of the Trope of the Native American in 19th Century British and American Accounts of Southeast Asia

April 26, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Migration and the Environment: A View from the Indian Ocean World – The Annual Burge Lecture 2021

April 22, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Take Nature as the Measure: The Search for Sustainability

April 21, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity

April 13, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Deoliwallahs and Questions of Citizenship

April 12, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research

From Youthful Idols to Elderly Treasures: An Examination of Performers as Cultural Ambassadors of the Nation

April 8, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Women Shifting the Health Landscape in Africa

March 31, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Examining Anti-Asian Racism + Xenophobia: A Current and Historical Conversation

March 30, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Himalaya Program

Responding with Care: Tibetan Community Experiences of COVID-19 in Canada

March 30, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues

Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency with Seth Klein – 2021 Dr. Richard B. Splane Lecture in Social Policy

March 29, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Re-thinking Okinawan Indigeneity: Articulation and Activism

March 29, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Work in Progress: Gender Justice, Community, and COVID-19

March 26, 2021 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

UBC Reads Sustainability with Sheila Watt-Cloutier

March 26, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Institute of Asian Research

2021 UBC China Forum

March 19, 2021 | 6:00 PM - March 22, 2021 | 6:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research

A Good Wife is Hard to Find: Shifts in the Representations of Women in North Korean Literature

March 19, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Danielle Allen

March 18, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Ten Years after Fukushima: Commemoration and Lessons for the Future

March 17, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Global Perspectives on Gender and Environmental Justice

March 16, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Ainu, Okinawa and Indigeneity: Ainu: 150 Years of Resilience

March 15, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

The 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Online Curator Tour of A Future for Memory

March 11, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-seekers, and Repatriates by Dr. Jana Lipman

March 11, 2021 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

UBC Reads Sustainability with Amitav Ghosh

March 11, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Book Launch – Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan

March 11, 2021 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

After Coup: The Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar

March 9, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Timothy Snyder

March 4, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Dress/Fashion History of Korea as a Field of Study

February 26, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Himalaya Program

The Becoming: A Photo Story of Young Working Class Masculinities in Nepal

February 26, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Anne Applebaum

February 25, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

A Roundtable on Social/Alternative Media in Southeast Asia

February 24, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Fifth Annual International Mother Language Day Celebration

February 18, 2021 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan and Asia in the Pandemic Era: RCEP

February 12, 2021 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Centre for Chinese Research

Online Book Talk Event – The Great Exodus from China

February 10, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India

February 10, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Whose Health? Exploring Well-being from Diverse Perspectives – IDW 2021 Kickoff Event

February 8, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Book Launch – Flowering Tales: Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan

February 4, 2021 | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Charles M. Blow

February 4, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Impression Management of School Uniform Culture in Korea

February 4, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research

Clash of Powers: US-China Rivalry in Global Trade Governance – Book Talk with Professor Kristen Hopewell

February 2, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Creating the Chosŏn Wave: Listening to the Yadam (野談) Boom on Radio and Stage in Colonial Korea

January 29, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

U.S. Foreign Policy in 2021 and Beyond - A Talk with U.S. Consul General Brent Hardt

January 28, 2021 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Affirmative Action in Malaysia and South Africa: Preference for Parity

January 27, 2021 | 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM

The Time is Now: Canadian and Global Recognition of the Right to a Healthy Environment

January 26, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Michael Sandel

January 21, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: The Anti-Democratic Turn

January 21, 2021 | 5:00 PM - March 18, 2021 | 6:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Book Talk – One Left: The First Korean Novel to Focus on the “Comfort Women”

January 15, 2021 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual UBC MPPGA Q&A Info Session

January 14, 2021 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Centre for Japanese Research

Narrating Women: Historical Imagination and the Writing of History

December 17, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

Book Talk – Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State

December 10, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Book Talk – The Iconoclast: Shinzō Abe and the New Japan with the Author Tobias Harris

December 8, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Refugees and Borders: Remapping the World We Think We Know

December 5, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Matriarch Illuminations – “Where we go from here”

December 3, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan’s Role in the Global Order at a Pivotal Time: Evaluating Abe’s Legacy, Suga’s Early Steps, and the Post-US Elections Landscape

December 3, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Matriarch Illuminations – “Making Law and Policy – Matriarch Traditions”

December 2, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research

The Authorship Question of The Story of Hong Gildong and Its Place in Classic Korean Literature

November 30, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Matriarch Illuminations – “Storytelling as Guidance"

November 30, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Pakistan's Ever-changing Geo-political Winds: China's Belt & Road Initiative in Historical Context

November 25, 2020 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Ibram X. Kendi and Jesmyn Ward In Conversation

November 25, 2020 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Liu Institute for Global Issues

Virtual Book Launch: “One Who Dreams is Called Prophet”

November 25, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual UBC MPPGA Info Session: Scholarships and Funding; International Students

November 24, 2020 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Matriarch Illuminations – “Safety and Matriarchy”

November 23, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Book Launch – Agents of World Renewal

November 20, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The Aftermath of the U.S. Election: What’s Next?

November 19, 2020 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Fragile Chains: Coronavirus and the Medical Supply

November 18, 2020 | 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Liu Institute for Global Issues

Silicon Valley and the Future of Capitalism

November 17, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

Composing Courtesy: Understanding Envoy Poetry in Early Modern East Asia

November 16, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Matriarch Illuminations – “Dreaming, Sovereignty & Matriation”

November 16, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Matriarch Illuminations – A 5-Part Series

November 16, 2020 | 5:00 PM - December 3, 2020 | 6:00 PM

“Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now” Book Talk by Dr. Vincent Ialenti

November 16, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Himalaya Program

Himalayan Research in the time of COVID-19: Views from Canada

November 13, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The Global Impact of the U.S. Election

November 13, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Ibram X. Kendi

November 12, 2020 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Jesmyn Ward

November 10, 2020 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The Day After the 2020 U.S. Election

November 4, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Everyday Ecology: Reading the Environment of Modern Korea

October 26, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Echoes of Empire

October 23, 2020 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The 2020 U.S. Election Event Series: Doubling Down on Democracy

October 22, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The 2020 U.S. Election Event Series

October 22, 2020 | 12:15 PM - November 19, 2020 | 4:30 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Witnessing Gwangju: Learning from the past to inform the present

October 16, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Book Launch – Reflecting the Past

October 15, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

B.C.’s 2020 SNAP ELECTION

October 13, 2020 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM

Escalating US-China Tensions, Techno-nationalism & Their Implications for Universities in the U.S. (and Canada). Why now? What next?

October 7, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Virtual UBC MPPGA Info Session: Why Choose the MPPGA Program

October 7, 2020 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Institute of Asian Research

“Hush… It’s All in the Past”: Exploring the Silenced Narratives around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Asia

October 6, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Democratic Health Communications during Covid-19: Lessons from South Korea and Canada

October 2, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Policy Salon - COVID-19: Seizing Opportunities to Advance Indigenous Self-determination through Policy with Dr. Danièle Behn Smith and Dr. Shannon Waters

October 2, 2020 | 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

COVID-19 and African Economies: Impact and What is Needed for the Post-Pandemic Recovery

September 30, 2020 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Book Launch – Christian Sorcerers on Trial

September 24, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

The COVID-19 and Africa Webinar Series - Education Sector Response to COVID-19 in African Countries

August 19, 2020 | 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

South Asians for Black Lives: Caste & Anti-Blackness

August 18, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

IFL Virtual Series Session 6: How-To Parliament: An Introduction to the Institute for Future Legislators

August 13, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

"Your Dream is Our Dream": From H.G. Mudgal to South Asians for Black Lives

August 4, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

An Introduction to Digital Resources for Research on Premodern Chinese Texts

July 31, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

The COVID-19 and Africa Webinar Series - Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Systems, Nutrition and Health: Fostering Lessons for the Future

July 30, 2020 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Centre for Japanese Research

Kuzushiji and Premodern Japanese Studies: Learning Resources and Artificial Intelligence Initiatives

July 23, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

IFL Virtual Series Session 5: Cutting through the Noise: Mastering the Elements of Clear Political Communication

July 23, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Office of Regional and International Community Engagement

Gender+ and COVID-19: Data for Justice

July 16, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Public Health Systems and Health Care: Fostering Lessons For The Future

July 15, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

IFL Virtual Series Session 4: Making Space for Indigenous Governance: Two Examples in Conversation

July 9, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Mongolia’s Election Results

June 29, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

IFL Virtual Series Session 3: Leadership and Representation: Connecting with communities and amplifying voices

June 25, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Why Local Indigenous Voices are Essential to Global Forest Commitments

June 25, 2020 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Trade and Transit Facilitation Between Central Asia and South Asia In the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic

June 23, 2020 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Mongolia Campaign Update II

June 22, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM

Update on Mongolia’s Election Campaign

June 12, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

IFL Virtual Series Session 2: Getting Trolled on the Campaign Trail: How Candidates Address Online Harassment and Incivility

June 11, 2020 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Environmental and Social Licenses for Mining Projects in India: Assessing Regulatory Gaps and Prospects for Reform

June 8, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Mongolia Election Preview

June 1, 2020 | 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Virtual Institute for Future Legislators Series – 2020

May 28, 2020 | 12:30 PM - August 13, 2020 | 2:00 PM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

IFL Virtual Series Session 1: Cross-Party Collaboration with Lisa Raitt & Nathan Cullen

May 28, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Policy, Politics + Pandemic

May 27, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Indian Summer Festival: 2020 Digital Season

May 16, 2020 | 12:00 AM - July 18, 2020 | 11:59 PM
Phil Lind Initiative

POSTPONED - The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Jesmyn Ward

March 24, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts

CANCELLED - One Lucid Moment In Time: How the World Got Its International Criminal Court

March 19, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomFASKEN CLASSROOM 122, Allard Law School
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

POSTPONED - Understanding Intersectionality in the Everyday and Public Policy Decisions

March 19, 2020 | 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
roomPenthouse Thea Koerner House 225
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

CANCELLED - The ABCs of Cyber Threats to Democracy, with Dr. Michael Hsieh

March 18, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Phil Lind Initiative

POSTPONED - The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Ibram X. Kendi

March 17, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts

CANCELLED - Migrant Dreams Film Screening & Discussion – 2020 Dr. Richard B. Splane Lecture in Social Policy

March 16, 2020 | 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRoom 100, Geography
Centre for Chinese Research

Screening: A Simple Life

March 13, 2020 | 3:45 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

COVID-19: Contextualizing the Scientific, Political, Societal and Economic Impact

March 11, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Making a Just City: Implications for Public Policy

March 6, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Translation and Modernity in Japan

March 6, 2020 | 9:30 AM - March 7, 2020 | 3:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

China and the Coronavirus: A Roundtable Assessment

March 4, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Dialogue with Andrea Reimer, SPPGA's First Policy Practitioner Fellow

March 4, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research

[CANCELLED] “One Country, Two Systems”: Past and Future

March 3, 2020 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRichmond Cultural Centre Atrium
Lobby Gallery

Our Ancestors’ Trail Exhibition Opening and Film Screening

February 27, 2020 | 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Lobby Gallery

A Tene Mehodihi exhibition: Our Ancestors’ Trail

February 27, 2020 | 9:00 AM - December 3, 2021 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Roxane Gay

February 25, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Weaponizing Citizenship: The politics of exclusion and inclusion in India

February 25, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

An Autumn’s Tale Screening

February 14, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

The Fourth Annual International Mother Language Day Celebration

February 13, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Politics of Biodiversity Conservation in China: The Rising Epistemic Community and National Park Reforms in an Adapted Multiple Stream Framework Analysis

February 12, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Ta-Nehisi Coates

February 11, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Korean Research

The Optics of Mutant Vectors: Run-away Neoliberalism in Post-IMF Korean Science Fiction Cinema

February 7, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Crossing the borders: Saadat Hasan Manto

February 6, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Nationalism and Shared Democratic Identity: Evidence from Japan and South Korea

February 6, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 200, Geography
Centre for Japanese Research

Paper,” Binding, Book: Perspectives from Japan, India, and Tibet

February 6, 2020 | 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Why Are There Protests in India Now, and Why Does it Matter?

February 5, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Exploring the Prospects of Trilateral Cooperation Between Russia, South Korea and North Korea

February 5, 2020 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research

Rethinking the Cultural Cartographies of Tokyo in Japanese Media

January 31, 2020 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Worldly Divine Love: Women and Public Performances of Sung Poetry in South Asia

January 30, 2020 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College

Second annual Art + Memory + Justice Symposium

January 30, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Los adioses – Film Screening

January 29, 2020 | 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Hope vs Hopium – Is There a Role for Hope in the Climate Era? with Karen Mahon Carrington

January 29, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Dangers of Free Speech: The Unjust Arrest of Loujain Al-Hathloul

January 27, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Korean Research

A Fugitive Christian Public: Singing, Sentiment, and Socialization in Colonial Korea

January 24, 2020 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order

January 24, 2020 | 10:30 AM - January 25, 2020 | 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Children’s Rights and the Mining Sector

January 22, 2020 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Claudia Rankine

January 15, 2020 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Parks vs People: An Unresolved Conflict in Nepal

January 14, 2020 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Opera Diplomacy? A PRC Troupe on a 1960 Canada Tour

January 8, 2020 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella Screening

December 7, 2019 | 2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre

Reluctant Exiles to Voluntary Diaspora: Post 1997 Migrations from Hong Kong

December 3, 2019 | 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 134, Anthropology & Sociology Building
Centre for Chinese Research

[Launch+Exhibition] A Vancouver Archive of the Umbrella Movement

November 30, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Memory, Intimacy and Difficult Knowledge

November 29, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research

A Celebration of Guru Nanak

November 28, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Last Gasp of the Little Ice Age & Fiscal Reform in Qing Mongolia (1823-1838)

November 27, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

“Prosperity and Stability”: Why Did Hong Kong Work?

November 27, 2019 | 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Info & Networking Session

November 25, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomBoardroom, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Infrastructures of Occupation: Dams, Development, and the Politics of Integration in Kashmir

November 25, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Technologies of "Reeducation": International Implications of Turkic Muslim Surveillance, Internment and Labor in Northwest China

November 25, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Politics of Scope: Regionalization, Structural Adjustment and Elections in Mongolia

November 22, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

The Korean Diaspora in the Production and Consumption of Hallyu

November 22, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

The "History Wars" and the "Comfort Woman" Issue: Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada

November 21, 2019 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermaths: A Roundtable Discussion

November 21, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Coming of Age in Macholand: Exploring the Intersections of Media, Masculinity and Transnational Migration in Punjab

November 21, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomBuchanan A - Room 202

The Global Movement for Universal Health Coverage by 2030

November 21, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Challenge of Strengthening the Social and Environmental Performance of the Mining Industry

November 20, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomForestry Science Centre - FSC 1005
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in Bangladesh

November 20, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India

November 19, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Afghanistan: Regional Cooperation and International Partnership Prospect for Peace and Stability

November 18, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Canada-China Relations Forum

November 18, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomAllard School of Law- Franklin Lew Forum (Room 101)
Himalaya Program

Clerical Privileges and the Jurisdiction of the Buddhist Clergy: Do They Exist?

November 15, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Crisis in Kashmir: How We Got Here and What is Happening

November 15, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 103, Buchanan A
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Coup in Bolivia? What Next?

November 15, 2019 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Law, Empire and the Institutional Conditions of Sikh Citizenship in British Columbia, 1900-1947

November 14, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature

November 14, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

A Chinese Melting Pot: Original People and Immigrants in Hong Kong’s First ‘New Town’

November 13, 2019 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Screening: Echoes of the Rainbow

November 12, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 30, Food, Nutrition and Health Building
Centre for Korean Research

Reflections on Providing Humanitarian Aid in North Korea and Other Authoritarian Settings

November 8, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Return of Chen Ching Lin: A Chinese Deserter in the British Raj, 1943-46

November 8, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Fanning the Flames: the ZXX Study and Maternal and Infant Health Canada’s Research

November 7, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Is It Worth It? Building Opposition Alliances in Electoral Autocracies

November 7, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

National Versus Human Security: Australian and Canadian Military Interventions

November 5, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Patterns of Political Violence: 35 Years Since 1984

November 2, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Online Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Q&A Info Session

November 1, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Democracy in Brazil Today: Round Table

November 1, 2019 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Is Globalization Doomed? With Pascal Lamy, President of the Paris Peace Forum

October 30, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Japanese Research

Crossing the Threshold: Home-Leaving and Home-Making in the Works of Japanese Female Directors

October 30, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Exchange: Millennial Urban Leadership

October 28, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomTheatre C300, UBC Robson Square
Centre for Japanese Research

Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan: Foreign Policy, Economy, Culture, and International Relations

October 28, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Naomi Klein in Conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger

October 26, 2019 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Shastra Aur Prayoga: Intersections between Text and Practice in Indian Classical Performing Arts

October 26, 2019 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Korean Webtoons’ Transmedia Storytelling: Towards Big Screen Culture in the Twenty-First Century

October 25, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Stolen Bicycle: A conversation with Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi and Translator Darryl Sterk

October 25, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Dhrupad as a Progression in Multiple Dimensions by Arijit Mahalanabis

October 24, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomGreen College

“Building Connections: Between and Within” 2019 LINA Inaugural Symposium

October 18, 2019 | 5:30 PM - October 19, 2019 | 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Disputed Pasts, Violent Present: Examining Anti-Muslim Discourses in Contemporary India

October 17, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Federal Election 2019: The Home Stretch

October 16, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Lobby Gallery

Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture of Language and Letters

October 15, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues

‘Riding on the Waves of Progressive Political Environment’: the complex world of Gender, LGBT movement and development in Bangladesh

October 15, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Women in Politics: The Road to Equal Representation

October 11, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Caste Matters: The Fourth Annual Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Annual Lecture

October 10, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

China’s International Cooperation Strategy and the Belt and Road Initiative

October 10, 2019 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Twists and Turns of Japan’s Neighbourly Relations

October 10, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Rise of Mega-companies in the Global Food System: Implications for Justice and Sustainability

October 8, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Online Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Info Session

October 8, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Federal Leaders’ Debate Watching Party

October 7, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research

Affective Governance: On Outrage, Sympathy and Gratitude in the People’s Republic

October 7, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program, Lobby Gallery

Golden Letters Arrayed Like Stars and Planets: The Tibetan Culture of Language and Letters

October 7, 2019 | 9:00 AM - February 19, 2020 | 7:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Documentary Screening and Q&A of "Reason: The War between Faith and Rationality"

October 6, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120 - Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Do Regimes Matter? Comparing the Politics of Rights-Based Activism in India and China

October 4, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Awakened Villages: Liberation and Exclusion at the place of Buddha’s Enlightenment in North India

October 3, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Global Economic Governance at a Crossroads: Is the Bretton Woods System Unravelling?

October 1, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Bharatnatyam: Stories of Nayikas (Heroines) and Sakhis (Heroine’s Friends)

September 26, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Centre for Japanese Research

Investigation of Book Covers and Paper from the Edo Period

September 25, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 129, C.K. Choi Building

A Blue Economy: Achieving a Socially Equitable Marine Industrial Revolution

September 24, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Climate Change and the Federal Election: What’s at Stake and Where do the Parties Stand?

September 24, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Great Hydraulic Transition: Colonial Engineering and the Making of Modern Rivers in South Asia

September 23, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 1197, Buchanan Tower
Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Exhibition - Nature & Nourishment: The Agrobiodiversity and Food Security Nexus

September 20, 2019 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Himalaya Program

Language Politics and Policy in South Asia and the Himalaya

September 19, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Coal Transition? with Dr. Mark Thurber

September 17, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

The State of Ethics: Moral and Civic Education in Ulaanbaatar

September 17, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 129, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Ethnic Polarization and Power Sharing by Donald L. Horowitz

September 17, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Science in the Age of Misinformation, with Katie Gibbs, Evidence for Democracy

September 4, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Agents of Change

July 22, 2019 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Centre for Chinese Research

Taking it to the Streets: Hong Kong’s Resistance to the Extradition Bill

June 18, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Declining Disarmament: What is Canada doing about threats from landmines, killer robots and nuclear weapons?

June 17, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - Boardroom
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Belt and Road Initiative: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects

June 14, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Breaking the Gridlock of Japan's Refugee Policy?

June 6, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Cultivating Knowledge for Citizenship and Rule in Democracy

June 5, 2019 | 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomAMS Nest - NEST 2601
Centre for Chinese Research

Silent Anniversaries: May Fourth and June Fourth in the Age of Xi Jinping

June 4, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Public Event & Reception – Knowledge from Agroecological Experience

May 30, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Little Voices from Fukushima, a Film Screening and Discussion

May 17, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Himalaya Program

“Is it safe to rebuild the gumba?” The politics and practice of landslide risk management in post-earthquake Nepal

May 14, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Shifting Policy Paradigm, Skills and Mindsets

May 6, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

China: The Nexus of Economy, Climate Change and Renewable Energy

April 30, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Intercultural Dialogue, Good Governance and Nation-Building in Afghanistan

April 27, 2019 | 2:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Utopia or Dystopia: What is the Future of Natural Resource Governance?

April 25, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre – Jack Poole Hall
Himalaya Program

Sacred Himalaya in the Anthropocene

April 25, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Himalaya Program, Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Closing Reception: Belonging, Transformation, and Ethnographic Predicaments in Nepal’s Himalaya

April 23, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Meet the White Helmets: Hear from the Heroes of the Syrian Conflict

April 11, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Chinese Research

Niches Constructed for Conflict: Human-Locust Competition for Agricultural Space in Imperial China

April 10, 2019 | 3:00 PM - April 11, 2019 | 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Doc Talks @ SPPGA

April 10, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Global Governance: Minding the Gaps, with Ramesh Thakur

April 4, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

End-of-Term Celebration for HKSI/Cantonese Language Program

April 4, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Centre for Chinese Research

Distant Reading: Large-Scale Textual Analysis for Sinology and Beyond

April 3, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Bill McKibben

April 2, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomTelus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

Sufism in China: Menhuan, Han kitāb, and Belonging

April 1, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Visualizing Violence: Forensic Medicine, Body as Evidence, and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth Century Korea

March 29, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Centre for Chinese Research

Social Responsibility, Development and the Weaponization of Values in a Chinese Century

March 29, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Spotlight on Graduate Student Research

March 28, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

3rd Annual MPPGA Global Policy Project Symposium

March 26, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Barry Lopez in Conversation with Ian Gill

March 25, 2019 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomGranville Island Stage- Arts Club
Centre for Chinese Research

Hong Kong in the Age of the Chinese Dream

March 25, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

The Spectrum of Islamism in the New Malaysia

March 25, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Politics of Historical Justice after the Death of Mao Zedong

March 20, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomThe xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees (formerly the Liu Multipurpose Room),
Centre for Chinese Research

“There’s No Place Like It”: Promoting Colonial Hong Kong as a Tourist Destination

March 20, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College
Himalaya Program

Carrying a Basket of Gold: A Historical Reflection on Buddhist Concepts and Ethics in Bhutan

March 18, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Resurgence of Arms Racing and the Collapse of Nuclear Arms Control

March 18, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College
Centre for Japanese Research

Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond

March 15, 2019 | 5:30 PM - March 16, 2019 | 5:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The 2019 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program: Celebrating Punjabi Language and Culture

March 14, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond

March 14, 2019 | 5:30 PM - March 15, 2019 | 5:30 PM

What’s Canada’s Climate Plan? with Tzeporah Berman

March 13, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Centre for Chinese Research

Challenging the Status Quo: China and Global Governance

March 13, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)

Accumulating Insecurities in Eastern DRC: A Revised Framework for Understanding Resource Wars

March 13, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Winona LaDuke

March 12, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomTelus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration and Class in Taiwan and the US

March 11, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for Korean Research

China’s Policy toward North Korea in the Era of Deng Xiaoping

March 8, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Diverse Perspectives on the #MeToo Movement: Where Do We Go From Here?

March 7, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomSimon K. Y. Lee Global Lounge, Marine Drive Residence Building 1
Centre for Japanese Research

Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan: New Voices from Japan

March 5, 2019 | 4:30 PM - 6:20 PM
roomRoom 101, Allard School of Law
Centre for Japanese Research

Remembering the Dreams, Forgetting the War: How the Republication of Shōjo no Tomo Reconstructed Japanese Girls’ Culture

March 5, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research

ASIA Heat: Compete with your research on Asia

March 1, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

A Call for an Intersectional Approach to Global Affairs, with Dr. Yolande Bouka

March 1, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

3P Conference: Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Modern Japan

March 1, 2019 | 10:00 AM - March 2, 2019 | 5:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues - xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees)
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Ambedkar’s Idea of Religion

February 28, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Will China Rescue Nuclear Power?

February 27, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative

UBC Connects & The Phil Lind Initiative Present: John Kasich

February 26, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomChan Centre for the Performing Arts
Centre for Chinese Research

Song and Dance and the Sonic Territorialization of Xinjiang

February 26, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Promoting Positive Attitudes for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Higher Education in Japan

February 26, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Himalaya Program

Monasteries as Home: Facing Challenges of Modernization in Tibetan Monastic Education and Leadership

February 25, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Evolution of Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement

February 25, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab

'Arguably the Most Important Intellectual Alive': The Global Significance of Noam Chomsky

February 22, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Aizu Bushido: Honor Without Guile

February 15, 2019 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Three Minute Thesis Information session: Presenting your Research, Tips & Info

February 15, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Documentary Film Screening: The Enforced Disappearance of Sombath Somphone

February 14, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Celebrate Language: 3rd Annual International Mother Language Day Celebration

February 14, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Chasing the China Dream: Intellectuals in China Today

February 14, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Elizabeth Kolbert

February 12, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Himalaya Program

A Sino-Tibetan Buddhist Modernism: Religious Marketplace, Constellative Networking and Urbanism

February 11, 2019 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Asia Now Forum: The Karakorum Conundrum

February 11, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Gold Mining in Ghana: Ambiguities of Social Responsibility, Justice, Human Rights and Development

February 8, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program, Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Exhibition: Belonging, Transformation, and Ethnographic Predicaments in Nepal’s Himalaya

February 1, 2019 | 8:00 AM - April 30, 2019 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Making and Unmaking of “Drought-Free” Citizens: A Political-Ecological Analysis of Maharashtra’s Drought Protection Campaign by Sameer Shah

January 31, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Environmental Impacts of Plastics and Initial Policies for their Control

January 30, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

Signs of the Times: Kunming’s Streetside Political Posters

January 29, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Negotiating the Iran Deal, with British High Commissioner

January 28, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Korean Research

Military Service, Class, Education, and Korean Masculinity

January 25, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

Meng, Huawei, and Sino-Canadian Relations

January 25, 2019 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Enlightenment for Plants and Trees: Sōmoku jōbutsu in Medieval Japanese Short Stories

January 22, 2019 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

Make China Green Again: Challenges & Opportunities

January 22, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Korean Research

Promoting the Nation through Foreign Bodies: Soft Cultural Power and K-pop Cover Dance

January 18, 2019 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Himalaya Program

Quality Education and the Role of Digital Technology in Nepal

January 17, 2019 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative Presents: Robert Bullard

January 15, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

MPPGA Admissions Q&A on Facebook Live

January 10, 2019 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Centre for Chinese Research

Gu Xiong: Migrations

January 9, 2019 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

UBC MPPGA Meet and Greet in Singapore

December 14, 2018 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomThe Living Room @ Atrium, Pan Pacific Singapore

Creating and Sharing Value with Communities in the Early Mine Life-Cycle

December 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Lobby Gallery

Can the Displaced Speak? Lobby Gallery Opening Reception

December 7, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

The Rise of Princelings in China: Career Advantages and Collective Elite Reproduction

December 6, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Documentary Screening – ‘Mount Gariwang: An Olympic Casualty’

November 29, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomCentre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, BC Hydro Theatre

Impacts of Local, Landscape, and Gardener Characteristics on Diversity, Ecological Networks, and Ecosystem Services in Urban Agroecosystems

November 28, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBeaty Biodiversity Museum

Rethinking Time in Indigenous Territories

November 27, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Coach House, Green College

Living With and Among Armed Groups in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

November 27, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

FB Live Info Session: Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

November 22, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues

How Foreign Ministries Promote Gender Equality Globally

November 21, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

2018 Info Session: Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

November 20, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square

Total Transition: The Human Side of the Renewable Energy Revolution Book Talk

November 15, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The US Midterm Elections: The Voters, Congress, and the Trump Presidency

November 8, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Global Oceans and International Diplomacy: What is Changing

November 8, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Dead and Maimed: A Postscript to Jallianwalla Bagh and the Punjab Disturbances by Hardeep Dhillon

November 1, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Collaboration in Late Imperial South China: The Lower Pearl River Estuary during the Opium War

November 1, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

More-Than-Human Democracy: On the Political Lives of Gods, Rivers, Trees, and Animals in India’s Central Himalaya by Dr. Radhika Govindrajan

November 1, 2018 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
roomANSO 134

The Unique Lived Experiences of Refugees in Metro Vancouver, a Public Forum

October 27, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM
roomMOSAIC
Centre for Japanese Research

Kirei Sabi and the World of Enshu Sadō: An Afternoon of Traditional Japanese Tea Culture with Kobori Sojitsu, Grand Master

October 26, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoyal Bank Cinema
Centre for Korean Research

Reclaiming the Traumatic Past in Public Memory: Contended Sites of Ethical Witness and South Korea’s Jeju 4.3 Massacres by State Violence with Dr. Nan Kim

October 26, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Tea and Transformation in Medieval Japanese Folklore: The Legend of Sōtan Inari and the Tsukumogami “Tool Spirits”

October 26, 2018 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Turning Point? American Views on the Midterm Elections

October 25, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

Treaty Porters, or, How Do You Solve a Problem like Charlie?

October 25, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Dual Talk Event on Indigenous Food Sovereignty with Mariaelena Huambachano and American Youth Food Justice with Morten Nielsen

October 24, 2018 | 11:30 AM - November 28, 2018 | 1:00 PM
roomRoom 254, Henry Angus Building
Centre for Chinese Research

“Teaching the Asian Book”: How and Why to Teach a Collaborative Course on An Unwieldy Region

October 23, 2018 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Narrative, Performance, and “Premodern” Forms: Ishimure Michiko’s Contemporary Noh Play Okinomiya and its Costuming by Shimura Fukumi

October 23, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

Nation-Work: How Tea Became Japanese with Dr. Kristin Surak

October 19, 2018 | 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

A City Lost or Found? Sketching Hong Kong’s History of the Present

October 18, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

A National Plastics Pollution Strategy for Canada

October 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Himalaya Program

Air Pressure: Time and Aviation in Nepal

October 12, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Dr Ambedkar’s Legacy – Our Campaign to Outlaw Caste Discrimination in Great Britain by Santosh Dass MBE

October 11, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Humans vs. Robots: (Re)valuating the Worth of Work in the Age of Automation

October 11, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College

‘Writing Dissent’ without Writing People Off Featuring Robert Jensen

October 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

Developments in Xinjiang: Concerns for Canada and the Region

October 10, 2018 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Centre for Japanese Research Opening Reception

October 9, 2018 | 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Search for the Origins of Chinese Civilization

October 9, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Thanksgiving Day

October 8, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Reflections from Mayor Gregor Robertson, City of Vancouver

October 3, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Big Food ‘Feeding’ the Hungry Poor? Economic Democracy, Food Justice and Human Rights

October 2, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The More Who Die, the Less We Care, with Paul Slovic

September 28, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

A Musical Welcome: CISAR Rings in the New Academic Year with Virasat Foundation

September 27, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

Unevenly Distributed: China and the Future of Work in Southeast Asia

September 27, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

A Conversation on Electoral Reform

September 26, 2018 | 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Himalaya Program

Himalaya Program Welcome Reception and Photo Exhibition Opening: Life with the Forest in Sikkim

September 24, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomForest Sciences Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

Centre for Asian Legal Studies Seminar

September 21, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 104, Allard Hall

Ships Passing in the Night? The U.S., China, and the Future of the Asia Pacific

September 19, 2018 | 12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World

September 17, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Literary Anthology and Readership in Colonial India by Kedar A. Kulkarni

September 13, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Fires in Shandong, Fires in BC: Flora and Firefighting in Mediterranean & Boreal Forests

September 12, 2018 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Exhibition Closing: On History, Memory, and Justice

September 10, 2018 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Labour Day

September 3, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Indo-China: Strategic Cooperation in Afghanistan

August 7, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

BC Day

August 6, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Canada Day

July 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Resources for Future Generations: Premiere Conference on Energy, Minerals, Water, the Earth

June 21, 2018 | 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomVancouver Convention Centre

Plenary 1: Tech & Peace: Canada’s Knowledge to Accelerate the UN Sustainable Development Goals

June 20, 2018 | 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
roomMarriott Pinnacle Hotel
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Film Screening and Discussion with Director – Connecting Threads: Made In India Fabrics for Africa

May 29, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Why the Paris Agreement Negotiations Succeeded while Those in Copenhagen (2009) Failed, with Richard Kinley

May 29, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Lobby Gallery

On History, Memory, and Justice

May 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM - September 10, 2018 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Twenty Years of the South Asia Nuclear Doomsday Machine

May 25, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Victoria Day

May 21, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program

The Canada China Free Trade Agreement and Tibet

May 18, 2018 | 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The 2018 BC Science & Policy Conference

May 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLSC1, Life Sciences Institute

OECD Nuclear Power: The Vanishing Low-carbon Wedge with Ahmed Abdulla

May 9, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Rm 231, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Japan’s Multilevel Water Governance Export to SEA

April 19, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Rm 231, C.K. Choi Building

Movie: Unsettling Environmental Review

April 18, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Politics of Bigotry and Growing State Repression in India Today: a Conversation with Teesta Setelvad

April 16, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Afghanistan's Democratic Journey: Lessons Learnt over the Last 15 Years

April 14, 2018 | 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Building Policy Research Capacity in Myanmar Presentations

April 6, 2018 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Hong Kong Literature: Why and How? 香港文學─為何？如何？

April 5, 2018 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRichmond Public Library
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC

April 5, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

From History to Fiction: Inventing Hong Kong Stories

April 4, 2018 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Southeast Asia Ascendant? So What, and What's Next for Canada?

April 3, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Book Launch
 for I Am Evelyn Amony - Reclaiming my Life from the Lord's Resistance Army

April 3, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Book Launch with Mohamed Zayani - Digital Middle East: State and Society in the Information Age

April 3, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Easter Monday

April 2, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Good Friday

March 30, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Life Under the Shadow: Twenty years of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan

March 29, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

8th Annual Burge Lecture – Dr. Ian Miller, Harvard University

March 29, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

The Challenge of World Literary History

March 28, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Owning the Ocean: Alaska Fishermen and the Japanese ‘Invasion’ of Bristol Bay, 1937-1938

March 28, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Sustainable Intensification in Policy and Practice: The UK Story with Michael Winter

March 28, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Art + Memory + Justice Symposium 

March 27, 2018 | 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Sikh Legacy in Pakistan

March 27, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Himalaya Program

Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhism: A Mongolian Perspective

March 26, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Book Launch of Resilience and Contagion: Invoking Human Rights in African HIV Advocacy by Kristi Heather Kenyon

March 22, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Lobby Gallery

The Colours of Food Security - Public Reception with Dr. Jonathan Foley, ED of the California Academy of Sciences

March 19, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

The Past and Present of Chinese-Language Book Publishing in Hong Kong

March 16, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Splane Lecture in Social Policy: Poverty, Basic Income and Social Policy with Dr. David Piachaud

March 15, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Book Reading and Discussion with Sarbjit Kaur Athwal Author of Shamed: The Honour Killing that Shocked Britain - By the Sister Who Fought for Justice

March 15, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya with Greg Constantine

March 15, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

A Sociological Perspective on the Carbon Market: the Carbons, the Meanings, and the Policy Network with John Chung-En Liu

March 14, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Party System Institutionalization in Japan Between Integration and Fragmentation

March 14, 2018 | 11:45 AM - 1:45 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

“An Endless River of Blood:” Theatricalizing Lady Rokujō from Nō to the Present

March 12, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 1099, Buchanan Tower

International Women's Day

March 10, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomBonsor Recreation Complex
Centre for Japanese Research

Workshop “Gendering War and Peace in Modern Japan”

March 9, 2018 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

The Story of Hong Kong Literature《香港文學大系》與香港文學史

March 8, 2018 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRichmond Public Library
Centre for Japanese Research

Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea

March 8, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Rebuilding Canadian Environmental Law and Policy with MP Jonathan Wilkinson

March 8, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab
Centre for Chinese Research

The Flower Princess and the Imaginations of Hong Kong

March 7, 2018 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Postponed: The Emancipatory Politics of Food Sovereignty with Annette Desmarais

March 7, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Centre for Chinese Research

Beyond Redemption: Re-membering Loss in Lu Xun’s Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk

March 6, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Modern Slavery 101: What It Is, Where It Is, and How to End It with Dr. Karen Snyder

March 6, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Catastrophe in Context: Household Recoveries from the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes

March 5, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Post-PyeongChang U.S.-Korea Relations: Back to the Normal or Worse?

March 5, 2018 | 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Panel Discussion in conjunction with the exhibition "Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India"

March 4, 2018 | 2:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomSurrey Art Gallery
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program: Celebrating Punjabi Language and Culture at UBC

March 2, 2018 | 7:30 PM - March 4, 2018 | 9:30 PM
roomVarious Locations

“Grazed and Confused”: Panel on meat production, climate change, and sustainability

March 2, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomRoom 107 – Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory
Centre for India and South Asia Research

South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest (SACPAN) at UBC

March 2, 2018 | 8:30 AM - March 3, 2018 | 5:45 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism in the East African Community with Dr. Yolande Bouka

March 1, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

February 26, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomVarious Locations
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Anne-Marie Slaughter on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

February 26, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC
Lobby Gallery

The Colours of Food Security

February 22, 2018 | 12:00 AM - March 31, 2018 | 11:59 PM
Centre for Chinese Research

Rising China: What Lessons Can We Learn From the 19th Party Congress?

February 19, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomMorris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue WCC 320
Centre for Chinese Research

Behind the Scenes: Transnational Ties Between the Hollywood and Hong Kong Entertainment Industries

February 16, 2018 | 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Lunar New Year 2018

February 16, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Susan Rice on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

February 15, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC
Centre for Chinese Research

Hong Kong Nationalism and the Chinese Dream in the Age of Global Capitalism

February 15, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Korean Research

Celebrate Language: International Mother Language Day 2018

February 15, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

The Potential for an Indigenous Policy Under the Constitution of Japan

February 13, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomFarris Hall, Room 106

Family Day

February 12, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Centre for Japanese Research

Scales of History: Resonant Vibration between Family History and Global History

February 9, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomLillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

Always Liminal, Always in Transition: Reading Hong Kong as Staircase City

February 9, 2018 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

CKR-CJR Conference "Multiculturalism and Migration in Trans-Border Asia: Japan, Korea, and the Philippines"

February 9, 2018 | 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Phil Lind Initiative: Misha Glenny on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

February 8, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

ビジネス成功の秘訣と持続可能な企業

February 8, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Documenting Punjabi Canada: Student video projects and discussion

February 8, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomSt. John's College
Centre for India and South Asia Research

“Random Acts of Legacy” (2016): Asian Canadian History and Film

February 7, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomChan Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

"Wartime Japan” as a Divided, Ambivalent Entity: The Eurasian Experience

February 7, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

New Era New Approach? China’s policy towards East Asia after the 19th Party Congress

February 2, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Fracturing Families: Adoption for Heirship from Tokugawa to Meiji

February 2, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 106, Allard School of Law

Banning the Bomb: Global Activism and International Diplomacy with Ray Acheson

February 2, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Donald Trump, Japan and Canada

February 2, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Steven Pinker on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

February 1, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Apna Punjab” [Our Punjab]: Sensorium and Aesthetics of Landscape in Punjabi Cinema

February 1, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomAsian Centre

Future of Food Series: Gastón Gordillo, “The Imperial Metropolis: the Infrastructure of the Soy Supply Chain in South America”

January 31, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Himalaya Program

Health Policy in Nepal

January 29, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Talk: Evaluating our Climate Policy Options for Accelerating GHG Reduction

January 29, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

A Taste Of SEA

January 26, 2018 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomGreat Hall, AMS Student Nest
Centre for Korean Research

Import/Export: Hallyu, Television Remakes, Cultural Imperialism

January 26, 2018 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Phil Lind Initiative: Francis Fukuyama on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

January 25, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research

A Roundtable: Understanding the Rohingya Crisis

January 25, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Rebellious Bodies, Unsettling Memories: Transpacific Cultural Research on Japanese Sex Workers in the Early 20th Century Canada

January 24, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

[CANCELLED] Living in the Face of Death: Martial Mindfulness in Modern Japan

January 19, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 106, Allard School of Law
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Monsoon Mosques: Reading Kerala’s Muslim Monuments by Sebastian Prange

January 18, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomSeminar 307, The Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

[Series] City Inscribed 我寫 • 我城

January 17, 2018 | 7:00 PM - June 22, 2018 | 7:00 PM
roomVarious
Centre for Korean Research

Getting North Korea Right: Canadian Options and Roles

January 15, 2018 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Phil Lind Initiative

The Phil Lind Initiative: Edward Luce on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order

January 11, 2018 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Information Session: Student Opportunities in India and Beyond with the Globalink Research Award

January 11, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

UBC Centre for Japanese Research 2018 Open House

January 10, 2018 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Engineering Empire: Public Works, the Environment, and Japanese Colonialism in Korea, 1894-1945

January 10, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Prof. Wade Davis Lecture - If We Build It They Will Come: Industrial Folly and the Fate of Northwest British Columbia

January 9, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

The Ten Thousand Rooms Project

January 8, 2018 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

The First Master Text: The Classic of Odes

January 5, 2018 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

New Years Day

January 1, 2018 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Holiday Break

December 25, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Shooting Ghosts: An Evening with Finbarr O’Reilly

December 5, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research

A Tryst with Destiny? The Politics of Buddhist Heritage and the Making of Modern India by Douglas Ober

November 30, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Taking Synchrony Seriously: The Crises of 1866 in Japanese and Global History

November 30, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 104, Allard Hall

Research on the edge: A talk by Professor Christina Clark-Kazak

November 30, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Envisioning the Mine of the Future: Erdene Resource Development Corp. and the creation of Shared Value in Mongolia

November 30, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:50 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

Neighbors: A Discussion of Regional Clichés & Impressions

November 29, 2017 | 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Criminal Justice in Japan: Is a 99.8% Conviction Rate Too High?

November 29, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 123, Allard Hall
Centre for Chinese Research

Theology After the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement: Notes from Hong Kong and Vancouver

November 28, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

The Emperor and His Poetic Subjects: The Utakai Hajime Ceremony and Meiji Japan

November 24, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 122, Allard Hall

Kazakhstan and Nuclear Disarmament

November 24, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomResearch Unit One, Liu Institute
Centre for Japanese Research

Soul Traders: Early 17th Century Trading and Religious Controversies in Japan

November 22, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

The Rise in Conflict Associated with Mining Operations: What Lies Beneath?

November 22, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Korean Research

Bull in A China Closet?: Trump to Asia and US Policy on North Korea

November 21, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Can Middle Powers save the World Order from Unravelling? : Challenges and views of MIKTA Countries and Canada

November 21, 2017 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomSage Bistro
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Voices of Contemporary Himalayan Literature: Manjushree Thapa and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa in Conversation

November 20, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

Reflections on a Half-Century of Experience with Taiwan

November 17, 2017 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomAcademic Quadrangle
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Social Worlds of Indian Aesthetics: Talk & CISAR Annual Reception

November 16, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Outlook for China’s Environment? What do the Environmental Kuznets Curve and the Experiences of Other East Asian Countries Tell Us

November 16, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

The Geo-Strategic Importance of Kazakhstan in One Belt One Road Initiative

November 16, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Study in Japan Info Session

November 15, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Info Session: UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Program

November 14, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Documentary Screening - Dangdut Karawang: Songs of Marginalised Women & Devil Shadow on Tattoo

November 14, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Traditional Social Institutions and Development Outcomes in Eastern Indonesia

November 14, 2017 | 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Remembrance Day

November 13, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

How Green Was My Night Soil: Thinking with Excrement about Nineteenth-Century Japan

November 10, 2017 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Policy@UBC with Professor Maria Holuszko: Urban Mining Engineering to Facilitate a Zero Waste Scenario

November 9, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Trust and Promise: Foundations of Tokugawa Altruism and Cooperation

November 8, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Facebook Live Info Session: UBC Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs Program

November 8, 2017 | 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Symposium: Impact of Research on International Development

November 6, 2017 | 9:00 AM - 2:15 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Africa's Endangered Languages roundtable discussion and celebration of book launch

November 3, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Health Impact Assessment and Special Economic Zones in the Greater Mekong Region

November 3, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Democracy and Politics in the Andes after the Commodities Bonanza

November 3, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Decoding Babasaheb Dr. Ambedkar: Ideas and Praxis by Dr. Vivek Kumar

November 2, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

China’s Dual State under Xi Jinping

November 2, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

“Sea of Blood: A Night at the North Korean Opera”

October 27, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Disaster and Recovery in Northeastern Japan

October 27, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomDodson Room, Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Miners, Minerals and Minamata: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on ASGM and Sustainable Development

October 26, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Individuality in Early Modern Japan: a discussion of and launch for Peter Nosco’s recent book

October 25, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

The Hard Work of Feeding the Baby: Breastfeeding and Intensive Mothering in Contemporary Urban China

October 24, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Recent Debates Relating to Hate Speech in Japan

October 24, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 123, Allard Hall

Refugee&Migration Symposium- Panel: Economic Contributions of Refugees, Immigrants, and Newcomers

October 19, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Contemporary Art in India Today: Bangalore and Beyond by Umesh Shivanna Maddanahalli & Raghavendra Rao K. V.

October 19, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Refugee&Migration Symposium - "Constance On the Edge" Film

October 18, 2017 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
roomPacific Cinematheque

Refugee&Migration Symposium- Panel: Community Approaches to Healing Trauma

October 18, 2017 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square

Policy@UBC: M. V. Ramana on The Global Future of Nuclear Energy

October 18, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Policy@UBC: M. V. Ramana on The Global Future of Nuclear Energy

October 18, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Refugee&Migration Symposium-“Seeking a New Life in Canada”: Media Representations of Refugees, Asylum Seekers & Forced Migrants

October 17, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

After the Flight: Community-University Refugee & Migration Symposium

October 16, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomVarious Locations

Refugee&Migration Symposium-Panel: How are we doing? Refugee Private Sponsorship in Canada

October 16, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomGlobal Lounge
Himalaya Program

Searching for the Right Buddha: Procedures for Locating Incarnations (tulkus) in Tibetan Historical Literature

October 16, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Exhibition: The Price of Sex, Works by Renowned Documentary Film Maker & Photographer, Mimi Chakarova

October 13, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

The Importance of Cultural Diversity and Multilingualism in Fostering Education Value

October 13, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Refugee&Migration Symposium– Workshop: Responsible Research with the Settlement Sector

October 12, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomWelcome Centre - Vancity Room (2nd floor)
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Concert and Conversation with Musical Ensemble Chaar Yaar

October 12, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

Refugee&Migration Symposium - Career Exploration Evening: Careers in the Settlement Sector

October 11, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomGlobal Lounge

A Conversation on Immigration & Refugee Policy

October 10, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Thanksgiving Day

October 9, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Lecture: Understanding the Partition of Punjab in the Context of the Partition of India and Bengal by Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed

October 5, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

A Casual Conversation with a Zen Master about Life, Love, Success, Happiness, and Meaning

October 3, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Debating Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: Discourse in the Making of an ASEAN Community

October 2, 2017 | 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Two Conceptualizations of Moral Personhood: Citizenship and Minority Policies in Contemporary Asia

September 29, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Canada at 150: Trauma, Memory and the Story of Canada

September 29, 2017 | 3:00 PM - September 30, 2017 | 4:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

One Belt One Road: Round-table Discussion

September 29, 2017 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Virtual Ninja Manifesto: Ethics, Violence, Video Games, and Martial Arts

September 29, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

The Monarchy in Modern Japan, with a Special Focus on the Abdication Issue

September 29, 2017 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Incentive to Innovate? The Behaviour of Local Policymakers in China

September 29, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Book Launch - Designed Leadership by Moura Quayle

September 28, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Orientalism, Magic, and Modernity at the Turn of the 20th Century

September 28, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

The Linguascape of English Social Media and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: The Sociolinguistic and Educational Implications in the Context of Japanese EFL University Students

September 28, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Future of Food Global Dialogue 2017-2018 Series

September 27, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM

Can Environmental Regulation Make Extractive Industries More Innovative?

September 27, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Policy@UBC Series

September 27, 2017 | 12:30 PM - November 9, 2017 | 1:50 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Language, globalization and youth in the Asian Periphery

September 27, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 129, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

That Old Imperial One-Two: Landlords, Tenants, and the Colonization of Manchuria

September 26, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea

September 22, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

[Colloquium] An Audience of One: The Private Music of the Chinese Literati

September 22, 2017 | 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
roomRoom 116, School of Music
Centre for Chinese Research

Hong Kong’s Folk Music and Local Culture: The Art of a Cantonese Blind Singer

September 21, 2017 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College

[CANCELLED] Sohar: Becoming a Mother in Indian Women’s Folksongs by Dr. Archana Kumar

September 21, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Talk: Analyzing the Business Model for Artisanal and Small-scale Mining in Southern Ecuador

September 21, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Centre for Chinese Research

Book Launch: The Book of Swindles. Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk

September 20, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Two Conceptualizations of Moral Personhood: Citizenship and Minority Policies in Contemporary Asia

September 18, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program

Reconstruction and State Restructuring in Nepal after 2015: A Community Forum

September 17, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomTheatre C300, UBC Robson Square
Himalaya Program

Reconstruction and State Restructuring in Nepal after 2015: A Community Forum with Visiting Scholars: Jeevan Baniya, Subin Mulmi, Dinesh Paudel, and Deepak Thapa

September 17, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Canada 150 Conference on Migration of Bengalis

September 16, 2017 | 9:00 AM - September 17, 2017 | 4:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Nepal’s Prolonged Transition: End in Sight? with Deepak Thapa

September 15, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Ebb and Flow of Everyday Contacts: Forging Literary Communities in Early Modern Panjab by Dr. Purnima Dhavan

September 14, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Public Talk and Workshop with Dr. Abraham Acosta

September 14, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Launch Event and ”Global Change Makers” Policy Symposium

September 14, 2017 | 9:00 AM - 4:15 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

Pan Tianshou Scholarship Awards Ceremony

September 12, 2017 | 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Workshop on Literary Production and Language Politics in Postwar Japan

September 11, 2017 | 1:15 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

ASEAN Festival 2017

September 8, 2017 | 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Labour Day

September 4, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Writing Beyond Tradition: Chivalric Stories by Chen Jinghan in Late Imperial China

September 2, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Workshop: Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957): Rethinking Literary Modernity in Colonial Punjab

August 17, 2017 | 9:00 AM - August 20, 2017 | 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

B.C. Day

August 7, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Liu Xiaobo: A Commemoration

July 19, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Art of Drag: A Special Viewing of 1920s Cantonese Opera Costumes Designed for Gender Impersonation

July 7, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomMuseum of Anthropology
Centre for Chinese Research

Spectacular Opera Across Borders: Cantonese Opera Theaters in North America during the 1920s

July 6, 2017 | 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College

Canada Day

July 3, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program

Interconnected - Our Environment and Social (In)equality

June 22, 2017 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomChan Centre
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Research and Training in India: Funding Opportunities for Faculty & Students

June 22, 2017 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Russia-Turkey-Iran Triangle in Greater Central Asia

June 7, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program

A Roundtable on Environmental Issues in Nepal: Presentations by a Delegation from the Nepal Forestry Service

May 31, 2017 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Victoria Day

May 22, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

从自主探索、设计试验到请示授权：十八大以来中国地方政府创新的新进展

May 19, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Seeking Innovation with Central Authorization: Mapping Chinese Local Governments' Innovations During the Xi Era

May 19, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Kampala Summer Institute: Men's and Women's Relations in Coercive Settings

May 17, 2017 | 11:00 PM - May 19, 2017 | 11:00 PM
roomKampala Kolping Hotel
Centre for Chinese Research

Radical Inequalities: China’s Welfare State in Comparative Perspective

April 28, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Celebrating the End of Term with CISAR

April 27, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Making an International Currency: Renminbi Internationalization

April 27, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Hong Kong: 20 Years After - A Symposium

April 26, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Exploring Water Stewardship, Risk & Opportunity in the Mining Sector: from theory to application

April 26, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Designing Knowledge Mobilization & Exploring Policy

April 25, 2017 | 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Another Tagore: A Campaigner of Emancipation of the Peasantry in Bengal

April 22, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Myanmar in Transition: An Update on Recent Developments

April 20, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Easter Monday

April 17, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Good Friday

April 14, 2017 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

[CANCELLED] The Visual Politics of Walls: Barriers, Flows, and the Sublime

April 13, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Mining development and environmental rehabilitation challenges, Mongolia’s case

April 13, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

India's Innovation Journey -- Scripted Digitally

April 12, 2017 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Centre for Chinese Research

Into the Silicon Valley North: Film Screening and Panel Discussion

April 12, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Borderwork: Migration and Territory in East Asia

April 12, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 231, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research, Centre for Korean Research

Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea

April 11, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Dr. Gabriel Maltais-Landry – Optimizing the use of organic amendments and cover crops to maximize agronomic and environmental benefits

April 7, 2017 | 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomMacMillan (MCML) - 154

What Shapes Public Attitudes about Capital Controls: Evidence from China

April 7, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

An Art for Everyone: The Rāmāyaṇa Scrolls of Bengal

April 6, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

JCN Alumnight 2017

April 5, 2017 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Dr. Barbara Seed – What is a healthy and sustainable diet?

April 5, 2017 | 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
roomCentre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, BC Hydro Theatre

Wherever I Find Myself: Stories of Canadian Immigrant Women

April 4, 2017 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
roomAlice MacKay Room, Central Library

Private Sector Development in Resource-Rich Developing Countries

April 4, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Himalaya Program

Trade Between Tibet and the Tang Empire

March 31, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Environmental Anarchism: Agriculture and Social Renewal in Modern Korea

March 31, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Australia & Canada in the Trump Era

March 31, 2017 | 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Health Care for 1.3 Billion: Successes and Challenges in China’s Health System Reforms

March 30, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Dr. Claire Kremen, Berkeley Food Institute, University of California Berkeley

March 30, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab

Dr. Verena Seufert – What is this thing called organic? How organic farming is codified in regulations

March 29, 2017 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Rebalancing competing values relating to the right to be forgotten and users’ rights: Toward a new conception of rights in the age of AI, IoT, and Robotics

March 29, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 106, Allard School of Law
Centre for Japanese Research

Symposium: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan

March 24, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomLillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Centre for Korean Research

Where Is Korea Going?: Thoughts From Korea’s Leading Philosopher

March 24, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Centre for Chinese Research

Symposium: What is China?

March 23, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College

Dr. Bejoy K Thomas – Whose water? Challenges and complexities in wastewater reuse in peri-urban Bangalore, India

March 23, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomAERL 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab
Centre for Japanese Research

Resilience in the Margins: Grassroots Women's NGOs, Feminist Expertise, and a New Paradigm for Japanese Post-Disaster Reconstruction (JR Lunchtime Lecture Series)

March 22, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

Study in Japan

March 21, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Individualization of War, a Mark Zacher Distinguished Visitor Talk

March 21, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Gendered vulnerability under expansion of rubber plantation in Luang Namtha, Laos and Northern Shan State, Myanmar

March 21, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

A Billion Voices: The Past and Future of Putonghua

March 20, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Worker Justice & Food Security

March 17, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomCentre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, BC Hydro Theatre
Centre for Chinese Research

After the Fall(s) - Rewriting China's Securities Law and Regulation of the PRC Capital Markets

March 16, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 104, Allard Hall
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Campaign Cohesion Across Electoral Campaign Scales in Indonesia

March 14, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomResearch Unit One, Liu Institute

Advancing Water Stewardship in Mining – from the site to the catchment

March 14, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Himalaya Program

Film Screening of Kesang Tseten’s Trembling Mountain

March 13, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomFrederic Lasserre Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Bo Xilai and the Cultural Revolution

March 13, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Women's Empowerment, Leadership, and Challenges in Greater Central Asia

March 13, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

They Came from Everywhere: the People of the Amur

March 13, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 1197, Buchanan Tower
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Contested Governance, Competing Nationalisms, and Disenchanted Publics: Kashmir beyond Intractability?

March 10, 2017 | 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

MPPGA Global Policy Project Symposium

March 10, 2017 | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

The Sudden Expansion and Contraction of China’s Microfinance for Women Program

March 9, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Four Women – Four Lovers – Four Documents: female bodies and voices in Kishida Rio’s play “Four Letters”

March 8, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

The Politics of Invisibility: Fukushima, 6 Years After 3.11

March 8, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 6:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Implementing the Paris Agreement: Are We On The Right Track?

March 7, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan's new security Partnerships - the 'special relationship' with Australia

March 6, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

Counter-intelligibility in Recent South Korean Film

March 3, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

“Mending Cracks” Exhibition Closing Reception and “Trauma, Memory and the Story of Canada” Project Launch

March 2, 2017 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomAsian Centre
Phil Lind Initiative

Robert Reich - The Rise of the Anti-Establishment: Where do we go from here?

March 1, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC

Participatory Food Security Research with Rural South African Communities

March 1, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for India and South Asia Research

International Mother Language Day Celebration 2017

February 28, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

Globalization, the State, and Foreign Labor Policy: Japan in Comparative Perspective

February 28, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

The Flow and Ebb of Canadian Development Efforts in Nepal

February 27, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

International Institutions: 国際公務員就職ガイダンス

February 26, 2017 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Toward a Progressive Politics of Financial Regulation workshop

February 22, 2017 | 5:00 PM - February 24, 2017 | 3:00 PM
roomRoom 123, Allard Hall
Centre for Japanese Research

Perspectives on the Future of Canada-Japan Relations

February 21, 2017 | 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan's Vision for the East Asian Security Border

February 17, 2017 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Dr. Craig Borowiak – Postcapitalist Politics in a Divided City: Mapping Community Gardens in Philadelphia

February 17, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Chinese Research

When Did the Cultural Revolution Begin?

February 16, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research

China-Indonesia Relations: Looking Back and Looking Forward

February 16, 2017 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

How Can the New Governments in Washington and Seoul Tackle North Korea?

February 16, 2017 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

Genealogy of three Principles of the Constitution of Japan: Sovereignty of the people, Fundamental Human Rights, and Pacifism

February 15, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

'How do we be together?' A Roundtable on Art, Memory and Responsibility

February 8, 2017 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
roomSty-Wet-Tan Great Hall, First Nations Longhouse
Centre for Japanese Research

What Does it Mean to "Abolish" a Language? - Some Thoughts on Mori Arinori and Shiga Naoya

February 8, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Japanese Research

How Much Difference is There Between Japan and China in Terms of Aesthetics?

February 7, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

At Home in the Green Mountains – Bhutanese Resettlement in Vermont

February 6, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Of Rice and Roots

February 3, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM
roomGreat Hall, AMS Student Nest

UBC Future of Food Global Dialogue Series

January 31, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
Centre for Korean Research

Film Screening & Discussion: “The Last Tear,” a Documentary About Comfort Women in Asia and Korea

January 27, 2017 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Health and Wellbeing of South Asian Immigrant Women

January 27, 2017 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Laughing in the Year of the Chicken: The Past and Future of Chinese Humor

January 26, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Food, the Future, and You Symposium

January 26, 2017 | 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
roomPonderosa Ballroom
Centre for Japanese Research

Okinoshima: A Field Visit Report with Dr. Christina Laffin

January 25, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Himalaya Program

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Roundtable Discussion: Himalayan Research at UBC​

January 23, 2017 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

CJR Annual Open House Reception

January 20, 2017 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Examining Global Supply Chains, with Professor Pietra Rivoli

January 20, 2017 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 104, Allard Hall
Centre for Japanese Research

Welcome to Washington Heights: American Towns and Americanization in Occupied Japan

January 20, 2017 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Ashli Akins: The Chaos Point of Quechua Textiles

January 19, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomResearch Unit One, Liu Institute
Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Exhibition Opening of The Suitcase: Intergenerational Healing through Traces of the Past

January 13, 2017 | 6:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Research Mobilizing Impact, with Dr. David Phipps

January 11, 2017 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

The Writing Center as a Globalized Pedagogy: A Case Study of an Internationalized University in Japan

January 11, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Chinese Research

China’s Anti-Corruption Reforms and Shareholder Valuations

January 10, 2017 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomPeter A. Allard School of Law

Pipelines and Climate Policy – Where are We Now?

January 6, 2017 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Holiday Closure

December 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Discussing Problems and Solutions for Peace and the Role of Space Energy on Development

December 9, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

The Suitcase: Intergenerational Healing through Traces of the Past

December 6, 2016 | 8:00 AM - January 27, 2017 | 5:00 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

South Asia Showcase: Sri Lanka, that which glitters

December 3, 2016 | 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Himalaya Program

Artist’s Talk on Contemporary Tibetan Art with Tenzing Rigdol

December 1, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Lasserre Building
Centre for Chinese Research

China’s Rise: Consequences for China and for the World

November 30, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Seven Chinas and Value Politics in the Post-Hegemonic Era

November 29, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Splane Lecture in Social Policy - Sense and Debility: How disability figures in progressive social policy with Dr. Catherine Frazee

November 28, 2016 | 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Phil Lind Initiative

Confronting a Trump Presidency

November 25, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Expedition: The Symposium and Apparition

November 23, 2016 | 1:00 PM - November 26, 2016 | 7:00 PM
roomThe Fishbowl on Granville Island
Centre for Chinese Research

Screening Yellowing 亂世備忘, a documentary about the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong

November 22, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre

The Trump Moment: What does it Mean for the Asia-Pacific (and Canada)?

November 22, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Installation of Professor Santa J. Ono

November 22, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Centre for Japanese Research

Disaster Reduction Roundtable for Enhancing Resilience

November 21, 2016 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
roomPeter A. Allard School of Law
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Policing Loan Sharks: Evidence from the unlicensed money lending market in Singapore

November 18, 2016 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
room1001- Orchard Commons
Centre for Korean Research

The Spectographies of Asian Divas: Focusing on the first Korean Colonial Diva, Lee Erisu and Unclaimed Memory

November 17, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Female Chieftain’s Tribute

November 15, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College

Understanding Caste and Class in Contemporary India

November 14, 2016 | 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Remembrance Day

November 11, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Master the rules of Japanese SHUKATSU!

November 10, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Simran Sethi presents Saving by Savoring: The Delicious Reclamation of Foods We Love

November 10, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Centre for Japanese Research

Japan’s 'Quality Service': Can Omotenashi be a source of Japan’s soft power?

November 9, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

CROSSCURRENT 長江圖: Film Screening and A Conversation with Director Yang Chao

November 7, 2016 | 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomFairmont Social Lounge, St. John's College
Himalaya Program

The Science of Healing: Tibetan Medicine as Local Practice, National Heritage, and Global Brand

November 7, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Panel Discussion: Public Opinion on Migration

November 5, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Panel Discussion: The Fate of Women, Marginalized Refugees and Asylum Seekers

November 4, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Panel Discussion: Finding Refuge: Refugee Resettlement, UBC Student Engagement and the Benefits of Generosity

November 3, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Activism for Harmony? Immigrant Rights’ Activism and Xenophobic Activism in Japan

November 3, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Symposium Opening Event: Refugee Journeys

November 2, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC

Refugee Symposium & Opera - Breaking the Cycle: Canada’s Refugee Record on the Global Stage

November 2, 2016 | 1:30 PM - November 6, 2016 | 7:30 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC
Centre for Japanese Research

Critical Ethnography of Decorative Rebellion: Japanese Girls Subculture in Harajuku

November 2, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Vietnam’s Path to Inclusive Growth: Past Achievements and Future Challenges

November 2, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Discussion: The Refugee Crisis in Global Perspective

November 1, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM

The Rise of Authoritarian Corporate Intervention: Evidence from East Asia

November 1, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan

October 28, 2016 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
roomSage Bistro
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Minorities and Terror Attack in Bangladesh: A Roundtable Discussion

October 27, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

Examining the Nomination Process: How did we get here? Where are we going?

October 26, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre – Jack Poole Hall

Breaking the Cycle: Canada’s Refugee Record on the Global Stage Symposium

October 21, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Korean Research

Rehearsing Cosmopolitan Asianness: Practicing Koreanness in Thai Queer K-Fandom

October 20, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Experimentation and Ethnocentrism in Post-Colonial Indian Drama by Dr. Vijaya Jammi

October 19, 2016 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Foreignness, Cultural Identity, and the Emergence of the Barbarian hero as a Literary Archetype: Using Zhang Fei as a Case Study

October 18, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Chinese Politics in the XI JINPING Era - Reassessing collective leadership

October 17, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Thailand in Transition: Challenges and Prospects

October 17, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

Why the Right Went Wrong: The State of U.S. Conservatism in the Year of Trump

October 14, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre – Jack Poole Hall
Centre for Japanese Research

JSAC 2016 Annual Conference

October 13, 2016 | 6:00 PM - October 16, 2016 | 12:45 PM
roomPeter A. Allard School of Law

100 Days Book Launch

October 13, 2016 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomCase Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Chinese Research

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

October 13, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 301, Iona Building

Angélica Choc is not alone: A conversation on Canadian corporate violence in Guatemala

October 13, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomResearch Unit One, Liu Institute

Thanksgiving

October 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

The Ruse of Reason: Poverty, Inequality, and Personal Freedoms in the People’s Republic of China

October 6, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Achieving Transformative Change: The Analytics and Social Processes for Implementing the SDGS to Achieve Systemic Sustainability

October 5, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

Leadership in the Post Brexit Era: Global Governance, the G20 and the Politics of Answering Public Angst

October 4, 2016 | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

“Canada’s Back – Now What? International Policy for the Long Haul” Reflections from Roland Paris

October 3, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies
Centre for Japanese Research

Sex and the Stereoscopic City in Kanshi: Mori Ōgai and Niigata

September 29, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

The Geo-strategic Game in the Greater Central Asia: Who is Involved and Why Now?

September 28, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Real and Imaginary Storytelling: How Digital Humanities Construct the Ideas of Historicity (A Case of Japanese History)

September 28, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Thailand Corner @ UBC

September 28, 2016 | 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Korean Research

From Imperial Engineers to Development Consultants: Japanese Engineers and the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in South Korea

September 27, 2016 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 1197, Buchanan Tower
Phil Lind Initiative

Dark Money: How Money is Shaping the U.S. Election

September 23, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomRobert H. Lee Alumni Centre – Jack Poole Hall
Centre for India and South Asia Research

CISAR Open House

September 23, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Impact of Global Financial Crisis on India: an Analysis of Large Exporters in Indian Manufacturing

September 23, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Is TPP Dead? The Future of International Trade Law

September 23, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 122, Allard Hall
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Nationalism, Dogmatism and what more: The Crisis of Vision in Nepali Society

September 22, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

African Studies Colloquium Presents: Repatriation as Predation - The Category of Classical African Art in Angola, 2015-2016

September 22, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
roomResearch Unit One, Liu Institute

Innovation, Inequality, and Social Mobility with Prof. Philippe Aghion

September 22, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomChemistry Building, Room B250
Centre for Chinese Research, Centre for Southeast Asia Research

Thailand’s Military, the USA and China: Understanding how the Thai Military Perceives the Great Powers and Implications for the US Rebalance

September 21, 2016 | 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Phil Lind Initiative

How Populism is Transforming American Politics — On the Left and Right

September 15, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomOld Auditorium, UBC
Centre for Chinese Research

"The China Challenge"

September 15, 2016 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Lobby Gallery Exhibition Opening: Picturing High Places in the Anthropocene: Continuity and Change in High Mountains and the Arctic

September 12, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Workshop: “Colonial Readers and Authors of Indo-Persian Texts” by Dr. Shahbaz and Dr. Speziale

September 9, 2016 | 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

“Literary Interaction in South Asia: Indo-Persian Narratives” by Dr. Pegah Shahbaz

September 8, 2016 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

MPPGA Policy Salon

September 8, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for India and South Asia Research

“Persian Writings on Ayurvedic Medicine: The Construction of a Genre” by Dr. Fabrizio Speziale

September 7, 2016 | 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

UBC Celebrates Partnership with Yale University and Fulbright Canada

September 6, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Back to School!

September 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Labour Day

September 5, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Picturing High Places in the Anthropocene: Continuity and Change in High Mountains and the Arctic

September 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM - November 30, 2016 | 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues

Buddhism and Global Secularisms

August 11, 2016 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Centre for Japanese Research

Japanese Buddhism’s ‘Western Turn’: South/Southeast Asia and the Forging of the Japanese Buddhist Modern

August 10, 2016 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

Buddhism in the Global Eye: Beyond East and West

August 10, 2016 | 12:00 AM - August 12, 2016 | 11:59 PM
roomSt. John's College

B.C. Day

August 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building
Centre for Chinese Research

Lunchtime Roundtable with Dr. Justin Jacobs on his New Book: Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

July 28, 2016 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Rm 231, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for Japanese Research

Kanagawa University - UBC Joint Symposium

July 23, 2016 | 9:15 AM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

MP Policy Café on Clean Growth and Climate Change

July 19, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomMultipurpose Room, Liu Insitute for Global Studies

Canada Day

July 1, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Centre for Southeast Asia Research

South China Sea: Impact on ASEAN

June 21, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Learning from Lived Experience

June 16, 2016 | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
roomPermanent Mission of Canada to the UN

I Am Evelyn Amony: Reclaiming My Life from the Lord's Resistance Army

June 15, 2016 | 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
roomJapan Society, Murase Room

100 Days Book Launch

June 10, 2016 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
roomSelectors’ Records
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs

How Realistic are the Chances of India Maintaining an Annual Growth Rate of 8% or more?

June 7, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Lobby Gallery

Against Disappearance: A Photographic Search for Memory, Lobby Gallery Exhibition

June 6, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
roomLobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
Centre for Japanese Research

TPP and Japanese Economic Revitalization

May 30, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Victoria Day

May 23, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Centre for India and South Asia Research

The Relevance of Tibetan Buddhism in the 21st Century

May 15, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre
Centre for Japanese Research

Nagasaki: Memories of My Son

May 4, 2016 | 6:15 PM - 7:30 PM
roomVancity Theatre
Centre for Japanese Research

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Poetry of Nuclear Survival

May 3, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomChan Telus Studio Theatre
Centre for Japanese Research

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Poetry of Nuclear Survival

May 3, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
roomTelus Studio Theatre at the Chan Centre
Centre for India and South Asia Research

Has India Missed its Progressive Moment?

May 2, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research

CISAR / IAR Conference: Challenges of Urbanization

April 29, 2016 | 9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building
Centre for India and South Asia Research, Himalaya Program

Changing Experience and Interpretation of Menstruation in Nepal: An Intergenerational Perspective

April 28, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

An Ocean of Diplomacy – Negotiating for the Health of our Common Ocean at the UN

April 27, 2016 | 1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Liu Institute for Global Issues

A Framework for Understanding Why Food Security Discussions are Contentious

April 26, 2016 | 7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomBig Rock Brewery

The Democratic Transition in Nepal

April 26, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM

(Re)Viewing China Today

April 26, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM

The Idea of Constitutional Compromise

April 25, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Japan’s Ratification of the Hague Convention on Child Abduction and Its Implications

April 22, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom C180

Madness and Buddhist Compassion

April 21, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Global Real Estate Investment: The Vancouver-China Nexus

April 14, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomThe Park Ballroom, Four Seasons Hotel

CSEARching for Southeast Asia: The Inaugural Graduate Student Conference for Southeast Asia Research

April 14, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Chinese Science Fiction and the Search for Lost Time

April 13, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

City of Marvel and Transformation: Chang'an and Narratives of Experience in Tang Dynasty China

April 12, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

What Would Aristotle Think? A Japanese Production of the Greek Tragedy Medea

April 8, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

A Revolution in Global North-South Politics? Evidence from Trade-Environment Negotiations

April 8, 2016 | 12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Functions of NGOs in Contemporary Russia: The Case of the Civic Assistance Committee

April 8, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Public Talk and Workshop with Dr. Ericka Beckman

April 8, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM

Nowhere People Project ft. Greg Constantine, Allard Prize Photography Competition Winner

April 7, 2016 | 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Weaker States under the Shadow of Sino-US Great Power Competition: Myanmar and Thailand's Foreign Policy Choices

April 7, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

The (Non) Strategic Thinking of Japan’s Decision-makers for World War II

April 7, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Fifty Years Later in Indonesia: The Violence of 1965-66 in Historical Perspective

April 6, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Utopia, Dystopia and Uchronia - From 'The Fat Years' to 'The Second Year of Jianfeng: An Alternative History of New China'

April 5, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

Discourses and Networks of North Korean Defector-Activists

April 5, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Research, Field Experiments, and Policy Outcomes

April 5, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Do Rewards Work to Maintain and Increase Tax Compliance? Evidence from the Randomization of Public Goods

April 4, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

IMAGinE Mongolia Outreach

April 4, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

How Huang Zunxian Helped Canadian-Chinese in an Age of Chinese Exclusion (1882-1885)

April 4, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Research for International Development and Democracy

April 1, 2016 | 9:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Lobby Gallery

Woven in Time: Images by Ashli Akins

March 31, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Rethinking Copyright for the Digital Age: An Example of Japanese Copyright Law

March 31, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomFasken Martineau Classroom, Allard School of Law

Vision 20: International Summit on Global Governance’s New Frontiers

March 31, 2016 | 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Five Years after the Ladakh Flood: At the Intersections of Coping, Adaptation and Re-Experienced Trauma

March 30, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Why Create, When You May Steal? Ai Weiwei and the Art of Appropriation

March 30, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre

Geopolitical Transformation in East Asia: Chinese Ambitions and Japan’s Reaction toward an Emergence of a New Regional Order

March 29, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 101, Allard School of Law

The Rise of Cultural Entrepreneurship in Twentieth-Century China and Southeast-Asia

March 29, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Symposium: Queer Transfigurations in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture: Manga and Anime

March 29, 2016 | 9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
roomAuditorium, Asian Centre

How Treaties are Approved and Concluded in Japan: From Negotiation to Execution

March 24, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Confucian Role Ethics and the “Casting” of Persons

March 24, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Mapping Modern Chinese Intellectual Life: A Roundtable Conversation with Tim Cheek

March 23, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

The Mindful Teen: Secular and Buddhist Mindfulness for Adolescents

March 22, 2016 | 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

Growing Human Cities through Urban Agriculture

March 21, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM

King of Beasts: White Tiger Lore in the Ritual Culture of South China

March 21, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Canada in Mongolia, Advancing and Promoting our Partnership

March 18, 2016 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Film Screening: Rinks of Hope

March 18, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan

March 17, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Sikkimese Public Culture: Reconstructing Ethno-Cultural Histories through Visuality

March 17, 2016 | 1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Study in Japan Information Session

March 16, 2016 | 5:30 PM - 5:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Pakistan as an Alternative to the Idea of an Impossible India

March 15, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Pop Culture, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan

March 14, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Teaching the Asian Literary Classics: A Roundtable Discussion

March 11, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Interaction and Collaboration as a Source of Community Recovery and Empowerment

March 11, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Elusive Sarasvati

March 10, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The 2011 March 11th (3.11) Disaster and Nuclear Power Plant Accident in Tohoku, Japan: Five Years On.

March 9, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

COP21 in Paris - Why was an Agreement Possible?

March 4, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Japan's Post-TPP Trade Policy

March 3, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada’s War in Afghanistan

March 3, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Explaining the Persistence of Supplementary Education in East Asia: The Case of Japan

March 3, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Planning for Smart Cities in Japan

March 1, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Experience Japanese Tea Culture

February 29, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomTea Gallery, Asian Centre

Manga Formosa: The Wild World of Taiwanese Comics

February 29, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Madame Shrine Keeper and the Anthropologist

February 26, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Women’s Access to Public Space for their Livelihoods: India, Thailand and the Philippines in Comparative Perspective

February 26, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Can the Subaltern Bark? Dogs, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World

February 26, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 1197, Buchanan Tower

Do Virtual Earthquakes Still Shake Us to the Core? Simulating Survival in Japan’s Disaster Report Video Game

February 24, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

The Belt and Road Initiative: China's New Grand Strategy for the 21st Century?

February 23, 2016 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Buddhist Art: A Fragile Inheritance

February 17, 2016 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre

Digital Diplomacy Strategy: Are Canadians Engaged?

February 11, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Ambassador Mark McDowell: The Political Transition in Myanmar

February 11, 2016 | 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

IAR Lunar New Year Celebrations

February 5, 2016 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Japanese Rare Books Workshop: A material introduction to the history of Japanese books

February 5, 2016 | 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomLillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

IMAGinE Mongolia Outreach

February 4, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Moomin and the Conceptual Chase: What Moomin in Japan Tells Us about Globalization

January 27, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Shareholder Primacy in Japan: Layoff, Dividend Cuts and Corporate Governance

January 22, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Making and Defending Sacred Space: Parasols in Dunhuang Buddhist Rituals

January 21, 2016 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM

The Complexity of Dark Tourism: Packaging ‘Edutainment’ of War Tourism in Japan

January 20, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Memories of Trust Broken: Representation, Fragmentation, and the Cultural Politics of Environmental Activism in India

January 18, 2016 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Who benefits? Canada and the TPP, a discussion with federal Cabinet Minister Chrystia Freeland

January 12, 2016 | 6:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues

Taiwan's 2016 Elections and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations

January 6, 2016 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

Democracy at Last in Myanmar?: the November elections and the aftermath

January 4, 2016 | 12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Chinese Models and Chinese Dreams: Myths and Realities of Political Governance in Contemporary China

November 27, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

On the Selection of Leaders in a Political Meritocracy: The Case of China

November 26, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

Tax Incentives & Credit Claiming in Single-Party Regimes: Vietnam, China & Russia

November 24, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues

The Problem of Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Linking Research with Policy Practice

November 24, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

70 Years of Division for the Korean Peninsula: Implications for Peace and Unification

November 20, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Challenges of the Nascent Democracy in Bhutan

November 18, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Lunchtime Lecture Series: Textual Representations of Sexual Violence in Heian and Kamakura Monogatari and Beyond

November 18, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Chinese Origins, Indonesian Audiences: Contemporary Sino-Indonesian Identity Politics in the Case of a Puppetry Genre

November 18, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomBoardroom, Rm 231, C.K. Choi Building

馬習團: The Ma Ying-jeou – Xi Jinping Meeting: More than Just a Political Show?

November 16, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Myanmar's Historic Elections: A Turning Point?

November 16, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Mending Cracks: Trauma and Art Practice

November 13, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Japan’s International Contribution through Innovation in the Field of International Health

November 12, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

CANADA-CHINA ENGAGEMENT: THE 45TH ANNIVERSARY

November 12, 2015 | 8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues

Feature Film: 'Shakespeare Wallah'

November 5, 2015 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

The Native Language of Space: The Spatial Connotations of Southern Fujian-Style He-Yuan Architecture 空間母語：閩南合院建築的空間意涵

November 4, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Andy Lau and the Popular Presentation of Cultural Identity

November 2, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Historical Ownership and Territorial Indivisibility: Survey Evidence from China

November 2, 2015 | 12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
roomBuchanan Penthouse

Documentary Screening of "Minako: Last Geisha of the Yoshiwara"

October 30, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

The Inaugural Session of 'Ming and More: Classical Chinese/Wenyan/Hanmun/Kanbun Reading Group'

October 28, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 1197, Buchanan Tower

The Birth of Nishikawa Sukenobu’s Shunpon: “Sex” and Publishing Culture

October 23, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 129, C.K. Choi Building

Glossolalia, Cacophony, Intensity

October 23, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 400, UBC School of Music

The Maiden at Dojoji Temple: A Lecture and Demonstration on the Art of Kabuki

October 22, 2015 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomFrederic Wood Theatre

China's Age of Irreverence: Christopher Rea in Conversation with Timothy Brook

October 21, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomSeminar 307, The Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies

Lunchtime Lecture Series: Professor Nakano Kiwa on "How Do People Reconstruct Former Disaster Areas? The Case of Genkai Island"

October 21, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Seventy Years after the Asia Pacific War: Interrogating Japan’s War Responsibility

October 15, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945-1949

October 14, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

October 14, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 310, Neville Scarfe Building

Special Lecture: The South China Sea, The View from the Philippines

October 9, 2015 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Talk: Can the Yuan Challenge the Dollar for Monetary Supremacy?

October 9, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Lunchtime Lecture Series: Joshua Mostow on “A Third Gender: Beautiful Youth in Japanese Prints"

October 7, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Paper, Print and Cyberspace: The Perspective of a Global Network for the Multimedia and Interdisciplinary Studies of East Asian Religions

October 4, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Launch of Sara Shneiderman's new book: Rituals of Ethnicity

October 1, 2015 | 5:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomSeminar 307, The Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies

Lecture: Divergences and Convergences of India: China Contemporary Relations

September 30, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Information Session on the “Kakehashi" program

September 30, 2015 | 1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Book launch of Professor Peter Nosco’s new edited volume: Dissent on Core Beliefs: Religious and Secular Perspectives

September 25, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Symposium on Nepal: Reconstruction and Regeneration After the Earthquakes

September 24, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Global Development & Economic Governance: A Discussion with Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

September 24, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomDodson Room, Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Decentralisation in Indonesia: Promise and Unfinished Business

September 24, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Social Media in China: What Canadians Need to Know

September 24, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomAsia Pacific Foundation of Canada Boardroom

PRC Environmental Tradeoffs: Modern China's Environment, Science(s) and Landscapes

September 21, 2015 | 8:30 AM - 8:30 AM
roomKwantlen Polytechnic University Melville Conference Centre

CISAR Open House

September 18, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The AIIB and the Future of the Global Economic Order: Myth and Reality

September 17, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomLiu Institute for Global Issues

South Korea's Foreign Policy, Viewed from Inside vs. Outside

September 17, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

China's Road Towards Democratic Governance: Thoughts on Political Development Since the Reform

September 15, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Talk: Japan's Entry into International Society

September 14, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Symposium: Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy

September 12, 2015 | 1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Dr. Noel Johnston: 'How Taking from Foreigners Affects Domestic Human Rights'

August 26, 2015 | 12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
roomBuchanan C403

The Impact of China’s New Free Trade Zones on Chinese Reform Path and Financial Liberalization

July 16, 2015 | 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Closing of the Chinese Mind

July 9, 2015 | 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Panel Discussion: Nepal's Earthquake 2015

June 2, 2015 | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

In Conversation: Frances Wood and Tim Brook

May 29, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Buddhism and Wellbeing Conference

May 28, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomSt. John's College

Buddhism, Christianity and the Silk Road: A Talk with Dr. Frances Wood

May 26, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

Buddhism and the Ecological Challenge

May 15, 2015 | 6:30 PM - 6:30 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

India's New Globality: Modi's Visits to Canada and China

May 4, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Cancelled - Open House at the Centre for India and South Asia Research

April 21, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Social Movements and the Political Polarization of South Korea and Taiwan

April 21, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Envisioning the City: Urban Cartography in Early Modern China

April 17, 2015 | 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 1197, Buchanan Tower

Dialogue Searching for Identity: Living in a Different Place

April 11, 2015 | 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomLillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Wendi Adamek on Fathers and Daughters in Chinese Buddhism

April 10, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

Graduate Student Conference: What is Asia? Security and social Change in the Asia Pacific region

April 10, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Communication, Authoritarian Resilience, and Democracy in China and Taiwan

April 9, 2015 | 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Languages of Legitimacy in China: Roundtable Discussion with Researchers

April 2, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

China’s World: Chineseness and Civilization without Borders

April 1, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Lunchtime Discussion on Zhu Xiaoyang's Video Documentary on China's Collective Resistance to To-Down Urbanization

April 1, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Singapore After Lee Kuan Yew: A Roundtable Discussion

April 1, 2015 | 9:45 AM - 9:45 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Book Launch: “Middle Power, Middle Kingdom: What Canada Needs to Know about China in the 21st Century”

March 31, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Fixing China’s “Airpocalypse”: Roundtable Discussion on Under The Dome

March 30, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

«50 Ans d’action Diplomatique Française en Chine: Qu’en Retenir?» 50 Years of French Diplomacy in China: What Did We Learn?

March 27, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Daniel Ziv: Public Lecture + Screening of "Jalanan" - A Music Documentary

March 26, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Canada's Reawakening: Military, economic and diplomatic vision for the Asia Pacific

March 26, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Gayatri Rajapatni: The Woman Behind the Glory of Majapahit

March 25, 2015 | 2:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Japan's Role in the Middle East

March 24, 2015 | 2:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Green Growth: Agriculture and Sustainability in the Indonesian Economy

March 23, 2015 | 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Consuming Civility: Writings on Tea Culture for Women, 1720-1920

March 19, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Global Art, Global Mind

March 19, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 129, C.K. Choi Building

Biographical Imperatives, Autobiographical Pacts: Hongyi Dashi and the Construction of Buddhist Lives in 20th c. China

March 17, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Making Sense of a Worker Self-Immolation in 1970s South Korea

March 13, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Public Lecture by Singaporean Sculptor Chong Fah Cheong

March 13, 2015 | 11:00 AM - 11:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Environmental Dilemma - Winners and Losers in Asia

March 12, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Special Events to Mark the 3.11 Disaster in Japan

March 11, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Courting Komachi: A Noh Demonstration

March 7, 2015 | 8:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

An Evening with Shauna Singh Baldwin

March 6, 2015 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

SACPAN 2015: South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest

March 6, 2015 | 9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Dialogue: Identities - Traditional Festivals | 對話：對身份的探討──傳統節日

March 5, 2015 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomLillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Market-oriented urbanism and residential outcomes in urban China

March 4, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Challenges and Opportunities of Doing Business with China

March 3, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Conference on Future of National Security / National Defense of Japan

March 2, 2015 | 1:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

“Is This Just One More Folk Legend?"

March 2, 2015 | 12:00 PM - 12:00 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

The Scope of Foreign Engagement in the DPRK, 1995-2012

February 27, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Public Lecture by Professor Edmund Terence Gomez

February 27, 2015 | 10:00 AM - 10:00 AM
roomRoom 351, C.K. Choi Building

Press Start: Culture, Industry, and Innovation in Japanese Gaming

February 27, 2015 | 9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium

Chindia: Leaving the BRICs Behind?

February 25, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

2015 Lunar New Year Festival

February 24, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Centre for Japanese Research Open House

February 6, 2015 | 4:30 PM - 4:30 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building

Buddhism and Gagaku

February 5, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Oil price drops to $50: What is the Impact on Asian Economies?

February 5, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

What Did Panasonic Learn in China? Japanese Electronics Firms and the Greater China Market

February 4, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Xi Jinping's 'New Normal' in China: Assessing the 4th Plenum of the CCP

February 2, 2015 | 3:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Bhavanjli: A Lecture-Demonstration to Indian Classical Music

January 30, 2015 | 7:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Multipolarity and Globalization: Incompatible Pairing?

January 30, 2015 | 12:15 PM - 12:15 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

An Intercultural Dialogue on Identity for Chinese Speakers - Searching for Identities: Education

January 29, 2015 | 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

The Rise of the Beautician in Modern Japan

January 27, 2015 | 12:30 PM - 12:30 PM
roomRoom 604, Asian Centre

Modern Times in North Korea: Scenes from the Founding Years

January 23, 2015 | 3:30 PM - 3:30 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Zhang Yang and Sixth Generation Representations of Filiality in Chinese Cinema

January 22, 2015 | 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

Ethnographic Fieldwork in South Asia: A graduate student workshop led by Dr. Rémy Delage

January 22, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 11:30 AM
roomRoom 120, C.K. Choi Building

IAR Asia Pacific Forum: Charlie Hebdo and Freedom of Speech in the Asia Pacific

January 21, 2015 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM