Hong Kong: 20 Years After – A Symposium

26 April 2017 4:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Tags: Centre for Chinese Research, Department of Asian Studies, Department of History, Hong Kong Studies Initiative, PCHC-MoM Society, School of Social Work, SFU Institute for Transpacific Cultural Research, St. John's College, Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society

The past two decades have not been the best of times for Hong Kong. What have been the sources of tensions for this former British colony? As Hong Kong is set to enter the Carrie Lam era, what promises does Deng Xiaoping’s formulation of “One Country, Two Systems” still hold for this special administrative region […]

Three Minute Thesis Information session: Presenting your Research, Tips & Info

15 February 2019 1:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
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Tags: Department of Asian Studies, Institute for Asian Research

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition that assists current graduate students with fostering effective presentation and communication skills.

ASIA Heat: Compete with your research on Asia

01 March 2019 5:00 pm

Venue: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building
Tags: Department of Asian Studies, Institute for Asian Research

UBC’s competition for Ph.D. and MA students who work on Asia in any field/discipline/Faculty.

Awakened Villages: Liberation and Exclusion at the place of Buddha’s Enlightenment in North India

03 October 2019 5:00 pm

Drawing on ethnographic research, this talk will touch on how some of the Dalit villages located a short distance from the Mahabodhi Temple encapsulate the diverse expressions, meanings and contradictions of Indian Buddhism in the early twenty-first century.

Caste Matters: The Fourth Annual Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Annual Lecture

10 October 2019 5:30 pm

This talk is with Suraj Yengde, an award-winning scholar and activist from India, and the author of Caste Matters.