Event Tag Archives: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Ethnographic Fieldwork in South Asia: A graduate student workshop led by Dr. Rémy Delage

This workshop focuses on the theory and practice of fieldwork in South Asia, primarily discussing religion and identity in South Asia. Dr. Delage has conducted fieldwork at Sufi shrines in India and Pakistan, and this workshop is an opportunity for graduate students to broaden their perspective on field methods. Some of the questions Dr. Delage […]

A Roundtable on Art, Memory and Responsibility‘How do we be together?’ A Roundtable on Art, Memory and Responsibility

Wed, February 8, 2017 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall, First Nations Longhouse, 1985 West Mall, UBC Register here. The public event will feature reflections and performances by invited artists and scholars on the role of engaged artistic practice / creative scholarship in generating public dialogue on questions of social responsibility and transformative justice […]

Voices of Contemporary Himalayan Literature: Manjushree Thapa and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa in Conversation

Join us for a conversation with two acclaimed Himalayan authors: Manjushree Thapa and Tsering Wangmo Dhompa! They will be discussing their recently published novels, short stories, and non-fiction, considering what it means to represent Nepal and Tibet in the English-language literary scene.

Catastrophe in Context: Household Recoveries from the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes

The 2015 Nepal earthquakes had catastrophic impacts on the lives and property of Himalayan peoples. Join the UBC Himalaya Program as Dr. Spoon discusses his study which focuses on four settlements in two of the hardest hit districts with differing access, aid, and populations. We randomly selected 400 households in these locations and conducted two […]