Events at: Research Unit One, Liu Institute

Liu Institute West MallAngélica Choc is not alone: A conversation on Canadian corporate violence in Guatemala

Thursday, October 13th from 3:00 – 5:00 PM Research Unit, Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC Unceded Musqueam Territory Environmental defenders are murdered every month in Latin America. What can you do to help? Please join us in a roundtable discussion in solidarity with Angélica Choc, Indigenous Q’eqchi’ Maya activist, whose home in El Estor, […]

Liu West MallAshli Akins: The Chaos Point of Quechua Textiles

When: January 19, 2017, 12:00 – 2:00 PM Where: Liu Institute for Global Issues – Research Unit, UBC The Latin America and the Global research group presents an opportunity to learn about Ashli Akins’s research in the highlands of Peru, “The Chaos Point of Quechua Textiles: How community-owned policies can safeguard living, breathing cultural traditions.” Ashli […]

Campaign Cohesion Across Electoral Campaign Scales in Indonesia

A roundtable discussion with Dr. Lis Kramer As the Jakarta gubernatorial election heads to a run-off in April 2017, the UBC Southeast Asian Network has invited Dr. Elisabeth Kramer, a political scientist at the University of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, to discuss “the usefulness of scale as a geographical concept” in understanding electoral campaigns in […]

Kazakhstan and Nuclear Disarmament

Join us for a talk on Kazakhstan and nuclear disarmament with Alimzhan Akhmetov, founding director of the Center for International Security and Policy in Kazakhstan. Friday, November 24th 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Research Seminar Room, Liu Institute for Global Issues Light refreshments provided. About the event: This talk will comprise of two parts. The first part will focus on […]