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

The Politics of Historical Justice after the Death of Mao Zedong

With Dr. Daniel Leese Professor of modern Chinese history and politics, University of Freiburg This talk will take recent debates on the legacies of the Cultural Revolution as a starting point to address the question of how the Chinese Communist Party dealt with injustices from the Mao era in the late 1970s and early 1980s […]

Visualizing Violence: Forensic Medicine, Body as Evidence, and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth Century Korea

Dr. Jisoo M. Kim is Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, International Affairs, and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the George Washington University. She is also Director of the GW Institute for Korean Studies. Her broader research interests include crime and justice, forensic medicine, the history of emotions, literary representations of the law, diglossia, the vernacular, […]

Distant Reading: Large-Scale Textual Analysis for Sinology and Beyond

3:00-4:30 Public Talk and Discussion (Click here for RSVP) 4:30-5:30 Workshop, Pre-registration requested (Click here for RSVP) With Dr. Ryan Nichols (Full Professor, Department of Philosophy, California State University, Fullerton) and Dr. Edward Slingerland (Distinguished University Scholar | Professor of Asian Studies, UBC)     Lecture topic: Ryan Nichols: Supernatural Agents and Prosociality in Historical China Edward Slingerland: Beyond Cherry-Picking: Using Large-Scale Text Analysis to Adjudicate Hermeneutical […]

End-of-Term Celebration for HKSI/Cantonese Language Program

Thursday, 4 April 2019, 12:00–13:45 pm Place of Many Trees (formerly the Multipurpose Room) Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC 6476 NW Marine Dr., Vancouver Presentations and screenings begin @ 12:30 Free and open to the UBC community Light lunch will be provided for those who have registered by Wednesday, March 27. Come celebrate the […]