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10/09/2026

Meet historian, artist, filmmaker Lilia Topouzova

Join us to explore how survivor testimony, historical research, and artistic practice can reshape the stories we tell about the past.

🗓️ Tuesday, October 13 • 6-7:30pm
📍 Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
🎟️ Register at link in bio

Presented in partnership with UBC Centre for European Studies AHVA UBC Department of History

09/26/2026

Looking forward to welcoming Dr. Alberto Toscano to UBC, for a series of events starting next week where he will walk us through ideas around fascism, rupture, and relations of destruction.

𝐅𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭?
𝘗𝘏𝘏 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦
📅 Monday, Sept. 28 @ 7PM
📍 Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre
🎟️ Register at link in bio

Presented in partnership with UBC CENES Centre for Climate Justice UBC Political Science UBC French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS) Chan Centre at UBC

𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘌𝘚 𝘡𝘪𝘦𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘓𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦
📅 Thursday, October 1
📍 Buchanan Tower 997
🎟️ Register at UBC CENES

Presented by UBC CENES and UBC French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS)

𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝
𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳
📅 Thursday, October 8

Presented with UBC French, Hispanic & Italian Studies (FHIS) Research Seminars, supported by Centre for Climate Justice UBC CENES UBC Political Science

09/25/2026

Join us tonight for the opening event of Dr. Kiran Sunar’s (UBC Asian Studies) Love Cluster, 2025-26 recipient of PHH’s Cluster/Incubator Grant.

𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗗𝗿. 𝗛𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗵 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗸𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶

📅 TODAY, Friday, September 25, 2026
🕒 4:30pm - 6:00pm, with light refreshments
📍 Buchanan Tower (BUTO) 323, UBC Vancouver Campus

Can theory “do more the closer it gets to the skin” as Sara Ahmed once suggested? This talk turns to the flesh of the critic’s writerly self by exploring the burgeoning genre of post-imperial autotheorical writing, and the ways in which this specific aesthetic modality seeks to affectively “do more” through the body. Dr. Saroukhani will muse on a counterintuitive notion of love via Hazel Carby’s Imperial Intimacies (2019), a text that is part of a growing canon of writing in postcolonial criticism, and especially Black studies, predicated on the critical incorporation of the critic’s life and body.

Henghameh Saroukhani is Associate Professor in Black British Literature at Durham University. She has published widely in the field of Black British and Black Atlantic literatures and cultures.

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Presented by the LOVE CLUSTER: Love in/as translation: Towards a global philosophy of love, with support from Public Humanities Hub and UBC Department of Asian Studies.

09/24/2026

The Global Research Collective on Anti-Oppressive Language Education is hosting a Critical Conversation with Dr. Caitlin Cornell (Accessibility Coordinator & Advocate for the College of Arts and Letters, Michigan State University).

Learn more here and register to receive the Zoom link to this online talk!

09/22/2026

📢 Research Through Film, a workshop with Jessica Hallenbeck Lantern Films

𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘶𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘱 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴.

Explore how film can be used as a tool for community-engaged research and knowledge mobilization.

This two-part workshop introduces the fundamentals of visual storytelling while examining how collaborative filmmaking can document lived experiences, amplify community voices, and communicate research in compelling and accessible ways.

📅 Friday, October 16, 2026
🕒 10:00am - 12:00pm; 1:00pm - 3:30pm (lunch will be provided)
📍 Place of Many Trees, UBC

🎟️ Register at link in bio

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗙𝗶𝗹𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 (10:00am – 12:00pm)
A lecture-based session introducing the fundamentals of visual storytelling and the power of collaborative filmmaking

𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮: 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 (1:00pm – 3:30pm)
A hands-on session that gives participants an opportunity to explore and develop their own film or research projects with Jessica and in small groups.
**first come first serve!**

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Presented in partnership with SFU Community-Engaged Research Initiative (CERi) and SFU Knowledge Mobilization Hub.

09/18/2026

📢 The Art of Unsilencing: Research, Testimony, and the Stories We Tell

What happens when scholarly research moves beyond the page into image, sound, and space? How do archival evidence and interviews take form as artistic practice? How can art become a way of producing historical knowledge?

Drawing on two decades of work on political violence, Lilia Topouzova will reflect with us on an interdisciplinary practice spanning oral history, archival research, documentary film, creative nonfiction, and installation art—including her new book 𝙐𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 & 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙘𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙡𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙂𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙜 (Cornell, 2025) and her collaborative multimedia installation 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨, presented at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Working with fragments, absences, testimony, and silence, Lilia asks, what can we know about the past and how do we choose to tell its stories?

📅 Tuesday, October 13, 2026
🕒 6:00pm – 7:30pm, with light refreshments
📍 Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

🎟️ Register at link in bio

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Presented in partnership with UBC Centre for European Studies, UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, and UBC Department of History.

09/10/2026

📢 Fascism without the West? with Alberto Toscano

Join us for a discussion with renowned social and political theorist Alberto Toscano as he explores vital theories of fascism that have emerged outside, and without, the West - from Tosaka Jun’s account of Japanese “emperor-fascism” to Ghassan Kanafani’s treatment of Arab authoritarian states, from Mahmood Mamdani’s analysis of “neo-colonial fascism” in Idi Amin’s Uganda to Sumit Sarkar’s portrayal of the fascist dimensions of Hindutva.

In what sense can we speak of fascisms outside, or even without the West? And how are these fascisms shaped by the changing forms of “Western” (US and European) imperialism?

Gastón Gordillo (Professor, UBC Department of Anthropology) will respond.

Carol Liao (Professor, Allard Law and UBC Sauder Distinguished Fellow; Chair, Canada Climate Law Initiative and Co-Director, UBC Centre for Climate Justice) will moderate the discussion and audience Q&A.

📅 Monday, September 28
🕒 7:00pm – 8:30pm, with reception to follow (updated time)
📍 Royal Bank Cinema, Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
🎟️ Register at link in bio

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Presented in partnership with UBC Centre for Climate Justice, UBC Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, UBC Department of Department of Political Science, UBC Department of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.

09/10/2026

Looking back at our events from 2025-26. Stay tuned for our events this fall!

https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/

From left to right:

📢 Audra Simpson, “Occupying Selves” or “How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain” (October 14, 2025)

📢 Mark Turin, “Collaborative Futures: Humanities Beyond the Crisis Discourse” (February 25, 2026)

📢 Brenna Bhandar, Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis Symposium (May 28-30, 2026)

📢 Nilo Tabrizy, “Women, Life, Freedom and the Power of Storytelling” (October 29, 2025)

📢 Zahi Zalloua, “Frantz Fanon and the Question of Palestine” (January 29, 2026)

📢 Kamari Clarke, Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis Symposium (May 28-30, 2026)

07/07/2026

Join us for Anti-Ableist Research Cultures: A Research Presentation, Discussion and Zine Workshop

How can universities become genuinely anti-ableist? Join us for a day of learning, conversation, creativity, and community.

The event begins with a presentation by Dr. Antonios Ktenidis, (The University of Sheffield) who will share findings and resources from the Wellcome Anti-Ableist Research Cultures (WAARC) project. Dr. Nadena Doharty will moderate a discussion and Q&A, followed by a catered lunch. In the afternoon, book artist Terra Poirier will facilitate a collaborative zine workshop, inviting participants to reflect on what anti-ableist research cultures can look like in practice.

📅 Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2026
🕘 Time: 10:30 AM–2:30 PM
📍 In-person location: Peña Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC Vancouver
🛜 Online: The 10:30am to 12pm lecture can be attended via Zoom

Accessibility
• The venue is wheelchair accessible.
• A quiet room will be available throughout the event.
• Lunch and refreshments will be provided, with dietary accommodations available.
• If you have additional access needs, you are encouraged to indicate them during registration.
• For detailed accessibility information please see link in bio.

This event is free and open to all, but registration is required.

Register Here:
https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/anti-ableist-research-cultures-a-research-presentation-discussion-and-zine-workshop/

06/19/2026

How can educators engage with AI critically, ethically, and creatively?

Join us for Appraising AI: A Student-Led Approach to Critical Evaluation, a workshop with educator and researcher Kate Greenslade.

Designed for educators navigating the possibilities and risks of AI technologies, this two-part workshop explores generative AI through the lenses of climate, racial, and social justice. Drawing on her work with students, Kate will share practical approaches for developing critical AI curricula that examine corporate interests, labour models, environmental impacts, and technical debates.

This workshop will be of special interest to educators working in the visual art and design.

The presentations will include examples of how students moved from passive to active users – including how and why some students ultimately opted out.

🗓 Wednesday, July 22, 2026
⏰ 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 Ponderosa Commons North 2012, UBC

Workshop Schedule
10:30-12:00 Session 1: Critical path towards AI knowledge for educators

12:00-12:30 Lunch will be provided

12:30-14:00 Session 2: Developing critical AI curricula

Lunch provided, registration required.

Register here: https://publichumanities.ubc.ca/appraising-ai-a-student-led-approach-to-critical-evaluation-a-workshop-with-kate-greenslade/

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