Events

Noted Scholars Lecture Series

 "Impending Freedom: Palestine after the Human", with Layal Ftouni

April 1, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Timespaces of Stuckness and Countering with Elif Sari and Rana Abughannam

March 25, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

An Evening with Jordan Abel, David Chariandy & Stephanie Sinclair

March 10, 2026 | 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Inadaptable (Non)Citizens, Racialized Capital and Lessons from Postsocialist Neoliberalisation with Kateřina Kolářová

March 4, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

"Methods for Tracing Empires: a conversation on war, race, and migration" with Christine Kim and Renisa Mawani

February 25, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Lecture, Public, Student

Black History and the History of Black Studies Speaker Series

February 24, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)

Playing with Creative Method: Video Games in Intersectional Research

February 18, 2026 | 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
co-sponsored, Lecture, Public, Student

Black History and the History of Black Studies Speaker Series

February 10, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)

Old Benjamin The Refugee with Vinh Nguyen

February 4, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Lecture, Public, Student

Black History and the History of Black Studies Speaker Series

February 3, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Indigenomicon: A Conversation

January 28, 2026 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Video Games and the Pornography of Death with Amanda Phillips

November 26, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times with Tamara Lea Spira

November 19, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Public

The Day Iceland Stood Still (2024): A screening and discussion on the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic women’s strike

October 24, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

What does feminist solidarity look like in a time of genocide against Palestinians, with Dr. Sherene H. Razack

October 15, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Public

“Occupying Selves” or “How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain”

October 14, 2025 | 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Escape Velocity: Notes on Women's Sports with Jennifer Doyle

September 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

GRSJ Welcome Back Social Event

September 17, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Palestine, Psychic Warfare, Debility: Lara Sheehi in Conversation with Jasbir Puar

September 10, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Public, Student

Coming Home: Margaretta James

May 20, 2025 | 12:00 AM - July 31, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomChung | Lind Gallery
Lecture, Public

Advancing Asian Canadian Research, Teaching and Public Engagement in These Challenging Times

May 13, 2025 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
roomZoom
Public

Opening Night | Dancing With Our Ancestors: Weaving Connections Between Communities

May 5, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomUBC Robson Square

Book reading and workshop with Minelle Mahtani & Jessica Deitcher

May 4, 2025 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
roomBook Warehouse - Main Street
co-sponsored, Conference

Place and Power: BC Studies Conference 2025

May 2, 2025 | 7:45 AM - May 4, 2025 | 4:45 PM
co-sponsored, Public

Tagalog Language & Heritage Community Showcase

April 26, 2025 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
room411 Seniors Centre
co-sponsored, Lecture, Public

The Long Arc of Fascism: An Action Oriented Teach-In

April 18, 2025 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
room312 Main Street
Public, Student

Dragging the University

April 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomBUTO 1099
Conference, Student

2025 Graduate Research Colloquium

April 2, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomBUTO 225
Public

Book Launch: "We, the Kindling" by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

March 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Letter to the Intended: Witness, Writing, and the Writer with Juliane Okot Bitek

March 26, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

How to Queer the World: Radical worldbuilding through video games with Bo Ruberg

March 18, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomDodson Room (302)
Department, Public, Student

The Beauty in BIPOC: A Pop-Up Photography Exhibit

March 14, 2025 | 12:00 AM - April 4, 2025 | 11:59 PM
roomGRSJ Lobby
co-sponsored

John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture presents Dr. Dolly Kikon

March 13, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomFirst Nations Longhouse
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Meditation on Living: Fires and Floods with Dr. Pasang Sherpa

March 12, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored

Building Journalism Around Community with Pia Ranada (Rappler)

March 6, 2025 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
co-sponsored, Public

The Politics of Freedom: Generative AI, Race as Technology, and Postcolonial Computing

March 6, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Public

The world is in crisis: what role should our universities be playing?

March 5, 2025 | 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
roomDodson Room (302)
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Lessons in Drag: A Lecture-Performance by LaWhore Vagistan

March 2, 2025 | 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomDjavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre

2025 Mclean Family Lectures – Climate Change and Canadian Federalism: Can’t We All Just Get Along?

February 5, 2025 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Lecture

Fostering Inclusive Communities in the Classroom through Project-driven Courses

February 5, 2025 | 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Academic Freedom, Sex, and the Politics of Hate with Dr. Rana M. Jaleel

January 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBUTO 323
co-sponsored, Public

May It Have A Happy Ending: Minelle Mahtani in conversation about her new memoir

January 14, 2025 | 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
roomGEO 229
Lecture, Public

Migrant Girls, Sound, and Remaking Space with Rosanne Sia

November 21, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Storying Filipinx Greater Vancouver, or kuwento as vernacular analysis with JP Catungal

November 20, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Violent Intimacies, Trans Worldmaking, and LGBTI+ Organizing in Turkey

October 31, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Debt, Solidarity, Exchange with Dr. Salar Mameni

October 30, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lecture, Public

“It’s Alive! It’s Alive!”: Monstrous bodies, monster theories, and what we can learn from monsters with Dr. Kim Snowden

October 30, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored, Conference, Public

Symposium | Keywords: Literature and Politics

October 28, 2024 | 12:00 AM - October 29, 2024 | 11:59 PM

On Matriarchs: Vancouver Writers Fest panel features Minelle Mahtani

October 27, 2024 | 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
roomWaterfront Theatre
co-sponsored

Witnessing The Himalayan (M)Anthropocene with Ritodhi Chakraborty

October 10, 2024 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Palestine as Praxis: Information and Intersectionality in the Age of Genocide with Dr. Adel Iskandar

October 9, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Archives of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History with Anjali Arondekar

September 18, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
roomCecil Green Park House
Public, Workshop

Anjali Arondekar Workshop - Educate, Agitate, Organize: Trans/Queer/Caste

September 17, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
co-sponsored, Public, Workshop

Sapin-Sapin: Filipinx Art Festival

August 31, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
co-sponsored, Public, Workshop

Sapin-Sapin: Filipinx Art Festival

August 24, 2024 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Public

Black Visual Representation: Sports Celebrities in Brazil

June 11, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
co-sponsored, Conference

Law, Culture, and the Humanities 26th Annual Conference

May 17, 2024 | 12:00 AM - May 18, 2024 | 11:59 PM
Conference

International Research Conference 2024 with Hong Kong Baptist University Faculty of Social Sciences

May 15, 2024 | 12:00 AM - May 16, 2024 | 11:59 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
Conference, Public

Isabel Machado Presents at the Contract Faculty Colloquium

May 3, 2024 | 1:25 PM - 1:45 PM
Public

Roundtable Discussion: Witnessing Genocide in Palestine

April 23, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomMassey Arts Society
co-sponsored

Palestine and Climate Justice: Military Emissions as Symptoms of a Genocidal Present and Future

April 4, 2024 | 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
co-sponsored, Public

Race and the Question of Palestine with Dr. Lana Tatour

March 27, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
roomAllard 104
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Panel: Crip Theory and Debility in the work of Y-Dang Troeung

March 27, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
co-sponsored

Shaping Climate Justice through Indigenous Knowledge

March 25, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Lecture

Some Day My (Dark) Prince Will Come: Fairy Tales and Vampires with Dr. Kim Snowden

March 21, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
co-sponsored

Mimi Khúc Mini Residency @ UBC: Unwellness and Care in the University

March 18, 2024 | 12:00 AM - March 22, 2024 | 11:59 PM
co-sponsored, Public

Film Screening: Untouchable – Laughing Out Caste

March 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
co-sponsored, Public

Untouchable Stand-Up Comedy by Manjeet Sarkar

March 14, 2024 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomThe Cultch, York Theatre
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Bad Crip Feelings: On a Culture of Critique and the Tyranny of Hope, with Dr. Logan Smilges

March 13, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
co-sponsored, Public

Discussion of Maya Wind’s New Book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

March 6, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Crip Colony: On the Ethics of the “Misrecognitive” with Dr. Sony Coráñez Bolton

February 28, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert with Dr. Sunaura Taylor

February 14, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225
Public

Dr. Ayesha S. Chaudhry - 2023-2024 Law at UBC Distinguished Speaker Series

February 8, 2024 | 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Between Reparations and Freedom with Dr. Rinaldo Walcott

February 7, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomPonderosa Ballroom
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare with Dr. A.J. Lowik

January 24, 2024 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225
Public

Book Talk: Colonizing Kashmir and Hostile Homelands

January 18, 2024 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Public

Settler Ecologies: The Nature Conservation Regime in Palestine-Israel

January 18, 2024 | 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

Nimrods: A Conversation

January 17, 2024 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower - Room 323

Major Minor Event

November 22, 2023 | 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomIrving K. Barber, Pêna Room (level 3)
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

"Settler colonialism as the automation of attritional warfare" with Dr. Kharnita Mohamed

November 22, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

"Joyful Defiance in Performance" with Isabel Machado & Rosanne Sia

November 1, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225

"A Conversation on Sextarianism" with Professor Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers), and featuring Professors Jasbir Puar (GRSJ), Hicham Safieddine (History), and Elif Sari (Anthropology)

October 31, 2023 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
roomAsian Centre Auditorium
Public

WHAT’S GOING ON IN HAITI & WHY DOES IT MATTER?

October 19, 2023 | 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

"Many Ways of Being Human" with Karen Lord

October 18, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

"On Debility: A Critical Genealogy" with Jasbir Puar

September 27, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Room 225
Conference

UBC’s - Partnering in Research Conference- June 15, 2023

June 15, 2023 | 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Re-examination and Re-telling Afro-Caribbean bio-cultural relationships - through the visual and performing arts, documentary- making and empirical research

May 15, 2023 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

"Dem Swing Pon Trees!" Status, Gender Identity Maintenance, Sex Stereotyping & Black Identity in a Biodiversity Conservation Education Program

May 11, 2023 | 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Fireside Chat with "Some of my Best Friends" Author, Tajja Isen

March 22, 2023 | 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Sound Geography: Place as Musical Primer

March 22, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Fishy Futures and Environmental Kin Studies: Disrupting Extractive Paradigms Through Freshwater Fish-Based Research

March 8, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Another Canada Series Presents: Creating a Critical Canadian Studies: Dialogue-Based Constellations of Care

March 7, 2023 | 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
roomGreen College Coach House

The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

March 2, 2023 | 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

Race and Humanitarianism: Africa and the Imperial Origins of Anthropology

February 15, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Announcing Noted Scholar Events for Term 2

January 26, 2023 | 10:30 AM - March 22, 2023 | 11:30 AM

Feminist Infrastructures for Better Weathering

January 25, 2023 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 225
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

"Decolonizing the Sensorium: Vulgarity, Chineseness, and Global Film Stardom" with Dr. Mila Zuo

December 7, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 1099
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

"Reparation, Creativity & Justice" with Dr. Mary Zournazi

November 30, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 1099

Campus Rally for Iran

November 30, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Democracy at Stake

November 16, 2022 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

Freedom and Family: Landscape and transformation of Uyghur Human Rights Activism

October 26, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 1099
Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Public

10th Anniversary Event and Noted Scholar's Inaugural Talk by Denise Ferreira da Silva

September 21, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
roomPonderosa Commons North - Ballroom
Lecture

"Decolonizing Justice" with Michaela McGuire

April 5, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Anaformative Impulse. Chest Punch. A Working Paper on Bass" with Dr. Katherine McKitrick

March 30, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Book Launch: The Colour of God by Ayesha S. Chaudhry

March 25, 2022 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
roomSFU Woodward's Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

"When Things Fall Apart: Conflict, Crisis, & Collective Healing in Activist Movements" with Kai Cheng Thom

March 21, 2022 | 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Student

Resilient Cartographies Symposium

March 19, 2022 | 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“From the Center to the Margins: Decolonial Intersectionality” with Dr. Mara Viveros

March 16, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lecture

"Race, Abolition, and Transformative Justice" with Dylan Rodriguez & Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

March 14, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“A Tunnel to a Sacred Place: Resistance to the Carceral Geographies of Militarism in Hawai'i." with Dr. Laurel Mei Singh

March 9, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Being with Water” Rita Wong in conversation with Aimée Craft

February 16, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“At the Margins: Borders in the age of a Pandemic” with Dr. Hortense Spillers

February 9, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lecture

“Race, the Nation State and Policing” with El Jones & Vicki Chartrand

February 7, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Things I Learned But Was Not Taught” with Dr. Tara Mayer

January 12, 2022 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Curating Detours: a Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi”

December 1, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Living Resurgence: Dreaming in Dangerous Times” with Dr. Dian Million

November 17, 2021 | 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
roomLiu Institute,  xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees)
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Refugee Archives across the Transpacific: Activating Anecdotes and Family Photography – A Conversation”

October 27, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Historicizing Criminalized Sex Work, Racialized Whorephobia, and Fugitive Queerness Under Settler Colonial Rule” with Dr. Becki Ross

October 6, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Noted Scholars Lecture Series

“Performance, Memory, Repair: Reflections on the Politics of Pandemics” with Dr. Diana Taylor

September 22, 2021 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM