2024-25 Noted Scholars Speakers Series: Term 2 Line Up Announced

We’re excited to announce the line up of talented speakers we have planned for the 2024/25 Noted Scholars Speakers Series in Term 2. Many thanks to our UBC co-sponsors: English Languages & Literatures, the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement, and the Transformative Memory Network.

Mark your calendars! More information about each talk will be available closer to the date.

January 22: Academic Freedom, Sex, and the Politics of Hate with Rana Jaleel (Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, UC Davies). An English Language & Literatures 2025 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture/GRSJ Noted Scholars Series joint-event.

March 02: Lessons in Drag: A Performance-Lecture with LaWhore Vagistan. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement.

March 12:Meditation on Living: Fires and Floods  with Pasang Yangjee Sherpa (Asian Studies & Critical Indigenous Studies, UBC). Co-sponsored by the Transformative Memory Network.

March 26:Letter to the Intended: Witness, Writing, and the Writer with Juliane Okot Bitek (English & Gender Studies, Queen’s University). Co-sponsored by the Transformative Memory Network.