Past Events
Making Queer Asiatic Worlds: Performance and Racial Interaction in North American Visual Novels
On Zoom
Museum of Anthropology
Vancouver BC
Canada
In this talk, Dr. Christopher B. Patterson (GRSJ) will explore how video games as a global commodity expose the presumptions separating “North America” and “Asia” in the traditional senses of isolation, origination, and presumed distance.
POSTPONED: Disability and the Distorted Body on the Ancient Roman Comic Stage
ZOOM online event (registration below)
VANCOUVER BC
Canada
This event has been postponed and will be listed with a new date and time in the coming few weeks.
Worn Words: Engaged research-creation and stories of ordinary words
On Zoom
Vancouver BC V6T1Z2
Canada
Film screening and talk This event included a screening of Borderstory, a 24-minute film on the word 'border,' followed by a discussion of its production process as a form of research creation. Watch the film on Vimeo:
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Repatriates By Dr. Jana Lipman
UBC
Vancouver
Canada
In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Repatriates, by Dr. Jana Lipman After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In her talk, Dr.
Writing the History of a Non-Event, or How I Studied the Mass Disappearances of 1965-66 in Indonesia
UBC
Vancouver BC
Canada
Disappearances are meant to be non-events. Many thousands of political prisoners in Indonesia in 1965-66 were secretly executed. Those responsible destroyed the evidence, claimed the event never happened, and enforced a silence upon it. How can historians study this kind of non-event? How should they?
Slavery, Indigenous (Dis)possession and the Grotian Imaginary: Rereading Hugo Grotius
UBC
Vancouver BC
Canada
Protectors as Perpetrators: State Violence Against Women in India
UBC
Vancouver
Canada
Interdisciplinarity in historical research, by Dr. Christopher Lee
ZOOM online event (registration below)
VANCOUVER BC
Canada
Interdisciplinarity in historical research, by Dr. Christopher Lee The third event of the Graduate Student Seminar Series on the advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary research.
Putting a Face to Captivity in War in the Ancient Roman World
UBC
Vancouver BC
Canada
Thousands of people were trafficked as a result of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean (c. 300 BCE - 100 CE). These individuals are mostly recorded in ancient sources in numerical form alone—as tallies of prisoners taken after the sack of a city or the coin generated from their sale on the slave market.
Made in Asia/America: Designer and Scholar Workshop: public talk "Nanoscale: Visions of Smallness-Centered Games Practices"
ZOOM online event (registration below)
Vancouver
Canada
Made in Asia/America: Designer and Scholar Workshop Nanoscale: Visions of Smallness-Centered Games Practices, public talk by Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka By de-centering game studies’ discourse from Western perceptions of games to the intersections of Asia and Asian America, Made in Asia/America: Designer an