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From Sufism to Social Protest: Poetry and Song for Change

April 22, 2022 - 5:30pm
The Hearth Gallery & Bowen Island Library
430 Bowen Island Trunk Road
Bowen Island, BC
Canada

This event embraces the Cluster's engagement with local communities that provide the location of our work, and brings together community members from Bowen Island and international guests who are participating in an Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster workshop. Participants come together...
Tale of Two Cities

TALE OF TWO CITIES- ADAPTED FROM CHARLES DICKENS BY BRENDAN PELSUE

March 19, 2022 - 7:30pm
Fredric Wood Theatre, UBC
6354 Crescent Rd
Vancouver, BC
Canada

EVENT DESCRIPTION Tale of Two Cities workshop sharing - Playwright Brendan Pelsue is visiting UBC for a one-week development workshop of his contemporary theatrical adaptation of Charles' Dickens' Tale of Two Cities. In collaboration with 10 UBC students, Brendan and director Leora Morris (...

170 YEARS OF CHINESE OPERA THEATRE IN NORTH AMERICA

March 19, 2022 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden
578 Carrall Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada

This talk traces the genealogy of Chinatown theaters in North America. Chinese migration in mid-19th century was accompanied by musicians as well as Chinese opera troupe. While they suffered from various forms of racial discrimination and violence throughout North America, they always had Chinese...

READING ARCHIVE- AGAINST THE GRAIN

March 18, 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Seminar Room, UBC Rare Books and Special Collections,
UBC Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Archives provide the pathway through which one can enter the historical field. Yet the scarcity of Chinese materials in institutional archives has long corroborated their inconsequence and invisibility in American history. This workshop explores ways that we might interrogate the archives, reading...

ARCHIVES OF THE INVINCIBLE IN AMERICAN MUSIC: TRACING TRANSPACIFIC CROSSING OF CHINESE OPERA

March 17, 2022 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Level 3, Room 302, Dodson Room, UB
C Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Vancouver, BC
Canada

The defining tunes of the Chinese diaspora in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth were those of the Cantonese opera. This history, however, has been invisible largely due to the scarcity of Chinese materials in archives. Its sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision...
Artist Talk- Brendan Pelsue

ARTIST TALK & Q&A WITH PLAYWRIGHT BRENDAN PELSUE

March 17, 2022 - 12:00pm
Dorothy Somerset Studio, UBC
6361 University Blvd
Vancouver, BC
Canada

EVENT DESCRIPTION For students - Join playwright, translator, and adaptor Brendan Pelsue for a very short talk about his work, followed by a Q&A for students about life and work as a playwright. PLAYWRIGHT'S BIO Brendan Pelsue is a playwright, librettist, and translator whose work has been...

FOR PARADISE  (FILM SCREENING AND Q&A)

March 10, 2022 - 7:00pm
Royal Bank Cinema, The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, 6265 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC
Canada

For Paradise (film screening and Q&A) For Paradise is a hybrid documentary that traces the construction of racial identities within a family (the artist's own) where members operate on both sides of the “color line.” Allowing the story of her great-grandmother Paradise to guide her through...

EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES

March 9, 2022 - 5:30pm
The xʷθəθiqətəm or Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Dr
Vancouver, BC
Canada

BIO OF SPEAKER: Elizabeth M. Webb Elizabeth is an artist and filmmaker originally from Charlottesville, VA. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs. She has...
Between Loss and Recovery

Between Loss and Recovery: Cross-Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia

January 28, 2022 - 11:00am
University of British Columbia
Via Online (Zoom)
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Youth And South Asia Symposium

December 10, 2021 - 9:00am
Organized at UBC Okanagan
Taking Place over Zoom, please register through link below
Kelowna, BC
Canada

Youth and South Asia Symposium For more details, click here . REGISTER HERE . Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster (UBC-V) & Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies (UBC-O) 9:00-11:15 – SESSION I: Youth, Religion, and Belonging in South Asia 11:30-12:30 - Keynote : Shalini...