Past Events
April 22, 2022
From Sufism to Social Protest: Poetry and Song for Change
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…
March 19, 2022
TALE OF TWO CITIES- ADAPTED FROM CHARLES DICKENS BY BRENDAN PELSUE
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 …
March 19, 2022
170 YEARS OF CHINESE OPERA THEATRE IN NORTH AMERICA
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…
March 18, 2022
READING ARCHIVE- AGAINST THE GRAIN
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…
March 17, 2022
ARCHIVES OF THE INVINCIBLE IN AMERICAN MUSIC: TRACING TRANSPACIFIC CROSSING OF CHINESE OPERA
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…
March 17, 2022
ARTIST TALK & Q&A WITH PLAYWRIGHT BRENDAN PELSUE
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…
March 10, 2022
FOR PARADISE (FILM SCREENING AND Q&A)
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…
March 9, 2022
EMBODIED CARTOGRAPHIES
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…
January 28, 2022
Between Loss and Recovery: Cross-Confessional Health Culture in Ottoman Bosnia
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December 10, 2021
Youth And South Asia Symposium
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…