Past Events

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…

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&nbsp…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…