Past Events
January 26, 2021
“The Virtuoso: Marcus Roberts” Documentary Film Screening and Moderated Question and Answer Session
Part of the Vulnerable Virtuosities: Disability in Competition and Concert Workshop. This screening of the documentary film “Marcus Roberts: The Virtuoso” is connected to Dr. Stefan Honisch's book project, entitled Vulnerable Virtuosities: Disability in…
January 22, 2021
The Art of the Piano: Competition, Teaching and Performance
An Afternoon with Debra Saylor, Laureate, Van Cliburn Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs Talk and Moderated Q&A Part of the Vulnerable Virtuosities: Disability in Competition and Concert Workshop. Moderator: Stefan Sunandan Honisch, PhD, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow,…
January 20, 2021
Epiphanic Imagery in Stories of Heroines. A Case Study of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power and Captain Marvel
How do you recognise a god? Classical myth tells us that we can identify the gods by their beauty, height, strength, and aroma. Moreover, they are associated with light, fire, and other such phenomena. When they manifest to mortals, their audience is struck by a variety of…
January 13, 2021
Disciplining Youth: Age Relations as an Axis of Power in Colonial and Decolonizing Singapore, 1942
In this talk, Dr. Liao shared his dissertation research on the governmentality of youth in Singapore after 1942, where successive governments valorized the young as the pillar and peril of the new colony and country to be built. The government created many programs and institutions…
December 4, 2020
Interdisciplinarity in historical research
Interdisciplinarity in historical research, by Dr. Hallie Marshall The second event of the Graduate Student Seminar Series on the advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary research. In the seminar series, intended for IHRC graduate student members, IHRC's…
November 26, 2020
Mapping the City: Public Histories and the Shifting Landscape of Vancouver
November 26, 2020—Mapping the City: Public Histories and the Shifting Landscape of Vancouver Speaker: Caitlin Gordon-Walker, Honorary research associate and sessional instructor, Department of Anthropology, UBC. This presentation will discuss a new and ongoing research project…
October 15, 2020
Interdisciplinarity in historical research
Interdisciplinarity in historical research, by Dr. Anne Murphy The first event of the Graduate Student Seminar Series on the advantages and challenges of interdisciplinary research. In the seminar series, intended for IHRC graduate student members, IHRC's senior…
September 17, 2020
COVID-19 Vulnerabilities: Asian Racialization, Coalition and Creativity
This virtual roundtable conversation explored Asian racialization and the multiple meanings of “vulnerability” in the unfolding global pandemic. The roundtable considered how COVID-19 amplifies the precarity of particular communities, and how creativity, art and interdependence in…
August 18, 2020
South Asians for Black Lives: Caste & Anti-Blackness
This event was held virtually, via an online livestream. This event featured Equality Labs, exploring the rise of Hindu nationalism, anti-Blackness and Islamophobia in the South Asian diaspora. Equality Labs centers the leadership of South Asian caste and religion - oppressed…
August 4, 2020
"Your Dream is Our Dream": From H.G. Mudgal to South Asians for Black Lives
This event was held virtually, via an online livestream. The fate of the South Asian American community is inextricably linked with the struggle against anti-Black racism in the United States. Through stories from the archive, South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) Co-Founder and…