Dr Leo Shin appointed UBC Public Humanities Fellow

Please join us in congratulating Dr Leo Shin on his appointment as a UBC Public Humanities Fellow for 2021-22!

Dr Shin’s project, “Documenting the Hong Kong Protests,” aims to produce and create a publicly accessible archive of Hong Kong protest-related material that could be used for research and teaching by colleagues and students all over the world.
 

South China Morning Post: Declare yourself a Hongkonger, not simply Chinese, Canadian census campaign urges

Leo Shin comments on the "I am Hong Konger" campaign in Canada.

Canada-Info.ca: Abbotsford’s History of Hushed Racism: Introduction

Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra discusses racism and the South Asian community in Abbotsford.

News1130: B.C.'s lack of COVID-19 social media messaging leading to uninformed youth: experts

Heidi Tworek discusses the importance of reaching youth with COVID-19 communications.



 

Book Launch Event: “The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives”
May 6th, 12:30pm

Join this virtual book launch with Timothy Cheek, Klaus Mühlhahn, and Hans van de Ven. The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives uses ten engaging personal histories to introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party.

Infrastructure Imagination: Charting Hong Kong’s Futures through Construction Photography
May 21st, 7pm

Cecilia Chu and Dorothy Tang discuss their work on a collection of construction photographs of major infrastructure projects completed in Hong Kong between 1972 and 1988. The collection, captured the unprecedented scale and complexity of infrastructure expansion during the “golden age of construction,” and convey a strong sense of optimism associated with economic and social progress of Hong Kong in this period.

The Elephant in the Room: the Leadership Crisis in Canada’s Cultural Sector
May 21st, 10am

As part of BC Museums Week ’21, the BC Museum’s Association will hold a session, facilitated by UBC History PhD Candidate Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra, on systemic racism in Canada’s museum sector.

 

HIST 383: Foundations of Sikh Traditions
Instructor: Dr. Anne Murphy

This class provides an introduction to the Sikh tradition, within the historical contexts of its formation. The goal of the class is to provide a basic understanding of the historical formations of Sikh tradition, Sikh thought and practice, and how Sikh traditions relate to a larger world.

Image: The British Library, 1860
Record Number:14299
Shelfmark: Add.Or.486

HIST 406: The Second World War
Instructor: Dr. David Borys

Precursors and consequences of the war; military, political, cultural, social, and economic histories of how the war shaped and reflected its global context. Themes include totalitarianism, genocide, and imperialism and decolonization