Wait, There’s More: Protests erupt in Hong Kong over China's new security bill- with Leo Shin

Will a new law mean the end of Hong Kong as we know it? On this podcast, UBC History's Leo Shin discusses a controversial new security law and what it means for China and for the international community.

Brookings TechStream: Should there be a public health exemption for Section 230?

This article by Dr Heidi Tworek looks at the Food and Drug laws from the twentieth century to  study how we could potentially control the spread of dangerous COVID-19 misinformation online today. 

CBC: The dirt on handwashing: the tragic death behind a life-saving act

Peter Ward, author of The Clean Body, talked to the CBC about Ignaz Semmelweis, an early pioneer of handwashing. Why did his contemporaries initially resist the introduction of handwashing, and what can this tell us about the way new ideas are recieved today?

Writ Large: A Skeptic’s Guide to Democracy

Heidi Tworek appears on the podcast Writ Large to discuss American writer and reporter Walter Lippmann, and the role of the press in a democracy.
 

Navigating PARES Workshop

Recently, UBC's Kristie Flannery and Dr Scott Cave ran an informative workshop on navigating PARES, the Spanish government's archives portal. The workshop has wrapped, but the full video is available on YouTube.

University Affairs: Getting your book read when you’re a humanities scholar

Dr Heidi Tworek writes of her experience publishing and promoting her 2019 book, News from Germany. Tworek shares her tips on the best ways to self-promote your scholarly work.

Museum of Vancouver: A Seat at the Table

This exhibit from the Museum of Vancouver features a talk from Henry Yu. Yu discusses the experiences of Chinese immigrants to Canada and their struggles with discrimination, combining his own family history with that of Canada's.

Congratulations to Gabriela Aceves!

UBC History PhD alumni Gabriela Aceves has won the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Book Prize 2020!

Her book, Women Made Visible: Feminist Art and Media in Post-1968 Mexico City (Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2019), focuses on an important group of women who radically pushed the boundaries of artistic, political and urban space in Mexico in the 1970s.

You can read about her award here, and find out more about Aceves’s work here.

UBC Senate approves new Middle East Studies minor 

“I want this to not just be a program that focuses narrowly on what people perceive to be the Middle East... but to look at the Middle East in a global perspective,” says Dr Pheroze Unwalla.

UBC will be offering a new Middle East Studies minor for the first time in the 2020/21 academic year- the first Middle East minor at any institution in BC.