Poet Evelyn Lau will speak about creative process at free event on UBC campus
Staff
October 11, 2025
Lau has written 15 books, including 10 volumes of poetry.
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Otoniya J. Okot Bitek will speak about her much-anticipated novel, We, the Kindling, at UBC and the Vancouver Public Library
Charlie Smith
March 22, 2025
Okot Bitek lived in the Vancouver area for decades before becoming an assistant professor at Queen’s University in Kingston.
Taiwanese directors will field audience questions after free documentary screenings at UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase 2025
Charlie Smith
March 10, 2025
UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase 2025 and Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute X Taiwan Docs will co-present three documentary shorts.
Scholar Josephine Chiu-Duke will speak at UBC about how Chinese humanistic tradition informs Taiwanese democracy
Charlie Smith
March 5, 2025
Chiu-Duke, a UBC professor of Chinese Intellectual history, will deliver her lecture at 3 p.m. on Thursday (March 6).
“Vancouver Song” co-creator Cassie Chang will bring An Operatic Affair to UBC’s Old Auditorium
Charlie Smith
January 1, 2024
Chang, a graduate of the UBC School of Music, debuted this event last year at the Lincoln Centre in New York.
Long read: Paul Evans on China and the Canadian Tragedy
Ng Weng Hoong
December 13, 2023
A leading voice on Canada’s Asia engagement, Evans reflects on his 43-year adventure in academia and foreign policy advisory work.
Admired and influential Filipino Canadian academic and author Aprodicio Laquian dies
Charlie Smith
October 9, 2023
Laquian was a UBC scholar, international urban-planning expert, and author, as well as the founding editor of Canadian Filipino Net.
The enduring appeal of a century-old German film about queer love
Staff
September 27, 2023
When the silent German queer movie Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others) premiered in 1919, it was an instant audience success.
UBC students create cognitive disequilibrium by challenging narratives around Canadian studies
Charlie Smith
March 9, 2023
The disequilibrium comes from challenging conventional notions about whose perspectives should be given primacy in this field of research.
卑诗大学学生反思加拿大研究观点以创建认知失衡
Kenneth Wong
March 9, 2023
20世纪心理学家尚·皮亚杰（Jean Piaget）以「认知失衡」（cognitive disequilibrium）一词来解释孩子逻辑及推理的发展。当他们未能凭着现有知识去理解眼前的新处境或任务，就会产生失衡。然而，皮亚杰表示可以透过突破来重建平衡。当孩子将新信息消化或据此作出调整，便会经历突破，重新掌握之前的平衡感。
Poet Evelyn Lau will speak about creative process at free event on UBC campus
Staff
October 11, 2025
Scholar Josephine Chiu-Duke will speak at UBC about how Chinese humanistic tradition informs Taiwanese democracy
Charlie Smith
March 5, 2025
“Vancouver Song” co-creator Cassie Chang will bring An Operatic Affair to UBC’s Old Auditorium
Charlie Smith
January 1, 2024
Long read: Paul Evans on China and the Canadian Tragedy
Ng Weng Hoong
December 13, 2023
Admired and influential Filipino Canadian academic and author Aprodicio Laquian dies
Charlie Smith
October 9, 2023
The enduring appeal of a century-old German film about queer love
Staff
September 27, 2023
UBC students create cognitive disequilibrium by challenging narratives around Canadian studies
Charlie Smith
March 9, 2023
卑诗大学学生反思加拿大研究观点以创建认知失衡
Kenneth Wong
March 9, 2023
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.
This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.
The Society of We Are Canadians Too created Pancouver to foster greater appreciation for underrepresented artistic communities. A rising tide of understanding lifts all of us.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. With this acknowledgement, we thank the Indigenous peoples who still live on and care for this land.