Past Events
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May 15, 2026
(ANTI)COLONIAL SEAS
(Anti)Colonial Seas Symposium May 14 -15, 2026 Program Thursday, May 14 Polygon Art Gallery 101 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3J47 - 8:30pm Nalo Hopkinson …
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April 15, 2026
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Nurfadzilah Yahaya
The Global History of Anticolonial Thought cluster presents a visiting lecture by Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Dr. Yahaya is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Yale University. Her research interests include the History of Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, Islamic World, Colonialism and…
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April 1, 2026
Research Meeting: Tristan Hughes
This Research Meeting features a presentation by Tristan Hughes. Dr. Hughes is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He completed his PhD at Princeton University. His research focuses on slavery, race, and empire. Hughes's research…
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March 19, 2026
Research Meeting: Heidi Tworek
The Global History of Anticolonial Thought Cluster presents a talk titled “Three Phases of Global History: Assessing the Field from a Journal Editor's Perspective” by Heidi Tworek. Dr. Tworek is a Canada Research Chair and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia…
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November 19, 2025
Research Meeting: Naveena Naqvi
This Research Meeting features a presentation by Naveena Naqvi. Dr. Naqvi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is a historian of early modern and modern South Asia. Her research interests span the Persianate world, history of…
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October 22, 2025
Research Meeting: Renisa Mawani
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Renisa MawaniThis Research Meeting features a presentation by Renisa Mawani. Dr. Mawani is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Colonial Legal Histories in the Department of Sociology at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include…
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September 24, 2025
Research Meeting: Shoufu Yin
This Research Meeting features a presentation by Shoufu Yin. Dr. Yin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include intellectual and political cultures of China as well as the global histories of political…
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September 11, 2025
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Nivi Manchanda
This Research Meeting features a presentation by visiting speaker Nivi Manchanda. Dr. Manchanda is a Reader in International Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, where her research and teaching focus on the history of…
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April 10 - April 11, 2025
Ideas of the Global in the Anticolonial Age Symposium
Over two days, this symposium will bring together scholars from different institutions and disciplines to reflection on the ways in which political theorists and historians have been thinking about the problem of the global vis-à-vis the entwined modern history of empire and anticolonialism,…
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April 3, 2025
Third Worldism and its Discontents with Cindy Ewing
The Centre for Southeast Asian Research, with the co-sponsorship of the Global History of Anti-Colonial Thought Research Excellence Cluster and the UBC Myanmar Initiative, warmly invites members of the UBC community and public to our third event in the series Histories of Anti-Colonial Thought in…
First Nations land acknowledegement
We acknowledge that our research cluster and the University of British Columbia's Point Grey campus are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded homelands of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.
Global History of Anticolonial Thought
The University of British Columbia
2329 West Mall
Vancouver,
BC
Canada
V6T 1Z4
Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.