Upcoming Events
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November 19, 2025
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Naveena Naqvi
This Research Meeting features a presentation by visiting speaker 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,…
Past Events
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October 22, 2025
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Renisa Mawani
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Renisa MawaniThis Research Meeting features a presentation by visiting speaker 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…
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September 24, 2025
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Shoufu Yin
This Research Meeting features a presentation by visiting speaker 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…
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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…
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March 10, 2025
Epistemologies and Emplacements with Theara Thun and Kisho Tsuchiya
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 second event in the series Histories of Anti-Colonial Thought in…
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February 27, 2025
The Architects of Dignity with Kevin D. Pham
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 first event in the series Histories of Anti-Colonial Thought in…
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February 26, 2025
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Arjun Chowdhury
This Research Meeting featured a presentation by visiting speaker Arjun Chowdhury. Dr. Chowdury is Associate Professor of Political Science here at the University of British Columbia where his research and teaching focuses on conflict, security, and peacekeeping, foreign policy, international…
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January 27, 2025
Revolution as Lived Contingency and the Two Souls of the Egyptian Revolution, A Lecture by Dr. Atef Said
Dr. Atef Said is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research engages with the fields of sociological theory, political sociology, historical sociology, sociology of the Middle East, and decolonial global sociology. He is the author of …
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November 25, 2024
Research Meeting Visiting Speaker: Carolien Stolte
Research Meeting Event: Carolien Stolte, Leiden University — Buchanan Penthouse We welcomed Carolien Stolte from Leiden University for our first visiting speaker event on "Unlikely Allies: Asian anticolonial activists and European pacifists in interwar France." Carolien Stolte is…
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.
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