Please join us for our first event of 2025-26 with Dr. Avishek Ray, which will be taking place on Thursday, October 16th @ 12:30 PM in person in BuTo 1112 and online via Zoom.
Bio: Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. His research spans mobility, marginality, and cultural historiography. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of Digital Expressions of the Self(ie) (Routledge, 2024) and Temporal Spaces in Calcutta: Digital Networks in the Wake of the Pandemic (Routledge, 2026). He has edited Decolonial Travel (Routledge, 2025) and co-edited Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere (SAGE, 2020). His work appears in journals such as South Asia, Contemporary South Asia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Mobilities, and Race & Class. Ray has held fellowships at institutions across Europe, Asia, and the US, and was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship in 2021.
For in-person attendees, we’ll be ordering lunch from Delhi 6 Indian Bistro in Vancouver. You can find their menu here. Please register for the in-person event and lunch by emailing biz.nijdam@ubc.ca with your eating preferences/restrictions.
For Zoom attendees, please register here.
In the event there are any changes due to travel issues, we will confirm the final details for the event on Tuesday, October 14th.