Affective Orders of Forced Migration: (Auto-)Ethnographic Insights into Affective Practices in the Accommodation of Young Refugees in Austria (March 18 @ 2 PM)
Lukas Baumann is currently VIRS at the Dept. of CENES and fellow at UBC’s CES. He is a social scientist with a strong interest in psychoanalytic approaches, affect theory and ethnography. He studied sociology, philosophy, social anthropology and social economics in Mainz, Vienna, and Istanbul, and has worked in a wide range of professional settings […]
Graphic Recording Workshop (March 18th @ 9:30 AM-12:30 PM)
The UBC Comics Studies Cluster and the CMS Narratives Group are cohosting a virtual event with graphic recorder Sofi Donner. This 3-hour online workshop will instruct undergraduate and graduate students in the methods of graphic recording to support them in developing new competencies for sharing their research through arts-based practices. If you are a graduate […]
Reframing Avant-Garde Networks in Exile: A Decolonial Approach to Editing Wolfgang Paalen’s Literary Writings (March 24 @ 6 PM)
Daniel P. Gámez, PhD, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of History & American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Markus Hallensleben, Assoc. Prof., Dept. of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies, UBC We will introduce a new practical decolonial approach to digitally archiving, editing, and critically analyzing primary sources in European cultural, avant-garde and […]
“Ancestral Future and Shamanic Translation as Cosmopolitics in the Anthropocene” with Ana Carol Mesquita (Jan. 27 @ 2:30 PM via Zoom)
Please join the CMS Narratives Group on Tuesday, January 27th at 2:30 PM PT for a presentation by Ana Carol Mesquita on “Ancestral Future and Shamanic Translation as Cosmopolitics in the Anthropocene”. Ana Carolina Mesquita (she/her) is a Brazilian writer and translator who is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) with a […]
Comics & Knowledge Mobilization in Migration Studies (Nov. 27 @ 12:30 PM)
Comics & Knowledge Mobilization in Migration Studies with María Cervantes-Macías & Sofi Donner Thursday, Nov. 27th @ 12:30 PM, Zoom Register here This session explores how comics can serve as a powerful tool for knowledge mobilization in migration studies. Featuring CMS Postdoctoral Research Fellow María Cervantes-Macías and visual facilitator Sofi Donner, the event highlights their […]
Cross-Border Memory Work with Dr. Avishek Ray + Lunch (Oct 16 @ 12:30 PM)
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 […]
Looking Back at 2024-2025 in the CMS Narratives Group
As we wrap up yet another exciting year of programming, the Narratives Group in the UBC Centre for Migration Studies expresses its gratitude for our collective continued enthusiasm for and intellectual engagement with narratives of migration and decolonization. Narratives of human experience in the face of emerging toxic migration policies, ongoing and new kinds of […]
Local Chapbook Artist Clare Yow (Wednesday, March 12 @ 10 AM)
Please join the Narratives Group on Wednesday, March 12 @ 10 AM in BUCH-Floor 3-Room B315 for an artist’s talk by local artist Clare Yow, who will speak about her work with chapbooks and participation in Reading the Migration Library artist project. Clare’s talk will focus on tracing her artistic practice and influences as a first generation immigrant, settler, and […]
Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories – Comic Book Launch (Wednesday, March 12th @ 3 pm)
Date: Wednesday, March 12th @ 3 pm Location: Peña Room, IKBLC Register here to attend. Artist Roundtable @ 3pm Reception @ 4pm (light refreshments served) Join UBC’s third annual Arts Multilingual Week for the comic book launch of Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories (2024), a groundbreaking graphic novel that brings to life the traditional stories and language […]
