Zoom Event with Dr. Moses März (University Potsdam): Maps of Relation – Diagrammatic Writing as Artistic Research Method
On 2 November 2026 at 2pm, the CMS Narratives Research Group will be hosting a Zoom meeting with Dr. Moses März (University Potsdam). Berlin artist and researcher Dr. Moses März will introduce to his decolonial maps, which are based on Glissant’s Poetices of Relation. März’s experimental cartographic practice is dedicated to making visible a relational […]
Critical Play for Climate Change: Symposium & Game Jam
This October 22-23rd, the UBC Critical Play Lab is collaborating with the UBC Centre for Migration Studies on a Symposium and Game Jam event on climate change and climate-linked migration. Are you a climate researcher? Or are you interested in exploring climate issues through game design? Then please join us at the Critical Play for Climate Change Game Jam + Symposium! Programming begins on Thursday, October 22nd @ 1:30 […]
Grad Student Roundtable with Amy Bu & Ananya Bhardwaj
Join the CMS Narratives Group for our annual Graduate Student Roundtable event! Register here! Ananya Bhardwaj is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Instructor in the Department of English at The George Washington University. Her dissertation titled “The Empire Gives Meaning: Migrant Stories of Land Dispossession, Climate Crisis, and Planetary Exclusions,” lies at the intersection of […]
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 […]
