Upcoming Events


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 […]