The COVID-19 virus is a risk to us all, but the pandemic does not affect everybody in the same way. From images of “Asia” to the shifting significance of face masks, there are cultural implications to visualizing a pandemic. MOA Curator Fuyubi Nakamura reflects on the power of imagery during these changing times. Read more

The area Centres and Programs at the Institute of Asian Research at UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) are offering Summer RAships for graduate students associated with the Centres and Programs or the Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs (MPPGA) program at the SPPGA.

COVID-19 Update Due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and UBC’s safety precautions, CCR will be suspending all events for the remainder of the term. We appreciate your continued support and engagement at our past events. Thank you for your understanding and stay healthy! Please see SPPGA’s official response on COVID-19 here: https://sppga.ubc.ca/…/coronavirus-covid-19-a-public-healt…/. For UBC’s official statement […]

In much of its history from the 19th century to the last decade of the 20th, comparative literature remains largely Euro-centered, and the rise of world literature today offers an opportunity to transcend Eurocentrism and introduce many of the yet unknown canonical works from non-Western and “minor” European literature to a global readership. We need a […]

In this talk, Dr. Hanser described an emerging culture of intensive mothering among middle-class, urban Chinese women that focuses on infant feeding. Based upon interviews with new mothers in urban Shanghai, she described the intense efforts and commitment by these women to provide their babies with breast milk and described the complexities of their attempts […]

The talk used a wide range of historical statistics to classify these problems according to a heuristic “solvability index” based on the biophysical and sociopolitical tractability of these problems, as well as on the histories of how they have been addressed in countries that have faced them earlier: Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea.  In […]