Canadian Studies at UBC

Come join us for the Transforming Canada series!

Graeme Wynn, the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at UBC, has co-organized a lecture series with Colin Coates, the Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies at York University, on the theme of Transforming Canada: Histories of Environmental Change. The series is hosted and supported by Green College, UBC, with additional financial support from NiCHE [...]

Beyond the Culture of Nature Conference

Call for Papers: Beyond the Culture of Nature: Rethinking Canadian and Environmental Studies Location: The University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus Date: 29-30 September, 2012 Canadian and Environmental Studies are two fields in transformation. Initiated in part as emancipatory projects in the 1970s, seeking to define subjects and articulate their meanings, the two fields have [...]

Publish in the SEED!

The 2012 edition of the SEED, UBC’s undergraduate journal of Canadian Studies, is currently accepting critical and scholarly work from present or past courses on any subject matter relating to Canada. Interested students should send submissions including bibliography and footnotes in .doc format and a course code if relevant to the editorial collective at 2012theseed@gmail.com The [...]

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Events

» Transforming canada: FISH AND FUR AND THE NATURE of CANADA

March 19, 2012

Stephen Hornsby, Director, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine Geography Building Room 130 Monday, March 19, 5-6:30 pm

» Transforming canada: CITIES AND THE NATURE of CANADA

March 12, 2012

Michèle Dagenais – Département d’histoire – Université de Montréal – on MONDAY 12 March 2012 in the GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE at 5:00pm CITIES AND THE NATURE OF CANADA Although some 80 percent of Canadians are urban dwellers, Canadians have long held a somewhat ambivalent—even antagonistic—attitude toward cities, and especially large cities. Cities are rarely [...]

Welcome/ Bienvenue!

October 13, 2011, 5:00-6:30

Welcome to the Canadian Studies Program and the International Canadian Studies Centre at UBC! Canadian Studies at UBC is a vibrant multidisciplinary community of students and scholars from the humanities to the social sciences who critically engage Canada’s past and present and seek to understand Canada’s place in the world. -Matthew Evenden, Chair of Canadian Studies