Events

SFU | Turning Point Ensemble: Gertrude Stein: How do you mean?

November 30, 2024 | 5:00 PM
roomDjavad Mowafaghian Cinema, SFU

Book Launch | Radio Free Stein: Gertrude Stein’s Parlor Plays by Prof. Adam Frank

December 4, 2024 | 5:00 PM
roomMorris and Belkin Art Gallery
Student

EL&L Winter 2024 Quiet Study

December 9, 2024 | 11:00 AM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

Undergraduate Career Workshop | Telling the Story of Your English Degree

January 15, 2025 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Public

"Academic Freedom, Sex, and the Politics of Hate" with Rana M. Jaleel

January 22, 2025 | 12:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Visiting Speaker

EL&L Visiting Speaker Lecture | "Why Read Sir Charles Grandison?" with Dr. Alison Conway

February 10, 2025 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture

2024/2025 Dorothy L. Black Lecture | "Caring for Others: Intimacy and Asian Life in the Archives of Occupation" with Dr. Nadine Attewell

March 20, 2025 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Visiting Speaker

EL&L Visiting Speaker Lecture | "It Didn't Have to Be This Way" with Dr. Ian Smith

November 4, 2024 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Visiting Speaker

EL&L Visiting Speaker Lecture | "Writing and Publishing in Trying Times" with Ken Wissoker (Duke University Press)

October 31, 2024 | 12:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Conference, Public

Symposium | Keywords: Literature and Politics

October 28, 2024 | 12:00 AM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Student

Getting an Academic Job 101: Information Sessions for EL&L PhD Students

October 23, 2024 | 12:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Critical Conversations, Public, Student

Critical Conversations: Researching Pedagogy

October 2, 2024 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public, Visiting Speaker

Translation, Multilingualism, Poetics: Language Work in Muslim and Jewish Diasporas

September 19, 2024 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Department, Student

2024 EL&L Honours Orientation

September 5, 2024 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Department, Student

2024 EL&L Undergraduate Welcome Back Event

September 3, 2024 | 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

Book Launch | Nothing Pure: Jewish Law, Christian Supersession, and Bible Translation in Old English with Dr. Mo Pareles

April 18, 2024 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 997
Lecture, Public, Visiting Speaker

2024 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture | "From Yuquot to Leicester Square" with Dr. Robbie Richardson

April 2, 2024 | 6:00 PM
roomxʷθəθiqətəm (The Place of Many Trees), Liu institute for Global Studies
Student

Major, Minor, and Honours Programs Information Session

March 27, 2024 | 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public

Book Talk | Tracking Giants with Amanda Lewis

March 19, 2024 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Critical Conversations

From this Land: Literary Arts Scholars Indigenous to BC

March 4, 2024 | 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

Phanuel Antwi: On Cuddling

February 15, 2024 | 7:00 PM
roomVPL Central Branch
Critical Conversations

Critical Conversations: Lineages of Speculative Fiction

February 8, 2024 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Student

Undergraduate Quiet Study Space

December 12, 2023 | 11:00 AM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Conference, Public

The UBC Shakespeare First Folio Symposium

November 17, 2023 | 12:00 AM
roomSFU Harbour Centre campus
Public

A Reading and Talk by American Poet Harmony Holiday

November 10, 2023 | 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Critical Conversations, Public

Critical Conversations | The Histories of Animals and Plants

November 2, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Student, Workshop

Honours Students Thesis-writing Workshop

October 11, 2023 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Public, Visiting Speaker

Transness at the Intersection of Materialism, Race, and Class | Drs. Kadji Amin and Jules Gill-Peterson

October 10, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public, Visiting Speaker

Manufacturing Consent in Indian Media: A Conversation with Yusra Hasan

October 10, 2023 | 9:00 AM
roomVirtual via Zoom
Lecture, Public, Visiting Speaker

Imagining Capital: Debt, Trade, and the Fantasy of 'Infinite' Resources

October 3, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public, Visiting Speaker

Media and Misinformation: A Conversation with Paris Marx

September 27, 2023 | 1:00 PM
roomPena Room, Irving K. Barber Library
Public, Student

2023 EL&L Undergraduate Welcome Back Event

September 5, 2023 | 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public

Book Launch | Crip Negativity by J. Logan Smilges

June 23, 2023 | 1:00 PM
roomVirtual via Zoom
Conference, Student

Endnotes 2023: UBC English Graduate Conference

May 26, 2023 | 12:00 AM
Lecture

“Biblical Forgery and the Carceral State, ca. 1000” Research Colloquium by Dr. Mo Pareles

April 19, 2023 | 3:00 PM
Lecture, Public

2023 Garnett Sedgewick Lecture | "Metaphor and Illness" with Dr. Elena Semino

April 17, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomCoach House, Green College
Student, Workshop

Honours Information Panel

March 30, 2023 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

Poetic Economies: Calcutta Writers Workshop and Sari-bound Poetry Books

March 30, 2023 | 12:00 PM
roomC.K. Choi Building 351
Department, Lecture

Critical Conversations: Area, Region, Place

March 29, 2023 | 2:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Student, Workshop

Information Panel: Majoring in English Programs at UBC

March 27, 2023 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Public

Pictures of Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde in Weimar Germany

March 23, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public, Student

Dorothy Black Lecture 2023 with Dr. Eve Ng | The Politics of Cancel Culture: Critiques and Contestations

March 22, 2023 | 3:00 PM
Conference, Student

English Students' Association Undergraduate Colloquium

March 10, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomDodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Public

Refugee Lifeworlds: Celebrating Dr. Y-Dang Troeung

March 7, 2023 | 4:00 PM
roomMarine Drive Ballroom
Lecture

Against these Times: Jewish Temporal Resistance in the Middle English Siege of Jerusalem with Dr. Mo Pareles

February 28, 2023 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 997
Lecture, Public

Literature & Legacies of Race Conversation: Race, Gender, and Representation in the Revolutionary Atlantic

February 23, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Public

Enter the Detective: Mysteries of Victorian Newspaper Agony Columns

February 15, 2023 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture

Literature & Legacies of Race | ‘Better to the Commonwealth’: Merchant of Venice, Mixedness, and Demographic Revision

February 9, 2023 | 3:30 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Lecture, Public

Critical Conversations: Ecologies

February 1, 2023 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Student, Workshop

Career Event | Telling the Story of Your English Degree

January 18, 2023 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

The English Students’ Association Presents: The Poetry Collection

November 23, 2022 | 4:00 PM
roomPena Room, Irving K. Barber Library
Lecture

English Over Time: Changing Vocations of Literature

November 17, 2022 | 5:00 PM
roomCoach House, Green College

Book Launch | Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

October 26, 2022 | 1:00 PM
Student, Workshop

Honours Students Orientation and Thesis-writing Workshop

October 24, 2022 | 4:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Department, Lecture

Critical Conversations: Intimacies & Kinship

October 13, 2022 | 3:00 PM
roomPena Room, Irving K. Barber Library
Lecture, Public

Fighting Words: A Cure for War Fever | George Elliott Clarke and Gary Geddes at Green College

September 29, 2022 | 5:00 PM
roomCoach House, Green College
Lecture

Literature & Legacies of Race: Nuclear Antipolitics and the Queer Art of Logistical Failure

September 26, 2022 | 3:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

2022 Welcome Back Event for EL&L Undergraduates

September 6, 2022 | 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323

Endnotes Conference 2022: (Anti)Bodies

May 20, 2022 | 9:30 AM
Student

Stories that Haunt Us: A Conversation with Jamie Liew and Lindsay Wong

April 5, 2022 | 1:00 PM
Department, Lecture

'Sabaoths sight': Cosmovision in Edmund Spenser’s Mutabilitie Cantos

April 1, 2022 | 1:00 PM
roomBuchanan Tower 323
Public

Contemporary Shakespeare: Othello with Dr. Dennis Britton at the VAG

March 31, 2022 | 12:00 PM
Lecture, Public

The Pirate Function with Dr. Kavita Philip

March 31, 2022 | 12:00 PM
Department, Lecture

Racialization and Resistance in Medieval England and Wales: Ecological Imperialism and England's First Colony

March 24, 2022 | 4:30 PM
Department, Student

NOW VIRTUAL: English Language & Literatures Prospective Student Open House

March 23, 2022 | 2:00 PM
Student

Virtual Undergraduate Town Hall

January 28, 2022 | 4:00 PM
Lecture, Public, Student

Dorothy Black Lecture 2021 with Alexander Heffner: Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age/Uncivil and Unwell in America

November 3, 2021 | 3:00 PM