Past Events
April 22, 2022
From Sufism to Social Protest: Poetry and Song for Change
This event embraces the Cluster's engagement with local communities that provide the location of our work, and brings together community members from Bowen Island and international guests who are participating in an Interdisciplinary Histories Research Cluster workshop.
March 19, 2022
170 YEARS OF CHINESE OPERA THEATRE IN NORTH AMERICA
This talk traces the genealogy of Chinatown theaters in North America.
March 18, 2022
READING ARCHIVE- AGAINST THE GRAIN
Archives provide the pathway through which one can enter the historical field. Yet the scarcity of Chinese materials in institutional archives has long corroborated their inconsequence and invisibility in American history.
March 17, 2022
ARCHIVES OF THE INVINCIBLE IN AMERICAN MUSIC: TRACING TRANSPACIFIC CROSSING OF CHINESE OPERA
The defining tunes of the Chinese diaspora in the nineteenth century and the early twentieth were those of the Cantonese opera.
March 17, 2022
ARTIST TALK & Q&A WITH PLAYWRIGHT BRENDAN PELSUE
EVENT DESCRIPTION For students - Join playwright, translator, and adaptor Brendan Pelsue for a very short talk about his work, followed by a Q&A for students about life and work as a playwright. PLAYWRIGHT'S BIO
December 10, 2021
Youth And South Asia Symposium
Youth and South Asia Symposium For more details, click here. REGISTER HERE.