UBC Political Science faculty and staff are excited to host a welcome event for MA and PhD students at Locarno Beach Park Picnic Site on Friday, September 9 at 5:00 pm to celebrate the new academic year.
Please join us for an IR Colloquium lecture by UBC Political Science Visiting Professor Swaran Singh titled, “The Essential Nature of China-India Relations.”
This friendly competition will be in-person so please join us for a lively evening of trivia with alumni, students, faculty, and emeriti. Please join us on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 5:00 pm at the Pit Pub.
Please join our friends at the UBC Centre for Migration Studies for their official launch party!
Join a panel of UBC Political Science faculty, alumni, and others as we break down the results of the province’s municipal elections and their consequences for future policy and the future of local government.
The first seminar of the South Asia Research Colloquium entitled “What is Colonialism? The Meaning of a Twentieth-Century Political Category” features speaker Dr. Nazmul Sultan (Assistant Professor of Political Theory in the UBC Department of Political Science).
Join us for a research talk by Dr. Catherine Weaver, Visiting Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and Associate Professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
We will be hosting an information session for prospective students who are interested in joining our graduate cohort for September 2023.
Our first Political Theory Colloquium features Dr. Shoufu Yin (UBC Department of History) presenting a talk, “Toward a Minimalist Approach to Democracy: Ideas Excavated from the First Large-scale Referendum in World History (China, 1156CE)”
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