Event Category Archives: Featured Research

Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Roland Paris

Roland Paris brings his experience in international security, peacebuilding, and foreign policy to answer the question: how should Canada respond to its place on the international stage in a nastier world at this year’s Mark Zacher Distinguished Visitor Lecture.

Prof. Maxwell Cameron: Ethics in Environment & Democracy

Join Dr. Maxwell Cameron and other UBC speakers in this discussion on current ethics-related endeavours taking place at UBC, pressing ethical issues that exist across a wide range of disciplines, from animal welfare and ecophysiology, to democracy and ecofeminism, and the ways in which you can become more involved.

UBC Political Science and International Relations Alumni Homecoming Mixer and Dinner

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.

BC Votes: What Happens Next? Policy consequences and paths forward for municipal politics

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.

Dr. Nazmul Sultan: What is Colonialism? The Meaning of a Twentieth-Century Political Category

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).