Welcome to our new Lecturer, Joëlle Alice Michaud-Ouellet
UBC Political Science would like to extend a warm welcome to Joëlle Alice Michaud-Ouellet, who joins us as a Sessional Lecturer.
Wishing a happy retirement to Richard Johnston
UBC Political Science wishes a happy retirement to a path-breaking researcher one of the most accomplished political scientists of his generation in Canada.
UBC Political Science Professor Emeritus publishes Pandemic Poems in Inroads
2020’s toughest curveballs cannot stop UBC Political Science Professor Emeritus and poet Philip Resnick. This year, he published his new memoir, Itineraries, but not even a global pandemic can put his muse to rest.
Yves Tiberghien interviewed by CBC about Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou key court battle loss
The CBC’s Andrew Nichols talks with Yves Tiberghien of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada after B.C. Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes released her decision on the Huawei exec’s ‘double-criminality’ argument.
Michael Byers: The United States is going back to space. But we have some things to figure out on Earth first
In a new era of private spaceflight, the Trump administration is upending international laws about who can exploit our solar system’s resources – and Canada must decide whether it will follow the new path, or forge its own
Distinguished Speaker — Richard Bellamy March 9, 2020
On March 9, Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science at University College London, presented a departmental talk titled ‘Taking Back Control’: Demoi-cracy and Republicanism within a European Association of Sovereign States to the UBC Political Science department. Pictures below. Abstract: The Brexit referendum was won on the slogan ‘taking back control’. The resonance of this […]
Welcome Carey Doberstein, Assistant Professor
Our Department is pleased to welcome Carey Doberstein as Assistant Professor in Canadian Politics. He will be joining our Department on July 1st, 2019, as one of four new faculty members in Political Science.
Professor Richard Price Appointed as New Political Science Department Head
It is my pleasure to confirm that the Provost has granted approval to appoint Dr Price as the next Head of the Department of Political Science. I am pleased also to advise that Dr Price has agreed to undertake
the role of Head from July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2022.
Joint Book Launch: Celebrating new books by Sheryl Lightfoot and Coll Thrush
In collaboration with First Nations and Indigenous Studies and the History Department, we held a book launch on February 2, 2017 to celebrate the release of two new books on Global Indigeneities.