Asian Studies Faculty to Participate in Bong Joon-ho Symposium

Assistant Professor Ji-yoon An and Sessional Instructor Dr. Su-Anne Yeo will be among the academics taking part in a symposium about the South Korean director Bong Joon-ho on January 18-19 at VIFF Centre (1181 Seymour Street, Vancouver).

The symposium, which is open to the public, will be part of Bong 1-7, a complete retrospective of Bong's work screening at VIFF Centre from January 17-23.

UBC Alert testing on January 17 – are you in the loop?

UBC Alert is the university’s mass notification system used to send alerts in urgent situations that pose an immediate safety or security risk to the community. It will be sending out a test notification to UBC Vancouver and Okanagan students, faculty, and staff via a phone call and text message on Friday, January 17, 2025.

To ensure you are receiving notifications, make sure your mobile number is up to date on Workday.

Stories of Pang Jai by Jimmy Lo receives major awards in Vancouver Asian Film Festival

Jimmy Lo, UBC alum and UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase co-organizer/curator, received Best Cinematography for Canadian Feature and Best Canadian Feature at the 2024 Vancouver Asian Film Festival for his documentary, Stories of Pang Jai 風吹布動.

The documentary focuses on Hong Kong's Yen Chow Street Hawker Bazaar, which was slated for demolition due to land redevelopment. The film is a tribute to the heart and soul of this community, where threads of resilience and passion interweave in their efforts to save it.

Clara Law: Drifting Petals, Floating Lives – A Retrospective Presented by the UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase & The Cinematheque

The Cinematheque and the UBC Asian Independent Cinema Showcase present a select retrospective surveying the remarkable, decades-spanning oeuvre of Clara Law from January 16 to February 5. Curated in concert with the director and Eddie Fong, the program features six titles, plus the couple’s latest collaboration Drifting Petals (2021) – a DIY ghost story plumbing personal and political traumas.

Law and Fong will join via Zoom for audience Q&As following the first screening of each film in the retrospective.

New books at the Asian Library

Explore all the new titles that were added to the Asian Library collections in December.

Within the Gaps Exhibition

UBC Asian Library and Rare Books and Special Collections are excited to present a new exhibition: “Within the Gaps: Intracommunity Voices in Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian Records.” This project brings forward voices from Chinese Canadian and Korean Canadian records.⁣

This exhibition, on display at Asian Library, has been made possible through the Asian Canadian Research and Engagement (ACRE) Faculty Initiatives Grant.