Past Events

View some of our and others' previous events.

  1. LLED Graduate Student Conference
    May 2 - May 3, 2019

    LLED Graduate Student Conference

    The LLED Graduate Student Conference is a biannual student-led academic conference. The conference is designed to provide opportunities for graduate students to gain conference experience, to share their work and also receive useful feedback from peers/conference participants.  Click…

  2. April 26, 2019

    PhDs Go Public Research Talk Series: Bridging Communities

    The PhDs Go Public Research Talk Series returns once again in 2019 with five talks, where doctoral students tell their community-engaged research stories in just under seven minutes. First initiated by the Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies in the 2015-6 academic…

  3. April 26, 2019

    Extinction: A CENES Symposium

    Language Sciences member Katia Bowers will present the talk 'Across Geological Time and Space: Confronting the Anthropocene in Vladimir Obruchev’s Hollow Earth' at 10:30am Then, Language Sciences member Mark Turin will present the talk 'Resisting Extinction: Language…

  4. March 28, 2019

    Language Sciences Writing Group

    Set aside some focused writing time in community with other grad students and postdocs! Join fellow LangSci grad students and postdoctoral fellows every other Thursday from 2 to 4 pm in Kenny Room 2563 for the LangSci Writing Group. Each session will include some brief discussion of writing…

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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