Events at: Auditorium, Asian Centre

Keynote: Multilingualism as a Gift: Changing Mindsets, Changing Worlds

Despite the presence of multiple languages in many homes, schools, and workplaces, monolingualism still persists as a normative educational and everyday practice in Canada and many places around the world. In this talk, based on stories of language maintenance and loss from my research studies, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair Guofang Li shares how such […]

Indigenous Atlas of Canada and FirstVoices: the Indigenous Language Landscape of BC & Canada

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada will present a map on the floor of Asian Studies Auditorium. This map shows the locations of Indigenous communities, residential schools, reserves and more. Rather than political borders, Canada is broken up into Indigenous language groups. This resource will assist you in understanding the past, present and future of Indigenous Peoples […]

“Untranslatables” Exhibition and Speech Contest​

“Untranslatables” Exhibition UBC students have been invited to share either short essays or digital media projects exploring “Untranslatables”. These short essays and media projects thematize how some words aren’t easily translated into other languages and retain their distinct meaning and purpose only in their original form, exploring what one word or a group of words means […]

Multilingual ​Poetry Slam​​ + Closing ceremony

In a poetry slam, participants perform their poetry on a stage before an audience. While the format will be traditional, UBC’s inaugural Multilingual Poetry Slam will feature a combination of languages, drawing from the multilingualism of the UBC student body as well as the many languages taught on campus. This event will feature two tracks. […]