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1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.

Dr Jinjoon Lee explores ontology in the post-digital age, where myth and his tory, memory and data, identity and anonymity converge.

Join us in celebrating Dr Bi-Yu Chang’s retirement with a reflective lecture tracing her two-decade journey through the cultural politics, spatial identities, and shifting meanings of belonging in Taiwan.

This seminar explore approaches to the premodern care and treatment of Buddhist material culture from Dunhuang through selected case studies.

In this lecture, Michelle Wang examines the impact of colonial archaeology, particularly as practiced on the Indian subcontinent, upon Stein, and she traces the institutional networks within which he traveled.

The Oath follows a week in the life of Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian medic living and working in Israel and teaching medical ethics. While the medical oath taken by all doctors requires that they provide equal care for all patients, Lina witnesses a system increasingly at odds with this.

This panel will discuss the importance of documenting international crimes and human rights violations in Palestine in seeking justice.

This volume explores the international relations of today's Middle East, a region that has become increasingly multi-polar.

This panel examines the experience and address of caste in Canada, featuring the Chetna Association and UBC's "Caste in Canada" project.