News and events

Luiza Costa, SDH PhD student, and her supervisor Dr Jennifer White recently published a paper in the Social Sciences journal.

Luiza Costa, SDH PhD student, and her supervisor Dr Jennifer White recently published a paper in the Social Sciences journal. “Making Sense of Critical Suicide Studies: Metaphors, Tensions, and Futurities"

Welcoming Dr. Jeff Masuda to Social Dimensions of Health as Advisor

Jeff joins us from Queen’s University, where he is Canada Research Chair in Environmental Health Equity. A health geographer and critical health promotion scholar, he is known for his contributions to research, policy, and practice at the intersection between environmental and social wellbeing in an unequal world.

Fusion Fridays

Fusion Fridays are weekly events featuring guest artists, speakers, impactful media, and open discussions to explore profound spiritual and social concepts, aimed at fostering peaceful,sustainable, inclusive, and vibrant communities.

POSTPONED: SALT New Music Festival Workshop: Narratives and Sound

SALT New Music Festival presents a unique workshop focused on narratives in music inspired by indigenous knowledge. Composer and musician participants will engage in dialogue with invitedstorytellers and artistic knowledge keepers, initiating concepts for new works to be featured in the SALT 2025 festival program.

University of Victoria Women’s Soccer at Thompson Rivers

14th Latin American and Spanish Film Week

The 14th Latin American and Spanish Film Week will take place from September 18th until September 22nd, 2024. Attend a public chat with local Latin American artists and watch fourSpanish-language films (with English subtitles) at Cinecenta!

Puán: Latin American and Spanish Film Week

See the full schedule of movies at c inecenta.com!

Eyes of the Beast: Climate Disaster Survivor Stories

A Neworld Theatre production presented by the Climate Disaster Project in association with the University of Victoria's Department of Theatre.

West Coast Ancient Mediterranean Colloquium

Join us at UBC for our annual colloquiawhich will present the Classical Association of CanadaWestern Tour guest speaker, Dr. Daryn Lehoux(Queen's National Scholar, Professor of Classics and Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University). A panel ofspeakers will follow with paper presentations.

Saturday, Sep 21 from 11am-5pm at the Buchanan Penthouse at UBC.