Join the UBC Comics Studies Cluster next Saturday, May 24th from 10 AM-5 PM to celebrate local comics creators and art at Rain City Comicon! Rain City Comicon is Vancouver’s newest comics event dedicated to showcasing the work of comic artists in the Greater Vancouver Area. Started by a coalition of independent publishers […]
Join the UBC Comics Studies Cluster for an exciting opportunity to learn about comics and comics studies from a distinctly Canadian perspective! For more information, see the conference website.
This winter, UBC’s Pop Culture Cluster hosted the Games and Social Justice Public Lecture Series, a series of weekly talks and workshops that brought together scholars, game designers, artists, and community organizers to explore how games—from digital video games to analog tabletop systems and tarot—can both reinforce and challenge systems of power. Spanning ten sessions […]
The UBC Pop Culture & Comics Studies Clusters are excited to announce the launch of two new funding opportunities for UBC graduate students, contingent faculty, and junior scholars. Pop Pedagogies Award Program: Call for Applications The Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster is excited to announce the launch of the Pop Pedagogies Award […]
The Pop Culture Cluster supports academic and public-facing scholarship in Popular Media and Comics Studies at UBC.
The UBC Pop Culture Cluster is located at UBC Vancouver, which is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.
