UBC Pop Culture Cluster
The Pop Culture Cluster supports academic and public-facing scholarship on popular media and popular culture 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.
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Jan 06, 2026
Meet the PhD CollAB(E)Rators!
A central component of the PopCC‘s Arts-Based Research initiative is the PhD Collab project, Arts-Based Interventions in Graduate Research, recently funded through a two-year pilot program from Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS). Meet the faculty and graduate students who make up the PhD Collab project.Announcements
Dec 18, 2025
‘Understanding Through Comics’ End-of-Term Workshop with Cartoonist Jeff Ellis
On 24 November 2025, the Understanding Through Comics: A Comics and Comics Studies Journal Club held an end-of-term comic making workshop in the IKBLC Peña Room with Cloudscape Comics president and local cartoonist Jeffrey Ellis. Jeff tells us that when Comics Studies members and UBC students completed the workshop with comics of their own, they too earned the title of cartoonist. Today we will be highlighting both the past workshop and the work produced therein, the art of a new generation of […]Comics Studies, News
Dec 12, 2025
Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories: Translation, Digitization, and New Teaching Resources Underway
Work is well underway on the next phase of Xwémalhkwu Hero Stories: A Graphic Novel (2024), with a focus on translation, digitization, and the creation of flexible educational materials for classroom use. This new initiative, which is led by ongoing Project Lead Tchadas Leo in collaboration with Drs. Bonny Norton and Liam Doherty in UBC’s Department […]Homalco News, News
Nov 23, 2025
Field Trip Recap: Critical Play Lab Takes on asses.masses
On Sunday, November 16th, Critical Play Lab Director Biz Nijdam and two Critical Play Fellows set out on an epic, joy-filled adventure to Vancouver Island for Impulse Theatre’s production of asses.masses by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim. After the panicked search of multiple inboxes for the e-tickets and a little too much caffeine, the team […]Critical Play Lab, Critical Play News, News
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