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.
News
Nov 12, 2026
Are you a Health Science Superhero? Want to see yourself in a comic book?
The UBC Comics Studies Cluster is partnering with the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute on two exciting comic and colouring book projects designed to introduce the next generation to the world of health science! Interested? Complete the expression of interest form by Friday, December 4, 2026.Announcements, Comics Studies
Nov 09, 2026
The climate change game jam isn’t about the game
Some two dozen people crammed into a fifth-floor room of Koerner Library to make games and learn as part of the Critical Play for Climate Change game jam. Attendees consisted of a veritable Venn diagram of interests. Climate researchers who had barely touched a board game before sat at the same table as a founder of the Vancouver Playtest group (which meets regularly to play in-development board games).Critical Play for Climate Change, Critical Play News, News
Oct 13, 2026
The Critical Play Lab Welcomes 25 Fellows to its 2026-2027 Cohort
Like last year’s inaugural Critical Play fellowship, the 2026-2027 call for Critical Play Fellows garnered a large group of interested scholars, artists, and game designers from UBC and beyond. We are happy to announce that we have accepted 25 fellows for this year’s cohort. About half of last year’s fellows are returning and will join […]Announcements, Critical Play News
Oct 07, 2026
Seabird (Sq’éwqel) Island Stories: A Sneak Peek
Six months following the launch of the Seabird Island Stories Comics Project, the UBC Comics Studies Cluster, working in collaboration with the Stó:lō Shxweli, is excited to share this sneak peek from the collection of comics based on the lived experiences of the late Elder Th’ath’elex_wot (Elizabeth Herrling). The bilingual graphic novel, which anticipates a launch […]Comics Studies, Indigenous Comics Initiatives, News
Upcoming Events
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Nov 19th
2026
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2026
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Jan 19th
2027
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2027
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2027