PopCC Director Biz Nijdam Invited to Speak at 2025 Comics Studies Society Conference
Pop Culture Cluster Director Dr. Biz Nijdam has been invited to speak at the Graduate Student Caucus’ 10 Year Anniversary Roundtable to be held during the upcoming Comics Studies Society Conference. Read below for more on the conference and the Call for Papers!
Announcing the Comics-to-Research Graduate Award Spring 2024-5 Winners!
Please join us in congratulating Spring 2024-5 Comics-to-Research Graduate Award winners Laen Hershler (Language and Literacy Education) and Cynthia Liu (Creative Writing)! Laen’s project Memory in Motion: Dialoguing with Holocaust Survivor Voices through Research-based Theatre and Performative Inquiry explores Holocaust memory through the embodied practice of theatre and audience reflection. Cynthia is working on a […]
Meet the 2024-5 recipients of the Pop Pedagogies Award!
The Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster is excited to announce the 2024-5 recipients of the Pop Pedagogies Award. Please join us in congratulating them! Each of these scholars is developing innovative lesson plans, modules, or units that meaningfully integrate popular media (imagined broadly) into teaching and learning. Over the coming year, you […]
UBC Pop Culture & Comics Studies Clusters Launch the Pop Pedagogies Program & Research-to-Comics Graduate Awards!
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.
Donate to the International Comic Arts Forum TODAY!
On this Giving Tuesday, please consider supporting comics scholarship by donating to the International Comic Arts Forum!
Pop Culture Cluster launchs inaugural Multilingual Horror Film Festival at UBC!
Celebrate multilingualism this Halloween season at UBC’s inaugural Multilingual Horror Film Festival at The Norm Theatre from October 27-31!
Dr. Elizabeth “Biz” Nijdam receives Public Engagement Award
These awards are given to individuals who have exhibited outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years and whose work has contributed to the expansion of the range of voices in public discourse.
EUA Graphics Online Comics Exhibition: Now Live!
The innovative project “Exams Under Anaesthesia (EUA) Graphics: Equity and Neurodiversity in the Operating Room” has officially launched its online exhibition. Hosted by the UBC Comics Studies Cluster, this exhibition is available for viewing at comics.arts.ubc.ca/eua-graphics.