Please join the CMS Narratives Group and the UBC Pop Culture Cluster for a hybrid event with Dr. Avishek Ray, who will be joining us via Zoom on Thursday, October 16th @ 12:30 PM.
The event will take place in person in BuTo 1112 and online via Zoom, and a catered lunch from Delhi 6 Indian Bistro will be served at the start of our programming.
Bio: Avishek Ray teaches at the National Institute of Technology Silchar. His research spans mobility, marginality, and cultural historiography. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South Asian Imagination (Routledge, 2022), and co-author of Digital Expressions of the Self(ie) (Routledge, 2024) and Temporal Spaces in Calcutta: Digital Networks in the Wake of the Pandemic (Routledge, 2026). He has edited Decolonial Travel (Routledge, 2025) and co-edited Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere (SAGE, 2020). His work appears in journals such as South Asia, Contemporary South Asia, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Mobilities, and Race & Class. Ray has held fellowships at institutions across Europe, Asia, and the US, and was awarded the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship in 2021.
For in-person attendees, we’ll be ordering lunch from Delhi 6 Indian Bistro in Vancouver. You can find their menu here. Please register for the in-person event and lunch by emailing biz.nijdam@ubc.ca with your eating preferences/restrictions.
For Zoom attendees, please register here.