Please join us on January 14th 2025 for a special event to celebrate geo grapher Minelle Mahtani’s new memoir\, May it Have a Happy Ending.
Co-spo nsored by the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) and the Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality\, and Social Justice (GRSJ)\, D r. Mahtani’s home department. Geography’s Juanita Sundberg will host a conv ersation with the author about her book.
May It Have a Happy Ending is generating a lot
of buzz! Listed in the Toronto Star’s 25 books “worthy of a place at the top of your
to-read pile\,” and She Does the City’s most anticipated books in fall 2024\, the book
has been showered with praise in numerous reviews. Dr. Mahtani also presen
ted her book at the 2024 Vancouver Writers Fest in October.
Dr. Mahtani an Associate Professor at GRSJ\; with Associate appointments at UBC with Geography and Journalism \; as well as the Chair\, Canadian Studies. In addition to a long list of j ournal articles\, she is the author of Mixed Race Am nesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality with UBC Pre ss. In addition to her academic work\, Dr. Mahtani has a long history in jo urnalism. She hosted Sense of Place\, a radio show at Roundhouse Radio\, wh ich won four awards over the course of three years on air. In addition\, Dr . Mahtani was a finalist for the 2024 National Magazine award for her piece on the Tragically Hip\, Canadiana\, and Ruthie Gilmore. In 2022\, her essay Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost H ers was a gold Digital Publishing Awards winner from the National Media Awards Foundation.
Please join us for this speci al conversation.
This is hybrid event hosted in Geog 229 and on zoom.
[buttons][button link_text="Zoom link" li nk_url="https://ubc.zoom.us/j/67410203256?pwd=pOn9bS4RSV622Qe1I0KbbeicVvcx5 Q.1"][/buttons]
CATEGORIES:Featured Events LOCATION:Geography building GEO:49.266015;-123.256221 URL;VALUE=URI:https://geog.ubc.ca/events/event/may-it-have-a-happy-ending-b ook-launch/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://geog.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/2024/12/GEOG-Colloquium-Minelle-Mahtani-Jan-14th-2025.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 DTSTART:20241103T090000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR