March 18, 2025

Place and Power: BC Studies Conference 2025

For many decades, the BC Studies Conference has played an important role in multidisciplinary scholarly conversations and knowledge mobilization about and across BC, particularly with respect to the humanities and interpretive social sciences. First held in Victoria in October 1979, it became a biennial event with hosting responsibilities circulating among universities and colleges across BC on a voluntary basis. This tradition continued until it was interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic; the last BC Studies conference was hosted online by the University of the Fraser Valley in 2021. We are thrilled to come together with you at the 2025 event.

Place and Power: BC Studies Conference 2025 brings together scholars and practitioners whose work concerns the study of the place currently called British Columbia. It will be held from 2-4 May 2025 on the unceded ancestral territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) People at the Point Grey campus of the University of British Columbia Vancouver.

Register here