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UBC’s Vancouver campus is usually quiet in the first week of June. Graduation ceremonies are over and there are fewer students on campus than usual.

But this year, the campus will be bustling as more than 10,000 scholars from across Canada come to the University of B.C. for the 88th Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, June 1 to 7.

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Canada’s largest annual gathering of scholars is organized by the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences, which represents 160 universities, colleges and scholarly associations, and 91,000 researchers. It brings together groups across a broad spectrum of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to connect and share world-changing ideas that have direct importance for Canada and the lives of Canadians.

You are invited.

This year’s theme, Circles of Conversation, will emphasize the deep, two-way relationships between the university and the communities it serves: local, provincial, national and global. Circles of Conversation will open up much-needed dialogue and debate about key contemporary issues, with emphasis on the arts and the role that artists play in effecting social change. The Circles of Conversation programming series will showcase UBC’s strengths in the areas of artistic production, research, community engagement, Indigenous scholarship and more. It will also highlight the work of UBC faculty, staff and students, often in collaboration with colleagues from across Canada and around the world.