Activities

What are we up to?

Future

The Undisciplined Podcast
Project members Ella Zhang and Yar Stav will host scholars from various disciplines to find out what the disciplinary structure of academic life means for them and how it impacts their work.

Present

Research Creation: Undisciplined Mapping of UBC
Project members Ella Zhang and Yar Stav are creating undisciplined maps of the UBC campus: maps that intentionally call attention to how land use, the layout of buildings, names, divisions, and the physical environment generally, telegraphs information about what is valued here and why, how knowledge is divided or connected, where proximity/connection is encouraged and where distance/disconnect is expected.

In-Person Book Club: Iris Murdoch NRG (Novel-Reading Group)
An in-person reading group for monthly discussions of the novels of twentieth-century Anglo-Irish novelist-philosopher Iris Murdoch, whose life and work raise deep questions about the borders of her discipline(s).

Online Book Club: Iris Murdoch NRG (Novel-Reading Group)
An online reading group for monthly discussions of Murdoch’s philosophical novels.

Sponsoring and supporting The Speaker’s Café and The DTES Writers’ Festival
This event is organized by Carnegie Learning Centre, in collaboration with project Network member Michelle Stack.

Past

Teaching: PHIL 518, Iris Murdoch’s Fiction and Non-Fiction
September-December, 2025, Undisciplinary graduate seminar course at UBC

Reading Group: Indigenous Philosophies Through Fiction and Story
Co-convened with Alison Wylie at UBC

Talk: Love in the Time of Distraction
September 24, 2025, Carnegie Learning Centre Speaker’s Café, Vancouver

Panel: Wâhkôhtowin / Gina ’Waadluxan Gud Ad Kwaagid
October 17-19, 2025, Western Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Alberta

Talk: Prospero’s Drowned Books and the Flaying of Marsyas: the Via Negativa of Murdochian Modesty
November 21, 2025, Modesty and Religion Workshop, UBC

Sad Love author visit at the So Emotional Book Club
December 9, 2025

Reading: Living Archives, Green College Lecture Series
February 11, 2026, Green College, UBC

Image from House of Matches by Carrie Jenkins, photography by Jonathan Ichikawa