Activities
What are we up to?
Future
The Undisciplined Podcast
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.
Keynote: Plato Steals the Sun
Carrie Jenkins and Robin Roberts will give a keynote address at the Western Canadian Philosophical Association, September 2026, University of Saskatchewan.
Artists for Conservation Festival 2026
Robin Roberts’s artworks The Lightseeker and Knowledge Transfer will be in the show
Sooke Fine Arts Show 2026
Robin Roberts’s artwork will be in the show
Teaching: PHIL 375, Philosophy and Literature
September-December, 2026, Undisciplinary undergraduate course at UBC taught by Carrie Jenkins
A deep dive into philosopher-writer Simone de Beauvoir’s first novel, She Came to Stay
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
In collaboration with project Network member Michelle Stack and the Carnegie Learning Centre
Past
Research Creation: Storytelling
Project members finding creative ways to tell the story of The Undisciplined Project itself!
Teaching: PHIL 518, Iris Murdoch’s Fiction and Non-Fiction
September-December, 2025, Undisciplinary graduate seminar course at UBC taught by Carrie Jenkins
Reading Group: Indigenous Philosophies Through Fiction and Story
Co-convened by Carrie Jenkins and Alison Wylie at UBC
Talk: Love in the Time of Distraction
Carrie Jenkins, September 24, 2025, Carnegie Learning Centre Speaker’s Café, Vancouver
Panel: Wâhkôhtowin / Gina ’Waadluxan Gud Ad Kwaagid
Katherine Cheng, Carrie Jenkins, and Robin Roberts, 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
Carrie Jenkins, November 21, 2025, Modesty and Religion Workshop, UBC
Sad Love author visit at the So Emotional Book Club
Carrie Jenkins, December 9, 2025
Reading: Living Archives, Green College Lecture Series
Carrie Jenkins, February 11, 2026, Green College, UBC
Image from House of Matches by Carrie Jenkins, photography by Jonathan Ichikawa