Diaspora Stories, text on with arid scene with trees

UVic Humanities Week is an annual, week-long series of events designed to showcase the critical and creative research of our faculty and students while provoking our audience to reflect on contemporary social topics.

Humanities Week returns February 4 - 11, 2025. We are excited to announce a series of in-person and online events centred on the theme Diaspora Stories. With this theme, we invite you to explore ideas of exile and return, home and community, empire and loss, and to participate in global stories of complex identities and imperial legacies. Join us for a film screening and Q and A, two public lectures from leading scholars, and the return of our Unessay Competition.

All events are free and open to the public. Online events require registration (see event pages).