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Call for Papers: Cutting Edge Online Journal
2018 Volume 4 Theme: Spirituality in the Modern Western World The editorial board of Cutting Edge: The Journal of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program (ISGP) is excited to announce the call for papers for the upcoming 2018 (Vol.4) issue. We would like to invite students and scholars to explore and examine the roles and implications of spirituality […]
2018 ISGP Nexus Conference
Responsibility: ISGP Nexus 2018 Monday, March 19, 2018 9:00 – 4:30 pm Graduate Student Society (GSS) 6371 Crescent Road For conference details, and to register, visit the Nexus 2018 web page here!
UBC President Santa Ono addresses Interdisciplinarians
At the ISGP Re-Envisioning event, UBC President Santa Ono sent his greetings and talked about his vision for interdisciplinarity. Watch the video here!
Re-Envisioning the Future of the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at UBC
Thursday, November 16, 2017 5:00 – 7:00 pm Neville Scarfe Building Room 310 At this November event, our UBC President Santa Ono will be speaking about the importance of interdisciplinary research at UBC via video message. Following a short introduction by ISGP PhD student Marcelo Bravo, the new ISGP chair Dr. Barbara Weber, will respond to President Ono’s comments […]

The main purpose of the ISGP is to enable qualified graduate students to pursue advanced interdisciplinary research exceeding the provisions of existing departmental programs. It is designed for a highly motivated and superb student who can steer an independent course.

The University of British Columbia (UBC), established in 1908, is one of Canada’s leading research universities and is consistently ranked among the top 40 in the world. The university attracts 54,000 students from across Canada and 140 countries around the world to two major campuses.

Where the mind without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls - From a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, quoted by Professor Amartya Sen upon receiving an Honorary Degree from ISGP in April, 2011.

Call for Papers: Cutting Edge Online Journal

2018 ISGP Nexus Conference

UBC President Santa Ono addresses Interdisciplinarians

Re-Envisioning the Future of the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program at UBC