Volume 4 (2024 – 2025)
The fourth volume of The Capsule is entitled “Voices of the Future.” Excerpt from volume IV’s introduction:
CAP promotes an interdisciplinary approach to learning within the arts, and works to foster a passionate community
of students interested in a diverse number of disciplines. This diversity is reflected in the various streams within CAP, including Law & Society (L&S); Media Studies (MS); Environment & Society (E&S); Individual & Society (I&S), as well as Political Science, Philosophy, and Economics (PPE). Students engage in their chosen stream by examining compelling dialogue that centres topics relating to the humanities, social sciences, as well as the creative and performing arts. The authors of this year’s issue focused their analyses and creative works on the unique challenges of disenfranchised communities and their strength and resilience when faced with adversity.

Volume 3 (2023 – 2024)
The third volume of The Capsule is entitled “Dialogue and Activism in Our Time.” Excerpt from volume III’s introduction: “One of CAP’s core components is its ability to connect like-minded students interested in a diversity of disciplines represented by five streams that coincide to generate a place for contemporary dialogue: Media Studies (MS); People and Planet (PP); Law and Society (LS); Individual and Society (IS); and Philosophy, Political Science, and Economics (PPE). These streams highlight topics of discussion in the humanities, social sciences, and creative and per- forming arts. Authors and artists of this year’s publication centred their works around illuminating unexplored motifs within representation and activists’ roles within it. They provide insightful perspectives on some of this moment’s central debates.”

This second volume of The Capsule is entitled “Connecting Through Common Experience” and highlights CAP student scholars’ work in the humanities and social sciences that range across the breadth of the program’s five streams. On a variety of scales, from the global to the local, humanitarian crises to everyday forms of social exclusion, more innovative genres to the modes of representation that structure our lives, CAP students this year brought theoretically informed and critically persuasive perspectives to topics on the linked themes of “community, communication, and connection.”

Volume 1 (2021 – 2022)
This inaugural volume of The Capsule features a set of essays that explore some of the most pressing societal issues of our day. From striking discussions on the misuse of power by the state, to examinations of how we overcome (generational) trauma in fictitious worlds and the real one, to thoughtful meditations on how our conflicting identities can affect our personhood, this volumes serves as a celebration of the exciting scholarship the CAP community developed over the 2021 – 2022 academic year.

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We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus, which The Capsule is based out of, is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).