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October 2016

Wed
12
Oct
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Hot, Uneven and Connected: Planning in Metro Vancouver’s Global Age

Andy Yan, Researcher and Urban Planner, Bing Thom Architects

Climate change, uneven patterns in the post-industrial economy, and global flows of people, ideas, and capital are reshaping the demographic, social, economic, and physical terrains of Metro Vancouver. How have these challenges manifested themselves in time and space?
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Sat
15
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Threats from Nuclear Weapons and Materials

Frank von Hippel, Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University

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Mon
17
Oct
Green College Resident Members' Series
When Feelings Trump Facts: The Consequences of the 2016 American Presidential Election

Brent Holmes Journalism; Mackenzie Lockhart, Political Science; Aidan Davis, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice

Donald Trump's campaign in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election has created numerous problems for journalists and political scientists. Join us for this panel as we take a look at these problems from multiple perspectives: journalism, political science, and social justice.
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Tue
18
Oct
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
A Geographer's Dilemma

Olav Slaymaker, Geography

Geographers study everything and, some would say, nothing. They take their lead from Alexander von Humboldt's "Kosmos: Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung" (1845-1862 in five volumes), a holistic digest of the scientific study of terrestrial phenomena. Where does this vision place the geographer in the twenty first century academy?
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Wed
19
Oct
Access to Justice
Access to Justice and Sexual Violence

Janine Benedet, Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC, Tracy Pickett, Medicine, UBC

What does “access to justice” mean to survivors of sexual violence?
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Sat
22
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

Ellen Ruppel Shell, Co-Director, Science Journalism Program, College of Communication, Boston University

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Mon
24
Oct
Green College Resident Members' Series
Ignorance As Strategy

Maya Lefkowich, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program; Dan Carney, Physics and Astronomy

This talk will highlight the ways in which ignorance can be operationalized to improve the rigour of academic work, and the art of asking questions. Examples will be drawn from statistics, physics, qualitative research, and gender dynamics in order to illustrate the importance of how much we don’t know.
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Tue
25
Oct
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Can We Shame for Good?

Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Sociology; Michael Daniels, Sauder School of Business

Shame is a powerful and often damaging emotion that is associated with psychological maladjustment. It arises when people do not live up to group ideals and it serves as a mechanism to enforce social norms. Despite these concerns, is it possible that shame could be used to engender social change?
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Thu
27
Oct
Adapting to Global Changes in Oceans and Fisheries
Global Fishing Watch: Using Satellites to Track Fishing Activity

David Kroodsma, Research Program Manager, SkyTruth, USA

Can we have eyes in the sky to monitor global fishing efforts? Join us for a talk on how Global Fishing Watch uses remote sensing collected by satellites to expose the impact of fishing.
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Sat
29
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Let Them Eat Dirt: Raising Children with Their Microbes

Brett Finlay, OC, OBC, Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology, UBC

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