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November 2015
Thu
26
Nov
Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective
Bryan Gopaul, Warner School of Education, University of Rochester
A chance for those who were at the early-evening talk to continue in relaxed conversation with Bryan Gopaul, and for those who were not, to join in.
Sat
28
Nov
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Mr. Preston Manning, PC, CC, AOE, Founder and CEO Manning Centre for Building Democracy
Mon
30
Nov
Green College Resident Members' Series
Alexandra Cheng, Structural Engineering
Increasingly complex architectural geometries present new challenges for structural engineers. This talk will look at a co-rationalized design process in collaboration with architecture students here at UBC. It will also describe the specifically structural research concerns which arose from the broader investigation, namely the flexural properties of curved or cross-grained CLT.
December 2015
Tue
1
Dec
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Dianne Newell, History, UBC
Dianne Newell belonged to the first cohort of baby boomers in Canada to attend university in "The Sixties"—not the decade, but, as Doug Owram reminds us in "Born at the Right Time," the era. Social revolution was in the air and, often, the streets. The story she shares links that context to the unanticipated choices she made in the years that followed.
Mon
7
Dec
Green College Resident Members' Series
Ian Heckman, Philosophy
During a 10 year period, the New York Times used the word 'sublime' in relation to 'dance' in over 300 reviews. Despite this, scholarly works about the sublime and dance are incredibly scarce. To help fill in this void, this talk gives a brief overview of Ian Heckman’s bold new theory about how dance may evoke the sublime.
Tue
8
Dec
ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change
Tim Papakyriakou, Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba
The emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases from human activities are the single largest anthropogenic factor contributing to climate change. In reviewing what we know of the Arctic’s carbon cycle and CO2 uptake potential, Dr. Papakyriakou will address the question: does sea ice matter?
January 2016
Mon
11
Jan
Green College Resident Members' Series
Peter Chen, Computer Science
The need to create has always been a part of the human condition. In a fluid and evanescent art world, one man stood alone at the precipice and brought light out from the darkness. His name was Caravaggio.
Sat
16
Jan
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Brian Goldman, MD, MCFP(EM), FACEP, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, and Host, CBC Radio “White Coat, Black Art”
Mon
18
Jan
Green College Resident Members' Series
Stefano Burzo, Political Science
In 2014 Crimea was reunited/annexed to Russia. Some say the annexation was a major violation of international law, while others consider the reunification legitimized by a referendum. If we take the Russian legal claims on the matter seriously, what are the implications for international law?
Tue
19
Jan
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Mike Goldberg, Commerce and Business
Mike Goldberg has been studying diverse aspects of the economy of cities, their land markets, transportation systems and global competitiveness. In this talk, Mike will connect how these interests arose from growing up and attending school in Brooklyn, New York during the 1940s and 1950s.