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THE SECRET LIFE OF MAX STERN AND HIS NAZI-LOOTED ART

When: Where: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC’s Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver.

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Dr. Sara J. Angel, C.M. 

Founder, Executive Director and Publisher, Art Canada Institute (ACI)

Dr. Angel founded the Art Canada Institute (ACI) in 2013 to democratize access to Canadian art for a diverse, twenty-first-century public, making high-quality, bilingual digital resources available to all regardless of location or prior knowledge. The ACI now offers open-source publications, a digital library, school art education programs, a fellowship program, and a weekly newsletter. Dr. Angel is an arts commentator for CBC and a contributor to Maclean’s, ArtNews, The Walrus, and The Globe and Mail. She teaches courses on Nazi-era art restitution and art crime and has taught at the University of Toronto and York University. She has lectured at major institutions including Harvard, the ROM, the AGO, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Israel Museum. She also serves on several nonprofit boards.

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RIVER IN PERIL: THE FRAGILITY OF THE MIGHTY FRASER RIVER

Dr. Jeremy G. Venditti is a geomorphologist and Director of the River Dynamics Laboratory at SFU. His research focuses on the fluid and sediment dynamics of large river systems, with particular attention to bedrock canyons, global sediment export, and the physics of extreme flooding. His work, including publications in Nature, has advanced understanding of flow and incision in bedrock rivers.

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A Concert by the UBC Opera Ensemble, led by Nancy Hermiston

This event will be held in the UBC Old Auditorium | Professor Nancy Hermiston is a distinguished opera singer, stage director, and educator whose career has taken her across Canada, the United States, and Europe. She has taught voice and directed productions at the Meistersinger Konservatorium in Nürnberg and at the University of Toronto’s Opera and Performance Divisions.