Category: Vancouver Institute
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Stand Up Straight! Our posture and how history shapes our anatomy
UBC ARTS ONE 50TH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE Speaker: Professor Sander Gilman, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Atlanta, Georgia Dr. Sander Gilman is a prominent cultural and literary historian and author or editor of over ninety books. He wrote the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing
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1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
Eric Cline is an active field archaeologist with extensive excavation and survey experience in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States. 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed (2014) was considered for a Pulitzer Prize.
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The Democracy Spectrum: From Norway to the U.S. to Afghanistan
Ann Jones’ talk will feature current research about the conditions essential to maintaining democracy. Jones is asking what makes some democracies successful and able to maintain that success.
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Making Russia Great Again: Vladimir Putin and the roots of the new global populism
David McDonald teaches and conducts research in the history of the Russian Empire and the politics of contemporary Russia. He is the author of United Government and Russian Foreign Policy, 1900-1914 (1992), and has contributed to several edited books and published on academic journals about slavic history.
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Defeating the Evolution of Cancer: Measurements, mathematics, and lessons from Microbes
Samuel Aparicio’s discusses his recent work on the molecular taxonomy of breast cancer, which led to identification of new genes that could change the way breast cancer is diagnosed, and form the basis of next-generation treatments.
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Unseen Enemy: The risks of a global pandemic and how to prevent it
Janet Tobias is a multiple award-winning director/producer with 20 years experience working in television for all three American networks. The feature length documentary Unseen Enemy (2017) and the animated documentary Memory Games (2017) are her latest films.
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Afghanistan Up Close and From Afar
Ruhullah Khapalwak has been a correspondent for The New York Times, CNN and Al Jazeera in Afghanistan. His investigative work has focused on cases of civilian casualties, violation of human rights, Afghans imprisoned in Bagram and Guantanamo Bay detention facilities, and the Taliban insurgency.