Category: Vancouver Institute
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SPECIAL LECTURE: COOPERATION IN OUTER SPACE
Join us for a free special lecture from the Outer Space Institute at UBC. The speaker will be Johann-Dietrich Wörner, President of Germany’s Academy of Science and Engineering, and former Director-General of the European Space Agency. The lecture will be held at the Roy Barnett Recital Hall in the School of Music at UBC.
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PUTIN’S WAR AGAINST UKRAINE
Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk is a prolific scholar with expertise in the social and political history of Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union. Media outlets such as The Washington Post, Politico, and The New York Times have published his political analysis.
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THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS GOVERNED INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER ADULT LEARNING IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE RECOVERY
Dr. Jeannette Armstrong is Syilx Okanagan. As an award-winning writer and activist, novelist, and poet, she is committed to address deeply biased misconceptions relating to Indigenous people. Her research in Indigenous philosophies and Okanagan Syilx thought and environmental ethics coded into Syilx oral literatures has been recognized locally and globally.
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THE FUTURE OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT IN CANADA
Four-time Olympian and Olympic rowing silver medalist, Ms. Tricia Smith, O.C., O.B.C., has been the president of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) since 2015 and was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2016. A practicing lawyer and UBC alumna, Ms. Smith is also a member of the Canadian Olympic Hall…
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: REVISITING THE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISIS A DECADE LATER
Dr. Andrew Weaver, O.B.C., has served on numerous national and international committees, including being a Lead Author in the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Weaver is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society and the American Association…
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WHAT TO DO ABOUT OCEAN CLEARCUTTING & ANNIHILATION FISHING
Dr. Amanda Vincent was the first person to study seahorses underwater, to document the extensive trade in these fishes, and to initiate a seahorse conservation project. She is very active in marine management and policy issues.
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LETTERS, CONNECTIONS, AND CURES
Ivan Coyote performing spoken word has contributed to depicting the complexities of gender, sexuality, and identity in the representation of queerness in Canadian literature, collaborating with musicians to combine storytelling and music. They have written eleven books that have been awarded or shortlisted for literary awards.
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OVERDOSE: HEARTBREAK AND HOPE IN CANADA’S OPIOID CRISIS
Professor Benjamin Perrin’s research covers issues related to victims of crime, and the opioid crisis. He is an advocate for compassionate, evidence-based approaches to pressing criminal justice and societal issues.
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A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE: HOW UNIVERSITIES MUST EVOLVE IN A POST-COVID WORLD
Dr. Joy Johnson has led several initiatives to mobilize research and influence policy. Prior to her appointment as president, she was SFU’s vice-president, research and international. She was also the Scientific Director for the Institute of Gender and Health at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; in this capacity she is credited for ensuring gender…
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THE EXTRAORDINARY AFTERLIFE OF OSCAR WILDE
Dr. Gregory Mackie specializes in Victorian and Modernist literature, drama, and book history. His monograph Beautiful Untrue Things: Forging Oscar Wilde’s Extraordinary Afterlife (2019) examines a lost archive of Wilde forgeries that flooded the rare book market in the 1920s.