Category: Vancouver Institute

  • Indigenous Perspectives of History: Story as a Repository

    Dr. Deanna Reder’s research focuses on Indigenous literature and literary history. A Cree-MĂ©tis scholar, she is a founding member of the Indigenous Literary Studies Association (ILSA), co-chair of the Indigenous Voices Awards, and the Editor for the Indigenous Studies Series at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. She also helped found, in 2020, the Indigenous Editors Association.…

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  • Uncovering Global “Forever Chemical” Contamination: Legal, Regulatory, and Scientific Challenges

    Robert Bilott gained international prominence by raising awareness and exposing the global environmental contamination produced by highly toxic fluorinated chemicals (“forever chemicals”) associated with the production of Teflon. His book Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont (2019) is a personal account of the litigation process leading to DuPont ceasing…

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  • Difficult Times, Hard Choices: Canada and China

    Dr. Paul Evans’ research and public diplomacy focuses on relations between Canada and China, and security issues and processes in the Asia Pacific region. Recently his writings and media commentaries have also focused on the emergence of techno-nationalism as a defining force in regional affairs. Dr. Evans was a co-founder of the Council for Security…

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  • Stem Cells, Gene Editing, and Regenerative Medicine: Where Are We Heading?

    Dr. Janet Rossant’s contributions have shaped the way we understand the human genome, congenital abnormalities, and the use of cancer drugs. Her innovation in manipulating the mouse genome led to the mouse becoming the dominant model in understanding the function of the human genome sequence.

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  • Brain Health and the Arts

    Dr. Lara Boyd is a Neuroscientist and Physical Therapist. At the Brain Behaviour Lab at UBC, she performs research designed to advance theoretical conceptualizations of how brain function relates to behaviour during learning. She is an expert in mapping how behaviours, environments and experiences affect brain health and learning, using techniques such as magnetic resonance…

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  • Deep Reading, Critical Thinking, and Empathy in the Age of COVID: A Digital Dilemma

    Dr. Maryanne Wolf has dedicated her professional career to children with learning challenges. Her research focuses on dyslexia, literacy in digital culture, and the reading brain circuit. She designed the RAVE-O reading intervention for children with dyslexia. Dr. Wolf is the author of Proust and the Squid (2007), translated into 13 languages, Tales of Literacy…

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  • The Cultural and Natural Legacy in the Cradle of Maya Civilization: The Mirador-Calakmul Basin of Guatemala and Mexico

    Dr. Richard D. Hansen has identified some of the largest and earliest ancient cities of the Mayan civilization in Central America with a major international archaeological research team with scholars from around the globe. His work has been featured in 36 film documentaries.

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  • Is Canada Paying the Price for not Having a Robust Privacy Framework?

    Dr. Michael Geist is an award winning legal scholar specializing in internet and copyright issues. He has edited several books including “Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era” (2015), “The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law” (2013), “From “Radical Extremism” to “Balanced Copyright”:…

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  • Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists In The Modern Moment

    Ms. Sarah Milroy is a distinguished independent art critic, curator and essayist, as well as a vocal champion of Canadian art and artists. She is co-founder of the Canadian Art Foundation, and served as editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine.

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  • The InSight Mission to Mars

    Dr. Catherine Johnson’s expertise is in comparative planetary geophysics. She seeks to understand the internal structure and the long-term evolution of our solar system bodies.

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