Humans Without Borders: a Global Perspective on Migration
Amnesty International UBC will be hosting its annual conference on March 19th! Come join us to discuss a topical issue in human rights: human migration. This year’s conference will examine topics of human migration around the world, including conflict-induced migration from Syria, undocumented migration in North America, and refugee law and resettlement in Canada.
UBC Hip Hop Showcase
Underground rappers on the grind repping UBC and SFU present a night LIT with fire rhymes and bust-your-chest-open beats. Bring two friends, flame resistant clothing and a towel for these rappers’ molten flows.
Nowhere People Project ft. Greg Constantine, Allard Prize Photography Competition Winner
Nowhere People is a 10-year investigation that documents the lives of stateless individuals and communities around the world. Greg Constantine is an award-winning documentary photojournalist from the United States and is one of the winners of the semi-annual Allard Prize Photography Competition.
2016 Vancouver Defeat Depression Run
UBC MHAC is working with UBC Recreation (UBC REC) and Vancouver Defeat Depression to host another Defeat Depression 5km Run/Walk at the UBC Vancouver Campus!
MUNSA Presents: Crisis & Conflict 2016
MUNSA is back with our Spring One-Day Conference! Come join us to talk about issues surrounding emergency response and relief efforts.
This Week at UBC – February 28 – March 5, 2016
This week The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould will give a public address at the Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, the UBC Thunderbirds Men’s Basketball team will try to battle their way through the Canada West Quarter Finals, and the Build My Career campaign will kick-off – asking students to reflect on their career development.
Alpha Phi Omega UBC Presents: Cocoa Chats 3.0
The monthly Cocoa Chats series is an Alpha Phi Omega UBC initiative that believes in the power of dialogue and discussion in furthering personal leadership skills and fostering growth in youth.
The Prisoner’s Dilemma: Partners and Rivals
The Prisoner’s Dilemma game, the working horse for studying social traps, has recently undergone a remarkable rejuvenation.
Ecological Responses to Climate Change in a Complex Ocean
We have entered a period of rapid environmental change, and ecological responses to this change are beginning to outpace our ability to understand and predict them.
Climate Change Denial: Where do we go from here?
Polls show that citizens around the globe overwhelmingly accept the scientific evidence that our climate is changing for reasons that are largely human-caused, but our political leadership lags behind. On the national level, neither the U.S. nor Canada has made substantial headway in controlling the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change, nor to accelerate the transition to non-carbon based sources of energy. Yet there is good news on the horizon: many provinces, states and cities are moving forward with carbon-reduction policies. Can action on this level make a difference?
The Double life of Infrastructures in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
An analysis of the way smugglers working in the lowest ranks of the drug economy in northern Mexico engage with and manipulate the built environment. In order to move and temporarily store drugs and drug-money, they use warehouses, indigenous trade routes, clandestine landing sites, environmental reserves and other structures and pathways.
Alpha Phi Omega UBC Presents: The Wild B(r)unch
Whats better than brunch in your jammies? Brunch in animal onesies with friends as you munch of foods from an array of specialty cuisines while making valuable networking connections with […]
This Week at UBC – February 21 – 27, 2016
This week there are Grammy award-winning musicians at the Chan Centre, special lectures from Green College and the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a special UBC Centennial Workshop.
UBC Opera presents: Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice)
A review of a UBC student’s perception of Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice).
This Week at UBC- February 14 – 20, 2016
This week take a walk through the UBC Arboretum, learn about mental health in the Canadian Armed Forces, and cheer on the UBC Thunderbirds in their home games this weekend.
This Week at UBC: February 7 – February 13, 2016
This week is both Out Week and International Development Week and there are many engaging and fun events lined up. There are also great events from UBC Sustainability and the Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics
This Week at UBC – January 31 – February 6, 2016
From Eurydice and A Night in Venice to UBC’s Centennial Lunar New Year Festival, there’s a lot happening this week at UBC.
How will the World Eat in the Future?
Award winning author, activist, and academic Raj Patel shares some of the best and most surprising innovations to address the future of food. With stories from the world’s poorest people – from Peru to Malawi, there’s a great deal of innovation to help us imagine how the world can feed itself by 2050.
Social Paediatrics in Canada and Vancouver
“How to Love a Child”, the Janusz Korczak Lecture Series, is devoted to key issues crucial to the well-being and rights of children and young people today with the hope that the lectures and panel discussions will provide fertile ground for a fruitful exchange of ideas and approaches to improving the situation of young people in all spheres of society.
Alpha Phi UBC Presents: The Dating Game
The ladies of Alpha Phi will be hosting our annual DATING GAME, based on the hit show from the 60s which will have a series of bachelors and bachelorettes ask contestants questions in order to select one to go on a real date with conveniently before Valentines Day! All proceeds will be donated to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of BC.
OUTweek 2016: Art & Performance Night
Join us this Thursday Evening for a night full of performances and pondering! Come lounge and mingle over some hot chocolate and coffee, and eat the finest of store-brand fruit & cookies. Anyone & everyone will chance to perform at our open mic and show off their queer talents, all while enjoying some featured performances.
OUTweek 2016: Concourse Fair
Come by and learn about resources that are available to you! YouthCo, SASC, and more will be tabling at this fair! Come on by and check out the booths.
OUTweek 2016: Anti-Heteronormative Relationships Workshop & Discussion
A facilitated discussion and sharing and learning -based space, to talk about the ways in which queer relationships can still reproduce heteronormativity and how we can work to resist the […]