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 […]
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 […]
OUTweek 2016: Writing Workshop
This workshop will be a space to explore styles of writing particularly tailored to the queer community, with tips for writing for different identities in any medium, from poetry to prose. The workshop will be facilitated by the wonderfully talented Claire Robson. The workshop will look into how we write to make space for narratives outside of the cis heteronormative ones so commonly found. Snacks provided!
