Overview Connecting with our oceans is more crucial today than at any time in our history. Renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle describes the Ocean as the Blue Heart of the planet. Today, due to environmental devaluing and destruction resulting in climate crisis, the world’s oceans are experiencing ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions. Following […]
Overview Connecting with our oceans is more crucial today than at any time in our history. Renowned marine scientist Sylvia Earle describes the Ocean as the Blue Heart of the planet. Today, due to environmental devaluing and destruction resulting in climate crisis, the world’s oceans are experiencing ecosystem collapse, biodiversity loss, and mass extinctions. Following […]
This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. More information is coming soon. snk̓l̕ip’s power to make the world safe for the peoples to be: Coyote Stories so we can all have a future Keynote: Bill Cohen I speak as a Syilx Okanagan artist and educator engaged in […]
The Investor Showcase spotlights high-potential, investible ventures across a range of industries currently supported by HATCH Venture Builder and entrepreneurship@UBC’s Venture Founder program to our investor community. Meet UBC ventures who are raising, create connections across the ecosystem and champion our community of entrepreneurs and innovators driving change!
Avian influenza, or bird flu, has been receiving growing media attention due to continuing significant impacts on public health, economic stability, food security, animal welfare, and global health security. With the potential for highly pathogenic strains to cause severe illness and high mortality rates in birds and occasionally infect humans, the threat of a mutated […]
This workshop will introduce participants to what is possible with the Hathi Trust Research Centre (HTRC) as a tool for Text Mining Research and include a hands-on component working with HTRC Data Capsules, a powerful tool for working with Hathi Trust materials. For hands-on participation please create a Hathi Trust Analytics account as per these […]
This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. An overview of a first-attempt at a new assignment where students are encouraged to interact with Open Educational Resources, evaluate them, and reflect on how a variety of sources of information contribute to the effectiveness of their learning. Facilitator: Tareq […]
This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. This student panel will feature student editors and contributors to UBC’s RESPECT Magazine, which captures UBC students’ perceptions of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) through essays, interviews, multimodal, and interactive presentations. After an overview of the magazine’s history, goals, and […]
Part of the The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the UBC Emeritus College lecture series Political Economy of Extinction and Biodiversity Loss with Dr. Jessica Dempsey, Geography (2018 Wall Scholar) Dr. Rashid Sumaila, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Dr. Louise Teh, Research Associate, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Audrey Irvine-Broque, Graduate Student, Geography In this session, […]
Settlers on Indigenous land are not just English-speaking or French-speaking. The hundreds of languages we learn, use, and teach at UBC add up to a complex picture of what we might call settler multilingualism. What do different models of multilingualism and monolingualism currently promoted today tell us about how we acknowledge, or undermine, Indigenous sovereignty? […]
Each year, UBC’s Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships (KARF) support six exceptional early career researchers to pursue research projects with the potential for significant impact in their field of study. Join us over two special evenings of lectures to hear how the inaugural cohort of KARF recipients, funded in 2020, have advanced their research and scholarship. […]
This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. Plants like trees, shrubs, flowers, and ferns are known as vascular plants, which means they have inner structures that transport water, sugar, and nutrients around their bodies. Learn about new and familiar plants while we explore different groups and their […]
This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. Indigenous land is everywhere: beyond the city limits and within. There is immense power in the places where we live and learn. The land is one of our greatest and most abundant teaching partners. If you have ever been curious […]
In 1734, a Black Portuguese-born woman Marie-Joseph Angélique was publicly executed in Montréal for setting a fire to escape enslavement. This drag-burlesque performance by local queer artists, developed by Kyra Philbert, re-imagines the historical figure as a contemporary registered nurse to explore Blackness in Canadian nursing.
This event is part of the 2023 Celebrate Learning Week, taking place from May 2–9, 2023. Decolonization and Indigenization of teaching and learning is the responsibility of all members of the UBC community. This panel will discuss different activities, strategies, and approaches from across both campuses, delving into questions such as: What are educators at UBC […]
This workshop will introduce the Unix shell, a powerful way to communicate with your computer more directly through a command line interface. There are many ways to interact with a computer. Most of the time we click on things and select options with a cursor through a graphical user interface (GUI). A command line is […]
Part of the The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the UBC Emeritus College lecture series Tipping Points: Climate Change, History and the North with Nancy Langston, Distinguished Professor of Environmental History at Michigan Technological University In this talk, Langston explores tipping points, caribou/reindeer restoration, and the possibility of hope in the Anthropocene. In climate […]
UBC-DIBS is thrilled to announce this year’s outstanding line-up of researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to "nudge for good". Seminars are 10-11am PT on select Fridays.
The Hearts of Freedom exhibition featuring stories of Southeast Asian refugees in Canada will be hosted at UBC Robson Square for free public viewing from May 13 to May 31.
Date: Saturday, 13 May 2023 Time: 15:00 – 17:00 PDT Venue: Labatt Hall, Room 1700, SFU Harbour Centre (555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, V6B 4N6) The documentary unfolds the story of the iconic State Theatre 皇都戲院 in Hong Kong and its legendary founder Harry Odell, a Cairo-born, Shanghai-bred Russian Jew who stamped his mark on the cultural […]
Each year, UBC’s Killam Accelerator Research Fellowships (KARF) support six exceptional early career researchers to pursue research projects with the potential for significant impact in their field of study. Join us over two special evenings of lectures to hear how the inaugural cohort of KARF recipients, funded in 2020, have advanced their research and scholarship. […]
About the Presentation: In this presentation, Dr. Sarrafzadegan will speak about her long-term and deep-rooted experience on the Burden, Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) both in general and with a highlight on cardiovascular disease from global perspectives. She will present some of WHO best buys and packages on this subject, and refer to […]
Join us for a celebration of the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia at a free, public screening of the TELUS original film The Empress of Vancouver.
About the Talk Dr. Meera Dhebar will review traditional cis-heteronormative colonialist assumptions embedded within the discourses and professional practice of mental health systems. She will discuss the centering of queer of colour cultural knowledge, queer theory, and queer of colour critiques to move beyond the current models of LGBT competencies and affirming therapy to a […]
CHÉOS Scientist and Senior Scientist for the BC Centre for Disease Control, Dr. Amanda Slaunwhite, will be presenting 'Finding silence in the noise: Towards a data-driven understanding of the unregulated drug poisoning (overdose) crisis in B.C.' at CHÉOS' upcoming Work in Progress Seminar. Since the provincial public health emergency declaration in 2016, over 11,000 British […]
The Faculty of Medicine Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion invites you to join us for a conversation with James Andrew, a member of Lil’wat Nation’s Mount Currie Band and the Associate Director of Indigenous Initiatives at the Faculty of Medicine. In this this Indigenous Speakers Series session we will learn about the […]
Join us in learning from four individuals and activists who are working for their communities in mindful and intersectional ways through cultural food justice. Register early as space is limited. Light refreshments will be served. Masks, while not mandatory, are recommended. Hosted by the Museum of Vancouver, in partnership with Heritage Vancouver Society and the […]
Syilx Okanagan world view on Honoring motherhood , through renewal practices, and seasonal aspects.
Abstract: Training models from scratch requires way too much data, time, and computing power (or money) to be a practical option. This is why transfer learning has become such a common practice: by starting with models trained on related problems, you are saving time and achieving good results with little data. Now, where do you […]
UBC Botanical Garden invites you and your community to participate in their 3rd annual Family Nature Walk. About the Family Nature Walk This children-oriented biodiversity adventure is ~ 90 minutes and includes a self-guided journey through UBC Botanical Garden to find the pop-up education stations in the Garden. Activities included traversing the Greenheart TreeWalk, exploring […]
UBC Botanical Garden invites you and your community to participate in their 3rd annual Family Nature Walk. About the Family Nature Walk This children-oriented biodiversity adventure is ~ 90 minutes and includes a self-guided journey through UBC Botanical Garden to find the pop-up education stations in the Garden. Activities included traversing the Greenheart TreeWalk, exploring […]
Dr. Shannon Leddy will guide participants through the process of phenomenological art inquiry, in which a dialogic approach to spending time with the work of Indigenous artists can reveal to viewers the ways in which their understandings of Indigenous peoples have been informed. Part of the Ethics of Trauma-Informed Research Webinar Mini-Series co-hosted by the […]
Water4Seasons draws on Research-based Theatre to explore the status of water health equity for Indigenous and rural communities in Canada, featuring a live theatre performance and talk from Dr. Stephani Woodson.
In “Lo(o)sing the Edge”, the late Teresia Teaiwa (I-Kiribati) quoted Vince Diaz’s description of a “motley group” of Pacific Islanders at UC Santa Cruz as “ caught different waves, all of us, only to find ourselves, beached, temporarily, out here” (Teaiwa et al., 2021, p. 60). In this interdisciplinary panel at Green College, speakers explore the […]
Sign up free online: https://learningcircle.ubc.ca/2023/05/08/honouring-our-stolen-relatives/ ========== The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) in collaboration with the UBC Learning Circle will be hosting a conversation on the impacts of “Our Stolen Relatives”. This workshop will look harm reduction and the on-going human rights crisis of the gendered and race-based violence in Canada. The session will […]
This workshop is designed to provide participants with a foundational understanding of the concepts, techniques, and tools used in machine learning. Through a series of lectures and hands-on exercises, participants will learn about types of learning and get practical experience with some of the most popular machine learning algorithms and techniques such as regression, clustering, and […]
Oxygen is a popular tool for editing and publishing XML documents and is frequently used to create Digital Editions when working with TEI XML. This workshop will provide a basic introduction to Oxygen and best practices around editing scholarly XML documents. At the end of this workshop participants will be able to: Idenfity features of […]
Climate change has elevated the risk of extreme weather the world over. In British Columbia, a natural flood risk mitigator lies all around us in the water-absorbing power of trees. In fact, research has shown that even a modest loss of forest cover due to wildfire, logging and disease can cause surprisingly large increases in […]
Join us on Saturday, June 3 for the beginning of the UBC Farm Farmers' Market season. Don't miss Vancouver's only multi-vendor farmers' market located on a working farm! In addition to certified organic and farm-fresh produce, fruits, herbs, and seeds from the UBC Farm, the Saturday multi-vendor Farmers' Market also features a variety of other […]
Take your French language experience to the next level by exploring the connection between heart, body and mind in this all-levels yoga series offered entirely in French for three Saturdays each term. Learn or practice your French vocabulary as it relates to movement, breath and spiritual wellbeing. This series is a perfect add-on to your Extended […]
June 4th free film screening of “Passage to Freedom” a documentary by Sheila Petzold . After the one-hour film, there will be a broader, intercultural discussion of “The Impact of Forced Migration Across Our Communities”, from Indigenous, Japanese Canadian, and Cambodian American perspectives. The film may be too intense for those under the age of 12, as […]