Join weekly 30-minute online meditation sessions led by Iris Escuer Riera, Lecturer of Spanish at UBC. Open to all. Zoom access link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/94414244817?pwd=OGFPK1FrSXZIQ1dzc25Cd05UUjY5UT09

Microaggressions continue to be the most pervasive and undetected contributor to racism in many institutions, including educational settings. However, microaggressions are not micro. For those who are the target of microaggressions, severe consequences on mental well-being and life trajectories can result. In this presentation, Hieu will use her children’s picture book, The Little Girl to examine ‘What […]

In this Indigenous Speaker Series session, we will have a conversation with Andrew Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson – Amo Binashii, authors of Valley of the Birdtail. In this Indigenous Speakers Series session, we will learn about what it means to be Indigenous in Canada, what it means for all of us to be Canadians in […]

R Markdown turns your analyses into high-quality, elegantly formatted, and fully reproducible output by putting together narrative text, code and plots. This workshop will walk you through the creation and usage of R Markdown. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and the RStudio environment. The workshop is one hour, followed by an […]

The First Nations House of Learning is hosting an Indigenous Community Holiday Craft Fair on Thursday, December 7th, from 3–5pm at Sty-Wet-Tan Great Hall. The UBC community is invited to attend this exciting fair, which celebrates Indigenous art and craftspersonship. Indigenous students, faculty, staff, and community members will be displaying and selling their art and handmade crafts, […]

UBC's Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS) is excited to announce our 2023-2024 Behavioural Insights Seminar Series featuring an exciting set of researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to "nudge for good". Register to attend at https://bit.ly/DIBSseminars. Join us on select Fridays at 1-2pm Pacific […]

Abstract: The internet is a trove of information. A lot of it is publicly available and thus suitable for use in research. Extracting that information and putting it in an organized format for analysis can however be extremely tedious. Web scraping tools allow to automate parts of that process and Python is a popular language […]

Zoom Registration  This virtual symposium is the fourth in a series of panels of scholars investigating various dimensions of the “Other Power” in Buddhism organized by Prof. Kenneth Tanaka. About this Event In this fourth symposium in the series on “Other Power in Buddhism,” we are expanding our scope to include materials from Tibetan Buddhism while continuing to […]