Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Kathi Fisler, Brown University Title:  Socially-Responsible Computing Education: Views from a Researcher Abstract: Efforts to teach ethics in university-level CS have been around since the 1970s. In the last few years, […]

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[Literary Hong Kong] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Date: Thursday, 19 September 2024 Time: 16:00-17:00 PDT Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Founded by Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine in 2019, Voice of Verse is a poetry preservation project with the aim to build an online inventory of Hong Kong poets’ sounds. The team recorded […]

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Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join the CMS Circulation: Africa and its Diasporas Research Group and the UBC Latin American Landscape Cluster for “Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti” with Dr. Cécile Accilien. Dr. Accilien’s talk will delve into the complexity around simplistic disaster narratives surrounding Haiti by providing historical and cultural context. It will further consider how ensekirite in its various forms […]

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[Literary Hong Kong] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)

Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024 Time: 17:30-18:45 PDT Venue: Peña Room (301), 3/F Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Language: English Dr. Mary Shuk Han Wong, writer and associate professor at the Department of Chinese of Lingnan University, Hong Kong, will visit UBC in person and talk about the development of Hong […]

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National Postdoc Appreciation Week Barbecue

AMS Nest 6133 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. UBC, and especially the PDFO, would like to take this opportunity to thank our Postdocs for their hard work and for all the contributions they have made to the UBC community. We would like to celebrate the […]

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