- Events
- Audience – Faculty and Staff – Vancouver
Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North with Andrew S. Rosenberg
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverUBC Creative Writing Faculty Reading & Reception
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, VancouverFrom Postdoc to Founder: Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey – Keynote and Reception with Dr. Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi
Leon and Thea Koerner University Centre 6331 Crescent Road, VancouverOrientation for Postdoctoral Fellows – Fall 2024
Ponderosa Commons North (Oak and Cedar Houses) 6445 University Boulevard, VancouverDIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Scripting and Storyboarding
UBC Studios 0110 – 2329 West Mall, VancouverDIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Production
UBC Studios 0110 – 2329 West Mall, VancouverGrapes to Glass: Wine Education and Tasting Series
Food, Nutrition and Health Building 2205 East Mall, VancouverCHSPR Seminar | Contemporary Developments in Australian Health Policy
School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver +1 moreDIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Post-Production
UBC Studios 0110 – 2329 West Mall, VancouverRe-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien
Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver[Literary Hong Kong] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, Vancouver[Literary Hong Kong] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverFilm Screening: Ever Deadly
Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) 1985 Learners' Walk, VancouverDocumentary Screening “Liu Yichang: 1918” and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver- No events scheduled for September 22, 2024.
Week of Events
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Creative Briefs
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Creative Briefs
Planning a media project can be overwhelming. Where to begin? This in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff will provide guidance from media professionals on the many things to consider when planning a media project, whether your project is simple or complex. Minimize your suffering; plan effectively! It doesn’t have to hurt! Facilitators: Chris Spencer, […]
Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North with Andrew S. Rosenberg
Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North with Andrew S. Rosenberg
For its first Speaker Series event of the year on the theme Migration, Racialization, and Inequality, the UBC Centre for Migration Studies is thrilled to welcome Andrew S. Rosenberg who will present his talk, “Shades of Perception: Non-White Refugee Arrivals and Migration Policy Restrictiveness in the Global North.” For in-person attendance, please RSVP by September […]
UBC Creative Writing Faculty Reading & Reception
UBC Creative Writing Faculty Reading & Reception
Please join us to hear from UBC Creative Writing faculty who are publishing new work this year. Come relax and listen to readings, mingle with students, faculty and staff, and have a drink and a snack. Billy-Ray Belcourt will read from his short story collection Coexistence. Frances Koncan will read from their play Women of […]
From Postdoc to Founder: Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey – Keynote and Reception with Dr. Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi
From Postdoc to Founder: Navigating the Entrepreneurial Journey – Keynote and Reception with Dr. Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi
This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. Join the PDFO for our NPAW kickoff event, a keynote by Dr. Olumuyiwa Igbalajobi, former UBC postdoc and founder of Scholarships Café, an online platform with the mission to connect exceptional students and postdocs with […]
Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows – Fall 2024
Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows – Fall 2024
This event is part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week. Click here to view all events in celebration of NPAW 2024. UBC's Orientation for Postdoctoral Fellows will cover a range of important campus and academic information and advice geared to help you and your families obtain the most from your Postdoc experience at UBC. Orientation is open […]
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Scripting and Storyboarding
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Scripting and Storyboarding
What is a script? What is a storyboard? Do you need them? How do you build them? This in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff will explore the fundamentals of DIY media scripting and storyboarding. We’ll look at examples of the wide range of approaches that can be taken, and give tips and tricks on […]
Lunch & Lift – Sleep & Academics
Lunch & Lift – Sleep & Academics
Join us for a relaxing 30-minute yoga class, followed by a workshop on the benefits of sleep! Did you know that cultivating healthy sleep habits contributes to academic success? This workshop invites you to reflect on your feelings and habits related to sleep and to explore the relationship between sleep and work. Through guided activities […]
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Production
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Production
How do they get such great footage? Are you a UBC Instructor or Staff, and planning on filming your own video content? This in-person workshop will provide advice for DIY camera, lighting and audio. Media professionals will share tips, tricks, and best practices. Whether you’re filming outside, in an office, or in a professional studio, we can […]
Grapes to Glass: Wine Education and Tasting Series
Grapes to Glass: Wine Education and Tasting Series
Join Grapes to Glass – a four-session Wine Education and Tasting Series presented by the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems. Learn about the important elements of wine production, from grape-growing to enjoying the finished product, with a special focus on B.C. wines. Tour the UBC Wine Library – home to 4,000 unique bottles […]
CHSPR Seminar | Contemporary Developments in Australian Health Policy
CHSPR Seminar | Contemporary Developments in Australian Health Policy
Speaker: Stephen Duckett, Honorary Professor, University of Melbourne A new Labor government in Australia, elected in 2022, brought with it a reforming health minister, Mark Butler. Butler started a reform process in primary care – which is ongoing – and also started to modernise aspects of mental health provision. The directions of change will be outlined […]
Data Bites – Best Practices for Creating a README file
Data Bites – Best Practices for Creating a README file
Do you struggle with organizing your research materials? This 30-minute workshop highlights practical techniques for creating a README file. A README is a guide to your data and assists other researchers to understand your dataset, its contents, provenance, licensing and how to interact with it. Location: ONLINE (A Zoom link will be sent to registrants 3 […]
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Online Drop-In)
WordPress & Wiki Clinic (Online Drop-In)
Online The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and […]
Beginner R Part 1
Beginner R Part 1
If you have never opened R, do not know what R packages are, do not know how to read files into R, this workshop is for you! At the end of this workshop you will: Know what R and RStudio are Know what the parts of R Studio are called Know how to organize R […]
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Post-Production
DIY Media Workshops Fall 2024 – Introduction to Post-Production
Post-production can seem daunting, but it really doesn’t have to be. Let’s make you an editor! In this in-person workshop for UBC Instructors and Staff, we’ll give you an overview of the post-production process: from organizing your camera footage to exporting your final masterpiece with the optimal settings. We’ll walk you through the basics of […]
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture
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, […]
Harvest Feastival
Harvest Feastival
September 19 marks the return of Harvest Feastival, an epic evening of incredible food, friends, arts and culture, right here at UBC Vancouver! Celebrate the start of the school year (and homecoming week!) by spending a cozy fall evening surrounded by 800 of your closest friends, family, and colleagues at this beloved campus celebration. Back […]
Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien
Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien
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 […]
[Literary Hong Kong] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading
[Literary Hong Kong] Voice of Verse: Sharing by Dr. Keith Liu and Poetry Reading
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 […]
[Literary Hong Kong] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)
[Literary Hong Kong] Let’s Get Together Sometime: Hong Kong Cinema and Adaptation (1914-2024)
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 […]
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Barbecue
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Barbecue
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 […]
Film Screening: Ever Deadly
Film Screening: Ever Deadly
Join IRSHDC gallery for a screening of Ever Deadly, courtesy of the NFB. About film: Ever Deadly weaves concert footage with stunning sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph—all through the expressions of Tanya Tagaq, one of the most innovative musical performers of our time. This […]
Saturday Multi-vendor UBC Farm Farmers’ Market
Saturday Multi-vendor UBC Farm Farmers’ Market
Don’t miss the only multi-vendor farmers’ market in Vancouver located on a working farm! It’s our biggest weekly event on the Farm, bringing in dozens of vendors selling local fruits, vegetables, meats, baked goods, beverages, mushrooms, coffee and food trucks, alcohol, treats, crafts and prepared foods, as well as – of course! – the certified organic, […]
Documentary Screening “Liu Yichang: 1918” and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong
Documentary Screening “Liu Yichang: 1918” and Conversation with Director Dr. Ben Wong
Join us for the screening of documentary film Liu Yichang: 1918 and meet award-winning filmmaker, scriptwriter, and scholar Dr. Ben Wong in person. Film with English subtitles; post-screening conversation to be conducted in English. Born in Shanghai, Liu Yichang 劉以鬯 (1918-2008) is one of the most influential writer and literary editor in Hong Kong’s cultural scene. […]