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Policy Communications Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)
Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive, VancouverChinese Soft Power in Africa: Production of Ambivalent Solidarities
Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, VancouverApproaching “The Archive”: A Roundtable Discussion
Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, VancouverHow Ancestral Voyaging Mobilizes Knowledge of Biodiversity & Climate Change
Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive, VancouverMarine Heatwave-Driven Transformation of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Hybrid Online/Virtual and In-Person - See Description VancouverWho Owns Outer Space? Sustainable Development on the Final Frontier
P. A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (Woodward IRC) 2194 Health Sciences Mall, VancouverWeek of Events
The Willful Plot exhibition
The Willful Plot exhibition
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is open from Tuesday to Friday 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 pm; and closed Mondays and holidays. Derya Akay and Vivienne Bessette, Gabi Dao, Derek Jarman, Charmian Johnson, Glenn Lewis, Mike MacDonald, Rehab Nazzal, Dana Qaddah The Willful Plot brings together […]
Diving deeper with Esri StoryMaps
Diving deeper with Esri StoryMaps
Esri StoryMaps are a map-based presentation tool from the GIS software distributor Esri. Anyone with an ArcGIS Online account can create a StoryMap, and they are a good way to tell a story with maps, pictures, videos, and text. They can be used in place of PowerPoint, especially for those who would like to incorporate […]
Policy Communications Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)
Policy Communications Workshop (Humanities & Social Sciences)
Professor Heidi Tworek and KJ Sharan will lead a 90 minute hybrid workshop on the different strategies of policy communication and how to use communication as an advocacy tool. We will work on communicating your research to a diverse set of policy audiences. We will discuss how to create and disseminate effective, inclusive, and powerful […]
Relational data in R
Relational data in R
There are many cases where it's helpful to combine data from multiple sources or tables. This workshop will introduce how to work with multiple data frames in R. Participants are expected to already be familiar with R and RStudio. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to: Understand the need to work […]
Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Production of Ambivalent Solidarities
Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Production of Ambivalent Solidarities
In the series China Power Maria Repnikova, Global Communication, Georgia State University Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Wednesday, February 1, 5-6:30 pm, followed by a reception Co-hosted by the Centre for Chinese Research This talk will explore the workings of Chinese soft power initiatives in Africa through the empirical lens of China-Ethiopia encounters. […]
Night of Ideas 2023 – More? Slow is Beautiful
Night of Ideas 2023 – More? Slow is Beautiful
Join us for the Night of Ideas 2023 – an evening of creative thinking taking place in 200 cities and 100 countries around the world in early February 2023. In Vancouver, artists and speakers will reflect on More? Slow is Beautiful from their perspective. Presenters include Andrea Reimer, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, Azul Carolina Duque, Ndidi Cascade, Tabitha […]
Introduction to the Unix Shell
Introduction to the Unix Shell
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 […]
Approaching “The Archive”: A Roundtable Discussion
Approaching “The Archive”: A Roundtable Discussion
in the series Animating Archives: Memory, Community, Creation Olivia Michiko Gagnon, Theatre and Film; Leora Morris, Theatre and Film; and Ori Tenenboim, Journalism, Writing and Media Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Thursday, February 2, 5-6:30 pm This roundtable approaches the question and the problem of "the archive" from multiple disciplinary perspectives, including theatre, […]
How Ancestral Voyaging Mobilizes Knowledge of Biodiversity & Climate Change
How Ancestral Voyaging Mobilizes Knowledge of Biodiversity & Climate Change
Reception to follow xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 The future of the ocean is essential to the planet’s future and human life. Climate change intersects profoundly with biodiversity, food security for billions of humans, culture, and economy and peace. […]
Marine Heatwave-Driven Transformation of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Marine Heatwave-Driven Transformation of Coral Reef Ecosystems
Speaker: Dr. Julia K. Baum Professor and President’s Chair, Ocean Ecology and Global Change, University of Victoria Climate change-amplified marine heatwaves now pose an imminent threat to the world’s tropical coral reefs. On almost all coral reefs, however, climate change is superimposed on a suite of local anthropogenic stressors, and available evidence suggests that these […]
Who Owns Outer Space? Sustainable Development on the Final Frontier
Who Owns Outer Space? Sustainable Development on the Final Frontier
Michael Byers (UBC Political Science) and Aaron Boley (UBC Physics and Astronomy) will be speaking about their upcoming book (April 2023) "Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space" at the Vancouver Institute at UBC.