Mobilizing Knowledge Against Today’s Totalitarian Trends: Building an International Consortium of Concerned Academics

Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This mini-conference will feature twenty presentations by academics on global trends centralizing political authority, undermining judicial power, oppressing political opposition and independent journalism, and promoting cultural-cum-racial chauvinism. It will also […]

Free

Health Data Analytics Information Session

Online/Virtual Event

The UBC Micro-certificate in Health Data Analytics: Opportunities and Applications is a new program for health care professionals and researchers in the health sector with exposure to health data, either clinical or […]

Free

Written Assessment in the Era of Generative AI

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

This event is part of the CTLT Summer Institute, taking place from August 19–22, 2024. Join your peers in an interactive workshop where you will reflect, assess and re-imagine a writing […]

Charting a sustainable future for oceans in Canada

Online/Virtual Event

Celebrating the release of Sea Change Anthropogenic issues – climate change, resource overexploitation, and pollution – have left visible marks on the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans which border Canada. These […]

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 […]

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Mystery of the Cape Flattery Fur Seal

Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Speaker: Dr. Andrew Trites Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries PI, Marine Mammal Research Unit Archeologists examining ancient bones recovered from the middens of Indigenous tribes concluded that a […]