CGSHE Trainee Research Symposium

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The Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity is proud to present our next Trainee Research Symposium! The symposium will showcase ten-minute presentations by CGSHE trainees from UBC and SFU […]

Abolish Border Imperialism: Climate Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire

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

We are pleased to welcome writer and organizer Harsha Walia on April 6th for a talk on climate migration, racial capitalism, and border imperialism. Harsha Walia has been involved in community-based […]

Queer Worldmaking in Mental Health

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About the Talk Dr. Meera Dhebar will review traditional cis-heteronormative colonialist assumptions embedded within the discourses and professional practice of mental health systems. She will discuss the centering of queer of […]

What do East Asian Buddhists call their books and why?

C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asian Research 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Almost all scholars of East Asian Buddhism refer to Buddhists’ books as either the “Three Baskets” or the “canon”. But either term denotes a collection of thousands of individual books, […]

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Healthy Aging Research Seminar: Dr. Jennifer Cobb

Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (CBH) 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lecture Title: Genome Instability and Aging Speaker Biography: Dr. Jennifer Cobb is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology at the University of Victoria. Her research investigates the impact of […]

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How the Newborn Graphic Novel Found the Librarians It Needed

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

End the semester with a bang by attending iSchool's final colloquia of the year, a thrilling talk on the history of comic books, graphic novels and teen librarians by Dr. […]

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Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Andrew Weaver

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) 6331 Crescent Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Part of the PWIAS Catalyst Program Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Dr. Andrew Weaver, Professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of […]

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Global Health Lunch and Learn: Global Health and Decolonization

School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) 2206 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About the presentation: In this presentation, Dr. Sewankambo will speak about his longstanding career in global health and decolonization efforts within the field. About the presenter: Prof. Nelson K. Sewankambo […]

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