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Keynote Lecture: Prof. Susan Andrews, “Co-creating Learning Experiences at the Peripheries”

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

We are delighted to welcome Professor Susan Andrews (Mount Allison University), who will give a public lecture entitled: Fizzing and Popping with Possibility: Co-creating Learning Experiences at the Peripheries About this Event Teaching Buddhism with and through the body offers exciting possibilities. From community engaged and work integrated learning to role play, field schools, and […]

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The Truth-Seeking Mission of the University

Allard Hall 1822 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Today, many citizens grasp the core purpose of universities through the lens of career and credentials. Universities exist, in other words, to transmit information, impart skills, and issue degrees that lead to employment. The competing idea that universities are primarily concerned with seeking the truth about ourselves and our world is not in vogue. In this […]

Keynote Lecture: Prof. Jay L. Garfield, “Buddhism and Nonviolence in the Contemporary World”

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

We are delighted to welcome Professor Jay L. Garfield (Smith College and the Harvard Divinity School), who will give a guest lecture entitled: Buddhism and Nonviolence in the Contemporary World About this Event Buddhism and ahiṃsā today: Buddhist ethical thought aims at a life of ahiṃsā, usually translated as nonviolence or non-harming. Like all Buddhist […]

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Event Series Faculty of Medicine Translational Medicine Rounds

Faculty of Medicine Translational Medicine Rounds

The Faculty of Medicine Translational Medicine Rounds (FoM TM Rounds) is an initiative for UBC faculty members conducting translational research as well as their colleagues, hosted by the Academy of Translational Medicine (ATM). The Rounds serve to form the foundation of the new collaborative ATM community and provide a forum where early-career interdisciplinary researchers can: […]

Colloquium with Dr. Mariam Aly on ‘How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention’.

Online/Virtual Event

Join UBC Psychology for an online colloquium with Dr. Mariam Aly, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. Dr. Aly will present on: How hippocampal memory shapes, and is shaped by, attention. ABSTRACT: Attention modulates what we see and remember. Memory affects what we attend to and perceive. Despite this connection in behavior, little is […]

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A Sense of an Ending: Chinese Buddhist Eschatology Reconsidered

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

In 1976, Dan Overmyer published Folk Buddhist Religion, a volume that drew attention to apocalyptic visions of some popular groups influenced by Buddhist conceptions, amongst others, of global disaster. This keynote will discuss what has been written in this vein since then, reaction in East Asia to climate change, what have we learned over the […]

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Buddhist Self-Immolation and Climate Change

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

In recent years, a number of climate activities have self-inflicted auto-cremation in a drastic response to climate change. Though Inspired by Buddhist auto-cremators of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Buddhist self-immolation has a long history in East Asia. This lecture will explore some of the deeper historical connections between Buddhist self-immolation and climate […]

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Ikkyū and the Crazy Cloud Anthology: Then and Now

Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This lecture will explore selected translations of the Kyōunshū 狂雲集 (Crazy Cloud Anthology), an anthology of poems in literary Chinese by medieval Rinzai monk Ikkyū Sōjun 休宗純 (1394-1481). The readings will concentrate on poems from Ikkyū’s later years spent during the catastrophic Ōnin War (1467-1477). Ikkyū’s experience as a refugee watching the world crumble around […]

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Cinema Thinks the World: Coming Out (1989)

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

A free screening and discussion of the 1989 film, Coming Out.

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BC Votes: What Happens Next?

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join a panel of UBC Political Science faculty and alumni as we break down the results of the province’s municipal elections and their consequences for future policy and the future of local government.

#DecrimSexWork: Enhancing Justice for Sex Workers in Aotearoa (New Zealand)

Online/Virtual Event

It is a year out from the 20th anniversary of the decriminalization of sex work in Aotearoa-New Zealand and so much has changed during this time for sex workers in this country. The sex industry has changed from one where it was illegal to solicit, own or manage a brothel, live off earnings of a […]

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UBC Connects with Tanya Talaga

Vancouver Playhouse 600 Hamilton Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Covering the Apocalypse: What it is like being an Indigenous journalist in Canada