- Events
- Type – Seminar
- No events scheduled for February 14, 2023.
UBC Healthy Aging Seminar: ‘Acting’ Old(er): How Theatre and Performance Help Us Re-imagine Possibilities for “Healthy Aging”
Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health (CBH) 2215 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver- No events scheduled for February 16, 2023.
- No events scheduled for February 18, 2023.
- No events scheduled for February 19, 2023.
Week of Events
Imaiyạchi: Transcending Historical Trauma and Living Ancestral Visions Imagined for Us as Native Women
Imaiyạchi: Transcending Historical Trauma and Living Ancestral Visions Imagined for Us as Native Women
The Women’s Health Seminar Series features multidisciplinary research on women’s health. The goal of the series is to provide multidisciplinary training and mentorship to faculty, students, and community members across a broad range of women’s health research topics. Speakers will present their research regarding the biological, psychological, behavioural, economic and social impacts on women’s health […]
UBC Healthy Aging Seminar: ‘Acting’ Old(er): How Theatre and Performance Help Us Re-imagine Possibilities for “Healthy Aging”
UBC Healthy Aging Seminar: ‘Acting’ Old(er): How Theatre and Performance Help Us Re-imagine Possibilities for “Healthy Aging”
Cultural discourses shape our understandings of what it means to age and be old(er) – they can open up possibilities or limit our imaginations by telling us what is acceptable, possible, or shameful in old(er) age, and what “healthy aging” might mean. Theatre and performance are particularly rich sites for conveying cultural age narratives. They […]
The role of sociality in cetacean ecology, evolution, and conservation
The role of sociality in cetacean ecology, evolution, and conservation
Speaker: Dr. Amy M. Van Cise Assistant Professor, University of Washington Sociality – the suite of socially learned behaviors specific to a group of animals – is increasingly recognized as a survival strategy that is integral to the evolutionary ecology of many non-human animals. This is especially true in marine environments, where there are few […]