A new style of expressive musical pictorialism marked the dawn of the Baroque in Italy, where composers sought above all to transport the listener to a state of intensified emotion by means of musical rhetoric and narrative. Gradually, composers such as Girolamo Frescobaldi brought these ideals to the context of instrumental music, printing their virtuosic […]
Please join the UBC Muslim Students’ Association for Community Iftar from 6:00pm to 8:30pm at the Place Vanier Ballroom.
Please join the UBC Muslim Students’ Association for Taraweeh from 6:00pm to 9:00pm at the Place Vanier Ballroom.
Join us for this timely talk where acclaimed author and journalist Karen Hao lays out the stakes of the most consequential tech arms race in history—and the role we all can play to ensure that AI benefits everyone. AI is transforming the world at breakneck speed and concentrating extraordinary power in the hands of a few. […]
UBC Theatre and Film Presents Pyper by Susanna Fournier Directed by Leora Morris Ten cyborg-AI teens try to build a time capsule to prove they exist in case they’re “retired” before graduation. Tracing their origins back to a mysterious piper in the town of Hamelin and an old puppet maker who discovers a talking block […]
Speaker: Dr. Veronica Lo, IISD The deepening climate change and biodiversity loss crises, intertwined with destructive intensive fishing and aquaculture practices, necessitate new ways of meeting food security and livelihood needs sustainably and equitably. There is a growing policy imperative for implementing nature-based solutions, as evidenced by the role that nature plays in local […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
