Information Session @ UBC Robson Square – Master of Public Policy & Global Affairs DATE

Online/Virtual Event

The MPPGA Information Session is for those interested in exploring or further equipping themselves in the world of public policy. Get to know how you can develop key skills in policy research, data analysis, policy writing, and communication through our program. Join our team at the UBC Robson Campus HSBC Room for the evening where […]

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How Ancestral Voyaging Mobilizes Knowledge of Biodiversity & Climate Change

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

Reception to follow xʷθəθiqətəm or The Place of Many Trees Liu Institute for Global Issues 6476 NW Marine Dr, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2   The future of the ocean is essential to the planet’s future and human life. Climate change intersects profoundly with biodiversity, food security for billions of humans, culture, and economy and peace. […]

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Coastal Livelihoods: A visual anthropology exhibit by Zana Mody

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

Photography Exhibit: Aug 30 – Sept 29, 2023 Opening Reception: Aug 30, 2023 5:00pm RSVP NOW Approximately 3.3 billion people around the world rely on fish and seafood as their primary source of protein and for their local economies, yet the methods for catching fish vary greatly in their impacts on the marine ecosystems. The […]

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Timothy Garton Ash: From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe – and Back

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

In his new book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Timothy Garton Ash gives a unique account of the history of Europe since 1945. This is history illustrated by memoir and reportage. Garton Ash draws on his extensive personal notes from 50 years of events witnessed, places visited and history makers encountered (from Margaret Thatcher […]

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Tunku Zain Al‘Abidin: “Divergence in Malaysia: Who and what will prevail?”

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

His Highness Tunku Zain Al‘Abidin is a Malaysian public intellectual, the Founding President of the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS), director or advisor of several educational organizations, and patron of numerous cultural initiatives. He has written widely on issues of democratization and reform, and is a Royal Fellow of the National University of […]

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