Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

P. A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (Woodward IRC) 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Elizabeth Kolbert — Award-winning author and journalist Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Ms. Kolbert is an observer and commentator on the crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene for The New Yorker magazine. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) and Under a White Sky(2021) is her latest […]

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The Critical University: Place as Past, Present and Future

P. A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (Woodward IRC) 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Dr. Clare Haru Crowston, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Crowston served as the Associate Dean for the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has demonstrated her commitment to academic and research excellence through […]

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How will Canada Prosper in the Next Age of Uncertainty?

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Dr. Stephen Poloz, Former Governor of the Bank of Canada, Special Advisor, Osler Business Law Dr. Poloz is a distinguished economist with four decades of experience in financial markets, forecasting, and economic policy. He is the author of The Next Age of Uncertainty: How the World Can Adapt to a Riskier Future (2022). Dr. Poloz […]

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How UBC Enabled the COVID-19 MRNA Vaccines

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Dr. Pieter Cullis, O.C. Director, Life Sciences Institute, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of BC Dr. Cullis is globally known for his contributions to the field of lipid nanoparticles. His research has contributed to the development of nanomedicines employing lipid nanoparticle delivery technology leading to five clinically approved drugs for cancer therapies, gene therapies, […]

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Residential Schools in Canada: Survivor Truths, Access to Records, and the Post-TRC Era

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A lecture by Dr. Tricia Logan, Interim Academic Director, Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre, and Assistant Professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, UBC. Dr. Logan is a Métis scholar with more than 20 years of experience working with elders and leaders in First Nations, Métis […]

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Is the Missing Middle Missing for Good Reason?

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A lecture Dr. Thomas Davidoff, Stanley Hamilton Professor in Real Estate Financing, Sauder School of Business; and  Director of the Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate at UBC.

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The UBC Museum of Anthropology: A Collection Fit for the Nation(s)

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Dr. Anthony Shelton is Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; and former Director of the Museum of Anthropology. Dr. Shelton’s interests include Latin American, Iberian and African visual cultures, Surrealism, the history of collecting, and critical museology. He has published extensively in the areas of visual culture, museology, the history of collecting, and […]

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Understanding Artificial Intelligence

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Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown,Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Computer Science, UBC. Dr. Leyton-Brown’s research addresses issues in computational game theory; also in market design, analysis and clearing, as well as the application of machine learning to the automated design and analysis of algorithms for solving hard computational problems. He is a Fellow of the Royal […]

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Thinking as Politics: The Moral Dimensions of Poetry

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A Lecture by Dr. Jan Zwicky, Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy, University of Victoria Dr. Zwicky is one of Canada’s most respected artists and intellectuals, known equally for her original work in philosophy and her poetry. Her writing has covered issues in music, poetry, philosophy, and the environment. She was among the first […]

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