Climate Adaptation: Preparing Vancouver’s Workforce for Coastal Reality
The Pacific Northwest faces immediate climate risks: sea level rise, extreme weather, infrastructure vulnerability. Resilience has become an operational necessity. The panel explores how we are responding to physical climate […]
Legality and Impunity in Times of Crisis
The world is in the throes of multiple crises, from ongoing genocide and settler colonial violence, to evolving forms of authoritarian governance and imperial warfare. The theme of ‘impunity’ has […]
Ibram X. Kendi in Conversation with Terri Givens
Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. Eleven of his seventeen books have been New York Times bestsellers, including the international bestseller How to […]
Ibram X. Kendi in Conversation
Ibram X. Kendi is one of the world’s foremost historians of racism and a leading antiracist scholar. Eleven of his seventeen books have been New York Times bestsellers, including the international bestseller How to […]
Bill McKibben: Here Comes the Sun
As oil wars rage and global economies suffer the brunt of the petrodollar, renewables stand as a shining example of decentralized, sovereign, and clean energy. Join the Centre for Climate […]
Secrets on our Doorstep: Vancouver and the Shadow on the World Cup
As Vancouver prepares to host 2026 World Cup games—a crowning feat for hometown FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani—a chilling local history haunts the celebration. While Montagliani scaled soccer’s elite ranks, […]
Mapping the Tipping Point: In Conversation with George Rammell
Activist and artist George Rammell will host an interactive discussion regarding the many political contradictions and illegalities behind the Trans Mountain Pipeline and other mega-projects across western Canada through his […]
Film Screening: YINTAH – A Decade of Wet’suwet’en Resistance
Spanning more than a decade, YINTAH follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from the Canadian government and several of […]
Criminal Minds, Risky Brains: The scientific obsession with the ‘Born Criminal’—and why it’s wrong
In an early celebration of Brain Awareness Week, Neuroethics Canada is pleased to invite you to the 2026 Brain Awareness Week Distinguished Neuroethics Lecture CRIMINAL MINDS, RISKY BRAINS: The Scientific […]
Pop Pedagogies Lightning Talks
Please join us for our Pop Pedagogies Lightning Talks event featuring UBC community members who have developed innovative lesson plans, modules, or units that meaningfully integrate popular media (broadly defined) into teaching […]
