UBCV
September 27, 2025, 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm
Full Vancouver Institute Fall 2025 Program
New Time: Saturdays at 7:15 p.m.
Location: Hall #2, P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver
Admission: Free – No registration required. Lectures are delivered in person only (not live-streamed)
Building Access: After-hours entrances to the P.A. Woodward building are marked on this map.
Parking: Accessible parking is available at the Health Sciences Parkade, 2250 Health Sciences Mall.
Please note: The ticket machine is located at the south entrance of the parkade. There is no ticket machine at the north entrance.
This event is in person, and it will not be live-streamed. The recording will be posted at a later date here: https://archives.library.ubc.ca/lists/vancouver-institute-lectures/
| Date | Speaker | Lecture Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept 27 | Dr. Mark Van Raamsdonk | Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UBC | Our Quantum Universe |
| Oct 4 | Ms. Eve Lazarus | Journalist and acclaimed author | The Empress of Ireland Shipwreck: A Canadian Tragedy |
| Oct 18 | Dr. Kayla King | Canada Excellence Research Chair, Zoology and Microbiology & Immunology, UBC. Professorial Fellow of Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford | Pathogens and the Power of Evolution |
| Oct 25 | Dr. Lucan Way | Distinguished Professor of Democracy, Department of Political Science, U of Toronto | America's Transition to Authoritarianism |
| Nov 1 | Dr. Stefanie Green | Physician and author, Victoria | MAiD in Canada - Untangling the Fact from the Fiction |
| Nov 15 | Dr. Sheila Garland | Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology and Oncology at Memoria University of Newfoundland. | The Science of Sleep for Cancer Survivorship |
| Nov 22 | Dr. Caroline Colijn | Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematics for Evolution, Infection, and Public Health, Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University | Mathematics and the Battle Against Infectious Disease |
| Nov 29 | Mr. Michael Kluckner | Artist and writer, Vancouver | Surviving Vancouver |
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