The UBC Emeritus College organizes many memorable events.
Please find a list of youtube videos of the events the College has organized in the past.
General Meetings
General Meetings in 2024 - 2025
- Annual General Meeting with Paul Quirk on May 7 2025
- Emeritus College Office Grand Opening with Janice Stewart on April 7 2025
- General Meeting with Nancy Hermiston and the UBC Opera Ensemble on November 3, 2024
- General Meeting with Carole Christopher on September 25, 2024
General Meetings in 2023 - 2024
- Annual General Meeting with Jeremy Heyl on May 15, 2024
- General Meeting with the The Poetic Odysseys Group on April 17, 2024
- General Meeting with Murray McCutcheon on February 21, 2024
- General Meeting with Benoit-Antoine Bacon on January 24, 2024
- General Meeting with Alan Mackworth on November 22, 2023
- General Meeting with Jo-ann Archibald on September 27, 2023
General Meetings in 2022-2023
- Annual General Meeting with Robert Krell on May 17, 2023
- General Meeting with Ben Shneiderman on March 22, 2023
- General Meeting with Yves Tiberghien on February 8, 2023
- General Meeting with Judy Illes on November 30, 2022
General Meetings in 2021-2022
- Annual General Meeting with David P. Wilkinson on May 4, 2022
- General Meeting with Alfred Hermida on March 23, 2022
- General Meeting with Daniel Heath Justice on February 9, 2022
- General Meeting with Susan Herrington with a Tribute to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander on October 6, 2021
General Meetings in 2020-2021
- Annual General Meeting with Business Meeting, Awards Ceremony and Bruce Jakosky on May 19, 2021
- General Meeting "Art on the Side" with Ann Hilton, Philip Resnick and Andrew Seal on March 17, 2021
- Slide Show General Meeting "Art on the Side" Slide Show on March 17, 2021
- General Meeting with Alan Sens and Richard Price on February 17, 2021
- General Meeting with Lara Boyd on November 25, 2020
- General Meeting with Isobel Mackenzie on September 30, 2020
Special Interest Group - Travel Group
Travel Group Meetings in 2024-2025
- An Epic Adventure: 5,000 Kms by Rail Across Africa David W. Edgington, Professor Emeritus, Geography
- South India with Nancy Langton, Associate Professor Emeritus, Sauder School of Business
- 5 days on a Landing Craft in the Strait of Georgia with Helen and Richard Spencer, Associate Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering and Aboard the MV Swell – Tour of Desolation Sound with Jenny Preece, Professor and Dean, Emerita, Information School, University of Maryland and Professor Emerita, UBC and Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland and Professor Emeritus, UBC
- Journeying through Morocco with Paul Steinbok, Professor Emeritus, Surgery
- Namibia: The Land, The People, The Animals with Nancy Langton, Associate Professor Emeritus, Sauder School of Business
- Returning to Singapore & Bali with with Uri Ascher, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science
Travel Group Meetings in 2023-2024
- Nice, France and environs with Paul Steinbok, Professor Emeritus, Surgery
- Rhone River Cruise with Don and Lorna Blake and contributions from Paul Steinbok
- South West USA in April/May: Golf, flora, fauna and natural wonderswith Rick Stokes, Associate Professor Emeritus Pediatrics
- Biking in (not over) the Alps with Kay Teschke, Professor Emeritus Population and Public Health
- In the land of the long white cloud with Graeme Wynn, Professor Emeritus Geography
- Travels in Norway: Knitting, Northern Lights and more with Linda Wong, Faculty Women’s Club
Travel Group Meetings in 2022-2023
- The Loire Valley: Orléans to Tours with Paul Steinbok, Professor Emeritus Surgery
- Paris and the Heart of Normandy: Cruising the Seine with Paul Steinbok, Professor Emeritus Surgery
- Vietnam and Cambodia with Mekong River Cruise with Paul Steinbok, Professor Emeritus Surgery
- Cycling in Puglia & a visit to Malta with Peter Dodek, Professor Emeritus of Critical Care Medicine
- Travels in Ireland with Niamh Kelly, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Medicine
- Slovenia: A land of resilience with Barbara Bernhardt, Associate Professor Emeritus, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences and Joseph Stemberger, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
- Myanmar with Nancy Langton, Ass. Prof. Emerita, Commerce and Business Administration
- Laos with Nancy Langton, Ass. Prof. Emerita, Commerce and Business Administration
Occasional and Special Lectures
Groves of the Academe Conversation with Fiona Farrell, Author of The Deck on April 29, 2024
Covid walks in the neighbourhood: a photographic journey with Paul Steinbok, Professor Emeritus of Surgery on December 1, 2021
Emeriti Serving the Community - Near and Far - with Graham Kelsey and Jim Zidek on June 9, 2021
Kal Holsti, Political Science - Testing Trump's Tale: Is the US Really a Disaster - March 9, 2017
Special Interest Group - Community Volunteer Group
January 2023 with group members discussing their contributions to the community.
Special Interest Group - Co-housing Women's Group
March 2023 with Ronaye Matthew, Cohousing Development Consulting
Februray 2023 with Michelle Cooper-Iversen, Chief Operating Officer of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC (CHF BC’s) Group of Social Purpose Entities
January 2023 with Ruth Walmsley, Cranberry Commons Cohousing in North Burnaby
December 2022 with Catherine Kingfisher, Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge on Cohousing communities
November 2022 with Lynn Ross, CEO of PAL, Affordable Homes for Senior Performing Artists in Canada
October 2022 with Penny Gurstein, UBC Professor Emeritus, School of Community and Regional Planning
Peter Wall Institute Catalyst Program on Climate and Nature Emergency
Final Report with members of the Emeritus College PWIAS Catalyst Cohort
Tipping Points: Climate Change, History and the North with Nancy Langston on May 11, 2023
Political Economy of Extinction with Jessica Dempsey and Rashid Sumaila with guests Louise Teh and Audrey Irvine-Broque on May 4, 2023
Advancing Climate Solutions in a Politically Polarizing World with Andrew Weaver on April 20, 2023 - recording by request
Future Energy: How Climate Change, Sustainability and Geopolitical Stability is Transforming the Path Forward with David Wilkinson on January 19, 2023
New Remote Sensing Technologies for Climate Change Assessment and Wildfires in BC: Causes, Consequences & Coexistence with Nicholas Coops and Lori Daniels, Faculty of Forestry on November 17, 2022
Health, Equity and Collaborations as Catalystst for Regional Climate Adaptation in BC with Craig Brown on October 20, 2022
Political Obstacles and Opportunites for Canadian Climate Policy with Kathryn Harrison on September 22, 2022
CURAC Virtual Assembly
CURAC 2022 Virtual Assembly. hosted by the University of British Columbia Emeritus College, University of Victoria Retirees Association and Simon Fraser University Retirees Association on May 19, 2022.
CURAC 2021 Virtual Assembly hosted by the McGill University Retiree Association on April 15, 2021: Short Clip of award presented to Ken Craig starting at 1:29:28
CURAC 2021 Tribute Award to Ken Craig - Full Clip of the Award Ceremony
Campus Vision 2050 Engagement Session on Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Campus Vision 2050 Emeritus College Engagement Session with Campus + Community Planning (C+CP) Team
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
C+CP Team presented the current stage in the Campus Vision 2050 plan: the Draft Principles and Strategies to Emeritus College members. Members we invited to ask questions and provide insights to contribute to the ongoing planning process.
Webinar "Healthy Ageing" on October 1, 2021
Healthy Ageing on October 1, 2021.
Co-sponsored by UBC Emeritus College and the European Association of Professors Emeriti (EAPE), an Athens, Greece-based organization, this session spotlights the UN’s “Decade of Healthy Ageing” (2021-2030) and International Day of Older Persons on Oct. 1. It also marks the first international collaboration for Emeritus College, started in 2018 as a resource supporting UBC faculty and senior academic administrators in the transition to retirement through academic work, mentoring, research and publishing.
Green College Series on Intergenerational Trauma
Lecture Series: My Health, My Responsibility
The Medical Legal History of Assisted Dying in Canada with Dr. Derryck Smith on May 13, 2021
Dr. Derryck Smith, Clinical Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry, will speak about The Medical Legal History of Assisted Dying in Canada. Dr. Smith is a Vancouver-based psychiatrist, still active in clinical teaching of medical students and residents.
Moderator: Carolyn Gilbert, UBC Assistant Professor Emerita of Audiology and Speech Sciences (2006)
Pandemic Poems on May 11, 2021
Launch of Pandemic Poems by Philip Resnick
with participation of: Dianne Newell (UBC) Seymour Mayne (University of Ottawa) George McWhirter (UBC) Sherry Simon (Concordia University) Doug Todd (Vancouver Sun)
Emeritus College Conversations
- Conversations on Features of a Post-pandemic Society: Three Perspectives, March 30, 2022
- Conversation on Models, October 20, 2021
- Conversation on Climate Change, January 12, 2021
- Conversation on Writing Lives, December 1, 2020
- Conversation on Intergenerational Trauma, October 21, 2020
- Conversation on Pandemics, September 16, 2020
UBC New Emeriti Welcome Reception
Retirement Sessions
The Canadian, American and Global Economics: Current Challenges and the Prospects for the Future on November 19, 2020
This session focused on economic performance and set the scene for the subsequent two sessions:
1. The current situation in the Canadian economy
2. The 'trade-off' between viral risks and economic recovery
3. Policy measures for recovery monetary and fiscal policy
4. Prospects for the global economic recovery
Speaker: Dr. Michael Devereux, UBC Vancouver School of Economics. Dr. Devereux is a distinguished economist specializing in International Macroeconomics and International Finance. He is an invited speaker at numerous universities and has had connections with various central banks and financial organizations. https://economics.ubc.ca/faculty-and-staff/michael-devereux/
Moderator: Dr. Alfred Hermida, Director UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media
Senior Scholars' Series - organized by UBC Emeritus college as of September 2021
- Fes de Scally, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences - The Passions That Drive Academic Life - March 22, 2022
- Frank Tester, Social Work - Do I Belong? Activism, Social Change and Commitment to ‘the Other’ - February 8, 2022
- Anne Gorsuch, History - Life Stories - January 11, 2022
- Pitman Potter, Law - Reflections from a China Scholar, November 9, 2021
- Carol Herbert - Family Practice - Making a Difference: Contributing to a Healthier Canada, October 12, 2021
- Kogila Moodley, Educational Studies - Stories of International Encounters with Racism, September 14, 2021
Senior Scholars' Series - organized by Green College and UBC Emeritus college (up to April 2021)
All videos are available on the Youtube channel of Green College. Below are the specific links per presentation.
- Carl Waters, Oceans and Fisheries - Adaptive Management: Learning to Manage Complex Natural Systems through Experience and Active Experimentation, March 18, 2021
- Michael Klein, Family Practice Medicine and Pediatrics- Childbirth for Grandparents: Childbirth as a Methaphor, February 11, 2021
- Jane Coop, Music - People and Places seen through an Artist's Eye, January 21, 2021
- Nancy Gallini, Economics - Adventures in Retirement: Building on skills as Academic Economist and Past Dean of Arts, October 15, 2020
- Tony Dawson, English - Making Friends with Shakespeare, September 30, 2020
- Paul Marantz, Political Science - Universities and the Search for Truth: The Unanticipated Education of an Idealist, February 13, 2020
- Douw Steyn, Earth and Ocean Sciences - Solving Puzzles, Applying Solutions: A Career in Air Pollution, January 10, 2019
- John O'Brian, Art History, Visual Arts and Theory - How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb - March 14, 2019
- Jerry Wasserman, Theatre and Film - Confessions of an Academic Dilettante or What I Learned from G. Gordon Liddy, December 5, 2019
- Ashok Kotwal, Economics - A Journey in Economic Development: Theory, Policy, Activism, October 11, 2018
- Indira Samarasekera, Metals and Materials Engineering - Of Serendipity, Steel and (Not Only Mechanical) Engineering, September 20, 2018
- Judy Hall, Medical Genetics and Pediatrics - Driven by Curiosity: A Life of Discovery in Clinical Genetics, October 3, 2017 - recorded by UBC Emeritus College
Unit Reps Meeting