Peter Wall Catalyst Program
May 18, 2023, 12:00 pm
Emeritus College Cohort 2022-2023 Lunch & Final Report
A Panel Discussion with members of the Emeritus College Catalyst Cohort
The PWIAS Catalyst Program offers opportunities for collaborations that address the scale and complexity of the Climate and Nature Emergency (CNE). By connecting scholars, students, artists, disciplines, sectors and communities the program hopes to activate new ways of knowing and acting in these challenging socio-ecological times.
This year the program welcomed a cohort of 9 inter-disciplinary members from the Emeritus College (ECC). The cohort met monthly as part of a continuing dialogue resulting in an official response to the UBC 2050 Vision which was subsequently added as an appendix to the Board of Governors (page 187). In addition to this the ECC hosted 8 public lectures with the goal of inspiring awareness and action on the CNE.
The specific objectives of the ECC were the following:
- To explore transdisciplinary approaches to understanding the CNE and ways in which we should respond to it;
- To demonstrate progress that has been achieved in understanding the CNE at city, regional and national scales;
- To admit our collective failure to protect our global landscapes and seascapes from unnecessary harm; and
- To enhance the visibility of, and intellectual exchange, between PWIAS and the UBC Emeritus College
The final session in this series will be an informal presentation of the findings of individual members of the ECC and will allow for other Emeritus College members to ask questions of the group. All ECC members are invited to act as witnesses to the ways in which their perceptions of the Climate and Nature Emergency have changed over the course of their careers and as a result of the PWIAS program that the Emeritus College has co-sponsored.
Format:
When: Thursday, May 18 at 12:00 pm, lunch will be served. Lecture will begin at 1pm.
Where: Zoom and in-person at Seminar Room at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Co-sponsors Emeritus College and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies