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General Meeting November 30, 2022

Updated Nov 23, 2022

Dr. Judy Illes, UBC Professor of Neurology, Distinguished University Scholar, and UBC Distinguished Professor in Neuroethics

Dr. Illes is a world-reknowned pioneer in the field of neuroethics. She is co-lead of the Canadian Brain Research Strategy and Chair, this year, of the International Brain Initiative. She sits on numerous boards, including as Vice Chair of Institute Advisory Board of CIHR’s Institute for Neuroscience Mental Health and Addiction and as a Director at Large of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Dr. Illes is often asked to provide expert consultation and testimony on ethics matters involving conflict of interest, neuroprivacy, and ownership of research data, governance, and regulation. She received the Order of Canada, the country’s highest citizen award, in 2017 and is the first UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics.

Topic: Aligning innovations in neuroscience with societal, cultural and individual human values through high impact research, education and outreach.

Schedule:

2:00pm Business meeting
2:15pm Talk by Judy Illes, UBC Professor of Neurology
3:00pm Q&A
3:15pm End of meeting

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Wednesday, 30 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Zoom link in text
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Vancouver Institute - Dr. Barbara Perry - November 26, 2022

The Vancouver Institute Lectures, Fall 2022

Dr. Barbara Perry
Director, Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism
University of Ontario Institute of Technology

WHAT’S THE HARM? CONSIDERING THE COMMUNITY IMPACTS OF HATE CRIME

Dr. Perry has written extensively about inequality, justice and the motivations behind hate crimes. Her publications include Silent Victims: Hate Crime Against Native Americans (2008), Policing Race and Place: Under- and Over-policing in Indian Country (2009), Hate Crimes (2009), Diversity, Crime and Justice in Canada (2011) and Right-wing Extremism in Canada (co-authored 2019). Dr. Perry has made substantial contributions to scholarship on hate crime in Canada, including work on anti-Muslim violence, hate crime against LGBTQ communities, the community impacts of hate crime, and right-wing extremism. She has received awards from the American Society of Criminology (2009, 2020) and the province of Ontario (2018), as well as visiting fellowships in the UK and New Zealand.
 
Location:                     P. A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver. 
Date and Time:           Saturday, November 26, 2022, at 8:15 pm               
(After-hours entrances are marked on this map.)
Accessible Parking is available at the Health Sciences Parkade, 2250 Health Sciences Mall.
 
Health and Safety:      In consideration of others, we recommend that you wear a mask in the lecture hall. 
 
 

Saturday, 26 November 2022 - 8:15pm
2194 Health Sciences Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 2A1
Canada
Carnival crowd in Rio de Janeiro

Travel Group November 24, 2022

Doing Carnival in Rio de Janeiro

Presented by: Uri Ascher (Professor Emeritus Computer Science) and Nurit Barkan-Ascher

Carnival in Rio is more than just the big splashy parades occasionally shown on TV. Carnival is about participating in some dream-like reality where being excessive, ludicrous and unreal is the norm. It is one of the best excuses to let your guard down, to get in touch with your younger self, to humorously abandon everydayness and liberate your inner burlesque. It is best appreciated when considered a "participation sport".
The big parade spectacles are indeed amazing and the colours, dancing, and organization are incredible. The preparation is complex and the costumes are very elaborate. It is a year-long "second economy". 
To us, even more important is the Carnaval da rua (street carnival), because of its component of participation. This phase takes several weeks and is somehow very "organic". There are numerous groups made up of drummers, vocalists, sometimes a brass section, what have you. They parade playing mostly samba and are joined by hoards of revellers.

These many aspects of Carnival in Rio will be illustrated with photographs.

If you wish to receive the zoom link for the meeting and are not already on the EC Travel group list, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.

A zoom link will be sent out before each meeting.

Thursday, 24 November 2022 - 3:00pm
Online Zoom Meeting
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Poetic Odysseys Group - November 22, 2022

The group welcomes members who write or enjoy poetry. Those interested in attending can contact convenor Philip Resnick, philip.resnick@ubc.ca for details on how to attend and to be added to the Poetry Group list.

Learn more about the group and their activities

Tuesday, 22 November 2022 - 2:00pm
Zoom online by request
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Series at Green College November 17, 2022

'Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge' is a cross departmental collaboration between UBC's Green College and Emeritus College.

This series will bring together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have changed over time. The conversation will inevitably lead to a consideration of cross-disciplinary influences and interdisciplinary trends, as participants account for changes in the cognitive strength of sub-disciplines and the rise and fall of disciplinary paradigms. The intent will be to identify underlying reasons for the observed changes and, by the end of the series, to draw some general conclusions about mechanisms of (inter)disciplinary interaction and development, in the spirit—if not necessarily the style—of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault.

Series Convener: Donald Fisher, Past-Principal, UBC Emeritus College

English Over Time: Changing Vocations of Literature

Sherill Grace, OC, FRSC and University Killam Professor Emerita, English Language and Literatures, UBC

Judith Paltin, Member of Common Room, former GC Leading Scholar and Associate Professor, English Language and Literatures, UBC

Serena Klumpenhouwer, Resident Member of Green College and PhD Student, English Language and Literatures, UBC

This second Emeritus College Series at Green College event of the year will feature English scholars in various stages of their career in a conversation about their perspectives on the history and development of their discipline. Discussion will be opened at an early stage to members of the audience.

The playfully titled "English Over Time: Changing Vocations of Literature" invites readers to construe the gerundive subjectively or objectively as they choose, and so—if they choose—of changing their lives in English as many times as they like.

HYBRID FORMAT

Join us in-person at Green College on the UBC Vancouver Campus or virtually. The session will be followed by a reception. More details on Green College Website.

Green College Event Details
Coach House, Green College, UBC (no registration required) and livestreamed 
Thursday, November 17, 5-6:30pm with reception to follow

Co-Hosts

Emeritus College and Green College

Thursday, 17 November 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Hybrid: In-person and online through Green College
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada

Wall Catalyst Program November 17, 2022

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the UBC Emeritus College have assembled a cohort of Emeriti to participate in the 2022-23 PWIAS Catalyst Program.

The Wall Catalyst Emeriti cohort will meet monthly to share research experience and engage with guest lecturers on the topic of the "Climate and Nature Emergency".

For more information on this program and the list of participating Emeriti click here.

Members of the Emeritus College and the general public are invited to attend speaker lectures throughout the year. 

LEcture - Nicholas Coops and Lori DanIELS

Nicholas Coops

Nicholas Coops, Professor, Faculty of Forestry (UBC) and a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in remote sensing

Nicholas is the head of the Integrated Remote Sensing Studio (IRSS) within the Faculty of Forestry at UBC, a research lab at UBC investigating and demonstrating applications of remote sensing data to environmental and forest production issues. He has published over 520 peer-reviewed journal papers and was the editor - in - chief of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing for a decade. Nicholas was awarded a Killam research scholarship, the Carl Pulfrich Award sponsored by Leica, and the silver and gold medals by the Canadian Remote Sensing Society (CRSS) Award, the highest award for mid-career and senior scholars in remote sensing in Canada. In 2020 Nicholas was a joint winner of the Marcus Wallenberg Prize (known as the Nobel prize in Forestry) for his research into satellite analysis and numerical modelling of tree and forest growth.

Digital Forested ecosystems
New sensors, and data for addressing climate change in Canadian Forests

Canada’s forests are highly sensitive to climate change, in particular increases in forest disturbances such as fire, drought and infestations. Concurrently, Canada’s forest offer significant potential as a natural climate solution, to sequester additional carbon from the atmosphere. Remote sensing and sensor technologies offer significant potential to better understand, and manage Canada’s forest and help provide tools and practical solutions for decision-makers, managers and planners to adapt their forest management practices. These decisions will then improve both resistance to stressors and resilience to disturbance, and thereby ensure the longevity of forest-based communities across Canada. Nicholas will provide an overview of some of these new advances, currently being investigated at UBC, and with collaborators, and discuss their use and adoption as we adjust to a new climate reality for our forests.

Nicholas Coops

Lori Daniels, Professor, Faculty of Forestry (UBC) Forest and Conservation Sciences

"My research strives to advance fundamental scientific knowledge on forest dynamics, which is imperative for conserving and managing contemporary forests and adapting to global environmental change. My research characterizes how natural disturbances, humans and climate interact to drive temperate forest dynamics and resilience. It has produced three key contributions:

(1) My international collaborations demonstrate widespread tree mortality in North and South America, disentangling the relative impacts of drought, insects and pathogens.

(2) Many forests in the Canadian Cordillera are increasingly susceptible to wildfire due to complex interactions among fire suppression, land-use and climatic change.

(3) My novel forest reconstructions include tree-ring methods adapted to address aboriginal cultural uses and traditional management, largely overlooked by forest managers.

My enduring partnerships with local to national governments, environmental organizations, forest management companies, community forests, and First Nations have helped me translate these scientific advances to operational conservation, restoration and management policies and practices."

Wildfires in British Columbia: Causes, Consequences and Coexistence

Wildfire is an essential process in forest ecosystems, but can be incredibly destructive in the wildland-urban interface, as we experienced again during the 2021 fire season. Wildfire is driven by climate, weather and fuels that vary among ecosystems and through time. Combined, land-use change, fire exclusion and global warming have made many forests highly susceptible to intense fires that are difficult to control and spread to large sizes. Revolutionizing forest and fire management will improve ecosystem resilience to climate change, but we will not stop future fires from burning. Successful adaptation must also include individuals and communities learning how to coexist with wildfire.

FORMAT

Members of the UBC Emeritus College and the general public are invited to attend a lecture by the guest speaker. There will be a question period following the presentation.

Join us in-person or through Zoom, please use the following links to register in advance of the meeting date.

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Co-sponsors

Emeritus College and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Thursday, 17 November 2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
In-Person or Zoom TBC
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
Canada

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