Past Events
UBC Giving Day
UBC will hold its first ever university-wide giving day. We invite you to join UBC for a 24-hour giving challenge will bring donors, alumni, friends and the community together to support the UBC causes that matter most to them.
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We hope you will join a day that will support UBC students and other important causes across the university. All gifts, regardless of size, add up to have a powerful impact.
Wednesday, 7 April 2021 - 9:00am
Cinnamon Bun Fundraiser
UBC Faculty Women's Club (FWC) is making “UBC Cinnamon Buns” with Chef Andy, hosted by CBC Radio’s Amy Bell.
They are raising funds for the FWC Childcare Bursary for UBC Students.
Cost: $30 payable by cheque or e-transfer to UBC Development Office (tax receipt issued).
More information is available on the webpage of the Faculty Women’s Club.
Tuesday, 6 April 2021 - 12:30pm
Film Group March 31, 2021
Series Eleven – Filmed Intellectuals
The films can be screened via the Kanopy streaming site of the Vancouver Public Library
Zoom discussions of each film will take place on: Jan. 27, Feb. 24 and Mar. 31 at 4pm
Hosted by John LeBlanc
Series Eleven: Films featuring intellectuals face serious difficulties in presenting such complex and unique individuals in a medium that often relies on formulaic structures within its standard two hour limit. Film director Margarethe von Trotta, has addressed this problem by attempting to engage intimately with her subjects, requiring that she identify to some degree with them (for example, as a woman railing against male oppression) as well as trying to discover the real person through their letters, close associates and places they inhabited. The two hour time limit also requires identifying a representative moment in the individual’s life. These three films, all by women directors, feature, in the first two films, internationally known intellectuals and, in the third film, a fictional thinker, offering an additional difficulty of creating what a contemporary intellectual might look like. All three films share a focus on intellectuals as figures of exile, not only mental because of their advanced ideas but also physical, suffering displacement that shows they are not merely mind but also flesh and blood.
Mar. 31 - Things to Come (L’avenir) (2016) – directed by Mia Hansen-Love - features a fictional philosopher, Nathalie (played by French actor Isabelle Huppert), teaching at a Paris high school who finds herself in a life-altering moment as her publishing career declines and her family life falls apart. While her exile is not the result of sweeping historical developments that befell Arendt and Zweig, it nonetheless throws her into a space of profound doubt, best described by Pascal: one of her favourite philosophers. A re-connection with a former student has potential but exile seems permanent, perhaps even desirable.
Poetic Odysseys - March 30, 2021
All who are interested in writing, reading or listening to poetry are welcome.
Contacts:
Philip Resnick (Professor Emeritus, Political Science - philip.resnick@ubc.ca)
and George McWhirter (Professor Emeritus, Creative Writing).
Senior Scholars' Series - March 18, 2021
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT: LEARNING TO MANAGE COMPLEX NATURAL SYSTEMS THROUGH EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION
Carl Walters
Associate Professor Emeritus of Fisheries (2013)
Carl Walters is professor emeritus in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Canada. He completed his doctoral degree in 1969 from Colorado State University and has been at UBC since then. He has participated in over 200 peer reviewed publications and has won several major awards including the Volvo Environment Prize, American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence, and ICES prix d’Excellence. His research interests include fish population dynamics, ecosystem modeling, and adaptive management. He has been particularly interested in the long term dynamics of B.C. sockeye populations, finding simple but effective stock assessment methods, and development of simpler models for understanding ecosystem impacts of fishing.
Jerry Wasserman - moderator
Professor Emeritus of English and Theatre (2017)
Jerry Wasserman retired in 2016 after 44 years teaching at UBC. Jerry is also an actor and theatre critic with Lifetime Achievement awards from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Association. He is a member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame.
Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
General Meeting March 17, 2021
Last year in March we had to cancel the art exhibit which was planned to accompany the General Meeting. This year we will do it again, only virtually.
Art on the side features a panel of three Emeriti who engaged in an artistic life alongside their academic careers:
Ann Hilton, Nursing (painting), Philip Resnick, Political Science (poetry) and Andrew Seal, Medicine (painting and photography).
Ann Hilton - Professor Emerita of Nursing (2006)
A graduate of the 1968 UBC BSN program, Ann began her nursing career in Toronto working on the nursing research unit at Sunnybrook Hospital. In 1974 she joined UBC in the School of Nursing and retired in 2005 as a Professor Emerita. Her research focused on how individuals and families cope with life-threatening and chronic illnesses. A major focus was on coping with uncertainty. While at UBC, she served on the Board of the Faculty Club and the Faculty Pension Plan. Through an endowment, she just established the B. Ann Hilton Fellowship in Nursing, for outstanding graduate students in the School of Nursing.
She painted since she was a child and this interest gained considerable momentum post retirement. She loves watercolour as a medium for the freedom it gives colours to mix and mingle creating wonderful scenarios. She is a member of Artists in Our Midst, the Vancouver Art Guild, the South Delta Artists Guild and the Federation of Canadian Artists. Her website: www.annhilton.com.
Philip Resnick - Professor Emeritus of Political Science (2013)
Philip Resnick was born in Montreal and pursued his university education at McGill, in Paris, and at the University of Toronto. For over forty years he was a member of the Department of Political Science at UBC. His interests as a political scientist ranged widely, from Canadian politics and political economy to comparative nationalism and democratic theory, and he has published extensively in these areas. He is also a published poet with six collections to his credit and a new one, Pandemic Poems, to be published this April by Ronsdale Press.
Andrew Seal - Associate Professor Emeritus of Surgery (2010)
Although his medical training was in the UK, from 1981 to 2010, he was a member of the UBC Department of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. Throughout his career, he has been committed to nurturing the arts and humanities in medical students. From 1994 to 1999, he had the good fortune to be appointed the Faculty of Medicine’s first Associate Dean of Student Affairs and during his term started the tradition of the annual Spring Gala concert and annual Art Show in both of which students showcase and share all of their amazing artistic talents.
Since his retirement, he continues to provide surgical assistance to his surgical colleagues as well as occasional undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He has a studio at home so that his art remains ongoing, as it has throughout his life. Perhaps the most important part of his life that now gives him the greatest joy is spending time with his three beautiful grandchildren.
Each will speak on aspects of that experience and how their art has evolved since retirement. Then Ann and Andrew will speak to various pieces of their work and Philip will read some pieces of poetry for us.
The slide show will feature works by the photography interest group and other Emeriti. Please join us for this wonderful program.
Time line
1:15 The Zoom room will open with a virtual art exhibit, a slide show featuring works submitted by College members. The slide show will repeat at 1:45.
1:30 Business meeting
1:45 Repeat slide show of Emeritus art work
2:00 Panel: Art on the Side featuring a panel of three Emeriti who engaged in an artistic life alongside their academic careers:
Ann Hilton, Nursing (painting)
Philip Resnick, Political Science (poetry) and
Andrew Seal, Medicine (painting and photography)
Moderator: Elaine Carty, Midwifery and Nursing
3:00 Q and A
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 - 1:15pm to 3:15pm