Past Events

E.g., Mar 28, 2024

General Meeting September 29, 2022

with guest performance by Robert Silverman

Professor Emeritus of Music (2003), Piano

Programme: Bach, selections from Book1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier

Please RSVP using the link below to indicate your attendance

Registration Link

In a career spanning more than five decades, Robert Silverman has climbed every peak of serious pianism: lauded performances of the complete sonata cycles by Beethoven and Mozart; concerts in prestigious halls across the globe; orchestral appearances with many of the world’s greatest conductors; and award-winning recordings distributed internationally.

The distinguished pianist has performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. Under the batons of such renowned conductors as Seiji Ozawa, John Eliot Gardiner, Gerard Schwarz, Neeme Järvi, and the late Kiril Kondrashin and Sergiu Comissiona, he has appeared with orchestras on three continents, including the Chicago Symphony, the Sydney Symphony, the BBC (London) Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestras, and every major orchestra in Canada.

Robert Silverman resides in Vancouver where he was a faculty member at the University of British Columbia for thirty years, served a 5-year term as Director of the School of Music in the 1990s, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters in 2004. He now devotes himself full-time to concertizing and recording.

Thursday, 29 September 2022 - 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Roy Barnett Recital Hall, 6361 Memorial Rd
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

President's Reception for New Emeriti 2022

Wednesday, 28 September 2022 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Zoom (by invitation only)
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Groves of Academe - September 27, 2022

This is the first meeting of 2022 for the Emeritus College Reading Group - Groves of Academe

READING:  Keiran Egan, Tenure

If you would like to join the group please contact convenor, Graeme Wynn (wynn@geog.ubc.ca). 

Tuesday, 27 September 2022 - 2:30pm
Online Zoom Meeting
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Community Volunteer Group September 22, 2022

Join us for the first meeting of the 2022-23. We are pleased to invite you to attend this meeting in hybrid format, you may RSVP to attend in-person or on Zoom. Speaker, Jenny Peterson will be joining us in-person for their lecture.

Scholars at Risk, WUSC, Ukraine, Afghanistan

Speaker: Jenny Peterson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Research area: Human Rights, UBC Political Science Department 

Jenny Peterson joined the Political Science Department from the Humanitarian & Conflict Response Institute (Manchester) where she worked as a lecturer from 2009-2013. Her research explores the politics of international aid, has analyzed the process of liberal peacebuilding, and diversity and innovation, both local and international, in peace/justice movements. She has conducted research and led student fieldtrips in Kosovo, Sri Lanka and Ghana. Her teaching interests include peace studies, international relations, humanitarian studies and human rights. Her volunteer service is as impressive as her research and teaching record, currently as a committee member on UBC's Scholars at Risk Advisory program, faculty advisor for both UBC's Human Rights collective and the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) student refugee program, and committee member on various UBC initiatives to support Ukrainian and Afghan scholars and students.

Learn more about Scholar's at Risk & Human Rights Collective a UBC Office of Regional and International Community Engagement initative

Meeting Format: Hybrid. (members can choose to join in-person at UBC or on Zoom). 

In-person location: UBC Vancouver Campus, Ponderosa Office, Annex F, Room 201.

Attend & join the Community Volunteer Group mailing list: Members receive meeting details including Zoom links in advance of all meetings. Please email Nancy.Gallini@ubc.ca and express your interest.

Thursday, 22 September 2022 - 4:00pm
Hybrid Meeting (in-person at UBC and on Zoom)
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada
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Wall Catalyst Program September 22, 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 are invited to attend speaker lectures throughout the year. 

LEcture - Political Obstacles and Opportunities for Canadian Climate Policy

Kathryn Harrison

Kathryn Harrison

Professor, UBC Political Science, COP26 (Conference of the Parties) delegate in Glasgow, 2021

Kathryn Harrison is a Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Harrison received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from Western University and MIT, and a PhD in Political Science from UBC. Before entering academia, Harrison worked as a chemical engineer in the oil industry, and as a policy analyst for the United States Congress and Environment Canada. She has been a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future, the University of Melbourne, the University of California Berkeley, and the European University Institute. She has widely published on Canadian and US environmental and climate policy, most recently in Nature Climate Change, Science, and Global Environmental Politics. Harrison has advised governments from the local to international level, and is currently chair of an Expert Advisory Panel of the Canadian Climate Institute and a member of the BC Climate Solutions Council.  Harrison is a frequent media commentator on climate policy, and tweets at @profkharrison.

Abstract

Canada has a three-decade track record of missed emissions targets, failed climate plans, and weak or abandoned regulatory standards. This presentation will provide an overview of obstacles that have contributed to that failure, including oil and gas export dependence, carbon-intensive households, a growing partisan divide on climate, and federalism, all of which still loom large today. However, I’ll also consider political shifts at this critical moment in the climate crisis: visibility of tragic and costly climate impacts, evolving NGO and Indigenous strategies, US climate legislation and regulatory ambitions, and a new legislative accountability regime.

FORMAT

Members of the UBC Emeritus College 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.

View the Recording

Co-Hosts

Emeritus College and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Thursday, 22 September 2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Peter Wall Institute, Seminar Room (Room 307), 6331 Crescent Road
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

Poetic Odysseys Group - September 20, 2022

Format: Zoom

If you would like to join, please contact convenor Philip Resnick, philip.resnick@ubc.ca for the Zoom meeting link and to be added to the Poetry Group list.

Learn more about the group and their activities

Tuesday, 20 September 2022 - 2:00pm
Zoom online by request
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

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