Past Events
Green College Series on Intergenerational Trauma
Releasing the Trauma Effects of War: Healing Through The Integration of Music with Therapeutic Approaches to Trauma Recovery
This is an integrated presentation on how music and performance can contextualize injury and recovery from war related trauma among veterans and their families. This will be demonstrated through a performance developed and directed by Nancy Hermiston including music students and veteran students performing the famous "Sleep" Chorus from Silent Night, an opera depicting the famous Christmas truce of World War I, a moment when arms were laid down, voices came together in song and for a short time humanity returned to the earth.
Nancy Hermiston Chair of the Voice and Opera Divisions of UBC's School of Music, and Director of the UBC Opera Ensemble, with Richard Vedan and Marv Westwood.
Nancy Hermiston, Chair, Voice and Opera & Director, UBC Opera Ensemble
And UBC Veteran Students
Marvin Westwood - Convenor
Professor Emeritus of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education (2015)
This lecture is free to attend and does not require registration. Join us in-person at the UBC Vancouver Campus in the Old Auditorium. There will be a reception following the performance.
Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Campus Vision 2050 Engagement Session
Your voice matters! Help shape the future of the campus.
The Campus Vision 2050 Campus + Community Planning Team would like to invite Emeritus College members to share their input on the future of UBC.
Join us for a short presentation to learn about CV2050, then participate in the conversation by asking questions and providing your insights on key CV2050 topics.
About Campus Vision 2050
The UBC Vancouver campus, situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Musqueam people, is home to a world-class, global university, residential neighbourhoods and a vibrant community in a growing region. In early 2022 UBC Campus and Community Planning is launching Campus Vision 2050 (CV2050), a comprehensive, two-and-a-half-year land use planning process. The CV2050 process will build on the history of this unique place and plan for what comes next for a university campus and a community in changing region and world.
CV2050 will be developed through comprehensive engagement with Musqueam and the campus community, and informed by policy, principles, best practices, and societal imperatives like housing affordability, reconciliation, climate change, anti-racism, connectivity and community wellbeing. The public process formally launched in January 2022 with a broad conversation with the university community on needs and aspirations, and there will be several points of public engagement during Campus Vision 2050 to enable comprehensive community input.
CV2050 will lead to a long-term vision and ensure the future direction for the campus builds on what makes UBC a special place and enhances the livability, sociability and character of the campus within its unique context. The final vision and plans will support the needs of the university and balance the interests of our campus communities, our Indigenous hosts, the broader region, and the environment.
Read more about CV2050 and find out how to get involved: campusvision2050.ubc.ca
Privacy and Consent to Recording
Please note that this event will be recorded via Zoom and may be distributed publicly. The recording may contain attendees’ names and images. We recognize that this may be undesirable for some participants. If you do not wish for your name or image to be used in the video, please leave your video turned off during the event. You may also change your name to something generic like “Participant” or “Anonymous” in the Zoom meeting room by selecting yourself from the participants list and editing your name. By registering for this event and clicking the Zoom link that will be emailed to you, you consent to being recorded. If you do not want to participate in the live session, the recording will be posted at a later date to our YouTube channel.
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 - 10:00am
Photo Group April 8, 2022
Hybrid Meeting Confirmed!
We invite you to join us for another Photo Group meeting. This meeting will be in hybrid format, you can join us in person at UBC or online using Zoom.
If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca
Please indicate if you would like the Zoom link, or are interested in attending in-person.
Space is limited.
UBC Giving Day April 6, 2022
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.
From student scholarships to experiential learning opportunities and research projects, there is something for everyone.
You can be part of UBC Giving Day and help to make it a success:
- Visit the Giving Day website – UBC Giving Day
- Make a gift to the UBC Giving Day cause that matters most to you
- Share UBC Giving Day with your friends, family and network and challenge them to make a gift
One of the causes you can make a gift to is the UBC Student Community Public Art Fund.
Anne Piternick, past President of the UBC Association of Professors Emeriti, is a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Campus Enhancement (PACCE). This committee works together with the President’s Office to enhance the campus.
“This year, UBC Giving Day features over 50 important causes. I’ll be supporting the UBC Student Community Public Art Fund. This is a new fund that has been created to support temporary student outdoor art projects on campus. It has been created through the initiative of the President’s Advisory Committee on Campus Enhancement as a complement to the University’s Outdoor Art Fund which provides financial support for permanent art projects such as the Reconciliation Pole. You can make a gift to the UBC Student Community Public Art Fund, or another UBC Giving Day cause close to your heart, by visiting givingday.ubc.ca.”
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, 6 April 2022 - 9:00am
Film Group Mar 30, 2022
Series Fourteen – Immigration
Zoom discussions of each film will take place on last Wednesdays at 4pm: Jan 26, Feb 23 and Mar 30
Hosted by John LeBlanc
To join the group, please email john.leblanc @ ubc.ca
Series Fourteen: Immigration continues to become a central reality of our time, increasing in scale and complexity and eliciting a wide range of responses from positive promotion (Canada desires and needs more immigrants) to condemnation (strong man countries erecting walls of various sorts). Feature films have addressed issues of immigration since film began in the late 19th century, but our series will focus on more recent efforts, beginning with El Norte from 40 years ago when the general public was just beginning to gain a more in-depth awareness of such social issues. Mediterranea provides a more contemporary (and more geographically removed) window into the situation facing immigrants. Finally, Amreeka sees immigrant experience from a more positive perspective, adding balance to the seemingly insurmountable problems.
Mar 30 – Amreeka (2009) – directed by Cherien Dabis (and based on her family’s experiences) tells about an Arab single mother (Muna) and son (Fadi) from Bethlehem who are fed up with navigating West Bank checkpoints. Unexpectedly, Muna’s green card application approved, they move to small town suburban Illinois, joining her sister Raghda’s family. Denied work in her previous career of banking Muna begins her search for the American Dream at the local White Castle fast food restaurant. Set in 2003 at the start of the second Iraq war, anti-Arab/Muslim sentiment has been building, with her son bullied at the local high school as a terrorist. Employing some popular film devices of plot clichés and one-dimensional characters, the film, nevertheless, provides insights into immigrant experience. STREAMING AVAILABLE THROUGH THE UBC LIBRARY CATALOGUE.
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 - 4:00pm
UBC Emeritus College Conversations - March 30, 2022
Features of a Post-Pandemic Society: Three Perspectives
The conversation invites 3 speakers to offer their perspective on how changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting impact on individuals and societies.
The conversants will be Brian Job, Pittman Potter and Peter Suedfeld.
Our moderator will be Craig Riddell.
Conversants
Brian L. Job, Professor Emeriti of Political Science, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (2021)
Job's teaching and research interests concern international security—more specifically, the evolving security order of the Asia Pacific, intrastate conflict, human security, and Canadian foreign and security policies. He joined the UBC faculty in 1989, having previously been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota. He has served as Director of the Centre of International Relations, Interim Director of the Liu Institute, and Associate Director of the Institute of Asian Research. His current research concerns UN peacekeeping, the protection of civilians in conflict, Canadian security policy, and security relations among Asian states and peoples. Job has been actively involved in Asia Pacific expert networks, particularly with the Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). He has been co-editor of International Studies Quarterly, and of Global Governance, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal and of International Relations of the Asia Pacific. Job is currently a Senior Fellow of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and has been a visiting professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo; Nanyang Technical University, Singapore; and the Australian National University.
Pitman Potter, Professor Emeritus of Law (2020)
Potter’s teaching and research have focused on PRC and Taiwan law and policy in the areas of international trade and investment, dispute resolution, property and contract law, business regulation, and human rights. He has published many books and essays on China law and policy, including Exporting Virtue? China’s International Human Rights Activism in the Age of Xi Jinping (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021).
Prior to his retirement in 2020, Dr. Potter also served as an attorney licensed in British Columbia, Washington State and California handling China business and arbitration matters. Dr. Potter has served on the Boards of Directors of several public institutions, including the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada where he is currently a Distinguished Fellow Emeritus and the Canada-China Business Council. Dr. Potter is a Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada (Diocese of New Westminster) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Peter Suedfeld, Professor Emeritus of Psychology (2004)
Dr. Suedfeld is one of the pioneering researchers in the field of Restricted Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) and in his field research he has studied the reactions and adaptation of crews in the Antarctic, the Canadian High Arctic, and in space vehicles, as well as survivors of the Holocaust and other traumatic events. His research findings were among the first to emphasize the positive aspects and consequences of these experiences.
His research interests include the effects of challenging and stressful environments and experiences on psychological processes and behaviour, including coping, positive and negative outcomes, and both short- and long-term aftereffects. Examples of the environments and experiences studied are: living and working in extreme and unusual situations such as space vehicles and polar stations; isolation and confinement; high-level political and military decision-making; surviving genocide and persecution.
Moderator
Craig Riddell, Professor Emeritus of Economics (2017)
Riddell's interests are in labour economics, labour relations, applied econometrics and public policy. Current research is focused on income inequality, skill formation, education and training, unemployment and labour market dynamics, evaluation of social programs, unionization and collective bargaining, and unemployment insurance and social assistance (welfare).
He is co-author of Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, Canada's leading labour economics textbook. Professor Riddell is A Canadian Economics Association Fellow, former Head of the Department of Economics at UBC, Past-President of the Canadian Economics Association and former Director of the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research Network.
Privacy and Consent to Recording
Please note that this event will be recorded via Zoom and posted publicly. The recording may contain attendees’ names and images. We recognize that this may be undesirable for some participants. If you do not wish for your name or image to be used in the video, please leave your video turned off during the event. You may also change your name to something generic like “Participant” or “Anonymous” in the Zoom meeting room by selecting yourself from the participants list and editing your name. By registering for this event and clicking the Zoom link that will be emailed to you, you consent to being recorded. If you do not want to participate in the live session, the recording will be posted at a later date to our YouTube channel.
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm