Past Events
Senior Scholars' Series - November
"Workplace exposures, motherhood, and bicycling: Paths to and through academia"
Kay Teschke in conversation with Jerry Wasserman
Kay Teschke
Professor Emerita of Population and Public Health (2017)
After a degree in economics, Kay tried law school but was bored and broke, so found a job in a local factory. Blue collar working conditions were a shock and inspired a clear research focus for the next 33 years: assessing hazardous industrial exposures. Through the years, she typically biked to work. After her daughter was born, she noticed that the hierarchy of work exposure controls she taught to students was completely upside down for bicycling, with the emphasis on helmets instead of crash prevention engineering. This inspired a new program of research on bicycling injury prevention.
Jerry Wasserman
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, 26 November 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Travel Group November 26
We plan to have short presentations and informal discussions about places visited during the pandemic, focusing not only on what to see and do, but also on safety issues during the pandemic, such as those related to activities, accommodations and meals.
If you would like to join the meeting and are not on the regular email list for the travel interest group, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca to be added to the email list and receive the Zoom-link.
Thursday, 26 November 2020 - 3:00pm
General Meeting November 25, 2020
Registration for Zoom meeting
Healthy Brain Aging
Lara Boyd is a Neuroscientist and Physical Therapist at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Boyd has held a Canada Research Chair and a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Career Scientist award, and has been a Peter Wall Early Career Scholar. Dr. Boyd directs the Brain Behaviour Lab at the University of British Columbia. Her work is centred on answering the question of what limits, and what facilitates, neuroplasticity. Dr. Boyd also serves as the Health Research Advisor to the Vice President for Research and is the university’s delegate to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her TEDx talk “After this your brain will not be the same” has over 27 million views.
In this talk, Dr. Boyd will provide an overview of how the brain can change with learning and how these processes change as we age. She will discuss recent findings considering how behaviour can shape brain plasticity and impact age-related changes.
Time line
1:30pm Business Meeting
1:45pm Speaker - Lara Boyd
2:30pm Q&A
3:00pm End of meeting
Chancellor Installation
This virtual event will include elements of the in-person ceremony that are part of the installation tradition. This includes greetings from both campuses, welcomes and greetings from the Musqueam Band and Okanagan Nation Alliance, greetings from federal and provincial representatives, an installation citation, oath and gowning, as well as an address by Chancellor Point.
Following the installation ceremony, Chancellor Point will preside over UBC Vancouver’s fall graduation ceremony at 2:30pm, which you are also invited to attend.
Chancellor Point is a member of the Skowkale First Nation. He is a double alumnus of UBC with a Bachelor of Laws degree and honorary Doctor of Laws degree, and was the 28th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.
UBC's Chancellor is the titular head of the university, presiding over all major ceremonies, including graduation. The Chancellor confers university degrees and acts as chair of Convocation.
For details about the installation ceremony, including how to join, please visit: https://virtualgraduation.ubc.ca/chancellor
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 - 11:00am to 12:00pm
Poetic Odysseys - November 2020
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).
Film Group November 23
After a COVID-19 imposed hiatus, we will re-activate the Film Group by taking advantage of the European Film Festival.
The films (with links to each film description and information on how to purchase each movie, viewing dates and the time of the planned Zoom discussion also indicated):
Angelo (Austria – directed by Markus Schleinzer, 111 minutes): Nov 21-22 – Zoom: Monday, November 23 at 4pm
Helene (Finland – directed by Antti Jokinen, 122 minutes): Nov 29-30 – Zoom: Monday, November 30 at 4pm
You will need to purchase the film yourself for $12 and watch the film within the indicated 48 hour window. Click on the link of the movie and you will find more information on how to purchase the movie. You can also buy a pass. More information is available on the EU website.
When: November 19, 23 and 30 at 4pm
Where: Zoom – Please register by email at manager@emerituscollege.ubc.ca
November 23 – Angelo
Based on the extraordinary true story of Angelo Soliman (1721-1796), a Nigerian born into slavery, the sophomore feature of Markus Schleinzer (whose acclaimed debut, Michael, arrived in 2011), Angelo is a stylish, quietly incendiary drama about power and race.
At the age of 10, Angelo is taken by force from his homeland. Surviving the arduous journey across the Atlantic, Angelo is purchased by a European countess in Vienna, who decides to turn him into the subject of an educational experiment. As time passes, Angelo grows closer to the Hapsburg society elites, becoming their costumed court curio and storyteller, telling exotic tales of faraway Africa to entertain this 18th century ‘enlightened’ Viennese high-society. To the shock of his ‘owners,’ he also secretly (and scandalously) marries a white woman, which will test not only the limits of Angelo’s social mobility, but Viennese society’s notions of itself as progressive.
For its limpid, austere visual style, Angelo has drawn favourable comparisons to the work of both Stanley Kubrick and Michael Haneke (Schleinzer worked with Haneke as a casting director). Despite its 18th century setting, this impressive, daring film is as timely and relevant as ever in its dramatic depiction and critique of race relations.
When: Monday, November 23 at 4:00 pm
Where: Zoom link by request to manager@emerituscollege.ubc.ca