Past Events
Senior Scholars' Series - October 12, 2021
Making a difference: contributing to a healthier canada
Carol Herbert
Professor Emerita of Family Practice (2021)
Carol Herbert, a founding Fellow and former President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, is Professor Emerita of Family Medicine in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University and Professor Emerita of Family Practice at UBC. She was Dean at Schulich (1999-2010), Head of the UBC Department of Family Practice (1988-98), founding Head of the UBC Division of Behavioural Medicine, and a founder of the UBC Institute of Health Promotion Research. As a community-based physician, she practised from 1970-82 at REACH Community Health Centre and co-founded the Vancouver Sexual Assault Assessment Service. She has been committed to equity and social justice. She is internationally known for her leadership in primary care research and participatory action research methodology. Her scholarly interests have included family violence and sexual assault; clinical health promotion and patient-physician decision-making; ecosystem health issues in aboriginal and marginalized communities; and health care and health professional education as complex adaptive systems.
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe - moderator
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (2015)
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe graduated from the Courtauld Institute and taught for the Open University, and at London and McGill Universities before joining UBC. He chaired the ISGP and then his home department, Art History Visual Art & Theory before serving as Associate Dean, Awards and Scholarships, in the Faculty of Graduate Studies; a member of Senate for several years he was twice elected co-Chair. He has published extensively on art, architectural and design history with a particular interest in related social and political culture especially of the later modern era; recipient of the Vancouver Book Prize, he was awarded a J.S Guggenheim Fellowship and a Visiting Fellowship at Clare Hall in Cambridge University. He is currently completing a re-assessment of the architecture and ideology of Arthur Erickson and, also with Michelangelo Sabatino, a multi-perspective anthology on Modernist architecture in the Commonwealth of Nations.
AROHE Virtual Conference: RE-IMAGINING RETIREMENT
AROHE VIRTUAL CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 12-14, 2021
Keynoters Louise Aronson, MD, acclaimed geriatrician and author of the bestselling Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, and Reimagining Life, and Jean Accius, PhD, Senior Vice President for Global Thought Leadership at AARP, will inspire us to resist agism and re-imagine retirement as a time of purpose and passion for elders everywhere. And of course we will focus on the post-pandemic future of our retirement organizations too, highlighting the innovative ways we will continue to sustain social and intellectual engagement as well as offer service to our local and global communities.
Tuesday, 12 October 2021 - 9:00am to Thursday, 14 October 2021 - 4:00pm
Film Group October 7
The Film Group will take advantage of the Vancouver International Film Festival taking place this year from October 1 to 11.
We are watching online and discussing three films showing as part of the online (VIFF Connect) version of the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival (Oct 1-11).
The three films chosen to watch online and then discuss in a zoom meeting are:
Havel (Czech Republic, 2020)
Directed by Slavek Horak: a liberally constructed bio-pic of the Czech writer turned activist and politician.
Zoom discussion on Monday, Oct 4 at 3:30pm
All My Puny Sorrows (Canada, 2021)
Directed by Michael McGowan: an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel about two lapsed Mennonite sisters – one a struggling writer grappling with divorce, the other a celebrated concert pianist who is suicidal.
Zoom discussion on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 1:30pm
Yuni (Indonesia, 2021)
Directed by Kamila Andini: a naïve yet manipulative Indonesian teenage girl’s dreams of an independent, fulfilling life are compromised by marriage proposals.
Zoom discussion on Tuesday Oct. 12 at 4pm.
To watch the films, go to the Vancouver International Film Festival home page ( viff.org ) and create an account, if you don’t already have an account with VIFF. Once you have an account, click on the Festival tab and then click on the VIFF Connect tab, listing the festival films showing online. Our suggestion is to purchase a package of 4 online films: the three films to be discussed and one other film of your own choosing.
To purchase the four films, click on the Festival tab, the Tickets and Passes tab, and the 4 Ticket Pack Tab (Regular $48 / Senior $44).
To purchase the three chosen films individually, simply click on the purchase tab under the description of the film.
Our suggestion is to purchase the films as soon as you decide to participate, as there is the slight possibility that the film may sell out.
Watch the film any time before the Zoom discussion takes place.
To join the group, please email john.leblanc @ ubc.ca
Thursday, 7 October 2021 - 1:30pm
General Meeting October 6, 2021
A Tribute to Cornelia Hahn Oberlander CC OBC (20 June 1921 – 22 May 2021)
Susan Herrington, Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, will speak about Cornelia Oberlander's life and contributions to UBC.
Susan Herrington is professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She resides in British Columbia and is a landscape architect in Canada and a registered landscape architect in the United States. She is author of several books including Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, which won a JB Jackson Book Prize from the Foundation for Landscape Studies in New York. Her research examines the intersections between design and critical thinking in landscape architecture, and ways landscape architects can contribute to children’s environments.
Time line
2:00pm Business Meeting
2:15pm Speaker Susan Herrington
3:15pm End of Meeting
Film Group October 4
The Film Group will take advantage of the Vancouver International Film Festival taking place this year from October 1 to 11.
We are watching online and discussing three films showing as part of the online (VIFF Connect) version of the 2021 Vancouver International Film Festival (Oct 1-11).
The three films chosen to watch online and then discuss in a zoom meeting are:
Havel (Czech Republic, 2020)
Directed by Slavek Horak: a liberally constructed bio-pic of the Czech writer turned activist and politician.
Zoom discussion on Monday, Oct 4 at 3:30pm
All My Puny Sorrows (Canada, 2021)
Directed by Michael McGowan: an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel about two lapsed Mennonite sisters – one a struggling writer grappling with divorce, the other a celebrated concert pianist who is suicidal.
Zoom discussion on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 1:30pm
Yuni (Indonesia, 2021)
Directed by Kamila Andini: a naïve yet manipulative Indonesian teenage girl’s dreams of an independent, fulfilling life are compromised by marriage proposals.
Zoom discussion on Tuesday Oct. 12 at 4pm.
To watch the films, go to the Vancouver International Film Festival home page ( viff.org ) and create an account, if you don’t already have an account with VIFF. Once you have an account, click on the Festival tab and then click on the VIFF Connect tab, listing the festival films showing online. Our suggestion is to purchase a package of 4 online films: the three films to be discussed and one other film of your own choosing.
To purchase the four films, click on the Festival tab, the Tickets and Passes tab, and the 4 Ticket Pack Tab (Regular $48 / Senior $44).
To purchase the three chosen films individually, simply click on the purchase tab under the description of the film.
Our suggestion is to purchase the films as soon as you decide to participate, as there is the slight possibility that the film may sell out.
Watch the film any time before the Zoom discussion takes place.
To join the group, please email john.leblanc @ ubc.ca
Monday, 4 October 2021 - 3:30pm
International Day of Older Persons: Healthy Ageing
Emeritus College and European partners share healthy ageing insights
Please click here for recording of this event
Keeping fit and feeling well into the post-retirement years is a hot topic these days. Nearly 10 percent of the world’s population is 65 or older, according to the United Nations, and that is projected to rise to 16 percent – or one in six people – by 2050. So as we are living longer, how do we stay vital and energetic? How do we continue to contribute meaningfully to the community? And how do we keep our minds sharp? Those are just some of the issues experts will address at the Oct. 1 global panel discussion entitled, “Healthy Ageing.”
Co-sponsored by UBC Emeritus College and the European Association of Professors Emeriti (EAPE), an Athens, Greece-based organization, the session spotlights the UN’s “Decade of Healthy Ageing” (2021-2030) and International Day of Older Persons on Oct. 1. It also marks the first international collaboration for Emeritus College, started in 2018 as a resource supporting UBC faculty and senior academic administrators in the transition to retirement through academic work, mentoring, research and publishing.
Two Emeritus Professor speakers each from UBC and EAPE will speak, followed by a panel discussion. Professor Luigi Campanella, a prominent chemist from Sapienza University of Rome and Associate Professor Emeritus and Vice-president-elect of the Emeritus College Anne Junker, an MD and rare diseases clinician in immune deficiency disorders, are moderating the panel, which features UBC’s Dr. Judith Hall and Dr. John Helliwell.
Panelists
Canadian Medical Hall of Famer Dr. Judith Hall, OC, MD, DSC, FRSC and FCAHS, will draw from her research to explore the topic: Do emeriti have the opportunity for a new stage in their academic career?
UBC Emeritus Professor of Economics Dr. John Helliwell, OC, FRSC, and co-editor of the World Happiness Reports will speak about key supports for happy and healthy ageing.
From EAPE, Hannover, Germany’s distinguished pediatrician Emeritus Professor Jochen Ehrich (link to PDF), MD, DCMT (London) will delve into "the needs and wants of children and elderly people concerning healthy ageing,” contending that preventative measures have to start early in life to allow for healthy ageing
EAPE President-elect and Emeritus Professor Sir Les Ebdon will explain the value of adult education as it relates to health. With titles including CBE, DL, DSc, DUniv, CChem and FRSC, Dr. Ebdon is an award-winning analytical chemistry researcher and senior educator. For his contribution to education and social mobility he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 2018.
"Healthy Ageing" global panel discussion
Friday, October 1, 2021
9-11am PST | 19:00-21:00 Athens | 18:00-20:00 Paris | 17:00-19:00 London