Past Events
Senior Scholars' Series - January 21
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Jane Coop
Professor Emeritus of Music (2012)
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, 21 January 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Travel Group January 21, 2021
Paul Steinbok will talk about 2 small vessel cruises: a barge cruise along the Canal de la Marne au Rhin in Alsace Lorraine, France; and a river cruise along the Douro river from Porto, Portugal to Vega de Terron, Spain.
If you are currently not on the email list of the EC travel interest group and wish to receive our mailings, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.
A zoom link will be sent out 2 days before each meeting.
Please note the new time of 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, 21 January 2021 - 3:00pm
Third Retirement Session on January 19, 2021
Your Investments: Factors to Consider in view of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Performance of the Canadian and Global Economies
This third, and last, session in the Retirement Series will discuss how to preserve and grow your wealth to ensure that it is sufficient for the rest of your life.
It will address issues such as:
- Factors to consider in making pension and investment decisions during these times.
- Investments and economic uncertainty: E.g., inflation, recession, government measures to address the mounting deficit and debt.
- Stock market performance: What are the expectations?
- Investment risk: How to reduce it? What are lower risk investments? Higher risk investments?
- Bond funds: A low-risk investment-portfolio stabilizer or not?
- Annuities: A recommended strategy?
- What is considered sufficient savings, including recommended reserves in cash, to cover future living expenses given ongoing uncertainties?
- Investment strategy for the later years of your retirement. How might it differ from the earlier years?
Speakers:
Oliver Gilbert, Investment Advisor, CIBC Wood Gundy;
Alain Quennec, Financial Advisor and Portfolio Manager, RGF Integrated Wealth Management
Moderator:
Paul Marantz, UBC Emeritus College
Note: This session will not be made available for later viewing.
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Photo Group January 2021
If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer for the zoom-link at richard@rhspencer.ca
Friday, 15 January 2021 - 4:00pm
UBC Emeritus College Conversations - January 12, 2021
climate change: A Conversation
Seeking to encourage and sustain engagement among Emeritus College members and a wider audience, when even moderately-sized in-person gatherings are impossible, the UBC Emeritus College invites you to join one of our upcoming conversations on a topic of broad and current importance. Convened every month, on the Zoom platform, conversations will be interactive and moderated. They will begin with three short presentations from Emeritus colleagues, offering different perspectives on the chosen topic. After a short discussion among panelists, audience members will be invited to join the conversation.
In December 2020, as the world celebrated the development of COVID-19 vaccines, Greta Thunberg observed that we are speeding in the wrong direction on the climate crisis: “we are facing an emergency and we are not doing nearly enough.” Bringing together a prominent climate scientist, a well-known analyst of risk and decision-making on environmental and energy questions, and a concerned citizen, a humanist committed to raising awareness of the climate emergency wherever possible, this conversation will offer information and perspective on the science behind the crisis as well as insight into the commitments that will shape thinking, actions, and expectations moving forward.
Panelists will be available for further discussion in “break-out rooms” after the conversation.
Panelists
Douw Steyn
Professor Emeritus of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences (2015)
Douw Steyn, ACM, FCMOS is active in the fields air pollution meteorology, boundary layer meteorology, mesoscale meteorology, environmental science and interdisciplinary science. His research involves measurement and modelling studies of regional air pollution, especially in regions with complex terrain. He has published more than 100 scientific papers in the international peer reviewed literature. He is an Accredited Consulting Meteorologist, and has provincial, national and international consultancy experience in his areas of expertise, and has provided expert testimony in numerous court cases and appeal board hearings in British Columbia.
Tim McDaniels
Professor Emeritus of Community and Regional Planning (2017)
Tim McDaniels, a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, has worked for decades on risk and decision making in environmental and technology contexts.
Bill Winder
Assistant Professor Emeritus of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies (2020)
Bill Winder describes himself as the Candide of this group, having had little contact with climate-related issues in his area of specialization, French language instruction and Digital Humanities. He has recently joined other grassroots activists whose raison d’être is to act on the climate crisis (in their language of choice).
Bill Winder can be found beside the red arrow in the picture.
Moderator
Margery Fee
Professor Emerita of English (2017)
Margery Fee, FRSC, held the David and Brenda McLean Chair in Canadian Studies (2015-2017) to work on early Indigenous oral and literary production. Recent publications are Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (2015), Tekahionwake: E. Pauline Johnson’s Writings on Native North America (2016), co-edited with Dory Nason, Polar Bear (Reaktion, 2019) and an edited collection of Jean Barman’s essays, On the Cusp of Contact: Gender, Space, and Race in the Colonization of British Columbia (Harbour, 2020).
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.
Tuesday, 12 January 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Travel Group December 17
Don and Lorna Blake will present "Pre-Covid Spanish Holiday: Barcelona, Madrid, Granada and the Basque Country". They will present highlights of a three week trip to Spain that took in in some of Spain's major urban attractions capped off by a week in the hills of the Basque Country.
If you are currently not on the email list of the EC travel interest group and wish to receive our mailings, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.
A zoom link will be sent out 2 days before each meeting.
Thursday, 17 December 2020 - 3:00pm