Past Events

Vancouver Institute: Dr. Clare Haru Crowston | February 25

The Vancouver Institute Lectures

Title: The Critical University: Place as Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Dr. Clare Haru Crowston, Dean, Faculty of Arts, UBC

Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Crowston served as the Associate Dean for the Humanities and Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has demonstrated her commitment to academic and research excellence through innovative curriculum development, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and faculty development, as well as promoting and advancing equity, diversity and inclusion, and Indigenous engagement. Her research interests lie in the early modern history of women and gender, and of working people in early modern France. She has authored the books Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France (2013) and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 (2001); the latter was awarded the Berkshire Prize for the best first book in history by a woman in North America and the Hagley Prize in business history.

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Call for Feedback | February 23

New President and Vice-Chancellor | Call for Feedback

UBC has launched its search for a new President and Vice-Chancellor. The Search Committee is calling for input from all members of the UBC community including the members of the Emeritus College. Some key area’s they are asking for input on is as follows:

• What do you see as some of the key opportunities and challenges ahead for the President and Vice-Chancellor in the coming years?
• What experience and personal qualities would you want an ideal candidate to bring to this role?
• Any other comments that might be useful to the committee?
• Any suggestions of potential candidates for this role?

A short survey has been created to collect responses. The survey can be accessed here: https://chkmkt.com/ubcpresident. Responses will be anonymous unless you choose to provide your name.

The deadline for feedback is February 23, 2023.

Series at Green College February 16, 2023

'Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge' is a cross departmental collaboration between UBC's Green College and Emeritus College.

This series will bring together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have changed over time. The conversation will inevitably lead to a consideration of cross-disciplinary influences and interdisciplinary trends, as participants account for changes in the cognitive strength of sub-disciplines and the rise and fall of disciplinary paradigms. The intent will be to identify underlying reasons for the observed changes and, by the end of the series, to draw some general conclusions about mechanisms of (inter)disciplinary interaction and development, in the spirit—if not necessarily the style—of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault.

Series Convener: Donald Fisher, Past-Principal, UBC Emeritus College

Economics OVER TIME: ITS EXPANDING SCOPE AND GROWING AWARENESS

Mukesh Eswaran, Professor Emeritus, Economics, UBC; 

David Green, Professor, Economics, UBC; and

Idaliya Grigoryeva, Green College Society Member and PhD Student, Economics, University of California, San Diego

This series, co-hosted with UBC Emeritus College, brings together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have shifted over time. This fourth event in the series will stage a conversation between scholars of Economics. The moderator will ask the panelists a series of questions about their perspectives on the discipline, and the discussion will be opened at an early stage to members of the audience. The goal of the event is to grasp the interdisciplinary nexus that is ‘Economics’ in Canadian and other universities and to peer into possible futures of the field.

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Join us in-person at Green College on the UBC Vancouver Campus or virtually. The session will be followed by a reception. Meeting details on Green College Website

Green College Event Details
Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed
Thursday, February 16, 5-6:30pm with reception to follow

Co-Hosts

Emeritus College and Green College