Past Events
University of Manitoba Symposium | May 1
Centre on Aging 40th Annual Spring Research Symposium
This year's sessions will reflect on the Centre's history at the University of Manitoba over the past 40 years. Additional sessions will focus on cannabis and the older adult, COVID's effects on older people and in personal care homes, and cohort studies in aging. Sessions will take place in person and will simultaneously be streamed live online.
Scheduled presenters:
Dr. Daniel Sitar, Professor Emeritus, Max Rady College of Medicine University of Manitoba
Dr. Sandra Webber, College of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Manitoba
Dr. Jamison Falk, College of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba
Dr. Megan Davies, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, Department of Social Science, York University
Dr. Laura Funk, Faculty of Arts, Department of Sociology and Criminology, University of Manitoba
Dr. Mary Shariff, Robson Hall Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba
Dr. Philip St. John, Max Rady College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba
Groves of Academe | April 25
READING: Elif Batuman, The Idiot
If you would like to join the group please contact convenor, Graeme Wynn (wynn@geog.ubc.ca).
*Details of this in-person event will be confirmed through the group's email communications closer to the date. Please contact the convenor for more information or to be added to the group. By nature of the intimate sharing format of the group, membership size is limited.*
Tuesday, 25 April 2023 - 3:30pm
Healthy Aging Program Seminar | April 25
with Dr. Aric A. Prather, University of California, San Francisco
Aric A. Prather, PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Prather’s research centers on the causes and consequences of insufficient sleep, with a focus on how poor sleep impacts the immune system to increase one’s risk for infectious illness and inflammatory disease. His work also focuses on social determinants of sleep and sleep disparities. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Prather helps run the UCSF Insomnia Clinic and treats patients with insomnia using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). Dr. Prather is an elected fellow to the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research and the American Psychosomatic Society, has published more than 100 empirical papers, and is the recent author of The Sleep Prescription (Penguin Life), which provides practical, research-based guidance for improving one’s sleep.
This lecture may be viewed in-person at the Rudy North Lecture Theatre in the Centre for Brain Health at UBC or over Zoom.
Tuesday, 25 April 2023 - 12:00pmHealthy Aging Program Seminar | April 24
with Dr. Aric A. Prather, University of California, San Francisco
Aric A. Prather, PhD is a Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Prather’s research centers on the causes and consequences of insufficient sleep, with a focus on how poor sleep impacts the immune system to increase one’s risk for infectious illness and inflammatory disease. His work also focuses on social determinants of sleep and sleep disparities. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Prather helps run the UCSF Insomnia Clinic and treats patients with insomnia using cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I). Dr. Prather is an elected fellow to the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research and the American Psychosomatic Society, has published more than 100 empirical papers, and is the recent author of The Sleep Prescription (Penguin Life), which provides practical, research-based guidance for improving one’s sleep.
This lecture may be viewed in-person at St. Paul's Hospital or over Zoom.
Monday, 24 April 2023 - 6:00pm
Series at Green College | April 20
'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
INDIGENOUS STUDIES
Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Professor Emerita, Educational Studies;
Hagwil Hayetsk (Charles Menzies), Professor, Anthropology;
Caroline Running Wolf (Apsáalooke), Green College Society Member and PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Studies
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 sixth and final event in the series will stage a conversation between scholars of Indigenous Studies. 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 ‘Indigenous Studies’ in Canadian and other universities and to peer into possible futures of the field.
HYBRID FORMAT
Join us in-person at Green College on the UBC Vancouver Campus or virtually. The session will be followed by a reception.
Co-Hosts
Emeritus College and Green College
Thursday, 20 April 2023 - 5:00pm
Travel Group | April 20
Cycling in Puglia and a visit to Malta
with Peter Dodek, Professor Emeritus of Critical Care Medicine
In September 2019, my wife and I booked a self-guided cycling trip through Puglia, Italy. After brief visits to Bari, Monopoli, Polignano a Mare, and Matera , we criss-crossed the heel of Italy on backroads and stayed in delightful small towns. Then, we flew to Malta to immerse ourselves for several days in the place where the 'west' defeated the Ottomans in 1565 and the Nazis in 1942.
Format: Hybrid
If you wish to receive the zoom link for the meeting and are not already on the EC Travel group list, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.
A zoom link will be sent out before each meeting.
Thursday, 20 April 2023 - 3:00pm