Past Events
UBC Emeritus College Conversations - September 2020
Pandemic: 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.
Our conversation on PANDEMICS, brings together scholars from the disciplines of History, Law, and Pharmaceutical Science.
Chris Friedrichs will contrast the social and economic impact of COVID-19 today and the Bubonic Plague in the past;
Claire Young will consider the value of the Income tax system as a tool during the pandemic;
Marc Levine will reflect on why it takes so long to develop treatments and vaccines.
Our Moderator is Anne Junker, from the Department of Pediatrics and BC Children’s Hospital.
Each of our three presenters offered an extended discussion of their topic in the "One Hour at UBC series" developed by UBC Extended Learning. Links to each of these presentations are below, should you wish to gain additional background, although this is not a requirement for participation in the conversation.
Speakers:
Chris Friedrichs
Professor Emeritus of History (2018)
Chris Friedrichs is a professor emeritus of history. He retired in 2018 after teaching European and world history at UBC for 45 years. His research interests have focused largely on the history of European cities from the 16th to the 19th century, including aspects of demographic history and the impact of warfare and epidemic diseases on urban life. His publications include The Early Modern City, 1450-1750 and Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe.
Claire Young
Professor Emerita of Law (2014)
Claire Young is Professor Emerita at the Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her research and teaching focus on tax law and policy, with a special interest in the impact of the tax system on women. She is the author of several books and numerous articles. She was the recipient of the UBC Killam teaching award twice in her career and the SSHRCC Therese Casgrain award for her work on women and economic issues.
Marc Levine
Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical Sciences (2017)
Prof. Levine’s teaching included therapeutics of neurological and psychiatric diseases and disorders, pain management, clinical pharmacology, and methods for design and analysis of clinical and biomedical research. The latter included the basis for diagnostic and screening tests and their application to research and clinical practice. His research interests included drug metabolism, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacokinetics and clinical trials. Since 2009 he has been Chair of the UBC Children’s & Women’s Research Ethics Board.
Moderator
Anne Junker
Associate Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics (2018)
Pediatric immunologist Anne Junker has spent upwards of 45 years learning about the factors that make people more or less susceptible to infectious diseases. In addition to caring for children with immune deficiency disorders, she has been devoted to improving people-based research. She helped establish the UBC-CW research ethics board; chaired the Quality Committee of the BC Clinical Trials Network; and led a national network that interacted internationally to develop a global pediatric trials network.
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.
Wednesday, 16 September 2020 - 1:30pm to 2:30pmCouncil Meeting - Retreat
The Council will meet online for their annual Retreat.
Wednesday, 9 September 2020 - 10:00am to 12:30pm
Photo Group
Please send 3 photos to Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca. We have a theme for photos – Pandemic.
We ask that at least one of the 3 photos should be on the topic but the other titles/subjects can be at the discretion of each maker. We hope that asking for only 3 photos will give individual makers enough time to talk about their image, allow enough time for everyone else to comment, start a discussion and hopefully allow us to finish in about 1 ½ hours. We suggest a pause of 5-10 minutes at about ¾ -1 hour. The time of the pause can be decided according to how time is going.
If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer for the zoom-link at richard@rhspencer.ca
Friday, 21 August 2020 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Office Closed
The office is closed for vacation and will re-open on Monday, August 17.
Friday, 31 July 2020 - 9:00am to Monday, 17 August 2020 - 9:00am
Joint UBC Emeritus College and Faculty Women's Club Travel Group
This is the first joint travel group session with the Faculty Women's Club.
The topic will be: “The Why, Where, When and How of Travelling for Opera”. Presenters: Alex Volkfoff and Heather Clark.
A zoom-link will be made available closer to the date.
Wednesday, 3 June 2020 - 7:30pmTravel Group
Lorna and Don Blake will be presenting “Nostalgia Revisited: A Month in New Zealand”. They will take us on their automobile trip through New Zealand from Auckland in the North Island to Invercargill at the tip of the South Island. Their itinerary was planned by the daughter of a Kiwi nurse who befriended Lorna’s parents in the early fifties, hence “nostalgia” in the title. She also arranged fabulous homestays with friends and relations, most of whom they had never met, but who treated them like family. You couldn’t buy this tour, but we hope you can still enjoy it.
If you would like to join the meeting, please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca to receive the Zoom-link.
Thursday, 21 May 2020 - 3:00pm