Past Events
Annual General Meeting
Annual General Meeting 2020
This meeting takes place online. All College members were invited by email to register for the event and receive the Zoom-link.
Agenda Annual General Meeting 2020
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm
- A Moment of Silence to honour those members who have died
- Approval of the Agenda
- Approval of the Minutes of the April 17, 2019 AGM
- Report from the Principal (Donald Fisher) – 10 mins
- Financial Report (Michael MacEntee) – 10 mins
- Results of Election of new members of the Council (Dianne Newell) – 5 mins
- Looking forward (Graeme Wynn) – 5 mins
- Break Out – meet your Council members in online chat rooms - 15 mins
- Q&A – responses to your questions and comments from Slido - 15 mins
- Thank you’s (Donald Fisher) – 5 mins
- Adjournment
Announcement Programming
All our programming, including interest group meetings, is cancelled until further notice.
The College follows the guidelines as outlined by UBC.
We hope you stay safe and healthy!
Thursday, 19 March 2020 - 9:00am to Sunday, 31 May 2020 - 2:00pm
Senior Scholars' Series
Sinking, Swimming, or Just Treading Water? Meeting the Challenges of an Academic Career in the Humanities
The son of refugees from Nazi Germany, Herbert Rosengarten grew up in a post-war Britain that saw radical changes to public health and education, and that offered new opportunities to the children of the working class through state funding. A sound, if somewhat conventional education led him to Vancouver and the English Department at UBC, just at the time when universities in North America were experiencing the first stirrings of student challenges to traditional authority. Rosengarten experienced the impact of such unrest at UBC, both in the changing attitudes and expectations of students, and in the workings of his department, which became a battleground between liberal and conservative factions, each striving to impose its notions of academic governance. The latter part of his career has been spent largely in administrative posts, which have given him some interesting, if not always positive, insights into the intricacies of academic politics.
Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College; organizer Emeritus Professor Ken Carty. For more, see www.greencollege.ubc.ca. Come at 4:30 for tea and coffee in the Green College Piano Lounge and stay for refreshments after the talks. To attend dinner, please make a reservation no later than noon on the business day before the day on which you want to dine. Without prior reservation, we cannot guarantee that you will be served. Pay for your meal at the servery counter by cash, debit or credit (MasterCard, Visa). For reservations call 604-822-0912, or email kitchen@gcdining.ca.
Thursday, 12 March 2020 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Celebrating Research by UBC Emeriti Seminar
The seminar will include talks by UBC Emeriti George Bluman (Mathematics), Susan Barr (Food, Nutrition and Health) and Richard Unger (History).
More information, including link for registration for lunch (members only) and session, is available at our website.
Photo Group
The theme for this meeting is "Getting Older". Meetings are a mix of showing member images and informal discussions of particular photographic issues. We welcome both newcomers and seasoned photographers. Everyone welcome whether you wish to submit images or just look and socialize.
Contacts: Derek Applegarth (derek.jenny@shaw.ca) and Mike Whitfield.
Poetic Odyssey
All who are interested in writing, reading or listening to poetry are welcome.
Contacts: Philip Resnick (Professor Emeritus, Political Science) and George McWhirter (Professor Emeritus, Creative Writing).