Program Symposium 2019

"Scholarship in the Future University"

A Celebration of the Founding of the UBC Emeritus College

Printable Version of the Agenda

Thursday, April 11, 2019 

Time

Event

1:00pm to 1:30pm

Gather over Coffee and Tea

1:30 to 2:00pm

SESSION 1

OPENING
Dianne Newell
Professor Emerita, Department of History and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC
Principal, UBC Emeritus College

'Words of Welcome and Introduction: The College and its Symposium'

2:00 to 3:15pm

TALK
Moderator: Kjell Rubenson
Professor Emeritus, Department of Educational Studies, UBC

Speaker:
Professor Glen Jones
Dean and Professor of Higher Education, OISE/University of Toronto

'The Future University: Politics, Power and the Professoriate'

3:15 to 3:45pm

BREAK
Coffee and Tea

3:45 to 4:45pm

SESSION 2

PANEL
Moderator: Olav Slaymaker
Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, UBC

'The Commodification of Knowledge: Scholarship, World University Rankings and the Changing Nature of Academic Work'

Panelists:
Professor Andre Mazawi, Department of Educational Studies, UBC
Associate Professor Michelle Stack, Department of Educational Studies, UBC

Friday, April 12, 2019

Time

Event

8:30 to 9:00am

Gather over Coffee and Tea

9:00 to 10:15am

Session 3

PANEL
Moderator: John Gilbert
Professor Emeritus, School of Audiology and Speech Sciences, UBC

'Internationalization of University Education'

Panelists:
Associate Professor Kumari Beck, Co-Director, Centre for Research on International Education, Simon Fraser University
Professor Janaka Ruwanpura, Vice-President International and Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary
Assistant Professor Sharon Stein, Department of Edcuational Studies, UBC

10:15 to 10:45pm

BREAK
Coffee and Tea

10:45 to12:15pm

SESSION 4

TALK
Moderator: Jo-ann Archibald (Stol:lo Nation)
Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Studies, UBC

Speakers:
Professor Marianne Ignace (Secwépemc), Linguistics and First Nations Studies and Director of First Nations Language Centre, Simon Fraser University
Chief Ronald E Ignace (Secwépemc), historian and story teller and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Simon Fraser University

'Secwépemc​ Stories, History, and Converging Lines of Evidence about the Past'

12:15 to 1:30pm

Light Lunch will be available for attendees.

1:30 to 3:00pm

SESSION 5

PANEL
Moderator: Peter Suedfeld
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, UBC

'Interdisciplinary Approaches to Outer Space/Outer Space Studies'

Panelists:
Professor Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, Department of Political Science, UBC
Assistant Professor Aaron Boley, Canada Research Chair in Planetary Science and Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC
Associate Professor Phyllis Johnson, Department of Sociology, UBC

3:00 to 3:15pm

BREAK
Coffee and Tea

3:15 to 4:30pm

Session 6

PANEL
Moderator: President Santa Ono, UBC

'Scholarship in the Age of Populism and the Era of "Fake News"'

Panelists:
Professor Emeritus Paul Axelrod, History and Higher Education, York University
Associate Professor Mary Lynn Young, School of Journalism, UBC

4:30 to 5:00pm

SUMMARY STATEMENT BY:
Donald Fisher
Professor Emeritus, Department of Edcuational Studies, UBC
Vice-Principal, Emeritus College

and

Elaine Carty
Professor Emerita, School of Nursing and Department of Family Practice (Midwifery), UBC

5:15 to 7:30pm
 

PARTY AND TOAST to the new UBC Emeritus College, Sage Bistro
Official Program is from 5:40 to 6:00pm