Upcoming Events
Series at Green College | March 29
Trauma/Resilience Lecture Series
Challenge, Stress, Trauma: Pathogenesis and Salutogenesis
with Dr. Peter Suedfeld
The road of life is marked by many obstacles to success and happiness, peace and quiet. The emphasis of many experts in the helping professions is that these obstacles lead to psychological damage ranging from mild frustration to a shattered life. The presentation will assess these beliefs and propose a different perspective: how the threats are overcome, and how they may even be sources of psychological strength and growth.
Peter Suedfeld survived the Nazi Holocaust in Hungary. After emigration in 1948, he was educated in the U.S. (BA, Queens College, City University of New York, MA and PhD, Princeton). He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force Reserve and has dual citizenship in the U.S. and Canada. Prior to coming to UBC as Head of the Department of Psychology in 1972, he taught at the University of Illinois and Rutgers. His research deals primarily with adaptation and resilience during and after challenging, dangerous, and/or extreme environments and experiences. These have included restricted environmental stimulation, life and work in the two polar regions and space, high-level political and military decision-making and information processing under stress, and experiences in environmental disasters, solitary confinement, persecution, and genocide. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and has received various Canadian, American, and international awards for his research. In 2019, he was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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
Wednesday, 29 March 2023 - 5:00pmSeries at Green College | March 30
'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
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OVER TIME: DOING BIOCHEMISTRY WITHOUT A LICENCE
George Mackie, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;
Anna Blakney, Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering;
Annie Ciernia, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology;
Beth Davenport, PhD student, Microbiology and Immunology
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 fifth event in the series will stage a conversation between scholars of Molecular Biology. 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 ‘Molecular Biology’ 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, 30 March 2023 - 5:00pm
Photo Group | March 31
Theme: "In the Forest"
As always, you can send photos on other themes, and the photos can be recent (preferred!) or from your catalog.
Please send two photos to Richard Spencer on this theme (or your choice) before the meeting.
If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca for Zoom details
Check out the Photo Group’s new Flickr account to view photos from their last meeting.
Save the Date: Thursday, April 6, Neil leNobel will be giving a talk at UBC on “How to Take and Make a Better Photo”. We will meet for lunch before the talk. Please contact Richard Spencer at richard@rhspencer.ca for more details
Friday, 31 March 2023 - 3:00pm
Vancouver Institute Lecture | April 1
Exploring the Hidden Earth – Groundwaters and Deep Subsurface Life
Dr. Barbara Sherwood Lollar, C.C., Dr. Norman Keevil Chair in Ore Deposits, Geology Professor in Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
Dr. Sherwood Lollar has revolutionized the development of innovative mechanisms for groundwater remediation. In 2013 Canadian Geographic magazine listed her among the Ten Canadians “Changing the World” for her discovery of the “billion-year-old water” and its implications for life on other planets. This discovery was recognized as one of the Top Ten Science Stories that year. Dr. Sherwood Lollar has been the recipient of multiple distinguished awards including the 2021 Massey Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the Canada Council Killam Prize in the field of Natural Sciences (2020), the 2019 Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering (NSERC’s highest honour), the 2019 C.C. Patterson Award for environmental chemistry, and the 2012 Eni Award in Protection of the Environment. She is an elected member of the U.S. National Academies (2021), a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2019), the Royal Society of Canada (2004), the American Geophysical Union (2015), the Geochemical Society, the European Association of Geochemistry (2019), and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society (2019).
Saturday, 1 April 2023 - 8:15pm
Council Meeting April 5, 2023
Wednesday, 5 April 2023 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
UBC Library Workshop | April 6
Not Just Checking Boxes: Thinking & Working Through Ethical Problems with Checklists
with Bri Watson, EDI Scholar-In-Residence at UBC Library
Over the past few decades, members of the public, students, professionals, and researchers have struggled to the dilemmas and conundrums originating from powerful new technologies, including artificial intelligence, Big Data, machine learning, just to name a few. Although these new technologies hold much potential, their creators and designers have—more often than not—been willingly overlook the often-detrimental and sometimes-devastating unintended consequences.
In this workshop, Bri Watson guides participants through the development and use of a checklist developed over the course of multiple years in consultation with the creators, developers, maintainers, sustainers, and affected individuals and communities.
When: Thursday, April 6 from 10:00 to 11:30am
Where: Peña Room (Room 301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre