Upcoming Events
CIHR Institute of Aging: Strategic Plan for 2022-29
Community Engagement Session Invitation
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research Institute of Aging is currently working on a renewed strategic plan and is looking forward to releasing it in mid-2022. Through listening carefully to priorities for research on aging over the past year they would now like to hear specifically from the research community on research to improve the health and wellbeing of older adults.
Join them for an overview of key research priorities for the coming years and engage in a discussion on your thoughts and needs for the future of research on aging in Canada.
Register for one of the following dates:
- March 8, 2022 from 3-4pm EST (12-1pm PST)
- March 10, 2022 from 10-11am EST (7-8am PST)
- March 16, 2022 from 1-2pm EST (10-11am PST)
- March 17, 2022 from 10-11:30am EST (7-8:30am PST) *Bilingual*
Dialogue on the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan - Tuesday, March 15
The Continuing Scholarly Activity and Engagement Committee of the Emeritus College is hosting a virtual presentation and discussion of UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan (ISP). Sheryl Lightfoot, Senior Advisor to the President on Indigenous Affairs and Vicki George, Associate Director of the Office of Indigenous Strategic Initiatives will provide an overview of the ISP including the ISP implementation toolkit, and examples of how UBC units are engaging in the ISP. This session includes breakout room discussion where participants will have an opportunity to share perspectives and ideas about implementing aspects of the Indigenous Strategic Plan.
To facilitate meaningful dialogue, currently registration this ISP session is limited. Please contact communications@emerituscollege.ubc.ca if you are interested in registering for this event.
Tuesday, 15 March 2022 - 10:00am
Green College Series on Intergenerational Trauma
BRINGING GENERATIONS TOGETHER: COMMONALITY, DIFFERENCE AND RESILIENCE. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
A Panel Discussion with Alejandra Sanchez, Grant Charles, Fred Chou, Judith Hall, Mari Piglini and Richard Vedan, moderated by the Series Convenor Marv Westwood.
Join Zoom Meeting
Green College link
Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College
Tuesday, 15 March 2022 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Travel Group March 17, 2022
Above and Below the Sod in Ireland: About Golf and Graves
Presented by Charlotte Johnston and Jan Jaap Bijlsma
Our holidays in Ireland have afforded us great enjoyment of the people, their local golf courses, and some of the places they have laid their loved ones to rest. This talk and the slides will share some of these wonders of the Emerald Isle.
If you are currently not on the email list of the EC travel interest group and wish to receive our mailings, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.
A zoom link will be sent out 2 days before each meeting.
Thursday, 17 March 2022 - 3:00pm
Poetic Odysseys - March 21, 2022
All who are interested in writing, reading or listening to poetry are welcome.
Contacts:
Philip Resnick (Professor Emeritus, Political Science - philip.resnick@ubc.ca)
and George McWhirter (Professor Emeritus, Creative Writing).
Senior Scholars' Series - March 22, 2022
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Fes de Scally
Professor Emeritus of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences (2019)
Reflections on a Career of Field Science and Experiential Education While Building UBC’s Okanagan Campus
Fes retired in 2020 after 32 years of teaching at Okanagan University College and UBC. He was part of the first cohort of faculty hired by OUC to create the institution’s first degree programs. Seventeen years later, those programs became the core of UBC’s newly acquired Okanagan campus. Fes has spent his career as a field scientist on a wide range of research problems, including the hydrological role of snow avalanches, the dynamics and hazards of high-mountain fans, tropical cyclone hazards, and wildland-urban interface fire risk. His fieldwork has taken him to Pakistan’s Punjab Himalaya and Karakoram Mountains, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, the Cascade and Rocky Mountains of western Canada, and the Cook Islands. His passion for undergraduate education, especially experiential and field-based, has been recognized by a teaching award from the Canadian Association of Geographers and a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury.
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe - moderator
Professor Emeritus of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (2015)