Upcoming Events
Photo Group February 2021
The theme for the February meeting will be “Shape and Colour”. Please submit three photos, plus (if you wish) “before and after” versions of one or two of them, to show how you changed the original out of camera photo to get the result you were looking for.
Send the photos to richard@rhspencer.ca. You can send them as email attachments, zip files, or downloads from an online site. If you include them in the body of an email, you should avoid letting your software reduce the size of the photos to any resolution less than about 1000 x 800 pixels (within reason, bigger is generally better!).
If you would like to join, please contact Richard Spencer for the zoom-link at richard@rhspencer.ca
Friday, 26 February 2021 - 4:00pmCouncil Meeting - March 10
The Council will meet online.
Wednesday, 10 March 2021 - 10:30am to 12:30pm
Travel Group March 11, 2021
Vietnam and Cambodia: Bicycling up the Mekong from Saigon to Luang Prabang
On March 11 Claire Weeks, emerita Rehab Medicine and Peter Wing, emeritus Spinal Orthopaedics will share their experiences on a trip through Vietnam, beginning independently in January 2019 as they took the train from Hanoi through the northern and middle regions en route to Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). There they met a group of Vancouver-based friends who had arranged an organized bike tour through the southern region, exploring the Mekong Delta and then travelling up the Mekong into Cambodia and Laos. All in all, they travelled for nearly a month, learned a great deal of history, were introduced to several related cultures, enjoyed fantastic food and experienced the hottest temperatures (low 40s!) they had ever had to contend with when biking. They survived, gaining new perspectives on the Vietnam war (aka the American war) and learning about some of the regional challenges.
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, 11 March 2021 - 4:00pm
General Meeting March 17, 2021
Last year in March we had to cancel the art exhibit which was planned to accompany the General Meeting. This year we will do it again, only virtually.
Art on the side features a panel of three Emeriti who engaged in an artistic life alongside their academic careers:
Ann Hilton, Nursing (painting), Philip Resnick, Political Science (poetry) and Andrew Seal, Medicine (painting and photography).
Ann Hilton - Professor Emerita of Nursing (2006)
A graduate of the 1968 UBC BSN program, Ann began her nursing career in Toronto working on the nursing research unit at Sunnybrook Hospital. In 1974 she joined UBC in the School of Nursing and retired in 2005 as a Professor Emerita. Her research focused on how individuals and families cope with life-threatening and chronic illnesses. A major focus was on coping with uncertainty. While at UBC, she served on the Board of the Faculty Club and the Faculty Pension Plan. Through an endowment, she just established the B. Ann Hilton Fellowship in Nursing, for outstanding graduate students in the School of Nursing.
She painted since she was a child and this interest gained considerable momentum post retirement. She loves watercolour as a medium for the freedom it gives colours to mix and mingle creating wonderful scenarios. She is a member of Artists in Our Midst, the Vancouver Art Guild, the South Delta Artists Guild and the Federation of Canadian Artists. Her website: www.annhilton.com.
Philip Resnick - Professor Emeritus of Political Science (2013)
Philip Resnick was born in Montreal and pursued his university education at McGill, in Paris, and at the University of Toronto. For over forty years he was a member of the Department of Political Science at UBC. His interests as a political scientist ranged widely, from Canadian politics and political economy to comparative nationalism and democratic theory, and he has published extensively in these areas. He is also a published poet with six collections to his credit and a new one, Pandemic Poems, to be published this April by Ronsdale Press.
Andrew Seal - Associate Professor Emeritus of Surgery (2010)
Although his medical training was in the UK, from 1981 to 2010, he was a member of the UBC Department of Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. Throughout his career, he has been committed to nurturing the arts and humanities in medical students. From 1994 to 1999, he had the good fortune to be appointed the Faculty of Medicine’s first Associate Dean of Student Affairs and during his term started the tradition of the annual Spring Gala concert and annual Art Show in both of which students showcase and share all of their amazing artistic talents.
Since his retirement, he continues to provide surgical assistance to his surgical colleagues as well as occasional undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He has a studio at home so that his art remains ongoing, as it has throughout his life. Perhaps the most important part of his life that now gives him the greatest joy is spending time with his three beautiful grandchildren.
Each will speak on aspects of that experience and how their art has evolved since retirement. Then Ann and Andrew will speak to various pieces of their work and Philip will read some pieces of poetry for us.
The slide show will feature works by the photography interest group and other Emeriti. Please join us for this wonderful program.
Time line
1:15 The Zoom room will open with a virtual art exhibit, a slide show featuring works submitted by College members. The slide show will repeat at 1:45.
1:30 Business meeting
1:45 Repeat slide show of Emeritus art work
2:00 Panel: Art on the Side featuring a panel of three Emeriti who engaged in an artistic life alongside their academic careers:
Ann Hilton, Nursing (painting)
Philip Resnick, Political Science (poetry) and
Andrew Seal, Medicine (painting and photography)
Moderator: Elaine Carty, Midwifery and Nursing
3:00 Q and A
Wednesday, 17 March 2021 - 1:15pm to 3:15pm
Senior Scholars' Series - March 18, 2021
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT: LEARNING TO MANAGE COMPLEX NATURAL SYSTEMS THROUGH EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVE EXPERIMENTATION
Carl Walters
Associate Professor Emeritus of Fisheries (2013)
Carl Walters is professor emeritus in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Canada. He completed his doctoral degree in 1969 from Colorado State University and has been at UBC since then. He has participated in over 200 peer reviewed publications and has won several major awards including the Volvo Environment Prize, American Fisheries Society Award of Excellence, and ICES prix d’Excellence. His research interests include fish population dynamics, ecosystem modeling, and adaptive management. He has been particularly interested in the long term dynamics of B.C. sockeye populations, finding simple but effective stock assessment methods, and development of simpler models for understanding ecosystem impacts of fishing.
Jerry Wasserman - moderator
Professor Emeritus of English and Theatre (2017)
Jerry Wasserman retired in 2016 after 44 years teaching at UBC. Jerry is also an actor and theatre critic with Lifetime Achievement awards from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Association. He is a member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame.
Co-sponsors: Emeritus College and Green College
Thursday, 18 March 2021 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Poetic Odysseys - March 30, 2021
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).