Upcoming Events
Travel Group April 15, 2021
At the April meeting of the EC Travel Group, Steve Savitt will present “A Dinner at the Centre of the World: The Greatest Urban Show on Earth?” In this presentation, he will talk about Shanghai and focus on what it is like to have dinner on the terrace of M on the Bund in Shanghai on a beautiful June evening.
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, 15 April 2021 - 3:00pm
Film Group April 28, 2021
Series Twelve – Ecofeminist Warriors
The films can be screened via the streaming sites listed with each film
Zoom discussions of each film will take place on: April 28, May 26 and June 30 at 4pm
Hosted by John LeBlanc
Series Twelve: Ecofeminism addresses the relationship between human beings and their surrounding world from a gender-based perspective, insisting upon equality for women within a patriarchy-dominated society while also demanding the ethical treatment of a nature suffering a similar patriarchal oppression. Unlike Hollywood films (such as Interstellar) that present the relationship with nature from the perspective of patriarchal elites, which devalues human and natural diversity and democracy, ecofeminist films emphasize that we live in harmony with nature, instead of dominating it, with women playing a strong role in redressing that imbalance. The first two films in the series (Spoor and Woman at War) feature examples of strong European women who defy their entrenched social orders to achieve their ecofeminist goals. The third film (Women Without Men), situated in the strongly patriarchal culture of Iran, provides a more nuanced, artistic consideration of ecofeminist activism.
April 28 – Spoor (Pokot) (2017) – directed by Agnieszka Holland, who for 40 years has directed film and TV throughout the world, is one of her less seen but highly interesting native Poland films. Set in the beautiful contemporary rural southwest Poland, the film is an ingenious twist (but not without humor) on the thriller genre, reworking Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead as it tells the story of Janina, a 60+ woman, played by well-known Polish stage actor Agnieszka Mandat, who investigates a series of strange deaths in her neighbourhood. STREAM VIA UBC LIBRARY KANOPY.
To join the group, please email john.leblanc @ ubc.ca
Pandemic Poems - Launch May 11, 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).
With participation of:
- Dianne Newell (UBC)
- Seymour Mayne (University of Ottawa)
- George McWhirter (UBC)
- Sherry Simon (Concordia University)
- Doug Todd (Vancouver Sun)
Poster can be downloaded in PDF by clicking on the picture on the left.
Click here for Zoom Registration
Tuesday, 11 May 2021 - 5:00pmCouncil Meeting - May 12
The Council will meet online.
Wednesday, 12 May 2021 - 10:30am to 12:30pmThe Medical Legal History of Assisted Dying in Canada
Dr. Derryck Smith, Clinical Professor Emeritus, Psychiatry, will speak about The Medical Legal History of Assisted Dying in Canada. Dr. Smith is a Vancouver-based psychiatrist, still active in clinical teaching of medical students and residents. He is a past president of the BC Medical Association and a past board member of the Canadian Medical Association, as well as a past president of the Medical Legal Society. He served as Chair of the Board for the Greater Vancouver Mental Health Services Society. Dr. Smith provided an affidavit in support of legalizing medically assisted dying in the recent Gloria Taylor case in BC.
VIEWPOINT: "As a physician, and assuming the law prohibiting physician-assisted dying were changed, I view physician-assisted dying in prescribed circumstances with appropriate safeguards (as) part of the appropriate continuum of care that I would provide a patient. This care, in my view, would be consistent with my ethical and professional obligations."
Financial Fraud and Power of Attorney
Financial Fraud and Power of Attorney (General, Special Banking): What You Need to Know to Better Protect Yourself
This conference is for seniors of all origins and will be animated by Michel Gariépy from L'Autorité des Marchés Financiers and Margherita Morsella, Lawyer.
Please note that CURAC (College and University Retirees Association of Canada) has a webpage for upcoming events on Later Life Learning.
We will circulate info on particular events via an Alert and on our website.
Time: 10:30 PDT (1:30 EDT) to noon PDT (3:00 EDT)
Registration: Please contact Louise Buzit-Beaulieu, national Coord at louise.buzit-beaulieu.ccsmtl@sss.gouv.qc.ca
Poster can be downloaded in PDF by clicking on the picture on the left.