Upcoming Events
General Meeting February 8, 2023
"Facing Xi Jinping's China: Comparative approaches from the US, the European Union, Canada, Japan, India, South East Asia, Singapore"
Yves Tiberghien (Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002; Harvard Academy Scholar 2006; Fulbright Scholar 1996) is a Professor of Political Science, Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, and Director of the Center for Japanese Research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. In November 2017, he was made a Chevalier de l’ordre national du mérite by the French President.
Yves is a Distinguished Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada and a Senior Fellow at the University of Alberta’s China Institute. He is an International Steering Committee Member at Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) and a visiting professor at Tokyo University, The Taipei School of Economics, and Sciences Po Paris. He has held other visiting positions at National Chengchi University (Taiwan), GRIPS (Tokyo), and the Jakarta School of Public Policy (Indonesia).
His research focuses on the comparative political economy of East Asia and on global economic and environmental governance. His latest book is The East Asian Covid-19 Paradox. August 2021. University Press (with post-2021 updates found here).
He is working on two new books, respectively titled Up for Grabs: Disruption, Competition, and the Remaking of the Global Order and Navigating the Age of Disruption: Understanding Canada’s Options in a Shifting Global Order. He is also leading a research project on the political economy of the twin industrial revolutions (digital/AI and green tech).
His previous books include Entrepreneurial States: Reforming Corporate Governance in France, Japan, and Korea (2007, Cornell University Press); L’Asie et le futur du monde (2012, Paris: Science Po Press); and Leadership in Global Institution-Building: Minerva’s Rule (2013, edited volume, Palgrave McMillan). In 2020, he edited an online collection of papers on Japan’s leadership in the Liberal International Order. He has published articles and book chapters on the political economy of Japan and China, global governance, global climate change politics, and the governance of agricultural biotechnology.
Dr. Tiberghien co-founded the Vision 20 initiative in 2015, a new coalition of global scholars and policy-makers aiming at providing a long-term perspective on the challenges of global economic and environmental governance. The V20 held six summits (Hangzhou, 2016, Buenos Aires 2018, Tokyo 2018, and Washington DC, 2017, 2018, 2019).
SCHEDULE:
2:00pm Business meeting
2:15pm Talk by Yves Tiberghien
3:00pm Q&A
3:15pm End of meeting
Co-housing Women's Group February 9, 2023
Baba Yaga House and other models for living for women retirees
Guest Speaker: Michelle Cooper-Iversen who is the Chief Operating Officer of the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC (CHF BC’s) Group of Social Purpose Entities– this includes COHO Management Services Society and the Community Land Trust. She holds a designation in Human Resources and is a graduate of the Saint Mary’s University Master of Management, Cooperatives and Credit Union. She is responsible for executing operational plans than impact CHF BC, COHO and the Community Land Trust with a goal of ensuring that CHF BC’s wholly owned subsidiaries are working in cooperation with a focus on strengthening the organization and the co-op housing sector.
More Information on the Co-housing Women's Group
The recent crises in long term care as a result of the Pandemic have emphasized the need for coming up with new models for aging demographics. It remains a well-documented fact that women generally have fewer access to resources than men when it comes to this stage of their lives. The group is intended to comprise those who wish to delve further into the possibilities for self-governing models of group living that combine independent spaces with communal ones (co-housing, coop housing etc.). The Baba Yaga model set up in France has inspired people across the world: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20130305-babayagas-house
We will share experts and expertise (including inspiring writers, artists and film directors) that exist in the field to see what is possible. It is anticipated that pooling our knowledge will provide a range of realistic models for the future and may even have direct practical outcomes. While the call to participate is initially directed at women only we will decide at the first meeting whether to stay with this model.
Join the Co-housing Women's Group mailing list: Please email sneja.gunew@ubc.ca and express your interest.
Meeting Format: Zoom. Group members will receive the Zoom links in advance of all meetings.
Thursday, 9 February 2023 - 4:00pm
Vancouver Institute: Elizabeth Kolbert | February 11
The Vancouver Institute Lectures
Title: Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Speaker: Elizabeth Kolbert, Award-winning author and journalist
Ms. Kolbert is an observer and commentator on the crisis faced by humans in the Anthropocene for The New Yorker magazine. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) and Under a White Sky (2021) is her latest book. Ms. Kolbert’s series on global warming, “The Climate of Man,” (The New Yorker, 2005) won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award. She is the recipient of many distinguished awards including the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award (2006) and a Heinz Award (2010). She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021. Ms. Kolbert’s articles have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, and Mother Jones, and have been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing and The Best American Political Writing.
Saturday, 11 February 2023 - 8:15pm
Professors Emeriti Network Lecture | February 15
The Professors Emeriti Networks invites UBC Emeriti to the below lecture:
Post-Secondary Retiree Associations in Canada: Context, Development, Values, Achievements, Challenges, Aspirations
The objective: Presentation of an overview of post-secondary retiree associations in Canada from a national perspective, including information of the wide variety of associations, the challenges they face today and plans for the future.
Chair:
Dr. Fred Fletcher, Professor Emeritus
Political Science and Communication Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada
Chairperson, Communications Committee, College and University Retiree Associations of Canada – CURAC
We kindly invite you to register for the meeting at Joze.Gricar@UM.si.
Those registered will receive a link to the meeting. The Participants List will be published after the meeting.
Wednesday, 15 February 2023 - 8:00am to 10:00am
Travel Group | February 16, 2023
Paris and the Heart of Normandy: Cruising the Seine
Presented by: Paul Steinbok (Professor Emeritus Surgery)
After 2 days in Paris on board our Viking ship, docked in sight of the Eiffel tower, we cruised down the Seine to Rouen. En route, we visited La Roche Guyon and Vernon and explored Giverny and the house and gardens where Claude Monet lived and worked. From Rouen we went by road to Bayeaux to see the magnificent tapestry that chronicles the pre-Battle of Hastings events.
Afterwards, we headed to Normandy’s coast to visit Juno Beach, the site of the Canadian landing on D-Day, June 6, 1944 and the nearby Commonwealth cemetery. On the return trip up the Seine, we stopped at Les Andelys with its imposing castle, Château Gaillard, built by Richard the Lionheart. Then, on to Napoleon’s Château de Malmaison at Le Pecq before returning to Paris. This was a trip filled with history, art, architecture in beautiful urban and pastoral settings.
If you wish to receive the zoom link for the meeting and are not already on the EC Travel group list, please contact Paul Steinbok at psteinbok@cw.bc.ca.
Thursday, 16 February 2023 - 3:00pm
Series at Green College February 16, 2023
'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
Economics OVER TIME: ITS EXPANDING SCOPE AND GROWING AWARENESS
Mukesh Eswaran, Professor Emeritus, Economics, UBC;
David Green, Professor, Economics, UBC; and
Idaliya Grigoryeva, Green College Society Member and PhD Student, Economics, University of California, San Diego
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 fourth event in the series will stage a conversation between scholars of Economics. 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 ‘Economics’ 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. Meeting details on Green College Website
Green College Event Details
Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed
Thursday, February 16, 5-6:30pm with reception to follow
Co-Hosts
Emeritus College and Green College
Thursday, 16 February 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm