Upcoming Events
Vancouver Institute Lecture | March 11
How UBC Enabled the COVID 19 MRNA Vaccines
Dr. Pieter Cullis, O.C., Director, Life Sciences Institute, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UBC
Dr. Cullis is globally known for his contributions to the field of lipid nanoparticles. His research has contributed to the development of nanomedicines employing lipid nanoparticle delivery technology leading to five clinically approved drugs for cancer therapies, gene therapies, and vaccines, including BNT162b2, the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine marketed by Pfizer/BioNTech. He is also co-founder of ten biotechnology companies, author of over 350 scientific articles and holder of over 60 patents. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Dr. Cullis is the recipient of multiple awards and honours, including the Prix Galien Canada (2011), and more recently the Canada Gairdner International Award, as well as the Governor General’s Innovation Award, the Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science, and the Life Sciences British Columbia Global Impact Award.
Saturday, 11 March 2023 - 8:15pm
Poetic Odysseys Group | March 14
The group welcomes members who write or enjoy poetry. Those interested in attending can contact convenor Philip Resnick, philip.resnick@ubc.ca for details on how to attend and to be added to the Poetry Group list.
Learn more about the group and their activities
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 - 2:00pm
Groves of Academe | March 14
READING: R F Kuang, Babel
If you would like to join the group please contact Graeme Wynn wynn@geog.ubc.ca.
*Details of this in-person event will be confirmed through the group's email communications closer to the date. Please contact the convenor for more information or to be added to the group. By nature of the intimate sharing format of the group, membership size is limited.*
Learn more about the group and the format of thier activites here
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 - 3:30pm
Neuroethics Canada Lecture | March 14
Feeling welcomed: Creating space for Indigenous voices in brain and mental health research
with Melissa L. Perreault, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Guelph, Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario
Research on Indigenous communities has historically been conducted using a one-sided approach, with researchers having little knowledge of Indigenous culture, minimal concerns surrounding community needs or desires, and without giving back to the community. In this lecture intended for people from all backgrounds and professions, Dr. Melissa L. Perreault will discuss how this is the time to give Indigenous communities a voice in research on brain and mental health that is guided ethically and culturally.
When: Tuesday, March 14, 2023 from 5:30PM – 7:00PM
Where: Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art
Everyone is welcome! This public in-person event is free, but tickets are required. Kindly RSVP here: https://ncbaw2023.eventbrite.ca/?aff=enews
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 - 5:30pm
Elders to Elders | March 16
Elder to Elder: An Indigenous Elders Panel
The Elders Circle invites you to a meaningful opportunity to hear from Indigenous Elders about their Elder role in Indigenous society, and insights into the continuity and preservation of that role over the course of colonization. We're grateful to welcome a fourth member of our Indigenous Elders panel (from both urban and rural nations in British Columbia) who look forward to sharing their Elder knowledge with you.
This module will focus on Elder intercultural knowledge exchange with local Indigenous Elders. It is the fourth in a series of modules that the SPEC Elders Circle is presenting in preparation for a program titled, Becoming an Organizational Guiding Elder that will be offered later this year.
Thursday, 16 March 2023 - 10:00am
Wall Catalyst Program | March 16
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the UBC Emeritus College have assembled a cohort of Emeriti to participate in the 2022-23 PWIAS Catalyst Program.
The Wall Catalyst Emeriti cohort will meet monthly to share research experience and engage with guest lecturers on the topic of the "Climate and Nature Emergency".
For more information on this program and the list of participating Emeriti click here.
Members of the Emeritus College are invited to attend speaker lectures throughout the year.
Indigenous Worldviews, Indigenous Law Revitalization & Self-Determination as Critical Responses to Climate and Nature Emergency
Panel Discussion with Dr. Robert Clifford, Allard Law School and Dr. Jocelyn Stacey, Allard Law School
Moderated by Dr. Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Emeritus College Cohort
Robert Clifford will highlight how the project of Indigenous law revitalization and the reality of climate crisis necessarily interact, so that Indigenous theories and methodologies for Indigenous law revitalization and diagnoses and approaches to climate crisis mitigation are intricately intertwined and mutually reflective. Guiding this project are W̱SÁNEĆ understandings of place and relationship with the more-than-human world, which is a valuable source of wisdom and practice in re-imagining relationships and place within the world, and alternatives to the ‘Anthropocene’.
Jocelyn Stacey will discuss the critical connection between the climate emergency-disaster response-and Indigenous self-determination through sharing the story of her research with the Tsilhqot’in National Government, which emerged from the 2017 wildfires that at the time broke wildfire records in BC. That wildfire response highlighted how provincial and federal responses to emergencies fail to recognize and support the exercise of Indigenous jurisdiction. This story emphasizes how and why Indigenous self-determination needs to lead responses to the climate and nature emergency.
Robert Clifford, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Assistant Professor (UBC)
B.A., JD, LL.M. (Victoria), PhD (Osgoode)Robert Clifford is W̱SÁNEĆ and a member of the Tsawout First Nation on Vancouver Island.
He carries the name YEL.ÁTTE, passed to him by his late grandfather, Earl Claxton Sr. He lives and writes in his home community of Tsawout. His work engages the resurgence of W̱SÁNEĆ
laws and seeks to relate the ways in which those laws reflect and generate out of the values, philosophies, lands, and worldviews of his people. His work is community focused and draws upon W̱SÁNEĆ law in relation to pressing problems throughout W̱SÁNEĆ territory.
Jocelyn Stacey, Associate Professor, Allard School of Law (UBC)
B.Sc (Alberta), LL.B (Calgary), LL.M (Yale), D.C.L (McGill)Jocelyn Stacey is an associate professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Traditional Territory.
She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on environmental assessment law, disaster law, climate change, emergency powers and the rule of law. Her current research project, The Law of Disaster Exceptionalism, investigates how law regulates disasters as disconnected and exceptional events, contrary to the experiences of those made most vulnerable to disaster and in spite of our current era of climate disruption.
Prof. Stacey works closely with BC First Nations, advancing the implementation of First Nations’ inherent jurisdiction through and beyond disaster. With the Tŝilhqot’in National Government, she has co-authored two reports on Tŝilhqot’in jurisdiction in the 2017 wildfires and the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Moderator
Jo-ann Archibald Q’um Q’um Xiiem, Professor Emeritus, Educational Studies, Faculty of Education (UBC)
PhD., O.C., D.Litt., LL.D
FORMAT: IN-PERSON AND ON ZOOM
Members of the UBC Emeritus College and the general public are invited to attend a lecture by the guest speaker. There will be a question period following the presentation.
Co-sponsors
Emeritus College and Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Thursday, 16 March 2023 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm