Upcoming Events
Philosophers' Café | Nov 8
Housing in Vancouver
We have a housing crisis in Vancouver (and across the country). Various solutions – or remedies – have been proposed to this intractable problem. 70% of land in Vancouver has, up until now, been reserved for detached single-family homes. Should this be changed? Should we resurrect the old commitment to co-op housing? Should Air B&B be banned or restricted?
What do you think?
The Philosopher’s Cafés will be held in the Club Room in Tapestry at Wesbrook Village from 11:00am to 12:30pm.
Coffee and tea will be offered by Tapestry. You may reserve to have lunch at Tapestry after the Café by calling (604) 225-5000 or by checking in with the front desk before the Café.
Series at Green College | Nov 9
Intergenerational stories using theatre
George Belliveau, Professor of Theatre Education
Faculty of Education | Department of Language and Literacy Education
This session shares an emerging theatre-based project based on intergenerational stories. It explores a culture’s resilience and its desire to hold on to its identity and language. After providing some brief context to the project, a performative theatre piece that spans several generations and countries is shared. This is followed by a conversation with attendees.
George Belliveau is Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada, with a research focus on drama/theatre education. His latest co-edited book (with G. W. Lea & M. Westwood) Contact!Unload: Military Veterans, Trauma, and Research-based Theatre (2020) explores a project with military veterans, artists and counselors. He has been involved in numerous interdisciplinary theatre projects working with various communities and researchers.
'Psychological Trauma and Resilience' is a cross departmental collaboration between UBC's Green College and Emeritus College.
Presentations in the Emeritus College Series at Green College Intergenerational Effects of Psychological Trauma (2021-22) revealed an interest, appetite and need for further conversations related to the development of resiliency among individuals and groups, and how they can cope more effectively and recover from the impact of various traumas. Building on this foundation, the six-part series Psychological Trauma and Resilience will embark on a journey to consider the many ways in which individuals and groups respond to trauma, possible approaches to coping with trauma and specific strategies for recovery.
Series Conveners: Marv Westwood, Counseling Psychology, with Judith Hall, Pediatrics and Medical Genetics; and Richard Vedan, Social Work
Event Dates: Oct 12, Nov 9, Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 14, Apr 16
In-person with livestream option
Join us in-person at Green College on the UBC Vancouver Campus or virtually. The session will be followed by a reception.
Thursday, 9 November 2023 - 5:00pm
Faculty Women's Club Lecture | Nov 14
Our Marvellous and Humorous English Language
The Faculty Women's Club would like to invite the professors emerti attend a lecture from Jonathan Berkowitz, PhD, The Word Guy, "North by Northwest", CBC Radio One. Lecturer, Sauder School Of Business
Dr. Berkowitz loves sharing his passion for statistics, words, puzzles, and ideas. For the past seven years, he has appeared as the Word Guy (and for one year as the Puzzling Professor) on CBC Radio One’s weekend morning program, “North by Northwest”, educating and entertaining about all aspects of the English language.
Professionally, Jonathan is a consulting statistician and full-time lecturer at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. He has been involved in a wide range of collaborative and interdisciplinary research. He has co-authored two Canadian editions of a statistics textbook and co-written many academic publications.
Jonathan has written two books about words: The Whirl of Words: Puzzling Past and Present (www.thewhirlofwords.com) in 2021, and Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You (www.talesfromthewordguy.com) in 2022.
When: Tuesday, Nov 14 at 11:00am
Where: UBC Cecil Green Park House
Wine Appreciation Group | Nov 16
POSSIBLE GUEST APPEARANCE - IS THERE AN INFLUENCE OF WINE GLASS SHAPE ON WINE SENSORY.
Expertise level: all levels.
Blind tasting 4-5 wine varietals/blends and discussion of the wines, professional reviews/ratings on each wine. How blending helps to make quality wines better. How certain aromas/attributes in wine from winemaking can lower wine quality.
The Wine Appreciation Group has a limited number of spaces available in this year's group. Please reach out to David MacArthur at david.mcarthur@ubc.ca to register.
Thursday, 16 November 2023 - 6:30pm
AHVA Gallery for UBC Emerita Barbara Zeigler | Nov 18
AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre: "Reflection Point: A Barbara Zeigler Retrospective"
with Barbara Zeigler, UBC Emerita Professor of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
This exhibition presents a selection of work Zeigler completed over the past five decades broadly focused on the ever-shifting relations between ecosystems and human cultural structures. Early works from the 1970s dealt with Zeigler’s initial recognition of issues related to environmental degradation.
The exhibition runs from November 2-December 1, 2023. Barbara will be present on Saturday, November 18 and 25 from 1-4pm.
Vancouver Institute Lecture | Nov 18
The UBC Museum of Anthropology: A Collection Fit For The Nation(s)
with Dr. Anthony Shelton, Professor of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; and former Director of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC
Dr. Shelton was Director of MOA for seventeen years. A researcher, curator, teacher and administrator, Dr. Shelton’s interests include Latin American, Iberian and African visual cultures, Surrealism, the history of collecting, and critical museology. He has published extensively in the areas of visual culture, museology, the history of collecting, and the cultural history of Mexico. Before coming to UBC he held curatorial positions at the British Museum, the Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museum in Brighton, the Horniman Museum, London, and academic appointments at the University of Sussex, University College, London and the University of Coimbra. In 2016, he was honoured with the title of ‘Cavaleiro’ in the Brotherhood of Port Wine and [delete comma] received the Canadian Museums Association Award for Outstanding Achievement (Research / Cultural Heritage) for the exhibition Heaven, Hell and Somewhere In-Between: Portuguese Popular Art (2015).
Saturday, 18 November 2023 - 8:15pm