Upcoming Events
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
Healthy Aging Symposium | Nov 19 & 20
will bring together researchers, trainees, and stakeholders to provide a holistic and interdisciplinary perspective on aging.
The symposium is hosted by the Edwin S.H. Leong Centre for Healthy Aging in partnership with the Aging in Place Research Cluster, UBC Health, and the Centre for Technology Adoption for Aging in the North. The symposium will be in person on the UBC Vancouver campus.
This inaugural symposium will bring together researchers, trainees, and stakeholders across disciplines to provide a holistic and comprehensive perspective on aging. This interdisciplinary focus will enable reflection, discussion and community engagement on the biological, social, cultural and environmental determinants of healthy aging and strategies for prevention and early intervention to increase health span and add quality years to life.
The two-day event will feature oral presentations, a poster session, interactive panel discussions, and networking. To facilitate knowledge exchange and collaborations, the symposium will feature just one session at a time.
Registration deadline October 19, 2023
Groves of Academe | Nov 20
READING: Annie Ernaux, The Years
If you would like to join the group please contact convenor, Graeme Wynn (wynn@geog.ubc.ca).
* 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.*
Monday, 20 November 2023 - 3:30pm