Orange Shirt Day: History and 2024 Commemorations at UBC
This month’s blog post will explore the history and significance of Orange Shirt Day.
Why has Vancouver been so slow to join the sharing economy?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. Around the world, popular app- and web-based services such as Uber and AirBnB have disrupted traditional business models and sparked explosive growth in the sharing economy. Consumers have embraced these services for their convenience and cost savings, but as they enter […]
Your Next Step: Crossing the Border
October 28, Wednesday 2015 | 6:30-9:00pm, at Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre, Jack Poole Hall | $10 per person | Members of the Class of 2015 are FREE (A-Card and advance registration required) | Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Wesbrook Series – Women in Business
This sold out event featured Business in Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business award-winners Barbara Brink, BA’63; Barbara Dunfield, BEd’80; and Barbara Kaminsky, BA’70, MSW’73, MSc’82, in a panel discussion with CBC’s Renee Filippone and host Shelina Esmail, BA’93
Izak Benbasat – HCI Research in the Context of E-Commerce
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by HCI@UBC. Given that an ecommerce web site is a company’s “window to the world”, customers interact directly with a number of information technology artifacts provided by the company (such as, product recommendation software, videos for product presentations) as well as entities within that […]
Mark Anielski – Towards an Economy of Genuine Happiness: Creating flourishing communities of wellbeing
Author of “The Economics of Happiness” and happiness economist Mark Anielski explores what makes communities in both Canada and abroad flourish and experience the most happiness. His research and consulting work in Canada, China and Tahiti evolved into what he calls Genuine Wealth, providing individuals, businesses and communities with a practical roadmap for achieving a […]
Japan is Back: Abe, Governance, Abenomics, and Abe Foreign Policy
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Discussants: KOJO Yoshiko (Univ of Tokyo); KUME Ikuo, (Waseda Univ/Institute of European Studies, UBC); Yves TIBERGHIEN (IAR, UBC); UCHIYAMA Yu (Univ of Tokyo). How will Shinzō Abe take advantage of his recent electoral victory to move forward with his domestic and international agendas? Informed experts, including […]
Benjamin Cohen – Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements
Benjamin Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. Established in May 1998, the Institute for European Studies (IES) is part of the University of British Columbia’s ongoing mission to advance international knowledge […]
Arianto Patunru and Zakir Machmud – Poverty and Globalization in Indonesia
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The costs and benefits of globalization have long been a major debate in the literature of development economics. Arianto Patunru and Zakir Machmud argue that it is important to understand the link between globalization and poverty for the case of developing […]