Master Mind Master Class with Naheed Nenshi
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumniUBC Throughout his career, including his three terms as mayor of the City of Calgary, Naheed Nenshi has always emphasized the importance of civic engagement. On November 1st, join fellow UBC alumni, students, and friends in Vancouver for the next Master Mind Master […]
The Power of Diversity: Better decisions? Better outcomes?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Equity and Inclusion Office We now know that overemphasizing “fit” in hiring or team formation presents a number of challenges, including, inevitably, around decision-making, and the potential of it leading to “groupthink”. But beyond this, what are other ways in which bringing […]
Uncivil discourse: What is everyone so angry about?
Join our panel of UBC and community experts in the Lower Mainland for an important conversation about the growing divide of public discourse.
Dr. Susan Parker – Beyond Borges: Telling Tales of Future Libraries
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC iSchool. In the post-print information era, how do libraries manage scholarly information? Academic libraries have developed alongside technology, but technology is now changing the structures of information creation, dissemination, retrieval, and preservation. The use of technology in and by libraries, and by […]
2018 UBC Reads Sustainability with Elizabeth May
Join us on March 13th at 1 pm as we live stream 2018 UBC Reads Sustainability with Elizabeth May.
alumni UBC – Master Mind Master Class with Atom Egoyan
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. One of the most respected filmmakers of his generation and a true artist, Atom Egoyan is the director behind modern classics such as Exotica, the Oscar-nominated The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat, and Chloe. A master of visual and verbal storytelling, Egoyan takes […]
Nepal’s Prolonged Transition: End in Sight?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Himalaya Program . Nepal has been undergoing a political transition since the end of the Maoist conflict in 2006. Over 10 years later, a new constitution has been implemented and one of the three mandated elections to various levels of government […]
Mental Illness and Substance Use: Challenging Old and Persistent Paradigms – 2017
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC School of Nursing. People with mental illness and substance use challenges are among the most stigmatized population in the world. The field of neuroscience is making strides to redress this by changing the etiological paradigm from a pejorative behavior model to […]
Dr. Melanie Feinberg, Factotem: What Is Information Access For?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC iSchool. Abstract: In this talk, I seek to understand what we mean by information access, and what it means to provide information access in a responsible way. Specifically, I examine the idea of facts. How should providers of information deal with […]
Advancing Health and Inclusion
As part of the UBC Public Scholars Initiative, a myriad of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines discuss the topic of advancing health and inclusion. Speakers Laura Bulk (Rehabilitation Science) is part of the Being Blind team, working to expose misperceptions about what it means to be Blind, and to create an engaging campaign […]