Anne Martin-Matthews – Demographic Context, Policy and Practice Agendas, Research Opportunities
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by Green College.This presentation will place the aging of Canada’s population in an international context. It will consider implications of population aging for health services and systems (especially in relation to cognitive impairment, mobility in aging, and home care); and it will address the research […]
Michelle Frisco – Obesity and Women's Fertility Trajectories
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health Series. This study asks whether obesity is associated with young women’s life course childbearing experiences. Weight is a physical status with important biological and social components that is linked to several proximate determinants of fertility. As such, negative consequences […]
Joe Henrich – Thematic Series: The Emerging Science of Culture The Weirdest People in the World
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world’s top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers—often implicitly—assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these “standard subjects” […]
Sue Mills and Sharon Koehn – Self-Managing your Chronic Conditions: The facts, the challenges and future directions
Presented by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Woodward Library, the Health Information Series is an ongoing public lecture series that take place in the Lower Mainland community. The tasks that individuals must undertake to live well with one or more chronic conditions. These tasks include having the confidence to deal with medical management, […]
Rod Preece, Jodey Castricano, and David Fraser – Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College, as part of the thematic series “The Ethics of Life, Use, and Care.” Featuring Rod Preece, Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University; Jodey Castricano, Critical Studies, UBC-O; Moderator: David Fraser, Zoologist, Animal Welfare Program, this lecture focuses on questions […]
Paul Hackett – Disease and the Nature of Canada
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Reflecting the harsh climate, thin soils and generally forbidding character of the vast northern territory that is Canada, it has often been said that the history of this country is inescapably environmental. This lecture series engages the great drama of human […]
Jonathan Simon – A New Medical Model: The Rise of Humanitarian Medicine as a Penal Knowledge
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College as part of the Knowledge Brokers and Knowledge Formats symposium. Today, the study of knowledge production, knowledge formats and knowledge politics is being developed across a wide variety of research fields. Along with the work of scholars such as Ian Hacking, […]
Sarah Mustillo – Earlier Obesity and Later Depressive Symptomotology in Adolescence: The Lingering Effects of Stigma
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College as part of its “Health and Population Series”. As a stigmatizing condition, obesity may lead to the internalization of devalued labels and threats to emotional well-being. Modified labeling theory suggests that the effects of stigma may outlive direct manifestations of the […]
Michael Souza – Psychology of Gambling
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. “When you know it’s not a good idea to spend all that money, why do you do it anyways? Why can people not control their behaviour?” These are some of the questions UBC Psychology Professor Michael Souza asks himself as he works on creating a new […]
Kevin Laland – The Evolution of Culture
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Both demographically and ecologically, humans are a remarkably successful species. This success is generally attributed to our capacity for culture. But how did our species’ extraordinary cultural capabilities evolve from its roots in animal social learning and tradition? In this seminar, […]