Events

Explorations in Culture and Diversity

    The PhDs Go Public Research Talk Series returns in 2017 with five dynamic events, where doctoral students tell their community-engaged research stories in just under seven minutes. Initiated by the Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies in the 2015-6 academic year, the PhDs Go Public events spotlight PhD students from UBC’s Public Scholars Initiative, who use the Pecha Kucha format to present on how their research is contributing […]

    Double Exposure Japan-Canada: Missionary Photographs of Meiji-Taisho Japan

    Take a rare glimpse into Japan in the 1890s-1920s through the photographs taken by a Canadian missionary, John Cooper Robinson. We can only begin to understand Cooper Robinson’s photographs by overlaying both Canadian and Japanese historical contexts and perspectives. Join our symposium led by art historians and historians who specialize in Japan and Canada, to […]

    One Day @ UBC: Politics, Literature and Painting through Three Women of the 20th Century: Evita Peron, Gabriela Mistral and Frida Kahlo

    Explore the legacy of three important women in the first half of the 20th century: the First Lady of Argentina, Evita Peron; Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet-diplomat and the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature; and Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Examine the lives of these women through […]

    Open Scholarly Practice

    “Open scholarship, which encompasses open access, open data, open educational resources, and all other forms of openness in the scholarly and research environment, is changing how knowledge is created and shared.” Association of Research Libraries Open Scholarship In this session, we’ll explore ideas of scholarly practice in the digital age and how they can inform […]

    One Day @ UBC: Topics in World History, 1945-2001

    Explore contemporary history through the lens of places and sites around the world – places such as Auschwitz; the city of Guangzhou, on China’s southeast coast; the Galapagos Islands; the International Monetary Fund building in Washington, DC; a United Nations refugee camp in western Uganda; the former secret detention centre at the Argentine Naval base […]

    One Day @ UBC: Object Lessons, Object Questions: A One Day Experiment @ MOA

    Engage in a conversation about objects and culture and the many ways in which objects are part of our (cultural) lives. Attempt to establish what differentiates “common” from “museum” objects. Take a walk through the museum’s backstage and get acquainted with artifacts from the museum’s Amazonian collections, learn about their biographies, and debate the curatorial […]

    One Day @ UBC: Diabetes: How Interactions between our Genes and Environment Cause a Global Epidemic

    We live in a global diabetes epidemic: 415 million people live with diabetes, diabetes claims 5 million lives annually – more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined – and diabetes consumes 12% of our health expenditures. Yet the underlying molecular defects that cause diabetes remain elusive. Learn about the latest achievements in the field of […]

    Credit: Pexels Exploring the CURE: A Symposium on Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences

    Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been developing since at least 2000 at the University of British Columbia. This pedagogical innovation is consistent with UBC’s strategic vision of providing its undergraduates with opportunities for enhanced educational experiences as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science which called for the integration of authentic […]