Michael Audain – Building on your Passions (Wesbrook Talks)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC and Wesbrook Village. This talk is second in the series of Wesbrook Talks, featuring arts supporter, Polygon Homes chairman and start an evolution campaign cabinet member, Michael Audain. Mr. Audain discusses how he started in the home building business, and about the influences that shaped his long, successful career and inspired his philanthropy.
Speaker Biography
Michael Audain, BA’62, BSW’63, MSW’65, LLD’14, OC, OBC, is Chairman of Polygon Homes Ltd., one of British Columbia’s leading home builders. The company has built over 23,000 homes in Metro Vancouver since he founded it in 1980, and received numerous awards for its integrity and building excellence. Mr. Audain, a fifth generation British Columbian, was educated at the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics. He is a governor and past Chairman of the Business Council of British Columbia, a past President of the Urban Development Institute and a member of the UDI Hall of Fame. An active supporter of the arts, Mr. Audain is Chair of the Audain Art Museum and the Audain Foundation. He is past Chair of the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation, a past director of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, and a former member of the British Columbia Arts Council.
Mr. Audain has been appointed to the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. He has also been honoured with honorary degrees from four universities, the British Columbia Museums Association Distinguished Service Award, the Simon Fraser University President’s Distinguished Community Leadership Award, the Vancouver Biennale Philanthropy in the Arts Award, the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Philanthropy, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts Medal, the Business for the Arts Edmund C. Bovey Award, the Queen’s Diamond and Golden Jubilee Medals and the Vancouver Board of Trade Community Leadership Award. He is also a Business Laureate of the British Columbia Hall of Fame. Married to Yoshiko Karasawa, Mr. Audain has two children and four grandchildren, all of whom reside in British Columbia.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Audain, M. J., British Columbia. Provincial Commission on Housing Options, British Columbia Government EBook Collection, & British Columbia. Housing Policy Section. (1999). Housing policy and programs: Advances and activities since the provincial commission on housing options : What has happened since the provincial commission on housing options?. Victoria, B.C.: Housing Policy, Ministry of Municipal Affairs. [Link]
Sperling, J., Hall, M. H., Canada, I., & Canadian Public Policy Collection. (2007). Philanthropic success stories in Canada. Imagine Canada. [Link]
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Health Information Series – Autism Gets Personal: Emerging Therapies From the Interface of Genes and Environment
Learn about a University of British Columbia Life Sciences Institute (LSI) initiative that brings together research on genes, behaviour, brain function and gut microbes, with the aim of providing early diagnosis and individualized treatments for children with Autism.
Wednesday October 8, 2014, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level
Central Library, 350 West Georgia St.
RSVP LSI Public Talks – October 8, 2014
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Alice McKay or Alma VanDusen & Peter Kaye Rooms, Lower Level
Central Library
350 West Georgia Street
Details of past LSI Public Talks are posted.
The Life Sciences Institute hosts the LSI Public Talks, a series of informal talks and networking that aim to help the public understand how our research has an impact on their lives. The 2014-2015 series focuses on personalized medicine and how the LSI faculty, staff and students are working to change clinical practice, improve health outcomes, and reduce health costs.
The LSI Public Talks are delivered in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library and UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Sun, Y., & Bamji, S. X. (2011). β-Pix modulates actin-mediated recruitment of synaptic vesicles to synapses. The Journal of Neuroscience : The Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(47), 17123. [Link]
Brigidi, G. S., & Bamji, S. X. (2011). Cadherin-catenin adhesion complexes at the synapse. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 21(2), 208-214. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2010.12.004. [Link]
Mills, F., Bartlett, T. E., Dissing-Olesen, L., Wisniewska, M. B., Kuznicki, J., Macvicar, B. A., . . . Bamji, S. X. (2014). Cognitive flexibility and long-term depression (LTD) are impaired following β-catenin stabilization in vivo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(23), 8631-8636. doi:10.1073/pnas.1404670111. [Link]
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World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival exhibition
The 4th Annual World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival returns to the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, from October 6 to 26, 2014. The World Poetry Festival once again brings together international poets, Canadian and local multicultural poetry groups during this dynamic festival. A video presentation explains what the World Poetry festival is all about.
Each selected international poet will present their poetry, launch a book, present their film be featured at this exhibition at the Learning Centre.
This is a multi-site exhibition in the Metro Vancouver region. Partnership venues include the following:
- October 6th-26th World Poetry Display at the University of British Columbia, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. 1961 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 400 gift poems. Six display cases, 24 hour video feed, white board for logos.
- October 11 Special Opening of World Poetry Vancouver 1-3 pm. Display: October 1-15th 75 gift poems. Youth section, Britannia Community Library, (VPL) 1661 Napier Street Vancouver, B.C. V5L 4X4
- October 19 Opening Gala 1:30-4:30 pm. Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Room 7000. Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 5K3. Awards, reading, launches. October 19, 7-9 pm Dinner and social time.
- October 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. New Westminster Public Library. 716 6th Street, New Westminster. BC. World Poetry Night Out celebrates 5 years! World Poetry Peace Poetathon Grand Celebration!
- October 25, 10:30 am – 9:00 pm. UBC Learning Exchange, World Poetry Film Festival, Featuring Peace and Human Rights documentaries by young filmmakers from Canada, Afghanistan and India plus possible Worldwide Launch of the WP Literary Journal. Awards. Poetry Display. 100 gift poems. Peace Posters by Sattar Saberi.
For more information, please contact Allan Cho, curator of the Learning Centre exhibitions.
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Shortly after WWII, when knowledge about nutrition was still sparse, scientists in Canada took advantage of already malnourished aboriginal communities by using them as research subjects to investigate the effects of different diets and dietary supplements. Evidence of these government-run experiments was brought to the forefront by food historian and UBC History alumnus Ian Mosby, and the research has gained widespread recognition. Sometimes the experiments involved decreasing food intake or withholding supplements. Hundreds of indigenous people across Canada were included in the experiments, of which they had no knowledge, and many of them were children in the Indian Residential School system.
The fallout from this unethical treatment is still having an effect today. Join us for a panel discussion about this distressing era in Canadian history and find out how UBC’s Faculty of Land and Food Systems is working to address issues such as access to healthy, traditional food; food security for all; and land stewardship.
In partnership with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, with support from the UBC First Nations House of Learning, the UBC Department of History and Kloshe Tillicum (Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research).
This event took place on October 17, Friday 2014 at UBC First Nations House of Learning.
Moderator
Jo-Ann Archibald, BEd(Elem)’72 – Associate Dean for Indigenous Education, UBC’s Faculty of Education
Presenter
Ian Mosby, BA’03 – Postdoctoral Fellow, L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University
Panelists
Chief Robert Joseph, LLD’03 – Hereditary Chief, Gwawaenuk First Nation; Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Eduardo Jovel, MSc’96, PhD’02 – Director, Indigenous Research Partnerships; Associate Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Jessie Newman – UBC Dietetics student
Gerry Oleman – Member, St’at’imc Nation
Biographies
Jo-Ann Archibald, BEd(Elem)’72
Jo-ann Archibald, Q’um Q’um Xiiem, from the Sto:lo and Xaxli’p First Nations, is Associate Dean for Indigenous Education, the Director for the Native Indian Teacher Education Program (NITEP), and Professor in the Educational Studies Department in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia.
Ian Mosby, BA’03
Ian Mosby is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. The publication of his article “Administering Colonial Science: Nutrition Research and Human Biomedical Experimentation in Aboriginal Communities and Residential Schools, 1942-1952” in the summer of 2013 brought renewed attention to the terrible legacy of Canada’s Indian residential school system and received widespread international media attention. This article is part of a larger research project examining the ways in which food, hunger, and the science of nutrition were used as tools of Canadian colonial policy during the middle decades of the twentieth century. His first book, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front was published by UBC Press in May 2014.
Chief Robert Joseph, LLD’03
Chief Robert Joseph is a Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk First Nation who upholds a life dedicated to bridging the differences brought about by intolerance, lack of understanding, and racism at home and abroad.
His insights into the destructive impacts these forces can have on peoples’ lives, families and cultures were shaped by his experience with the Canadian Indian Residential School system. Joseph began his life immersed in the rich cultural and family life of the Kwakwaka’wakw People. Unlike many other First Nations, his people were able to maintain much of their traditions due to the isolated and self-sustaining nature of their small village located on the central coast of British Columbia. Nonetheless, the reach of the government was long and eventually, as a young child of 6 years old, Joseph was removed from his community in order to begin an education designed to “kill the Indian in the child.” Despite the harsh lessons and abuse endured during his 11 years spent at St. Michael’s, Chief Joseph retained a deep understanding of his place in the world and his responsibility to his people.
As one of the last few speakers of the Kwakwaka’wakw language, Chief Joseph is an eloquent and inspiring Ceremonial House Speaker. He shares his knowledge and wisdom in the Big House and as a Language Instructor with the University of British Columbia, as an internationally recognized art curator, and as co-author of “Down from the Shimmering Sky: Masks of the Northwest Coast.”
In 2003, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Law Degree from the University of British Columbia for his distinguished achievements in serving BC and Canada.
Chief Joseph is currently the Ambassador for Reconciliation Canada and the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, Chairman of the National Assembly of First Nations Elder Council, and Special Advisor to both Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Indian Residential School Resolutions Canada.
As Chairman of the Native American Leadership Alliance for Peace and Reconciliation and Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation with the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IFWP), Chief Joseph has sat with the leaders of South Africa, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia and Washington, DC to learn from and share his understanding of faith, hope, healing and reconciliation.
Eduardo Jovel, MSc’96, PhD’02
Professor Jovel’s research interests include ethnobotany, mycology, natural product chemistry and Aboriginal health. He is especially concerned with organismal and chemical diversity and their intersection with human and environmental health. He is interested in Indigenous peoples’ worldviews and their use of ecosystem resources to maintain health and wellness, particularly plants and fungi used in traditional medicine.
In the last 10 years, Eduardo has taken an active role in Aboriginal health research, including Indigenous medicinal systems, food security, environmental health, research ethics, and Indigenous research methodologies. Through his research program, he has addressed health issues affecting Aboriginal people (e.g. environmental contaminants in traditional foods; impact of indoor moulds in Aboriginal housing). He strives to integrate interprofessional research practices and education, and merge Indigenous knowledge traditions and Western academic disciplinary positions and cultural contexts, while maintaining academic rigor. By doing so, he embraces values of respect, tolerance and diversity in his research and education involvement. Dr. Jovel’s Indigenous ancestry is Pipil-Mayan from El Salvador.
Jessie Newman
Jessie is from Skidegate, Haida Gwaii and a member of the Gak’yaals Kiigawaay clan within the Haida Nation. She is currently a Dietetics student in the Food, Nutrition & Health program in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and is completing her fifth year of study interning with the Island Health Authority.
As a Registered Dietitian, she hopes to reduce the incidence of health-related diseases affecting the people of her community, rather than trying to correct it in the future. She is deeply committed to promoting traditional foods, as she feels they form an important connection between the health, culture, and identity of her people.
Gerry Oleman
Gerry Oleman is a member of the St’at’imc Nation from Tsal’alh (Shalalth B.C.) and has been involved as a change agent for First Nations communities and agencies since 1976. His experiences include providing counseling for individuals, families, and groups, and providing leadership politically and administratively to his community and Nation. Gerry came to the realization that all First Nations in Canada have the same suffering and challenges; all challenges are man-made therefore they can be healed and fixed using our traditions and laws that worked for us for thousands of years. Over the past 34 years, Gerry has facilitated over 645 workshops across Canada and in the United States.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
MacDonald, N. E., Stanwick, R., & Lynk, A. (2014). Canada’s shameful history of nutrition research on residential school children: The need for strong medical ethics in aboriginal health research. Paediatrics & Child Health, 19(2), 64-64. [Link]
Mosby, I. (2013). Administering colonial science: Nutrition research and human biomedical experimentation in aboriginal communities and residential schools, 1942-1952. Histoire Sociale-Social History, 46(91), 145-172. [Link]
Wardle, C. (2013). ‘chilling and painful’: Food historian describes nutrition experiments at residential schools. Presbyterian Record, 137(8), 7. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
First Nations and Indigenous Studies
Indian Residential School System in Canada
Celebrate Learning Week
Love to teach? Care to share? The 7th Annual Celebrate Learning Week will be held October 25 – November 1, 2014!
This week long initiative features events that highlight and promote student learning development opportunities through open lectures, information sessions, student activities, poster sessions, workshops and more. Most events are free and will be hosted on and off UBC’s Vancouver campus.
We invite all members of the UBC Community to submit their event and share innovate ideas that enhance the education and teaching experience. The event submissions deadline is Friday, September 26, 2014.
For more information (and to review existing events) please visit: celebratelearning.ubc.ca
Who’s in charge: Why aren’t there more women in leadership roles? (UBC Dialogues: Vancouver)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC.
For decades women have been fighting for workplace equality, and in many sectors, progress has been made. But in boardrooms and executive offices across the country, there remains a noticeable absence of women in senior leadership positions. What lies behind this gender imbalance? Is it due to deeply-ingrained biases by those making the appointments? Or are some women choosing to forgo leadership opportunities for career paths that offer greater flexibility?
Moderator
Gloria Macarenko – Host, Our Vancouver & Host, CBC Radio One’s The Story from Here
Panelists
Jennifer Berdahl – Montalbano Professor of Leadership Studies: Women and Diversity, UBC’s Sauder School of Business
Maninder Dhaliwal, MASc’02 – Vice-President, Pacific Autism Family Centre Foundation
Anne Giardini, LLB’84, QC – Director, Weyerhaeuser Company Limited
John Montalbano, BCom’88 – Chief Executive Officer, RBC Global Asset Management; Chair, UBC Board of Governors
Martha Piper, LLD’07, OC, OBC – Corporate Director; Past President and Vice-Chancellor, UBC
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Berdahl, J. L. (2007). The sexual harassment of uppity women. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92(2), 425-437. doi:10.1037/0021-9010.92.2.425 [Link]
Berdahl, J. L. (2007). Harassment based on sex: Protecting social status in the context of gender hierarchy. The Academy of Management Review, 32(2), 641-658. [Link]
Berdahl, J. L. (1996). Gender and leadership in work groups: Six alternative models. The Leadership Quarterly, 7(1), 21-40. doi:10.1016/S1048-9843(96)90033-8 [Link]
Berdahl, J., Uhlmann, E., & Bai, F. (2015). Win-win: Female and male athletes from more gender equal nations perform better in international sports competitions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 1-3. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2014.08.003 [Link]
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George Marshall – Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability. As part of his new book tour: Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, George Marshall spoke at UBC Reads Sustainability, which brings well-known sustainability authors to UBC’s Vancouver campus to engage in a campus-wide discussion. It is part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. Above all, it’s a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues. Why, after 20 years of discussion on climate change, do so many people ignore the science and evidence of their own eyes? UBC Reads Sustainability’s first speaker of 2014, George Marshall, draws on the social psychology of climate change to tackle this question.
Marshall’s UBC Reads Sustainability talk explores how a deeper understanding of the psychological obstacles to the question can lead us to find new and effective ways to think, talk, and act. His talk will challenge the bipartisan barriers of politics and worldview and build conviction based on common values and shared purpose. Marshall asks questions such as:
- Why does the issue of climate change not trigger our instinctive sense of threat?
- Why are the victims of extreme weather events sometimes less willing to accept or talk about climate change?
- Have cultural and cognitive biases distorted policy and the international negotiations?
- How do climate change experts cope with what they know – and why do they fly so much?!
- How can a deeper understanding of the psychological obstacles lead us to find new and effective ways to think, talk and act?
Biography
George Marshall is the founder of Climate Outreach and Information Network. He is a leading European expert in climate change communications who over the past 25 years has worked at all levels of the environmental movement. His clients have included trades unions, coal mining communities, human rights organisations, faith groups, Rotary Club, and politicians. He is a lead advisor to the Welsh Government.
UBC Library Resources
Marshall, G. (2014). Don’t even think about it : why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. New York, Bloomsbury Publishing. [Available soon at UBC Woodward Library]
Redon, R., Ishikawa, S., Fitch, K. R., Feuk, L., Perry, G. H., Andrews, T. D., … & Hurles, M. E. (2006). Global variation in copy number in the human genome. Nature, 444(7118), 444-454. [Available online]
Venter, J. C., Adams, M. D., Myers, E. W., Li, P. W., Mural, R. J., Sutton, G. G., … & Beasley, E. (2001). The sequence of the human genome. Science, 291(5507), 1304-1351. [Available online]
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Alice Goffman – On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Sociology at UBC.
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
The War on Crime didn’t just send millions of Black young men to prison and return them home with felony convictions. It created a little known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Goffman moved into one such neighborhood in college and spent the next six years documenting the routine stops, searches, raids, and beatings that young men negotiate as they come of age. In what she calls “the fugitive life”, the fear of capture and confinement has come to permeate everyday activities, not just for young men on probation or running from a low level warrant, but for their partners, families, and law-abiding neighbors.
This fugitive life is the hidden counterpoint to mass incarceration, and the vivid picture Goffman paints is a grim one. But for the first time in four decades, policy analysts believe we have entered a unique reform moment where real change in drug laws and sentencing guidelines may be possible. How can we transform the criminal justice system from an occupying force into a source of public safety? How can we repair the damage the War on Crime has wrought in poor Black communities, and help people heal? What could an alternative system look like?
More on this topic:
Goffman, A. (2014). On the run: Fugitive life in an American city. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Available at UBC Library]
Goffman, A. (2009). On the run: Wanted men in a philadelphia ghetto. American Sociological Review, 74(3), 339-357. doi:10.1177/000312240907400301. [Link]
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