Mark your calendars! The Undergraduate Research Award Information Session takes places virtually on November 18 from 1 – 2 p.m. Apply for the following awards: Barber School (URA), International Student Initiative (IURA), or NSERC (USRA). All applications are due Thursday, January 28, 2021. Registration for this session is required. Please contact Julie Martin at julie.martin@ubc.ca […]
Do you need support writing a URA/IURA application? Get the help you need at the URA Writing Workshop with Amanda Brobbel, Manager, Writing and Language Learning Support. Thursday, January 7 5:30-6:30 p.m. Via Zoom Learn more about the session and how to join by visiting the Undergraduate Research Awards page.
The Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science presents Climate Change and Human Rights Litigation, a talk by Natalia Kobylarz. Thursday, January 21, 2021 11:30am-12:30pm PST Register Now Speaker bio: Natalia Kobylarz, LL.M., works as a senior lawyer at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), where she teaches a Green Human Rights course and […]
The Power, Conflict and Ideas Speaker Series presents Dr. Jana Lipman, associate professor at Tulane University, for her talk, In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Repatriates. After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. In her talk, […]
The UBC Okanagan Arts Career Apprenticeship Program (UBCO ACAP) connects upcoming Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Bachelor of Media Studies (BMS) graduates from the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) with Okanagan-based employers for one-year, early-career employment […]
The Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science presents Corporations, Moral Personhood and the Criminal Law: Much Ado about Nothing, a talk by Dr. Roger Shiner. Dr. Roger Shiner is an adjunct professor at UBC Okanagan and Professor Emeritus at the University of Alberta. Wednesday, January 27 2:00-3:30pm PST Register Now Much time and energy […]
UBC Okanagan’s Centre for Obesity and Well-being Research Excellence (CORE) and the department of psychology has partnered with the Mind of Mine Foundation to host a community-focused virtual mental health panel.
The Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science presents a talk from Dr. Heather Whiteside and Dr. Stephen McBride, authors of Varieties of Austerity. Austerity is not always one-size-fits-all; it can be a flexible, class-based strategy taking several forms depending on the political-economic forces and institutional characteristics present. This research identifies continuity and variety in crisis-driven austerity […]
Join us for a talk from Patrick Lloyd-Smith, an assistant professor of water and resource economics at the University of Saskatchewan, about the economic benefits of recreation in Canada. About the talk: Canadians spend approximately 2.2% of the country's GDP on outdoor recreation, but we do not yet know the economic benefits people receive from […]
The Power, Conflict and Ideas Speaker Series presents Dr. Judith A. Byfield, professor at Cornell University, for her talk, Intimacy and Empire: West-Indian Women and Overlapping Diasporas in Post-Colonial Nigeria. About the talk: The talk draws from her new research project, Curry Goat and Gari: West Indian Women in 20th Century Lagosian Society. Men and […]
The Economics, Philosophy and Political Science Department in UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences presents the next Roger W. Gale Symposium in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
The Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of History and Sociology invite you to In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Repatriates, a virtual talk by Jana K. Lipman of Tulane University. In her talk, Dr. Lipman will tell us the story of what happened in the camps raising the key questions all […]
You’re invited to a talk by Dr. Samir Sonti, Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Labour and Urban Studies. Thursday, March 18 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Via Zoom U.S. Labour and Capital – Before Trump and After is part of the Power, Conflict and Ideas Speaker Series. MORE INFO
Please join us for a talk with Tulasi Srinivas, a documentary filmmaker, sociologist and anthropologist of religion with expertise on South Asia. Through an ethnographic focus on ritual process, Srinivas’ talk will explore the place and nature of wonder in religious life. Friday, March 19 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Via Zoom This talk is part […]
The Department of Community, Culture and Global Studies invites you to a presentation by Chelsea Vowel. Vowel is Métis from manitow-sâkahikan (Lac Ste. Anne) Alberta, residing in amiskwacîwâskihikan (Edmonton). Mother to six girls, she has a BEd, an LLB, and an MA, and is a Cree language instructor at the Faculty of Native Studies at […]
Join us for the Roger Watts Debate, a provocative discussion on public health and governmental power.
The Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science invites the community to join Dr. Wendy H. Wong for her talk, Rebooting Human Rights in a Datafied World.
You’re invited to the Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ annual Undergraduate Research Awards Symposium.
Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Penn State University will address how past experiences and historical models of anti-racist activism can continue to give guidance to ongoing thought and anti-racist work.
The Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Sciences invites you to a lecture from Dr. Donna Feir.
The Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences invites you to the Distinguished Speaker Series.
Join this speaker series for a discussion about Anti-Racist Thought and Activism in History with Rinaldo Walcott.
Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science and Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences students are invited to the Undergraduate Research Awards information session.
You are invited to a talk from Dr. Ken Carlaw, Dr. Clifford Bekar and Dr. Curtis Eaton about Dynamic Theory of Deterrence and Compliance.
Join a discussion about how smaller Canadian cities address homelessness with limited funding and capacity.
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