| Date |
Speaker(s) |
Lecture Title |
2020 |
| Jan. 25 |
Levitin, Daniel J. |
Successful Aging: The neuroscience of the new longevity |
| Feb. 1 |
Porter, Catherine |
Breaking the Rule of Objectivity: A journalist in Haiti (v) |
| Feb. 8 |
Hinshaw, Gary |
What Is the Universe Made Of? Mapping the universe with Chime (v) |
| Feb. 22 |
Kalla, Daniel |
Plagues... Then and Now (v) |
| Feb. 29 |
Weir, Ian |
Adventures In the Storytelling Trade: Truthiness in an age of myth |
| March 7 |
Hayter-Menzies, Grant |
In Search of Emily Carr's Woo: Monkey, muse, mystery |
| Oct. 17 |
Homer-Dixon, Thomas |
Commanding Hope: The power we have to safeguard a world in peril (v)
(re-scheduled from March 28) |
| Oct. 24 |
Gustafson, Reka |
Living With COVID-19: The long game (v) |
| Oct. 31 |
Bakan, Joel |
The New Corporation: How "good" corporations are bad for democracy (v) |
| Nov. 7 |
Penninger, Josef |
From Discovery to Application : ACE2 as a rational therapy for COVID-19 (v) |
| Nov. 14 |
Johnson, Catherine |
The InSight Mission to Mars: Getting to the heart of Mars (v) |
| Nov. 21 |
Milroy, Sarah
|
Uninvited : Canadian women artists in the modern moment (v) |
| Nov. 28 |
Geist, Michael |
Is Canada paying the price for not having a robust privacy framework? (v) |
2021
|
| Jan. 30 |
Hansen, Richard D. |
The Cultural and Natural Legacy in the Cradle of Maya Civilization : The Mirador-Calakmul Basin of Guatemala and Mexico (v) |
| Feb. 6 |
Wolf, Maryanne |
Deep Reading, Critical Thinking, and Empathy in the Age of COVID: A digital dilemma (v) |
| Feb. 20 |
Boyd, Lara |
Brain Health and the Arts(v) |
| Feb. 27 |
Rossant, Janet |
Stem Cells, Gene Editing, and Regenerative Medicine: Where are we heading?(v) |
| March 6 |
Evans, Paul |
Difficult Times, Hard Choices : Canada and China (v) |
| March 13 |
Bilott, Robert |
Uncovering Global "Forever Chemical" Contamination: Legal, regulatory, and scientific challenges |
| March 20 |
Reder, Deanna |
Indigenous Perspectives of History: Story as a repository (v) |
| March 27 |
Hermiston, Nancy |
An Evening with the UBC Opera Ensemble (v) |
| April 10 |
Finlay, Brett and Jessica Finlay |
Baby Bugs to Aging Bugs: Exploring the microbes pivotal to a healthy long life (v) (re-scheduled from March 21, 2020) |
| Sept. 25 |
Lederman, Marsha |
The Arts in the Time of COVID (v) |
| Oct. 2 |
Jaccard, Mark |
How to Achieve Climate Success (v) |
| Oct. 16 |
Lee, Jen Sookfong |
How Pop Culture Ghosted Asian Women (v) |
| Oct. 23 |
MacIntyre, Linden |
When the Medium is the Memory: The genesis of books (v) |
| Nov. 6 |
Grace, Sherrill |
The Art of Biography: Finding Timothy Findley (v) |
| Nov. 13 |
Manthorpe, Jonathan |
Restoring Democracy in an Age of Populists and Pestilence (v) |
| Nov. 20 |
Sumaila, Rashid |
Infinity Fish: Economics and the future of fish and fisheries (v) |
| Nov. 27 |
Ballem, Penny |
Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe: Leading in the time of COVID (v) |
2022
|
| Jan. 29 |
Mackie, Gregory |
The Extraordinary Afterlife of Oscar Wilde (v) |
| Feb. 5 |
Johnson, Joy |
A World of Difference How universities must evolve in a post-COVID world (v) |
| Feb. 12 |
Perrin, Benjamin |
Overdose: Heartbreak and hope in Canada's opioid crisis (v) |
| Feb. 19 |
Coyote, Ivan |
Letters, Connections, and Cures |
| March 5 |
Vincent, Amanda |
What To Do About Ocean Clearcutting and Annihilation Fishing (v) |
| March 12 |
Weaver, Andrew |
Back to the Future: Revisiting the climate change crisis a decade later (v) |
| March 19 |
Smith, Tricia |
The Future of the Olympic Movement In Canada (v) |
| March 26 |
Armstrong, Jeannette |
The Role of Indigenous Governed Institutions of Higher Adult Learning In Indigenous Language Recovery (v) |
| April 2 |
Yekelchyk, Serhy |
Putin's War Against Ukraine (v) |
| Sept. 24 |
Thammavongsa, Souvankham |
How to Pronounce Knife |
| Oct. 1 |
Illes, Judy |
Trapped Inside Your Head: An ethics journey in modern biomedicine for the brain (v) |
| Oct. 15 |
Schluter, Dolph |
The Origin of Modern Species (v) |
| Oct. 22 |
Ellis, Shona |
Trees Tell Tales: UBC's changing landscapes (v) |
| Oct. 29 |
Evans, Paul |
Cold War With China: What's a university to do? (v) |
| Nov. 5 |
Doyle, John |
Technology + Art: How the golden age of TV drama came about (v) |
| Nov. 19 |
Gillmor, Don |
Why Are Baby Boomers Killing Themselves? From the Summer of Love to the winter of our discontent (v) (re-scheduled from March 14, 2020) |
| Nov. 26 |
Perry, Barbara |
What's the Harm? Considering the community ethics of hate crime (v) |
2023 |
| Jan. 28 |
Grahn, Jessica |
Moving and Grooving: Musical rhythm's effects on the brain (v) |
| Feb. 4 |
Byers, Michael and Aaron Boley |
Who Owns Outer Space : Sustainable development on the final frontier (v) |
| Feb. 11 |
Kolbert, Elizabeth |
Under a White Sky - The nature of the future |
| Feb. 25 |
Crowston, Clare Haru |
The Critical University: Place as past, present and future (v) |
| March 4 |
Poloz, Stephen |
How Will Canada Prosper In the Next Age of Uncertainty? (v) |
| March 11 |
Cullis, Pieter |
How UBC Enabled the COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines |
| March 18 |
de Caires, Brendan |
The Defense of Cultural Space (v) |
| March 25 |
Fabre, Cécile |
Protecting Humankind's Common Cultural Heritage -The problem of cultural appropriation (v) |
| April 1 |
Sherwood Lollar, Barbara |
Exploring the Hidden Earth - Groundwaters and deep subsurface life (v)
(re-scheduled from November 12, 2022) |
| Sept. 30 |
Weir, Leslie |
Library and Archives Canada Collections 24/7 - Connecting Canadians to their stories (v) |
| Oct. 14 |
Murray, William |
Naval Conflict and the First Punic War - Discoveries from the debris field (v) |
| Oct. 21 |
Davidoff, Thomas |
Is the Missing Middle Missing for a Good Reason? (v) |
| Oct. 28 |
Logan, Tricia |
Residential Schools in Canada - Survivor truths, access to records, and the post-TRC era (v) |
| Nov. 4 |
Munro, Harold |
Local Journalism and a Healthy Democracy (v) |
| Nov. 18 |
Shelton, Anthony |
The UBC Museum of Anthropology - A collection fit for the nation(s) (v) |
| Nov. 25 |
Leyton-Brown, Kevin |
Understanding Artificial Intelligence (v) |
| Dec. 2 |
Zwicky, Jan |
Thinking As Politics - The moral dimensions of poetry |
2024 |
| Jan. 27 |
Wyman, Max |
How the Arts are Central to a Healthy Democracy (v) |
| Feb. 3 |
Sniderman, Andrew Stobo, Douglas Sanderson, and Tricia Logan (moderator) |
Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian reserve, a white town, and the road to reconciliation (v) |
| Feb. 10 |
Klein, Seth |
Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency: Lessons from the Second World War (v) |
| Feb. 17 |
Narod, Steven |
New insights into the origin of breast cancer (v) |
| March 2 |
Cranston, Emily |
Nanotechnology from Nature for Sustainable Bioproducts : A Canadian perspective (v) |
| March 9 |
Hermiston, Nancy |
A Performance by Singers from the UBC Opera Ensemble, led by Nancy Hermiston |
| March 16 |
Bhutta, Zulfiqar |
The Future of Global Maternal and Child Health : Challenges and opportunities |
| March 23 |
Kiendl, Anthony |
An Art Museum for the 21st Century |
| Sept. 26 |
Kimmerer, Robin Wall |
Restoration and Reciprocity : Healing relationships with the natural world |
| Oct. 5 |
Quirk, Paul J. |
The American election : is democracy on the ballot? (v) |
| Oct. 19 |
Bacon, Benoit-Antoine |
Wicked solutions : UBC's role in tackling the world's most pressing issues (v) |
| Oct. 26 |
Te Punga Somerville, Alice (Te Āti Awa) |
Thinking about Vancouver as the east coast (of the Pacific Ocean) (v) |
| Nov. 2 |
Hodgins, David |
All in! The development and resolution of gambling problems (v) |
| Nov. 9 |
Madden, John |
Engineering soft materials : How to make artificial muscle, give robots a sense of touch, and align nerves (v) |
| Nov. 16 |
Yu, Henry |
Does Vancouver Chinatown Deserve UNESCO World Heritage Site Designation? |
| Nov. 23 |
Bolan, Kim |
Truth and Consequences : My life on the crime beat. 40 years exposing Canada's darkest stories |
| Nov. 30 |
Nemiroff, Diana |
Whither the National Gallery? (v) |
2025 |
| Feb. 1 |
Mertens, Susan |
Shaman of Suburbia : The conflicted personality and art of Jack Shadbolt (v) |
| Feb. 8 |
von Keyserlingk, Marina |
Understanding and responding to public concerns about farm animal welfare (v) |
| Feb. 15 |
Off, Carol |
Conversation in an age of rage (v) |
| March 1 |
Justice, Daniel Heath |
Legacies of Allotment : Settler land privatization and the dismemberment of indigenous nations |
| March 8 |
Thomson, Blair |
Riopelle and musical imagination (v) |
| March 15 |
Deibert, Ronald |
Chasing shadows : Cyber espionage, subversion and the global fight for democracy (v) |
| March 22 |
Tobber, Lisa |
Earthquake engineering and the future of reinforced concrete structures (v) |
| March 29 |
Tworek, Heidi |
How Does Disinformation Affect Democracy? (v) |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|