| 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 |
| March 14 |
Gillmor, Don |
Why are Baby-Boomers Killing Themselves? A look at the growing suicide rate. ***cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic*** |
| 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
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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
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| 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 |
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. 12 |
Lollar, Barbara Sherwood |
Exploring the Hidden Earth: Groundwaters and deep subsurface life ***CANCELLED*** |
| Nov. 19 |
Gillmor, Don |
Why Are Baby Boomers Killing Themselves? From the Summer of Love to the winter of our discontent (v) |
| Nov. 26 |
Perry, Barbara |
What's the Harm? Considering the community ethics of hate crime |
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