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Colloquium with Dr. Anise Vance

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Anise Vance as our next colloquium speaker on Wednesday 1st November.  This event is co-sponsored with UBC Geography, Creative Writing and St. John’s College. Hope at the Ends of World: Resistance and Belonging in Moments of Rupture Anise Vance’s debut novel, Hush Harbor, explores issues of resistance, belonging, and […]

Syilx-Led Climate Justice in a Global Context: A Conversation Between Dr. Jeannette Armstrong and Prof. Naomi Klein

Climate justice seeks to address how climate crises disproportionately impact communities and people already experiencing injustices rooted in colonialism, capitalism and intersecting structures of power. Join us for a conversation between Syilx Elder, scholar, and author Dr. Jeannette Armstrong and author, activist, journalist and filmmaker Naomi Klein. Speaking from local to global perspectives, the speakers will discuss questions such as, how can solutions to climate injustices be radically altered by Syilx and community-led climate action to reduce the harm and share the burden of its effects?

STS Colloquium Series – Dr. Serhii Zhabin

The Laboratory of Calculating Machines in Kyiv that in 1950 built the first Soviet electronic digital computer (MESM), after 1956 continued working as a department of the Mathematical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences under the direction of V.M. Glushkov (1923-1982).

A Conversation About the Warmest Year in Recorded History

The results are in – 2023 was the warmest year in recorded history. Join scientists Rachel White (climate science; EOAS), Anais Orsi (paleoclimate + climate science; EOAS), Lori Daniels (Forestry), and Simon Donner (climate science, Geography and IRES) for a conversation about the causes and impacts of 2023’s record setting temperatures.

Between Reparations and Freedom

In The Long Emancipation, Dr. Rinaldo Walcott posits that Black people globally live in the time of emancipation and that emancipation is definitely not freedom. This talk tackles the question, ‘What is (Black) freedom?’.