|
The Vancouver Institute
Most Vancouver Institute lectures take place
on Point Grey campus. To learn more about the institute, and to
browse upcoming lectures, please visit the website.
There is no charge for the following presentations, and no
pre-registration is required.
Saturday,
January 21 @ 8:15PM I
Lecture
Hall No. 2 in the IRC Building, 2194 Health Sciences Mall
Mr. James Delgado, Executive Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum
Gold Rush Pompeii: The Buried Waterfront
& Lost Ships of Early San Francisco
Mr. Delgado has led or participated in shipwreck expeditions around
the world, including RMS Titanic, the discovery of Carpathia, the
ship that rescued Titanic's survivors, the notorious "ghost
ship" Mary Celeste, USS Arizona, the sunken fleet of atomic-bombed
warships at Bikini Atoll, and the 1846 wreck of the United States
naval brig Somers, whose tragic story inspired Herman Melville's
Billy Budd. He has hosted the National Geographic International
Television series The Sea Hunters along with best-selling author
Clive Cussler. Mr. Delgado is the author or editor of nearly thirty
books and numerous articles.
Saturday,
January 28 @ 8:15PM I Lecture
Hall No. 2 in the IRC Building, 2194 Health Sciences Mall
Professor
Michael Byers, UBC:
On Thinning Ice: Challenges to Canadian
Sovereignty in the Northwest Passage
Professor Byers holds a Canada Research Chair in Global Politics
and International Law at UBC. He was formerly Professor of Law and
Director of Canadian Studies at Duke University. From 1996-1999,
he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. His work focuses
on the interaction of international law and international politics,
especially with regard to the use of military force, the law of
the sea, and Canada-United States relations. He is a regular contributor
to the London Review of Books and the Globe and Mail, and the author,
most recently, of War Law.
Saturday,
February 4 @ 8:15PM I Lecture
Hall No. 2 in the IRC Building, 2194 Health Sciences Mall
Professor
Francoise Sullivan (painter, sculptor, and photographer from Montreal)
and
Dr. Sylvia L'Ecuyer, Sr. Producer, CBC Vancouver:
A Conversation with Francoise Sullivan
Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award in Visual
and Media Arts, Françoise Sullivan was born in Montreal,
where she received her early training at the École des beaux-arts.
Well known at the outset as a dancer and choreographer, it has been
her work as a painter, sculptor and photographer that has truly
marked her long career. Her work has been seen continuously in solo
and group exhibitions, including retrospectives at the Musée
national des beaux-arts du Québec (1993) and at the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts (2003). She has received the Prix Paul-Émile
Borduas (1987) and holds honorary degrees from the Université
du Québec à Montréal and York University in
Toronto. Françoise Sullivan has taught at Concordia University
since 1977.
Senior Producer
at the CBC, Sylvia L'Ecuyer has worked as a journalist, interviewer,
host, producer, and head of music for the French radio networks
since 1985. As a Musicologist (PhD, Laval University), Dr. L'Ecuyer
has done research and teaching at UBC. Her publications include
various articles and notices in musicology journals and encyclopedias.
She is presently a Professeur Associée at Université
de Montréal, Faculty of Music, Editor of the Cahiers de la
Société Québécoise de Recherche en Musique
and a Host/Producer of concerts and weekly shows on Travel and Music
for Radio-Canada's Espace Musique.
Saturday,
February 11 @ 8:15PM I
UBC Music
Building - 6361 Memorial Rd.
The Vancouver Institute and St. John's College present:
Andy Milne, jazz pianist from Brooklyn, NY
An Evening with Andy Milne: Lecture and
Performance
A resident of Brooklyn, Canadian-born pianist/composer Andy Milne
is a musician whose music is distinguished by its refreshing, creative
approach to jazz and music in general. In addition to leading his
own ensembles, from 1991-1997, Andy was a key member of the various
groups of saxophonist Steve Coleman, as well as collaborating with
other members of the M-BASE Collective. He frequently tours and
records with trumpeter Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane and Grammy-nominated
vocalist, Carla Cook. Andy was voted "Keyboardist of the Year
2000," by Jazz Report magazine. He recently completed a collaboration
with Canadian folk/rock icon Bruce Cockburn, the fruits of which
are featured on both Bruce's and Dapp Theory's forthcoming CDs.
Saturday,
February 25 @ 8:15PM I Lecture
Hall No. 2 in the IRC Building, 2194 Health Sciences Mall
The
Vancouver Institute and St. John's College present:
Professor Mark Oseil, College of Law, University of Iowa
International Law at the Crossroads: How
Exaggerated Hopes Produce Exaggerated Despair
Mark Osiel's scholarship seeks to show how legal responses to mass
atrocity can be improved by understanding its organizational dynamics,
as revealed through comparative social and historical analysis.
His books include Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory & the Law,
Obeying Orders: Atrocity, Military Discipline, and the Law of War,
Mass Atrocity, Ordinary Evil, and Hannah Arendt: Criminal Consciousness
in Argentina's Dirty War, and Making Sense of Mass Atrocity: Aligning
the Incentives. He has spoken at the International Criminal Tribunal
for the former Yugoslavia and served as consultant to prosecutors
of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and of perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide.
Robson Square
UBC's downtown campus at Robson Square (800 Robson Street) also
offers free lectures, discussions and readings to the public. Visit
the website to find out more.
Talk of
the Town with Moderator Hal Wake
Thursday
February 16 @ 7:30PM
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary
Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Join Hal Wake and his guest, author Ross King, as they discuss how
the Impressionist Movement came into being and explore the story of the
rivalry between Edouard Manet and the now almost forgotten Jean-Louis-Ernest
Meissonier. "King is a master at linking pivotal moments in
art history to epic rivalries. In his third supremely engaging and
illuminating inquiry (following Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling,
2003), King summons forth mid-nineteenth-century Paris and vividly
portrays two diametrically opposed artists. Writing with zest and
a remarkable command of diverse and fascinating facts, and offering
keen insights into the matrix of art, politics, social mores, and
technology, King charts the coalescence of a movement that changed
not only painting for all time but also our way of seeing the world."
Pre-registration is required via email: info.talkofthetown@ubc.ca
or call 604-827-3491.
Arts Wednesdays
Public Speaker Series
Wednesday
February 1 I C300 / Theatre
Michael Zeitlin, English
Imagining Vietnam: Jarhead and the Literature
of War
Wednesday,
February 8 I
C300 / Theatre
Timothy Taylor, novelist; Jean Barman, historian; and Richard
Cavell, urbanologist
Writing
the City: A special panel in conjunction with the UN World Urban
Forum / Living the Global City Lecture Series
General
Events
Monday, January
30, 2006 I 7:00-9:00pm
When
Gambling Stops Being a Game
This evening session is for those interested in learning more about
the difference between responsible gambling and problem gambling.
Information is also provided on the free services available for
problem gamblers. Contact:
604-822-8585 or www.lifeandcareer.ubc.ca
Sunday, February
5, 2006 I Theatre, 2:00pm
UBC School of Music Opera Ensemble Fundraiser
Cost: $20; Seniors $15. Contact: 604-822-5574 or concerts@exchange.ubc.ca
|
