Past events
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October 8, 2025The Consone Quartet: Our Journey to the Romantics
Since our formation in 2012, our aim has always been to explore the great wealth of string quartet repertoire from an historically informed perspective, whether that be using appropriate equipment—gut strings and historical bows—or studying the sources of the time. In this informal lecture…
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October 7, 2025Teaching Video Games in Catastrophic Times: Perils, Pleasures, and Possibilities
Though video games are played widely across North America, they rarely register as an influential cultural media that comments upon and critiques our political and social worlds. Despite their ability to connect players globally, video games are rarely seen as opportunities of empowerment,…
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October 6, 2025Endogenous Retroviruses and Where to Find Them: A Journey Through Health and Disease
We’ve all heard about the microbiome, but what about the virome? Your virome, or the collection of viruses living in and on you, outnumbers the microbiome 10:1. One part of this virome is encoded within your DNA—endogenous retroviruses, or ERVs, contribute to eight percent of human DNA and can have…
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September 29, 2025Temporal Application of Criminal Law Reforms in Canada
Adhithya presents a clear, case-driven account of how courts managed legal change before the Charter. The talk maps the core tools that structured transitional questions in criminal law: the presumption against retroactivity, protection of vested rights, strict construction of penal statutes when…
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September 26, 2025Over the Mountain and Down the River to the Coast
The schedule for the annual Latin American Studies conference at UBC is below. For full information and to register, visit the conference home page. Session 1. 9:30 am to 11:00 – Historical Landscapes Chair. Aleksa Alaica. UBC, Anthropology and Archaeology Aleksa Alaica. Multispecies…
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September 25, 2025From Biodiversity Preservation to Innovation: The Role of Biological Resource Centres
Biological Resource Centres (BRCs) play a crucial role across many scientific domains by acting as specialized libraries for living organisms and their genetic material. Their work in preservation and distribution is fundamental to research and innovation in the animal, plant, environmental, and…
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September 24, 2025Rising Tides
This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness…
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September 22, 2025Small Telescope, Big Science: CGEM and the Origin of the Universe
The Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) is a new 4-metres single-dish radio telescope located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near Penticton, BC, built to map the polarization of the galaxy we inhabit, the Milky Way. This new instrument has been designed with a clear objective…
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September 16, 2025Relating to Land Through Play
What happens when you slow down your pace as you walk and play in the forest? How does your experience of a forest change when you mindfully engage with the sonic environment? These are some of the questions that will guide our forest therapy and soundwalk in the Green College gardens. …
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July 24, 2025Embracing the Impossible: Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, and the Occultural Turn in Detective Fiction
In his famous maxim from The Sign of Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes declares “the impossible" to be precisely what the detective must exclude in order to arrive at a true solution. My talk focuses on an alternative tradition of new religious literary detection emergent during the long fin de siècle…