Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
Notable Roman Social and Cultural Historian at UBC, March 18-25, 2012
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is the Master of Sidney Sussex College and Professor of Roman Studies at Cambridge University. Previously, he served as Director of the British School in Rome. He has published many studies, articles and books, including Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994), which won the Archaeological Institute of America’s James R. Wiseman Award, and, most recently, Herculaneum: Past and Present (2011). Since 2001, Professor Wallace-Hadrill has directed the Herculaneum Conservation Project, a project of the Packard Humanities Institute, which aims to protect and study Pompeii’s smaller, but more interesting neighbour, Herculaneum. Professor Wallace-Hadrill was awarded an OBE in 2002 for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations, and is a frequent contributor to radio and television broadcasts. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2010.
Professor Wallace-Hadrill will be presenting several talks on the UBC campus during his stay as a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor. Please consult the Calendar of Events for details.
All events of this Green Visiting Professorship are open to the public without charge or ticketing. Space limited at all venues.
Patricia Smith Churchland
Leading Neuroscientist and Philosopher at UBC, January 22-29, 2012
Patricia Smith Churchland is a professor emerita of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her research focuses on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy. She explores the impact of scientific developments on our understanding of consciousness, the self, free will, ethics, and religion. She is author of the groundbreaking book, Neurophilosophy (MIT Press 1986), and co-author with T. J. Sejnowski of The Computational Brain (MIT 1992), co-author with Paul Churchland of On The Contrary (MIT 1998). Brain-Wise was published by MIT Press in 2002. Her current work focuses on morality and the social brain, and appeared in Braintrust: What Neuroscience tells us about Morality, published in March 2011 by Princeton University Press. She has been president of the American Philosophical Association and of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and won a MacArthur Prize in 1991 and the Rossi Prize in 2008. She was chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of California, San Diego from 2000 to 2007. A podcast of an extended interview with Professor Churchland can be found on the Philosophy Bites website.
Professor Churchland will be presenting several talks on the UBC campus during her stay as a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor. Please consult the Calendar of Events for details.
All events of this Green Visiting Professorship are open to the public without charge or ticketing. Space limited at all venues.
Additional support for Professor Churchland’s visit to UBC is provided by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
John W. Sear
Eminent Clinician and Pharmacologist at UBC, October 24-28, 2011
John W. Sear, MA BSc MBBS FFARCS FANZA, is Emeritus Professor of Anaesthetics at the University of Oxford and former Vice-Warden of Green College, Oxford (now Green Templeton College). He has published widely on the clinical pharmacology of hypnotic and opioid drugs for the induction and maintenance of anaesthesia, on the mechanisms of action of intravenous and volatile general anaesthetic agents, and on anaesthesia and cardiovascular disease, their interaction and outcomes. Professor Sear has been invited to lecture at numerous post-secondary institutions and conferences, including, most recently, the fifth Anaesthesiology Congress in Tallinn, Estonia, where he was the keynote speaker.
His visit to Green College, UBC, following that of Professor Mark Harrison (also a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford) earlier this year, is part of an ongoing exploration of opportunities for establishing closer academic links, at both the faculty
and graduate student levels, between the two interdisciplinary graduate colleges endowed by the late Cecil Green.
Professor Sear will be presenting several talks on the UBC campus during his stay as a Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor. Please consult the Calendar of Events for details.
All events of this Green Visiting Professorship are open to the public without charge or ticketing. Space limited at all venues.
Professor Sear’s visit to UBC as Green Visiting Professor is co-hosted by the Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
