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The Peter Wall Institute is co-sponsoring this event hosted by the UBC National Core for Neuroethics. The event will provide an opportunity for the lo…
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Abstract:This lecture explores popular enthusiasm for putative scientific beliefs that men have minimal control over their sexual and violent “natures…
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Abstract: Join Nancy Hermiston and the UBC Opera Ensemble for an evening with two of Canada’s great operatic talents, Judith Forst and Simone Osborne.…
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Abstract:In this talk, I analyze the way smugglers working in the lowest ranks of the drug economy in northern Mexico engage with and manipulate the b…
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Abstract:How can we envision an effective critical response to the non-sensical violence against life on our planet? To formulate a response to this p…
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Abstract: Joe Dahmen and Amber Frid-Jimenez, who practice as AFJD, will present recent architectural installations exploring softness. Soft systems at…
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Abstract:During early plant evolution, land plants developed water-conducting systems to survive drought conditions and thus to colonize land. Several…
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Abstract:When and why is the public receptive, or hostile, to scientific innovations – and which members of “the public” hold which views?…
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UBC Reads Sustainability presents Raj Patel With a global population of nine billion by 2050, and climate change already taking a toll, how will the w…
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Speaker:Dr. Jinhua Chen was trained as a historian of religions, with a focus on East Asian Buddhism. During his term in residence as a Wall Scholar, …
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Abstract: The minimum cost for an electron microscope is $50,000, which is clearly unaffordable for most developing-world clinics. However, inspired b…
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Abstract:There is much literature on the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ but little work has been done on tracking peacemaking lessons that could be appli…
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