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How will the world eat in the future?
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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Violence and Religion: East Asian Perspectives
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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An Electron Microscope Affordable for Developing-World Clinics?
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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Peace Process Architectures: Critical Lessons from the Northern Ireland Conflict
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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Water Sustainability in Oil and Gas Exploration: Treating Fracturing Flowback Water for Reuse
Abstract: Oil Sands mining for oil extraction in Alberta and hydraulic fracturing for gas production in Northeastern British Columbia have emerged as …
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Building the Brain: Marrying Engineering and Medicine in the Fight Against Dementia
Speaker:Vikramaditya G. Yadav is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at UBC. His research group pursues gr…
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Lessons Learned in the Trenches: Funded Research in the Social Sciences & Humanities
This Speaker Series is brought to you by SPARC in partnership with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and Genome BC Registration is require…
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The tyranny of temperature in ecological systems
Speaker:Mary I. O’Connor is an Assistant Professor in the Zoology Department and Associate Director of the Biodiversity Research Centre at UBC. O’Conn…
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Miners, Minerals, and Minamata: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Artisanal Gold Mining and Sustainable Development
Abstract:Gold is the most valued of metals. Throughout history it has played a key role in global civilizations as a symbol of wealth with unique cult…
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Challenges of Transitioning from the Fossil Fuel to a Green Regime of Electrical Energy in India
Abstract:The UN has established a Green Fund for the adaptation and mitigation of climate change through pooling resources from the member countries, …
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Between Personhood and Property: The Legal Lives of the Ship
Abstract:This talk draws from my current book, Across Oceans of Law, which follows the 1914 journey of the Komagata Maru, a British-built and Japanese…
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Coping with Conflict: Technologies for Targeting Social Action and Rehabilitation Research
Abstract:Dr. Weiss will discuss how accessible technologies can be used to meet a wide variety of social needs and clinical populations. Use of collab…
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