Wall Stories
Series
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Catalyst Program
Read about the collaborative projects and initiatives of the 2022 Wall Catalyst Scholars aimed at addressing the Climate and Nature Emergency
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PWIAS Impact
Learn more about how the interdisciplinary environment at PWIAS enriches UBC and impacts society through ground-breaking research, influential public policy, artistic collaborations and award-winning publications.
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Chromatic - The Book
Read excerpts and other stories related to “Chromatic”, a new collaborative art book produced by the 2020 Wall Scholars.
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Scholar Q & A
A series of thought-provoking and inspiring short interviews with our Wall Scholars and PWIAS community members.
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Then and now: Comparisons of sex slavery in Cambodia and ancient comedies
For Dr. C.W. Marshall, 2013-2014 Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute and UBC Professor of Ancient Performance Traditions and Greek Poetry, what started as a volunteer trip to Cambodia ended up changing the direction of his professional research. Dr. Marshall, a scholar of ancient…
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WE ARE ALL CONNECTED
WE ARE ALL CONNECTED: a poem by Beau Dick, shared with the Spaceship Earth International Research Roundtable at the Peter Wall Institute, spring 2014. We have endured as First Nation people near annihilation. We have been subject to poverty, diseases infected on us, homelessness, alcoholism, drug addiction.
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WishBoard looks at public space
The old Student Union Building (SUB) at the University of British Columbia is dark and semi-abandoned. At first glance, this seems like a poor place to conduct a research project on how people use interactive technology. But the SUB’s gloomy concourse was the perfect place for Dr.
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Peter Wall Institute Centennial Events
The Peter Wall Institute is very pleased to have played a prominent role in commemorating UBC’s Centennial. Between September 2015 and May 2016, we produced and/or co-sponsored the following events and celebrations. Distinguished Visitor September 25, 2015 Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate, economist and a professor at Columbia University, participated in…
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Q&A with Naomi Oreskes
On April 5th, Dr. Naomi Oreskes delivered the Spring 2016 Wall Exchange lecture to a sold out crowd at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver. Earlier that day, The Wall Papers sat down with Oreskes to discuss her best selling book Merchants of Doubt, co-authored with Erik Conway, about how her…
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Fishing for solutions in Haida Gwaii
Solutions to the conflicts between First Nations and the federal government over the control of fisheries are often elusive. On the foggy archipelago of Haida Gwaii on the North Coast of British Columbia, that may soon change, thanks to a Peter Wall Solutions project that combines ecological modelling with traditional…
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