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Canadian Studies First Ever Alumni Event
Students are invited to the first ever Canadian Studies alumni and career night! The event will consist of an alumni panel answering questions about where the program has taken them professionally, how it helped them prepare for their career, and what has been the most challenging, and rewarding parts of their journey so far. The […]
Beyond the Culture of Nature Conference, 28-30 September, 2012
Canadian Studies at UBC is hosting a conference at the end of the month (28-30 September), Beyond the Culture of Nature: Rethinking Canadian and Environmental Studies. It will be held at St. John’s College. Please consider attending. Please contact Matthew Evenden to register (matthew.evenden@ubc.ca) We hope to see you there! Our thanks to several UBC […]
Transforming canada: FISH AND FUR AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Stephen Hornsby, Director, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine Geography Building Room 130 Monday, March 19, 5-6:30 pm
Transforming canada: CITIES AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Michèle Dagenais – Département d’histoire – Université de Montréal – on MONDAY 12 March 2012 in the GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE at 5:00pm CITIES AND THE NATURE OF CANADA Although some 80 percent of Canadians are urban dwellers, Canadians have long held a somewhat ambivalent—even antagonistic—attitude toward cities, and especially large cities. Cities are rarely […]
Transforming canada: COMMUNICATIONS AND THE NATURE OF CANADA
Ken Cruikshank, Department of History, McMaster University Wednesday 29th February, 5:00PM Geography room 130 KEN CRUIKSHANK is a historian from McMaster University. He has written effectively on the Intercolonial Railway and the administrative state and he is interested in the interaction of business, state and society in Canada and the United States between the 1850s […]
Transforming canada: WILDERNESS CULTURE AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Claire Campbell, Department of History, Dalhousie University GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE CLAIRE CAMPBELL is a historian from Dalhousie University where she lso heads up the Canadian Studies programa dn was a foundation member fo their Sustainability BA program. Her interests are in Parks (editor of a recent volume with UC Press) and Public History and […]
Play Chthonics 2012 series
Graham House (in the Piano Lounge), UBC Green College: 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, from 5:00 to 6:30 on the Wednesday dates below.
Warren Cariou (Winnipeg) 15-Feb-12
Marie Clements (Galiano Island) 15-Feb-12
Robson Reading Series – Lynn Coady and Anne Perdue
UBC Library/Bookstore at Robson Square “The Antagonist excels at a number of levels: It’s a readable, quixotic coming-of-age story, a comedy of very bad manners, and a thoughtful inquiry into the very nature of self. It’s the sort of novel–and Coady the sort of writer–deserving of every accolade coming to it.” –Robert J. Wiersema, National Post more […]
Transforming canada: GENDER AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Joanna Dean, Department of History, Carleton University Geography 130
Film Screening & Talk – Peter Blow & ‘Village of Widows’
Tuesday, January 31, 4:30-6:30 pm Michael M. Ames Theatre, UBC Museum of Anthropology Admission to MOA: UBC staff, students & faculty free with ID; Others $9 ‘Village of Widows’ ―a documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Peter Blow―recounts the remarkable story of the Sahtu Dene people, who were employed by the Canadian Government during WWII to […]
