Events

UBC Geography hosts WDCAG geography association conference

This Western Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers conference includes field trips, keynote presentations (including with UBC Geography's Naomi Klein), panel discussions, and the premiere of the documentary "The Icicle Calls us Back".

Shining Light: A Vietnamese - Canadian Legacy (short film)

12:00pm - 3:00pm

The story of Chieu-Anh Vu, born on a cargo ship fleeing Vietnam, and her journey from newborn, to a camp in Hong Kong, settling in Canada in early 1975, and becoming a successful e-commerce entrepreneur.

UBC Climate Solutions talk with Texas A&M U's Professor Andrew Dessler

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Prof. Dessler examines the tension between climate reality and the political power of fossil fuel interests, concluding with a look at how this friction manifests in the public debate over science.

Black Career Fair

3:00pm - 6:00pm

Connect with employers offering various opportunities that support your growth as an emerging professional. Come network, ask questions, and discover opportunities that align with your goals. Undergrads and grads welcome.

Geography Colloquium Series: Logistical Life in the Decolonizing Pacific

12:30pm - 2:00pm

How logistics has long been essential to the everyday work of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and empire; and the centrality of racialized and gendered labour to the functioning of imperial supply and care chains.

Urban China webinar: State Venturism

5:30pm

About the Urban China talks (click to expand)The MIT/UBC/Harvard Urban China Talk Series is an internationally recognized seminar that hosts as speakers and in the audience many from the interdisciplinary community of scholars studying urban China, both those studying China from afar and those working within China.

Planning student panel: Stories about SCARP

5:30pm - 7:00pm

UBC CAPACity and the Planning Students Association at SCARP are hosting a student panel tailored for undergraduates considering a future in urban planning and design.

PIBC's joint mixer with the Institute of Transportation Engineers

6:00pm - 8:00pm

The Planning Institute of BC is inviting its South Coast chapter (which includes SCARP members/students) to a social and trivia night shared with ITE. Feel free to join for an evening of networking and fun.

Workshop: copyright and licensing in open educational resources

11:00am - 12:00pm

Copyright basics for your OER project, licensing considerations to ensure that your work is reusable by others, and a simple workflow to help you identify and respect Creative Commons licensed works.

Intro to research writing

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Using research-informed frameworks, examples from published studies, and guided mini-exercises, we break down the logic and core features of successful academic writing, which is shaped by the norms of each field.

IRES seminar: politics of geothermal land and infrastructure

12:30pm - 1:20pm

UBC Geography Professor Emily Yeh presents her talk, The politics of land and infrastructure in the making of Indonesia’s “Geothermal Island”

Panel(s) of Careers Beyond Higher Education

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Panelists from various disciplines discuss their career paths from grad degree to professional, addressing how they used their degrees and training to prepare them for their current positions and any advice they can give to current grad students.

SCARP Speaker Series: Emotions in Planning

12:00pm - 1:00pm | West Mall Annex, Room 110

SCARP's Speaker Series is continuing its season of expert alumni panels, and everyone is welcome. This time: the role of emotion in planning, how panelists have facilitated emotion in their work, and combining ways of knowing.

Geography Colloquium Series: physical landscape effects of climate change

12:30pm - 2:00pm

The challenges of identifying and measuring climate-driven physical landscape responses to modern warming and its associated hydrologic shifts, and progress in protecting communities physically and financially.

Workshop: Writing a literature review

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Common structures and strategies for writing literature reviews that are aligned with disciplinary expectations; how to identify patterns in the literature, map scholarly debates, and build a narrative that supports your research direction.