Events

UBC talk: China's state-led urbanization in Tibet

5:30pm - 7:30pm | UBC, C.K. Choi Building

An in-depth exploration of Tibetans’ experiences with urban life in the growing city of Xining, the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau.

Biodiversity COP15

10:00am - 2:30pm

Want to know about the Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal and the CWN Platform? Canadian local and regional governments have a unique opportunity to be involved this year. The UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) will be held in Montreal December 7-19, 2022 and, for the first time, there will be a dedicated

COP27 debrief: The politics of power people and place

6:00pm - 8:00pm | Segal Building, 1300-1500

Faculty and student delegates from UBC and other institutions, now returned from climate negotiations in Sharm El Sheikh, will discuss climate change from a lens deconstructing systems of power and bias, and discuss COP27's progress and limitations.

Cremis Webinar: encampments and the right to housing

3:00pm - 4:30pm

This webinar will mobilize knowledge from a research project regarding the human rights dimensions of encampments across Canada, and juxtapose the regulation of encampments with the right to housing and human rights framework.

Urban China talks: Collaborative Neighborhood Governance & COVID

This internationally recognized seminar series hosts speakers and in the audience many from the interdisciplinary community of scholars studying urban China, both those studying China. A new one each week!

Harvard MIT UBC Urban China Conference 2023

Harvard MIT UBC Urban China Conference 2023:  Has planning guided China's urbanization? Where: Harvard University Campus, Cambridge, MA China’s rapid urbanization has come with a stunning assortment of plans: urban plans, land plans, economic plans, demographic plan