Update: UBC responds to Rumana Monzur attack
Following on my message of June 15, 2011, I am writing with further news about our student Ms Rumana Monzur. The most recent news about Ms Monzur’s health is distressing. Ms Monzur’s eye injuries have been assessed at two top flight facilities in India. Doctors at Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai and at the Aravind Eye […]
Kate Grenville, The Lieutenant (Harper Collins, 2008)
An exploration of the possibilities and impossibilities of cross cultural communication. Set at the moment of first contact between English naval officers and aborigines in Australia (1788), this beautiful novel is at once a bildungsroman, an adventure story, and a lyrical reflection on language. The relationship that evolves between Lieutenant Daniel Rooke and the child […]
Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes (Chatto & Windus, 2010)
The most exquisite memoire I have ever read. Mr. de Waal, a distinguished English potter, traces his family history by exploring the movement of a collection of Japanese netsuke from late 19th century Paris, to Vienna at the Anschluss, to Tokyo, to London. The collection is first bought by Charles Ephrussi, the model for Proust’s […]
Message to the Community from the UBC President
I am writing with deep sadness to share with you the news of the brutal attack on our graduate student Ms Rumana Monzur in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Ms Monzur is completing a Master’s degree in Political Science at our Vancouver campus. She returned home to visit her family and friends, as well as her colleagues at […]
2011 Spring Graduation
UBC celebrates achievement at its Spring 2011 Graduation events