Max Planck Society and UBC Sign Agreement
Formal agreement signed for the Max Planck – UBC Centre for Quantum Materials
Nippon Foundation-UBC Nereus Meeting
NF-UBC Nereus meeting held at the Vancouver campus
Op/ed: Innovation and International Collaboration
Prof. Toope and Dr. Leshner, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the journal Science, have written an opinion editorial. First published in the 10 February issue of The Vancouver Sun, Toope and Leshner discuss the importance of cross-boarder scientific collaborations in finding answer to urgent global […]
Douglas Coupland, Marshall McLuhan (Penguin Canada, 2009)
Part of a series on “extraordinary Canadians,” I was drawn to this brief biography because it coincided with the 100th anniversary of McLuhan’s birth, and because I thought it a stroke of genius to ask Coupland to write on McLuhan. The result is a fresh, insightful and at times psychedelic exploration of the McLuhan era. […]
Deborah Buszard to Head UBC’s Okanagan Campus
The University of British Columbia’s Board of Governors has approved the appointment of Professor Deborah Buszard to lead UBC’s Okanagan campus as Deputy Vice Chancellor and Principal. Dr. Buszard will begin her five-year term on July 1, 2012. For details, see the full media release on the UBC Public Affairs website.
Inaugural Ismaili Centre Lecture
Prof. Toope spoke on the topic of pluralism and pragmatism at the Ismaili Centre
Olivia Manning, School for Love (Arrow, 2001)
First published in 1951, this novel is by one of Britain’s important mid-twentieth century writers, who is best known for The Balkan Trilogy, a compelling account of life in Cold War Bucharest. School for Love is set in Jerusalem, and traces the growing into adult sensibility of the teen-age orphan, Felix. He has led a […]
Kathleen Winter, Annabel (Anansi, 2010)
An extraordinarily lyrical novel set in Labrador, St John’s and Boston, the book traces the early life experience of Wayne Blake, a person born with the sexual organs of both man and woman. Marked by a generosity of spirit, and an openness to the complexities of identity, the story follows Wayne’s father as he tries […]
Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues (Thomas Allen, 2011)
Winner of the 2011 Giller Prize, this ambitious novel is set principally in the months leading up to the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Moving back and forth in time, and spanning settings in Baltimore, Berlin and Paris, the narrative focusses upon a jazz combo of African-American and German musicians. They […]