Events
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The global race for critical minerals is on, and leaders across the world argue that they’re essential for the clean energy transition and our digital future. A similar race is happening with artificial intelligence (AI).
But is…
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Topic: Finding Hope: Visions of Utopia in the Global Sixties
Speaker: Dr Craig Keating, Instructor in History
Utopian experiments were a hallmark of sixties protest against the norms of modern, consumer capitalist society – from…
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the playwriting process from initial concept to production and finally opening night in this three-part series program. Learn about the concepts of Scene and Monologue Writing, Text Analysis,…
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Gain a comprehensive understanding of the playwriting process from initial concept to production and finally opening night in this three-part series program. Learn about the concepts of Scene and Monologue Writing, Text Analysis, Staging,…
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Cost of living and jobs. Housing affordability. Trump. These are currently the top concerns for people living in Canada, according to recent polls.
Climate change is an ever growing existential threat to our species, yet many polls show…
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At Davos in January 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney famously declared that we are experiencing a rupture in the international order. But what exactly did he mean?
American threats to Canadian sovereignty alongside interventions in…
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Esteemed novelist Joseph Boyden, acclaimed film director Michelle Latimer and former University of Saskatchewan professor Carrie Bourassa have all made front-page news in recent years for the same reason: each is alleged to have been a…
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Topic: Finding Hope in Catastrophe: The Cases of Grimmelshausen and Grass
Speaker: Dr Stefan Haag, instructor in English
The seventeenth century Thirty Years’ War was a national catastrophe for Germany, leading to large-scale…
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Multimedia artist Gu Xiong, Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia, draws on his forty years of migration experience to explore how individuals continually reshape their…
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Sandpipers' Last Supper tells the story of a tiny shorebird's long-distance migration powered by biofilm, an invisible mud-based superfood that supports the species' survival. Taking part in the sandpipers’ journey, three individuals…
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Celebrate short story month with four talented fiction writers, Alix Ohlin, Andrea Routley, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and Shashi Bhat, in conversation with local author Jen Currin about the art and craft of this wily and often misunderstood…
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How do you reconcile having parents who would do anything for you except stay with you? In her memoir The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street, Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho traces the emotional fault lines of an "astronaut" family, parents and…
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