University of British Columbia (UBC) Podcasts
University Of British Columbia (UBC) Podcasts
UBC Podcasts allow University of British Columbia alumni, students, faculty and others to access a wide variety of UBC-related digital ...
Focus UBC: Opera 101
Hear Professor Stephen J. Toope talk about what the University has been doing over the last few years followed by Head of the Voice and ...
The Shake, the Rattle and the Pole: Vancouver's Striptease Past, 1945-1980
Hear Socilogy and Women's Studies Professor Becki Ross talk about the complex world of professional female burlesque/ striptease in postwar ...
Mountain Pine Beetle: Nature Catches Up with an Overmature Forest
Hear Forestry Professor, John McLean discuss the destruction caused by the pine beetle and options for future forest management.
The Ch'nook Entrepreneurship Story: UBC and the Aboriginal Community
Hear Academic Director of the UBC Ch'nook Aboringinal Business Education, Dr. John Claxton talk about the innovative program.
How to Create, Write and Produce Your Own TV Show
Even wondered what it's like behind the scenes of a popular TV show? Panel participants, Cal Shumiatcher, BA'81, Mark McGuckin, BA'04, and ...
The Loonie: What does it Mean for You and Me?
Hear UBC Finance Professor Maurice Levi talk about the recent appreciation of the loonie and what is behind the major movement in our ...
What Makes People Happy
For many centuries, thinkers have been trying to unravel the source of a happy and fulfilling life. Hear UBC Psychology Graduate Student, ...
Presidents in Reflection
Hear UBC President, Prof. Stephen Toope and two of his predecessors, Dr. Martha Piper (UBC's 11th President & Vice-Chancellor) and Dr. ...
The Development of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (International Human Rights ...
The Honourable Claire L'Heureux-Dubé traces the development of international human rights and humanitarian law from the early days of the ...
Bush's War on the Rule of Law (International Human Rights Lecture 2/3)
Professor Marjorie Cohn analyzes the six major ways she feels the Bush administration has violated US and international law. In her view, ...
Security Integration and Rights Disintegration in the War on Terror (International Human Rights ...
After 9/11, the US pressured other states to integrate their police, intelligence and military with US security systems and policy. ...
UBC's Centenary Celebrated in Victoria
On March 7, 1908, the University Act was signed in Victoria. 100 years later fellow UBC alumni join in Victoria to celebrate. Dr. Patricia ...
Saving Tuna: Lessons from Cod Mismanagement
At the AAAS news briefing in Boston, MA, UBC Professor Daniel Pauly joins Stanford's Barbara Block, World Wildlife Fund's Jose Ingles, and ...