Yves Michaud University of Paris “Cruelty, Morbidity and Violence: New Representations of War and Death in Gericault” Caroline Ford University of British Columbia “The politics of Histories of the Restoration “ Darcy Grimaldo-Grisby Univeristy of California, Berkeley “The Effects of Hunger: Cannibalism and other Intimacies of Empire” Aleksandra Idzior University of British Columbia “Forming History […]
Thomas Crow Yale University James Meyers Emory university David Howard Nova Scotia School of Art & Design Caroline Jones Boston Universtiy Ted Jones Poetry Reading Jonathan Katz City college of San Francisco Cecile Whiting University of California, Los Angeles Jonathan Weinberg Yale university Jennifer Durrie Universoty of British Columbia Anne Wagner University of California, Berkeley […]
This year’s event will feature 10 discussion panels and an opportunity for students from all years and majors to mix and mingle with over 30 Arts Alumni. Panel topics include Careers in Law, Business, Teaching, Sustainability, Olympics, Writing, Non-profit, Film, Government, and Media. www.arts.ubc.ca/careerexpo
Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood. Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of debt. In her wide-ranging, entertaining, and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that debt is like air – something we take for granted until things go wrong. And then, while gasping for […]
Arts Last Lecture celebration. The goal of the Last Lecture is to celebrate graduating Arts students and recognize the significant milestone they have reached in their academic career. Last Lecture offers graduating students the opportunity to hear from a prominent and celebrated speaker in a special lecture designed for them. Past speakers have included Peter […]
Violating Tradition: Théodore Géricault and the Bourbon Restoration
Plop! Goes the World: A Critical Re-Assesment of the 1960’s