Green College Series
Ilan Vertinsky – Health and Intellectual Property Rights: The Dynamics of Coordinated Compliance in the Provision of Pharmaceuticals to the Chinese People
Ilan Vertinsky explores the ways China interprets its international obligations to support the rights of its people to health and affordable basic medicines. He will discuss the various policies introduced to achieve the affordable medicine objectives and examine their effectiveness. He will then examine the apparent conflict between these objectives and China’s obligations under the [...]
Paul Bloom – There Is Nothing Special About Religion
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He was born in Montreal, Canada, was an undergraduate at McGill University, and did his doctoral work at MIT. He has published in scientific journals such as [...]
Barnor Hesse – Raceocracy: How the Racial Exception Proves the Racial Rule
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Dr. Barnor Hesse. Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science and Sociology, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University. ‘Raceocracy: How the racial state of exception proves the racial rule’. The talk is based on the forthcoming: ‘Creolizing the [...]
Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google
March 20, 2013, 12.00 to 2.00PM at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182)
Arianto Patunru and Zakir Machmud – Poverty and Globalization in Indonesia
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The costs and benefits of globalization have long been a major debate in the literature of development economics. Arianto Patunru and Zakir Machmud argue that it is important to understand the link between globalization and poverty for the case of developing [...]
Nir Eyal – Medical Tourism in South Asia: Moving From Brain Drain to Brain Gain
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. With the 2012 global turnover expected to reach $100-billion USD, medical tourism (travel across international borders to obtain health care) is rapidly expanding. India and Thailand are currently the lead global service suppliers. Unfortunately, providing health care to tourists may exacerbate [...]
Rhea Tregebov – Reading from Rhea Tregebov’s 7th Collection of Poetry, All Souls’
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Principal’s Series: Interdisciplinarity In Action. Bluesy, opinionated, sly, self-chastising and tender, UBC Creative Writing professor Rhea Tregebov’s All Souls’—her first collection since 2004—commands a range of tones wider and bolder than anything in her previous six books. All Souls’ bracingly addresses [...]
Jeffrey T. Parsons – Horny and High: Sexual Risk Behaviors and Substance Use Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health Lecture Series. Jeffrey T. Parsons’ general research interests are health behaviors (e.g., HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, sexual behavior, substance use/abuse); GLBTQ issues; interventions designed to change sexual/drug using behaviors among various populations; club drug use (ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine. [...]
Martha Fineman – Vulnerability and the Human Condition: A Different Approach to Equality
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor Lecture Series. As part of the “Richard V. Ericson Lecture,” Martha Fineman develops the concepts of vulnerability and resilience in order to argue for a more responsive state and a more egalitarian society. Vulnerability [...]
Les Jacobs – When Things Go Wrong: Medical Error, Rights Violations and Access to Justice in Health Care on Asia Pacific Rim
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Public Health Law and Policy in Asia. This talk explores access to justice issues in different Asia pacific countries that arise in the health care context. The issues are examined from the perspectives of global health and instances of [...]
