Ta da! We did it, we got Dr. Moyo!

Dr. Moyo will be at the Terry Global Speaker Series at the Chan Centre giving a talk  titled after her New York Times bestselling book ‘Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa’. Following her talk (approximately 30minutes) [...]

At the SLC 2011, delegates will attend two concurrent workshops held by students, faculty, alumni and community partners. The concurrent workshops are a large and valuable part of the SLC experience. These workshops not only give the opportunity for participants to grow as leaders, but also provide the workshop presenters [...]

Kierscey Regozo (guitarist), me, K’NAAN

It was a few hours after the K’NAAN talk/performance/conversation, and fighting the temptation of a 6pm bedtime, I sat down to begin typing up a short think piece in turn for missing my discussion of my War and Ethics course to [...]

The book launch for the above title by our very own President Toope is happening tomorrow (Thursday, September 23rd) and students are welcome to attend!  President Toope’s presentation will be accompanied by comments from Dr. Natasha Affolder and Asha Kaushal.

Dr. Natasha Affolder is the Assistant Professor and Director, Centre for Global Environmental and Natural [...]

Come out to see an incredible initiative by UBC student Fatou Wurie and others, who have founded COCO. COCO seeks to act in the independent body in the quest to create a transformative and inclusive space of dialoge for colored students at UBC.

Their upcoming dialogue series, ‘Storytelling as Reclamation’ is on September 22nd at [...]

We know that we have kept you in suspense all summer, but if any of you have been hanging around campus you may have already heard whispers (or the celebration dance that we were having) and know that our first Terry Global Speaker Series guest is…K’NAAN!

(cue incredibly inspirational song here)

Staying true to [...]

We all care about Afghanistan…Shocking, I know.

It took awhile for Jamie Shea to register in my memory, but a google search quickly brought me back… In grade five, I remember watching NATO’s daily briefings on the situation in Kosovo, and remember the calm and cool figure who addressed the press: Jamie Shea.  While much [...]

I’ve been absent from work over the last week due to a really great opportunity. Thanks to excellent karma, aligned chakras, or a good deed in a past life I was headed to Wilton Park’s Atlantic Youth Forum in England for a full week, care of the British High Commission and British Council.

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Taken from my camera, the main entrance of the NHM.

On my (very) short stay in London, I managed to spend a little time checking out the Natural History Museum (NHM) and Terry Project co-director, Dave, chilling on sabbatical at one of the coolest (and most massive) museums in London. Prior to Dave’s [...]

Posted on behalf of UBC Alumna Jocelyn Ling of imagine1day.

Are you liv’n large in life or playing it small? What if the creation of the best possible life that you can live can change you as much as it changes another community?

Liv’n it up is an event on August 11 that is [...]

The UBC History Department and the Binding the Nations Lecture Series brings famed Iranian professor Hamid Dabashi to UBC to present a lecture on the Green Movement in Iran. Special thanks to the Binding the Nations Lecture Series for providing access and photography.

I had my usual reservations about attending the lecture [...]

The UBC History Department and  the Binding Nations Lecture Series with support from the Vancouver Green Movement will present Dr. Hamid Dabashi on July 9th.

Dr. Dabashi is currently the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York, the oldest and most prestigious Chair [...]

To the Islamic Republic of Iran,

To Iran,

My dear friend, how have you been? Things have changed a great deal, I know. You have been so hard to get in contact with, what with the travel restrictions, losing your anti-filter software, and the new round of ridiculous sanctions. I know that I have not [...]

Due to the large interest in this event, the location of the speaker series engagement with Paul Polak has changed from the Global Lounge to AERL 120. Please find address and location here. See you all there!

We have had some pretty fantastic success with a couple of individuals that we contacted for the annual Terry Global Speaker Series…More to come as details become finalized, but we promise you, it’s good!

HOWEVER- we have also had some roadblocks. Surprise, surprise, speaker agencies ruin the day yet again! Terry history has shown that when [...]

Let’s play ‘Guess what I’m blogging about?’

Operation ‘Top Kill’- blast stuff to fill the ruptured well.

Place dome over the leak (later blocked by ice crystals).

Mile long tube to capture gushing oil.

Use underwater robot (with its saw) to hack off leaking pipe.

If you were thinking Batman and [...]

After spending much too long in a whiteboard marker fumed boardroom with Allen, Dave, Chad and Florin, we have narrowed down potential speakers for the 2010-2011 year. Everyone gave great suggestions, but after considering resources, wideness of appeal and of course- cage fight matches between the five of us, this is our current list of [...]

Taking  a break from the rigours of standardized testing, I watched a documentary centred around Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue magazine. If you haven’t yet heard of Wintour aka “the single most important figure in the $300-billion fashion industry”, check out The September Issue trailer here, winner of a 2009 Sundance Film Festival Award. I’ll admittedly [...]

It’s Christmas in May! As usual, the Terry team is asking for your input before our Speaker Series wish list meeting next week.

Economists? Scientists? Global activists? Celebrity? Let’s hear ‘em!

Who’s heard of the compulsive shopping disorder? Do you suffer from caffeine intoxication disorder? Personally, I think I may be a candidate for the mathematics disorder.

The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the Big Book of Mental Health definitions) is working on its fifth edition and considering adding a whole list of new mental [...]