Every year the Terry Project is fortunate enough to host and showcase several leading academics, cognoscenti, and proactive members of our global community for a series of talks. Held at The Chan Centre for Performing Arts, these talks offer students an opportunity to engage with speakers and foster dialogue at UBC concerning various global issues.
The Terry Global Speakers Series has become Terry’s flagship event, owing its tremendous success to its design—it is developed by students, driven by students, and delivered for students. Hosted two or three times per year in the Chan Centre, the Speakers Series invites world-renown academics, artists, authors, or activists to give talks before an audience of 1,100 students. But the Global Speakers Series is not merely a lecture. It brings together the community, affording students the unique opportunity to speak both with world-renown thinkers and with each other.
Tune in for the latest news on 2011 speakers.
Below you can find video recordings of talks from past years:
Dambisa Moyo
Economist, Author
Dead Aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa
November 8th, 2010
K’naan
Musician, Poet, Activist
Dusty Foot Philosophies
September 24th, 2010
Sir Ken Robinson
Education Leader
The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
September 30th, 2009
Daniel Dennett
Philosopher, Cognitive scientist
Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning
January 14th, 2009
Sheldon Solomon
Psychologist, Author
The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
October 9th, 2008
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist, Evolutionary biologist
The God Delusion
April 29th, 2008
Paul Collier
Economist
The Bottom Billion
March 11th, 2008
Shelia Watt-Cloutier
Activist
The Right to be Cold: The Global Significance of Arctic Climate Change
February 29th, 2008
Alisa Smith & J.B. Mackinnon
Authors, Journalists
The 100-Mile Diet
November 23rd, 2007
Vandana Shiva
Ecologist, Activist, Author
Defending Food Freedom in a Period of Food Fascism
March 12, 2007
David Suzuki
Scientist, Environmentalist, Broadcaster
The Biotech Context
March 13th, 2006
Stephen Lewis
Broadcaster, Diplomat
World Issues – Local Impact
February 6th, 2006
David Orr
Environmental Researcher
The End of Education
January 12-13th, 2006
[...] who stay late at work to walk me home • my kettle • hot showers • spoken word poetry • the Terry Global Speaker Series • thick, long-sleeved sweaters • catching bubbles while doing dishes • creamed cinnamon honey [...]