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(2008) Conscious Learning in the Conceptual Economy: Allen Manser

- - - - - - Name: Allen Manser Talk Title: "Conscious learning for the cognitive economy." Notes: UBC Alumni (Sauder School of Business class of 2006). Topic: Why formal education is no longer a means to an end and how a new appreciation for ideation, multiple intelligences, and passion are paramount to personal and professional success. The talk will emphasize the importance of learning to live passionately and challenge the acceptance of mediocrity and indifference. This includes a need to actively reframe intelligence: taking a look at preconceptions on intelligence, understanding multiple intelligences, and understanding what is most important in the 21st century. In essense, the presentation will support the need to ideate and apply creativity in all aspects of business and life.

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(2008) Community Outreach Design: Idette de Boer

- - - - - - Name: Idette de Boer Talk Title: "Community outreach design." Notes: Masters of Architecture, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 3rd year. Studio 801 [1], UBC Community Outreach Studio. Topic: STUDIO 801 is community outreach studio comprised of a group of students from the Master of Architecture program and their professor, Inge Roecker, a German/Canadian architect. As designers we believe that a well-designed space contributes to a healthy community and that city-making occurs incrementally with each project. One example of this is our first project – Lu’s: A Pharmacy for Women and a new home for the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective (VWHC). Located in the heart of the Downtown Eastside, this project focuses on not only bringing a source of primary care to women for whom health care is not constant, but it also includes an innovative business model – the social enterprise. The centre consists of a pharmacy for women (run as a social enterprise to fund the VWHC), a nurse and doctor’s office, a facility for naturopathic treatment and classroom, and research spaces for education regarding women’s health. The work that has already been done has been spread out over three semesters: research, design and construction. The research semester consisted of cataloguing the pharmacies in the neighbourhood, comparing the 1997 deregulation of methadone prescriptions to the prevalence of pharmacies in the area. These pharmacies, known on the street as “legal drug-dealers”, have become increasingly inhospitable and dangerous places for residents in the area, especially for women. Given the pending 2010 Olympics, the DTES is seeing rapid gentrification. In effect, the residents of the DTES are being designed out of their community. This is not the fault of design, it is the fault of what design implies in our society. As designers, we believe that good design is not just a certain aesthetic, style or colour palette. Good design means functional space that works. Good design can serve to anchor a community project—especially important in a neighbourhood easily eroded by exterior interests. All people deserve good design. [1] http://projekt007.webmitte.de/index.php?id=26

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(2008) What Education Will Look Like in Ten Years Time: Andre Malan

- - - - - - Name: Andre Malan Talk Title: "What education will look like in ten years time." Notes: Faculty of Science, Computer Science, 3rd year. Web Developer, UBC Office of Learning Technology [1]. Topic: I would like to talk about the potential for technology to change the way that education works, specifically at the University level. This will take off where Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk leaves off with his message that school needs to change. I will briefly talk about why we need to change then expand into what is being done at the moment to produce that change, what needs to be done and what the results will (hopefully) be. I will draw on the wisdom of a wide variety of educational technologists as well as a sprinkling of ideas from past TED talks. [1] http://olt.ubc.ca/

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(2008) Redefining Boundaries – Urban Agriculture: Tiffany Tong

- - - - - - Name: Tiffany Tong Talk Title: "Redefining boundaries: urban agriculture." Notes: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Global Resource Systems, 3rd year. Student Environment Centre: “Food is Fundamental [1]” conference coordinator and active member. Topic: How often do we connect the words “urban” and “agriculture” in our brains? The word “urban” conjures up a concrete jungle where skyscrapers dominate the grey sky. The word “agriculture” makes me see rows after rows and fields after fields of green crops and livestock dotting the landscape. These words seem to be an unlikely duo to be integrated and be able to produce surprising benefits. But they do. According to the International Development Research Centre, 15% of all food eaten in cities world-wide is grown by city dwellers. Urban agriculture actually provides many who spend more than 40% of their income on food a much needed safety net. But we should keep in mind that by 2030, 60% of the world’s total population will live in cities. The costs and challenges of importing so much food into cities to feed the burgeoning population will rise exponentially. What would happen to food security, food safety, and other concerns? I will lead the audience through a brief story of the global food system and urban agriculture intertwined with my own discovery of the importance of food. Growing up as a normal urbanite, I never gave the question “how my food reaches my lunch box” any deep thought. What made me change? Finally, I will offer the inspiring stories of best practices and victories of urban agriculture around the world, based on research I am currently doing for the NGO International Centre for Sustainable Cities. Of course, we must not forget the incalculable value the UBC Farm, the only working farm in Vancouver, provides to us urbanites. One of my dreams is to see most of the lawns of Vancouver turned into productive edible gardens that reconnect people to their food, enhances food security, and makes our city more sustainable. [1] http://foodisfundamental.com/

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(2008) Making Medicines for People, Not for Profit: Mike Gretes

- - - - - - Name: Mike Gretes Talk Title: "Making medicines for people, not for profit." Notes: Faculty of Science, Biochemistry, PhD student. UBC Universities Allied for Essential Medicines [1]. Topic: All lives, no matter where they are lived, have equal value. Yet access to life-saving drugs is most often limited to those who can pay for them. Also, treatments for many tropical diseases are either unavailable or are increasingly ineffective, with toxic side effects to boot. Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (ubc-uaem.org [2]) is a student organization dedicated to fixing this broken system. We work by changing how universities set their technology licensing priorities and their research agendas. At UBC, we've persuaded administration to publicly adopt a set of Global Access Principles (www.uilo.ubc.ca/global.asp [3]) that are a first-in-Canada, courageous start to making medicines available to everyone regardless of their income. But we can do more. With the help of UBC students, we want to reach every faculty member whose research can benefit the world's poor. We want to expand UAEM to all major research universities in Canada. We must also ensure that UBC stays true to its commitments. I'll talk about strategies for getting this done, give insights into the drug development process and the bizarre world of intellectual property (fun stuff!) and highlight the contributions UAEM has made at UBC - encapsulated by the story of a new drug developed right here - oral Amphotericin B. This drug will treat the disfiguring and lethal disease leishmaniasis that affects tens of millions of people around the globe, and is free of the toxic side effects of previous formulations of the drug. Oral Amp B will be developed and made available at cost to people in low and middle income countries. UBC students will see how a great idea (universities changing access to drugs through licensing agreements) combined with dedicated student activism creates real change in the world. [1] http://ubc-uaem.org/about/ [2] http://ubc-uaem.org/ [3] http://www.uilo.ubc.ca/global.asp)

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(2008) Using Value Chains to Alleviate Poverty: Duncan McNicholl

- - - - - - Name: Duncan McNicholl Talk Title: "Using value chains to alleviate poverty." Notes: Faculty of Applied Science, Civil Engineering (Environmental Option), 4th year. Vice President, Engineers Without Borders UBC Chapter. Video: Click on image. Topic: " I spent this past summer in Malawi with Engineers Without Borders working on the cassava value chain in an effort to improve food security and rural incomes. In collaboration with a Malawian Non-Government Organization, we worked to achieve this by supporting rural entrepreneurs to produce cassava flour and stimulate the private sector. Cassava is an excellent crop for conditions in Malawi and has the potential to vastly improve food security in famine-prone regions of the country. The difficulty is that the crop has little market value and many farmers are not interested in producing it because of this. However, cassava has the potential to be processed into flour, which can be used as a substitute for wheat in baking products and also for the traditional Malawian meal, nsima. With rising wheat prices and crop failures limiting the production of maize flour, processed cassava is beginning to have promising market potential. My project worked to help establish processors that could meet this market gap. Looking at the context of the market for a particular crop and facilitating its growth using local resources has much potential as an effective poverty alleviation approach, particularly with cassava. But how feasible is making agricultural value chains work for the rural poor? Value chains are becoming increasingly popular in the development sector as sustainable and effective means of alleviating poverty. In my talk I will explore the nature and complexities of working with value chains through my own experience and the greater context of international development."

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(2008) Learning our Future: Elysa Hogg

- - - - - - Name: Elysa Hogg Talk Title: "Learning our future." Notes: Faculty of Arts, Political Science, 3rd year. UBC Model United Nations Secretary-General [1]. Topic: "I want to use the Terry Talks to speak to students about how we can become tomorrow's global leaders. Students and professors need to understand that school is not enough, we need to put ourselves in situations that will test our knowledge and our skills. This means taking the opportunity to collect experiences that will help them acquire the skills they need." [1] http://www.ubcmun.org/secretariat.htm

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(2008) An Untitled Talk: Fatou Wurie

- - - - - - Name: Fatou Wurie Talk Title: Untitled Notes: Faculty of Arts, Women and Gender Studies, Women Studies, Minor in Political Science, 4th year. Topic: "The power of representation of the self in social and political institutions is a force so great that it should never be underestimated. Wars, conflicts, art, revolutions and social legacies have stemmed from the need to be heard, seen, and represented; to be visible. Self construction is a process by which self autonomy and definition is constructed, solidified and made visible. For the longest time I was angry because I could not construct myself identity or was not visible in a dominant culture. I could not construct myself because it had either already been done or I was to adapt to a system pre-existent of my consent. As a Muslim Fulani woman living in the 21st century while attending a western institution which has yet to fully provide a platform and space for fully diverse forms of representation, I seek to challenge and help change that reality. The purpose of the talk is not to necessarily critique or bash the university, but rather to share how my personal experiences of a walking politic ( muslim, African and female) has led me to self-construct and in turn demand visibility and representation in social, academic and political institutions and settings. I have noticed how many cultural or ethnic groups form and advocate for social and academic representation and visibility at UBC. I am certain that with the terry talks, which aims at bridging and providing diverse facilities and academic backgrounds a space for dialogue, that I will be able to speak on the behalf of my own individual experiences of discrimination on the very basis on my being, my matter, my existence here in this world and how it translate into the culture of the campus. It will allow me to speak on how one can turn anger and confusion and use it as a fuel to be vocal, initiate, ask, and demand dialogue, action and change. The talk will allow those who indentify with my experiences to voice their own and those who perhaps do not agree challenge my thesis; with that a dialogue can begin in which a medium or a solution can be sought. I plan on beginning the talk with a spoken word piece, elaborate on my spoken word piece and then speaking on my personal experiences."

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(2008) How Would Darwin Vote? (WISH TALK): Geoff Costeloe

- - - - - - Name: Geoff Costeloe Talk Title: "How would Darwin vote?" Notes: Faculty of Science, Integrated Science, Double Major in Integrated Sciences and Political Science, 4th year. Science Senator, UBC Science Undergraduate Society [1] Topic: "For all my time in Biology classes, studying evolution and natural selection, rarely were the theories presented by Darwin ever used to look at things other than biological systems. Likewise, biological systems were rarely looked at as models for political theory. I’ve always had a habit of doing this in my Poli-Sci classes to help me understand information. Therefore, I'm big on the idea of trying to bring science students into politics and vice versa. We should try to engage students about the topics that are facing our world and foster the debate between Arts students and Science students." Wish: (sign up on the facebook group [2]) ‘IF’ stands for Integrated Forum. It is the means through which my wish will hopefully be achieved. It is primarily a website based initiative that tries to accomplish two main goals: 1. To be a resource that provides links to basic information about topics in science, and politics. The basics of DNA, science of global warming, how the Canadian government functions etc. 2. To be a place of communication between disciplines where students can engage one another and discuss issues from all sides of academia. I realize that the concept of the site is similar to that of the Terry webpage but there are some distinct differences between the two. The hope is that IF can be implemented into several courses around campus. This will both work as an advertisement to students about the resources available on the site. Classrooms will hopefully then move to become increasingly interdisciplinary and produce results that are better for our school and our society. The semester end conclusion of IF would be a conference inviting students who have actively participated in the site and discussions on campus. Invitations would also be sent out to UBC professors and researchers, local politicians and hopeful one ‘celebrity’ invitee. A test run in March or April of 2009 and a full event in 2010 as it will likely take some time to get the site set up and classes/faculties onboard. The hope is to increase communication between the faculties, and an interactive approach will best achieve this. [1] http://www.sus.ubc.ca/council/councillors/executives/#senator [2] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=35504512103

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YouTube Experiment 2008 – Terry talks 2009 promo video.

For those of you at this year's Terry talks [1], you'll obviously be aware of our little YouTube experiment. In any event, I present to you the fruit of that labour below. If you weren't at the conference, here is the gist: audience members were ask to participate by brainstorming, pitching, choosing, and then executing an activity amenable to recording via YouTube. This was done during the odd free 5 minutes here and there in the conference program. In total I think about 20 minutes in all was used to get the material for the video. (more...) [2] [1] http://terry.ubc.ca/terrytalks [2] http://www.terry.ubc.ca/terrytalks/2009/01/09/youtube-experiment-2008-terry-talks-2009-promo-video/#more-258

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Meet the 2008 speakers

- - - They are (in alphabetical order): Name: Geoff Costeloe Talk Title: "How would Darwin vote?" Notes: Faculty of Science, Integrated Science, Double Major in Integrated Sciences and Political Science, 4th year. Science Senator, UBC Science Undergraduate Society [1] Name: Idette de Boer Talk Title: "Community outreach design." Notes: Masters of Architecture, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 3rd year. Studio 801 [2], UBC Community Outreach Studio. Name: Elysa Hogg Talk Title: "Learning our future." Notes: Faculty of Arts, Political Science, 3rd year. UBC Model United Nations Secretary-General [3]. Name: Mike Gretes Talk Title: "Making medicines for people, not for profit." Notes: Faculty of Science, Biochemistry, PhD student. UBC Universities Allied for Essential Medicines [4]. Name: Allen Manser Talk Title: "Conscious learning for the cognitive economy." Notes: UBC Alumni (Sauder School of Business class of 2006). Name: Andre Malan Talk Title: "What education will look like in ten years time." Notes: Faculty of Science, Computer Science, 3rd year. Web Developer, UBC Office of Learning Technology [5]. Name: Duncan McNicholl Talk Title: "Using value chains to alleviate poverty." Notes: Faculty of Applied Science, Civil Engineering (Environmental Option), 4th year. Vice President, Engineers Without Borders UBC Chapter. Name: Tiffany Tong Talk Title: "Redefining boundaries: urban agriculture." Notes: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Global Resource Systems, 3rd year. Student Environment Centre: “Food is Fundamental [6]” conference coordinator and active member. Name: Fatou Wurie Talk Title: TBA Notes: Faculty of Arts, Women and Gender Studies, Women Studies, Minor in Political Science, 4th year. Music: "See you later" by Pitz (link [7]). Video mashed by David Ng using iMovie. [1] http://www.sus.ubc.ca/council/councillors/executives/#senator [2] http://projekt007.webmitte.de/index.php?id=26 [3] http://www.ubcmun.org/secretariat.htm [4] http://ubc-uaem.org/about/ [5] http://olt.ubc.ca/ [6] http://foodisfundamental.com/ [7] http://ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/17154

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2008 promotional video – also a PSA on speaking.

- - - (For more info on Terry talks, please click here [1] | Hi res version available at YouTube [2]) Imagine UBC’s most fascinating and engaging students coming together for a day, giving ‘the talk of their lives,’ sharing their ideas and discussing their visions for UBC and the world. Now imagine being there, with students, alumni, faculty, administration, and members of the general public watching this unfold and partaking in the various discussions, and think of all the possibilities that this idea-share holds. Text from: "Things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly" (Scienceblogs [3]) (The following under Creative Commons variations of Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 1.0/2.0/3.0 Generic) Music from: Arthur Yoria (song title "At Least You've Been Told") - link [4] Flickr images from: flickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/2167023439/ (queen [5]) flickr.com/photos/donnie_bling/2162202189/ (hi [6]) flickr.com/photos/mof/16610265/ (sweating [7]) flickr.com/photos/viciousbits/184247344/ (product placement [8]) flickr.com/photos/ishkamina/2259785120/ (dentures [9]) flickr.com/photos/zarajay/2239717483/ (shoes [10]) flickr.com/photos/ttstam/2211800182/ (gun [11]) flickr.com/photos/fyunkie/1450075408/ (sunglasses [12]) flickr.com/photos/mararie/188318517/ (eye contact [13]) flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/1575325110/ (squirrel1 [14]) (law_keven) flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2114226671/ (squirrel2 [15]) (law_keven) flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2112852625/ (squirrel3 [16]) (law_keven) flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2110458803/ (squirrel4 [17]) (law_keven) flickr.com/photos/zaidbalushi/872021159/ () flickr.com/photos/dharmasphere/32874943/ (laughing [18]) flickr.com/photos/katharina/92736363/ (pants falling [19]) flickr.com/photos/sparticus/130695045/ (robot [20]) flickr.com/photos/paulcheek/1021712962/ (cell phone [21]) flickr.com/photos/tatterh00d/90357017/ (graduation [22]) flickr.com/photos/ari/729841795/ (bs [23]) Mashed by David Ng using Keynote and iTunes. [1] http://terry.ubc.ca/terrytalks [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5NEB4l5gpw [3] http://scienceblogs.com/worldsfair/2008/07/a_list_of_things_to_avoid_at_a.php [4] http://magnatune.com/artists/yoria [5] http://www.flickr.com/photos/ktylerconk/2167023439/ [6] http://www.flickr.com/photos/donnie_bling/2162202189/ [7] http://www.flickr.com/photos/mof/16610265/ [8] http://www.flickr.com/photos/viciousbits/184247344/ [9] http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishkamina/2259785120/ [10] http://www.flickr.com/photos/zarajay/2239717483/ [11] http://www.flickr.com/photos/ttstam/2211800182/ [12] http://www.flickr.com/photos/fyunkie/1450075408/ [13] http://www.flickr.com/photos/mararie/188318517/ [14] http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/1575325110/ [15] http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2114226671/ [16] http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2112852625/ [17] http://www.flickr.com/photos/66164549@N00/2110458803/ [18] http://www.flickr.com/photos/dharmasphere/32874943/ [19] http://www.flickr.com/photos/katharina/92736363/ [20] http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparticus/130695045/ [21] http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulcheek/1021712962/ [22] http://www.flickr.com/photos/tatterh00d/90357017/ [23] http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/729841795/

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