Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

Wall Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Dr. Kenneth Sharpe, William R. Kenan Professor of Political Science, Swarthmore College, and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 noon

PWIAS Scholars Café

Hosted by Dr. Karen Bakker, UBC Geography

Time:3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Peter Wall Institute

PWIAS Scholars Cafe

Hosted by Dr. Patrician Vertinsky, UBC Kinesiology

Time:3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: Peter Wall Institute

Wall Theme Development Workshop

Principal Investigator, Michael Doebeli, UBC Zoology and Mathematics

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm

PWIAS Strategic Planning Panel Discussion

Time: 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms

Wall Early Career Scholars Meeting

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Distinguished Scholars in Residence Alumni Dinner

Location: Peter Wall Institute
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Wall Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Dr. Patricia Churchland, Professor Emerita, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor. 

Location: The Vancouver Institute
Time: 8:15 pm

Wall Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Dr. Patricia Churchland, Professor Emerita, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor.     
          
Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 10:00 am – 12 noon

PWIAS Associate Dinner Talk

Performance by Professor Rena Sharon, UBC School of Music and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence.

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel (1088 Burrard Street)
Time: 6:00 pm

Free Hotel Valet Parking available.        

Wall Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Dr. Patricia Churchland, Professor Emerita, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor.

Location: Cecil Green Park Coach House
Time: 5:00 pm

Followed by a fireside chat at Green College, 8:00 pm.

Peter Wall Institute Management Committee Meeting

Time: 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Location: Peter Wall Institute Boardroom

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Nicole Fortin, UBC Economics

Location: PWIAS lounge
Time: 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop Public Talk

Talk by Dr. Joe Henrich, Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition and Co-evolution, Department of Psychology, Department of Economics, University of British Columbia

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Grand Ballroom A, North Tower, 1088 Burrard Street
Time: 9:00 am to 10:00 am

(Please register at jrforbes@shaw.ca)

Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop Public Talk

Talk by Dr. George Klosko, Henry and Grace Doherty Professor of Politics, Political Philosophy, Policy and Law, University of Virginia.

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Grand Ballroom A, North Tower, 1088 Burrard Street
Time: 12:30 pm to 1:15 pm

(Please register at jrforbes@shaw.ca)

Peter Wall Theme Development Workshop

Principal Investigator: Dr. Luciana Duranti, UBC School of Library, Archival and Information Studies

Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms

Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop

This Workshop is part of a an interdisciplinary, multi-stage initiative at the Peter Wall Institute led by Dr. Janis Sarra that explores the basic values of fairness.

Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop Public Talk

Talk by Dr. Elizabeth Tricomi, Rutgers University, Psychology Departmnt

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Grand Ballroom D North Tower, 1088 Burrard Street

Time: 4:45 pm to 5:30 pm

(please RSVP jrforbes@shaw.ca)

Wall Exploratory Workshop Evening Event

Talk by Margie Gillis, 2011 laureate of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, solo dancer and choreographer; and Dr. Alfredo Santa Ana, Peter Wall Composer in Residence PWIAS, will premiere his Composition on Fairness, with musicians Karen Gerbrecht (violin), Olivia Blander (cello) and Mark McGregor (flute).

Location: Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel, Grand Ballroom A, North Tower, 1088 Burrard Street
Time: 5:45 pm to 8:00 pm

6:30 pm dinner ($25). The cost of dinner will be collected at the door, but you must register in advance of your attendance with Joanne Forbes at jrforbes@shaw.ca.

Wall Early Career Scholars Meeting

Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Wall Associates Drop-in Strategic Planning Session

Peter Wall Institute Lounge
8:00 am - 9:00 am

(RSVP reservations@pwias.ubc.ca)

Wall Associates Drop-in Strategic Planning Session

Peter Wall Institute Lounge
9:00 am - 10:00 am

(RSVP reservations@pwias.ubc.ca)

Wall Associates Drop-in Strategic Planning Session

Peter Wall Institute Lounge
12:30-1:30 pm

(light lunch, RSVP by January 6th, reservations@pwias.ubc.ca)

Wall Associates Drop-in Strategic Planning Session

Peter Wall Institute Lounge
8:00 am - 9:00 am

(RSVP reservations@pwias.ubc.ca)

Wall Early Careers Scholars Strategic Planning Lunch

Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Wall Associates Drop-in Strategic Planning Session

Peter Wall Institute Lounge
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

(RSVP reservations@pwias.ubc.ca)

Wall Associates Open House

Peter Wall Institute Lounge
9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Farewell Reception

Location: Sage Bistro at University Centre, UBC

Time: 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm

Holiday Party

Location: Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms

Time: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Early Career Scholars Meeting

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Conference co-sponsored with the UBC Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

Organised by Maxwell Cameron, UBC Political Science and Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Free and open to the public.

Register at: www.democracy.arts.ubc.ca

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by David Olson, Prof. Emeritus, OISE and University of Toronto, and author of 'The World on Paper'

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms

Time: 10:00 am

Faculty Associates' Dinner Talk

Talk by Professor Timothy Stainton, UBC School of Social Work

Wall Colloquium Abroad

Principal Investigator, Andrew Macnab, Pediatrics and Urologic Sciences, UBC. The Institute will hold the colloquium abroad at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Wall Theme Development Workshop

Organized by Dr. Pieter Cullis, Director, NanoMedicines Research Group and Professor, UBC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Wall Colloquium Abroad

Principal Investigator: Richard Unger, Professor Emeritus of History, UBC and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence

This colloquium is co-organized and co-funded, with funds from the Wall Colloquia Abroad program, with our partner institute, the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) and will be held at TUM-IAS, in Munich, Germany.

Faculty Associate Dinner Talk

Talk by Dr. Guy Dumont, Electrical & Computer Engineering and 2011 Wall Distinguished  Professor

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Jane Jaquette, Bertha Harton Orr Prof. of Liberal Arts, Occidental College and Adj. Research Prof. at Brown University

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms

Time: 10:00 am

Early Career Scholars Meeting

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Special Gala Reception

On the occasion of the appointment of Dr. Derek Gregory as a Peter Wall Distinguished Professor

Early Career Scholars Research Retreat

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Sylvia Berrymann, UBC Philosophy

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 2:00 pm

Faculty Associate Dinner Talk

Talk by Dr. Richard Unger, Professor of History, and 2011 Wall Distinguished Professor

The Wall Exchange

Talk by Derek Gregory, renowned political geographer, on “The Everywhere War,” the wars in the shadows of 9/11 that have much to tell us about the future of violence, security, and everyday life.

The Vogue Theatre (918 Granville Street)
7:30 pm

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Research Retreat

Bowen Island

PWIAS Special Workshop Event

Co-organised by Dr. Alain Berthoz, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and 2011 Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor and and Dr. Ted Slingerland, Professor of Asian Studies, UBC, and 2008-09 Wall Early Career Scholar

Early Career Scholars Open House Transition Reception

5:00pm-6:30pm
PWIAS Lounge

School of Kinesiology Speaker Series co-sponsored with PWIAS

Talk by Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and 2011 Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor

Location: Michael Smith Laboratories, 2185 East Mall, rm 101

Time: 12:30pm

Wall Public Colloquium

Talk by Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and 2011 Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor

Professor Berthoz's visit to the Peter Wall Institute is co-sponsored by the UBC Brain Research Centre.

Time: 5:30 pm

Location:
Liu Institute for Global Issues
6476 NW Marine Drive

Wall Faculty Associate Dinner and Reception

(to follow the Berthoz talk at the Liu Institute at 5:30pm)

Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Peter Wall Institute Conference Rooms

Brain Research Colloquium co-sponsored with PWIAS

Talk by Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and 2011 Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor

Location: UBC Brain Research Centre Conference Room

Time: 11:00am

Special TGIF Seminar co-sponsored with PWIAS

Talk by Alain Berthoz, Collège de France, Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and 2011 Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor

Location: Child and Family Research Institute Rm 2108
Time: 4:00pm

Wall Colloquium Abroad

Principal Investigator: Moshe Shapiro, Professor of Chemistry, UBC

This colloquium is co-organized and co-funded, with funds from the Wall Colloquia Abroad program, with our partner institute, the Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Study (TUM-IAS) and will be held at TUM-IAS, Germany, September 6-9, 2011.  Registration is required.