Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies

PWIAS Scholars Cafe

Hosted by Dr. Dinesh Pai, UBC Computer Science

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

PWIAS Scholars Café

Hosted by Dr. Michelle LeBaron, UBC Faculty of Law

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

Wall Exploratory Workshop Public Talk

Location: Liu Institute for Global Issues (6476 NW Marine Dr, UBC)
Time: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

This special panel brings together Indigenous elders, scholars, and practitioners to consider how Indigenous peoples in Canada use their own culturally specific ceremonies, protocols, storytelling, and art to address the violent history and legacy of Canada's Indian residential school system. Living through violence in this context involves reclaiming and revitalizing memory practices and performances of social repair that are rooted in Indigenous knowledge and governance systems, law ways, and oral traditions.

Panelists:
Dr. Andrea Walsh (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Anthropology).
Sulsa'meeth (Cultural Protocol Liaison, First Peoples House)
Tousilum (Elder in Residence, First Peoples House)
Qwul'sih'yah'maht, Dr. Robina Thomas (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, School of Social Work).
Gregory Younging (Assistant Professor at UBC, Indigenous Studies, and Assistant Director of Research for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada). 

Opening by: Rose Point (Musqeum elder).

Moderated by: Brenda Ireland (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Research Manager).
Comments by: Elizabeth Jelin (Senior Researcher, National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, CONICET - IDES, Argentina) and Jeff Corntassel (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, Indigenous Governance)

Peter Wall Exploratory Workshop

Organised by principal investigator Dr. Pilar Riaño-Alcalá, Professor, UBC School of Social Work and the Liu Institute for Global Issues.

The workshop is designed to bring together leading UBC and international experts to examine the ways victims and survivors of gross atrocities renew their lives and relations to each other in the context of the everyday.

PWIAS Scholars Cafe

Hosted by Dr. Margaret Schabas, UBC Philosophy

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

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Susanna Braund, UBC Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies

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

Wall Associates Dinner Talk

Talk by Professor Maxwell Cameron, UBC Political Science and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Wall Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Dr. Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action, Swarthmore College and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor.

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

This talk is part of a Series on Practical Wisdom organized by Maxwell Cameron, UBC Political Science and 2011 Wall Distinguished Professor.

Wall Institute Fireside Chat

A fireside chat with Professor Brett Finlay, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology & Immunology, and the Biotechnology Laboratory, and Wall Distinguished Professor.

Location: Peter Wall Institute
Time: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

Attendance is free, please RSVP to: initiatives@pwias.ubc.ca

The number of microbes in and on us outnumber our human cells by a factor of 10, and one gram of feces contains more bacteria than all humans in the world.  Despite this, we have only recently begun to explore the human microbiome and its effects on us.  There is strong preliminary evidence that the normal flora impacts on obesity, metabolism, inflammatory bowel diseases, asthma, immune development, brain development, diabetes, infectious diseases, and many more aspects of human health and disease.  We now have the genomic tools to begin to dissect who these microbes are and what they encode.  We are also now starting to probe the microbial components that interface with our cells to modulate these many effects.  Our research has focused on the role of the microbiota in infectious diseases, and more recently asthma, with many surprising results.  Many consider this area one of the fastest moving areas in biology, with profound implications in both human health and disease.

Part of UBC Celebrate Research Week 2012.

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Holger Hoos, UBC Computer Science

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

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Public Talk

Professor Rena Sharon, UBC School of Music and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence is joined by Professor of Violin and Chamber Music, David Gillham, Political Science Professor Maxwell Cameron, Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence, and Professor of Law Michelle LeBaron, Director of the Dispute Resolution Program and CRANE project, for this thought-provoking 90 minutes of ideas and music.

Location: Vancouver School of Theology Chapel
Time: 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm

Attendance is free, please RSVP to: initiatives@pwias.ubc.ca

When musicians perform a string quartet, it may appear that they are reading a pre-set dialogue in the mysterious language of pitched sound. In fact, however, notation of Western classical music is consummately imprecise. Performance involves an intense negotiation through which conflictual beliefs somehow reconcile into beautiful co-created soundscapes. Thousands of collective decisions are achieved through democratic process and real-time non-verbal debate. How they accomplish the task may have ramifications across many fields of collaboration.

Part of UBC Celebrate Research Week 2012.

PWIAS Scholars Cafe

hosted by Dr. Lawrence Ward, UBC Psychology

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

Wall Institute Fireside Chat

A fireside chat with Professor Emma Cunliffe, UBC Faculty of Law and 2010-2011 Wall Early Career Scholar.

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

Attendance is free, please RSVP to: initiatives@pwias.ubc.ca

Murder, Medicine and Motherhood provides a glimpse of the process by which criminal law works with other institutions to define and punish resistance to hegemonic social roles.  In the past 20 years, more than a dozen mothers in England, Canada and Australia were wrongly convicted of murdering children.  These wrongful convictions are commonly blamed on the individual failings of pathologists, and little attention is paid within the literature to why some pathologists reached incorrect conclusions, why courts were misled by experts, or to the manner in which these cases drew on and elaborated tropes about good and murderous mothering.  Murder, Medicine and Motherhood traces relationships between medical research, trial processes and media coverage of trials, identifying that these three institutions are mutually dependent and highly prone to stereotyped reasoning.  Dr Cunliffe finds that legal processes and media reporting systematically promoted experts who were controversial within their own field, ignoring exculpatory explanations while rendering contingent prosecution reasoning into incontestable common-sense by drawing on ideologies about good mothering.

Part of UBC Celebrate Research Week 2012.

Wall Public Talk co-sponsored with Green College

Talk by Dr. Frans de Waal, C.D. Candler Professor of Psychology & Director of the Living Links Centre at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.

Location: UBC Frederic Wood Theatre
Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

This talk is part of a Series on Practical Wisdom organized by Maxwell Cameron, UBC Political Science and 2011 Wall Distinguished Professor.

Wall Early Career Scholars Meeting

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm

PWIAS Scholars Cafe

hosted by Dr. Amy Hanser, UBC Sociology, and Dr. Carla Nappi, UBC History

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

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Guy Dumont, UBC Electrical and Computer Engineering

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

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Christopher Mole, UBC Philosophy

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

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Richard Kurth, UBC School of Music

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

PWIAS Associates Talk and Reception

Cynthia Cohen Film Presentation. Director Allison Lund. Producer Cynthia Cohen.

Commentators: Dr. Michelle LeBaron, UBC Faculty of Law; Professor Rena Sharon, UBC School of Music; and Professor Maureen Maloney, Public Policy, Simon Fraser University

Location: PWIAS Conference Rooms
Time: 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm

The educational documentary Acting Together on the World Stage highlights courageous and creative artists and peacebuilders working in conflict zones. It features theatrical works and rituals that reach beneath people's defenses respectful ways that support communities to configure new patterns of meaning and relationships. The documentary grows out of a five-year initiative of Theatre Without Borders, Brandeis University and filmmaker Allison Lund. Dynamic footage of performances, rituals, and candid interviews with artists and peacebuilders place case studies in their socio-political and cultural contexts. The documentary is designed for students, practitioners, educators, and policymakers in fields related to performance and to peace and conflict studies, and for others who believe—or who want to be convinced—that human communities have the creative capacities to transform conflict non-violently.

Dr. Cynthia Cohen is director of the program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at Brandeis University's International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life. She is an internationally recognized educator, peacebuilding practitioner and researcher who focuses on the contributions of the arts to conflict transformation.

PWIAS Scholars Cafe

hosted by Dr. Larry Lynd, UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Dr. Marit Rehavi, UBC Economics

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

PWIAS Scholars Café

hosted by Dr. Max Cameron, UBC Political Science, and Dr. Ken Sharpe, Political Science Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania

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

Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Research Retreat

Wall Early Career Scholars' Half day meeting

Location: PWIAS Lounge
Time: 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Wall Early Career Scholars' Retreat

Location: PWIAS Lounge
Time 9:00 am to 2:30 pm