SJC Programming
Public lectures, seminars, forums, and concerts at St. John’s College, UBC
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The 2018/19 Hot Lunch season kicks off on September 25 with Prof. Santa Ono!
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“Being rendered visible is an 18th century African maidservant of the Georgian House, Bristol and her maternal lineage. This film transcends in the universality of marginalised, abused lives of women..” – Ros Martin
Raised in 2017 in Bristol UK to mark 250 years of the birth of Fanny Coker, enslaved on a sugar plantation in Nevis, DAUGHTERS OF IGBO WOMAN is a collaborative, digital memorial tribute comprising a trilogy of digital shorts shot in landscapes of South East Nigeria, St Kitts & Nevis & Bristol UK with writers and artists: Prof Akachi Ezeigbo & Sam Osajie (Nigeria), Vida Rawlins (St Kitts & Nevis) & Ros Martin Bristol UK.
‘We honour and restore a family’s lineage that has been broken; we give voice to three generations of African women, their lives torn apart by the inhumanity of the transatlantic slave trade.’ R. Martin
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Hot Lunch with Professor Andrew Szeri
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Hot Lunch February 2108 group selfie!
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Duncan McCue in Conversation
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The New Wave of Chinese Science Fiction
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Hot Lunch – November 2016
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Join us on Friday, October at 5pm for “Opera 101 – Storytelling through opera.” Mobile members of the UBC Opera Ensemble will be in attendance along the Director of the The Consul.
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Professor Santa Ono speaks at our opening Hot Lunch in September
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The Power of Food to Unite
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Looking forward to kicking off a new year of Hot Lunches with Professor Santa Ono!
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Zoology Professor, Dr. Sally Otto is the keynote speaker in the annual R. Grant Ingram Distinguished Speaker Program. This year’s series is entitled, “Biodiversity, Bioliteracy, and Ecojustice.”
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Join your colleague for some great food and conversations!
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Lunch networking and navigating the universe-ity for new UBC faculty!
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Q & A from Hot Lunch – Professor Arvind Gupta, President and Vice-Chancellor of British Columbia was the guest speaker at April’s Hot Lunch.
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Hot Lunch Wrap-up with Andrew Parr, Managing Director of Student Housing and Hospitality
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Professor Arvind Gupta’s Hot Lunch Address
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Hot Lunch March 2015
Dr. David Farrar, Provost and Vice President Academic was our March guest speaker.
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We celebrated the Year of the Sheep with our Lunar New Year buffet at “Hot Lunch” on February 25! Thank you to Dr. John Robinson, Associate Provost, Sustainability for updating […]
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Where Are We in the World? – Film Screening
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February 2015 – Dr. Linc Kesler
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Where Are We in the World? Enhancing UBC as a Place for Transformative International Community-Building.
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Michael White, Vice President C+CP October 2014 “Hot Lunch’ Speaker
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Exciting lunch initiatives at SJC
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Jazz at SJC – join us this Saturday, October 25 for the inaugural concert!. This is a free event and open to everyone.
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September’s “Hot Lunch” featured Dr. John Hepburn
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The State of Post-Apartheid South Africa: An Informal Discussion
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The last “Hot Lunch” until September was pretty much a full house! Louise Cowin, Vice President, Students, was our guest speaker and talked about her portfolio, the challenges faced at […]
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April’s Hot Lunch featured speaker was Pascal Spothelfer, Vice President, Communications and Community Partnership.
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Thank you to Pierre Ouillet, Vice-President Finance, Resources and Operations, for being our speaker for the March session
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At the second session our speaker was Alden Habacon, Director, Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, who talked about IU strategy with a focus on staff resilience and what that means for an institution like ours. Lunch was St. John`s Dining Society`s Greek buffet!
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The inaugural “Hot Lunch” initiative was held at at St. John’s College January 29. Lisa Castle, Vice President, Human Resources, spoke on how the initiative came about. Thank you to the sponsorship support of the Office of the VP Human Resources the first luncheon was free and we will be able to offer the next four sessions at the subsidized cost of only $10
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The third annual WinterConnections dinner for international graduate students in their first year at UBC was held at St. John’s College on January 17. WinterConnections is co-sponsored by Graduate and Postdoctoral […]
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Justice Dialogues screens and discusses the documentary “Thus Departed Our Neighbors” with the filmmaker.
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Elder-in-Residence at the First Nations House of Learning and St. John’s College Faculty Fellow, Elder Larry Grant, was the featured speaker in the College’s Ingram Visiting Lecturer Series on October 25, 2013.
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Presentation on the Pyongyang Project in North Korea
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UCLA Environment Justice Initiative presents: “The Poaching of our Wildest Dreams: Indigenous Peoples, Predation and the Law”. View live online streaming and discussion at SJC.
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Gung Hay Fat Choy! Lion Dance at St. John’s College at the Lunar New Year Formal Dinner.
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Teaching machines how to learn and how to think.
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“Measuring the Best? A conversation about Merit and the University” March 25 at 5pm, St. John’s College.
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Chocolate and material Science…is there even a connection?
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SJC Festival of Trees Winner…”The Giving Tree”! Happy Holidays
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