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Lobby Gallery Exhibit & Opening Night: Things With Wings
July 27, 2012 starting
at 6:00 PM until
September 21, 2012 5:00 PM
Charmaine Lurch brings wild bees into the popular imagination through her larger than life wire sculptures, evoking the relative invisibility of wild bees and highlighting the tremendous role they play in sustaining our ecosystem.
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PeaceTalks: Youth Peacebuilding in Kenya and Rwanda
September 5, 2012 starting
at 6:00 PM until
September 5, 2012 7:30 PM
Presented by Laura Lee (Liu Scholar), as part of a PeaceGeeks project to help raise awareness on topics related to peace at personal, local and international levels.
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Film Screening: Ticket to Paradise (Cuba/Spain/Venezuela, 2011)
September 6, 2012 starting
at 4:00 PM until
September 6, 2012 7:00 PM
Followed by discussion with filmmaker Gerardo Chijona, moderated by Alejandra Bronfman (History, UBC).
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Cuba's Special Period: Frikies, Film, and the AIDS Crisis
September 7, 2012 starting
at 2:00 PM until
September 7, 2012 4:00 PM
Roundtable Discussion with Gerardo Chijona (filmmaker from Cuba), Antonio Eligio Fernández, TONEL (Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, UBC), Jerry Spiegel (School of Population and Public Health, UBC), and Oralia Gómez-Ramírez (Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America, UBC).
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Democratic transition in Egypt
September 10, 2012 starting
at 2:00 PM until
September 10, 2012 3:30 PM
A public lecture by His Excellency, Wael Aboulmagd, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to Canada.
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Food Security in Asia and the Pacific Symposium
September 17, 2012 starting
at 8:45 AM until
September 18, 2012 5:00 PM
Hosted in partnership with the Asian Development Bank and Canadian International Development Agency.
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A New Paradigm for Health in the 21st Century Latin America: Challenges and Barriers
September 19, 2012 starting
at 4:00 PM until
September 19, 2012 5:30 PM
A public lecture presented by Dr. Jaime Breilh, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies International Visiting Research Scholar.
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I don't cross borders - the borders come to me and I dance with them
September 20, 2012 starting
at 5:00 PM until
September 20, 2012 7:00 PM
A poet, playwright and refugee reflecting on the borders of transition and justice
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Macroeconomic Sustainability of the Pattern of Use of Energy Resources in India and Role of the Renewables
September 26, 2012 starting
at 12:30 PM until
September 26, 2012 2:00 PM
Presented by Ramprasad Sengupta, Distinguished Fellow, India Development Foundation, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, and Visiting Research Fellow, Liu Institute for Global Issues. Professor Sengupta's research interests lie primarily in energy, resource, and environmental economics.
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Film Screening: Pray the Devil Back to Hell
September 27, 2012 starting
at 11:30 AM until
September 27, 2012 2:00 PM
A Film by Abigail E. Disney and Gini Reticker, with vocals by Angelique Kidjo.
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Against All Odds: Gender and Education in the Developing World
September 28, 2012 starting
at 6:30 PM until
September 28, 2012 8:00 PM
Part of Aga Khan Foundation Canada's 2012 University Seminar Series—an opportunity for students to interact with development practitioners from the South and to learn more about key issues and challenges in the field of international development.
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