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Making Space: Banning Cantonese BBQ Meats

Making Space: Banning Cantonese BBQ Meats

DATE: November 19, 2022 TIME: 12:00pm – 2:30pm LOCATION: Museum of Vancouver Vancouver has a reputation for having some of the best Cantonese food in North America, something many locals have come to be proud of. But did you know that in the mid-1970s, local authorities shut down many of the Cantonese BBQ meat shops […]

Games in Action: interactivity / activation \ activism

Games in Action: interactivity / activation \ activism

DATE: November 4-5, 2022 LOCATION: Chan Centre and Online via Zoom The Chan Centre is thrilled to launch a new conference, Games in Action: interactivity / activation \ activism, November 4 – 5. This two-day event will feature game designers, artists, musicians, scholars, and writers, to explore how games act upon us and through us, […]

Close-up of a newspaper front page representing the op-ed as one of the forms of policy communication covered in the advertised public scholarship workshop taking place November 1, 12:30PM Pacific Time at Buchanan Tower 323, UBC Vancouver and online via Zoom, with photos of facilitators Dr. Heidi Tworek and Kshitij (KJ) Sharan.

Policy Communication Workshop

DATE: November 1, 2022 TIME: 12:30pm – 2:00pm LOCATION: Buchanan Tower 323 and Online via Zoom Do you ask yourself any of the following questions as a member of the academic community? 1) How will my research create impact in the real world?2) My research is so technical. How will I communicate to people in […]