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The African Paradox: Iris Amuto

Talk num­ber four from TEDx Terry talks. One of com­pel­ling moments that stuck with us, was when Iris said, “I repeat. Not all Afric­ans are hungry or poor…”

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Name: Iris Amuto
Talk Title: “The African Para­dox”
Notes: Fac­ulty of Arts, Polit­ical Sci­ence Depart­ment, Major: Polit­ical Sci­ence, Minor: Women’s and Gender Stud­ies, 4th year […]

Interdisciplinary Soup for Lunch

Terry* is all about shar­ing per­spect­ives.  On our big uni­ver­sity cam­pus, and in our increas­ingly burdened lives, how often do we get a chance to have a mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tion about things that mat­ter with someone very dif­fer­ent from your­self?  NOT OFTEN – or if you do you’re lucky.  Mostly, I talk to the same couple […]

Cool Event: UBC World AIDS Day Events Dec 1st-3rd

When I’m look­ing for inspir­a­tion to dig deep and per­severe through final exam study ses­sions, final pro­ject intens­ity and long paper writ­ing ses­sions, I take a break and attend awe­some events.  Like the UBC World AIDS Day Events. They sound like an incred­ible way to kick Decem­ber off. Hos­ted by a num­ber of stu­dent groups […]

For what it’s worth, I’m on twitter now…

… because I am keen to see if it has any util­ity in gen­eral for some of the pro­grams I run. In fact, I’m even curi­ous to see if it would be use­ful in the con­text of being used dur­ing classes – like using #ASIC200 dur­ing lec­tures for instance.

I know, I know… how can […]

It’s Not Too Late! Add Your Voice to the UBC Equity and Diversity Strategic Plan

The Equity And Diversity Stra­tegic Plan Work­ing Group says:
The Draft Equity and Diversity Stra­tegic Plan can now be viewed here. The plan, which is being developed by the Equity and Diversity Work­ing Group, has been informed by broad con­sulta­tion on both cam­puses and out­lines how the Uni­ver­sity plans to move for­ward on its goals […]

Cool Event: Miloon Kothari and the Right to Adequate Housing: Global Issues, Local Action

This sounds like an even­ing filled with much awe­some­ness. So excited to hear him speak!

The Dr. Richard B. Splane Lec­ture presents Miloon Kothari, former UN Spe­cial Rap­por­teur on Adequate Hous­ing, Com­mis­sion on Human Rights, in a pub­lic lec­ture on the right to adequate hous­ing.
When: Thursday 26 Nov 2009, 5:30 pm
Where: Liu Insti­tute, Mul­tipur­pose Room
Bio: […]

On the Perspectives of Global Nomads: Azim Wazeer

Talk num­ber three from TEDx Terry talks. Love the part about “but­ter chicken.”

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Name: Azim Waz­eer
Talk Title: “On the Per­spect­ives of Global Nomads”
Notes: 4th year, Sauder School of Busi­ness.
Topic: The last five years of Azim’s life have seen him under­take under­gradu­ate course­work in both Saudi Ara­bia and Canada, two vastly different […]

Impress me with your song choice. Leave a comment.

O.K. So I use to be one those folks who took music very ser­i­ously, and even though I’m an old fart now, I still like to hear about inter­est­ing music that’s out there.
Sug­gest some­thing in the com­ments! Maybe even let me know what that song is good for (for study­ing, being mel­low, being […]

Gender Quest: Alexander Cannon

Talk num­ber two from TEDxTt 2009. A great speech given by Alex Can­non on the role of gender in his life and ours.

Name: Alex­an­der Can­non
Talk Title: “Gender Quest”
Notes: Fac­ulty of Arts, Music, DMA in Trum­pet Per­form­ance, 4th year.
Topic: Alex dis­cusses the influ­ence of gender in his own life in this TEDx talk, describ­ing both […]

Access to medicines: and for credit too!

Sonja says:
“No doubt many of you have seen Mike Gretes’ fant­astic talk at TEDx­Terry Talks 08. If you haven’t yet, there’s a treat in store for you! Check it out:

While I don’t have an ador­able goatee like Mike does, I share his enthu­si­asm for increas­ing world­wide access to essen­tial medi­cines. I also hap­pen to […]