Event Category Archives: Featured Graduate

Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture: Roland Paris

Roland Paris brings his experience in international security, peacebuilding, and foreign policy to answer the question: how should Canada respond to its place on the international stage in a nastier world at this year’s Mark Zacher Distinguished Visitor Lecture.

CSIS: Protecting National Security in Partnership with All Canadians

UBC Political Science Professor Kai Ostwald moderates a talk with David Vigneault, Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, for a discussion on the imperatives of diversity and partnerships in protecting national security, and the organization’s ongoing transformation.

UBC PSGSA Graduate Conference 2022

The PSGSA will host their Graduate Conference on Friday, May 6, 2022, in Room 130 – xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of Many Trees) at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, 6476 NW Marine Dr (UBC Campus). The keynote address will be delivered by UBC Political Science Professor Genevieve Bates. 

Prof. Lisa Sundstrom moderates panel discussion on civil society activism in Ukraine

Join us for a panel discussion moderated by Prof. Lisa Sundstrom, with three well-known civil society activists from countries surrounding Ukraine who will discuss how the Russian invasion has affected their own countries and the work of civil society groups in them.

Prof. Maxwell Cameron: Ethics in Environment & Democracy

Join Dr. Maxwell Cameron and other UBC speakers in this discussion on current ethics-related endeavours taking place at UBC, pressing ethical issues that exist across a wide range of disciplines, from animal welfare and ecophysiology, to democracy and ecofeminism, and the ways in which you can become more involved.