No images? Click here NEWSLETTER | October 2020 ANNOUNCEMENTS2020-21 PWIAS Academic Advisory Board Appointed Our renewed and reconstituted Academic Advisory Board will provide advice on Institute matters, including its academic governance and mandate. RECENT PWIAS PODCASTS
RECENT WALL SCHOLAR VIDEOSSatish Gopalakrishnan Asks How Do We Evaluate Risk? Wall Scholar Sathish Gopalakrishnan (UBC Electrical & Computer Engineering) has been exploring how individuals and societies understand risk in cyber-physical systems. Sima Godfrey on War and Collective Forgetting Wall Scholar Sima Godfrey (UBC French, Hispanic and Italian Studies) discusses her research on why the Crimean War doesn't figure in French cultural memory, and what role disease might play in collective forgetting. OTHER NEWSMoura Quayle Appointed Chair of Peter Wall Endowment Board of Trustees Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President, Academic Affairs at UBC, Moura Quayle is now Chair of the Peter Wall Endowment Board of Trustees. The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at UBC provides opportunities for world-class scholars to explore innovative research questions in a vibrant, collegial environment spanning all disciplines. Our programs draw together scholars from UBC and around the world to engage in deep and unconstrained research into some of the most profound questions and challenges facing humanity. |