For over a century, there has been a rather extraordinary and singular open harangue eventuality function each Saturday dusk during a University of British Columbia (UBC).
From a common beginnings in 1916, a Vancouver Institute (VI) has been holding giveaway open lectures presented by locally, nationally and internationally recognized, renowned scholars and important attention professionals comparison from UBC and beyond.
Spanning several decades now, a VI lectures’ collection (made permitted by a UBC Library in partnership with a VI) is usually flourishing in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository. This one-of-a-kind churned collection of audio and video materials is a excellent covenant to a historical, scientific, technical and educational knowledge, imagination and believe amassed by a VI speakers over a years.
The VI lectures’ collection is plentiful with a far-reaching operation of scientific, archaeological and other intriguing discoveries to philosophical musings and chronological biographies to politics, policies and opinions to modernized technologies in education, medicine, and usually about all else in between.
This value trove of believe consists of novel, artistic and innovative ideas and notions to a hard-knock propagandize of lessons schooled by good (and, during times, not so good), out-of-date hearing and error. Since then, a array of topics presented by past and stream VI speakers were, and still are to this day, all-engaging, funny, illuminating, vehement and as moving as ever.
A turn of acclaim is due to Green College during UBC for a executive government of a VI lectures over a years and eliminated seamlessly over to a new Global Reporting Centre on Jan 1, 2018.
Another turn of acclaim goes to University Archives for digitizing a immeasurable infancy of a VI lectures, a particular materials are stability to be digitized and done plainly permitted in a VI lectures’ collection in cIRcle around UBC Library’s Open Collections portal.
While watchful for upcoming VI lectures, subsequent are some past and benefaction VI lectures to watch now online anytime and anywhere:
The subsequent 50 years in engineering http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36288
Gold or trash — The regretful past and destiny intensity of B.C.’s vegetable resources http://hdl.handle.net/2429/19745
The golden age of astronomy http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15122
Ecological pot in British Columbia http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30981
An dusk with Mary Hemingway http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20033
Life underneath a sun: The past and destiny of solar appetite http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20760
Artists in Gothic workshops http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20769
Observations and photographs http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20044
Virginia Woolf: a personal mural http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34467
Einstein — a male and his work http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35297
The coinage of Athens and a ancient universe http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35868
The mystique of a investigator story http://hdl.handle.net/2429/20819
Byzantine archaeology: a city suggested http://hdl.handle.net/2429/34338
Leonard Cohen: “The usually traveller in Havana” http://hdl.handle.net/2429/13026
Dogs and people: The story and psychology of a attribute http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32808
Dealing with SARS http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32104
Journey of a Blue Whale http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61793
Digital Dumping Ground : The Global Trade in Electronic Waste http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61570
The Human-Animal Bond : Our History With Dogs http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61571
Desert Dust and a World’s Environments http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61150
Hammering a Klavier : Beethoven’s Earthshaking and Bone-crushing Masterpiece http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62270
Media Ethics on a Digital Frontier http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61152
Bug Shells and Butterfly Wings : New Materials Inspired by Nature http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62080
Stroke : New Evidence on Prevention and Recovery http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62337
Cheap : The High Cost of Discount Culture http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62344
Let Them Eat Dirt : Raising Children With Their Microbes http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62338
Bee Time : What Can We Learn from a Demise of Bees? http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62335
