Prof Talk on UBC's CiTR 101.9FM: Radio that gets professors talking.

New Prof Talk Website to be launched August 2011: proftalk.ubc.ca

2011-03-31T10:31:00.000-07:00

March & April Shows

2011-02-23T11:44:00.000-08:00

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April 19

Dr. Gerry Marquette, Clinical Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology from the Faculty of Medicine will provide an overview of the clinical field perinatology and maternal-fetal health medicine.

April 5

Dr. Daniel Vickers, Department Head and Professor from the Department of History will discuss the subject of history as a field of study as well as his research on Early America, social history of seafaring, work and economic culture.

March 29

Dr. Jeffrey Byrne, Assistant Professor from the Department of History will discuss his research on revolutionary Algeria in the 1960s in the context of some of the North African uprisings today.

March 15

Dr. Mauricio Drelichman, Assistant Professor from the Department of Economics will discuss economic history as a field of study as well as his research on the economic history of Early Modern Spain.

March 1

Dr. Pascal Lavoie, Clinical Assistant Professor from the Division of Neonatology will discuss some of his recent research on protecting premature babies who become sick from infections or other diseases after birth as well as provide an overview of the clinical field of Neonatology.

January & February 2011 Shows

2011-01-07T06:44:00.000-08:00

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February 15

Dr. Carlos Ventura, from the department of Civil Engineering will discuss his role as the Director of the Earthquake Engineering Research facility at UBC as well as some of the recent seismic trends in structural engineering.

February 1

Dean of Arts and Haitian scholar, Gage Averill will discuss his new role at UBC as well as his recent Grammy nomination for his project, Alan Lomax in Haiti: Recordings for the Library of Congress, 1936-1937.

January 25

Dr. Perry Adebar from the Department of Civil Engineering will discuss structural engineering as a field of study as well as his current research on Concrete Structures and Seismic Design.

January 11

Dr. Denise Gomes, Brazilian archaeologist from the University of the State of São Paulo, will discuss her current research project on the Art and Cosmologies of Amazonian pre-colonial Indians and that of the Northwest Coast of Canada. Gomes was a visiting scholar at UBC in November of 2010.

November 2010 Shows

2010-10-27T11:53:00.000-07:00

November 30

Dr. Brandon Konoval from the School of Music will discuss his current research and and cross appointment in both the School of Music and the Arts One Programme.

October 2010 Shows

2010-10-14T09:58:00.000-07:00

October 19th

Dr. Marilyn Chapman will discuss her role as the lead researcher and author of the new guide for full-day kindergarten in the province, as well as her role in directing the Institute for Early Childhood Education and Research in UBC’s Faculty of Education.

October 5th

Dr. Neil Safier from the Department of History discusses his new class on the history of Amazonia as well as his recent trip to Manaus, Brazil.

September 2010 Shows

2010-09-12T22:27:00.000-07:00

September 21st

Dr. Ken Bryant from the UBC Department of Asian Studies will discuss his upcoming class on Bollywood film as well as the histories of the languages of Urdu and Hindi in literature and popular culture.

September 7th

Professor Gu Xiong, UBC Department of Art History and Visual Art discusses his exhibit "Becoming Rivers" at the Museum of Anthropology;how his work focuses on the dynamics of globalization and on identity shifts for individuals and local cultures, addressing how integration and assimilation, histories both collective and personal, and cultural synthesis cut across boundaries.

May 2009 Shows

2009-04-23T21:56:00.001-07:00

May 11th

Dr. Janet Werker, Director of the Infant Studies Centre Speech and Language Processing, UBC Department of Psychology. Dr. Werker discusses her research of infants growing up bilingual and language acquisition in infancy; speech perception, cognitive development and parent-infant communication.

May 4th

Dean Emeritus Marty Hollenberg, former UBC Dean of Medicine discusses some of the accomplishments made by the faculty of Medicine while he was Dean during the years 1990-1996; as well as what he is currently doing outside of academia since his retirement.

April 2009 Shows

2009-03-29T17:55:00.000-07:00

April 27th

Professor Alfred Hermida from the UBC School of Journalism discusses how journalism and forms of media are changing (he is an authority on digital journalism, having been a founding member of BBCnews.com) as well the rise of social media and the role of citizen journalism.

April 20th - Guest Host Andy Torr

Professor Scott Hinch from the UBC Faculty of Forestry discusses his research on salmon migration as well as his role as Director of the UBC undergraduate program in Natural ResourcesConservation; the largest and fastest growing applied environmental science programs on campus and one of a kind in Canada.

April 13th - Easter Monday

April 6th

Professor Emeritus and renowned pianist Robert Silverman, from the UBC School of Music discusses his beginnings; what ultimately motivated him to become a pianist and teach piano at UBC and how he continues to strive to "bring notes on a page to life as vividly as possible".

March 2009 Shows

2009-02-28T18:11:00.000-08:00

March 30th

Dr. Carl Wieman, Nobel laureate, discusses his beginnings and the research that led him to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. He also discusses the goals of the Carl Weiman Science Education Initiative at UBC to achieve highly effective, evidence based science education for all post-secondary students by applying the latest advances in pedagogical and organization excellence.

March 23rd

Dr. Michael Hayden, UBC Department of Medical Genetics and Canada's Health Researcher of the Year, 2008. Dr Hayden discusses his goals to understand how changes in specific genes result in specific diseases, usually in adult life, in particular Huntington disease. He also discusses his Ripples of Hope Foundation that will bring trainees from Africa to Canada to study in four areas of global health.

March 16th

Professor Tara Lee, Department of English discusses her research interest in minority Canadian Literature, specifically Asian Canadian literature and her motivation for and philosophy in teaching it. She also answers the question, what can you do with an English degree besides teach?

March 9th

Dean of Applied Science, Dr. Aboulnasr discusses her recent appointment to the faculty as well as her research in Electrical Engineering in the field of digital signal processing and her role as the principal investigator on an interdisciplinary inter-university project on smart hearing aids with Siemens, Germany.

March 2nd

Cathleen With, MFA graduate from UBC Creative Writing Department discusses the debut of her first novel, Having Faith in the Polar Girls' Prison.

February 2009 Shows

2009-01-29T21:02:00.000-08:00

February 3

Professor Benjamin Perrin, from the UBC Faculty of Law; a speech that he delivered to the BC Human Rights Coalition and the United Nations Association in

Canada

on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights last December 10th, 2008.

February 10

Prof Talk features a panel lecture from last October; experts from the UBC Departments of Economics and Political Science form a panel to discuss factors leading up to the current global financial crisis. The panel was called "Balance and Blowup" - an analysis of the current financial crisis. Panelists Dr. Paul Beaudry and Dr. Michael Devereux from the Department of Economics.

February 17

Part two of "Balance and Blowup" - an analysis of the current financial crisis. Panelists Dr. Angela Redish from the Department of Economics and Dr. Yves Tiberghien from the Department of Political Science.

February 24

Doctoral student Sonja Klinsky from the UBC Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability talks about her thesis titled: Across Years, Lands and Oceans: Justice and Scale in Climate Change Policy Decision Making.

January 2009 Shows

2009-01-07T18:04:00.000-08:00

January 6

Professor Keith Maillard, UBC Creative Writing Department

Keith Maillard discusses his current work. He is an internationally acclaimed writer and novelist, specialising in fiction and poetry; and he also Chairs one of North America's most successful Creative Writing programs.

January 13

Dr. Hadi Dowlatabadi, The Institute for Resources, Environment

and Sustainability, UBC

Professor Dowlatadabadi discusses "Why we have been failing to take on more efficient and environmentally friendly technologies; and why adaptation to climate change will be so much more difficult than academics have been postulating"

January 20

Dr. Ira Nadel, The UBC department of English

Ira Nadel discusses his most recent projects and new work: a biography of the American playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, pub. Feb. 2008 and a book co-authored on the Golden Gate Bridge entitled Golden Gate Bridge, History and Design of an Icon, also pub. in 2008. New work: a biography of the American popular writer and author of Exodus, Leon Uris.

January 27

Professor Benjamin Perrin, UBC Faculty of Law

Benjamin Perrin discusses his current research on Human Trafficking in Canada which is the first comprehensive account of Canada's involvement in human trafficking for sexual exploitation as well as his involvement at the Third World Congress Against Sexual Exploitation of Children held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Nov 25-28

November/ December 2008 Shows

2008-11-06T17:26:00.000-08:00

December 16th

Professor Alan Matheson, UBC School of Music. Alan Matheson is a Canadian trumpeter, pianist, composer and arranger. Alan currently teaches trumpet and jazz piano at UBC.

December 9th

Doctoral student T. Todd Jones, UBC Department of Zoology. Groundbreaking research of critically endangered leatherback turtles; part two of a two part series on the current crisis of the world’s marine ecosystems.

November 25th

Dr. Daniel Pauly, Director of UBC Fisheries Centre. Management of world’s fisheries; part of a two part series on the current crisis of the world’s marine ecosystems.

November 18th

Dr. Michael Zeitlin, Department of English: William Faulkner, aviation and fascism. Doctoral student Simon Rolston, Department of English: Contemporary American prison writing

November 11th

Dr. Marvin Westwood, Department of Education and Counselling Psychology. Returning veterans; treating post traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Sherrill Grace, Department of English. RSC Symposium, “The Cultures of War and Peace”

November 4th - Debut of Prof Talk

Doctoral student Mehre Gomez Fonseca, Womens Studies. Stephen Harper’s apology to residential school survivors.