Articles tagged with: UBC
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The poet and member of the faculty at UBC’s Creative Writing Program, Sheryda Warrener discusses a new summer program for children, Word Wrestlers, writing and more, with Joseph Planta.
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The journalist Justin McElroy, writer and producer at Global BC, talks to Joseph Planta about the federal election campaign, the leadership change at UBC, journalism, the future of media, and Historica Canada’s Heritage Minutes.
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The life and poetry of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is discussed with the editor and translator of a new collection, Goethe’s Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2015); Graham Good, professor emeritus in the English department at UBC, and an author talks with Joseph Planta.
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Dr. Pieter Cullis, director of the Life Sciences Institute and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia discusses his new book The Personalized Medicine Revolution: How Diagnosing and Treating Disease Are About to Change Forever (Greystone, 2015), with Joseph Planta.
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The first-time author Doris Gregory, 93, discusses her recent memoir How I Won the War for the Allies: One Sassy Canadian Soldier’s Story (Ronsdale Press, 2014), serving during World War II in the Canadian Women’s Army Corps, her studies at UBC, and more, with Joseph Planta.
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The author Kevin Chong discusses Yin Yeung Express, food, writing, teaching in UBC’s Creative Writing Department, Mad Men, and more, with Joseph Planta.
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The renowned artist Gwyn Hanssen Piggot discusses her new exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology, Pleased to Meet You: Introductions by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, with Joseph Planta, which runs until 24 March 2013.
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The director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Anthony Shelton discusses the museum’s newest exhibit Luminescence: The Silver of Peru, Peruvian silver and silversmithing, history and more, with Joseph Planta.
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The writer Linda Svendsen discusses her new novel, Sussex Drive (Random House, 2012), the Canadian political events in recent years that inspired the book, teaching creative writing at UBC, and more, with Joseph Planta.
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Larry Wong, past president of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia, discusses his recent memoir Dim Sum Stories: A Chinatown Childhood (2011), growing up in Vancouver’s Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as his father and mother, race and culture, and more, with Joseph Planta.
