Tuesday, January 31, 4:30-6:30 pm
Michael M. Ames Theatre, UBC Museum of Anthropology
Admission to MOA: UBC staff, students & faculty free with ID; Others $9
‘Village of Widows’ ―a documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Peter Blow―recounts the remarkable story of the Sahtu Dene people, who were employed by the Canadian Government during WWII to transport uranium, which became fuel for the bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Peter Blow is a researcher, writer, producer, and director based in Toronto. He has worked on close to 100 broadcast documentaries both in England and Canada, many of which have garnered numerous awards including two Oscar nominations.
This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition, ひろしま hiroshima by Ishiuchi Miyako, on display at the UBC Museum of Anthropology through February 12, 2012.
Sponsors: Vancouver Save Article 9 and UBC Centre for Japanese Research, Department of Asian Studies, Indigenous Education Institute of Canada, International Canadian Studies Centre, Department of Theatre and Film, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Museum of Anthropology
, creating a tsysem in which faculty members themselves feel any pressure (financial or social) to live on campus seems counterproductive to me, and unlike what was stated in the article, largely unlike any tsysem in the US (Columbia and NYU do have housing near/on their campuses, but they are also smack in the middle of Manhattan and therefore nothing like the UBC area). Personally, I would want nothing less than to live on campus. At the end of the day getting away from UBC, my students, and this fairly insular lifestyle is essential to my happiness. Faculty deserve to be able to afford housing in the city where they work and should not be forced to live down the street from their office or down the hall from their research assistant to do so. I don’t believe it is in students’ best interest to be taught by faculty who’s daily experience of the world consists of going to the grocery store with other faculty members, going to the gym with other faculty members, discussing politics and social issues with other faculty members, etc such limited experiences of different people and opinions is sure to stifle creativity and diversity. Nor do I believe it is in faculty members’ children’s best interest to interact only with other faculty members’ children. People choose to live in cities because they are diverse places that provide lots of different kinds of experiences creating a bunch of on-campus housing and renting it cheaply to faculty members without providing financial help to live off campus feels a bit like forcing undergraduates to live in dorms.