{"id":3968,"date":"2017-11-24T12:21:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:21:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T19:21:24","slug":"ires-seminar-series-thurs-nov-30-with-wade-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3968","title":{"rendered":"IRES Seminar Series: Thurs, Nov 30 with Wade Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"

November 30, 2017: IRES Faculty Seminar
\nSpeaker: Wade Davis<\/span><\/h1>\n

IRES Seminar Series<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Time: 12:30pm to 1:30pm (every Thursday)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Location: AERL Theatre (room 120), 2202 Main Mall<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pizza will be served at 12pm on the 4th floor of AERL.\u00a0 There’s a limit of one slice per seminar attendee to ensure everyone has pizza.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Wayfinders<\/span><\/u><\/b>Abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n

The myriad of cultures in the world, with their own traditions and beliefs, are not failed attempts at modernity, let alone failed attempts to be us. Each is an inspired expression of our\u00a0collective genius, each a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? \u00a0Every culture has something to say, each deserves to be heard,\u00a0just as none has a\u00a0monopoly on the route to the divine. And yet of the world\u2019s 7000 languages, fully half are not being taught to infants. Every fortnight an elder passes away and carries into the grave the last syllables of an ancient tongue. At risk is a vast archive of knowledge and expertise, a catalogue of the imagination that is the human legacy. Rediscovering a new appreciation for the the diversity of the human spirit, as\u00a0expressed\u00a0in culture, is among the central challenges of our time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bio:<\/span><\/p>\n

Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him\u00a0from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic.\u00a0Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 20 books, including\u00a0One River<\/span><\/em>,\u00a0The Wayfinders<\/span><\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Into the Silence,\u00a0<\/span><\/em>winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include\u00a0Light at the Edge of the World<\/span><\/em>, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the National Geographic Channel. Davis is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011 Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers\u2019 Club, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the\u00a02017\u00a0Roy Chapman Andrews Society\u2019s Distinguished Explorer Award and the 2017\u00a0Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration.\u00a0In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

See you there!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonnie Leung<\/span><\/p>\n

UBC IRES<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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