The COVID-19 crisis has shown that pandemics belong as much to the present as the past. From Ebola to HIV/AIDs to Zika, University of Victoria historian Mitchell Hammond says disease has played an increasingly significant role in global affairs in recent decades. Hammond shares what we can learn from the pandemics of the past.
President Jamie Cassels and Carolyn Russell, UVic’s director of student recruitment and global engagement, arrived in Beijing in December 2018 to explore the renewal of the university’s agreement of cooperation with the China Scholarship Council.
One year after the launch of the International Plan, a UVic delegation led by President Jamie Cassels departs Oct. 10 for Vietnam and China. The official visit to Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Shanghai will help accelerate the momentum of internationalization at UVic and deepen our connections in Asia.
Internationally recognized composer and UVic music professor Dániel Péter Biró can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours—the Guggenheim Fellowship. He'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
An international conference taking place mid May at UVic for the first time on the west coast of Canada will focus on global displacement and forced migration, closely exploring issues and experiences about one of the most pressing global issues of our time.
Internationally recognized composer and University of Victoria music professor Dániel Péter Biró can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours—the Guggenheim Fellowship. And he'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
A new documentary, The Thinking Garden, about a unique farming collective in a small South African village carries lessons of hope and resilience. It was written and produced by UVic scholars Christine Welsh and Elizabeth Vibert and it officially launches on March 1.
On Oct. 6, UVic released the International Plan: Making a World of Difference (2017-2022), bringing increased momentum to our ongoing commitment to welcome international students to an inspirational new home here and to foster intercultural learning and research for domestic students in Canada and across the globe.
The study of borders in the 21st century stretches beyond traditional definitions to encompass not only real boundaries, but remote and virtual borders too.
During CUVic 2014 opening ceremonies on the evening of May 20 at UVic, the Witness Blanket—an art installation created by Kwagiulth artist and Master Carver Carey Newman (Ha-yalth-kingeme) and inspired by the traditional woven blanket as a symbol of protection and comfort—was presented for the first time.
A research collaboration "Borders in Globalization" (BIG) led by UVic and involving 23 universities as well as 34 other partners, will explore our understanding of borders -- real, remote and virtual -- in the 21st century.
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