Today I attended the official opening of the multi-purpose Arts and Sciences Centre at UBC’s Okangan campus.
Since 2011, I have co-chaired a Canada West Task Force, comprised of university presidents and athletic directors from Canada West (CW). It was struck to develop proposals for restructuring competitive arrangements in CW and Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS).
Today I joined Minister Ben Stewart and the UBC Okanagan community to celebrate the official opening for Engineering, Management and Education building at UBC’s Okanagan campus. This impressive high-tech building is designed to inspire students and produce extraordinary research collaboration and houses the School of Engineering, Faculty of Education, Faculty of Management and the College […]
Purely by accident I have recently read three books published in 1973, two by Murdoch (she was quite prolific) and one by Gordimer (see entries for November 2012). All three novels are strongly shaped by the politics of their time, in Murdoch’s case the politics of gender relations, and in Gordimer’s the politics of African […]
This book is magical, and I found it gripping. The now-standard feminist insight that “the personal is political” is given voice in this beautiful work. Ranging from the cold Kremlin bedroom of a brutal Stalin to the warm courtyard of Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s Blue House in Mexico, the spaces of this novel are […]