UVic on the Peninsula Booklet September to December 2023

Experience a new perspective... UVic on the Peninsula JANUARY TO JUNE 2023 Register today! Courses at Mary Winspear Centre 4 Threats to Humanity continuingstudies.uvic.ca/ 2 Peninsula Pursuits 4 Gold Nanoparticles: Radiation Therapy peninsula Enhancers Biological Pest Controls 250-472-4747 4 Ukraine and the Middle East: Impact and [email protected] How Does Immigration Impact Responses Communities 4 Police Ethics: Its Nature and Implications Writing Gooder Humour 4 Boosting or Maintaining Your Brain Power 2 The European Union and the World: Impact as You Get Older and Value 4 Into the Woods with German Myths and 2 James Teit and Indigenous Rights in BC, Fairy Tales 1880s – 1920s 5 Conspiracies and Radicalization in the 3 Emotional Politics in Canada Post-truth Era 3 Apocalypse Now: Christian Right Literature 5 A look into the Eye and Politics SAGE Study Group 3 Expected and Actual Performance of Green Buildings: Lessons Learned 5 Something I Want to Share… 3 Murder & the Media in Victorian England 3 Near Extraterrestrial: The Extreme Environments of Seafloor Vents 3 Are We Alone? 3 A Journey Through Iran 4 The Neuroscience of Human Decision Making

Courses at How Does Immigration Impact COMMUNITY COURSES MARY WINSPEAR CENTRE Communities? The European Union and the World: The following courses take place at the Mary PART OF PENINSULA PURSUITS Impact and Value Winspear Centre, 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney. This talk looks at current research on how partnerships between locals and immigrants The European Union (EU) is a novel institutional You may register now. are structured in Canada and their impact set-up that brings together countries that Please Note: To avoid disappointment, register on communities. Given the fairly ambitious have played a disproportionally large role in early! Any course that does not reach its immigration targets set by the government the world in the distant past as well as more minimum enrolment 15 days in advance of its and the possible concerns around immigration, recently. They have been dominant players start date will be cancelled. it would potentially help everyone concerned during colonialism but have also been at the to unpack these issues and lead to a more forefront of the current era of globalization. PENINSULA PURSUITS objective view about immigration into Canada. At the same time, the countries that make up the EU are currently engaged in de-centring Would you like to know more about the Speaker: Sudhir Nair (PhD) Europe. We will look at what the EU has interests of the people who live and work in developed in terms of culture, politics and your community? This series of stimulating Date: Monday, Feb. 13 economics. The presentation looks at how the lectures will introduce you to a wide variety Time: 10:30 am to noon EU is of value to the world as well as its impact. of topics. Register for a single session or Sessions: 1 This will be presented jointly by Amy Verdun receive a discounted fee if you sign up for Fee: $24 plus $1.20 GST of the University of Victoria’s Department of all three sessions. Code: ASDL035-2 2023S E01 Political Science and Assem Dandashly of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. SERIES REGISTRATION Writing Gooder Humour Instructor: Amy Verdun (PhD), Assem Fee: $68 plus $3.40 GST PART OF PENINSULA PURSUITS Dandashly (PhD) Code: ASDL035 2023S E00 Join award-losing Times Colonist columnist and author Jack Knox as he shares the secrets of Date: Tuesday, Jan. 24 Biological Pest Controls humour writing. We’ll examine various types of humour, from whimsy to satire, and go Time: 10 am to noon PART OF PENINSULA PURSUITS over tips for incorporating wit into your work. At Applied Bio-nomics in North Saanich, Courageous participants will be invited to Sessions: 1 beneficial insects are shipped across North share samples of their writing. America and internationally every week. Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Find out how beneficial insects are used to Speaker: Jack Knox control pests more efficiently than chemical Code: ASDL668 2023S E01 pest control. Date: Monday, Feb. 27 Time: 10:30 am to noon James Teit and Indigenous Rights in Speaker: Brian Spencer Sessions: 1 BC, 1880s-1920s Fee: $24 plus $1.20 GST Date: Wednesday, Feb. 8 Code: ASDL035-3 2023S E01 Every once in a while, an important figure Time: 10:30 am to noon makes an appearance, makes a difference and Sessions: 1 then disappears. JamesTeit (1864-1922) was Fee: $24 plus $1.20 GST such a figure. From his base at Spences Bridge, Code: ASDL035-1 2023S E01 BC,Teit spent four decades working with and advocating for BC’s Indigenous Peoples. In this talk, Wickwire will draw from her 2019 book, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging to show howTeit’s journeys— between Shetland, UK and BC, between Boasian anthropology and Indigenous forms of knowledge, and between socialist politics and Indigenous political campaigns—fostered cultural bridges that were rare even by today’s standards. Instructor: Wendy Wickwire (PhD) Date: Thursday, Jan. 26 Time: 10 am to noon Sessions: 1 Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Code: ASDL670 2023S E01 2

Emotional Politics in Canada Expected and Actual Performance Instructor: Moronke Harris of Green Buildings: Lessons Learned That politics is an emotional business is likely Date: Thursday, Feb. 16 unsurprising to anyone paying even casual This presentation will introduce the concept Time: 2 to 4 pm attention to events such as the presidency of green and sustainable buildings as of Donald Trump or the resentment-fueled well as the results of an investigation that Sessions: 1 freedom convoy of 2022. Yet, the formal critically analyzed the designed and actual study of politics has traditionally ignored the performance of green buildings in Victoria Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST emotional side. In this lecture, Justin Leifso will and Vancouver. look at two seemingly disparate case studies— Code: ASDL673 2023S E01 the fandom of the Saskatchewan Roughriders Instructor: Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya (PhD) and opposition to carbon taxes in Alberta—to Are We Alone? explain the central place that emotions have in Date: Tuesday, Feb. 7 contemporary Canadian politics. For thousands of years, humans have looked Time: 2 to 4 pm up at the stars and wondered if we are alone Instructor: Justin Leifso (PhD) or if there are other intelligent beings out Sessions: 1 there. When we look at the number of planets Date: Friday, Jan. 27 that potentially have life or even advanced Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST life forms, the statistics suggest that we are Time: 10 am to noon not alone. However, radio telescope searches Code: ASDL672 2023S E01 and studies that look for life in asteroids and Sessions: 1 on Mars have so far come up empty. We may Murder & the Media in truly be alone in the universe, but the search Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Victorian England has just begun. Code: ASDL676 2023S E01 The newspapers of the Victorian age were Instructor: Don Macdonald (MSc) obsessed with murder. This talk reveals the Apocalypse Now: Christian Right origins of this fascination in the rise of the Dates: Wednesday, Feb. 22 Literature and Politics modern newspaper press and a growing fascination with the cultural divide between Time: 10 am to noon This talk suggests that the increasing towns and the countryside. Republican extremism in the United States may Sessions: 1 lie in the biblical worldview of apocalypse that Instructor: Simon Devereaux animates its conservative, white Christian base. Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Apocalypse is a way of thinking developed Date: Wednesday, Feb. 15 about 2,200 years ago. It is evident in Code: ASDL650 2023S E01 Christianity, especially the book of Revelation, Time: 10 am to noon and in contemporary fundamentalist fiction A Journey Through Iran like the Left Behind series and Frank Peretti’s Sessions: 1 This Present Darkness, which revived the Long before Marco Polo travelled through apocalyptic genre. Apocalypse helps explain Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Persia, the country was admired for many the radical political and epistemological crisis things. Visitors were in awe of the country’s the United States is now facing. Code: ASDL669 2023S E01 bustling bazaars, ancient monuments, parched deserts, snow capped mountains and Instructor: Christopher Douglas (PhD) Near Extraterrestrial: The Extreme legendary hospitality. We will use photographs, Environments of Seafloor Vents artifacts and maps to explore Iran’s exciting Date: Thursday, Feb. 2 history and rich diversity. The discovery of ecosystems at deep-sea Time: 2 to 4 pm hydrothermal vents in 1977 altered global Instructor: Paul G. Chamberlain (PhD) perspectives concerning the boundaries Sessions: 1 of biological systems. Thousands of meters Date: Thursday, Feb. 23 below the ocean surface in complete Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST darkness, dense communities of species Time: 2 to 4 pm were found not only existing but thriving. Code: ASDL666 2023S E01 In this talk, the audience is presented with Sessions: 1 an overview of these fascinating systems, their role in global systems, resources they Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST contain that have the potential to contribute to human advancement and the importance Code: ASDL680 2023S E01 of effectively regulating resource extraction. Vent systems off the West Coast of Vancouver Island are a particular focus. 3

The Neuroscience of Human Ukraine and the Middle East: Into theWoods with German Myths Decision Making Impact and Responses and FairyTales Recent advances in neuroscience have helped This talk will examine the impact of the Ukraine This presentation is about the enduring us understand how we make decisions. In this war on the Middle East, from food security relevance of fairy tales and addresses the talk, your instructor will review these advances to energy prices, while also considering how following questions: Why do we need fairy and provide practical applications of these regimes and populations have responded to tales? What is a hero? What is a quest? Why concepts. Russia’s invasion. do fairy tales often take place in a forest Instructor: Olav Krigolson (PhD) environment? What is the cultural significance Instructor: Martin Bunton (PhD) of wolves and ogres? Date: Tuesday, Feb. 28 Instructor: Elena Pnevmonidou (PhD) Time: 10 am to noon Date: Wednesday, March 8 Sessions: 1 Time: 10 am to noon Date: Wednesday, March 22 Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Sessions: 1 Time: 10 am to noon Code: ASDL551 2023S E01 Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Sessions: 1 Code: ASDL667 2023S E01 Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Threats to Humanity Code: ASDL671 2023S E01 Police Ethics: Its Nature and There are a number of existential risks, both Implications Mary Winspear Centre natural and human-induced, that could end human life on Earth. Natural risks include Police officers are social servants with special Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023 | 2–4 pm volcanic and plate tectonic movements, rights and duties. This presentation examines Welcome to UVic on the Peninsula! asteroids, comets, radiation and solar the ethical issues that surround the conduct We invite you to come to our Open episodes from space. Human-induced risks of police officers in the exercise of their duties. House. Come along with friends, include nuclear or biological warfare, rogue The presentation is based on the experience neighbours, and relatives to meet artificial intelligence and climate change. of the presenter as an ethics consultant some of our course instructors, SAGE Find out what’s being done to assess and to the Office of the BC Police Complaint facilitators, and staff from Continuing mitigate these risks. Commissioner. Studies. If you haven’t already done so, you may register for courses at Instructor: Don Macdonald (MSc) Instructor: Eike-Henner Kluge (PhD) this time. We look forward to seeing you there! Date: Wednesday, March 1 Date: Tuesday, March 14 Time: 10 am to noon Time: 10 am to noon Sessions: 1 Sessions: 1 Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Code: ASDL651 2023S E01 Code: ASDL675 2023S E01 Gold Nanoparticles: Radiation Boosting or MaintainingYour Brain Therapy Enhancers Power asYou Get Older A science-driven look at how incredibly tiny This presentation looks at ways to maintain or gold particles can be used in the treatment boost brain power through lifestyle choices, of cancer. Dr. Valente will discuss the work especially the role of physical activity which is she performed during her PhD, using 10 the number one way to preserve memory and nm gold nanoparticles in tissues that mimic other cognitive functions. Recent research has breast cancer. The properties of the tumor shown that muscle isn’t just for moving around microenvironment play a big role in drug but releases powerful hormones that impact delivery and, consequently, in the treatment of brain health as well as offset some of the cancer. Join Dr. Valente in the exploration of the negative effects associated with aging. tumor microenvironment and the diffusion of gold nanoparticles! Instructor: David Docherty (PhD) Instructor: Karolina Valente (PhD) Date: Tuesday, March 21 Time: 2 to 4 pm Date: Tuesday, March 7 Sessions: 1 Time: 2 to 4 pm Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Sessions: 1 Code: ASDL678 2023S E01 Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST Code: ASDL674 2023S E01 4

Conspiracies and Radicalization in A Look into the Eye SAGE STUDY GROUPS the Post-truth Era This presentation will introduce the anatomy of THE FOLLOWING STUDY GROUP IS What happens when a society begins to the eye and the retina, explain how the retina OFFERED THIS TERM: equate opinion with fact or when our collective works, the diseases that affect it and explore ideas about what’s true—like the shape or advances in treating retinal disease. We will Something I Want to Share… age of the Earth or the reality of COVID—are discuss the role of basic research and what challenged by beliefs that undermine the very kinds of therapies are being developed to treat Here is a chance to have an attentive audience idea of truth as a concept? We will explore retinal diseases. for your enthusiastic exposition of a topic that the emergence of what some are calling the you find fascinating. You may already have a “post-truth”era, where the foundations of Instructor: Bob Chow (PhD) lot of information or you may be looking for the modern age—observation, empiricism an excuse to do more research. It could be and a recognition of the existence of a shared Dates: Tuesday, May 2 anything: pop-up books, the history of cheese, reality—have begun to crumble. We will Time: 10 am to noon Victorian women adventurers, Napoleon in examine contemporary social media and Sessions: 1 literature, silent movies, decision-making knowledge-production landscapes to better Fee: $28 plus $1.40 GST processes in Indigenous communities, Viking understand the rapid spread of conspiratorial Code: ASDL679 2023K E01 ships and seamanship, etc. Each participant thinking and extremist ideologies. will make a presentation to the group in a form SAGE: Stimulate, Advance and intended to stimulate discussion. The group is Instructor: Edwin Hodge (PhD) Guide Education friendly, respectful and constructive. Dates: Thursdays, April 6 to 27 SAGE Study Groups Facilitator: John Garrett Time: 2 to 4 pm The most active component of SAGE is our Date: Fridays, Feb. 10 to March 31 study groups. Study groups are not taught Time: 10 am to noon Sessions: 4 by instructors. Instead, a facilitator assists Sessions: 8 in coordinating the presentations of group Fee: $120 plus $6 GST Fee: $105 plus $5.25 GST members and in moderating the discussions. Code: ASSG180 2023S E01 Code: ASDL677 2023K E01 An important aspect of study groups is their small size (maximum 14 participants). Group members quickly get to know each other, and learning takes place in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. There is a limited number of fee waivers available for all study groups. Study groups happen through your initiative, so if there is a subject you would love to learn more about and you are willing to facilitate a group next term, please give Amy Errington a call at 250-721-8827. Languages, Arts and Culture Programs Registration: Division of Continuing Studies 250-472-4747 University of Victoria [email protected] PO Box 1700 STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2 Peninsula Friends Advisory Committee: 250-721-8827 | Fax 250-721-8774 Linda Beare John Olafson [email protected] continuingstudies.uvic.ca/peninsula Paul Bingham Germaine Taylor Campbell Black Nancy Williams Irfane Fancey 1222 | 1,600 5