Robson Reading @ IKBLC Presents Lee Henderson, March 25, 2010
Thursday March 25th, 2010, 2:00-3:00pm Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Room 301 Point Grey Campus, 1961 East Mall
First Nations donation/exhibition featured in UBC Reports
An exhibition of First Nations portraits, on display during March 2010 at the Learning Centre Gallery, is featured in the latest edition of UBC Reports. B.C. artist Patricia Richardson Logie recently donated the portrait collection to UBC Library. You can view the article here.
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Olympic Programming Presents "Quintathalon"
A free lunchtime concert featuring chamber ensembles from the
UBC School of Music Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Division
Monday, March 8, 2010 at Noon
Itineraries of Exchange: Cultural Contact in a Global Frame
How do societies change in response to contact with other cultures? And what roles do objects play in mediating these connections over time and place? This two-and-a-half-day symposium – held March 4 through March 6 at the UBC Vancouver campus – brings together anthropologists, geographers, historians, Indigenous artists and activists, and literary scholars whose research focuses on cross-cultural encounters […]
Display on Pang Jingtang Collection at IKBLC Gallery, March 2-30, 2010
Important historical materials, the works of Pang Jingtang provides important reference resources for the research and study of contemporary Chinese history.
Essentials of Tibetan Medical System and its role in Community Health Services (IKBLC Webcast)
Presented by the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the Institute for Asian Research, Essentials of Tibetan Medical System and its role in Community Health Services focuses on the role of traditional Tibetan medicine in providing primary health care in Tibetan refugee settlements in India.
Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers (IKBLC Webcast)
In 1989, the Chinook project began with the goal of building a computer program capable of winning the human World Checkers Championship. The reigning human champion was almost perfect, having rarely lost a game in over forty years. To do better required the computer to be perfect.
Ian Wilson Keynote Speech From the BC Digitization Symposium 2009 (IKBLC Webcast)
Ian Wilson describes the new information landscape and its impact on libraries and archives.
Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future (IKBLC Webcast)
As part of the UBC Department of Psychology’s 5th Annual Quinn Memorial Lecture (QML), held on Friday, 9 October 2009 pm. In this lecture “Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future,” Daniel L. Schacter, Kenan Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and UBC alumnus, presents on his years of research on memory and amnesia memory, which has had a profound impact on psychological science in general and cognitive neuroscience in particular.
Denise Chong Presents 'Egg on Mao' (IKBLC Webcast)
In her first book in a decade, Denise Chong tells the story of the man who defaced Chairman Mao’s portrait during the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, twenty years ago.