Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Institute for European Studies (IES) at the University of British Columbia, the “Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements: Present & Future” international conference took place on June 11 and 12 at the C.K. Choi Building. Benjamin Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. Established in May 1998, the Institute for European Studies (IES) is part of the University of British Columbia’s ongoing mission to advance international knowledge and research about Europe.
Heather Spears' 'Required Reading' Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and art exhibit in collaboration with the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, Heather Spears discusses the murder of 14 year old Reena Virk by schoolmates, in Victoria. Virk’s death aroused deep concern in about violence among children in our society. Thoughout the trials Heather Spears recorded these children and their stories in an attempt to understand what happened and why it happened. Through the interpretations of her art, Heather Spears’ discusses her journey as journalist and artist in the courtroom over that one year with a reading from her book of poetry, Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000. The talk is part of the IKBLC Gallery art exhibition programming.
SPARC Community Developers' Conference IKBLC Webcasts Online
The Community Developers’ Conference was born out of conversations among members of the Capacity Development Consortium (CDC). The Community Developers’ Conference is a gathering of grass roots community development organizers, social development and health professionals, funders, researchers, and policy analysts. The Conference provides a dynamic forum for learning and engagement in the multi-disciplinary and multi-sectoral field of community development in BC. It includes a diverse combination of workshops, panel discussions, networking sessions, film, open space, social media and graffiti wall opportunities.
Webcasts sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre can be viewed here.
Richard Epp's "Physics of Innovation" IKBLC Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Alumni Weekend, this lecture explores basic mysteries such as “What are electricity and magnetism?”, “How can atoms exist?” and “What are space and time?” has led to computers, wireless communication, MP3 players, lasers, medical imaging — indeed, virtually every “high tech” device on the planet. Join Dr. Epp in a celebration of the immense power of theoretical physics to transform our world for the betterment of humanity, and learn how current theoretical explorations may hold potential for even more fantastic innovations in the future.
Michael Hayes – SPARC Community Developers' Conference – Social Development and Health Policy Development
Social Development and Health Policy Development. Session Facilitator: Dr. Michael Hayes (Simon Fraser University). The use of a population health framework can help participants understand the significant inter-relationship between various public policy and social policy domains with an emphasis on health outcomes. This interactive session will engage participants in learning about some of the methods and results of social and health policy development in BC and Canada, and will include a discussion of key statistics and trends. Housing as a determinant of health and socio-economic conditions of BC’s diverse populations will also be discussed. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Hayes, M. T. (1992). Incrementalism and public policy. New York: Longman.
Hayes, M. T. (1981). Lobbyists and legislators: A theory of political markets. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press.
Hayes, M. T. (2007). Policy characteristics, patterns of politics, and the minimum wage: Toward a typology of redistributive policies. Policy Studies Journal, 35(3), 465. [Link]
Hayes, M. T. (1987). Public satisfying and policy change: The case of the nuclear freeze. Polity, 19(3), 443. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
IKBLC Gallery Presents Gina Botelho & Artists on Creative Outlets
Creative Outlet
Gina Botelho & Artists on Creative Outlets (June 26-July 30, 2010)
A combined vision of six Vancouver artists whose photography transcends the traditional art with such images such architectural, pop art, nature and the evocative beauty of remote lands.
Gallery homepage: http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/about/gallery@IKBLC.html
Ike Barber profile in the South Delta Leader
An in-depth portrait of Irving Barber appears in the June 24, 2010 issue of the South Delta Leader.
You can view the profile here.
Heather Spears – Required Reading: Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and art exhibit in collaboration with the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, Heather Spears discusses the murder of 14 year old Reena Virk by schoolmates, in Victoria. Virk’s death aroused deep concern in about violence among children in our society. Thoughout the trials Heather Spears recorded these children and their stories in an attempt to understand what happened and why it happened. Through the interpretations of her art, Heather Spears’ discusses her journey as journalist and artist in the courtroom over that one year with a reading from her book of poetry, Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000. The talk is part of the IKBLC Gallery art exhibition programming.
Biography of Author
Canadian writer and artists Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11collections of poetry and 4 novels.She has illustrated numerous books and articles; and also draws courtroom, dance, theatre and childbirth. Specialising in drawing children, in particular premature and other threatened infants, she travels widely and has drawn in hospitals in the Middle East, Europe and America.
Author’s Titles at UBC Library
Spears, H. (2008). I can still draw. Hamilton, ON: Wolsak & Wynn. [Link]
Spears, H. (2000). Required reading: A witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk trials 1998-2000. Toronto: Wolsak and Wynn. [Link]
Spears, H. (2004). The flourish: Murder in the family. Victoria, B.C: Ekstasis Editions. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
Book, Theatre and Film Reviews
Ananya Roy's "Poverty Capital – Microfinance and the Making of Development" IKBLC Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted and co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, and the Liu Institute for Global Issues, Dr. Ananya Roy is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning where she teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. The turn of the century has been marked by the emergence of a “kinder and gentler” project of development. From the recalibration of the World Bank as a “knowledge bank” committed to the eradication of poverty to the ambitious campaigns that imagine the “end of poverty,” a new global order is in the making. Through ethnographic attention to the Washington D.C.-Wall Street complex, this talk examines the circuits of capital and truth that structure “millennial development.” In particular, it focuses on microfinance, which is an active frontier of “creative capitalism.” But microfinance is also the site of important experiments in poverty policy, from the massive civil society institutions of Bangladesh to the Hezbollah militia of Lebanon. It is thus implicated in the emergence of counter-geographies of development.
Judy Fong-Bates' "Year of Finding Memory" IKBLC Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In partnership with Random House Canada, UBC Community Partners for Learning, the Chinese Canadian Historical Society (CCHSBC), the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), the North American Association of Asian Professionals (NAAAP), and ExplorAsian, the IKBLC presents author Judy Fong-Bates’ reading of “Year of Finding Memory.” An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family’s difficult arrival in Canada, and a daughter’s search to understand remarkable and terrible truths about her parents’ past lives. Growing up in her father’s hand laundry in small town Ontario, Judy Fong Bates listened to stories of her parents’ past lives in China, a place far removed from their every-day life of poverty and misery. But in spite of the allure of these stories, Fong Bates longed to be a Canadian girl. Fifty years later she finally followed her curiosity back to her ancestral home in China for a reunion that spiralled into a series of unanticipated discoveries. The Year of Finding Memory explores a particular, yet universal, world of family secrets, love, loss, courage and shame. This is a memoir of a daughter’s emotional journey, and her painful acceptance of conflicting truths. In telling the story of her parents, Fong Bates is telling the story of how she came to know them, of finding memory.