Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program (CTSP), this talk, titled “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. Dr. Neshar will discuss the essential elements and concepts of health care in traditional Tibetan medicine and its practical application in contemporary society.
UBC Library's strategic plan featured in CPSLD newsletter
UBC Library’s new strategic plan is featured in the latest issue of the newsletter from the CPSLD – the Council of Post Secondary Library Directors.
You can view the article here – it appears on page 23 of the newsletter.
Involving Minority Groups in Building Global Communities IKBLC Webcast
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Africa Awareness Initiative as part of African Awareness Week. Mission city mayor, James Atebe, has been dubbed by some as the “Obama of Canada”. Hailing from the Gusii tribe of Kenya, he has managed to become a pillar of Mission. James Atebe has contributed a lot to the city of Mission and continues to do so amidst a wealth of obstacles. Winning his second election by a margin of over 80 percent along with being voted on of the TOP 25 IMMIGRANTS in Canada, he has proved to be the real embodiment of global citizenship and a poster child for immigrant success in Canada. Join us in learning more about Mayor James Atebe’s dedication to both his heritage and his adopted country and how he uses the two to better serve his community.
BC Books Online garners strong media coverage
BC Books Online, a project that is supported by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Library, is featured in the online publication The Tyee. You can view the article here.
BC Books Online is also featured in the Globe and Mail, the Nanaimo News Bulletin, the Harbour City Star, the Ladysmith Chronicle and the Prince George Citizen.
An exhibition of the drawings from the Reena Virk Trials at the IKBLC Gallery
By Heather Spears June 1-25, 2010
The murder of 14 year old Reena Virk by schoolmates, in Victoria, aroused deep concern in about violence among children in our society. Throughout 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, this Gallery art exhibition will explore Heather’s approach of being artist rather than journalist.
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre,
1961 Main Mall, University of British Columbia
On June 24, 3-4 PM, at Lillooet Room (301) of IKBLC
Heather Spears will be present to read from her book
Required Reading, a witness in poems and drawings to the Reena VirkTrials 1998-2000
Gallery Opening Hours
Monday, Thursday & Fridays (9am – 5pm)
Tuesday, Wednesdays (9am – 9am)
Saturday (10am – 5pm)
Japan and the Special Olympics IKBLC Webcast
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Sociology and Anthropology departments at UBC, Dr. Millie Creighton, who discusses the Winter Olympics–as occurring in Vancouver, Canada in 2010, and the 2008 election of Barack Obama–as President of the United States, reflect globalizing insights on movements surrounding minorities and marginalization in Japan that contest hierarchies of people and of space and place. This talk explores dynamics involved when Japan, a society where the disabled were once hidden (relegated to the “back recesses”), took the lead in being the first (and still only) country to host the Special Olympic World Winter Games at the same sites as the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
This is discussed in reference to other “coming out” movements of people with disabilities in Japan, and to President Obama’s comments on Special Olympics in a US popular culture television interview. The linkage of Obama and the Special Olympics circles back to Japan, through analysis of how, why and to what extent the US Presidential election of Obama (the “Back Horse”) coverage in Japan reflected a momentous change from prior projections of racial hierarchies and previously presented images of Blacks.
Webcast Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Heather Spears – Reena Virk Trials
Image credit: Heather Spears
Canadian writer and artist Heather Spears was educated at the University of British Columbia, The Vancouver School of Art and the University of Copenhagen. She is divorced and has four children. Having lived in Denmark since 1962, Spears has held over 75 solo exhibitions and published 11 collections of poetry and 3 novels of speculative fiction (1991-96), including the Moonfall Trilogy. The Flourish, a novel of crime fiction and the family, came out in Canada and was republished in Europe as A Muted Voice. The Creative Eye is the first of a series on visual perception.
Spears has also published books of drawings: Drawn from the Fire, Massacre, and Line by Line. Drawings from the Newborn, The Panum Poems, and Required Reading contain both poems and full-page drawings. Her latest collection of poetry, I can still draw, was shortlisted for the Lowther Memorial Award. 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.
The Heather Spears archive is housed at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and is available for use by researchers and others interested. In collaboration with the Rare Books and Special Collections, Heather Spears gave a special read from her newly published book of poems, Required Reading: A Witness in Words and Drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000 on June 24, 2010. To view the webcast, please find here.
Following the exhibition, Spears’s drawings were added to the the Heather Spears fonds at UBC Rare Books and Special Collections at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Her work includes drawings from other trials, writers’ festivals, music festivals and more.
To see more photos of this exhibition, please find here.
Matt Hill and Steph Tait – Principles of Success: Changing the World One Step at a Time
Stephanie Tait: Personal Coach, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Run for One Planet
Matt Hill: Motivational Speaker, Runner and Co-Founder of Run for One Planet
Join high performance Canadian athletes Steph Tait and Matt Hill as they recount an inspiring and motivational adventure in Run for One Planet, a carbon neutral year-long run around the continent in order to inspire environmental action.
Starting May 4th 2008, both Steph and Matt ran across Canada and around the perimeter of America, totaling 11,000 miles, doing over 420 marathons as a dynamic running duo. While running a marathon each almost every day, they led a team of over 30 people spread across the continent while speaking to over 30,000 kids in more than 220 presentations. They garnered sponsorships across the continent and around the world and raised over $120,000 for their Legacy Fund for Kids.
They completed the expedition on May 8th 2009 — a day now officially known as “Run for One Planet Day” in the City of Vancouver.
To create a permanent philanthropic legacy, Run for One Planet has partnered with the Vancouver Foundation — Canada’s largest, and one of North America’s oldest, community foundations. Every year, R41P’s Legacy Fund for Kids now grants seed capital to elementary students to start their own green projects.
Listen as Steph and Matt explain their motto that “Small Steps Add Up” for environmental action and entrepreneurial success. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
United Nations Development Programme. (2012). One planet to share: Sustaining human progress in a changing climate. New Delhi, India: United Nations Development Programme.
UBC Library Research Guides
Richard Epp – Physics of Innovation
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.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Epp, R. J. (2000). Angular momentum and an invariant quasilocal energy in general relativity. Physical Review D, 62(12) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.62.124018. [Link]
Epp, R. J. (1995). The symplectic structure of general relativity in the double-null (2+2) formalism. [Link]
McGrath, P. L., Epp, R. J., & Mann, R. B. (2012). Quasilocal conservation laws: Why we need them. [Link]
Epp, R. J. (1998). A statistical mechanical interpretation of black hole entropy based on an orthonormal frame action. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
Stanley Coren – Animal Communication: How to Speak Dog
Since the time of Darwin scientists have been trying to understand how animals communicate. Today, psychologists know enough about this process so that it can be applied to allow you to understand the language of your pet dog, or even your pet cat (who speaks a somewhat different dialect). Stanley Coren is a psychology professor and neuropsychological researcher who has become best known to the general public for a series of books regarding the intelligence, mental abilities and history of dogs. Through television shows and media coverage that has been broadcast in Canada and the United States as well as overseas, he has become popular with dog owners, while continuing research and instruction in psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Speaker Bio
Stanley Coren is a psychology professor and neuropsychological researcher who has become best known to the general public for his best selling and award winning books regarding the intelligence, mental abilities and history of dogs. Through television shows and media coverage that have been broadcast in Canada and the United States as well as overseas, he has become popular with dog owners, while continuing research and instruction in psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. He also writes for Psychology Today in the feature Canine Corner.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Coren, S. (2006). Why do dogs have wet noses? Toronto: Kids Can Press.
Coren, S. (1994). The intelligence of dogs: Canine consciousness and capabilities. New York; Toronto: Free Press.
Coren, S. (2000). How to speak dog: Mastering the art of dog-human communication. New York: Free Press.
UBC Library Research Guides
Animal Science / Applied Animal Biology