UBC Library’s exceptional Alice in Wonderland collection, housed in Rare Books and Special Collections, is featured on CBC TV news.
The reporter, Bob Nixon, features some thoughts and a video clip of the story here.
Lee Henderson
Lee Henderson
Lee Henderson’s highly anticipated first novel The Man Game (Penguin Canada, 2008) was published to rave reviews in the National Post, Quill & Quire and CBC Radio and went on to win the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lee’s debut short story collection The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada, 2002) won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK. He has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals and co-organized “Father Zosima Presents”, a monthly night of sound performances in Vancouver.
On a recent Vancouver Sunday afternoon, a young man stumbles upon a secret sport invented more than a century before, at the birth of his city. Thus begins The Man Game, Lee Henderson’s epic tale of loved requited and not, that crosses the contemporary and historical in an extravagant, anarchistic retelling of the early days of a pioneer town on the edge of the known world.
Lee Henderson read at the Lillooet Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on March 25th, 2010.
Jack Zipes' Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Webcast
Jack Zipes is one of the world’s leading authorities on fairy tales, writing about and translating them. An internationally renowned scholar and author of more than 50 books on many subjects, he has through his writings transformed research on fairy tales, particularly with respect to how they function in the socialization of readers. Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
Though most people consider fairy tales fascinating relics of the past, they have actually undergone numerous transformations and remain oddly modern even in the twenty-first century. Using some key psychological and philosophical categories from Sigmund Freud and Ernst Bloch, Professor Zipes will discuss why fairy tales remain so important in our lives, and why writers and artists continue to elaborate and re-create utopian and carnivalesque motifs from the tales to re-shape perspectives on possibilities for changing the world.
Sponsored by Green College and the supporting units for the M.A. in Children’s Literature Program (MACL): the School of Library Archival and Information Studies, the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program in the Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. To view webcast, please click here.
Jack Zipes – Utopian Tendencies of Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
Jack Zipes is one of the worlds leading authorities on fairy tales, writing about and translating them. An internationally renowned scholar and author of more than 50 books on many subjects, he has through his writings transformed research on fairy tales, particularly with respect to how they function in the socialization of readers. Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota.
Sponsored by Green College and the supporting units for the M.A. in Childrens Literature Program (MACL): the School of Library Archival and Information Studies, the Department of English, the Creative Writing Program in the Faculty of Arts, and the Department of Language and Literacy Education in the Faculty of Education. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Zipes, J. (2012). Irresistible fairy tale. Princeton University Press. [Link]
Zipes, J. (1989). Beauties, beasts, and enchantment: Classic french fairy tales ; translated and with an introduction by Kack Zipes. New York, N.Y: New American Library.
Zipes, J., & MyiLibrary. (2004). Speaking out: Storytelling and creative drama for children. New York: Routledge. [Link]
Zipes, J. (2013). Fairy tale as Myth/Myth as fairy tale. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. [Link]
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Celebrate UBC Authors Presents Dr. Neil Safier at IKBLC
Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the Earth at the Equator—an expedition that would put South America on the map and in the minds of Europeans for centuries to come. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to curious observers in South America.
By looking at the social and material traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge in reverse—from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, from the Andes to the Amazon River, the book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, including Charles-Marie de La Condamine and others, as well as maps and specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author. Come join us as Professor of History, Neil Safier presents from his book, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America.
Time: April 6, 2010
Place: Lillooet Room (Rm 301) at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
information: ikblc-events@interchange.ubc.ca or 604.827.4366
Ananya Roy – Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development
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, 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.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Roy, A. (2010). Poverty capital: Microfinance and the making of development. New York: Routledge.
Roy, A. (2009). The 21st-century metropolis: New geographies of theory. Regional Studies, 43(6), 819-830. doi:10.1080/00343400701809665. [Link]
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Robson Reading @ IKBLC Presents Lee Henderson, March 25, 2010
The Man Game Lee Henderson’s highly anticipated first novel The Man Game (Penguin Canada, 2008) was published to rave reviews in the National Post, Quill & Quire and CBC Radio and went on to win the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lee’s debut short story collection The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada, 2002) won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK. He has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals and co-organized “Father Zosima Presents”, a monthly night of sound performances in Vancouver.
Event takes place at the Lillooet Room, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, March 25, 2010 – 2-3pm
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"
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Olympic Committee 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
Karen Hebert, Michael Hathaway and Sasha Welland – Commodities and Cultures
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, Commodities and Cultures panel includes:
(a) Sasha Welland (Anthropology, Washington) – Architectural Model
(b) Karen Hebert (Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale) – Quality Salmon
(c) Michael Hathaway (Anthropology, SFU) – Matsutake Bag
(d) Commentator: Juanita Sundberg (Geography, UBC)
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Hebert, K. (2014). The matter of market devices: Economic transformation in a southwest Alaskan salmon fishery. Geoforum, 53, 21-30. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.012. [Link]
Welland, S. (2006). What women will have been: Reassessing feminist cultural production in China: A review essay. Signs, 31(4), 941-966. doi:10.1086/500602. [Link]
Hathaway, M. J., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2013). Environmental winds: Making the global in southwest China. Berkeley: University of California Press. doi:10.1525/j.ctt3fh2zh. [Link]
Hébert, K. (2010). In pursuit of singular salmon: Paradoxes of sustainability and the quality commodity. Science as Culture, 19(4), 553-581. doi:10.1080/09505431.2010.519620. [Link]
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