THE NEXT AWARDS RECIPIENTS WON’T RAISE THEIR OWN HANDS. THAT’S WHY WE NEED YOU! NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN.
Do you know of someone who exemplifies the best of UBC? Do you know a graduate, faculty or friend of UBC who deserves to be recognized as a leader, advocate, artist or visionary? This is your chance to give them the limelight they richly deserve. Now accepting nominations for the 2014 alumni UBC Achievement Awards. Complete details are online at http://www.alumni.ubc.ca/nominate.
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has collaborated with alumni UBC for some exciting and intellectually stimulating programs. Watch some of our webcasts from the past here.
Presented by the Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS), a section of the British Columbia Library Association. Its purpose is to promote the exchange of ideas among academic public service librarians and to provide a network of professional expertise resulting in excellent public service programs in the post-secondary libraries of British Columbia, using the latest methods, systems, and technologies.
December 6, 2013, 9:30AM – 11.30PM, Lillooet Room (Room 301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Institute of Asian Research (IAR). Chaired By: Joseph Caron, Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan. Besides international factors such as the 2008 world financial crisis, there are important domestic factors in China’s current external policy. They include the intensive debates over the necessity and content of economic and political reforms, and people’s dissatisfaction and anxiety about the flip side of China’s rapid growth. This talk will take up the case of China’s hardline approach towards Japan over the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, and discuss why it continues despite the undaunted advancement of economic exchange, and how the rest of the world should react to it. Dr. Akio Takahara graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, and received his PhD from the University of Sussex. He previously worked at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong, J.F. Oberlin University, Rikkyo University, the Japanese embassy in Beijing, and University of Tokyo. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University (2005–06). He is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, a member and Secretary General of the New 21st Century Committee for Japan-China Friendship and a senior researcher with the Tokyo Foundation. His academic interest revolves around contemporary Chinese politics and China’s foreign policy. His publications include “New Developments in East Asian Security” (2005), “Beyond the Borders: Contemporary Asian Studies Volume One” (2008), “Putting the Senkaku Dispute Into Pandora’s Box: Toward a ‘2013 Consensus” (2013).
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Takahara, A. (1992). The politics of wage policy in post-revolutionary China. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [UK]: Macmillan Press.
Benewick, R., & Takahara, A. (2002). Eight grannies with nine teeth between them: Community construction in China. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 7(1), 1-18. doi:10.1007/BF02876927. [Link]
Takahara, A. (1999). Managing central-local relations during socialist marketisation: A changing role for the Chinese communist party. IDS Bulletin, 30(4), 23-30. [Link]
Takahara, A. (1993). Enterprise reform and fiscal reform in china: Overlapping webs of interests. Asian Economic Journal, 7(2), 147-165. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8381.1993.tb00105.x. [Link]
Women remain underrepresented in many fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Esteemed panelists, planetary scientist and NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal winner Dr. Laurie Leshin, zoologist and MacArthur Genius grant winner Dr. Sally Otto, and Vice President, Response Biomedical Corp and UBC Science Alumna Dr. Barbara Kinnaird-Steen, with our moderator Dr. Simon Peacock, Dean of UBC’s Faculty of Science discuss the STEM gender gap. Learn how we can encourage more young women to embrace science, listen to practical advice for women pursuing STEM careers, and discover what factors may affect young women’s careers in the sciences. Presented as part of UBC Science’s 50th Anniversary. This event took place on Friday, October 25th 2013 at the Allan Yap Biodiversity Theatre, Beaty Biodiversity Museum | Faculty of Science. This talk is presented as part of UBC Science’s 50th Anniversary lecture.
Speakers:
Dr. Barbara Kinnaird Steen – Barbara serves as Vice President of Research and Development at Response Biomedical Corp. Dr. Steen served as Vice President of Response Biomedical Corp. Dr. Steen served as Senior Director of Operations and Vice President of Operations at Response Biomedical Corp. Dr. Kinnaird-Steen has over 19 years of research and business experience primarily in the field of infectious diseases and Point of Care (POC).
Dr. Laurie Leshin – Laurie serves as Dean of the School of Science and Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she leads the scientific academic and research enterprise at the oldest technological University in the United States.
Dr. Sally Otto – Sally is professor in the Department of Zoology at UBC, studying population genetics and evolutionary biology. I develop and analyse mathematical models to study how populations change over time. The aim of this work is to identify when and whether particular evolutionary transitions are possible.
Dr. Simon Peacock – Simon is Professor and Dean of Science, UBC, and Dean at the Faculty of Science. His research focuses on understanding the thermal, petrologic, and seismological structure of subduction zones.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Malott, R. J., Steen-Kinnaird, B. R., Lee, T. D., & Speert, D. P. (2012). Identification of hopanoid biosynthesis genes involved in polymyxin resistance in burkholderia multivorans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 56(1), 464-471. doi:10.1128/AAC.00602-11 [Link]
Leshin, L. (2014). My lab is on mars: Geochemical adventures with the mars curiosity rover. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 20(S3), 2162-2163. doi:10.1017/S1431927614012549 [Link]
Peacock, S. M. (1990). Fluid processes in subduction zones. Science, 248(4953), 329-337. doi:10.1126/science.248.4953.329 [Link]
Peacock, S. M. (2001). Are the lower planes of double seismic zones caused by serpentine dehydration in subducting oceanic mantle? Geology, 29(4), 299-302. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0299:ATLPOD>2.0.CO;2 [Link]
With recent changes to the law, this panel discusses: general purpose and structure of tax treaties; domestic tax systems in Hong Kong and China; key features of the treaty; and opportunities for investment to and from Hong Kong and China.
Speakers:
Wei Cui, David Duff, Barry MacDonald (Partner, Tax Services, PwC), Lori Mathison (Managing Partner, Dentons)
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Wang, G. (1994). Reform of the Chinese turnover tax system. Asia Pacific Law Review, 3(1), 84. [Link]
Li, G. (2009). Some important issues in Chinese tax system: An empirical analysis. Liaodong Xueyuan Xuebao (Shehui Kexue Ban)/Journal of Eastern Liaoning University (Social Sciences), 11(3), 33-38. [Link]
Riccardi, L., SpringerLink (Online service), & SpringerLink ebooks – Humanities,Social Sciences and Law. (2013). Chinese tax law and international treaties. DE: Springer International Publishing. [Link]
Personalized learning for every student, quality teaching, flexibility and choice, and learning empowered by technology – these goals of the BC Education Plan are central to effective school library programs. Teacher-librarians collaborate with teachers so that kids engage in inquiry and have greater opportunities to employ critical thinking and creativity. Never before has there been a better time for teachers to learn to teach with teacher librarians than now. In this National School Library Day conversation, we hear from this expert panel as they talk about the role of teacher-librarians and school libraries in the BC Education Plan.
Speakers:
Gino Bondi, District Principal, Specialty Programs, Vancouver School District
Patricia Finlay, District Teacher Librarian , Burnaby School District
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law.
This talk revisits the issue of including lesbians and gay men as spouses for tax purposes. It highlights existing concerns about this policy, including the fact that it results in a privatization of economic security within relationships. The lecture also considers the impact of changes to the income tax system that permit spouses to split income and concludes that these changes exacerbate existing inequalities and reinforce heteronormativity by rewarding the traditional family in which one spouse is the breadwinner and the other remains at home. The recommendation is that all tax rules that take spousal status into account be abolished and we return to the individual as the unit of taxation.
About the Speaker:
Claire Young
Professor, UBC Faculty of Law
Prior to joining the Faculty of Law in 1992, Claire Young practiced law with the Alberta Attorney-General’s department for several years and taught law at the University of Western Ontario from 1984-1992.She is the co-author of two books and the author of numerous articles on tax law and policy. Her research interests include feminist legal theory and sexuality and the law. She was awarded the Killam prize for excellence in teaching in 1998 and 2002. In 1999 she held the Dunhill Madden Butler Visiting Chair in Women and the Law at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has consulted with the Department of Finance and several international organizations on tax policy issues and is currently a member of the Joint Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Development Research Centre (IRDC) research team (based in London, U.K.) working on The Gender Responsive Budget Project. In 2003 Professor Young was awarded the Therese Casgrain Fellowship in recognition of her research on women and economic issues.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Young, C. (2011). Pensions, privatization, and poverty: The gendered impact. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 23(2), 661. [Link]
Young, C. F. L. (1994). Tax and the family: Law 409. Vancouver: U.B.C. Faculty of Law.
Young, C. F., & Canada. Status of Women Canada. (2000). Women, tax and social programs: The gendered impact of funding social programs through the tax system. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada.
Young, C. (2003). Tax policy, theoretical explorations, and social realities. Canadian Tax Journal, 51(5), 1922. [Link]
THE NEXT AWARDS RECIPIENTS WON’T RAISE THEIR OWN HANDS. THAT’S WHY WE NEED YOU! NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN.
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