Barbara Herrnstein Smith – Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Philosophy Department’s Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture. Professor Smith (Duke University) is a leading literary theorist and critic, and also a major contributor to Science and Technology Studies, bringing together insights from literary and critical theory with those from history and philosophy of science. Among her honours are visiting appointments at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the US National Humanities Center, and the Rockefeller Foundation Center at Bellagio. She is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Smith, B. H., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2009). Natural reflections: Human cognition at the nexus of science and religion. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. [Link]
Smith, B. H., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2005). Scandalous knowledge: Science, truth and the human. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. [Link]
Smith, B. H. (1997). Belief and resistance: Dynamics of contemporary intellectual controversy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Smith, B. H. (1988). Contingencies of value: Alternative perspectives for critical theory. London, Eng; Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
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Information and Display Booth Booking Form
Please submit your request to have an information and display booth (map) in the Level 2 concourse of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Community Workshops
Since 2008, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has collaborated with UBC Library, the History Department, researchers, interested individuals and community organizations across Canada on this program. As a community engagement initiative, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has collaborated with twenty-seven community organizations funded by the CHRP in promoting the Chinese Canadian Stories: Uncommon Histories from a Common Past web portal.
Summer Workshop (10 Aug 2010 & 12 Aug 2010)
January 8, 2011 – Oral History Workshop, Chinatown
January 15, 2011 – CHRP Community Workshop at IKBLC
June 11, 2011 – Chinatown Workshop
July 12-14, 2011 – CHRP Digitization Workshop
Public Presentations
2013
British Columbia Library Association BCLA 2013 Conference (Richmond, BC) – “Chinese Canadian Stories”: a University–Community Collaboration Project.”
Canadian Library Association Conference 2013 (Winnipeg, Manitoba) – “Chinese Canadian Stories: A University-Community Initiative.”
Richmond Delta Regional Heritage Fair
As part of its community engagement mandate, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre has presented to public school teachers at the K-12 sector on the materials created by the Chinese Canadian Stories project and widely available for use and download via the Chinese Canadian Stories website.
On May 3, 2013, the Community Engagement Librarian at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre collaborated with Richmond Museum for the 11th annual Richmond Delta Regional Heritage Fair on May 3, 2013. Other public and community outreach focused efforts include:
- Workshops for elementary school students and teachers using the Chinese Canadian Stories video presentations, the interactive Gold Mountain Quest video game, and learning resources from TC Squared
- Consultation with Richmond Museum Educational Program Coordinator for integration of Chinese Canadian Stories into the museum’s learning resources.
- Provided write-up for Richmond Heritage Fair educational resources page
- Worked with Provincial Fair Coordinator for write-up for the BC Heritage Fair Society Newsletter
- Promoted to British Columbia public libraries through the BCLA Diversity and Multicultural Services Committee Resources page.
HCI Research in the Context of E-Commerce: Studies of Customer-Technology-Company Communications on the Internet
Please mark your calendars for the last HCI@UBC lunch forum of the Winter 1 term featuring Professor Izak Benbasat from the UBC Sauder School of Business. Food will be provided. Please spread the word among your colleagues, students, lab mates.
Given that an ecommerce web site is a company’s “window to the world”, customers interact directly with a number of information technology artifacts provided by the company (such as, product recommendation software, videos for product presentations) as well as entities within that company (such as, sales assistants) and other customers (such as, collaborative shopping) via information technology mediated channels.
HCI design and evaluation in this specific context have two major components: 1) the first resembles traditional HCI work in that a customer has to interact with a computer interface to reach the online company, and 2) the second is about communication between the customer and the company that is necessary for trading to occur. The first type of interaction is designed to enhance customers’ efficiency, effectiveness and shopping enjoyment by providing high quality information technology-based services, and the second type of interaction, or more correctly communication, is intended to improve customers’ trust in online merchants, reduce their perceived risks of buying on the web, and increase their loyalty to web merchants and commitment to online shopping.
Benbasat has conducted over 20 studies with colleagues and graduate students over the last decade investigating a wide range of topics that included: how to improve product understanding on the web; how to provide services to customers via IT support; improving customers’ purchase quality via recommendation agent use, designing product recommendations agents that are trustworthy, and designing social interfaces to such agents; collaborative shopping; and reducing risk and deception in electronic commerce. The talk will provide a brief summary of these studies and their findings, and describe their practical implications for HCI designers and users of electronic commerce for improving the online shopping experiences of customers.
Biography
Izak Benbasat is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Management at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in Information Systems from the Association for Information Systems in 2007, and was conferred the title of Distinguished Fellow by the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) Information Systems Society in 2009. He was awarded the UBC Killam Research Prize in 1998 and the Killam Teaching Prize in 1996.
Wednesday December 11, 12.00-1.00PM, Lillooet Room (Rm 301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Josephine Etowa – Strengthening Leadership in Community Health Nursing and Collaborative Partnerships
In today’s complex dialogues of an ever changing health care system, nursing leaders are being required to think and work across boundaries; both to build collaborative visions and to accomplish those visions together through joint goal setting and active pursuit of those goals. Having stakeholders share commonalities of purpose have been associated with productive environment and positive health outcomes, which rightly serve the common good of Canadians. And there are reasons to believe that collaborative partnerships are effective strategies for promoting health outcomes, especially in community-based efforts. What is equally important to effective collaborative partnership is the leadership necessary to promote and sustain it. This includes leaders who have a passion for change and expertise in politics, policy making and implementation as well as communication.
This keynote lecture examines and discusses various aspects of the kind of leadership needed in community health nursing and effective collaborative partnerships including the processes, activities, and relationships necessary deal with the challenge of collaboration. It uses current research to uncover the conditions that inhibit or hinder collaborative leadership in community health and the characteristics of successful collaborative leaders. The speaker concludes with a discussion of the vital role that community health nurses may play in promoting innovation in community health practice and collaborative leadership. Hosted by the UBC School of Nursing’s 2013 Marion Woodward Lecture. The Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward’s Foundation has generously supported the annual Marion Woodward Lecture since 1969.
Biography
Dr Josephine B. Etowa is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing. Dr Etowa completed her BSc. N and MN degrees from Dalhousie University and her PhD in Nursing at the University of Calgary. She completed a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) Post-Doctoral Fellowship focusing on diversity within Canadian nursing at the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa. Her research program which is grounded in over twenty-three years of clinical practice is in the area of inequity in health and health care as well as maternal-newborn health. Her research projects have been funded by international, national, provincial and local agencies and these projects are guided by the tenets of qualitative research and participatory action research (PAR). In an effort to explicate the complexities of the social realities often embedded in nursing research, she also uses mixed research methods including integration of both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
McGibbon, E. A., & Etowa, J. B. (2009). Anti-racist health care practice. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
Vukic, A., Jesty, C., Mathews, S. V., & Etowa, J. (2012). Understanding race and racism in nursing: Insights from aboriginal nurses. ISRN Nursing, 2012(4), 1-9. doi:10.5402/2012/196437. [Link]
Etowa, J., Vukic, A., & Jesty, C. (2011). Indigenous nurses’ stories: Perspectives on the cultural context of aboriginal health care work. Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 31(2), 29. [Link]
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Richard Wagamese – Reading of "Indian Horse"
“Wagamese pulls off a fine balancing act: exposing the horrors of the country’s residential schools while also celebrating Canada’s national game.” – James Grainger, Globe & Mail
“Wagemese’s writing qualifies as an act of courage.” – Donna Bailey Nurse, National Post
“If we want to live at peace with ourselves, we need to tell our stories.” – Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
In this emotional tale of Saul Indian Horse, Richard Wagamese tells the realistic story of a man whose life is drastically changed by one of Canada’s most painful histories. When Saul was a child he was taken away from his family and forced into an Indian Residential School where he witnessed and experienced unimaginable abuses at the hands of the school’s educators. In spite of the harrowing atrocities, it is at the school that Saul discovers his love of hockey, a game that, for a short time, serves as a means of escape. Saul’s talent leads to a draft with a minor league team and a spot on Team Canada during the 1972 Canada-Soviet Summit Series. However, as Saul grows into a man, he struggles with racism and alcohol addiction. Saul’s tumultuous adulthood eventually leads him back to his roots, where he confronts his past and begins a new journey towards healing.
Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway author from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. He is the author of several fiction and non-fiction works including For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son, Runaway Dreams, and Indian Horse. Wagamese has also been a journalist and, in 1991, became the first Aboriginal Canadian to receive the National Newspaper Award for Column Writing. His most recent novel, Indian Horse, was chosen as the winner of First Nation Communities Read, and is on the Globe and Mail’s bestseller’s list as well as the Canadian Booksellers Association’s bestseller’s list. Among his awards, Wagamese’s memoir One Native Life was listed as one of The Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2008. In 2010 he accepted an Honorary Doctor of Letters from Thompson Rivers University. Wagamese currently lives just outside of Kamloops, BC with his wife, Debra Powell, and Molly the Story Dog.
Library Resources
Wagamese, Richard. Medicine Walk. Toronto: Doubleday, 2014. [Available at Xwi7xwa Library – YF W34 M43 2014]
Wagamese, Richard. Indian Horse. Toronto: McLelland & Stewart, 2012. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8595.A363 I64 2012]
Wagamese, Richard. Dream Wheels: A Novel. Toronto: Anchor Books, 2007. [Available at Xwi7xwa Library – YF W34 D74 2007]
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Ron Deibert – Under Cover of the Net: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of Cyberspace
Professor Deibert is Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development hothouse working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights. He was one of the authors of the Tracking Ghostnet report that documented an alleged cyber-espionage network affecting over 1200 computers in 103 countries, and the Shadows in the Cloud report, which analyzed a cloud-based espionage network. He is the author of the forthcoming book Black Code: the battle for the future of cyberspace (McClelland & Stewart, 2013). He has been a consultant and advisor to governments, international organizations, and civil society/NGOs on issues relating to cyber security, cyber crime, online free expression, and access to information.
Biography
Ron Deibert, (OOnt, PhD, University of British Columbia) is Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and theCitizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development hothouse working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights. He is a co-founder and a principal investigator of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor (2003-2012) projects. Deibert was one of the founders and (former) VP of global policy and outreach for Psiphon Inc.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Deibert, R., Canadian Public Policy Collection, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, & Canadian Electronic Library (Firm). (2012). Distributed security as cyber strategy outlining a comprehensive approach for Canada in cyberspace. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. [Link]
Deibert, R., & Canadian Public Policy Collection. (2013). Canada and the challenges of cyberspace governance and security. School of Public Policy, University of Calgary. [Link]
Deibert, R. (2015). The geopolitics of cyberspace after Snowden. Current History, 114(768), 9-9.
Deibert, R. (2012). Distributed security as cyber strategy: Outlining a comprehensive approach for Canada in cyberspace. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 14(2). [Link]
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