From December 1 to January 31, 2012 you can provide feedback about IKBLC’s art exhibition, Rocks of Interest to a Young Geologist. “Rocks of Interest To A Young Geologist” By Ruth Beer
The photographs in this exhibition engage with ideas inspired by the formations and visible properties in geological rock samples. Many of the rocks presented in these photographs were collected by a young geologist last summer in the mountains of BC, Yukon and Nunavut. They were collected because they are tangible examples of time, material, form and events. From an artist’s perspective, in addition to formal and descriptive elements of color, texture and form, their intangible qualities are of interest as they reference dynamic shifts of contemporary experience juxtaposing our understanding of what we claim to know, the uncertainty of geological materials and forces that impact everyday life, and the romanticism of a future that is barely graspable.
Watch this webcast from Huddle 2011, as it features presenters who work and volunteer in the environmental sector in Vancouver, BC. This panel discussion, which featured experts from local media, political leaders, NGO and non-profit representatives and academics, engaged in roundtable discussion on their experiences engaging a diverse public in their work in the environmental sector. In addition, this discussion also explored how different sectors might better work together to further engagement.
Panelists include:
Arzeena Hamir, Richmond Food Security Society (Coordinator)
Claudia Li, SharkTruth (Founder)
Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, Department of Political Science UBC (Instructor)
Tricia Sedgwick, World in a Garden (Founder)
Audrea Chan, Fairchild Television (Senior Reporter)
(a) “How have recent policy shifts in Mongolia shaped environmental management in the mining sector?” by Kirsten Dales, MSc Candidate, Master in Environmental Management, Royal Roads University
(b) “What role are environmental movements playing in Mongolia’s civil society?” by D. Byambajav, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Hokkaido University, Japan
(c) “How is the mining boom affecting the macroeconomic stability and competitiveness of Mongolia?” by Dr. N. Bolor, Freelance Consultant, Toronto, Canada, Formerly Associate Professor, National University of Mongolia and Policy Analyst, Mongolian National Mining Association
(d) “How is China viewed in Mongolia?” by J. Mendee, MA Asia Pacific Policy Studies, MA Candidate, Political Science, UBC
(e) “The Mongolian government wants to overcome charges of corruption. How can governance be improved?” by Hon. Jim Abbott PC, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Cooperation (retired)
(f) “How stable is Mongolian democracy? What likelihood is there for radical change in the political context of economic development?” by Julian Derkes, Dr. Julian Dierkes, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Program on Inner Asia,UBC
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Mongolia Lecture Series at the Institute of Asian Research, UBC and supported by Prophecy Coal Corporation.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Barton, K., & Ellard, C. (2012). Insight into human navigation in urban environments from Mongolian gerbils (meriones unguiculatus). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology-Revue Canadienne de Psychologie Experimentale, 66(4), 291-292. [Link]
Yamamura, N., Fujita, N., & Maekawa, A. (2013). The Mongolian ecosystem network: Environmental issues under climate and social changes (1. Aufl. ed.). Springer Japan. [Link]
Neupert, R. F. (1999). Population, nomadic pastoralism and the environment in the mongolian plateau. Population and Environment, 20(5), 413. [Link]
We are excited to announce that Kevin McNeilly and percussionist Nicholas Jacques will be performing from McNeilly’s latest work, Embouchere on January 26, 2012 – 2.00pm to 3.00pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm 301) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Kevin McNeilly’s debut poetry collection, Embouchure, compiles the intertwined lineages of trumpet players who came to prominence in the States during the “pre-bop” era, loosely defined as the period between 1890 and 1939. This series of vignettes betrays a broad and detailed knowledge of the players’ lives and work, yet reads like a collection of conversational anecdotes shared between the musicians and those around them. Rather than focusing on the solid facts of their lives, McNeilly brings to life the characters they inhabited and stories that surrounded them, all in a vibrant, slangy dialect that adeptly reproduces the feel of the period.
Within the course of Embouchure’s thirty-seven portraits, Buddy, Satch, Bix, Jabbo, Cootie, Cat and the rest are resurrected in their smoky, brassy, sepia-toned glory as figures deeply steeped in their own mythos. Despite embracing the fictional aspects of their lives, however, McNeilly styles these remarkable men and women with pure love and admiration, not only for their shared history and contribution to the evolution of jazz, but also for the pure, loud, messy beauty of the music itself. In this stunning and highly readable debut, McNeilly boasts finely honed poetic chops, proving that heart remains the first and finest ingredient in any truly virtuosic solo.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health Series. This study asks whether obesity is associated with young women’s life course childbearing experiences. Weight is a physical status with important biological and social components that is linked to several proximate determinants of fertility. As such, negative consequences of obesity may accumulate over the life course leading obese young women to be stratified into disadvantaged positions for childbearing. This leads to hypotheses that obese young women have fewer children, a higher risk of remaining childless and later timing of first birth than their non-obese counterparts. Twenty-three years of data from a sample of NLSY79 female respondents who were ages 20 to 24 in 1981 are analyzed to test these hypotheses, which are all supported. In fact, obese women’s predicted probability of remaining childless is almost the same as their probability of winning a coin toss. Their estimated probability for giving birth in each study year is even lower. Results confirm obese young women’s position of disadvantage for childbearing and suggest that negative consequences of obesity accumulate across a life domain that is incredibly important for the vast majority of American women.
Biography
Michelle Frisco is an Assistant Professor of Sociology & Demography at Penn State University. Her research focuses on intersections between family life, education, and health/health risk-behavior during adolescence and the transition to adulthood. Much of her previous scholarship identifies the ways that family structure, family structure transitions, and different aspects of parenting influence adolescent health and well-being. Her most recent research, has examined the consequences of body weight for adolescent mental health and family formation trajectories with an eye towards understanding the complexities in these associations.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Frisco, M. L., & Weden, M. (2013). Early Adult Obesity and US Women’s Lifetime Childbearing Experiences. Journal of Marriage and Family, 75(4), 920-932. [Link]
Frisco, M. L., Weden, M. M., Lippert, A. M., & Burnett, K. D. (2012). The multidimensional relationship between early adult body weight and women’s childbearing experiences. Social Science & Medicine, 74(11), 1703-1711. [Link]
Kane, J. B., & Frisco, M. L. (2013). Obesity, school obesity prevalence, and adolescent childbearing among US young women. Social Science & Medicine. [Link]
Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an iconic Canadian poet, novelist, theorist, little-magazine editor, and itinerant university instructor (creative writing, women’s studies, and contemporary literature). She is the founding co-editor of Tessera, the bilingual journal of feminist theory, and has co-edited several other magazines. Since the 1980s, she has served as writer-in-residence at numerous universities across Canada and mentored at Sage Hill (Saskatchewan) and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Author of ten collections of poetry, her most recent book is The Given (McClelland and Stewart, 2008). Meredith Quartermain is best known as a writer of urban spaces and as an innovator of poetic form. Her Vancouver Walking (2005) won the BC Book Award for Poetry, and Nightmarker (2008) was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award. Her poetry also includes the inventive and critically acclaimed Matter (2008) and Recipes from the Red Planet (2010). Her work appears regularly in magazines such as The Walrus, Canadian Literature, Matrix, and Prism International, and she is cofounder of Nomados Literary Publishers, which has published more than 30 books of contemporary writing.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Marlatt, D., Muse, P., & Project Muse University Press eBooks. (2014). Rivering the poetry of daphne marlatt Wilfrid Laurier University Press. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by Green College. In searching for explanations of children’s behavior—including successes and failures in life and in the school—researchers and policy makers have focused primarily on causal factors whether inside or outside of the child, factors over which the child has no control and hence no responsibility. David Olson’s attempt is to turn the table and explain children’s behavior in terms of actions and experiences within a moral framework of responsibility and accountability. As agents of their own actions, children are not only the causes of their behavior but they are also responsible for their behavior. The nature and development of agency in children and the implications of neglecting childhood agency in explanations of learning and development are examined. It is argued that the development of a sense of responsibility is an important step in the gaining of wisdom.
Select Articles and Books from UBC Library
Main, F. O. (1996). David Olson: On assessment and families. The Family Journal, 4(2), 174-179. doi:10.1177/1066480796042015 [Link]
Olson, D. R. (2007). Self-ascription of intention: Responsibility, obligation and self-control. Synthese, 159(2), 297-314. doi:10.1007/s11229-007-9209-2 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable. Joy Kogawa (Naomi’s Tree) and Maggie DeVries (Hunger Journeys and Chance and the Butterfly) will discuss the ways in which contemporary children’s literature can address the effects of social conflict in the world, and at the same time inspire hope and a desire to bring about positive change. This event, presented in conjunction with MOA’s exhibition ひろしま hiroshima.
Speaker Biographies
Joy Kogawa is a poet and novelist. She is best known for her award-winning novel OBASAN (1981), one of the Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books. She is a Member of the ORDER OF CANADA and of the ORDER OF BRITISH COLUMBIA. She has received honourary doctorates from many Canadian universities and was the recipient of a NAJC National Award from the National Association of Japanese Canadians (2001). In 2008 she was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.
Maggie de Vries has taught children’s literature courses in the department of Language and Literacy Education at UBC, and has taught at Simmons College in Boston, and Langara College. She has also been a children’s book editor at Orca Book Publishers, and a Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library.
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture is presented by the Laurier Institution, Yahoo!, UBC Continuing Studies and CBC Radio One. Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the distribution of attention in mainstream and new media, the use of technology for international development, and the use of new media technologies by activists.With Rebecca MacKinnon, Zuckerman co-founded international blogging community Global Voices. Global Voices showcases news and opinions from citizen media in over 150 nations and thirty languages, publishing editions in twenty languages. Through Global Voices and through the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, where he served as a researcher and fellow for eight years, Zuckerman is active in efforts to promote freedom of expression and fight censorship in online spaces. In 2000, Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a technology volunteer corps that sends IT specialists to work on projects in developing nations, with a focus on West Africa. Previously he helped found Tripod.com, one of the web’s first “personal publishing” sites. He blogs at http://ethanzuckerman.com/blog. He received his bachelor’s degree from Williams College, and, as a Fulbright scholar, studied at the University of Ghana at Legon.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Zuckerman, E. (2014). New media, new civics? Policy & Internet, 6(2), 151-168. doi:10.1002/1944-2866.POI360. [Link]
Zuckerman, E. (2012). A small world after all? The Wilson Quarterly (1976-), 36(2), 44-47. [Link]
Zuckerman, E. (2010). International reporting in the age of participatory media. Daedalus, 139(2), 66-75. doi:10.1162/daed.2010.139.2.66. [Link]
Zuckerman, E. (2008; 2007). Meet the bridgebloggers. Public Choice, 134(1/2), 47-65. doi:10.1007/s11127-007-9200-y. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Using examples from her collaborative and applied work with the Doig River First Nation, a Dane-zaa Athapaskan group in northeastern BC, folklorist Amber Ridington will discuss some of the issues of cultural representation and cultural property that have surfaced and have been mediated within the Doig River community, and other Dane-zaa communities with shared interests, during a sequence of digital cultural heritage projects since 1999.
These collaborative projects began with simple goals of digital preservation and digital repatriation, and have expanded their scope and implications to include cultural reclamation and language revitalization as they have grown to incorporate participatory ethnography, participatory exhibition, and global distribution through the Internet. Doig River’s most recent collaborative project with Amber is the award winning virtual exhibit, Dane-Wajich – Dane-zaa
Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land hosted by the Virtual Museum of Canada (www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Danewajich 2007). This exhibition integrates subtitled Dane-zaa and English video narratives, interpretive e-text, photographs of the production process, recordings of archival songs, and contemporary and archival images of traditional lands in order to showcase Dane-zaa culture and to address present concerns faced by the community as they negotiate legacies of colonialism and a changing relationship to the land.
These projects signify the possibilities and challenges for the use of digital media to both conserve and represent Indigenous heritage. Amber will discuss her efforts to recontextualize archival materials and standardize the catalogue system, the development of a community defined process of documentation and self representation, and Doig River’s initiatives to balance protecting and sharing their cultural heritage materials with the public through a tradition based attribution and clearance protocol for the use and distribution of archival heritage materials.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Ridington, A. (2006). Drawing on identity: Inkameep day school and art collection:Drawing on identity: Inkameep day school and art collection. Museum Anthropology, 29(1), 73-75. doi:10.1525/mua.2006.29.1.73. [Link]
Ridington, R. (1990). Little bit know something: Stories in a language of anthropology. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. [Link]
Dickinson, W. (2008). Society for visual anthropology. Anthropology News, 49(9), 58-58. doi:10.1111/an.2008.49.9.58. [Link]