The Student Leadership Conference took place on Saturday January 14, 2012. As UBC’s largest student-run conference, the SLC provides over 1100 delegates with the opportunity to achieve their personal breakthroughs through engaging workshops and speakers. Watch this UBC This Week video for more information.
Dodson Music Series at IKBLC Presents “Entartete Musik – music suppressed under Nazism”
The next concert in the Dodson Music Series will take place on Friday January 27th at 12:00 pm in the Dodson Room of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
“Entartete Musik – music suppressed under Nazism” will consist of music by composers who were suppressed during the Third Reich. “Entartete Musik” was a term used by the Nazis to defame atonal music, jazz, and works by Jewish composers as “degenerate”.
The targeted composers included Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weill, Goldschmidt, and Waxman. Many of them emigrated to the United States, and some had illustrious careers as film music composers in Hollywood.
Students of the UBC School of Music will present a varied programme of vocal and instrumental music by Messiaen, Zemlinsky, and Schulhoff. They will offer a view into the musical world of Weimar Germany, and the artistry in defiance of oppression that was the musical world of Nazi concentration camps.
The concert series is directed by Leah Giselle Field. Admission is free.
IKBLC Art Exhibition – "Rocks of Interest to a Young Geologist"
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
http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/artevaluation.html
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.
Huddle 2011 – Environmental Issues Panel webcast online
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)
FAQ Mongolia: Some Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions on (Mining) Policy
(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]
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Kevin McNeilly's Robson Reading at IKBLC (with Percussionist Nicholas Jacques), January 26th
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.
To register for this event, please go to: http://kevinmcneilly.eventbrite.com/
Michelle Frisco – Obesity and Women's Fertility Trajectories
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]
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Daphne Marlatt and Meredith Quartermain – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
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]
Anonymous. (2004). Eras eros: Erotic collages by meredith quartermain. Windsor Review, 37(1), 109. [Link]
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The Search for the Beginnings of Wisdom: Agency, Intentionality and Responsibility in Childhood
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]
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Joy Kogawa and Maggie Devries – An Evening with Acclaimed Canadian Authors Joy Kogawa and Maggie DeVries
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.
Select Books Available at UBC Library
Kogawa, Joy. (2008). Naomi’s Tree. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside. [Link]
Kogawa, Joy. (2003). Obasan. Toronto, ON: Penguin Canada. [Link]
De Vries, Maggie. (2011). Somebody’s Girl. Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers. [Link]
De Vries, Maggie. (2010). Hunger Journeys. Toronto, ON: Harper Trophy Canada. [Link]
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