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Pat O'Malley – The Politics of Mass Preventive Justice

October 31, 2011

Hosted by Green College as part of the Knowledge Brokers and Knowledge Formats symposium. Today, the study of knowledge production, knowledge formats and knowledge politics is being developed across a wide variety of research fields. Along with the work of scholars such as Ian Hacking, Mary Poovey, and Bruno Latour, the work of the late Green College Principal, Richard Ericson, have all on policing, risk, the news media, and the insurance industry made an important contribution not only to these substantive areas but also to the methodological tools that scholars use in their everyday study of knowledge‐power processes. Jointly sponsored by Green College, UBC, and the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

O’Malley, P. (2004). Risk, uncertainty and government. London; Portland, Or: GlassHouse.

O’Malley, P. (2009). The currency of justice: Fines and damages in consumer societies. New York; Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.]: Routledge-Cavendish.

O’Malley, P. (2011). The currency of freedom? Social & Legal Studies, 20(4), 546-556. doi:10.1177/096466391102000408 [Link]

O’Malley, P. (2011). Politicizing the case for fines. Criminology & Public Policy, 10(3), 547-553. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2011.00736.x [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Political Science

Courts, Laws & Politics

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Past 2010 Olympic Events

October 8, 2011

Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Related Events at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

The Olympics has come and gone, but here is an archive of the programming schedule that the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre had sponsored in 2010.

October Events

Drugs in the Olympics

Drugs in the Olympics

October 14, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00pm Check back for the video podcast
 St. John’s College Olympics Lecture Series: Drugs in the Olympics.

The programming group recorded the St. John’s College Olympics Lecture Series: Drugs in the Olympics by Dr. John Hoberman, University of Texas. Dr. Hoberman is a European cultural and intellectual historian and has done extensive research on sports doping and the intersection of sports, politics, science, public opinion and the Olympics.He has taught courses on sport and politics at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and The University of Texas at Austin

November Events

The Olympics and Freedom of Speech

The Olympics and Freedom of Speech

November 19, 2009 at 5:30 pm Check back for the video podcast
Chapman Discussion Series Presents: The Olympics and Freedom of Speech Discussion featuring expert panelists and an interactive discussion.
Come and take part in this timely discussion about the Olympics and its effect on our freedom of speech.  Expert speakers include:

  • Daniel W. Burnett, UBC Graduate School of Journalism professor, media law expert;
  • Margot Young, UBC Law, constitutional law expert, and coauthor of Poverty: Human Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism.
  • Robert Diab, UBC Law / Capilano University professor and author of Guantanamo north: terrorism and the administration of justice in Canada, nominated for a 2009 Ryga award.
Ian Chan

Ian Chan

November 23, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Chapman Discussion Series Presents: Free Film Screening of Murderball with Q&A with Ian Chan and Duncan Campbell.
Come and watch a screening of the film Murderball, which features the intense rivalry of the Canadian and American quad rugby teams between the 2002 World Championships in Sweden and the 2004 Paralympics in Athens. Featured speaker include Ian Chan, an Olympic Wheelchair Rugby player who appears in the film and Duncan Campbell, the “father†of the sport. Both will be available to answer questions in the post-screening Q&A session. For more information, see these reviews of Murderball or this brief backgrounder on Ian Chan and Duncan Campbell.

Jean Barman

Jean Barman

November 26, 2:00 -3:00 pm
The Robson Reading Series Presents: Jean Barman. Check back for the video podcast.
In 2008, British Columbia celebrated the founding of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and 150 years of cultural diversity, community and achievement.  As a celebration of this milestone, Jean Barman’s British Columbia: Spirit of the People captures the rich selection of archival images depicting the province’s past paired with iconic and stunning colour photographs capturing the diversity of the modern landscape.

  • When: November 26, 2-3pm
  • Where: Lillooet Room 301, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.

December Events

December 18 – March 1, 2010
Gallery Exhibit on UBC’s Unique Olympic Legacy.
Organized by the Library Olympics programming committee, the exhibit features material from University Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections, Musqueam Indian Band, cIRcle, Public Affairs, UBC Reports, and the Athletic department. Five exhibit cases cover UBC’s Olympic legacy through a look at sport – medaled athletes, athletes turned scholars, sports teams that live on forever, and multicultural sports traditions.

Some highlights include photographs of Quene Yip, a Chinese Canadian athlete; Harry Warren, a Great Trekker and Olympian; an indepth look at Rowing through the years; a look at the movers and shakers behind the scenes such as coach Tom Johnson, director Bob Osborne, and doctor Doug Clement; and photographs of Q’aysca:m, a sporting figure for the Musqueam.

  • When: December 18- March 1, 2010
  • Where: Gallery, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.

December 18- March 1, 2010
Gallery Exhibit on UBC’s Unique Olympic Legacy.

Organized by the Library Olympics programming committee, the exhibit features material from University Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections, Musqueam Indian Band, cIRcle, Public Affairs, UBC Reports, and the Athletic department. Five exhibit cases cover UBC’s Olympic legacy through a look at sport – medaled athletes, athletes turned scholars, sports teams that live on forever, and multicultural sports traditions.

Some highlights include photographs of Quene Yip, a Chinese Canadian athlete; Harry Warren, a Great Trekker and Olympian; an indepth look at Rowing through the years; a look at the movers and shakers behind the scenes such as coach Tom Johnson, director Bob Osborne, and doctor Doug Clement; and photographs of Q’aysca:m, a sporting figure for the Musqueam.

  • When: December 18 – March 1, 2010
  • Where: Gallery, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.

January Events

January 14, 2010, 2:00 – 3:00 PM, book signing 7:00PMstart.
Robson Reading Series Presents: Ian Ferguson.

Ian Ferguson is an award-winning playwright and humorist whose commentaries have been widely broadcast on radio and television. He is the creator of the live improvised soap operas Die-Nasty and Sin City and is currently writing a sitcom pilot for a major U.S. television network. With his brother Will, he is co-author of the runaway best-seller How to Be a Canadian. As a guidebook, How to Be a Canadian tackles the many humorous complexities and nuances of what it means to be Canadian.

  • When: Book reading 2-3pm, Book signing at UBC Bookstore.
  • Where: Dodson Room 302, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan.
  • Book signing is at 7pm at the UBC Library/Bookstore Robson Square: Ian Ferguson and Mark Leiren-Young

January 21, 2010, 7:00 PM.
The programming group presents: PechaKucha Inspired Olympics Forum.

This event will present the many voices, ideas, and colours of the Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver by students and staff. Usually pronounced in three syllables like “pe-chak-cha”, a Pecha Kucha is a presentation format in which content can be easily, efficiently and informally shown. Under the format, a presenter shows 20 images for 20 seconds apiece, for a total time of 6 minutes, 40 seconds. Join us for this exciting event. Attendees can enter a draw for free 2010 Games Tickets and vote on their favourite presentation. The winner will receive a prize of $500.

  • When: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7PM start.
  • Where: Lillooet Room 301. Here is a floor plan.

Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4PM.

Olympics Games Impact (OGI) Study Researchers at IKBLC.

Rob VanWynsberghe and his research team will present on the International Olympic Committee sponsored Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Study that was developed to objectively measure and assign attribution to the potential effects of the Olympic and Paralympic Games on the host city, region and country, their environment and their citizens. For more information about the study please see http://www.ogi-ubc.ca. The OGI research team will present a short and visually engaging overview, as well as discuss their research approach, and will encourage the audience to share their opinions. Prior to this session, the OGI team will share informational posters outlining their research and preliminary findings in the IKBLC main foyer.

  • When: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4PM start.
  • Where: Lillooet Room 301. Here is a floorplan.

Feb 1- Mar 1, 2010
The IKBLC Gallery presents: “Snow, ice and gold” an exhibit curated by the Westcoast Calligraphy Society

  • When: Feb 1- Feb 12, 2010
  • Where: Gallery, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Here is a floor plan

 

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Leung Ping-kwan – Literary Adaptation and Cultural Negotiation in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1950s

October 7, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the department of Asian Studies. Professor Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞 (pen name: Ye Si 也斯) is a highly prolific poet, novelist, cultural critic, and multimedia artist. Dr. Leung is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His recent research on the film culture of Hong Kong in the 1950s forms the basis of this year’s Wat Lecture. Contrary to the common belief that Hong Kong cinema excels only in martial arts and gangster genres but has little to do with literature, recent research (Hong Kong Film and Literature Filmography, 1913-2000 [Hong Kong: Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University, 2005]) has shown that more than a thousand Hong Kong films have been adapted from literature since the beginning of the film industry (with the 1950s and 1960s as the high points). This talk examines how Hong Kong culture has evolved since the 1950s, and examines how directors and writers drew on traditional and modern Chinese literary works as well as foreign and popular resources to develop alternative Chinese cultures–cultures that would not have been possible to develop in Mainland China.

Hong Kong cinema from the 1950s made adaptations not only from mainstream twentieth-century writers such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun but also from unacknowledged writers such as Shen Congwen and Eileen Chang. It continued to adapt from the literary works of Tolstoy, Maupassant, and Dickens when its counterpart in the mainland had ceased to do so. And it continued to adapt from traditional opera and romance (the “Mandarin Duck and Butterfly” stories) when the latter were severely criticized in the north.

This talk focuses in particular on some rarely seen films adapted from Lu Xun, Tolstoy, and traditional opera. Its objectives are to highlight the literary varieties in Hong Kong culture, to clarify its historical links with Chinese and Western cultures, and at the same time to trace the formation of the characteristics that contributed to the development of Hong Kong culture.

The Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lectures are made possible by the generous support of Messrs. Alex and Chi Shum Watt in honor of their mother, the late Mrs. Wat, and her passion for Chinese literature and culture.

Biography

Leung Ping-kwan teaches literature and film studies at Lingnan University and has published extensively on urban culture and film studies, among which are Hong Kong Culture (1995) and Hong Kong Literature and Cinema (2012). He has published fifteen volumes of poems, a novel, a novella and four collections of short stories, as well as 10 volumes of essays on urban culture. He was awarded Artist of the Year 2011, Writer of the Year 2012, and he is a recipient of an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Literature conferred by the University of Zurich, Switzerland in 2012 for achievements in creative writing, and his contributions to the studies of modern Chinese literature.

Select Books and Articles Available at UBC Library

Leung, Ping-kwan. (2007). Islands and Continents: Short Stories by Leung Ping-kwan. John Minford, Brian Holton, Agnes Hung-chong Chan (Eds.) Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [Link]

Leung, Ping-kwan (2012). City At the End of Time: Poems by Leung Ping-kwan. Trans. Gordon T. Osing and Leung Ping-kwan. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Chinese Film Studies

Chinese Literature

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Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment

October 6, 2011

Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment

Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment

In the Human Orrery, people play the role of the moving planets. The model provides an accurate map of the orbits of the six naked-eye planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – and shows their motions around the Sun. The exhibit also explores the Solar System beyond Saturn to Pluto, Eris and the most distant, man-made object in space. Join us in an interactive exhibit presented by the class of Astronomy 310 – Exploring the Solar System as part of the Carl Wiemen Science Education Initiative at UBC.

The public session will take place on Wednesday, Oct 12 – 2:00-3:00pm.

 

Online Resources

Newbury, Peter.  Exploring the Solar System with a Human Orrery.  The Physics Teacher — December 2010 — Volume 48, Issue 9, pp. 573

 

UBC Journals

Sky and telescope.  I.K Barber Learning Centre – QB1 .S536 [Online is also available] – 1941-Present

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Andrew Coyne – The First Spike: A Reconstruction of Canadian Nationalism

October 5, 2011

National editor of Maclean’s, Andrew Coyne was an original member of The National Post, where he was their national affairs columnist. He has established himself over the last two decades as one of this country’s most thoughtful, passionate and articulate commentators on political and economic issues. Coyne has been an editorial writer, columnist and contributor for The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, Saturday Night, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Time magazine. He is the winner of two National Newspaper Awards, and the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism. He is also a member of the “At Issue” Panel on CBC’s The National, appears on TVO’s The Agenda, and once co-hosted Face-Off on CBC. (September 22, 2011, 4:00-5:30pm, Great Hall at Green College, Building just across the Coach House)

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Coyne, A., & Canadian Publishers Collection – non-CRKN. (2014). Irresponsible government: The decline of parliamentary democracy in Canada. Lancaster; Toronto: Dundurn. [Link]

Coyne, A. (1990). Canada’s competitive role. The Financial Post, S40. [Link]

Coyne, A. (1989). Meech lake drama’s final act. The Financial Post, 83(17), 16. [Link]

Coyne, A. (1990). Unanimity, not Quebec, is basis for dissension on Meech lake. The Financial Post, 84(1), 6. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Political Science

Canadian Studies

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Sarah Mustillo – Earlier Obesity and Later Depressive Symptomotology in Adolescence: The Lingering Effects of Stigma

October 5, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College as part of its “Health and Population Series”. As a stigmatizing condition, obesity may lead to the internalization of devalued labels and threats to emotional well-being. Modified labeling theory suggests that the effects of stigma may outlive direct manifestations of the discredited characteristic itself. This talk considers whether obesity in late childhood and early adolescence has effects on depressive symptomatology later in adolescence, and, if so, if the effects are mediated by fat labeling from family and friends. Using longitudinal data from the National Growth and Health Study on 2206 black and white girls, they estimated path models to test the direct effects of obesity and the indirect effects of labeling on CESD score. The researchers found that obesity in late childhood was significantly associated with depressive symptoms in late adolescence and that the effect was completely mediated by parent labeling. Further, obesity in middle adolescence was also associated with later depressive symptoms, but the effect was mediated more by friend labeling than parent labeling, suggesting that girls may be vulnerable to different network members during different developmental periods.

UBC Library Resources

Loftus, J., Kelly, B., & Mustillo, S. (2013). Predictors of entry into age-discordant relationships among adolescent girls. Deviant Behavior, 34(7), 513-533. doi:10.1080/01639625.2012.735905. [Link]

Morton, P., Mustillo, S., & Ferraro, K. (2014). Does childhood misfortune raise the risk of acute myocardial infarction in adulthood? Social Science & Medicine, 104, 133-141. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.11.026. [Link]

Mustillo, S. A., Budd, K., & Hendrix, K. (2013). Obesity, labeling, and psychological distress in late-childhood and adolescent black and white girls: The distal effects of stigma. Social Psychology Quarterly, 76(3), 268-289. doi:10.1177/0190272513495883. [Link]

Mustillo, S. A., Hendrix, K. L., & Schafer, M. H. (2012). Do the psychological effects of stigma linger after obese adolescents transition to normal weight? Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 53(1), 1. [Link]

UBC Research Guides

Psychology

Pediatrics

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Reading of the "Blue Light Project"

October 5, 2011

In a very near future that is both familiar and troubling, three lives intersect in a time of crisis.  A controversial talent show involving children is midway through taping when a man storms the television studio and takes over a hundred hostages. He’s armed with an explosive device, but expresses no motive and makes just one demand: an interview with journalist Thom Pegg.  It’s a strange request, everyone agrees. A disgraced former investigative journalist, caught fabricating sources, Pegg is down on his luck and working for a lowly tabloid. Reluctant, but pressured by federal authorities, Pegg agrees to meet the hostage taker. So it is that Pegg learns why he was chosen and the horrifying truth of what the hostage taker is trying to achieve.
Crowds of people congregate near the studio, anxiously waiting along with the outside world. In the confusing perfect storm of news and rumor, two people meet and forge an immediate connection. Eve is a former Olympic gold medalist and much loved local daughter, who jogs the streets at night, running from her own past glories. Rabbit is a secretive street artist working to complete a massive street art project, which involves installations on the rooftops of hundreds of buildings throughout the city.
It’s a frightening time. Yet rising to its heart-stopping climax, The Blue Light Project surprises the city, and the reader, with the power of beauty and the unexpected sources of faith and light that may be found in even our darkest hours.   For a full transcript of this program, please find here.

Biography of Author

Timothy Taylor is the author of three best-selling novels, a collection of short stories, and two nonfiction books. His most recent publication was the novel The Blue Light Project, “a breakneck literary thriller” (National Post) which won the 2011 CBC Bookie Prize. Taylor won the Journey Prize in 2001, becoming the only writer ever to have three stories included in the same edition of the Journey Prize Anthology.  He has since been nominated for the Giller Prize, the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize, as well as both the British Columbia and Vancouver Book Awards. Timothy Taylor is also one of Canada’s widest published writers of non-fiction magazine and newspaper features. His work has appeared in Harpers, Walrus, Eighteen Bridges, Cooking Light, Vancouver Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business and numerous other publications. He’s been nominated for over two dozen magazine awards, winning 12 in the past 10 years.  Timothy Taylor is Assistant Professor at the UBC Creative Writing program.

 

Author’s Titles at UBC Library

Taylor, T.  (2011).  Blue Light Project.  Toronto: Alfred Knopf.  [Link]

Tayor, T.  (2001).  Stanley Park.  Toronto: Alfred Knopf.  [Link]

Taylor, T. (2002).  Silent Cruises: Stories.  Toronto: Vintage Canada.  [Link]

Taylor, T. (2006).  Story House.  Toronto: Alfred Knopft.  [Link]

 

UBC Library Research Guides

English

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Timothy Taylor author reading webcast online

October 5, 2011

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and as part of the Robson Reading Series. Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011. Born in Venezuela, he was raised in West Vancouver, British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta. Taylor’s short story “Doves of Townsend” won the Journey Prize in 2000. He had two other stories on the competition’s final shortlist that year, and is to date the only writer ever to have three short stories compete for the prize in the same year. His debut novel, Stanley Park, nominated for the Giller Prize and chosen to be the 2004 One Book, One Vancouver, was followed by Silent Cruise, a collection of eight stories and one novella. (September 29, 2:00-3:00pm, Chilcotin Board Room, Room 256, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre)

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Worlds of Wonder: Weather and Other Phenomena by Willa Downing

October 4, 2011

The Worlds of Wonder: Weather and Other Phenomena art exhibition by artist and Emily Carr University’s instructor Willa Downing is front and centre at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.  For photography of this exhibit, please find them on our Facebook page.

The exhibit will be from October 1 to November 30, 2011.

As Willa Downing asserts of this exhibit:

To make sense of the universe, we use a combination of disparate faculties that give us different forms of insight. As a scientist and artist, Willa Downing can view the world through profoundly different lenses. A powerful way of looking at Nature, science can reveal the immense complexity and extravagant beauty of natural phenomena down to the level of atoms and molecules. However, art’s connection is more primeval and evocative. Downing’s work reflects an intellectual and visceral response to the natural world. Although different, art and science share some characteristics. Both are creative. Fed by a sense of wonder, intuition and imagination play important roles. The ‘spaciousness of wonder’ creates new possibilities for the imagination, new geographies for the creative process. This body of work, about the weather and other related phenomena, includes box assemblages and mixed media on wood panel.

The ‘boxes of curiosity’ are inspired by Cabinets of Curiosity from the16th-17th centuries. Popular before modern science became prominent, these displays of natural and man-made objects reflected the interests, whims and idiosyncrasies of the collector. This spirit of wonder, serendipity and playfulness inform this work. Other pieces in this exhibition include maps of weather phenomena such as solar wind, heat islands, and storm clouds. Downing hopes to create work that accommodates feelings and intellectual ideas, work that will enrich one’s perspective of our natural world. (Artist – Willa Downing – www.willadowning.ca)

To sign the virtual guest book, please click here

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SBA Events for Small Business Month 2011

October 3, 2011

October is Small Business Month , and this year, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Small Business Accelerator will be out hosting and participating in a number of major events. Here’s a rundown of where (and how) you can connect with our program in October.

October 17
Join SBA at UBC Robson Square (Vancouver) on Monday, October 17th 2011 for two compelling speakers, Paul Cubbon: Marketing Instructor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and George Moen: President of Blenz The Canadian Coffee Company. They will be speaking on start-up success, and will be taking audience questions. This engaging speaker event is FREE to attend – and can be attended live via webcast if you aren’t in the lower mainland – but be sure to RSVP to attend very soon (before October 13), as seating is limited. For full details on Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Series – Vancouver follow this link: http://www.sba-bc.ca/biztalk or view the full EVENT POSTER.

October 19
Join us in Kelowna at the UBC-O campus (Arts Atrium) for Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Series – Okanagan. This event will run from 5:30 – 7:30 and will feature two exceptional small business speakers: Norine Webster and Scott Coleman, a Q&A session and a networking session to close. More detailed information for this event will be released very shortly.

For more information, please contact Community Engagement Librarian (Business Services) Aleha McCauley.

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