Canada’s universities are becoming truly global, and when an unthinkable assault happens to a student from abroad, we need to ask the questions we would if she were a Canadian citizen: How could this happen? Why? What can be done to make sure it never happens to anyone else? This timely discussion took place at St. John’s College Lecture Hall. Panelist of this special panel, “Justice for Rumana Monzur — A Debate about violence against women from a legal and global perspective” include:
Louisa Russell (Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter)
Dr. Susan Boyd (Professor of Law, Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at UBC)
Dr. Janine Benedet (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at UBC)
Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr (Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UBC)
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Vertinsky (Professor, School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Using examples from MOA’s collection, Curator of Archaeology and UBC Associate Professor Susan Rowley gives an illustrated talk about the creation of the Inuit art market.
Biography
Susan Rowley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and a Curator at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia. Her personal research interests include public archaeology, material culture studies, representation, repatriation, intellectual property rights and access to information on cultural heritage.
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Rowley, Susan. (2003). Folk Art in Greenland Throughout a Thousand Years. Arctic. 56(1). pp. 98-99 [Link]
Hertzman, Emily; Anderson, David; Rowley, Susan. (2008). Edutainment Heritage Tourist Attractions: A Portrait of Visitors’ Experiences at Storyeum. Museum Management and Curatorship. 23(2). pp. 155-175 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Canada’s universities are becoming truly global, and when an unthinkable assault happens to a student from abroad, we need to ask the questions we would if she were a Canadian citizen: How could this happen? Why? What can be done to make sure it never happens to anyone else? This timely discussion took place at St. John’s College Lecture Hall. Panelist of this special panel, “Justice for Rumana Monzur — A Debate about violence against women from a legal and global perspective” include:
Louisa Russell (Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter)
Dr. Susan Boyd (Professor of Law, Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at UBC)
Dr. Janine Benedet (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at UBC)
Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr (Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UBC)
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Vertinsky (Professor, School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Boyd, S. C., Scholars Portal Books: Canadian Electronic Library, & Canadian Publishers Collection. (1999). Mothers and illicit drugs: Transcending the myths. Buffalo; Toronto: University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/j.ctt2ttgjn [Link]
Boyd, S. B., Scholars Portal Books: Canadian Electronic Library, & Canadian Publishers Collection. (1997). Challenging the public/private divide: Feminism, law, and public policy. Buffalo; Toronto: University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442672819 [Link]
Benedet, J. (2010). The age of innocence: A cautious defense of raising the age of consent in Canadian sexual assault law. New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13(4), 665-687. doi:10.1525/nclr.2010.13.4.665 [Link]
Benedet, J. (2010). The sexual assault of intoxicated women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 22(2), 435-462. doi:10.3138/cjwl.22.2.435 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. John’s College. Moderated by St. Johns College Alumnus, Asad Kiyani, this panel features experts who will discuss the global implications of the recent death of Osama Bin Laden. This panel includes Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray (UBC French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies); Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron (UBC Political Science); Ivan Somlai (Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria); and Alnoor Gova (UBC Education). This event took place at St. John’s College, Fairmont Social Lounge on Thursday, June 2, 2011.
Speaker Biographies
Asad Kiyani is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the development of modern international criminal law, and the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court. He is specifically interested in the intersection between international law and criminal law, and the justification of punishment in the international context.
Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies and in the Arts One Program. Some of his research interests include Latin American cultural, literary, and political history, The Latin American left and social movements, Colonial Latin America and its maritime links with Spain, The theory and practice of Latin American cultural studies. For more information, please visit Dr. Beasley-Murray’s website: http://blogs.ubc.ca/jbmurray/
Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in comparative politics (Latin America) and international political economy. In addition to publishing numerous works, Dr. Cameron is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (2011-12) where he organized a colloquium series Aristotle’s idea of “practical wisdom” and its relevance in politics today.
Ivan Somlai is an Associate at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. Since September 2006, he has been Director of Global Collaboration, through which he pursues international development consulting. His preferred areas are rural health systems and services; social forestry; ecotourism; multiculturalism; decentralisation; governance; executive leadership training; alternative conflict mitigation; motivation of multidisciplinary/intercultural teams; and ethnobureaucratic analysis. For more information about Ivan Somlai, please visit: http://www.capi.uvic.ca/content/somlai
Alnoor Gova is PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education. His research focuses on the present Canadian political scene, largely in the areas of Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Immigration, National Security and Law; and specifically focuses on an instrument of governmentality known as ‘community-government’ employed within the not-for-profit sector.
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Beasley-Murray, Jon. (2010). Posthegemony. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Link]
Cameron, Maxwell A. (2012). After the Democratic Charter’s First Decade: Achievements, Limitations, and Next Steps. Latin American Policy, Vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 58-73. [Link]
Gova, Alnoor; Kurd, Rahat. (2008). The Impact of Radical Profiling: a MARU Society/UBC Law Faculty Study. Working Paper Series, Vol. 8-14.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Canadian Society for Asian Arts, Rosalie Stronck Family Foundation, and UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program. Drawing on his most recent book, Sacred Sites of Burma, renowned scholar Donald Stadtner gives an illustrated lecture on how sacred sites have come into existence. This lecture is co-presented by MOA, Canadian Society for Asian Arts, Rosalie Stronck Family Foundation, and UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation. This talk is part of the Asian Illuminations Series Lecture.
Biography
Dr. Donald Stadtner has taught Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Ancient Pagan: Buddhist Plain of Merit (2005) and Sacred Sites of Burma: Myth and Folklore in an Evolving Spiritual Realm (2010). He has conducted many study groups to Burma (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum, the World Affairs Council, and The Smithsonian Institution).
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Stadtner, Donald. (2003). Inventory of Monuments at Pagan. Ars Orientalis. Vol. 33. pp. 212-214. [Link]
Stadtner, Donald. (2007). Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680. Journal of Early Modern History. Vol. 11, Issue 4-5. pp. 395-396. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. “When you know it’s not a good idea to spend all that money, why do you do it anyways? Why can people not control their behaviour?” These are some of the questions UBC Psychology Professor Michael Souza asks himself as he works on creating a new course on the psychology of gambling.
In this lecture, Michael Souza reviews reward and addiction from a behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological standpoint. He examines the social psychology behind gambling behavior, casino structuring and casino marketing.
Speaker Bio
Michael Souza is an Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the frontal lobes and executive functions, with a particular interest in changes due to age, psychological illness or neurological injury. Cognitive training and neuroplasticity.
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Wendelken, C., Munakata, Y., Baym, C., Souza, M.J. & Bunge, S.A. (2012). Flexible rule use: common neural substrates in children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(3): 329-39. [Link]
Souza, M.J., Donohue, S.E. & Bunge, S.A. (2009). Controlled retrieval and selection of action-relevant knowledge mediated by partially overlapping regions in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage, 46(1): 299-307. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Vancouver Institute. Described by the Boston Globe as “the nation’s leading environmentalist,” Professor McKibben is the author of more than a dozen books, including The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. A former staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes often for Harper’s, National Geographic, and the New York Review of Books, among other publications. He is the founder of the environmental organizations Step It Up and 350.org, a global warming awareness campaign that in October 2009 coordinated what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
McKibben, B. (1989). The end of nature (1st ed.). New York: Random House.
Braasch, G., McKibben, B., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2009). Earth under fire: How global warming is changing the world (1; 2 ed.). Berkeley: University of California Press. doi:10.1525/j.ctt1ppfpm [Link]
McKibben, W. (1919). Irreconcilable conflict with the constitution. American Economist, 63, 308.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by St. John’s College. Vaclav Smil is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. He completed his graduate studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Carolinum University in Prague and at the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences of the Pennsylvania State University. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass a broad area of energy, environmental, food, population, economic, historical and public policy studies, and he had also applied these approaches to energy, food and environmental affairs of China. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy) and the first non-American to receive the American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology. He has been an invited speaker in more than 250 conferences and workshops in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa, has lectured at many universities in North America, Europe and East Asia and has worked as a consultant for many US, EU and international institutions.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Smil, V. (2006; 2012). Energy: A beginner’s guide. Oxford: Oneworld. [Link]
Smil, V. (2004; 2003). China’s past, china’s future: Energy, food, environment. New York: RoutledgeCurzon. [Link]
Smil, V. (2008). Oil: A beginner’s guide. Oxford: Oneworld.
Smil, V. (2006). Transforming the twentieth century: Technical innovations and their consequences. New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Smil, V. (2008). Global catastrophes and trends: The next 50 years. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. [Link]
Geoffrey Harpham is president and director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the only institute for advanced study in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanities. Kathleen Woodward is Professor of English at the University of Washington and has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. They speak on the subject of “Humanities From Here: A Dialogue about the Place of the Creative Arts and Humanities at UBC”. This is part of an exploratory initiative to discuss the possibility of developing a humanities centre at UBC. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Speaker Biographies
Geoffrey Harpham is president and director of the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the only institute for advanced study in the world dedicated exclusively to the humanities. His longstanding scholarly interests include the role of ethics in literary study, the place of language in intellectual history, and the work of Joseph Conrad.
Kathleen Woodward, Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English, has served as Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities since 2000. She has served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association (2009-2013), the Board of Directors of the National Humanities Alliance (2003-2009), and as Chair of the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a broad-based network of scholars and leaders of cultural institutions devoted to fostering the development of campus-community partnerships (2000-2005).
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Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. (2012). The Posthuman: Without It, Nothing Else is Possible. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 37(2). pp. 101-112 [Link]
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt. (2011). Why We Need the 16, 772nd Book on Shakespeare. Qui Parle. 20(1). pp. 109-116. [Link]
Woodward, Kathleen. (2012). Work-Work Balance, Metrics, and Resetting the Balance. PMLA. 127.4. pp. 994-1000. [Link]
Woodward, Kathleen. (2009). Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Modern Language Quarterly (Seattle). 70(2). pp. 287-290. [Link]
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) co-hosted a webcast of a nation-wide teleconference among Asian Heritage Month societies in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto to share expert speakers’ experiences in integrating Asian-Canadian content into Canada’s education system. This Vancouver panel features Dr. Ray Hsu, Tetsuro Shigematsu, Anna Ling Kaye, Cara Kauhane, and Joyce Lam.
Speakers’ Biographies
Dr. Ray Hsu has over ten years of experience providing awesomeness to clients, including the CBC, UBC, the National Arts Council of Singapore, and the Banff Centre. He is the author of two award-winning books and his writing has been published in Vancouver, Toronto, New York, Chicago, Singapore, and London. Dr. Hsu has also given talks on creativity, education, and leadership for over ten years, including interviews on CBC Radio One, Chicago Public Radio, and the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. His ideas take many forms: from writing books and headlining conferences to mentoring creative thinkers at retreats and seminars. He co-founded Art Song Lab, an interdisciplinary platform to create fusions across poetry, music, and performance. While teaching in a US prison for two years, he founded the Prison Writing Workshop, which showcased incarcerated writers and performers in print and on public radio.
Tetsuro Shigematsu is a Canadian radio broadcaster, comedian and filmmaker. He was the most recent host of CBC Radio One’s former afternoon series The Roundup, where he replaced Bill Richardson in 2004, making him the first visible minority to host a daily network radio program in Canada. The show completed its final episode on November 4, 2005. Prior to working for CBC Radio, he was a writer for the Canadian TV show This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Anna Ling Kaye’s journalism has appeared in the International Herald Tribune and Caijing Magazine, amongst others. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies in Hong Kong and Vancouver. Having lived in more than ten cities including Beijing and Mumbai, she is now an enthusiastic Vancouver-ite.
Cara Kauhane graduated from Capilano University with an Associate of Arts in Creative Writing, and is currently a creative writing and anthropology student at UBC. She has been published in Capilano University’s magazine The Liar.
Joyce Lam is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of the Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre (VACT). She has produced over 40 productions with VACT and has recruited, developed and maintained a body of volunteers that has sustained its operations for 13 years. Joyce created VACT to showcase Asian Canadian actors, tell Asian Canadian stories and address their conspicuous absence on the Canadian stage.