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MACL Colloquia presents: Kit Pearson, An Open Book: The Redemption of Story
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The colloquium is sponsored by the UBC Master of Arts in Children’s Literature Program, a multidisciplinary degree Program offered by the Creative Writing Program, the English Department, and the School of Library, Archival and […]
Cecil Abrahams – Africa Awareness Week Conference 2015
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Africa Awareness Initiative. Africa Awareness’s Conference Week is the flagship event of Africa Awareness Initiative and is hosted annually in the second week of January at the University of British Columbia doing just this. Conference Week has historically been a meeting place of […]
LSI Public Talks on Diabetes
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Life Sciences Institute at UBC. This talk – “Drugs, Diet and Genes. Personal Approaches to Treat Diabetes and Obesity” is about the link between obesity and diabetes, current treatment options for type 2 diabetes and how genetics and personalized medicine will inform […]
Mona Gleason – Constructing Child Health
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC School of Nursing and the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry. This presentation explores how health professionals contributed to conceptions of “the healthy child” in early twentieth century Canada. Based on her recently published book entitled Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and Health, […]
Linda Quiney – Veiled Concerns: Social and Professional Tensions of Voluntary Aid Detachments and Military Nurses during the 1st World War
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC School of Nursing and the Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry. With only a brief training and minimal hospital experience, the VADs entered the unfamiliar world of the military hospital to work alongside the qualified Canadian military nurses at home, and British military nurses […]
Abenomics Two Years In: Successes, Failures, and Transformations
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and program sponsored by the Institute for Asian Research, Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, CNRS, Oxford University, Waseda University,and Stanford University. Speakers: Joseph Caron (Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan), Takeo Hoshi (Stanford), Kenji Kushida (Stanford), Sébastien Lechevalier (EHESS), Miyajima Hideaki (Waseda), Sako Mari (Oxford) and Yves Tiberghien […]
24/7 hours at the Learning Centre
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be open 24 hours a day beginning Saturday, November 29.
Bonnie Stevens – Nursing’s Role in Changing Care Practices and Outcomes in the Context of Health Care System Transformation
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing as part of the 2014 Marion Woodward Lecture. Nurses are positioned ideally to affect patient and family outcomes at both the individual and organizational level. The conceptual and theoretical basis of change and implementation science not only underlies the […]
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and in partnership with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, with support from the UBC First Nations House of Learning, the UBC Department of History and Kloshe Tillicum (Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research). Shortly after WWII, when knowledge about nutrition was still sparse, scientists […]
Archives Association of British Columbia
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and event hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). How do you manage photographs when you cannot determine who owned them or who holds copyright over them or you don’t know anything about the content of the photograph itself. Do you have a policy […]