Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Abstract of the Talk: While images are commonly used in search results for vertical domains such as shopping and news, web search results remain primarily text-based. In this talk, Dr. Capra presents results of […]
Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi; 1893–1966). General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the history of the Republic of China: As an eighteen-year-old military cadet in 1911, he joined a “Dare-to-Die” corps that marched to Wuhan to take part […]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Philippe Descola and Dr. Bruno Latour are two of France’s most prominent intellectuals, and both have redefined their respective fields of expertise by considering the place of human agency – and non-human actors – in the construction of the modern world. In this conversation, Dr. […]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Discussants: KOJO Yoshiko (Univ of Tokyo); KUME Ikuo, (Waseda Univ/Institute of European Studies, UBC); Yves TIBERGHIEN (IAR, UBC); UCHIYAMA Yu (Univ of Tokyo). How will Shinzō Abe take advantage of his recent electoral victory to move forward with his domestic and international agendas? Informed experts, including […]
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 at 7:00 pm in the Golden Jubilee Room (Level 4) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In this talk, Hakai Beach Institute co-founder Eric Peterson discusses the work of the institute, which is located on the only deeded land of an uninhabited island, Calvert. Calvert Island is 161 square kilometers and is in turn in the middle of an uninhabited 1,200-square-kilometer marine-conservation […]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. This panel followed a performance by artist Peter Morin entitled ‘Hello Darlin’’. Chair: John Wynne. Panelists: Margery Fee, Patrick Moore, Peter Morin, Khelsilem Rivers. This session explores the museum as a site of cultural contestation and issues of appropriation […]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. This panel followed a screening of Banchi Hanuse’s film ‘Cry Rock’. Chair: Kate Hennessy. Panelists: Candace Galla, David Nathan, Mark Turin, Clyde Tallio. As documentary and archiving technologies rapidly change, we ask: What role does the digital play in […]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Introduction by Karen Duffek Presentation by John Wynne and Tyler Peterson: The Anspayaxw Project Chair: Tyler Peterson Panelists: Patricia Shaw, Barbara Harris, Louise Wilson, Cynthia Jensen-Fisk, Loretta Todd, Larry Grant, John Wynne. In recent decades there has been […]
Our Truth: Truth and Reconciliation at UBC exhibition at IKBLC (September 17-October 31, 2013)