Minghui Yu
Live-in For Literacy Is Hiring
Live-in For Literacy’s Room to Read UBC is HIRING! It is a charity group with a strong focus on the equal access to education. We believe that changing the world starts from educated children. Please visit the Room to Read website for more information on our causes: http://www.roomtoread.org/. One of the largest student campaigns at UBC, […]
B.C. Digitization Program wins BCLA award
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP), an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, has been awarded a Programs and Services Merit Award by the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA). The award was presented at the annual BCLA conference in April. The awards committee noted that the organization was impressed with the project’s scope […]
Henry Yu – Asian Heritage Month National Symposium – Chinese Canadian Stories
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Henry Yu is a Vancouver speaker at the 2nd Annual Asian Heritage Month National Video Conference presented by VAHMS as part of explorASIAN 2012 in partnership with IKBLC and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC. Dr. Henry Yu will be presenting his involvement and […]
C.E. Gatchalian – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Falling in Time"
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. C.E. Gatachalian will be reading from his new book, “Falling In Time.” Gatchalian is a playwright, fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher. He is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program, and the author of three books: Motifs & Repetitions & Other […]
Out of the Blue, A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness
For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of the Globe and Mail’s best-known reporters. Then one day she turned in a story that set off a firestorm of controversy, including death threats, a unanimous denunciation by Parliament and a rebuke by her own newspaper. For the first time in her professional life, Wong fell […]
Joshua Knobe – Moral Judgments and the 'True Self'
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. It has often been suggested that people’s ordinary capacities for understanding the world make use of much of the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A series of recent experimental results offer a challenge to this widely-held […]
L.M. (Les) Lavkulich – Integrating Science, Environment and Equity
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Faculty of Forestry’s TerreWEB Seminar Series’ “Perspectives on Challenges for Effective Communication of Science and Global Change. Communication is the most important biological activity that allows species, including Homo sapiens, to survive. In our complex, and some might argue, “detached from nature” […]
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Liza Piper – Climate [Change] and the Nature of Canada
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Lisa Piper is Professor at the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, and specializes in the field of environmental history. Liz Piper is currently involved in a research project that examines the relationship between disease outbreaks and environmental change in […]