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"Chew On This"- Food Security, Eh? A Panel Discussion on Sustainable Food in a Canadian Context
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, hosted by Common Energy UBC, Oxfam UBC, and the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Sustainability Committee. “Chew On This,” is a week-long series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops. A diverse group of panelists will share their research and thoughts on the topic of Canada and what […]
Open Access Resource: World Digital Library
We are highlighting a fairly new open access resource, the World Digital Library (WDL)
Charles Moore – Plastic Ocean
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability. Captain Charles Moore, a scientist and activist, discusses “The Greatest Infection of the Sea” detailed in his acclaimed new book Plastic Ocean. Learn the shocking truth about the unintended consequences of the “Age of Plastics”, how we got here, & what […]
Tom Koch – The Failure of "Lifeboat Ethics" and of Scarcity as a Natural Condition
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Bioethics was born of the problem of “lifeboat ethics,” the situation in which resource limits insist some must die that at least some others might live. The idea of scarcity as a natural condition is fundamental to current economic theory and to […]
Featured Place at IKBLC: Kitimat
This week we will take a look at Kitimat.
NoViolet Bulawayo – Open a Book, Read Africa
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Zimbabwean author, NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the annual £10 000 Caine Prize for African Writing, as announced at the Bodleian Library in Oxford this evening. Bulawayo wins the 2011 prize for her short story, “Hitting Budapest”, which Chair of Judges, Hisham Matar, described as being “reminiscent of […]
Fabio Rossi, Bill Milsom, Nelly Auersperg, Dan Weary – Who Benefits From Animal Research? (Part 2)
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University. This series probes the questions of the value for humans of medical research on nonhuman animals, the value for nonhuman animals, and the role of culture and corporate […]
Fabio Rossi, Bill Milsom, Nelly Auersperg, Dan Weary – Who Benefits From Animal Research? (Part 1)
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University. This series probes the questions of the value for humans of medical research on nonhuman animals, the value for nonhuman animals, and the role of culture and corporate […]
Who Benefits From Animal Research? webcast online
The IKBLC recently sponsored a webcast of this lecture, “Who Benefits From Animal Research?”
Kedrick James – Language and Literacy Education: An Aesthetic Approach
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Education. This presentation explores the use of procedural poetics to enhance language and literacy education, in particular the teaching of writing, by developing strategic pedagogical interventions to direct language study while simultaneously providing students with opportunities to create remarkable literary works. […]