Patricia Churchland – Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us About Morality
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Patricia S. Churchland is professor emerita of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor at the Salk Institute. Her books include Brain-Wise and Neurophilosophy. In 1991, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. What is morality? Where does […]
Kevin McNeilly – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Embouchere"
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC. Kevin McNeilly is an associate professor in the Department of English at UBC. He has been interested in poetics and philosophy since graduate school: he wrote his Master’s thesis on the poetry of Robert Bringhurst, and his doctoral […]
Kevin McNeilly (With Percussionist Nicholas Jacques)
January 26, 2012, 2.00pm to 3.00pm at the Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Kevin McNeilly’s debut poetry collection, Embouchure, compiles the intertwined lineages of trumpet players who came to prominence in the States during the “pre-bop” era, loosely defined as the period between 1890 and 1939. This series of vignettes betrays a […]
Anne Martin-Matthews – Demographic Context, Policy and Practice Agendas, Research Opportunities
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by Green College.This presentation will place the aging of Canada’s population in an international context. It will consider implications of population aging for health services and systems (especially in relation to cognitive impairment, mobility in aging, and home care); and it will address the research […]
Mathabo Tsepa – Keynote Opening Speech to Africa Awareness Week 2012
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Mathabo Tsepa completed her PhD in Environmental Education with Dr. Nashon in the Dept of Curriculum & Pedagogy. Her work connected the National University of Lesotho and UBC to promote the exchange of cutting edge best practice research and policies about learning regions. She was also involved […]
Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong at Richmond Public Library
Health Information Series Presents Dr. Roger Wong of UBC Faculty of Medicine
IKBLC Featured in This Week At UBC
The IKBLC was featured on “This Week at UBC”
Opening Africa Awareness Week Conference 2012 webcast online
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
SLC Featured on UBC Today
The Student Leadership Conference took place on Saturday January 14, 2012.
Dodson Music Series at IKBLC Presents “Entartete Musik – music suppressed under Nazism”
The next concert in the Dodson Music Series will take place on Friday January 27th at 12:00 pm in the Dodson Room