Minghui Yu
IKBLC Art Exhibition – "Rocks of Interest to a Young Geologist"
you can provide feedback about IKBLC’s art exhibition, Rocks of Interest to a Young Geologist. “Rocks of Interest To A Young Geologist”
Huddle 2011 – Environmental Issues Panel webcast online
Watch this webcast from Huddle 2011!
FAQ Mongolia: Some Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions on (Mining) Policy
(a) “How have recent policy shifts in Mongolia shaped environmental management in the mining sector?” by Kirsten Dales, MSc Candidate, Master in Environmental Management, Royal Roads University (b) “What role are environmental movements playing in Mongolia’s civil society?” by D. Byambajav, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Hokkaido University, Japan (c) “How is the mining boom affecting the […]
Kevin McNeilly's Robson Reading at IKBLC (with Percussionist Nicholas Jacques), January 26th
We are excited to announce that Kevin McNeilly will be reading from his latest work, Embouchere
Michelle Frisco – Obesity and Women's Fertility Trajectories
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health Series. This study asks whether obesity is associated with young women’s life course childbearing experiences. Weight is a physical status with important biological and social components that is linked to several proximate determinants of fertility. As such, negative consequences […]
Daphne Marlatt and Meredith Quartermain – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Daphne Marlatt lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is an iconic Canadian poet, novelist, theorist, little-magazine editor, and itinerant university instructor (creative writing, women’s studies, and contemporary literature). She is the founding co-editor of Tessera, the bilingual journal of feminist theory, and has co-edited several other magazines. Since the 1980s, she has served as writer-in-residence […]
The Search for the Beginnings of Wisdom: Agency, Intentionality and Responsibility in Childhood
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by Green College. In searching for explanations of children’s behavior—including successes and failures in life and in the school—researchers and policy makers have focused primarily on causal factors whether inside or outside of the child, factors over which the child has no control and hence […]
Joy Kogawa and Maggie Devries – An Evening with Acclaimed Canadian Authors Joy Kogawa and Maggie DeVries
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) and Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable. Joy Kogawa (Naomi’s Tree) and Maggie DeVries (Hunger Journeys and Chance and the Butterfly) will discuss the ways in which contemporary children’s literature can address the effects of social conflict in the world, and […]
Ethan Zuckerman – Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: When Social Media Meet Social Change
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The 2011 Vancouver Human Rights Lecture is presented by the Laurier Institution, Yahoo!, UBC Continuing Studies and CBC Radio One. Ethan Zuckerman is director of the Center for Civic Media at MIT, and a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on the […]
Amber Ridington – After Digital Repatriation: Articulations of Heritage, Community, and Cultural Property in a Northern Athapascan Hunting Group
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Using examples from her collaborative and applied work with the Doig River First Nation, a Dane-zaa Athapaskan group in northeastern BC, folklorist Amber Ridington will discuss some of the issues of cultural representation and […]