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Dean Bavington – Managerialsm and the Nature of Canada
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by Green College. Dean Bavington is a Canada Research Chair in Environmental History at Nippising University in North Bay Ontario. His research focuses on the history, politics and ethics of managerial relationships with nature. Along with an impressive number of papers from this research, Dean […]
Huddle 2011 – Environmental Issues Panel
Calls for collective action against some of the most pressing issues we face today have never been more resounding. Cross-cultural coordination of initiatives against environmental issues, advocacy for LGBTQ rights, and civic engagement are all hot topics in contemporary social discourse. Yet, how are grassroots change-makers and elected officials each managing diversity? Local media, political […]
Michael Bull – Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions – Mobile Sound Technologies
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Sonic Impressions. Michael Bull is Reader in Media and Film Studies (Media and Film, Centre for Material Digital Culture) at the University of Sussex. He has worked extensively on the nature of auditory experience and recently published Sound Moves […]
Sheldon Solomon – The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. An existential psychodynamic evolutionary theory will be presented based on Ernest Becker’s (The Denial of Death) claim that self-esteem and cultural worldviews function to ameliorate the anxiety associated with the uniquely human awareness of vulnerability and mortality. Psychological equanimity is hypothesized […]
Joe Henrich – Thematic Series: The Emerging Science of Culture The Weirdest People in the World
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world’s top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers—often implicitly—assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these “standard subjects” […]
Years of Controversy Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards 1936 – 2010 Lecture at IKBLC
75 Years of Controversy: Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards, 1936-2010 Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
William Cope – Digital Literacy: Changing the Dynamics of Learning
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. We can use new technologies to do conventional, old things—as we do when we transfer Gutenberg’s typographic schemas onto desktops or the heritage logic of classrooms into learning management systems. This presentation explores seven ‘affordances’—things we could do differently with new media technologies, […]
Michael Eisenberg – Project Information Literacy: What College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS (School of Library, Archival and Information Studies), and School Library Day Colloquium (Co-Sponsored with the UBC Education Library). Project Information Literacy (PIL) is ongoing research project, based in the University of Washington’s Information School. The project seeks to understand how early adults conceptualize […]
Michael V. Smith – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Progress"
In the lonely years following the death of her fiance, Helen is unable to move on with her life. But life itself is moving on around her literally: the building of a dam is forcing her small town and her family home to relocate. But the construction project means more than the loss of a […]
How Social Media Are Changing Journalism and Politics
UBC Continuing Studies collaborates with other members of the UBC community to provide an ongoing series of free lectures, dialogues and debates on topics of interest to the general public locally, nationally and internationally. The Lifelong Learning Series is held in the fall and winter terms at UBC Robson Square and its webcasts sponsored by […]