Minghui Yu
Remote Community Based Learning Fund Submissions Now Open!
Faculty are invited to apply for up to $5000 in the 2012/13 academic year
Learning Initiatives for Rural and Northern BC: 2013 – Apply Now!
Learning Initiatives for Rural and Northern BC: 2013 – Apply Now!
Benjamin Cohen – Global Currency Competition & Exchange Rate Arrangements
Benjamin Cohen is Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has been a member of the Political Science Department since 1991. Established in May 1998, the Institute for European Studies (IES) is part of the University of British Columbia’s ongoing mission to advance international knowledge […]
The Learning Centre's New funding program for B.C. Aboriginal Audio Digitization & Preservation
Converting audio cassette tapes to digital formats for preservation and access digitization funding.
Talk by Dr Eric Mazur: The Tyranny of the Lecture
Friday June 7, 2013 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Robson Reading Series Presents Al Hunter (Beautiful Razor: Love Poems and Other Lies)
As part of the Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the UBC First Nations House of Learning hosted Anishinaabe writer Al Hunter to an author reading of his latest book of poetry. Hunter, who has published poetry in books and journals, has taught extensively and performed internationally. A member of Rainy […]
“Generation One” Presented by explorASIAN (May 1st – May 30th)
May 1st to 30th at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Foyer with a special exhibit at the Asian Centre Auditorium May 20th to 27th.
Tracy Friedel – Decolonizing Learning Through the Lense of Place, Community and Experience
This seminar focuses on the potential and pedagogical possibilities of place/community/experience–based learning to act as a decolonizing force in teacher education. In this seminar, we will share the experience of an Indigenous educator who sought to work with a group of graduate students to understand how participation in place–based service learning could affect graduate students’ […]
Ilan Vertinsky – Health and Intellectual Property Rights: The Dynamics of Coordinated Compliance in the Provision of Pharmaceuticals to the Chinese People
Ilan Vertinsky explores the ways China interprets its international obligations to support the rights of its people to health and affordable basic medicines. He will discuss the various policies introduced to achieve the affordable medicine objectives and examine their effectiveness. He will then examine the apparent conflict between these objectives and China’s obligations under the […]