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Pat O'Malley – The Politics of Mass Preventive Justice
Hosted by Green College as part of the Knowledge Brokers and Knowledge Formats symposium. Today, the study of knowledge production, knowledge formats and knowledge politics is being developed across a wide variety of research fields. Along with the work of scholars such as Ian Hacking, Mary Poovey, and Bruno Latour, the work of the late […]
Past 2010 Olympic Events
Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Related Events at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre The Olympics has come and gone, but here is an archive of the programming schedule that the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre had sponsored in 2010. October Events October 14, 2009, 7:00 – 9:00pm Check back for the video podcast St. John’s […]
Leung Ping-kwan – Literary Adaptation and Cultural Negotiation in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1950s
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the department of Asian Studies. Professor Leung Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞 (pen name: Ye Si 也斯) is a highly prolific poet, novelist, cultural critic, and multimedia artist. Dr. Leung is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Lingnan University in Hong Kong. His recent research on the […]
Human Orrery Astronomy Experiment
In the Human Orrery, people play the role of the moving planets. The model provides an accurate map of the orbits of the six naked-eye planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn – and shows their motions around the Sun. The exhibit also explores the Solar System beyond Saturn to Pluto, Eris and […]
Andrew Coyne – The First Spike: A Reconstruction of Canadian Nationalism
National editor of Maclean’s, Andrew Coyne was an original member of The National Post, where he was their national affairs columnist. He has established himself over the last two decades as one of this country’s most thoughtful, passionate and articulate commentators on political and economic issues. Coyne has been an editorial writer, columnist and contributor […]
Sarah Mustillo – Earlier Obesity and Later Depressive Symptomotology in Adolescence: The Lingering Effects of Stigma
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College as part of its “Health and Population Series”. As a stigmatizing condition, obesity may lead to the internalization of devalued labels and threats to emotional well-being. Modified labeling theory suggests that the effects of stigma may outlive direct manifestations of the […]
Reading of the "Blue Light Project"
In a very near future that is both familiar and troubling, three lives intersect in a time of crisis. A controversial talent show involving children is midway through taping when a man storms the television studio and takes over a hundred hostages. He’s armed with an explosive device, but expresses no motive and makes just […]
Timothy Taylor author reading webcast online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and as part of the Robson Reading Series.
Worlds of Wonder: Weather and Other Phenomena by Willa Downing
The Worlds of Wonder: Weather and Other Phenomena art exhibition by artist and Emily Carr University’s instructor Willa Downing is front and centre at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. For photography of this exhibit, please find them on our Facebook page. The exhibit will be from October 1 to November 30, 2011. As Willa Downing asserts of this […]
SBA Events for Small Business Month 2011
In just a few days Small Business Month (also known as October) will be upon us once again.