Minghui Yu
Joan Chiao – Cultural Neuroscience: Bridging Cultural and Biological Sciences
<a href=”http://webcasts.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/sites/default/files/captions(101).sbv”>captions(101).sbv</a> The study of culture and biology has long stood stratified within the social and natural sciences, a gap that physicist C.P. Snow (1959) famously called “the two cultures.” To examine the bidirectional influence of culture and genes on brain and behavior, cultural neuroscience is an emerging, interdisciplinary science examining how cultural values, practices, […]
Ilsoo Kyung McLaurin art exhibit “The Beauty of Nature” (January 5-Feb 28, 2011)
With references to the tradition of landscape painting that captures the beauty of the land and trees, Kyung’s art pieces have a surrounding landscape that serves as a backdrop to her daily life within her adopted homeland of Canada. However, through her works, she also illustrates the darker side of the landscape. Through confronting the […]
TD National Reading Summit II: Toward a Nation of Readers
Dodson Room, Room 302, Chapman Learning Commons I.K. Barber Learning
Centre, 1961 East Mall, University of British Columbia
Ilsoo Kyung MacLaurin -The Beauty of Nature
January 4 to February 28, 2011
Small Business Accelerator in Vancouver Observer
The Small Business Accelerator, a new initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is featured in the Vancouver Observer. You can read the article here, and you can find out more about the Small Business Accelerator here.
1759 And the Future of the Memory in Quebec Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education. In the summer of 2009, the battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought one more time in Quebec. The debate that stormed over the commemoration of the event proved that it is not easy to negotiate the meaning […]
Mexico Fest 2010 – Exquisite Corpse
December 17 to December 24, 2010
The Nation and the City Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The Citizenship Without the Nation conference was a two day conference held at the Liu Institute for Global Issues from October 29 – 30, 2010.
Dana Claxton, Lori Blondeau and Shawn Hunt – Contemporary First Nations Art NOW
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fifth in a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Contemporary First Nations Art […]
Beverley K. Jacobs – Restoring the Balance: Aboriginal Women's Issues in Canada
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Continuing Studies. Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fourth of a series […]