Minghui Yu
Mark Angelo – Sam Sullivan Public Salon Series
Mark Angelo is the founder of the ecologically-focused Rivers Institute. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library Angelo, M. (2013). A day, and the life, for rivers.(the water issue: World rivers day). Environmental Education, 103, 7. [Link] Rosenau, M. L., Angelo, M., & Pacific Fisheries Resource […]
IKBLC Live Webcasts in November
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is pleased to present its webcast schedule for November 2010. Please see below for descriptions and webcast links; all webcasts will also be archived. All events are hosted by UBC’s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Wednesday, November 3 Noon – 1 pm, Dodson Room (Room 302, Learning […]
Erin Freeland Ballantyne and Glen Coulthard – Education, Community Initiatives & Mainstream Institutions
Glen Coulthard, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and First Nations Studies, UBC and Erin Freeland Ballantyne. This is the third of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations […]
Jasper Wall – Eddington, Ryle & Hoyle: How a major discovery was lost in confusion and noise
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Physics and Astronomy Department. The Steady-State vs Big-Bang controversy of the 1960s, also known as the source-count controversy, was almost unparalleled in bitterness and rancour. The very personal struggle between Ryle and Hoyle changed the course of the lives of both men. […]
Andrew Pask, Baldwin Wong, Daniel Hiebert and Hayne Wai – Citizenship without the Nation – Relevance: The Nation and the City
The Citizenship Without the Nation conference was a two day conference held at the Liu Institute for Global Issues from October 29 – 30, 2010. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The conference explored how regional and local dialogues intersect with the national discourse on citizenship. There is significant work on […]
Ann Curry – "Silencing by Shouting Down: Acceptable Censorship in 2010?" webcast online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS).
Marie-Françoise André – Drivers of environmental change: the case of the Arctic
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by St. John’s College Drivers of Environmental Change Lecture Series. The circumarctic permafrost region is known as a climate-change hotspot, with special reference to parts of Alaska and Siberia which display a warming trend of 5°C for the last century. Moreover, the contemporary economic […]
Henry Yu – Our Future as a Half-Chinese City: Lessons from History
Dr. Henry Yu specializes in the study of trans-Pacific migration and settlement. Yu is involved in the collective effort to reimagine the history of Vancouver and of British Columbia through the concept of “Pacific Canada,” a perspective that focuses on how migrants from Asia, Europe, and other parts of the Americas engaged with each other […]
Lawrence Zbikowski – First of a Double Feature: Of Exactitude in Science: Music and Analogy
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Expressive Performance in Human Interactions. Lawrence Zbikowski is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1993. His principal research interests involve applying recent work in cognitive science (especially that done by […]
Raymond Gibbs – Second of a Double Feature: Metaphor and Embodied Cognition
Raymond Gibbs is currently the Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Gibbs’ research interests are in the fields of experimental psycholinguistics and cognitive science. His work concerns a range of theoretical issues, ranging from questions about the role of embodied experience in thought and language, to looking at […]