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Ann Curry – Silencing by Shouting Down: Acceptable Censorship in 2010?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Dr. Curry’s research interests include Censorship and Intellectual Freedom, Information Ethics, Library Architecture, Public Libraries, Collection Management, and Issues in LIS Education. She is currently Professor at the Department of Education, University of Alberta. […]
Regula Qureshi – Performance Traditions in South Asian Islam
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Asian Studies Department. A scholar of Urdu and Hindi language and literature and of the art music of India and Pakistan, Qureshi has given numerous lecture-recitals on sarangi, Indian music, and Muslim chant in Canada, the US, Pakistan, India, and Western Europe. […]
Maya Jasanoff – An Imperial Disaster? The Loyalist Diaspora after the American Revolution
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC History department.
Price Fishback – Economic History
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Economics at UBC. Price Fishback is a Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. Fishback is involved in a long-term study of the political economy of Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s that examines both the determinants of New […]
Sheryl Lightfoot – Lands, Treaties, and Development Strategies
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 first of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. For more than three […]
Mark Unno – Shin Buddhism in Interreligious Dialogue: A World of Teaching and Learning Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program.
Raphaël Liogier – Buddhism and the Hypothesis on Individuo-globalism
Program sponsored by Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, the Institute of Asian Research, and the Department of Asian Studies, Raphael Lioger presents that research carried out within the framework of the Observatoire du Religieux (World Religion Watch) over the last decade seem to clearly to demonstrate that, in […]
Michael Gurstein's "Community Informatics" Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS).
Michael Yahgulanaas' Red: A Haida Manga Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted as part of the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC
Charles Prebish – The Swans Came to Canada Too: Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Program sponsored by Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, the Institute of Asian Research, and the Department of Asian Studies. Following the change in immigration law by Canada and the United States in the mid-twentieth century, Buddhism exploded on the North American continent. Buddhism is now found everywhere: from […]