Minghui Yu
Mark Unno – Shin Buddhism in Interreligious Dialogue: A World of Teaching and Learning
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program. Based on the religious thought of Shinran Shonin, the founder of Shin Buddhism, the largest sect of Japanese Buddhism, this presentation explores the world of religious dialogue. Specifically, how can one understand the particularity of religious […]
Olav Slaymaker – Drivers of environmental change during the present century
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by St. John’s College, this lecture features Dr. Olav Slaymaker. Over geological time scales, landscapes evolve under the influence of tectonic plate movements, cyclically changing Earth-Sun relations, spatial variations in rock strength and cyclically changing climate. However, within the time frame of the present […]
Gwynne Dyer's Geopolitics in a Hotter World IKBLC Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Vancouver Institute.
Michael Gurstein – Community Informatics
The application of information and communications technology (ICT) to enable and empower community processes, the goal of Community Informatics is to use information communication technologies (ICT) to enable the achievement of community objectives including overcoming “digital divides” both within and between communities. However, community informatics goes beyond discussions of the “Digital Divide” to examine how […]
Jocelyn Létourneau – 1759 and the future of memory in Quebec
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 of this founding moment of Quebec’s destiny. Yet, it has been 250 years since “the English […]
Gwynne Dyer – Geopolitics in a Hotter World
Global warming is moving much more quickly than scientists thought it would. Even if the biggest current and prospective emitters – the United States, China and India – were to slam on the brakes today, the earth would continue to heat up for decades. At best, we may be able to slow things down and […]
Phakchok Rinpoche – Compassion in Action
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Asian Studies Department’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, Phakchok Rinpoche is the Supreme Head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage, the Abbot of a monastery in Chapagaon in Kathmandu, and the Head of Riwoche Monastery in Tibet. Born in 1981 to Chokling Rinpoche […]
IKBLC Presents Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas' Red: A Haida Manga
In collaboration with the Robson Reading Series and UBC Robson Square Bookstore, IKBLC presents Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
Pilot program featured in UBC Reports
The latest issue of UBC Reports features an article on a community service-learning pilot program that involved various UBC units, including the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. You can view the article here, and the entire issue of UBC Reports here.
Terrence Deacon – "Language and complexity: Evolution inside out" IKBLC Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Department of Language and Literacy Education and the Faculty of Education as part of the plenary session at the 37th International Systemic Functional Congress