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BC History Digitization Program: 2010 Recipients Announced
A handful of First Nations projects and the first out-of-province initiative are among the successful recipients of the 2010/11 B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP) awards. The digitization program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, was launched in 2006. It provides matching funds that help libraries, archives, museums and other organizations digitize unique […]
Front cover exposure for RBSC, UBC Library Vault
The April 2010 issue of College & Research Libraries News, an American publication, features an image from UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections on the front cover. Some additional information about the image and the UBC Library Vault is provided inside the publication. You can view the issue here.
IKBLC Webcast of Don Page's Black Hole Information Loss: Hawking's Greatest Mistake?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Ramachandra Guha – Ten Reasons why India will not and must not become a Superpower
Presented by International Development Research Centre and co-hosted by UBC and the Canada-India Foundation, there has been much talk of a coming Asian century, to be dominated by the economic strength and political assertion of China and India. This critically scrutinizes the claims made on behalf of India, and in particular the belief, held by […]
Jerome Silbergeld – What Is the "Chinese Motion" in Chinese Motion Pictures?
BC China Scholars Forum Moving Words, Moving Images, UBC, April 9-10th, 2010. Keynote address: Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. & Kinmay Tang Professor of Chinese Art History & Director, Tang Centre for East Asian Art, Princeton University What Is the “Chinese Motion” in Chinese Motion Pictures? Co-sponsored by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Chinese cinema, like other […]
Shuyu Kong, Sion Assouline and Tami Blumenfield – Shifting Ground, Moving Images
BC China Scholars Forum Moving Words, Moving Images, UBC, April 9-10th, 2010. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Panel includes: Shuyu Kong ( SFU): Making Blockbusters with Chinese Characteristics: China Film Group and the Transformation of Main Melody Film Sion Assouline (Independent Scholar): Borrowing Badas Eye: Chinese Ink Painting Meets Digital Photography Tami […]
Alison Bailey, Gu Xiong and Roger Boshier – Global Travellers, Visual Connections
BC China Scholars Forum Moving Words, Moving Images, UBC, April 9-10th, 2010. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Panel includes: Alison Bailey (UBC): “Google, Genealogy, & Coincidence: Tracing a Transnational Family Roger Boshier (UBC): Shooting Wars: Bandit New Zealand Film-Makers Versus Chinese Minders Gu Xiong (UBC): Becoming Rivers Diana Lary (UBC): Chair Select […]
David Luesink, Grace Mak, Wing On Lee and Zhongping Chen – Knowledge and Transnationalism
BC China Scholars Forum Moving Words, Moving Images, UBC, April 9-10th, 2010. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Panel includes: Zhongping Chen (UVic): Kang Youweis Activities in Canada and Transpacific Mobility of Chinese Reformism: A Historical Reexamination David Luesink (UBC): Making Medicine Equivalent: Missionaries and English-Chinese Lexicography, 1850-1967 Grace Mak (CCR) & Wing […]
Barbara Metcalf – Being Muslim in India: A Singer, a Madman, and a Schoolgirl in their own Words
Hosted by the Asian Studies department, as part of the 2010 Virani Lecture Series in Islamic Studies, one of the most important directions in religious studies over recent decades has been an emphasis on the lived experience of those who participate in any given transcendent tradition that includes such domains of life as ritual, worship, […]
Neil Safier – Measuring the New World
In collaboration with the UBC Bookstore, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre presents Dr. Neil Safier as part of Celebrate UBC Authors. Prior to 1735, South America was largely terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a joint French and Spanish mission to the Spanish American province of […]