Liz Heron, Alfred Hermida, Karen Pinchin, Steve Pratt – How Social Media are Changing Journalism
Liz Heron, Social Media Editor at The New York Times, Alfred Hermida, Associate Professor, UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Karen Pinchin, founding editor of OpenFile Vancouver, and Steve Pratt, Director of CBC Radio 3 and CBC Radio Digital Programming present a lively panel discussion. This is the first in a series of three free […]
Two Minute Small Business Accelerator (SBA) Introduction
Get to know the new Small Business Accelerator website by watching this brief introductory video that explains what information can be found on the SBA, and how best to navigate the site. Business success depends on obtaining access to reliable information. The Small Business Accelerator is your gateway to freely available business information, education, and […]
Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Session (Okanagan)
This is a full recording of the Small Business Accelerator event, Smart Business, Small Business which took place at the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) Okanagan Campus in Kelowna on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011. The lecture features three compelling speakers who gave short talks and answered audience questions: • Laurel Douglas, CEO Women’s Enterprise Centre. […]
Paul Cubbon and George Moen – Smart Business, Small Business: An SBA Speaker Session in Vancouver
This is full recording of the Small Business Accelerator event, Smart Business, Small Business held October 17, 2011 at UBC Robson Square. The lecture features two compelling figures: Paul Cubbon, Marketing Instructor at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business; and George Moen, a University of British Columbia alumnus, serial entrepreneur and President […]
Michael Souza – Psychology of Gambling
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. “When you know it’s not a good idea to spend all that money, why do you do it anyways? Why can people not control their behaviour?” These are some of the questions UBC Psychology Professor Michael Souza asks himself as he works on creating a new […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Ananya Roy – Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted and co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, and the Liu Institute for Global Issues, Ananya Roy is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning where she teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. The turn […]
Millie Creighton – Japan and the Special Olympics
The Winter Olympics–as occurring in Vancouver, Canada in 2010, and the 2008 election of Barack Obama–as President of the United States, reflect globalizing insights on movements surrounding minorities and marginalization in Japan that contest hierarchies of people and of space and place. This talk explores dynamics involved when Japan, a society where the disabled were […]