Lesley McBain – Place and Nursing in Remote Northern Communities: A Historical Perspective
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing at UBC. Following World War II, governments began extending healthcare to residents living in northern remote communities as a way to “modernize” the vast region and to pave the way for increased resource extraction. Small outpost nursing stations were […]
From Buddhism to Nestorian Christianity: The importance of the Silk Roads in the movement of ideas and religions across Central Asia
Tuesday May 26, 2015 – 3.00pm to 4.30pm at the Asian Centre Auditorium (1871 West Mall, University of British Columbia)
David Newhouse – SFU-UBC Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium – Keynote Speech
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the SFU-UBC Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium. In visioning approaches to Indigenize the academy, the 13th Annual Indigenous Graduate Student Symposium (IGSS) explores concepts, practices, innovations, and challenges of making academe more respectful and responsive to Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Indigenous communities, and learners. Keynote […]
Asian Canadian Studies with Terry Watada, Jim Wong-Chu, and Glenn Deer
Thursday November 27, 3.00PM-4.00PM at the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and in partnership with the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, with support from the UBC First Nations House of Learning, the UBC Department of History and Kloshe Tillicum (Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research). Shortly after WWII, when knowledge about nutrition was still sparse, scientists […]
Leo Shin – China and its Minorities: A Historical Perspective
In partnership between the Richmond Public Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, this event took place at the Brighouse Library of the Richmond Public Library on Tuesday May 6, 2014.
Akio Takahara – Domestic Factors in China's External Policy: The Case of Japan-China Relations
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Institute of Asian Research (IAR). Chaired By: Joseph Caron, Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan. Besides international factors such as the 2008 world financial crisis, there are important domestic factors in China’s current external policy. They include the intensive debates over the necessity […]
Wat Memorial Lecture – Pai Hsien-yung
Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi; 1893–1966). General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the history of the Republic of China: As an eighteen-year-old military cadet in 1911, he joined a “Dare-to-Die” corps that marched to Wuhan to take part […]
Approaches to the Anthropocene – a Conversation with Philippe Descola and Bruno Latour
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Philippe Descola and Dr. Bruno Latour are two of France’s most prominent intellectuals, and both have redefined their respective fields of expertise by considering the place of human agency – and non-human actors – in the construction of the modern world. In this conversation, Dr. […]