On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice. Session 3 of 3: Endangered Languages, Creative Practice and Activism
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. This panel followed a performance by artist Peter Morin entitled ‘Hello Darlin’’. Chair: John Wynne. Panelists: Margery Fee, Patrick Moore, Peter Morin, Khelsilem Rivers. This session explores the museum as a site of cultural contestation and issues of appropriation […]
On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice. Session 2 of 3: On Endangered Languages, Digital Technologies and Archives
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. This panel followed a screening of Banchi Hanuse’s film ‘Cry Rock’. Chair: Kate Hennessy. Panelists: Candace Galla, David Nathan, Mark Turin, Clyde Tallio. As documentary and archiving technologies rapidly change, we ask: What role does the digital play in […]
On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice. Session 1 of 3: Language Documentation and the Anspayaxw Project
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Introduction by Karen Duffek Presentation by John Wynne and Tyler Peterson: The Anspayaxw Project Chair: Tyler Peterson Panelists: Patricia Shaw, Barbara Harris, Louise Wilson, Cynthia Jensen-Fisk, Loretta Todd, Larry Grant, John Wynne. In recent decades there has been […]
Red Tails and Dragon Tales
Webcast of Friday, June 28 event at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre now available (image courtesy: Vincent Chan)
Natalie Zemon Davis – Dealing with Strangeness: Language and Information Flow in an 18th Century Slave Society
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. This lecture describes the language and practices of translation among slaves and masters in the plantation society of 18th century Suriname. Slaves from different parts of western Africa created a creole language to talk to each other. Two dictionaries were produced of that language through collaboration […]
Robert Crawford – Upstart Crew: Mutinous Winds in Shakespeare's Tempest
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Arts One. Shakespeare’s final, richly allegorical play has been subjected to widely differing interpretation. Shakespeare disguises these dangerous interests in a subtle allegory hinging on an established linkage between seamanship and rulership, and in the seemingly minor characters of boatswain, master, and […]
Henry Yu – Asian Heritage Month National Symposium – Chinese Canadian Stories
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Henry Yu is a Vancouver speaker at the 2nd Annual Asian Heritage Month National Video Conference presented by VAHMS as part of explorASIAN 2012 in partnership with IKBLC and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC. Dr. Henry Yu will be presenting his involvement and […]
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Liza Piper – Climate [Change] and the Nature of Canada
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Lisa Piper is Professor at the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, and specializes in the field of environmental history. Liz Piper is currently involved in a research project that examines the relationship between disease outbreaks and environmental change in […]
Benjamin C. Amick III – Population Health Interventions in the Labour Market: A View From Texas
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Dr. Benjamin C. Amick III is scientific director and senior scientist at the Institute for Work & Health. He is also a professor of behavioral sciences and epidemiology in the School of Public Health af the University of Texas Health Science Center […]
Claire Campbell – Wilderness Culture and the Nature of Canada
Professor Campbell is the Director of Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University. She teaches Canadian environmental history, history of cultural landscapes, national and regional identities in Canada, and history of the arts. Her areas of expertise also include public history and Scandinavian history. This talk takes its inspiration from a passage in Stephen Leacock’s 1936 essay, […]