Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi – Islam and the Contest of Faculties in Iran
Global Islam: Past, Present and Future is presented by UBC Continuing Studies, the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution. It is part of UBC Continuing Studies’ Lifelong Learning Series. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is Professor of History and Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of […]
Michael Byers – African Leadership on International Human Rights
Dr. Byers’ work focuses on the interaction of international law and politics, particularly with respect to human rights, international organizations, the use of military force, the Arctic, and Canada-United States relations. He has published six books, dozens of academic papers and more than 100 op-ed articles in international newspapers, the Globe and Mail, National Post, […]
Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi – Africa and Global Leadership
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Africa Awareness Initiative. Geraldine Fraser Moleketi is a South African Politician. Former Minister of Public Service and Administration (1999 – 2008). Former member of the ANC National Executive Committee of the (2007). Following the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki in September 2008, […]
Dana Claxton, Lori Blondeau and Shawn Hunt – Contemporary First Nations Art NOW
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fifth in a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Contemporary First Nations Art […]
Beverley K. Jacobs – Restoring the Balance: Aboriginal Women's Issues in Canada
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Continuing Studies. Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fourth of a series […]
Dora Nipp – From "Ni hao ma?" to "Hao ji le": a 2010 Asian Studies Odyssey
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden and UBC Asian Studies Department. A descendant of a CPR labourer and head-tax payers, Dora Nipp has always had a penchant for Chinese Canadian history. UBC’s Asian Studies program was her point of departure opening up […]
Henry Yu – Our Future as a Half-Chinese City: Lessons from History
Dr. Henry Yu specializes in the study of trans-Pacific migration and settlement. Yu is involved in the collective effort to reimagine the history of Vancouver and of British Columbia through the concept of “Pacific Canada,” a perspective that focuses on how migrants from Asia, Europe, and other parts of the Americas engaged with each other […]
Sheryl Lightfoot – Lands, Treaties, and Development Strategies
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the first of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. For more than three […]
Maya Jasanoff – An Imperial Disaster? The Loyalist Diaspora after the American Revolution
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC History department. Part of the “Disasters and Diasporas: Entangled Histories of Environment and Empire” Series of the UBC History Department Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and […]
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 […]