Judy Fong-Bates – The Year of Finding Memory
In partnership with Random House Canada, UBC Community Partners for Learning, the Chinese Canadian Historical Society (CCHSBC), the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW), Schema, the North American Association of Asian Professionals (NAAAP), and ExplorAsian, the IKBLC presents author Judy Fong-Bates’ reading of “Year of Finding Memory.” An elegant and surprising book about a Chinese family’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Taiaiake Alfred – From Noble Savage to Righteous Warrior
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, From Noble Savage to Righteous Warrior: Regenerating and Reinscribing Indigenous Presences by Taiaiake Alfred (Indigenous Governance, UVic) and introduced by Paige Raibmon (History, UBC). Taiaiake Alfred is an author, educator and activist. Alfred is an internationally recognized Kanienkehaka intellectual, […]
James Delbourgo, Nathan Connolly and Wendy Roth – Caribbean Diasporas
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Introduction by Anthony Shelton, director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Hosted by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Caribbean Diasporas panel includes: (a) James Delbourgo (History, Rutgers) – Jamaican Slave Whip (b) Nathan Connolly (History, Johns Hopkins) – Work Pass (c) Wendy […]
Chris Lee, Renisa Mawani and Sareeta Amrute – Global Circuits and Asian Migrations
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, Global Circuits and Asian Migrations panel includes: (a) Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology, Washington) – Tata Indica (b) Renisa Mawani (Sociology, UBC) – Komagata Maru (c) Chris Lee (English, UBC) – Boats (d) Commentator: Sebastian Prange (History, UBC) Select Articles and […]