Karen Hebert, Michael Hathaway and Sasha Welland – Commodities and Cultures
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, Commodities and Cultures panel includes: (a) Sasha Welland (Anthropology, Washington) – Architectural Model (b) Karen Hebert (Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale) – Quality Salmon (c) Michael Hathaway (Anthropology, SFU) – Matsutake Bag (d) Commentator: Juanita Sundberg (Geography, UBC) Select […]
Jonathan Lamb – The Things Things Say: On the Metamorphosis of Captain Cook
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, The Jonathan Lamb (English, Vanderbilt University) presents Things Things Say: On the Metamorphosis of Captain Cook. Introduced by Jennifer Spear (History, SFU). Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library Lamb, J. (2011). […]
Sanjay Subrahmanyam – Keynote Address – Courtly Encounters in Early Modern Eurasia
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. Johns College, Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History, UCLA) and introduced by Luke Clossey (History, SFU). Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, joined UCLA in 2004. From 1983 to 1995, with brief interruptions, […]
Giancarlo Casale, Hussein Fancy and Natalie Rothman – Crossings in the Early Modern Ottoman and Iberian Worlds
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. Johns College, Crossings in the Early Modern Ottoman and Iberian Worlds panel includes: (a) Hussein Fancy (History, Michigan) – Muslim Crusader (b) Natalie Rothman (History, Toronto) – Venetian-Ottoman Miniature Album (c) Giancarlo Casale (History, Minnesota) – Ottoman World Map […]
Florence Hsia, Jorge Flores and Nicholas Dew – Moving Knowledge Across Early Modern Frontiers
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. Johns College, Moving Knowledge Across Early Modern Frontiers panel includes: (a) Jorge Flores (History, Brown) – Adams Peak (b) Florence Hsia (History of Science, Wisconsin) – Collection of Chinese works in manuscript, c.1716 (c) Nicholas Dew (History, McGill) – […]
Jessica Stern and Neil Whitehead – American Encounters in a Global Context
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. Johns College, American Encounters in a Global Context panel includes: (a) Jessica Stern (History, California State University, Fullerton) – Godalming Kerseys Amerindian Barbecue (b) Neil Whitehead (Anthropology, Wisconsin) – Cannibal Bodies (c) Commentator: Gaston Gordillo (Anthropology, UBC) Select Articles […]
Nika Collison, Shaunee Casavant, Sheryl Lightfoot and Tirso Gonzales – Global Indigeneities: Views from Near and Far
Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Welcome by Linc Kesler (Director, First Nations Studies Program, UBC) and Elder Larry Grant (Musqueam Nation). Introduction by Neil Safier (History, UBC), Principal Investigator of the Global Encounters Initiative. Global Indigeneities Views from Near and Far panel includes: (a) Naasḳuu-isaḳs, Shaunee Casavant […]
Shaunee Casavant – Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ki-ke-in
(Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre). Hosted by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Shaunee Casavant (Chief Councillor, Hupacasath Nation) presents Backstory: Nuuchaanulth Ceremonial Curtains and the Work of Ki-ke-in. Shaunee Casavant talks about the many roles of her thliitsapilthim in domestic and ceremonial life. Commentator: Charlotte […]
John Borrows- Living Traditions: Windingo's and Indigenous Law
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. John Borrows is a Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor and Law Foundation Chair of Aboriginal Law and Justice at the University of Victoria Law School. Talk focuses on the role of choice and […]
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 […]