Randall Jimerson – Archivists and the Call of Justice
As part of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) Colloquium series, Randall Jimerson presents on the history of recordkeeping and archives, and reveals that they have often been used to consolidate and enforce political power, often to control or oppress people. Far from being neutral repositories for facts and evidence, archives have […]
Daniel Burnett, Margot Young and Robert Diab – The Olympics and Freedom of Speech
A timely discussion about the Olympics and its effect on our freedom of speech. Expert speakers include: Daniel W. Burnett, UBC Graduate School of Journalism professor, media law expert; Margot Young, UBC Law, constitutional law expert, and coauthor of Poverty: Human Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism. Robert Diab, UBC Law / Capilano University professor. […]
Anthony Pagden – Perpetual Enmity: Reflections on Two Millenia of Conflict between East and West
Anthony Pagdens research has concentrated on the relationship between the peoples of Europe and its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He is primarily interested in the political theory of empire, in how the West sought to explain to itself how and why it had come to […]
John Borrows – Living Traditions: Windingo's and Indigenous Law
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 agency in the interpretation and application of Indigenous law […]
Dr. Diana Lary, Dr. Maurice Copithorne, Eleanor Yuen and Nicole Kwan – The Dragon and the Crown – Hong Kong Memoirs by Stanley Kwan
The memoirs give a voice to the ordinary people whose lives have been profoundly affected by the dramatic changes in Hong Kong: from an entrepôt to an international financial centre and from a colony to become a part of China. The book contributes to the ongoing search for Hong Kong identity and will resonate among […]
Lung Ying-tai – Big River, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and made possible by the Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture series hosted by the Department of Asian Studies and the Faculty of Arts, UBC welcomed professor at Hong Kong University, Dr. Lung Ying-tai on October 18, 2009 at the Asian Auditorium at UBC. Celebrated writer, […]
Lung Ying-tai – Big River, Big Sea – Untold Stories of 1949 (Chinese Lecture)
Lung Ying-Tai, Celebrated writer, literary critic and public intellectual of contemporary Taiwan. Her works also have great influence in the Chinese language world in Hong Kong, China, and North America. Lung Ying-tais most recent work is Big River, Big Sea: Untold Stories of 1949, published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the founding of […]
Denise Chong – Egg on Mao
In her first book in a decade, Denise Chong tells the story of the man who defaced Chairman Maos portrait during the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, twenty years ago. After eleven years in a Chinese jail, Lu Decheng escaped to Canada, followed by his family. They all now live in Calgary. Webcast sponsored […]