Stranger in a Strange Land: Exploring Texts and Media for Young People Across Cultures and Continents
Stranger in a Strange Land: Exploring Texts and Media for Young People Across Cultures and Continents is a Peer-Reviewed Graduate Student Conference on Children’s Literature and Cultural Texts with keynote speakers Elizabeth Marshall and Sarah Park held at the University of British Columbia on Saturday, April 28, 2012. The University of British Columbia Saturday, April 28, 2012 8 A.M. to […]
SoMobNet (Social Mobile Networking For Informal Learning) One Day Seminar – April 16, 2012
The rise of social networking sites (SNSs) and mobile devices over the past ten years has been one of the most inuential phenomena in digital technology. They are now used by many people who integrate them into their daily lives, and the services and devices are playing an increasing role in mediating the access to […]
Live Webcast of the IFLA Presidential Programme: Libraries – A Force for Change
The IFLA 2012 Presidential Program is intended to provide IFLA, its members, and all organizations and individuals, with an investigation of these issues and guidance as to how institutions and communities can work together to develop the most useful and productive relationships. UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be live webcasting […]
Stolen Memories, Breaking the Silence Film Screenings at Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, May 29, 2012 – 6.00-7.00PM
Stolen Memories is a detective story about filmmaker Kagan Goh’s personal quest to return a photo album “stolen” from a Japanese Canadian family during the Japanese internment. The filmmaker’s brother bought a photo album along with a framed photograph of a Japanese samurai warrior that once belonged to a Japanese Canadian family, at a garage […]
Lawrence Krauss' Vancouver Institute Lecture
Life, the Universe, and Nothing: A Cosmic Mystery Story