Anahera Morehu – Housing the knowledge of tangata whenua (indigenous people)
Monday, August 10, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m, Lillooet Room (Level 3), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Lesley McBain – Place and Nursing in Remote Northern Communities: A Historical Perspective
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Nursing at UBC. Following World War II, governments began extending healthcare to residents living in northern remote communities as a way to “modernize” the vast region and to pave the way for increased resource extraction. Small outpost nursing stations were […]
The Legacy of Nutritional Experiments in Residential Schools
Friday, October 17, 2014, 7:00 – 9:30 pm at the UBC First Nations House of Learning’s Sty-Wet-Tan Hall
Josephine Etowa – Strengthening Leadership in Community Health Nursing and Collaborative Partnerships
In today’s complex dialogues of an ever changing health care system, nursing leaders are being required to think and work across boundaries; both to build collaborative visions and to accomplish those visions together through joint goal setting and active pursuit of those goals. Having stakeholders share commonalities of purpose have been associated with productive environment […]
Richard Wagamese – Reading of "Indian Horse"
Join us Thursday, October 31st, 2013 at 2:00 pm in the Lillooet Room (Room 301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre for a reading by author Richard Wagamese from his latest novel, Indian Horse.
On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice. Session 3 of 3: Endangered Languages, Creative Practice and Activism
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. This panel followed a performance by artist Peter Morin entitled ‘Hello Darlin’’. Chair: John Wynne. Panelists: Margery Fee, Patrick Moore, Peter Morin, Khelsilem Rivers. This session explores the museum as a site of cultural contestation and issues of appropriation […]
On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice. Session 2 of 3: On Endangered Languages, Digital Technologies and Archives
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. This panel followed a screening of Banchi Hanuse’s film ‘Cry Rock’. Chair: Kate Hennessy. Panelists: Candace Galla, David Nathan, Mark Turin, Clyde Tallio. As documentary and archiving technologies rapidly change, we ask: What role does the digital play in […]
On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice. Session 1 of 3: Language Documentation and the Anspayaxw Project
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology. Introduction by Karen Duffek Presentation by John Wynne and Tyler Peterson: The Anspayaxw Project Chair: Tyler Peterson Panelists: Patricia Shaw, Barbara Harris, Louise Wilson, Cynthia Jensen-Fisk, Loretta Todd, Larry Grant, John Wynne. In recent decades there has been […]
Robson Reading Series Presents Al Hunter (Beautiful Razor: Love Poems and Other Lies)
As part of the Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the UBC First Nations House of Learning hosted Anishinaabe writer Al Hunter to an author reading of his latest book of poetry. Hunter, who has published poetry in books and journals, has taught extensively and performed internationally. A member of Rainy […]
Tracy Friedel – Decolonizing Learning Through the Lense of Place, Community and Experience
This seminar focuses on the potential and pedagogical possibilities of place/community/experience–based learning to act as a decolonizing force in teacher education. In this seminar, we will share the experience of an Indigenous educator who sought to work with a group of graduate students to understand how participation in place–based service learning could affect graduate students’ […]