Engaging Youth With Indigenous Materials in Libraries and Classrooms
Assessing and incorporating teaching and learning resources by and about First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples is critical for librarians, educators and parents. Awareness of diverse epistemologies, notions of cultural authenticity and historical accuracy, and the influence of colonialism, are essential when considering books, films and interactive media for library and classroom collections. This panel […]
Re-Imagining and Indigenizing the Library's Role in Educating New Teachers
The role of libraries will be examined — specifically the Education Library, First Nations House of Learning Xwi7xwa Library, and more broadly, school libraries. The re-imagined teacher education program has inspired revision in the role Education librarians play to respectfully and meaningfully integrate First Nations history, content, and world-views; commit to inquiry and research oriented […]
Warren Cariou and Marie Clements – Play Chthonics: New Canadian Readings
Warren Cariou is from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he grew up in a family of Métis, German, and French heritage. He has written a book of novellas, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, and a memoir/cultural history entitled Lake of the Prairies, and he has also edited several texts by Aboriginal writers including Marvin Francis’s […]
Paul Hackett – Disease and the Nature of Canada
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Reflecting the harsh climate, thin soils and generally forbidding character of the vast northern territory that is Canada, it has often been said that the history of this country is inescapably environmental. This lecture series engages the great drama of human […]
Susan Rowley – Museum of Anthropology (MOA) Curator Talk: Inuit Art
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Using examples from MOA’s collection, Curator of Archaeology and UBC Associate Professor Susan Rowley gives an illustrated talk about the creation of the Inuit art market. Biography Susan Rowley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and a Curator at the Museum of Anthropology […]
Kate Hennessy – Repatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the Virtual Museum
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Many Canadian First Nations and Aboriginal organizations are using digital media to revitalize their languages and assert control over the representation of their cultures. At the same time, museums, academic institutions, and individuals are […]
Dana Claxton, Lori Blondeau and Shawn Hunt – Contemporary First Nations Art NOW
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the fifth in a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Contemporary First Nations Art […]
Erin Freeland Ballantyne and Glen Coulthard – Education, Community Initiatives & Mainstream Institutions
Glen Coulthard, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and First Nations Studies, UBC and Erin Freeland Ballantyne. This is the third of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations […]
Sheryl Lightfoot – Lands, Treaties, and Development Strategies
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the first of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. For more than three […]
Michael Yahgulanaas – Red: A Haida Manga
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted as part of the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC, through illustrative story telling, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas challenges native stereotypes. The stories of the trickster Raven, as told by Yahgulanaas, are what most people would call comics, and they are fun, humorous and sometimes rude. […]