Chia-ying Yeh – Celebrating Life And Work
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and jointly organized by the Asian Library, Department of Asian Studies, the Centre for Chinese Research and the Institute of Asian Research, Chinese Canadian Writers’ Association. Dr. Yeh Chia-Ying Professor Emerita of Asian Studies was celebrated on her 90th birthday on July 26, 2014 at the […]
Barbara Herrnstein Smith – Dis/Integration: On the New Interdisciplinarity
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Philosophy Department’s Stephen M. Straker Memorial Lecture. Professor Smith (Duke University) is a leading literary theorist and critic, and also a major contributor to Science and Technology Studies, bringing together insights from literary and critical theory with those from history and […]
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.
Wat Memorial Lecture – Pai Hsien-yung
Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi; 1893–1966). General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the history of the Republic of China: As an eighteen-year-old military cadet in 1911, he joined a “Dare-to-Die” corps that marched to Wuhan to take part […]
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 […]
Chris Lee – The Anglophone Eileen Chang
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Richmond Public Library (RPL) as part of its The Joy Of Reading lecture series. Eileen Chang is widely recognized as one of the most important Chinese writers of the twentieth century, but few people know about her many English language writings. This […]
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 […]