Fred Wah – Standing in the Doorway – the Hyphen in Chinese-Canadian Poetry
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Richmond Public Library as part of the “The Joy Of Reading: Chinese Literature Appreciation” lecture series. This talk focuses on living and writing between two cultures, Chinese and Canadian. Racial hybridity has informed most of Prof. Wah’s writing and that of many Chinese-Canadian […]
Brandon Konoval – Fatal Enlightenment: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality by Rousseau
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Arts One. Philosopher, novelist, playwright and composer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 — 1778) became a leading figure of the Enlightenment as one of its sharpest critics. His Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men (1755)—a trenchant analysis of the […]
Robert Crawford – Upstart Crew: Mutinous Winds in Shakespeare's Tempest
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Arts One. Shakespeare’s final, richly allegorical play has been subjected to widely differing interpretation. Shakespeare disguises these dangerous interests in a subtle allegory hinging on an established linkage between seamanship and rulership, and in the seemingly minor characters of boatswain, master, and […]
Weyman Chan – Chinese Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Drawing on more than two thousand years of ancient Chinese tradition that present diverse philosophical modes of being, whether it be the spiritual teachings of Kong Zi or Lao Tzu, the military dicta of Sun Tzu or the complex […]
Shyam Selvadurai – "Funny Boy" and "Cinnamon Gardens"
Shyam Selvadurai, the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Green College for 2012 was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He came to Canada with his family at the age of nineteen, and has a BFA from York University in Toronto. Funny Boy, his first novel, was published to immediate acclaim in 1994, was a national bestseller, and […]
C.E. Gatchalian – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Falling in Time"
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. C.E. Gatachalian will be reading from his new book, “Falling In Time.” Gatchalian is a playwright, fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher. He is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program, and the author of three books: Motifs & Repetitions & Other […]
NoViolet Bulawayo – Open a Book, Read Africa
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Zimbabwean author, NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the annual £10 000 Caine Prize for African Writing, as announced at the Bodleian Library in Oxford this evening. Bulawayo wins the 2011 prize for her short story, “Hitting Budapest”, which Chair of Judges, Hisham Matar, described as being “reminiscent of […]
Kevin McNeilly – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Embouchere"
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC. Kevin McNeilly is an associate professor in the Department of English at UBC. He has been interested in poetics and philosophy since graduate school: he wrote his Master’s thesis on the poetry of Robert Bringhurst, and his doctoral […]
Michael V. Smith – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Progress"
In the lonely years following the death of her fiance, Helen is unable to move on with her life. But life itself is moving on around her literally: the building of a dam is forcing her small town and her family home to relocate. But the construction project means more than the loss of a […]