Reading of the "Blue Light Project"
In a very near future that is both familiar and troubling, three lives intersect in a time of crisis. A controversial talent show involving children is midway through taping when a man storms the television studio and takes over a hundred hostages. He’s armed with an explosive device, but expresses no motive and makes just […]
Asian Heritage Month National Conference
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) co-hosted a webcast of a nation-wide teleconference among Asian Heritage Month societies in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto to share expert speakers’ experiences in integrating Asian-Canadian content into Canada’s education system. This Vancouver panel features Dr. Ray Hsu, Tetsuro Shigematsu, Anna […]
David Der-wei Wang – Writing History after "Post-History": On Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies. Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture. David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies at Harvard University. […]
Regula Qureshi – Performance Traditions in South Asian Islam
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Asian Studies Department. A scholar of Urdu and Hindi language and literature and of the art music of India and Pakistan, Qureshi has given numerous lecture-recitals on sarangi, Indian music, and Muslim chant in Canada, the US, Pakistan, India, and Western Europe. […]
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. […]
Christian Matthiessen – Language evolving: Notes towards a semiotic history of humanity
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Department of Language and Literacy Education and the Faculty of Education as part of the plenary session at the 37th International Systemic Functional Congress, Matthiessen poses the theme that is “language evolving”. This can be interpreted either very generally or more technically. […]
Michael Halliday – Language evolving: Some systemic functional reflections on the history of meaning
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Department of Language and Literacy Education and the Faculty of Education as part of the plenary session at the 37th International Systemic Functional Congress, Halliday poses the evolution of language seems a simple enough concept: it arose in the work of scholars […]
Terrence Deacon – Language and complexity: Evolution inside out
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Department of Language and Literacy Education and the Faculty of Education as part of the plenary session at the 37th International Systemic Functional Congress, Deacon explains the extravagant complexity of the human language and our competence to acquire it has long posed […]
Heather Spears – Required Reading: Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and art exhibit in collaboration with the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, Heather Spears discusses the murder of 14 year old Reena Virk by schoolmates, in Victoria. Virk’s death aroused deep concern in about violence among children in our society. Thoughout the trials Heather Spears […]