Event Category Archives: News

Graduate Writing Retreat

Graduate students from across the disciplines are invited to participate in daylong, Zoom-based Retreats. The Retreats are an excellent opportunity to mitigate social isolation while also making progress towards the completion of your writing project in the virtual company of other graduate students. Registration is required

Copyright for Graduate Students

Are you in the midst of writing your thesis? Are there images or portions of published manuscripts you are planning to use in your thesis? Do you have concerns over how copyright laws could delay your thesis submission? In this session you will learn to examine your thesis for copyright compliance, identifying copyright material, using material from online resources, and about author rights. Registration is required.

International Organizations: A Workshop for Researchers

In this workshop, you will learn how to use the information created and disseminated by international organizations to support your own learning and research. International organizations — Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and think tanks — often share reports and data related to specific policy areas of global or regional importance. Registration is required.

Literature Reviews: Writing

Literature reviews accomplish several purposes for scholars. In the introduction to a research article or thesis chapter, for example, writers review relevant research in order to establish a research gap or articulate a problem or need that the current study addresses. But how do writers summarize the scholarly conversation already underway and, then, join that conversation? This workshop introduces researchers to the typical structure of the literature review in research article introductions and theses, while accounting for variation in communicative purposes, audiences, and disciplinary differences. Registration is required.

Honouring Indigenous Writers Book Club Discussion and Author Reading with Tenille K. Campbell and guests

Join UBC Library for a reading by book club author, Tenille Campbell, Dene/Métis author from English River First Nation in Northern Saskatchewan, followed by a conversation with special guests. This event is part of the Honouring Indigenous Writers on Wikipedia event, which seeks to improve the coverage of Indigenous writers on Wikipedia and to encourage diverse community editors to actively work to dissuade assumptions about Indigenous literature by raising their profile in this increasingly influential information source. Registration is required.

Writing Conclusions

If starting to write can be challenging, finishing writing can be no less so. Concluding well is a subtle art, not least because it requires writers to be responsive to the unique needs of the writing task at hand. This workshop will introduce you to key rhetorical considerations in the writing of conclusions. Registration is required.

“Not Just Checking Boxes: Thinking & Working Through Ethical Problems with Checklists”

Over the past few decades, members of the public, students, professionals, and researchers have struggled with the dilemmas and conundrums originating from powerful new technologies, including artificial intelligence, Big Data, and machine learning, just to name a few. Although these new technologies hold much potential, their creators and designers have—more often than not—willingly overlooked the […]

“Archives as Past, Present, and Future”: Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Dr. Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra

Event Description Archives shape the past, they shape the way in which we access the past and write for the future. But archives are connected to colonial pasts, erasures, and harm, relegating marginalized communities and racialized communities invisible. We know this is untrue – we know archives of these communities exist and there are many, […]