Events

Citizen Science: New Challenges for Information Studies

As part of the 44th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Information Science (CAIS), Jennifer Preece, Professor of the College of Information Studies at University of Maryland will be hosting a discussion about the new challenges for Information Studies in this period, known as the anthropocene. Humans are now having a profound influence on […]

Remembrance Day Speaker Series and Display: Remembering the Great War with Canadian Writers and Artists

Remembering the Great War with Canadian Writers and Artists When: November 10, 2016 12:00-1:30 p.m. Speaker: Sherrill Grace, OC, FRSC, Professor Emerita of English and University Killam Professor While Canada has been surprisingly low key about commemorating the Great War since 2014, we do have a wealth of artistic material that does important work in […]

Walter "Robby" Robinson Spotlight on the Church: Vancouver Institute & Irving K. Barber Centre Lecture

Spotlight on the Church: How Sex Abuse Went Unnoticed For So Long, And What It Took To Expose It. Mr. Walter “Robby” Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The Boston Globe where he currently holds the title of Editor-At-Large.  He led the Globe‘s coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal, for […]

UBC Continuing Studies: Cool Canadian History

One Day @ UBC Take a journey through some of the most interesting, unique, weird, and significant moments in Canadian history. From a rebellion on the prairies to coureurs de bois serving on the Nile River, learn about some of the people, moments, and events that changed the course of the nation, the continent, and […]

Ever Austen: Literary Timelessness in the Regency Period

  2017 marks the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death, an author who has left an ever-lasting literary legacy that continually influences popular culture across time. In celebration of this legacy, Rare Books and Special Collections at UBC Library is delighted to present “Ever Austen: Literary Timelessness in the Regency Period.” This exhibition not only honours […]

SLAIS Welcomes Archivist Anne Lindsay as Speaker for 2017 Colloquium

The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies is pleased to welcome Anne Lindsay, Access and Research Archivist for the NCTR, as a speaker in the iSchool’s Winter 2017 Colloquium program. She will be speaking on the topic of “Beyond Jenkinson: Authority, provenance, and Arrangement in a Complex Digital Collection at the National Centre for Truth […]