Event Tag Archives: IKBLC

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 […]

MEDTalks: The Genomics Revolution

Presented by UBC Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, in partnership with alumni UBC The sequencing of the human genome has been hailed as a scientific breakthrough in that it has opened the human genetic blueprint to investigations of all questions ranging from human origins to the understanding of health […]

A Season for Friendly Meetings: Exploring Jane Austen’s Influences and Legacy

In coordination with our current exhibition Ever Austen: Literary Timelessness in the Regency Period, Rare Books and Special Collections is delighted to host a special Austen-themed panel discussion. We’re delighted to be joined by scholars from both UBC and SFU for this fascinating discussion on and celebration of Jane Austen, in honour of the 200th […]

One Day @ UBC: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff – How Can We Best Produce our Food?

How can we produce food in a more sustainable manner while providing livelihoods to farmers as well as nutritious and accessible food to consumers? There are many solutions being promoted: organic, urban agriculture, GMO, local, fair trade, and so on. But what do we actually know about what works? Gain a broad overview of the […]

One Day @ UBC: Calling Cartographers: Learn Open Source Geographic Information Systems

Learn how to create maps using free and open source software for Geographic Information Systems. By the end of the course, you have an understanding of free data sources, types of data, and how to create and publish your own unique map of Vancouver. The main software used will be QGIS; personal laptops are required. […]

One Day @ UBC: Thor and Company: Old Norse Mythology through the Ages

Few mythologies can rival the popularity of Old Norse mythology – the world of Thor, Odin and Loki, of dwarves, trolls and frost giants. But almost everything we “know” about Old Norse mythology was recorded by hostile Christian observers or Icelandic scribes writing at least two hundred after years the Christianization of Iceland. As a […]

One Day @ UBC: Politics, Literature and Painting through Three Women of the 20th Century: Evita Peron, Gabriela Mistral and Frida Kahlo

Explore the legacy of three important women in the first half of the 20th century: the First Lady of Argentina, Evita Peron; Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet-diplomat and the first Latin American author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature; and Frida Kahlo, one of Mexico’s greatest artists. Examine the lives of these women through […]