• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Heather O’Brien has been studying how people engage with information-rich technologies for more than a decade. In this lecture she will discuss the personal and social benefits, drawbacks, and outcomes of user engagement, as well as two emerging projects that return to and interrogate the question of “why engagement matters”.

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

This public keynote lecture by Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies at the University of Tokyo, Dr. Shunya Yoshimi, is part of the workshop series “Built Japan: Environment, City, and Empire.”

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

This workshop with CBC Radio Host Lisa Christiansen is for anyone interested in learning about listening, interviewing techniques and creating a narrative structure. The session will focus on on-air interviewing, and will be relevant for those with no radio experience as well as more seasoned on-air hosts.

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

This presentation by Dr. Bonnie Mak explores how the materiality of scholarly publication affects the production and transmission of knowledge. By following a series of examples through the process of creation and dissemination, we will consider how unorthodox research is received by the academy, whether current institutional infrastructures are equipped to support such performances of scholarship, and who should bear the costs.

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

This presentation by University Librarian, Dr. Susan Parker, explores how forces and critical issues that are now shaping academic libraries are deepening their engagement with scholars and helping to build platforms and relationships that expand the pathways of creation, discovery, learning, and dialogue. We will consider several of these phenomena and how they may contribute to expanded roles for libraries and a new era of library work.

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

How can archivists help marginalized communities beyond diverse collecting and inclusive descriptions? Dr. Caswell will discuss five different community archives sites and how archives can be potential sites for disrupting the cyclical nature of oppression.

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

This conference is an opportunity for students to focus on the present and future role of graduate students in teaching: graduate students teaching now, as well as graduate students as future faculty. This conference is free for all undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows, but registration is required.

• Venue: Lillooet Room (301) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Emerging research suggests that engaging students as partners in teaching and learning has the potential to enhance, and perhaps even transform, student learning—and teaching. This workshop, led by Celebrate Learning Week 2018 keynote speaker Peter Felten, will explore practical strategies from diverse disciplines for creating and sustaining student-faculty partnerships in teaching and learning.