Mark Wexler is Professor of Management Ethics & Management at SFU and a renowned expert on ethics. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Wexler, M. N. (1987). Conjectures on the dynamics of secrecy and the secrets business. Journal of Business Ethics, 6(6), 469. [Link]
Wexler, M. N. (2006). Successful resume fraud: Conjectures on the origins of amorality in the workplace. Journal of Human Values, 12(2), 137-152. doi:10.1177/097168580601200203 [Link]
The UBC Photosociety is hosting a photo exhibit entitled “my everyday” at the Irving K. Barber Learning Center Gallery from November 1 to 18, 2010, and will host a reception on Thursday, November 4, 2010 from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. This exhibition will display work done by members of the UBC Photosociety that deal with their daily lives, and the ways that those lives intersect with university life.
The idea behind this exhibit is that photography is often the process of capturing the lives of others—be they family members, friends, co-workers, models, or people in the community—but photographers do not often think through the ways in which their praxis mediates their own experience of reality, or the ways in which this capturing provides an illusory sense of their world as objectively theirs. For the exhibit, my everyday, emerging photographers have captured the things they see, do, are inspired by, and frustrated by in their everyday lives as students and members of the university community, as a means of both encouraging and denying fellow-feeling with others. Thus, the exhibit will allow for a theorization of the “everydayness” of university life—a life all too often described as alien to the “real” world—but at the same time will encourage the viewer to see that everyday life is best understood in terms of a plurality of perspectives.
To kick things off, we’ll start with Bella Coola which is a small town on the Central Coast of B.C. The Bella Coola area is famous for the MacKenzie Rock, where in 1793 Alexander MacKenzie wrote his name on a rock to commemorate completing the first recorded journey across North America. In the early to mid 20th century, the Bella Coola area was home to the Tallheo Cannery, which is where our featured document comes from. The Tallheo Cannery was built in 1912 by the Canadian Fishing Company. The archives of the Tallheo Cannery include administrative records such as correspondence, financial documents, and fishermen’s statements. The document shown is a receipt for purchases made by the Cannery from a Bella Coola store, A.C. Christensen & Son, who were dealers in “dry goods, boots and shoes, hardware and groceries.”
In the Barber Centre, the Bella Coola room is number 193, a meeting room on the first floor of the building.
Check back every two weeks for another B.C. town and another historic document!
Mark Angelo is the founder of the ecologically-focused Rivers Institute. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Angelo, M. (2013). A day, and the life, for rivers.(the water issue: World rivers day). Environmental Education, 103, 7. [Link]
Rosenau, M. L., Angelo, M., & Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. (2005). Conflicts between agriculture and salmon in the eastern Fraser Valley. Vancouver, BC: Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.
Rosenau, M. L., Angelo, M., Canada. Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans^British Columbia. Ministry of Agriculture,Food & Fisheries, & Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. (2001). The role of public groups in protecting and restoring freshwater habitats in British Columbia, with a special emphasis on urban streams. Vancouver, BC: Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.
Rosenau, M. L., Angelo, M., & Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council. (2000). Water use planning : A tool to restore salmon and steelhead habitat in British Columbia streams. Vancouver, BC: Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The philosophers J. L. Austin and John Searle developed speech act theory in the twentieth century. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the theory and then explore some aspects of it that seem relevant to concepts in archival science. Mr. Yeo will focus on connections between speech act theory and a conceptualization of records as persistent representations, ideas about the role of representation in the performance of speech acts, the potential impact of speech act theory on perceptions of the record as a source of information, and/or the importance of societal conventions in understanding the affinities of records to human action. He will argue that records have performative characteristics and that speech act theory can help us to comprehend the relations between records, actions and events.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Yeo, G. (2012). Bringing things together: Aggregate records in a digital age. Archivaria, (74), 43. [Link]
Yeo, G. (2011). Rising to the level of a record? some thoughts on records and documents. Records Management Journal, 21(1), 8-27. doi:10.1108/09565691111125071. [Link]
Yeo, G. (2012). The conceptual ponds and the physical collection. Archivaria, (73), 43. [Link]
Yeo, G. (2010). ‘Nothing is the same as something else’: Significant properties and notions of identity and originality. Archival Science, 10(2), 85-116. doi:10.1007/s10502-010-9119-9. [Link]
Donald MacPherson is a drug policy expert. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
MacPherson, D., & Vancouver (B.C.). (2000). Framework for action: A four-pillar approach to drug problems in Vancouver: Draft discussion paper. Vancouver, B.C: City of Vancouver.
Boyd, S. C., Osborn, B., & MacPherson, D. (2009). Raise shit: Social action saving lives. Halifax: Fernwood.
MacPherson, D., & Vancouver (B.C.). Drug Policy Program. (2005). Preventing harm from psychoactive substance use. Vancouver: City of Vancouver, Drug Policy Program.
