Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC History department. Part of the “Disasters and Diasporas: Entangled Histories of Environment and Empire” Series of the UBC History Department Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous British publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently completed a new book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (forthcoming February 2011), which provides the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution, and resettled in Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Sierra Leone, and beyond. Her current research explores the worlds of Joseph Conrad. Jasanoff has been an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine.
Price Fishback – Economic History
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Economics at UBC. Price Fishback is a Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. Fishback is involved in a long-term study of the political economy of Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s that examines both the determinants of New Deal spending and loans and their impact on local economies throughout the U.S. He is continuing his work on state labour legislation during the Progressive Era, and is editing and contributing to a book on the government’s role in the economy from colonial times to the present designed for readers who are not specialists in economics. Fishback has written two books: Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation, and Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890 to 1930. His past work includes studies of the origins of workers’ compensation, company towns, coal miners, compensating differentials for workplace risks, workplace safety regulation, corruption, labour markets in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and discrimination in labour markets and by governments.
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Fishback, P. V., Kantor, S. E., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2006). A prelude to the welfare state: The origins of workers’ compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Link]
Fishback, P. V. M. (1992). Soft coal, hard choices: The economic welfare of bituminous coal miners, 1890-1930. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195067255.001.0001. [Link]
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Sheryl Lightfoot – Lands, Treaties, and Development Strategies
Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought is a collaboration of the UBC First Nations Studies Program, the First Nations House of Learning, the Irving. K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Continuing Studies. This is the first of a series of five special dialogues: Critical Issues in Aboriginal Life and Thought. For more than three decades, a broad international movement has been working to secure the rights of the world’s more than 300 million Indigenous peoples, culminating in the 2007 passage of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. What is this Declaration and how does it advance the goals of Indigenous peoples? How can the Declaration be implemented and what is expected of countries like Canada and the United States? Sheryl Lightfoot is an assistant professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science. Sheryl’s dissertation,Indigenous Global Politics, recently won the American Political Science Association award for best dissertation in the “Race, Ethnicity, and Politics” category. In her dissertation, Sheryl examined how the global Indigenous rights movement, through the pursuit of land, self-determination and other collective rights, has challenged some of the fundamental tenets of international relations. Sheryl is Anishinaabe, an enrolled citizen of the Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe, at the Keweenaw Bay Community in northern Michigan.
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Lightfoot, S. (2012). Selective endorsement without intent to implement: Indigenous rights and the anglosphere. The International Journal of Human Rights, 16(1), 100-122. doi:10.1080/13642987.2012.622139. [Link]
Lightfoot, S. R. (2010). Emerging international indigenous rights norms and ‘over-compliance’ in New Zealand and Canada. Political Science, 62(1), 84-104. doi:10.1177/0032318710370584. [Link]
Lightfoot, S. R. (2008). Indigenous rights in international politics: The case of “overcompliant” liberal states. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, 33(1), 83-104. doi:10.1177/030437540803300105. [Link]
Lightfoot, S. (2013). The international indigenous rights discourse and its demands for multilevel citizenship. (pp. 127-146). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. doi:10.9783/9780812208184.127. [Link]
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Mark Unno – Shin Buddhism in Interreligious Dialogue: A World of Teaching and Learning Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program. Based on the religious thought of Shinran Shonin, the founder of Shin Buddhism, the largest sect of Japanese Buddhism, this presentation explores the world of religious dialogue. Specifically, how can one understand the particularity of religious thought within the larger scope of religious diversity. Through examining case studies of teaching and learning, one can begin to see how Shin Buddhism provides a way to appreciate differences among religious perspectives while also finding common ground. Professor Unno is currently Assistant Professor of East Asian Religions at the University of Oregon, specializing in Japanese Buddhism. He is also an ordained Shin Buddhist priest. He received his PhD in Buddhist Studies from Stanford University in 1994, and has since taught at Brown Univesrity, Carleton College, and Kyoto University. He has published and lectured on Pure Land Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, and Psychology of Religion. UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program lectures are made possible by the generous support of The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, in collaboration with the Institute of Asian Research and Department of Asian Studies.
Raphaël Liogier – Buddhism and the Hypothesis on Individuo-globalism
Program sponsored by Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, the Institute of Asian Research, and the Department of Asian Studies, Raphael Lioger presents that research carried out within the framework of the Observatoire du Religieux (World Religion Watch) over the last decade seem to clearly to demonstrate that, in contradistinction with the idea of a multi-coloured, chaotic patchwork of diversity reigning among new religious groups, and despite or beyond surface phenomena, on the contrary the NRM display a fast-developing trend towards an increasingly widespread dogmatic uniformity common to most advanced industrial countries, a phenomenon which we have already designated under the umbrella term of ‘individuo-globalism’. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Liogier, R. (2012). The planetarisation of faith positions: The role and importance of religion in global capitalism. International Social Science Journal, 63(209-210), 159-170. doi:10.1111/issj.12030 [Link]
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Michael Gurstein's "Community Informatics" Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). The application of information and communications technology (ICT) to enable and empower community processes, the goal of Community Informatics is to use information communication technologies (ICT) to enable the achievement of community objectives including overcoming “digital divides” both within and between communities. However, community informatics goes beyond discussions of the “Digital Divide” to examine how and under what conditions ICT access can be made usable and useful to the range of excluded populations and communities and particularly to support local economic development, social justice, and political empowerment using the Internet. Community informatics as a discipline is located within a variety of academic faculties including Information Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Planning, Development Studies, and Library Science among others and draws on insights on community development from a range of social sciences disciplines. At the forefront of this new field of research is Michael Gurstein, Director of the Center for Community Informatics Research, Training and Development in Vancouver, Canada, which works with communities, ICT practitioners, researchers, governments and agencies as a resource for enabling and empowering communities with Information and Communications Technologies.
Michael Yahgulanaas' Red: A Haida Manga Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted as part of the Robson Reading Series at IKBLC, through illustrative story telling, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas challenges native stereotypes. The stories of the trickster Raven, as told by Yahgulanaas, are what most people would call comics, and they are fun, humorous and sometimes rude. Yahgulanaas takes traditional Haida stories and turns them into manga (Japanese-style comics). He has dropped the traditional rectangular boxes and voice balloons associated with the North American comics of Marvel and DC. Instead, he has developed a flowing style that uses a bold line stretched almost to the breaking point – a motif strongly associated with Haida art – to link the images in the narrative.
Charles Prebish – The Swans Came to Canada Too: Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Program sponsored by Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, the Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, the Institute of Asian Research, and the Department of Asian Studies. Following the change in immigration law by Canada and the United States in the mid-twentieth century, Buddhism exploded on the North American continent. Buddhism is now found everywhere: from the cover of TIME magazine to the Simpson’s TV show; from Leonard Cohen practicing as a Zen priest to the Dalai Lama visiting the White House. Some estimates place the number of Buddhists on the continent as high as six million. This paper traces the development of the study of North American Buddhism as it developed as a legitimate sub-discipline in the larger discipline of Buddhist Studies, and highlights both the similarities and differences between Canadian and American forms of Buddhism. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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Prebish, C. S. (1979). American Buddhism. North Scituate, Mass: Duxbury Press.
Prebish, C. S. (1999). Luminous passage: The practice and study of Buddhism in America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Prebish, C. S., Keown, D., & Taylor & Francis eBooks – CRKN. (2006). Buddhist studies from india to america: Essays in honor of Charles S. prebish. New York; London: Routledge. [Link]
Prebish, C. S. (1993). Religion and sport: The meeting of sacred and profane. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.
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Maya Jasanoff – An Imperial Disaster? The Loyalist Diaspora after the American Revolution
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC History department. Part of the “Disasters and Diasporas: Entangled Histories of Environment and Empire” Series of the UBC History Department Maya Jasanoff’s teaching and research focus on the history of modern Britain and the British Empire, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries. Her first book, Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850, investigates British expansion in India and Egypt through the lives of art collectors. It was awarded the 2005 Duff Cooper Prize and was a book of the year selection in numerous British publications including The Economist, The Observer, and The Sunday Times. She has recently completed a new book, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (forthcoming February 2011), which provides the first global history of the loyalists who fled the United States after the American Revolution, and resettled in Canada, the Caribbean, Britain, Sierra Leone, and beyond. Her current research explores the worlds of Joseph Conrad. Jasanoff has been an ACLS Charles A. Ryskamp Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and The New York Times Magazine.
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Jasanoff, M. (2011). Liberty’s exiles: American loyalists in the revolutionary world. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Jasanoff, M. (2011). Revenge of the Quiet American. Foreign Policy, (185), 101-101. [Link]
Jasanoff, M. (2007). Border-crossing: My imperial routes. History Workshop Journal, 64(64), 372-381. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbm044 [Link]
Jasanoff, M. (2005). Chameleon capital: The allure of Lucknow. Yale Review, 93(3), 1. [Link]
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Global Local Learning Exchange webcast online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, the Community Partner for Learning (CPL), C.A.R.E. Society, the School of Community and Regional Planning, IKBLC and other UBC partners engages the diverse community with young global citizens (UBC recipients of C.A.R.E. Travel Awards). This event serves to welcome all the recipients back from their overseas assignments and to kick off the first of a series of Global-Local Learning Exchanges in the 2010/2011 semester.