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.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Geller, J. D., Zuckerman, N., & Seidel, A. (2014). Service-learning as a catalyst for community development: How do community partners benefit from service-learning? Education and Urban Society, doi:10.1177/00131245135147 [Link]
Stater, K. J., & Fotheringham, E. (2009). Mechanisms for institutionalizing service-learning and community partner outcomes. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 13(2), 7. [Link]
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.
Select Articles and Books from UBC Library
Gleig, A. (2008). Buddhism and psychotherapy across cultures: Essays on theories and practices – edited by Mark Unno. Melbourne, Australia: Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2008.00293_2.x [Link]
Kawai, H., & Unno, M. (1992). The Buddhist priest Myōe: A life of dreams. Venice, CA: Lapis Press.
Weishaus, J. (2006). The butterfly and the mushroom Shingon refractions: Myoe and the mantra of light Mark Unno. The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 25(1), 79-86. doi:10.2307/25705381 [Link]
Unno, M. (2003). S. A. Thornton, charisma and community formation in medieval Japan: The case of the Yugyō‐ha (1300–1700): Charisma and community formation in medieval Japan: The case of the Yugyō‐ha (1300–1700). History of Religions, 42(3), 282-285. doi:10.1086/375111 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by St. John’s College, this lecture features Dr. Olav Slaymaker. Over geological time scales, landscapes evolve under the influence of tectonic plate movements, cyclically changing Earth-Sun relations, spatial variations in rock strength and cyclically changing climate. However, within the time frame of the present century, it is proposed that there are four different drivers of landscape change, namely relief (an expression of the current state of tectonics which propagates its effect into erosion potential), warming climate, rising sea level and increasing human activity. It can be argued that sea level is a derivative of climate but it is useful to consider it separately because of its distinctive mode and place of action. Climate, especially temperature change, is probably the least important of these four drivers in most temperate and tropical environments. Arctic landscapes are different in the sense that phase changes in the cryosphere are of such overriding importance. It is further claimed that human activity, in the form of land use and land cover change, has become the most important driver of landscape change globally. It is anticipated that human activity will become increasingly dominant as the 21st century progresses. The integrity of the argument depends on defining and comparing effects at specific temporal (century) and spatial (landscape) scales.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Owens, P. N., & Slaymaker, O. (2004). Mountain geomorphology. New York; London: Arnold.
Slaymaker, O., & Kelly, R. E. J. (2007). The cryosphere and global environmental change. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.
Slaymaker, O. (2000). Geomorphology, human activity, and global environmental change. New York; Chichester, England: J. Wiley.
Slaymaker, O. (1997). Streamflow response to clear-cut logging and road construction in the Kamloops forest district. Victoria, B.C.: Forest Renewal BC.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Vancouver Institute, Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. He received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London .
In the summer of 2009, the battle of the Plains of Abraham was fought one more time in Quebec. The debate that stormed over the commemoration of the event proved that it is not easy to negotiate the meaning of this founding moment of Quebec’s destiny. Yet, it has been 250 years since “the English burned our farms and bombed our city”. What is to be done today with the Conquest, its history and memory?
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Létourneau, J. (2014). Je me souviens?: Le passé du Québec dans la conscience de sa jeunesse. Anjou, Québec: Fides.
Létourneau, J. (2010). Le Québec entre son passé et ses passages. Montréal: Fides.
Létourneau, J. (2006). Que veulent vraiment les Québécois?: Regard sur l’intention nationale au Québec (français) d’hier à aujourd’hui. Montréal: Boréal.
Létourneau, J. (1996). Les années sans guide: Le canada à l’ère de l’économie migrante. Montréal: Boréal.
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. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Gurstein, M. (1981). Videotex in Canada: A working paper on the study of social impact. Ottawa: Socioscope.
Gurstein, M. (2003). Effective use: A community informatics strategy beyond the digital divide. First Monday, 8(12), unknown-unknown. [Link]
Gurstein, M. (1985). Social impacts of selected artificial intelligence applications: The Canadian context. Futures, 17(6), 652-652. doi:10.1016/0016-3287(85)90018-7 [Link]
Gurstein, M. (2007). What is community informatics (and why does it matter)? [Link]
Global warming is moving much more quickly than scientists thought it would. Even if the biggest current and prospective emitters – the United States, China and India – were to slam on the brakes today, the earth would continue to heat up for decades. At best, we may be able to slow things down and deal with the consequences, without social and political breakdown. Gwynne Dyer examines several radical short- and medium-term measures now being considered—all of them controversial.
Speaker Bio
Gwynne Dyer has worked as a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster and lecturer on international affairs for more than 20 years, but he was originally trained as an historian. He received degrees from Canadian, American and British universities, finishing with a Ph.D. in Military and Middle Eastern History from the University of London. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Dyer, G. (2005). With every mistake. Toronto: Random House Canada.
Dyer, G. (2014). Canada in the great power game: 1914-2014. Toronto: Random House Canada.
Dyer, G. (2004). Future Tense: The coming world order. Toronto: M&S.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, and hosted by the Asian Studies Department’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, Phakchok Rinpoche is the Supreme Head of the Taklung Kagyu lineage, the Abbot of a monastery in Chapagaon in Kathmandu, and the Head of Riwoche Monastery in Tibet. Born in 1981 to Chokling Rinpoche and his wife Dechen Paldron, Phakchok Rinpoche is grandson of Tulku Ugyen Rinpoche and the eldest brother of the Yangsi Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Recognized by the Kagyu regents and ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, he has studied with a number of great lamas, including Khyentse Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche, Tulku Ugyen Rinpoche, Penor Rinpoche, Trulshik Rinpoche and Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche. An enthusiastic and vibrant young lama, his teachings are direct, accessible, and always fresh, opening up our minds in a playful and inspiring way.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Nelson, J. K., & Project Muse University Press eBooks. (2013). Experimental Buddhism: Innovation and activism in contemporary Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. [Link]
Chʻoe, C. (2007). Buddhism: Religion in Korea. Seoul, Korea: Ewha Womans University Press.
Harris, I. C., & Project Muse University Press Archival eBooks. (2005). Cambodian Buddhism: History and practice. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. [Link]
On September 30, 1-2pm, the IKBLC presents author of Red: A Haida Manga. 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 rectangu-lar 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.
Thursday September 30, 2010 – 1:00-2:00pm at the Lillooet Room (301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
To ensure a seat, please RSVP in advance: 604.827.4366 or ikblc-events@interchange.ubc.ca
The latest issue of UBC Reports features an article on a community service-learning pilot program that involved various UBC units, including the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here, and the entire issue of UBC Reports here.
