Robson Reading @ IKBLC Presents Lee Henderson, March 25, 2010

March 17, 2010

The Man Game Lee Henderson’s highly anticipated first novel The Man Game (Penguin Canada, 2008) was published to rave reviews in the National Post, Quill & Quire and CBC Radio and went on to win the 2009 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award. Lee’s debut short story collection The Broken Record Technique (Penguin Canada, 2002) won the 2003 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He is a contributing editor to the arts magazines Border Crossings in Canada and Contemporary in the UK. He has published fiction and art criticism in numerous periodicals and co-organized “Father Zosima Presents”, a monthly night of sound performances in Vancouver.

Event takes place at the Lillooet Room, Irving K Barber Learning Centre, March 25, 2010 – 2-3pm

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First Nations donation/exhibition featured in UBC Reports

March 10, 2010

An exhibition of First Nations portraits, on display during March 2010 at the Learning Centre Gallery, is featured in the latest edition of UBC Reports. B.C. artist Patricia Richardson Logie recently donated the portrait collection to UBC Library.

You can view the article here.

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The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Olympic Programming Presents "Quintathalon"

March 8, 2010

The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Olympic Committee presents

“Quintathalon”

A free lunchtime concert featuring chamber ensembles from the

UBC School of Music Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion Division

Monday, March 8, 2010 at Noon

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Karen Hebert, Michael Hathaway and Sasha Welland – Commodities and Cultures

March 6, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, Commodities and Cultures panel includes:

(a) Sasha Welland (Anthropology, Washington) – Architectural Model
(b) Karen Hebert (Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale) – Quality Salmon
(c) Michael Hathaway (Anthropology, SFU) – Matsutake Bag
(d) Commentator: Juanita Sundberg (Geography, UBC)

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Hebert, K. (2014). The matter of market devices: Economic transformation in a southwest Alaskan salmon fishery. Geoforum, 53, 21-30. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.01.012. [Link]

Welland, S. (2006). What women will have been: Reassessing feminist cultural production in China: A review essay. Signs, 31(4), 941-966. doi:10.1086/500602. [Link]

Hathaway, M. J., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2013). Environmental winds: Making the global in southwest China. Berkeley: University of California Press. doi:10.1525/j.ctt3fh2zh. [Link]

Hébert, K. (2010). In pursuit of singular salmon: Paradoxes of sustainability and the quality commodity. Science as Culture, 19(4), 553-581. doi:10.1080/09505431.2010.519620. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Forestry

Anthropology

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Chris Lee, Renisa Mawani and Sareeta Amrute – Global Circuits and Asian Migrations

March 6, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, Global Circuits and Asian Migrations panel includes:
(a) Sareeta Amrute (Anthropology, Washington) – Tata Indica
(b) Renisa Mawani (Sociology, UBC) – Komagata Maru
(c) Chris Lee (English, UBC) – Boats
(d) Commentator: Sebastian Prange (History, UBC)

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Mawani, R. (2009). Colonial proximities: Crossracial encounters and juridical truths in british columbia, 1871-1921. Vancouver: UBC Press. [Link]

Mawani, R. (2012). Specters of indigeneity in British‐Indian migration, 1914. Law & Society Review, 46(2), 369-403. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5893.2012.00492.x. [Link]

Amrute, S. (2014). Proprietary freedoms in an IT office: How Indian IT workers negotiate code and cultural branding. Social Anthropology, 22(1), 101-117. doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12064. [Link]

Amrute, S. (2011). Where the world ceases to be flat. India Review, 10(3), 329-340. doi:10.1080/14736489.2011.596790. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Sociology

Anthropology

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James Delbourgo, Nathan Connolly and Wendy Roth – Caribbean Diasporas

March 6, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Introduction by Anthony Shelton, director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA). Hosted by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Caribbean Diasporas panel includes:

(a) James Delbourgo (History, Rutgers) – Jamaican Slave Whip

(b) Nathan Connolly (History, Johns Hopkins) – Work Pass

(d) Commentator: Alejandra Bronfman (History, UBC)

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Delbourgo, J. (2006). A most amazing scene of wonders: Electricity and enlightenment in early America. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Delbourgo, J. (2011). Sir hans sloane’s milk chocolate and the whole history of the cacao. Social Text, 29(1[106]), 71-101. doi:10.1215/01642472-1210274.

Delbourgo, J. (2013). Triumph of the strange. Chronicle of Higher Education, 60(15), B6-B9.

Roth, W. D., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2012). Race migrations: Latinos and the cultural transformation of race. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

History

Sociology

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Taiaiake Alfred – From Noble Savage to Righteous Warrior

March 6, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by MOA, From Noble Savage to Righteous Warrior: Regenerating and Reinscribing Indigenous Presences by Taiaiake Alfred (Indigenous Governance, UVic) and introduced by Paige Raibmon (History, UBC). Taiaiake Alfred is an author, educator and activist. Alfred is an internationally recognized Kanienkehaka intellectual, political advisor and he is currently a professor at the University of Victoria (UVic).

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Alfred, G. R. (2005). Wasáse: Indigenous pathways of action and freedom. Peterborough, Ont: Broadview Press.

Alfred, G. R. (1999). Peace, power, righteousness: An indigenous manifesto. Don Mills, Ont: Oxford University Press.

Regan, P. (2010). Unsettling the settler within: Indian residential schools, truth telling, and reconciliation in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Alfred, T., Lowe, L., (Ont.), I. I., & Canadian Public Policy Collection. (2005). Warrior societies in contemporary indigenous communities. Ipperwash Inquiry.

UBC Library Research Guides

Aboriginal Studies

Indian Residential Schools in Canada

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Sanjay Subrahmanyam – Keynote Address – Courtly Encounters in Early Modern Eurasia

March 5, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. Johns College, Sanjay Subrahmanyam (History, UCLA) and introduced by Luke Clossey (History, SFU). Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History, joined UCLA in 2004. From 1983 to 1995, with brief interruptions, he taught economic history and comparative economic development at the Delhi School of Economics, where he was named Professor of Economic History (1993-95). In the course of the 1990s, Subrahmanyams work has embraced new sources and archives, both Asian and European. This accompanied his move to Paris as Directeur détudes in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, where he taught from 1995 to 2002. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (IKBLC).

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Subrahmanyam, S. (2005). From the tagus to the ganges. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Subrahmanyam, S. (1994). Money and the market in India, 1100-1700. New York; Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Subrahmanyam, S. (1996). Merchant networks in the early modern world. Aldershot, Great Britain; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Variorum.

Subrahmanyam, S. (2001). Penumbral visions: Making polities in early modern South India. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

UBC Library Research Guides

South Asian Studies

History

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Jonathan Lamb – The Things Things Say: On the Metamorphosis of Captain Cook

March 5, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, The Jonathan Lamb (English, Vanderbilt University) presents Things Things Say: On the Metamorphosis of Captain Cook. Introduced by Jennifer Spear (History, SFU).

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Lamb, J. (2011). The things things say. Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press.

Lamb, J. (2001). Preserving the self in the south seas, 1680-1840. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Lamb, J., & MyiLibrary. (1995). The rhetoric of suffering: Reading the book of job in the eighteenth century. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182641.001.0001

Lamb, J. (2011). Imagination, conjecture, and disorder. Eighteenth-Century Studies, 45(1), 53. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

English

History

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Jessica Stern and Neil Whitehead – American Encounters in a Global Context

March 5, 2010

Global Encounters Initiative Symposium webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. Johns College, American Encounters in a Global Context panel includes:

(a) Jessica Stern (History, California State University, Fullerton) – Godalming Kerseys

Amerindian Barbecue

(b) Neil Whitehead (Anthropology, Wisconsin) – Cannibal Bodies
(c) Commentator: Gaston Gordillo (Anthropology, UBC)

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Stern, J. (1999). The ultimate terrorists. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Stern, J. (2003). Terror in the name of god: Why religious militants kill. New York: Ecco.

Stern, J. R. (2011). A key into the bloudy tenent of persecution: Roger Williams, the pequot war, and the origins of toleration in america. Early American Studies, 9(3), 576-616. [Link]

Stern, J. (2014). Response to marc sageman’s “the stagnation in terrorism research”. Terrorism and Political Violence, 26(4), 607-613. doi:10.1080/09546553.2014.895654. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

History

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