March 1, 2010
Patricia Richardson Logie – Chronicles of Pride
Patricia Richardson Logie has been doing commission work in Vancouver – mostly in the area of portraiture – for the last forty years. Her work is representational, her technique is strong, vibrant, and with a great sense of life force, her brushwork is of the bravura school of painting. Between 1970 and 1983, Logie painted in London, England, where she attended Sir John Cass College and exhibited extensively during that time with The Cass Group, The Royal Society of Portrait Painters, The Society of Women Artists and The Pastel Society. During that time she also exhibited in Canada with the Federation of Canadian Artists and The Society of Women Artists in 1979. She also taught portraiture at the Federation and the University of British Columbia.
In 1983 Patricia turned her energies to Canada and started the series ‘Chronicles of Pride‘, consisting of thirty-one paintings, a truly Canadian project concerning the contributions being made to society by contemporary Indigenous peoples. Through various circumstances, she came to the belief that it was her responsibility as an artist to show Indigenous people in their true light. In 1990, a book was published, called Chronicles of Pride: A Journey of Discovery by Detselig Enterprises Ltd., and a teacher resource guide and a video that contains profiles of the portrait subjects accompanied the book. These resources are available at various UBC Library branches, including Xwi7xwa Library, the only Indigenous branch of a university library in Canada.
Chronicles of Pride is an awareness study dealing with the contributions to society by First Nations people. Portraits in this collection of 31 paintings has now been purchased by the National Portrait Gallery in Ottawa; the Squamish Nation and the Royal British Columbia Museum in Victoria, BC.
To see more photos of this exhibition, please find here.
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March 1, 2010
Image Credit: UBC Library, Pang Jingtang
Pang Jingtang, born in He-ze County, Shan-dong Province, China 1900, died 1977, former name Pang Xiaoqin, pen name Hei-yuan, grandson of Pang Yupu, naval commander in chief in Guangdong-Guangxi jurisdiction, Qing Dynasty. His career began in 1927 as an instructor of political science in Huangpu Military Academy, Guangzhou. During the regime of Chiang Kai-shek in mainland China, he had held several positions of high profile in government as well as the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). His titles included KMT Central Control Committee member, director of KMT in Shandong Province and member of National Assembly. In 1948, he was captured by People’s Liberation Army when the Chinese Communist party was taking over power and had since then been held in prison for 12 years.
Due to his well recognized reputation as an erudite scholar, Pang was recommended to take in charge of the establishment and management of a prison library while serving his term in Gongdelin Prison, Beijing. He was released in November 1960 after being granted a special amnesty. His book, The Jiangs’ Regime vs the Chens’ Party, provides important reference resources for the research and study of contemporary Chinese history. In collaboration with the Asian Library, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre hosted this exhibition from March 2 to March 30, 2010.
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March 1, 2010
Display on Pang Jingtang Collection
Pang Jingtang, born in He-ze County, Shan-dong Province, China 1900, died 1977, former name Pang Xiaoqin, pen name Hei-yuan, grandson of Pang Yupu, naval commander in chief in Guangdong-Guangxi jurisdiction, Qing Dynasty. His career began in 1927 as an instructor of political science in Huangpu Military Academy, Guangzhou. During the regime of Chiang Kai-shek in mainland China, he had held several positions of high profile in government as well as the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). His titles included KMT Central Control Committee member, director of KMT in Shandong Province and member of National Assembly. In 1948, he was captured by People’s Liberation Army when the Chinese Communist party was taking over power and had since then been held in prison for 12 years.
Due to his well recognized reputation as an erudite scholar, Pang was recommended to take in charge of the establishment and management of a prison library while serving his term in Gongdelin Prison, Beijing. He was released in November 1960 after being granted a special amnesty. His book, The Jiangs’ Regime vs the Chens’ Party, provides important reference resources for the research and study of contemporary Chinese history.
March 2 – March 30
The Gallery @ the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
(1961 East Mall, Vancouver)
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February 19, 2010
Presented by the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the Institute for Asian Research, Essentials of Tibetan Medical System and its role in Community Health Services focuses on the role of traditional Tibetan medicine in providing primary health care in Tibetan refugee settlements in India. On January 22, 2010, Dr. Dorjee Rapten Neshar discussed the essential elements and concepts of health care in traditional Tibetan medicine and its practical application in contemporary society. Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
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February 18, 2010
In 1989, the Chinook project began with the goal of building a computer program capable of winning the human World Checkers Championship. The reigning human champion was almost perfect, having rarely lost a game in over forty years. To do better required the computer to be perfect. In effect, one had to solve checkers. Little did we know that our quest would take 18 years to complete. What started out as a research project quickly became a personal quest and an emotional roller coaster. This talk, by the creator of Chinook, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer from the University of Alberta, is about the interplay between people and technology, the story of man versus machine for supremacy at checkers. To appreciate this story, no detailed knowledge of computer science or checkers is needed. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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February 17, 2010
Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada, Ian Wilson describes the new information landscape and its impact on libraries and archives. In discussing the Canadian approach to history in the age of Wikipedia and Facebook, as well as the participatory nature of knowledge in the 21st century, Wilson moves into the role of knowledge organizations, and outline his vision for Canada’s digital strategy and the Canada Project. Finally, he discusses how digitization can help Canada succeed in the knowledge economy. Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, this webcast took place on December 1, 2008 at the Victoria Learning Theatre.
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February 16, 2010
As part of the UBC Department of Psychology’s 5th Annual Quinn Memorial Lecture (QML), held on Friday, 9 October 2009 pm. In this lecture “Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future,” Daniel L. Schacter, Kenan Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and UBC alumnus, presents on his years of research on memory and amnesia memory, which has had a profound impact on psychological science in general and cognitive neuroscience in particular. This webcast is sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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February 16, 2010
In her first book in a decade, Denise Chong tells the story of the man who defaced Chairman Mao’s portrait during the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989, twenty years ago. After eleven years in a Chinese jail, Lu Decheng escaped to Canada, followed by his family, who all now live in Calgary.
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February 15, 2010
The venerable Chung Collection, located in Rare Books and Special Collections in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, is featured in the February 15 issue of the Vancouver Sun. The article also features some comments from UBC Library’s Sarah Romkey.
You can read the article here.
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February 15, 2010
Presented by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) Colloquia Series, David Hendry and Jill P. Woelfer examine how information – particularly, its organization and presentation – and space (i.e., a physical location) can be combined to create a particular place (i.e., a location adapted to a particular purpose) for engaging and stabilizing homeless young people, aged 13-25. Over 10 months, they had used a participatory-design research approach to investigate how an alliance of nine service agencies used information resources to support homeless young people. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
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