Master Mind Master Class featuring Dr. Samantha Nutt, LLD'10

Master Mind Master Class featuring Dr. Samantha Nutt, LLD’10

November 9, 2015

On Monday, November 16^th, join fellow UBC students and award-winning humanitarian, bestselling author and acclaimed public speaker, Dr. Samantha Nutt, LLD’10, in a moderated conversation about the impact of war – the truth, the lies, and the reality on the ground – and the major events currently shaping our world.

Master Mind Master Class is a new alumni UBC event series, offering both alumni and students an unprecedented look into the minds of modern masters making a unique impact on the world, and the lessons they’ve learned.

Event Details

Monday, November 16, 2015
3:00 – 4:00 pm

Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
Jack Poole Hall
6163 University Blvd.
UBC’s Vancouver campus

This event is free of charge.

SPEAKER – DR. SAMANTHA NUT, LLD’10

Dr. Nutt is a medical doctor and a founder of the renowned international humanitarian organization War Child, Dr. Nutt has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world’s major crises – from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone to Darfur, Sudan. A leading authority on current affairs, war, international aid and foreign policy, Dr. Nutt is one of the most intrepid and recognized voices in the humanitarian arena and is amongst the most sought-after public speakers in North America. With a career that has spanned more than two decades and dozens of conflict zones, her international work has benefited hundreds of thousands of war-affected children globally.

Moderator – Professor Kathryn Gretsinger, UBC School of Journalism
Kathryn is the lead instructor in the School’s Integrated Journalism program. She also contributes to the International Reporting program and the Reporting in Indigenous Communities course. She also runs the School’s Internship program. Kathryn’s career in journalism began in the late 80s when she joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Canada’s public broadcaster. Kathryn is committed to public service journalism and she has worked to develop her journalistic skills to reflect the technological change in the industry. Kathryn’s commitment to the industry is reflected in her approach to the internship program. She has helped to place students in professional practicums across the country and around the world.

Event Coordinator:

Karolin Konig
karolin.konig@ubc.ca
604-822-8939

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Japan’s International Contribution through Innovation in the Field of International Health

November 9, 2015

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WordPress and Wiki Clinic (Drop In)

November 8, 2015

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Pertaining to a structure: a conversation in six parts

November 5, 2015

Pertaining to a structure: a conversation in six parts – Works from the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections and the Artists’ Books Collection at Emily Carr University Library will be on display on level 2 of the Irving k. Barber Learning Centre from November 2-30, 2015.

The exhibit is curated by Beth Howe and Larissa Beringer.

The Artists’ Book collection encompasses books crafted, published, produced or altered by an artist or artist collective. In addition to self-published artists’ books, the collection also includes limited editions resulting from collaborations with art organizations, artists’ books from both independent and mainstream press, and a growing collection of artists’ audio works. Emily Carr University (ECU) also currently collects contemporary, limited edition print publications that exemplify the international collaboration occurring between designers, typographers, visual artists, poets, writers + curators and publishers. The collection is international in scope with an emphasis on the 1960s to present.

This exhibition aims to generate a conversation between books from two institutional collections. The show has been curated by a visual arts faculty member and an art librarian who regularly teach with these collections, using them to illustrate interdisciplinary practices, the history of the artists’ books, graphic design, form, print history, materiality, and diverse publishing practices.

The six conversations organize categorically around intuitive themes and create a visual and conceptual narrative between artists’ books selected from the collection at Emily Carr University Library with works selected from UBC’s Rare Books and Special Collection. Each arrangement acknowledges mutual affinities such as literary source, design, and color.

Ulises Carrion, Clive Phillpot & Cornelia Lauf, and Lawrence Weiner are key figures invested in the discourse around artists’ books and each has addressed structure as a central element in the consideration of book work. Conceptual artist and publisher Ulises Carrion writes “To understand something is to understand the structure of which it is a part and/or the elements forming the structure that that something is.” The properties of structure became a guiding factor across the practices of many conceptual, avant-garde artists already exploring the role of text, language and form in their practices. The exploration of structure in relation to form, typography, graphic layout, materiality and image-making spans across all genres of artists’ books and other print publications dedicated to emmeshing the materiality (form) with the information (idea). Librarian Phillpot and art historian Lauf build a system for categorizing artist books based on on what they term ‘genre’, like albums and inventories or reproductions and sketchbooks. Artist Lawrence Weiner – whose publication of the same name is the title of this exhibit – is particularly invested in the structure of language as material for making sculpture. As the Guggenheim catalog descriptions for his works states, the works’ medium is ‘language + the material referred to’.

Pertaining to a Structure starts six conversations between original works and their references within contemporary artists’ publications around the following associative themes: Typographical Territory; Notes and Correspondence; Livre d’Artiste; The Naturalist; Minimalism, Conceptualism, and Modernist Utopias; and Literary Hybrids.

The Emily Carr University’s Artists’ Book collection is a part of the library’s non-circulating, Special Collections and items must be requested for viewing in library only. The books are fully catalogued and searchable in the catalogue with the by doing a subject search for “artists’ books”. Here are some other ways to browse this collection.

On display on level 2 of the Irving k. Barber Learning Centre from November 2-30, 2015

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Future Speaker Series 2015/2016

October 30, 2015

Language is at the intersection of culture, identity, politics, and cognition, and lies at the centre of our distinct and shared humanity. What will future language use—particularly in Indigenous contexts—mean for us and for our communities? Among the many important stories about Indigenous language loss, there are also powerful and affirming stories of revitalization, resurgence, and recovery. Future Speakers highlights both the struggles and the successes of Indigenous language revitalization and looks to a future where these languages are not only spoken, but thrive.

The Museum of Anthropology, the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program, the First Nations and Endangered Languages Program, the Department of Linguistics, and the Department of Anthropology present a new lecture series supported by the Dean of Arts, and in partnership with the First Nations House of Learning and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, to spark a conversation about the futures of Indigenous languages in the 21st century.

Leanne Hinton: What counts as “success” in language revitalization?

Journalists, grant givers and an interested public often ask which language revitalization programs and strategies have been successful. But “language revitalization” is a broad term that can include many different possible goals, and “success” is a point of view rather than a concrete fact. This paper is a result of conversations with Indigenous language activists as to what they view as success (or failure) in the language revitalization for themselves and their communities. These conversations lead to the observation that what counts as success is diverse, individualistic, and transitory, since one event perceived as a success immediately leads to changing goals, strategies, and viewpoints. Nor can “success” be seen as an endpoint of effort, since language revitalization is an unending process —the effort must never stop, in a land where another language is the dominant and dominating tongue. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Future Speakers: Indigenous Languages in the 21st Century series.
Speaker Bio

Leanne Hinton, professor emerita Department of Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley & Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival Leanne Hinton specializes in endangered languages and is an advocate and practicing trainer in the field of language revitalization. Hinton has helped found several organizations for language revitalization, and has helped design several widely-used revitalization programs and strategies. She has written and edited numerous books and articles on language revitalization, and has won several awards for her work.

Thursday October 22, 2015, 11.30-1.00PM at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room (Rm 301)

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Leanne Hinton: What counts as a "success" in language revitalization?

October 29, 2015

Speaker Bio

Thursday October 22, 2015, 11.30-1.00PM at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room (Rm 301).

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Hinton, L. (2013). Bringing our languages home: Language revitalization for families. Berkeley, California: Heyday. [Available at Koerner Library – P40.5.L356 B75 2013]

Simpson, J., & Wigglesworth, G. (2008). Children’s language and multilingualism: Indigenous language use at home and school. New York;London;: Continuum. [Available at Koerner Library – P115.2 .C45 2008]

Tsunoda, T., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2006;2013;). Language endangerment and language revitalization: An introduction Mouton de Gruyter. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Aboriginal Languages

First Nations and Indigenous Studies

First Nations Languages of British Columbia

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TomoeArts Salon Series 2015/16: Demons & Beauties

October 20, 2015

Tomoe (pronounced toh-moh-ay) Arts is a company based in Vancouver, Canada that promotes, teaches, and performs nihon buyoh or Japanese classical dance. They also create and present performances incorporating the forms and aesthetics of Japanese traditional performing arts.

This year’s Salon Series contrasts two major themes in kabuki dance plays: demons and beautiful maidens. November will examine a play about a demon in search of an arm lost in battle; and March will focus on two dance plays that feature beautiful magical “musume” or maidens. As last year, TomoeArts will be screening full videos of live performances from the Shôchiku’s Kabuki Meisakusen Series, which feature some of the greatest kabuki performers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The recordings have English language commentary, and there will also be discussion of important story and performance elements. Green tea will be included!

Onoe KikugorôV in the role of the demon in Ibaraki. Print by Toyohara Kunichika.

Ibaraki – The Demon Ibaraki

Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | Chilcotin Room (rm 256)
When: November 9, 2015 | 7:00-8:30pm

Entrance is free.

A dance play written by Kawatake Mokuami in 1883 about Tsuna and the demon Ibaraki. The story’s background is from the noh play Rashômon, where Tsuna cut off the demon’s arm in an attack at the gate. In this kabuki dance play, Ibaraki visits Tsuna disguised as his aunt Mashiba in order to retrieve his severed arm. Starring Onoe Baikô VII as the demon and Onoe Shôroku II as Tsuna.

The nearest parking are the Rose Garden and North Parkades. Parking at UBC is $7 after 5pm. Find other parking here: https://parking.ubc.ca/find-parking

Visit TomoeArts to learn more.

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Nitobe Memorial Garden: Concepts & Prospects symposium

October 15, 2015

The Collective for Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts (CAUSA) presents a one-day symposium on January 9, 2016 from 10:30am-5:30pm. Speakers will touch on topics such as observations and reflections concerning “problems of authenticity” and “factors of futurity” within both the socially engaged practice of landscape architecture and its continually rigorous conservation and revivification.

Affiliated with the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CAUSA aims to develop autonomous scholarly analysis and interpretation of visual culture (including problems of intelligibility) within specific historical contexts. CAUSA functions in association with a ‘global village’ network of independent and institutional scholars – in tandem with a pluralistic community of socially engaged contemporary artists.

CAUSA sustains a continuative process of philosophical reflection by connecting its program of research to an expansive glimmering that was first formulated by Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian philosopher of communication theory.

Event details

When: January 9, Saturday 2016 | 10:30am-5:30pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, (Rm. 301, Lillooet Room)

Speakers

Adrian Archambault, Archivist/Architectural Heritage Advocate
Donald Luxton, Architect/Heritage Advocate/Consultant
Terrence Russell, Department of Asian Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Ryo Sugiyama, Curator, Nitobe Memorial Garden, UBC
Cornelia Oberlander, founder of Cornelia Han Oberlander Landscape Architects
Brian Mulvihill

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Roundtable on the "Future of RAD (Rules of Archival Description)"

October 13, 2015

The AABC (Archives Association of British Columbia) held a roundtable discussion on the Future of RAD on October 23, 2015 at the Irving K Barber Learning Centre. The Canadian Council of Archives (CCA) has been tasked to develop a plan to update and revise the Rules for Archival Description (RAD) and are seeking input from members of the Canadian archival community. Since 2008 there have been no revisions to the standard and it time to deal with the descriptive reality of digital records (both digitized and born-digital) in archives.

The goals of this revision include aims to:

• Align RAD with international archival descriptive standards.

• Clearly articulate the relationship of RAD to relevant standards in other allied professions (libraries, museums, galleries, digital preservation).

• Ensure that RAD meets the descriptive requirements of both analogue and digital archival material.

• Make RAD accessible to a range of institutions with varying levels of professional staffing.

• Ensure any new standard is backwards-compatible with the current version of RAD.

Richard Dancy from the Canadian Committee on Archival Description (a Committee of the CCA) provided some background on the project and help facilitate discussion on questions including:

1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of RAD in its current form?

• Revision would aim to preserve and build on existing strengths.

2. What should be the scope of the standard?

• RAD’s approach was to be a “one-stop shop” for description at all levels in all media, is this still our aim? Contrast ISAD(G) and DACS that focus on aggregate levels of description and leave archivists to look to external media-specific standards for item-level description.

• Should RAD focus only on description or should it take in other functions, e.g. accessioning, arrangement, administrative and preservation metadata? should these be dealt with separately? If separate, what are the relationships?

• Does RAD need a data model to underpin the standard? This would identify the entities involved in description, their attributes and their relationships. The data modelling approach was the basis for the thorough overhaul of the librarians’ cataloguing standard (RDA replacing AACR2). The ICA is currently undertaking the development of a conceptual model for archival description (see The Expert Group on Archival Description)

3. What form should “alignment” with international standards take?

• Should RAD adhere closely to the ICA standards in terms of structure and data elements or is it acceptable to have a minimal set of elements in common but follow a different structure?

• Are there deficiencies in the international standards that RAD should seek to remedy?

4. What is the best form for governance of the standard?

• Within an archival network pressed for resources, which is the body best able to assume responsibility for maintaining the standard?

5. How should consultation proceed and who should be consulted?

• What are the best ways to engage the perspectives of the various groups including Archivists, Archives advisors, Archival educators in academic archival programs, Digital preservation specialists, IT developers, Archives users, Archives creators, Librarians and Curators

This is the chance for BC and YOU to speak up sharing your experience using RAD!

Participation is welcome at the Roundtable or by email or twitter during the live webcast that will be available for viewing online (links to come in the next couple of weeks).

Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library

Bureau of Canadian Archivists. Planning Committee on Descriptive Standards, and Canadian Council of Archives. Rules for Archival Description. Ottawa: The Bureau, 1990. Web. [Available at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – Z695.2 .R84 1990 (non-circulating)]

UBC Library Research Guides

Library, Archival, and Information Science

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Spotlight on The Illustrated Alice

October 8, 2015

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