Harry Potter and the Rain City exhibition at UBC Libraries
This fall, UBC Library celebrates the legacy of the Harry Potter series and Vancouver’s special relationship with “the boy who lived” with a special exhibition at three library branches, featuring first editions of the books, stories and memorabilia from local businesses and people affected by the series. Share your Harry Potter memories with the Library via #harrypotterUBC.
Curated by Rare Books and Special Collections, the Harry Potter and the rain city exhibition is on display from October 6 to December 11, 2015 at three different Library branches:
- David Lam Library (Level 2), 2033 Main Mall
- Koerner Library (Level 3), 1958 Main Mall
- Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (Ridington Room), 1961 E Mall, UBC
You can use a special Marauder’s Map to visit each of the exhibition locations.
In addition to the exhibition, the Library is pleased to host two additional events:
Harry Potter, Brands of Magic
Colloquium hosted by David Lam Library
When: October 29 | 12:30-2:00pm
Where: Henry Angus Building, 2053 Main Mall, 9th floor
Five panelists discuss the impact and influence of the Harry Potter series on the city and people of Vancouver.
- Gisele M. Baxter (UBC English)
- Jamie Broadhurst (Raincoast Books, SFU Publishing Program)
- Kevin McNeilly (UBC English)
- Judith Saltman (UBC iSchool)
- Phyllis Simon (Vancouver Kidsbooks)
Moderated by Darren Dahl from UBC’s Sauder School of Business.
RSVP by October 26 to hp.colloquium@ubc.ca.
Hallowe’en at Hogwarts West
Party hosted by Rare Books and Special Collections
When: October 30 | 1:00-3:00pm
Where: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, Rm 302 (Dodson Room)
Dress up as your favourite HP character for the Library’s Hallowe’en party! Join us for a costume contest, games, crafts, and light refreshments.
The party is free and open to the public, but tickets are required.
Limited tickets will be available beginning October 15 at Rare Books and Special Collections (Level One, IKBLC). Tickets may be picked up at RBSC Monday to Friday between 10am and 4pm, and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note that the exhibitions and events are in no way affiliated with the Harry Potter copyright owners, including J.K. Rowling, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Universal Studios, and Scholastic.
Take part of UBC100 at Lee Square
UBC’s Centennial year will officially launch on Wednesday, September 30, 2015, the 100th anniversary of the first day of classes. To mark this historic milestone, we are inviting the university community to join us at UBC100 at Lee Square from 11:00am to 2:00pm on September 30 at Money and Raymond M.C. Lee Square (outside UBC Bookstore). Come out and enjoy some great performances and grab your lunch from one of the food trucks around the square. Between 12:00pm and 1:00pm, we will recreate the iconic ‘UBC’ photo taken at the end of the Great Trek in 1922 in the shape of the UBC100 logo. Rain or shine, we hope you can take part in this historic photograph!
Take Your Place in the ‘UBC100′ Photo
To volunteer to be a part of the photo, we ask that you:
- Are available for communication via e-mail 2 weeks out to the event day, should additional information need to be communicated
- Are available on September 30th from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
- Have a cell phone (zero to minimal use expected)
- Optional: Wear a navy blue shirt. Please dress appropriately for the weather.
Since the event will take place outside, we suggest that you wear or bring the following:
- Sunscreen
- Sunglasses
- Comfortable shoes
- Water bottle
Waiver: By registering to be a volunteer for the photo I hereby give The University of British Columbia (“UBC”) permission to use images of me (including any motion picture or still photographs made by UBC of my likeness, poses, acts and appearances or the sound records made by UBC of my voice) (“Images”) for any purposes in connection with promoting UBC and its activities (the “Purposes”), which may include advertising, promotion and marketing. UBC may crop, alter or modify Images of me and combine such Images with other images, text, audio recordings and graphics without notifying me. I understand that my personal information, including Images of me, is being collected pursuant to section 26 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 165, for the Purposes. I consent to my name and any other information provided by me to UBC being displayed in connection with the appearance of my Image. I consent to any of my personal Information, including Images of me, being stored, accessed or disclosed outside of Canada. REGISTER HERE
Kathryn McPherson – Learning Across Borders: Nursing Education, Practice, and Transnational Migration in the Long 20th Century
The Consortium for Nursing History Inquiry celebrates the UBC Centennial and explores the history and future of nursing education. Dr. Kathryn McPherson, Associate Professor in Gender, Feminist, and Women’s History at York University and author of the seminal text, Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 presents the keynote lecture. In her lecture, “Learning Across Boarders: Nursing Education, Practice, and Transnational Migration in the Long 20th Century,” McPherson speaks to the way recent international scholarship in nursing history has helped us think more critically about the divisions within nursing education – how questions of nursing education have been caught up in larger political and cultural debates about skill, gender, nationalism, and religion.Following the Dr. McPherson’s lecture, Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, Dr. Sally Thorne, and Assistant Professor Emerita Ethel Warbinek give a response as a lead-in to discussion with the audience about the future, promise, and persistent challenges of nursing education and academic nursing programs.
This event took place on Thursday November 19, 2015. 10am-2:30pm at the UBC School of Nursing Room.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Manitoba Association of Registered Nurses. (1976). Nursing education: Challenge and change. Winnipeg: The Association. [Available at Woodward Library storage (WD1) – WY18.M355 1976]
McPherson, K. M. (2003). Bedside matters: The transformation of Canadian nursing, 1900-1990. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [Available at Biomedical Branch Library (VGH) stacks – WY11.DC2 M364 2003]
Moncrief, K. M., & McPherson, K. R. (2011). Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction and Performance. Burlington, VT;Farnham, Surrey;: Ashgate Pub.[Available at Koerner Library – PR428.E42 P47 2011]
Pringle, D. M., Green, L., Johnson, S., & desLibris – Documents. (2004). Nursing Education in Canada Historical Review and Current Capacity Nursing Study Sector Corporation. [Link]
UBC Library Resource Guides
Alumni UBC Book Club – Galore by Michael Crummey
Introduction
This bibliography resource guide will help you find more information at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on rural Newfoundland that would complement your reading of Michael Crummey’s Galore. The guide draws mainly on the collection in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at Koerner Library.
Galore
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.
An intricate family saga and love story spanning two centuries, Galore is a portrait of the improbable medieval world that was rural Newfoundland, a place almost too harrowing and extravagant to be real. Remote and isolated, exposed to savage extremes of climate and fate, the people of Paradise Deep persist in a realm where the line between the everyday and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish.
Propelled by the disputes and alliances, grievances and trade-offs that bind the Sellers and Devine families through generations, Galore is alive with singular characters, and an uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature.
Facilitator Bio
Francine Cunningham, BFA’11
Francine Cunningham is an Aboriginal writer, artist and educator originally from Calgary, Alberta but who currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia. Francine is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia. She also has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from UBC.
Francine was a participant in the 2014 Indigenous Writing Studio at the Banff Arts Centre and placed second in the 2014 Our Story: Aboriginal Arts and Stories contest. Francine’s work will appear as part of the 2015 Vancouver Active Fiction Project. You can also find her work in Hamilton Arts and Letters, Echolocation Literary Magazine, The Puritan, Kimiwan’zine, nineteenquestion.ca and The Ubyssey.
For more information you can find her at www.francinecunningham.ca.
Event Details
Meet and Greet
October 29, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-8:00pm
Discussion
November 19, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-9:00pm
Location
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
6163 University Boulevard – map
UBC’s Vancouver campus
Cost
$10 per person. Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP online before Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
Questions? Please contact Karolin Konig at 604-822-8939 or at karolin.konig@ubc.ca.
Please Note: Books will not be provided so please make arrangements to obtain a copy to read before the Book Discussion. Books are available at the UBC Bookstore.
Sign up for your A-Card and benefit from a 12% discount at the UBC Bookstore. For more information on obtaining an A-Card please visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/a-card/
Books by the Author at UBC Library
Novels
Galore by Michael Crummey. (2009). Toronto: Doubleday Canada. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 G34 2009]
River Thieves by Michael Crummey. (2002). Toronto: Anchor Canada. [Available at Okanagan Library – PS8555.R84 R58 2002]
Sweetland by Michael Crummey. (2014). Toronto: Doubleday Canada. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 S94 2014]
The Wreckage by Michael Crummey. (2005). Toronto: Doubleday Canada. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 W74 2005]
Short Stories
Flesh & Blood by Michael Crummey. (1998). Vancouver: Beach Holme Publishing. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 F53 1998]
Poetry
Arguments With Gravity by Michael Crummey. (1996). Kingston, Ontario: Quarry Press. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 A98 1996]
Hard Light by Michael Crummey. (1998). London, Ontario: Brick Books. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 H37 1998]
Emergency Roadside Assistance by Michael Crummey. (2001). Stratford: Trout Lily Press. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 E53 2001]
Salvage by Michael Crummey. (2002). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 S24 2002]
Under the Keel by Michael Crummey. (2013). Toronto: House of Anansi Press. [Available at Koerner Library – PS8555.R84 U63 2013]
Scholarly Resources at UBC Library
Cadigan, Sean T. (2009). Newfoundland and Labrador: a history. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. [Available at Koerner Library – FC2161 .C33 2009]
Pope, Peter. (2008). Post-medieval Breton earthenwares in Newfoundland. Post-medieval archaeology. [Available online]
Research Guides
Open Access Learning Resources
Historic Cod Fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador–Medieval Histories
The Norse in the North Atlantic–Heritage: Newfoundland and Labrador
Three medieval archaeological discoveries: Newfoundland, Egypt and Cambodia
Nurses' roles in health information technology: A Canadian Perspective
In this 2015 Marion Woodward lecture, Dr. Robyn Tamblyn speaks on health information technology in Canada. The Canadian landscape of health information technology is at an all-time high with various types of smart devices, electronic health records, and decision support systems available to both the health community and patients. Such technologies help to improve the productivity of clinicians and the safety of the patients by increasing the efficiency of certain tasks and reducing the risk of error. With nurses representing the largest workforce within the health care delivery system, there are many technologies designed with their expertise in mind to help streamline health care delivery. Two such technologies are web-based case management systems, which allow nurses to virtually manage the on-going health of patients, and home care technologies, such as watch sensors, monitoring tools, and telemedicine, which all allow direct access to nurses. These clinical informatics tools are particularly beneficial for patients transitioning in care and for seniors who may have questions concerning their chronic conditions or medications and may not be mobile to visit their primary care physician or community pharmacist. Furthermore, these technologies allow nurses to manage many more patients than would be feasible in person and deliver care to their full expertise and potential.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Robyn Tamblyn is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McGill University. She is a James McGill Chair, a Medical Scientist at the McGill University Health Center Research Institute, and the Scientific Director of the Clinical and Health Informatics Research Group at McGill University. Dr Tamblyn’s ground-breaking research on educational outcomes has elucidated important relationships between health professional training, licensure and practice that have subsequently guided credentialing policies. Her work on prescription drug use, its determinants, and computerized interventions to improve drug safety (MOXXI) have been recognized internationally. She leads a CIHR-funded team to investigate the use of e-health technologies to support integrated care for chronic disease, and co-leads a Canadian Foundation for Innovation Informatics Laboratory to create advanced technologies to monitor adverse events in populations and create new tools to improve the safety and effectiveness of health care. Her work is published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal, Medical Care, and Health Services Research among others. She has been awarded the CHSRF KT award for her research in improving the use of medication as well as the ACFAS Bombardier award for innovation in the development of a computerized drug management system. As of January, 2011, she became the Scientific Director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
History of the Marion Woodware Lecture
The Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward Foundation has generously supported the annual Marion Woodward Lecture since 1969, when over 300 students, faculty, alumni, affiliates, nursing leaders, clinical colleagues and members of the public gathered to hear the then Executive Director of the Canadian Nurses Association, Helen Mussallem, deliver a talk entitled “Nursing Tomorrow”.
October 15, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-8:00pm
UBC Robson Square | 800 Robson Street
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Tamblyn, Robyn M., et al. Reducing Injuries from Medication-Related Falls by Generating Targeted Computerized Alerts for High Risk Patients within an Electronic Prescribing System. Canadian Patient Safety Institute, 2009. Web. [Link]
Zinszer, K., et al. “A Qualitative Study of Health Information Technology in the Canadian Public Health System.” BMC PUBLIC HEALTH 13.1 (2013): 509-. Web. [Link]
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National School Library Day – The Place and Space for Canadian Children's Literature in Our Lives and Libraries
Why should we care about Canadian Children’s literature in our lives and libraries? Is Canadian identity critical in a digital, global, pop culture world? Do parents, teachers, teacher-librarians, librarians and young people really care whether they read Canadian or not? Join with our panel presenters as they discuss these questions and more. Maggie DeVries will offer her perspective as a writer for children who has situated both her fiction and non-fiction in BC. Jan Hare will comment as a First Nations scholar and Associate Professor of Indigenous Education at UBC. Yukiko Tosa will provide insights into public and school library collections in her role as head of Britannia Community School Library. Judith Saltman will conclude with remarks based on her research as a Canadian children’s literature scholar. Maggie DeVries, Jan Hare, Yukiko Tosa, and Judith Saltman presented “The Place and Space for Canadian Children’s Literature in Our Lives and Libraries” on October 27th, Tuesday 2015, at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Canadian Children’s Literature Association, University of Guelph. Department of English, and University of Guelph. Department of French. “Canadian Children’s Literature.” Canadian children’s literature (1975) Web. [Available at Education Library – PN1009.C3 C35 (non-circulating)]
Children’s Literature Symposium, Canadian. Windows and Words : A Look at Canadian Children’s Literature in English. University of Ottawa Press, 2003. Web. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
Canadian Children’s Literature
Canadian Studies – Archival Material
Alumni UBC Book Club – Curiosity by Joan Thomas
Introduction
This bibliography resource guide will help you find more information at UBC Library and the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on rural Newfoundland that would complement your reading of Michael Crummey’s Galore. The guide draws mainly on the collection in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at Koerner Library, as well as other materials found in the other Divisions of the UBC Library.
Curiosity
In 1812, a 12 year-old girl dug the skeleton of what she thought was a dragon out of the cliff on an English beach. Mary Anning was poor and barely literate. Her astonishing find–– a thirty-foot Ichthyosaur from the Jurassic Period—turned the science of the day upside down and set the course of Mary’s life.
Set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, 40 years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Curiosity tells the story of “the fossil girl” and her relationship with the gentry who stream to Lyme Regis in the wake of her fossil find. It’s a foray into an alien culture for Mary, who has only her own steady sense of self to guide her.
Henry de la Beche is the heir to a sugar plantation and has been shaped in unexpected ways by his childhood in Jamaica. In Lyme Regis he meets the solitary, determined, forthright Mary, and finds something his own experience has denied him. In the years when no one in England is talking about evolution, Mary Anning and Henry De la Beche find social convention, science, and religion inadequate to their experience and grope their way towards a private understanding.
Facilitator Bio
Rhea Tregebov, Associate Professor, Creative Writing Program
Rhea Tregebov is the author of seven volumes of poetry: Remembering History, No One We Know, The Proving Grounds, Mapping the Chaos, The Strength of Materials, (alive): Selected and new poems and, most recently All Souls’ (2012, Signal Editions, Véhicule Press). Her poetry has received the Pat Lowther Award, the Malahat Review Long Poem prize, Honorable Mention for the National Magazine Awards (poetry) and the Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry from Prairie Schooner. Her first novel, The Knife-Sharpener’s Bell, was published in 2009 from Coteau Press and is the recipient of the 2010 J.I. Segal Award for fiction, as well as being listed as a Top 100 Book for 2010 by The Globe and Mail. The Knife Sharpener’s Bell was also shortlisted for the 2012 Kobzar Prize and 2012 Manitoba Reads competition.
Arguing with the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers, the anthology which she co-translated and edited, was published in March 2007 in Canada by Sumach Press and in March 2008 in the United States by The Feminist Press of CUNY. She has published translations of poetry from Spanish and French and has edited and/or co-translated translations of poetry, fiction and nonfiction from a variety of languages, including Finnish, Catalan and Bosnian.
Tregebov has also published five popular children’s picture books, including Sasha and the Wind, Sasha and the Wiggly Tooth, What-if Sara, The Extraordinary Ordinary Everything Room and the classic The Big Storm, which won the inaugural CNIB Tiny Torgi PrintBraille Book Award; young jurors who read braille chose their favourite PrintBraille book from a short list prepared by teachers and librarians. Illustrator Maryanne Kovalski was also nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration for The Big Storm. Tregebov’s picture books have been recommended in A Guide to Canadian Children’s Books as well CBC radio’s Children’s Literature Panel. She has twice toured for the Canadian Children’s Book Week, and her books have been recommended by the Canadian Children’s Book Centre. Her picture books have been translated into French and Danish.
She is also the editor of ten other anthologies of essays, poetry and fiction for a number of presses, most recently Naked in Academe: 50 Years of Creative Writing at UBC (2014). She studied at the University of Manitoba, Cornell, and at Boston University, where she earned a Master of Arts degree in English and American literature. Before being hired in January 2005 to teach at UBC, she taught creative writing for many years in the Continuing Education program at Ryerson University in Toronto. She also worked as a freelance editor of adult and young adult fiction as well as poetry.
Event Details
Meet and Greet
October 29, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-8:00pm
Discussion
November 19, Thursday 2015 | 7:00-9:00pm
Location
Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre
6163 University Boulevard – map
UBC’s Vancouver campus
Cost
$10 per person. Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP online before Tuesday, October 27, 2015.
Questions? Please contact Karolin Konig at 604-822-8939 or at karolin.konig@ubc.ca.
Please Note: Books will not be provided so please make arrangements to obtain a copy to read before the Book Discussion. Books are available at the UBC Bookstore.
Sign up for your A-Card and benefit from a 12% discount at the UBC Bookstore. For more information on obtaining an A-Card please visit www.alumni.ubc.ca/a-card/
Search Strategies
With a rich and vast collection, UBC Library encompasses a number of books, videos, and other relevant resources on nineteenth-century science. The easiest way to find this material is to use the UBC Library Catalogue (www.library.ubc.ca). One recommended search strategy is to use Subject search option. From the catalogue option, select Subject from the drop-down menu, and enter any of the following headings:
Anning, Mary, 1799-1847–Fiction.
De La Beche, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1796-1855–Fiction.
Books by the Author at UBC Library
Curiosity by Joan Thomas. (2010). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Available at Woodward Library – PS8639.H572 C87 2010]
The Opening Sky by Joan Thomas (2014). Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. [Available at Koerner library PS8639.H572 O64 2014]
Reading by Lightning by Joan Thomas (2008). Fredericton: Goose Land. [Available at Koerner Library PS8639.H575 R43 2008; Rare Books and Special Collections PS8639.H575 R43 2008]
Scholarly Resources at UBC Library
Livingstone, David N. and Charles W.J. Withers (eds.) Geographies of nineteenth-century science. (2011). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Available at Koerner Library – Q127.G4 G46 2011]
Weber, A.S. (ed.) Nineteenth century science: a selection of original texts. (2000). Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press. [Available at Koerner Library – Q158 .N56 2000]
Willis, Martin. Mesmerists, monsters, and machines: science fiction and the cultures of science in the nineteenth century. (2006). Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. [Temporarily shelved at Koerner Library reserve collection (Floor 3) – PN3433.6 .W55 2006]
Research Guides
Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Open Access Learning Resources
The 19th Century discovery of dinosaurs–Scientific American
Dinosaurs and Dragons–Strange Science
Dinosaurs of the Victorian Era–The UnMuseum of Unnatural Mystery
Water worries: What is the state of our most valuable resource?
Water Worries: What is the State of Our most Valuable Resource?
UBC Dialogues: Vancouver
We often hear about the possibility of future water wars as populations can’t survive without adequate and safe supplies of fresh water. In recent years, the effects of climate change have led to a global redistribution of water reserves, and agricultural and industrial uses are further straining our supplies of clean fresh water. California is in the midst of a devastating drought and in recent months areas of British Columbia have been hit by drought-like conditions. What steps do we need to take to protect the quality and quantity of our water supplies for decades to come? What lengths will governments go to in order to secure fresh water sources? Who “owns” the planet’s water and how can we ensure there’s enough to go around?
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Podcast
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Moderator
Johanna Wagstaffe – CBC Meteorologist
Panelists
Margaret Catley-Carlson, BA’66, LLD’94 – Vice Chair, Canadian Water Network
Leila Harris – Associate Professor at IRES Institute on Resources Environment and Sustainability and Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; Co-Director of the Program on Water Governance
Simon Donner – Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Damien Gillis, BA’02 – Documentary Filmmaker and co-founder of the online publication “The Common Sense Canadian.”
Speaker Biographies
Johanna Wagstaffe
Johanna Wagstaffe is an on-camera meteorologist for CBC covering local, national and international weather and science stories. She joined the CBC News: Weather Centre in the summer of 2007 working on the CBC News Network morning shows.
Johanna is now in Vancouver and her forecasts can be seen daily, on CBC News Vancouver at 5, 5:30, 6 pm, as well as part of the brand new CBC News Now team, presenting the latest weather & science stories with Ian Hanomansing at 5, 7, 10 pm PT across the country.
With Wagstaffe’s background in seismology and earth science, she is often utilized by CBC as the go-to expert for insight into breaking science stories. Some of the stories she has covered recently include the Copenhagen Climate Conference, the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami, and flying with the Snowbirds.
Johanna Wagstaffe graduated with an honours degree in geophysics from The University of Western Ontario. She was first exposed to weather forecasting as a summer intern at the Environment Canada Severe Weather Centre and then obtained her post-graduate meteorology certificate from York University.
Margaret Catley-Carlson, BA’66, LLD’94
Margaret Catley-Carlson is an international civil servant who is actively involved at the board level in support of improved water resource management and the twin issues of agricultural productivity and rural development. She is vice chair of the Canadian Water Network Board and patron and past chair of the Global Water Partnership. She is a member of the United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Water and the Rosenberg Forum.
Ms. Catley-Carlson serves on the boards of the International Food Policy Research Institute, International Commission on Integrated Mountain Development, Syngenta Foundation, International Fertilizer Development Center and the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. Additionally, she serves on the Council of Advisors of the World Food Prize, the Tyler Prize and Stockholm Water Prize.
In her earlier career, Catley-Carlson was president of the Canadian International Development Agency, deputy executive director of UNICEF in New York, president of the Population Council in New York and deputy minister of the Department of Health and Welfare of Canada. She holds ten honorary degrees and is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Leila Harris
Leila Harris is an Associate Professor at IRES Institute on Resources Environment and Sustainability and Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice. Dr Leila Harris is also an Faculty Associate of UBC’s Department of Geography and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. She also serves as Co-Director of UBC’s Program on Water Governance and is a Member of EDGES Research Collaborative: Environment & Development: Gender, Equity, and Sustainability.
Leila trained as a political and socio-cultural geographer, and her work examines social, cultural and political-economic dimensions of environmental and resource issues, especially in developing contexts. She has focused extensively on water politics and governance questions, including research on water access, affordability, and management in Turkey, Ghana, South Africa, and for first nations in British Columbia.
Simon Donner
Simon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at UBC, as well as an associate in UBC’s Liu Institute for Global Issues, Biodiversity Research Centre and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability and the Atmospheric Sciences Program. He came to UBC after a few years in the Science, Technology and Environment Program in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He spent his undergraduate days at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. He also did a master’s degree in the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at the University of Wisconsin with the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.
Damien Gillis, BA’02
Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues, especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada’s wild salmon. He is co-founder of the online publication The Common Sense Canadian, which, as the website states is; “An uncommonly sensible take on our Economy and Environment”! He is a director and cinematographer, known for such films as; Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry(2009) and Dear Norway: Help Save Canada’s Wild Salmon (2009), and more recently for his brand new film Fractured Land (2015) which is currently being played at the Vancouver and Calgary International Film Festivals.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Van der Gulik, T. W, et al. Agriculture Water Demand Model: Report for Metro Vancouver Regional District. Victoria, B.C: Ministry of Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture Management Branch, 2013. Web. [Link]
Voigt, Erik. Securing Safe Water Supplies: Comparison of Applicable Technologies. Oxford, UK: Academic Press, 2013. Print. [Available at Woodward Library Stacks – TD430 .V65 2013]
UBC Library Research Guides