Stephen Lewis – Faculty Colloquium Talk at UBC Law
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law. Stephen Lewis is a Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, and the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Emeritus Board Member of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, as well as the author of the best-selling book, Race Against Time. Furthermore, he has worked with the United Nations for over two decades and holds more than 35 honorary degrees.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Lewis, S. (2005). Race against time. Toronto: House of Anansi Press. [Link]
Lewis, S. (2008). Opportunities lost: The UN’s failure to fight the HIV/AIDS crisis. Harvard International Review, 30(1), 80. [Link]
Lewis, S. (2009). Essential public health: Theory and practice. Journal of Biosocial Science, 41(1), 155-156. doi:10.1017/S0021932008003131. [Link]
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Redeveloping the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs Resource Centre: New Collections, Classification and Collaboration
Alissa Cherry, Resource Centre Director, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
In 2012, the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) Resource Centre accepted a large donation that greatly expanded the scope and size of the library collection. After nearly a year of planning and with the help of an army of students and volunteers, work began in April of 2013 to integrate the donation using a workflow that included a cleaning and condition assessment, performing necessary repairs and/or constructing protective housings, classifying all materials into a new revision of the Brian Deer scheme, cataloguing, and processing. All existing library collections passed through a similar workflow and as they were reclassified. In addition to the reclassification, the physical space of the Resource Centre was also rearranged with the addition of a multimedia room and exhibit space. This talk is brought to you by the iSchool at the UBC School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS).
Biography
Alissa Cherry is the Resource Centre Director for the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC). She manages a unique library collection and institutional archives that is used primarily for land claims research. Alissa is a founding member of the BC Digitization Coalition, a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, and holds an MLIS from the University of British Columbia (UBC). Prior to joining the UBCIC in 2006, Alissa worked for the BC Aboriginal Child Care Society and Xwi7xwa Library at UBC, and spent six years managing the Yellowstone Research Library in Yellowstone National Park.
Wednesday, December 4, 11:30 pm – 12:30 pm, Dodson Room, Level 3, Chapman Learning Commons, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, 1961 East Mall, UBC
The Beauty of the Book: Selections from the Association of American University Presses 2013 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Exhibition
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Press presents “The Beauty of the Book: Selections from the Association of American University Presses 2013 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show” from December 2 through 13th, 2013. From digitization to new media to multimedia, the book is facing some serious competition. The hype has been around all things e- and i-. And yet the book continues to have a special aura about it – a certain power – that comes from a cover catching your eye, from holding its form in your hands, from reading for hours accompanied by the feel and sound of turning pages.
In January 2013, four judges gathered in New York to sift through hundreds of entries for the AAUP (Association of American University Presses) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. They were tasked with choosing publications that exhibited excellence in design and manufacture. Their selections are now touring North America.
The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Press are excited to host “The Beauty of the Book: Selections from the Association of American University Presses 2013 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show” which offers to the university community the chance to marvel at their intelligent, creative design and to be inspired by their beauty.
Visit the display from December 2nd through December 13th on the concourse of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. For more information on the books in the show, please find here. As a bonus attraction, award-winning books from the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada will also be displayed as part of this exhibition.
“In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.”
– Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style
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Presented by the Academic Librarians in Public Service (ALPS), a section of the British Columbia Library Association. Its purpose is to promote the exchange of ideas among academic public service librarians and to provide a network of professional expertise resulting in excellent public service programs in the post-secondary libraries of British Columbia, using the latest methods, systems, and technologies.
December 6, 2013, 9:30AM – 11.30PM, Lillooet Room (Room 301), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Akio Takahara – Domestic Factors in China's External Policy: The Case of Japan-China Relations
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Institute of Asian Research (IAR). Chaired By: Joseph Caron, Former Canadian Ambassador to Japan. Besides international factors such as the 2008 world financial crisis, there are important domestic factors in China’s current external policy. They include the intensive debates over the necessity and content of economic and political reforms, and people’s dissatisfaction and anxiety about the flip side of China’s rapid growth. This talk will take up the case of China’s hardline approach towards Japan over the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, and discuss why it continues despite the undaunted advancement of economic exchange, and how the rest of the world should react to it. Dr. Akio Takahara graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, and received his PhD from the University of Sussex. He previously worked at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong, J.F. Oberlin University, Rikkyo University, the Japanese embassy in Beijing, and University of Tokyo. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University (2005–06). He is currently a professor at the Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, a member and Secretary General of the New 21st Century Committee for Japan-China Friendship and a senior researcher with the Tokyo Foundation. His academic interest revolves around contemporary Chinese politics and China’s foreign policy. His publications include “New Developments in East Asian Security” (2005), “Beyond the Borders: Contemporary Asian Studies Volume One” (2008), “Putting the Senkaku Dispute Into Pandora’s Box: Toward a ‘2013 Consensus” (2013).
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Takahara, A. (1992). The politics of wage policy in post-revolutionary China. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [UK]: Macmillan Press.
Benewick, R., & Takahara, A. (2002). Eight grannies with nine teeth between them: Community construction in China. Journal of Chinese Political Science, 7(1), 1-18. doi:10.1007/BF02876927. [Link]
Takahara, A. (1999). Managing central-local relations during socialist marketisation: A changing role for the Chinese communist party. IDS Bulletin, 30(4), 23-30. [Link]
Takahara, A. (1993). Enterprise reform and fiscal reform in china: Overlapping webs of interests. Asian Economic Journal, 7(2), 147-165. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8381.1993.tb00105.x. [Link]
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UBC Science's 50th Anniversary Lecture – Science: The Gender Dimension
Women remain underrepresented in many fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Esteemed panelists, planetary scientist and NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal winner Dr. Laurie Leshin, zoologist and MacArthur Genius grant winner Dr. Sally Otto, and Vice President, Response Biomedical Corp and UBC Science Alumna Dr. Barbara Kinnaird-Steen, with our moderator Dr. Simon Peacock, Dean of UBC’s Faculty of Science discuss the STEM gender gap. Learn how we can encourage more young women to embrace science, listen to practical advice for women pursuing STEM careers, and discover what factors may affect young women’s careers in the sciences. Presented as part of UBC Science’s 50th Anniversary. This event took place on Friday, October 25th 2013 at the Allan Yap Biodiversity Theatre, Beaty Biodiversity Museum | Faculty of Science. This talk is presented as part of UBC Science’s 50th Anniversary lecture.
Speakers:
Dr. Barbara Kinnaird Steen – Barbara serves as Vice President of Research and Development at Response Biomedical Corp. Dr. Steen served as Vice President of Response Biomedical Corp. Dr. Steen served as Senior Director of Operations and Vice President of Operations at Response Biomedical Corp. Dr. Kinnaird-Steen has over 19 years of research and business experience primarily in the field of infectious diseases and Point of Care (POC).
Dr. Laurie Leshin – Laurie serves as Dean of the School of Science and Professor of Earth & Environmental Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she leads the scientific academic and research enterprise at the oldest technological University in the United States.
Dr. Sally Otto – Sally is professor in the Department of Zoology at UBC, studying population genetics and evolutionary biology. I develop and analyse mathematical models to study how populations change over time. The aim of this work is to identify when and whether particular evolutionary transitions are possible.
Dr. Simon Peacock – Simon is Professor and Dean of Science, UBC, and Dean at the Faculty of Science. His research focuses on understanding the thermal, petrologic, and seismological structure of subduction zones.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Malott, R. J., Steen-Kinnaird, B. R., Lee, T. D., & Speert, D. P. (2012). Identification of hopanoid biosynthesis genes involved in polymyxin resistance in burkholderia multivorans. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 56(1), 464-471. doi:10.1128/AAC.00602-11 [Link]
Leshin, L. (2014). My lab is on mars: Geochemical adventures with the mars curiosity rover. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 20(S3), 2162-2163. doi:10.1017/S1431927614012549 [Link]
Peacock, S. M. (1990). Fluid processes in subduction zones. Science, 248(4953), 329-337. doi:10.1126/science.248.4953.329 [Link]
Peacock, S. M. (2001). Are the lower planes of double seismic zones caused by serpentine dehydration in subducting oceanic mantle? Geology, 29(4), 299-302. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0299:ATLPOD>2.0.CO;2 [Link]
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