Jae-Young Kwon – A Lonely Bee in the Land of Flowers
Come join us as JY Kwon discusses his latest book, A Lonely Bee in the Land of Flowers, a true story about the experiences of an Asian male student in nursing school. After spending most of his life in a world dominated by men in the all boys’ residence and the Korean army, Kwon finds himself suddenly transported to a female-dominated world of nursing. As he tries to survive in the “Land of Flowers,” he finds that nursing is not just a career but a humbling profession that reaches people at their most vulnerable time, regardless of gender, culture or ethnicity.
“Less than 10% of nurses in North America are male and I think the recruitment in nursing schools should reflect the diverse community that it serves,“ Kwon says. “But that’s not happening right now. There are enormous biases and stereotypes and I hope that this book will promote openness about the nursing profession to the students, instructors and the public.”
The book is already receiving critical acclaim. One Booming Ground author writes, “The anecdotes and stories [he] share as a student nurse offer a fascinating look at another world that is both different from what many experience, but relatable at the same time. We have all been in hospitals as patients or as visitors but have not often had a glimpse behind the curtain of health professionalism. We see nurses and doctors as confident and all-knowing and sometimes as cold or kind. [He’s] captured all of this!”
For more information, please send an email to president(at)jykngroup(dot)com and for website it is http://www.jykngroup.com
To reserve a seat for this event, please register here.
The New Treasures: Artifacts of Chinese-Canadian life and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Image courtesy, UBC Chung Collection
The New Treasures: Artifacts of Chinese-Canadian life and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company exhibition is a new exhibit on display in the Chung Collection Exhibition room.
New Treasures is a new exhibition that features artifacts from Chinese-Canadian life such as kitchen utensils, apothecary items and more. It explores the immigration and settlement of Chinese-Canadian people in B.C.
The Chung Collection Exhibition room also has some new additions, including a model locomotive, built by a CPR engineer as a retirement project.
If you have never been to the collection, or even if you are a frequent visitor, it is time to explore the New Treasures of the Chung Collection!
Location: Level One of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, inside Rare Books and Special Collections.
Open to the public Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit the Library website for the most up-to-date hours listing.
On until June 30, 2013.
About the Chung Collection
The Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection – a designated national treasure – was donated to the Library in 1999. Dr. Wallace Chung collected 25,000 items related to early B.C. history, immigration and settlement, and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The fascinating collection now resides in Rare Books and Special Collections in the Chung Collection Exhibition room.
Many of the materials have been digitized and are available online.
For more information visit chung.library.ubc.ca.
Dodson Concert
Come and join us on April 5, 2013 — 5×7: An interdisciplinary concert of new art and sound
William Wong – Make It Visible: Applying Cognitive Systems Engineering to Intelligence Analysis
In this presentation, Dr. William Wong discusses how principles from Cognitive Systems Engineering, CSE, might be used to design Visual Analytics systems to support intelligence analysts. In designing systems to control processes such as nuclear power generation, CSE has been used to determine and model a priori the functional relationships that relate the performance of the processes with system outcomes. Visual forms are then created to represent these invariant relationships in ecological interface designs. Can cognitive systems engineering be applied to the domain of intelligence analysis? And if yes, how might this be? And how should CSE principles be applied to the design of visual representations in intelligence analysis to take advantage of the benefits we have seen when CSE is applied to causal systems?
Biography
William Wong is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Head of the Interaction Design Centre at Middlesex University’s School of Science and Technology in London, UK. His research interests are in Cognitive engineering, naturalistic decision making, and representation design, in complex dynamic environments; Cognitive task analysis methods; HCI and multimedia in learning, in virtual environments, and museums; Usability engineering and interaction design.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Memisevic, R., Sanderson, P., Choudhoury, S., & Wong, W. (2005). Work domain analysis and ecological interface design for hydropower system monitoring and control. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Hawaii, USA, 10-12 October 2005. Link: http://itee.uq.edu.au/~cerg/publications/IEEE-SMC2005MemisevicSandersonEtAl-HPS-EID.pdf
Blandford, A., & William Wong, B. L. (2004). Situation awareness in emergency medical dispatch. International Journal of human-computer studies, 61(4), 421-452. Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581904000102
UBC Library Research Guides
Library and Information Science
Handel Wright – The Awkwardness of the M Word: Canadian Multicultural Education After the Death of Multiculturalism
This session presents two tales of Canadian multiculturalism in general and multicultural education in particular. One tale is of a common sense, dominant multicultural education that underscores multiculturalism as a symbol and premiere characteristic of Canada. There may have been some critiques from the left and the right in the past and there’s always the awkwardness of Quebec’s interculturalism and intercultural education but these are past and peripheral matters that do little to trouble the idea that Canada and its approach to diversity education are decidedly multicultural. A rather different tale emerges when we consider multiculturalism and multicultural education in the context of global developments such as “the death of multiculturalism” discourse, the emergence of European interculturalism and intercultural education and even national and local developments of a variety of school board approaches to diversity, all of which constitutes cracks in the façade of a completely dominant Canadian multiculturalism and multicultural education. The invitation is for us to consider what the future of diversity education ought to be locally and nationally given the contradictory state of affairs of complacently hegemonic Canadian multiculturalism and multicultural education on the one hand and passé, challenged and undermined multiculturalism and multicultural education on the other.
Biography
Handel Kashope Wright is currently Professor and Director of the Centre for Culture, Identity and Education http://www.ccie.educ.ubc.ca. He has published extensively on continental African cultural studies, cultural studies of education, critical multiculturalism, anti-racist education, qualitative research and post-reconceptualization curriculum theorizing.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Wright, H.K. (2011). Everything Old Ought to be New Again: Post-Reconceptualization Curriculum as Presentist Praxis. Journal of curriculum and pedagogy, 8 (1), 19-22. [Link]
Wright, H.K. (2006). Are we (T)here Yet? Qualitative Research in Education’s Profuse and Contested Present. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19 (6), 793-802. [Link]
UBC Library Research Guides
Cultural Diversity, Multiculturalism, Prejudice, and Racism Biography
Sandor Katz – The Art of Fermentation
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Reads Sustainability. The Art of Fermentation is the most comprehensive guide to do-it-yourself home fermentation ever published. Sandor Katz presents the concepts and processes behind fermentation in ways that are simple enough to guide a reader through their first experience making sauerkraut or yogurt, and in-depth enough to provide greater understanding and insight for experienced practitioners. While Katz expertly contextualizes fermentation in terms of biological and cultural evolution, health and nutrition, and even economics, this is primarily a compendium of practical information—how the processes work; parameters for safety; techniques for effective preservation; troubleshooting; and more. With full-color illustrations and extended resources, this book provides essential wisdom for cooks, homesteaders, farmers, gleaners, foragers, and food lovers of any kind who want to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for arguably the oldest form of food preservation, and part of the roots of culture itself. Readers will find detailed information on fermenting vegetables; sugars into alcohol (meads, wines, and ciders); sour tonic beverages; milk; grains and starchy tubers; beers (and other grain-based alcoholic beverages); beans; seeds; nuts; fish; meat; and eggs, as well as growing mold cultures, using fermentation in agriculture, art, and energy production, and considerations for commercial enterprises. Sandor Katz has introduced what will undoubtedly remain a classic in food literature, and is the first—and only—of its kind.
Biography
Sandor Ellix Katz is a self-taught fermentation experimentalist. Katz has taught hundreds of fermentation workshops across North America and beyond, taking on a role he describes as a “fermentation revivalist.” Now, in The Art of Fermentation, with a decade more experience behind him, the unique opportunity to hear countless stories about fermentation practices, and answering thousands of troubleshooting questions, he’s sharing a more in-depth exploration of the topic.
Select Books Available at UBC Library
Katz, Sandor Ellix. (2012). The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes From Around the World. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing. Link: http://webcat1.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=6421437
Katz, Sandor Ellix. (2006). The Revolution Will Not Be Mirowaved: Inside America’s Underground Food Movements. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing. Link: http://webcat1.library.ubc.ca/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=4114642
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"The Broken Destiny of Poetry" Film Screening
Come join us for a film screening of “The Broken Destiny of Poetry” by Rahmat Haidari and Sajia Hussain, a documentary about a young Afghan woman poet’s struggle to survive and write. Focusing on female poetry in Afghanistan, this documentary reveals how the few female poets often have to fight for their right to read and write their poems. The few female poets that do live in Afghanistan live in constant fear. Some of them, like Nadia Anjoman, have sacrificed themselves for their goal of writing. For other brave women like, Karima, a twenty-six year old woman who had graduated from Kabul University where she studied Dari literature faced serious retribution after her publication of a 47 page poem collection in 1990 and faces constant threats in her home province of Badakhshan in Afghanistan.
- Schedule of events also include: a First Nations welcome by Wanda John-Kehewin and poetry launch of “In the Dog House”
- Navaho flute music by Angelo Moroni
- World Poetry Peace Poetathon official launch
- Music release by Japanese composer Yoshifumi Sakura
- Music and poetry readings
This event is organized by the World Poetry Society as part of the World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival exhibition at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre during the month of April. While admission is free, please reserve space with Ariadne Sawyer by email at: ariadnes@uniserve.com
Fred Wah – Standing in the Doorway – the Hyphen in Chinese-Canadian Poetry
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Richmond Public Library as part of the “The Joy Of Reading: Chinese Literature Appreciation” lecture series. This talk focuses on living and writing between two cultures, Chinese and Canadian. Racial hybridity has informed most of Prof. Wah’s writing and that of many Chinese-Canadian writers. Wah will read and discuss his own book Diamond Grill (about growing up in a small town Chinese-Canadian restaurant), as well as writings by poets Rita Wong, Larissa Lai, Weyman Chan, and others. He will situate this writing within the recent historical context in North America of “writing through race.” Presented by Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate, Professor Emeritus Fred Wah.