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.
Paul Bloom – There Is Nothing Special About Religion
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Most people believe in deities, immaterial souls, life after death, and the divine creation of humans and other animals. Research from developmental psychology (including the study of babies) and social psychology supports a minimalist theory of why we have such beliefs, which is that they emerge from the very same processes that give rise to beliefs in other domains, such as science and politics. Finally, although it is often argued that religious beliefs have great moral significance, there is little evidence in support of this view. Overall, religious beliefs just aren’t that special.
Biography
Paul Bloom is the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He was born in Montreal, Canada, was an undergraduate at McGill University, and did his doctoral work at MIT. He has published in scientific journals such as Nature and Science, and in popular outlets such as The New York Times and The Atlantic Monthly. He is the co-editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and the author of two books: How Children Learn the Meanings of Words and Descartes’ Baby: How the Science of Child Development Explains What Makes Us Human. His research explores children’s understanding of art, religion, and morality. This lecture is part of the ongoing Green College lecture series, “Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture: The Evolution of Religion, Morality and Cooperation”
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Starmans, C., & Bloom, P. (2012). Windows to the soul: Children and adults see the eyes as the location of the self. Cognition, 123, 313-318. Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027712000285
Bloom, P. (2012). Religion, morality, evolution. Annual Review of Psychology, 63, 179-199. Link: http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-psych-120710-100334
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Anabel Quan-Haase – Serendipity Models: How We Encounter Information and People in Digital Environments
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Much of the research on how we encounter information tends to focus on linear models of intentional information search. Recently a number of studies and frameworks have suggested that not all information individuals encounter is through goal-oriented search, but rather that individuals often find information and connect with people accidentally, without purposefully looking. A wide range of terms and models have been proposed to describe the phenomenon. The present presentation has three goals. First, it provides an overview of the current debate around the phenomenon of serendipity, presenting and contrasting various models of how serendipity occurs. Second, it discusses how technology could affect serendipity and opportunities for designing digital tools that support innovation, creativity, and resource discovery. Finally, it presents current research findings on how serendipity impacts the work of scholars.
Biography
Anabel Quan-Haase is Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Western Ontario. Her primary interests lies in the areas of Internet and society and computer-mediated communication. Quan-Haase’s current research investigates the uses of technology and the effects of technology on society.
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Martin, K., & Quan-Haase, A. (2013). Are e-books replacing print books? tradition, serendipity, and opportunity in the adoption and use of e-books for historical research and teaching. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Volume 64, Issue 5, 1016–1028, May 2013 Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22801/abstract
Quan-Haase, A. (2012). Technology and society: Inequality, power, and social networks. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. Link: http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=6356884
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Jim Silverman – California Fairy Tales: Gold Rush to Hollywood
The School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) iSchool@UBC will be hosting Jim Silverman at UBC. In his talk, Jim Silverman shares stories and pictures from children’s literary fairy tales published in California between 1868 and 1945. They range from a classic fairy tale biography of a Gold Rush eccentric called Emperor Norton, to libidinous tales spun and illustrated by a feminist-actress-mother of 10, to an Art Deco tale with a mortuary advertisement, and tales in which fairies promote a child radio star and pitch commercial products and kids discover the magic that happens by looking through a strip of colour film.
World Poetry Canada International Festival Presents Inspire Peace!
The Theme for the Third World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival is Inspire Peace! 
Created by Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea in 1997, the World Poetry Society is built upon respect, honor, support, peace and love for all. With a focus on recognizing multicultural and multilingual poets and writers, the society promotes its mandate through the power of arts and education. This is the Third Annual World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival. All events are free and open to the public. Please register at www.worldpoetry.ca and bring a poem on peace, a story about peace, a song, or a dance! Space is limited for all events, so please register early!
The Festival will feature:
1. International guests, local poetry groups, community partners, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and multimedia.
2. Display tables, Poetic Necklace display at Ike’s Art Gallery April 4th – 30th.
3. Extra event: World Poetry Youth Peace Poetathon World Wide.
4. The World Poetry Canada International Month, April 4th – 30th with our partner the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
5. World Poetry National Poetry Month Peace Display plus the display cases in the IKBLC foyer, April 4th – 30th
6. Gift poems!
Event Program:
April 4th, 7pm – 9pm, Grand Opening in the Peace River Room(Room 261) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- First Nations Welcome by Godwin Barton
- World Poetry Peace E-Anthology launch
- Music by Rio Samay Band and performance by the Jasmine Dancers
- Empowerment Awards
- World Poetry Exclusive: “Silence,” a short documentary by Afghan filmmaker Sharif Saedi
April 11th, 7pm – 9pm in the Lillooet Room (Room 301) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- Cross Country Tour of Penn Kemp’s Jack Layton, Art in Action; bring a story or read from the Jack Layton book
- Poetry readings by local poets
- International guests include Michael Kwaku Somuah and Kwame Yirenkyi
April 20th, 1pm – 4pm in the Lillooet Room (Room 301) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
- 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
- World Poetry Exclusive: “The Broken Destiny of Poetry,” an Afghan documentary by Rahmat Haidari and Sajia Hussain
- Music and poetry readings
Social-Biblio.ca: Meaning and Method Behind Public Library Micro-Blogging Practices
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Barnor Hesse – Raceocracy: How the Racial Exception Proves the Racial Rule
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Dr. Barnor Hesse. Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science and Sociology, Department of African American Studies, Northwestern University. ‘Raceocracy: How the racial state of exception proves the racial rule’. The talk is based on the forthcoming: ‘Creolizing the Political: Race Governance and Black Politics’. It seeks to rethink the meaning of race and racism in relation to questions of western governance; and secondly, to identify a theoretical framework in which to understand ‘Black politics’ as a series of interventions and practices irreducible to the bodies of the populations who produce those practices and interventions. This lecture is part of the ongoing Green College lecture series, “Law and Society.”
Biography
Barnor Hesse is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, Political Science, and Sociology at Northwestern University. His research interests include post-structuralism and political theory, black political thought, modernity and coloniality, blackness and affect, race and governmentality, conceptual methodologies, postcolonial studies.
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Hesse, B. (2011). Marked Unmarked: Black Politics and the Western political, South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2011, 110: 4. [Link]
Hesse, B. (2011). Symptomatically Black: A Creolization of the Political in S. Shih and F. Lionnet eds. The Creolization of Theory. Durham: Duke University press. [Link]
Hesse, B. (2009). Afterword: Black Europe’s Undecidability in D. Hine, T. Keaton and S. Small eds. Black Europe and the African Diaspora. Urbana: University of Illinois press. [Link]
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UBC Photo Society Presents Click
Each year, the UBC Photo Society, one of the largest student AMS clubs at UBC organizes an art exhibition featuring photos taken by members. “Click” is an exhibition hosted by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, featuring the photography of students. The purpose and mission of the UBC Photo Society is to develop the photographer while offering the training and facilities of UBC. The society strives to give photography enthusiasts a place to meet, talk, and share ideas about photography while offering facilities and mentoring that assists students in taking their photography to the next level.
From March 1st to March 31st, photos taken by members of the UBC Photo Society will be available for viewing in the IKBLC foyer display cases and in Ike’s Café.
Jack Lohman – iSchool@UBC Research Day Keynote
Live Webcast – begins at 11.00AM on March 8, 2013. Please click on play button to view the lecture — for full screen view, click on upper right hand.
Jack Lohman is keynote speaker of the 4th Annual iSchool@UBC Research Day. The theme of this year’s iSchool@UBC Research Day is Infrastructures of Knowledge: Mediating Memories, Representing Relationships, Framing Futures. The iSchool@UBC, invites UBC faculty and students to join in sharing the depth and breadth of their research endeavours at the intersections of information, people and technology.
Jack Lohman is Chief Executive Officer of the Royal British Columbia Museum. Prior to that, he served as Professor of Museum Design and Communication at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway and Chairman of the National Museum in Warsaw, Poland. Before taking up his present appointment, Jack Lohman had been Director of the Museum of London since August 2002. In 2000 He was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South Africa, an organization consisting of fifteen national museums including the South African Museum, the South African Maritime Museum and the South African National Gallery where he led the creation of a new museum institution and the transformation of the national museum sector. From 1985 to 1994 he worked for English Heritage, developing museums and exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
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Lohman, Jack. (2013, March 27). Museum architect chosen through rigorous process. Times Colonist. A11. [Link]
Goodnow, Katherine; Lohman, Jack; Marfleet, Philip. (2008). Museums, the Media and Refugees: Stoies of Crisis, Control and Compassion. New York: Berghahn Books. [Link]
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Library, Archival, and Information Science
March 8, 11.00 a.m.-12.00 p.m at the Bralorne Room (rm 490) in the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS)
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