Robert Crawford - Upstart Crew: Mutinous Winds in Shakespeare's Tempest

Robert Crawford – Upstart Crew: Mutinous Winds in Shakespeare's Tempest

November 22, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Arts One. Shakespeare’s final, richly allegorical play has been subjected to widely differing interpretation. Shakespeare disguises these dangerous interests in a subtle allegory hinging on an established linkage between seamanship and rulership, and in the seemingly minor characters of boatswain, master, and ships crew. Dominant readings aside, this play has as much to do with statecraft as stagecraft.

Biography

Robert Crawford has taught in the Arts One program at the University of British Columbia since 1996. He holds a Ph.D in Political Science (UBC 1995), and specializes in International Relations and Political Philosophy. He attributes his continuing interest in a broad range of intellectual fields and concerns to his Arts One background, and values the opportunity to help cultivate these interests in others.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Crawford, R. (1992). Devolving English literature. Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press.

Crawford, R., & MyiLibrary. (2006). Contemporary poetry and contemporary science. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. [Link]

Crawford, R., & MyiLibrary. (2001). The modern poet: Poetry, academia, and knowledge since the 1750s. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Crawford, R. (1998). The Scottish invention of English literature. New York; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

UBC Library Research Guides

English

Literature Reviews

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Jeffrey T. Parsons – Horny and High: Sexual Risk Behaviors and Substance Use Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men

November 21, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Population Health Lecture Series. Jeffrey T. Parsons’ general research interests are health behaviors (e.g., HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, sexual behavior, substance use/abuse); GLBTQ issues; interventions designed to change sexual/drug using behaviors among various populations; club drug use (ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine. He is the Director of the Hunter College Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST). All CHEST projects are based on theories of health behavior change and are designed to reduce the spread of HIV and/or to improve the lives of persons with HIV. Jeffrey T. Parsons is Professor at Hunter College, City University of New York.

Biography
Dr. Jeffrey T. Parson’s is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College. His general research interests are health behaviors (e.g., HIV prevention, HIV medication adherence, sexual behavior, substance use/abuse); GLBTQ issues; interventions designed to change sexual/drug using behaviors among various populations; club drug use (ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamine).

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Bunupuradah, T., Koken, J. A., Naar-King, S., Panthong, A., Parsons, J. T., Phanuphak, P., Phonphithak, S., Rongkavilit, C., Saengcharnchai, P., Wang, B. (2013). Motivational Interviewing Targeting Risk Behaviors for Youth Living with HIV in Thailand. AIDS and Behavior. Volume 17, Issue 6, 2063-2074. [Link]

Golub, S. A., Parsons, J. T., Tomassilli, J.C., (2013). What’s Sex Got to Do with It? The Role of Sexual Affect in the Relationship Between HIV Stigma and Mental Health. AIDS and Behavior. Volume 17, Issue 5, 1771-1774. [Link]

Botsko, M., Golub, S.A., Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Parsons, J.T. (2013). Predictors of Day-Level Sexual Risk for Young Gay and Bisexual Men. AIDS and Behavior. Volume 17, Issue 4, 1465-1477. [Link]

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Psychology

Sexuality, Sex, and Gender Studies

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The Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum Graphic Novel Exhibition

November 20, 2012

NEW YORK CITY, 1857. Nicholas Meyer is crafty, ambitious, and unencumbered by nostalgia. Though he has the singular distinction of working with photographer Mathew Brady, he is enchanted by the professional misfits and illusionists at P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. Spurred on by mentors and rivals, bearded ladies and talking automatons, Nicholas will confront the emerging possibilities of robotics, show-business and advertising. This graphic novel explores the technological imagination of the 19th century from the vantage of two influential entrepreneurs. Readers encounter an alternate universe that once existed: a bygone world of gaslight and sideshows to be sure, but also a forward-looking society shot through with experimental media, profit-oriented entertainments for the masses, and grandiose visions of the future. Written by media historian Jillian Lerner and illustrated by Marc Olivent, The Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum recollects how identities were made and ideas were hawked in a pre-electronic age.

A work of historical fiction, this graphic novel explores the technological imagination of the 19th century from the vantage of two extraordinary entrepreneurs. Readers encounter an alternate world that once existed: a bygone world of gaslight, sideshows and horse-drawn cabs to be sure, but also a forward-looking world shot through with experimental media, profit-oriented entertainments for the masses, and grandiose visions of the future. Written by media historian Jillian Lerner and illustrated by Marc Olivent, The Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum entices us to recollect how identities were made and ideas were hawked in a pre-electronic age.

Nicholas Meyer is desperate to invent himself and meet the celebrated inventors of his day. It is 1857 and New York City is awash with young men who are comparably wily and determined. But Nicholas is something of a technical prodigy, with a background in clockmaking and a keen instinct for publicity. He jumps at the chance to work in the studio of celebrity portrait photographer Mathew Brady and acquaint himself with the outlandish attractions of P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. Spurred on by mentors and rivals, talking automatons and bearded ladies, Nicholas explores the emerging forms of photography, robotics, showbusiness and advertising. In collaboration with Art, Architecture, and Planning (AArP), the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is pleased to host Dr. Jillian Lerner for her presentation, which will include:

the media history of graphic novels: highlighting some of the 19th century forms of communication and commercial entertainment that are at the center of this book
the how-to aspects of self-publishing, scripting and art-directing a graphic novel
the trending phenomena of “steampunk” how does it relate to this book
How does this retrofuturistic movement both venerate and repurpose Victorian visions of the future
What insights and cautions this historian can offer about the political stakes of mining the past?

To register for this event, please find here.

About Dr. Jillian Lerner

Jillian Lerner is a media historian who specializes in 19th-century media and culture. She is fascinated by vintage advertising, proto-hipsters, and old-fangled commercial attractions. She holds a PhD in Art History from Columbia University and has taught at The University of British Columbia. This is her first graphic novel. Amazon | Facebook | LinkedIn

Graphic Novel Presentation by Jillian Lerner

Come join us as Jillian Lerner will present on the Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum on December 6, 2012, at 4.00 to 5.00pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm 301) of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall, University of British Columbia)

Recommended in the School Library Journal’s Graphic Novel Round-up by Brigid Alverson, April 2012.
INTERVIEW with Dr. Lerner by Eisner Judge Brigid Alverson on Robot6, ”Jillian Lerner on the strange world of Barnum and Brady,” April 2012
Dr. Lerner’s professional reinvention featured on TopCoder’s Innovation blog, “The Invention of Innovation: What P.T. Barnum is About to
Teach You, Again” by Clinton Bonner, May 2012
Review on Steampunk Canada, by Lee Ann Feruga, April 2012.

For more information about this event, please contact Vanessa Kam or Allan Cho

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Julie Wilson

November 15, 2012

at the Robson Reading Series

Thursday, November 22, 2012, 7pm UBC Bookstore at Robson Square

“Julie Wilson’s book riffs on…the indefinable connection between reader and watcher and the muddling of private and public spaces.” – Geist

Seen Reading is the exciting debut collection of microfictions from Canada’s pre-eminent literary voyeur, Julie Wilson. Based on the beloved online movement of the same name, Seen Reading collects more than a hundred fictions inspired by sightings of people reading on Toronto transit, each reader re-invented in a poetic piece of short fiction. Tender, poignant, and fun, Seen Reading offers readers an inspired fictional map while charting an urban centre’s cultural commitment to books and literature.

Julie Wilson is The Book Madam, a self-professed “professional publishing fan” living in Toronto and working in media and publishing. She’s the past Online Marketing Manager for House of Anansi Press, past Host of the CBC Book Club, and present host of 49thShelf.com. Her writing has appeared in or at: The National Post, The Globe and Mail, CBC.ca, Taddle Creek, Maisonneuve. The online component of Seen Reading as been featured on or at: CBC (“Here and Now,” “Q”), The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, The Galley Cat, and more.

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Marina Milner-Bolotin – The use of modern technology in teacher education: Are we ready?

November 14, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Education CREATE series. This hands-on presentation will discuss and showcase opportunities for effective use of technology-enhanced pedagogies in teacher education, as well as K-12 Mathematics and Science classrooms. We will focus on electronic-response systems (or clickers) and discuss how they can be implemented in K-12 classrooms and in teacher education. We will also brainstorm opportunities for bridging the gap between educational research teaching practice through creating research-informed resources for technology-enhanced teaching. We will showcase our new initiative “Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning through Technologies” project, supported by the Faculty of Education and Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (https://scienceres-edcp-educ.sites.olt.ubc.ca/ ). Marina Milner-Bolotin is Assistant Professor, Science Education, Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy.

Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library

Milner-Bolotin, M. (2012). Increasing interactivity and authenticity of chemistry instruction through data acquisition systems and other technologies. Journal of Chemical Education, 89(4), 477-481. doi:10.1021/ed1008443 [Link]

Milner-Bolotin, M. (2007). Building bridges between scientists and teachers to bring the joy of science to British Columbia students. Science Scope, 30(9), 58. [Link]

Milner-Bolotin, M. (2007). Teachers as actors: The implications of acting on physics teaching. The Physics Teacher, 45(7), 459. doi:10.1119/1.2783163 [Link]

Moll, R. F., & Milner-Bolotin, M. (2009). The effect of interactive lecture experiments on student academic achievement and attitudes towards physics. Canadian Journal of Physics, 87(8), 917-917. doi:10.1139/P09-048 [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Education

Learning Technology

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Bramwell Tovey Exhibition at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

November 8, 2012

On Thursday, November 22, 2012, the University of British Columbia will be honouring Bramwell Tovey at the UBC Chan Centre for Performing Arts with an Honorary Degree Doctor of Letters honoris causa. As part of the celebrations, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre in collaboration with UBC Music Library, is displaying a collection of Bramwell Tovey’s works in an exhibition at the IKBLC foyer.

A musician of striking versatility, GRAMMY® Award winning conductor Bramwell Tovey is acknowledged around the world for his artistic depth and his warm, charismatic personality on the podium. Tovey’s career as a conductor is uniquely enhanced by his work as a composer and pianist, lending him a remarkable musical perspective. His tenures as music director with the Vancouver Symphony, Luxembourg Philharmonic and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras have been characterized by his expertise in operatic, choral, British and contemporary repertoire.

Mr. Tovey who is entering his thirteen season as Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony, also continues his association with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and as founding host and conductor of the New York Philharmonic’s Summertime Classics series at Avery Fisher Hall. In 2008, both orchestras co-commissioned him to write a new work, the well-received Urban Runway, subsequently programmed by a number of orchestras in the US and Canada.

An esteemed guest conductor, Mr. Tovey has worked with orchestras in the United States and Europe including the London Philharmonic, London Symphony and Frankfurt Radio Orchestra. In North America, Mr. Tovey has made guest appearances with the orchestras of Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Seattle and Montreal as well as ongoing performances with Toronto, where his trumpet concerto, commissioned by that orchestra received its premiere in winter of 2009 as a preview of his first full-length opera “The Inventor” premiered in Calgary in winter 2011. To his already busy summer schedule in 2011 he made a return visit to the Philadelphia Orchestra, this time in their summer series in Saratoga, NY and added debuts with the Cleveland Orchestra and Boston Symphony both of which led to immediate invitations to return in summer 2012..

With a profound commitment to new music, Mr. Tovey has established himself as a formidable composer and is the first artist to win a Juno Award in both conducting and composing. Prior to his music directorship in Vancouver, Mr. Tovey spent twelve years as music director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, where he founded its highly regarded New Music Festival. A significant milestone in the ensemble’s exploration of new music, the festival premiered more than 250 works by diverse international and Canadian composers under Mr. Tovey’s leadership, with every performance broadcast on Canada’s CBC Radio. Mr. Tovey’s other accomplishments as a composer include receiving the Best Canadian Classical Composition 2003 Juno Award for his Requiem for a Charred Skull, performed and recorded by the Amadeus Choir and the Hannaford Band in Toronto.

Mr. Tovey has also built a strong reputation as an accomplished jazz pianist with two recordings to his name and has made memorable appearances on television, including two documentaries with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and a 1996 CBC TV broadcast of Victor Davies’ Revelation, a full-length oratorio based on the Book of Revelation, with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. He has an extensive back catalogue including recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra, Halle and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra He has also recorded several DVDs, of works including Holst’s The Planets Suite and Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony as well as a solo recording with distinguished guests such as percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, among many others. His recording with the Vancouver Symphony and James Ehnes of the Walton, Korngold and Barber concerti received both GRAMMY® and Juno Awards in 2007.

Awarded numerous honorary degrees, Mr. Tovey has received a Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Music in London, honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Winnipeg, Manitoba, British Columbia, and Kwantlen University College, as well as a Fellowship from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In 1999, he received the M. Joan Chalmers National Award for Artistic Direction, a prestigious Canadian prize awarded to premier artists for outstanding contributions in professional performing arts organizations.

For more information, please contact Kirsten Walsh, Head of UBC Music Library

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Weyman Chan – Chinese Blue

November 7, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre as part of the Robson Reading Series. Drawing on more than two thousand years of ancient Chinese tradition that present diverse philosophical modes of being, whether it be the spiritual teachings of Kong Zi or Lao Tzu, the military dicta of Sun Tzu or the complex sensibilities expressed by poets such as Ssu-ma Hsiang-ju, Li Bai, Du Fu and Wang Wei in the wake of a tumultuous imperial government, Weyman Chan restates these concerns of the past while addressing other “first world problems” in our own contemporary era. In Chinese Blue, the poet “character” sifts through the earth’s long history of geological layering and forgetting, grappling with the perpetual fragmentation of identity. The poet struggles with the prospect of any inky blots that suggest the finished work of a creator, subject to expediencies—ambition, romance, betrayal—that leave us flawed and human, taking the reader on a spiritual quest burdened by an endless sea of flotsam. In a stoic attempt to reconcile biological drives with a stance of non-presence and to find a place beyond “perpetual worry” where he can accept ancestral mistakes while tentatively channelling the voices of advertising that condition our vernacular and massage our minds—offering a cliché happy ending to what remains of our physical existence—the poet finds himself wading through jazzily visionary delineations of the modern city, numbed and soundly crushed between “the word and the thing.” Here is Weyman Chan at his most fiercely ironic, tracing a lineage he interprets subconsciously and through the intricacies of its raw genetic material, with keenly biting language that echoes the rhythms of Qu Yuan in contemplation of his own mortality beside the flowing waters of impermanence.

Biography of Author

Weyman Chan was born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1963, to immigrant parents from China. Chan wrote his first poem when he was thirteen years old. He has published poems and short stories in a wide variety of literary journals and anthologies. He won the 2002 National Magazine Awards silver prize for his poem “At work,” and the 2003 Alberta Book Award for his first book of poetry, Before a Blue Sky Moon. His second book, Noise From the Laundry, was a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and the 2009 Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry.

Author’s Titles at UBC Library

Chan, W. (2012). Chinese blue: Poems. B.C., Canada: Talonbooks. [Link]

Chan, W. (2010). Hypoderm: Notes to myself. Vancouver: Talonbooks. [Link]

Chan, W. (2008). Noise from the laundry. Vancouver, B.C: Talonbooks. [Link]

UBC Library Research Guides

Book, Theatre and Film Reviews

Chinese Studies Resources

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Ellen Gruber Garvey – What the 99 Percent Read, and What They Did with It, a Hundred Years Ago

November 7, 2012

Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Men and women 150 years ago grappled with information overload by making scrapbooks-the ancestors of Google and blogging. From Abraham Lincoln to Susan B. Anthony, African American janitors to farmwomen, abolitionists to Confederates, people cut out and pasted down their reading. Writing with Scissors opens a new window into the feelings and thoughts of ordinary and extraordinary Americans. Like us, nineteenth-century readers spoke back to the media, and treasured what mattered to them. Ellen Gruber Garvey reveals a previously unexplored layer of American popular culture, where the proliferating cheap press touched the lives of activists and mourning parents, and all who yearned for a place in history. Scrapbook makers documented their feelings about momentous public events such as living through the Civil War, mediated through the newspapers. African Americans and women’s rights activists collected, concentrated, and critiqued accounts from a press that they did not control to create “unwritten histories” in books they wrote with scissors. Whether scrapbook makers pasted their clippings into blank books, sermon collections, or the pre-gummed scrapbook that Mark Twain invented, they claimed ownership of their reading. They created their own democratic archives.

Select Articles Available at UBC Library

Garvey, E. G. (2010). Nineteenth-century abolitionists and the databases they created. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, 27(2), 357-366. [Link]

Ellis, J., & Garvey, E. G. (2012). Introduction: Teaching under attack. Transformations, 23(1), 11.

UBC Library Research Guides

Library, Archival, and Information Science

Learning Through Literacy and Technology

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Engaging Youth With Indigenous Materials in Libraries and Classrooms

November 6, 2012

Assessing and incorporating teaching and learning resources by and about First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples is critical for librarians, educators and parents. Awareness of diverse epistemologies, notions of cultural authenticity and historical accuracy, and the influence of colonialism, are essential when considering books, films and interactive media for library and classroom collections. This panel will address challenges facing Indigenous and non-Indigenous librarians, educators and parents when drawing upon materials representing Indigenous peoples and cultures. They will offer insights about such issues as cultural appropriation, stereotypes, addressing colonialism and what to do with dated resources. This session is ideal for teacher candidates, classroom teachers, teacher-librarians, youth librarians and parents.

Convener: Jo-Anne Naslund, UBC Education Library
Moderator: Lisa P. Nathan, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the First Nations Curriculum Concentration, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies
Panelists: Debra Martel, Associate Director, First Nations House of Learning;
Allison Taylor-McBryde, Adjunct Professor, School of Library, Archival and Information Studies.

Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library

Cupples, J. (1977). The Aboriginal studies library project. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference, Library Association of Australia, Edited by Anne Batt. Hobart (Tasmania), Library Association of Australia Conference Committee, 1977 160-171

Briggs-Smith, N. (1997). Promoting library services for Aboriginals. Link-Up, Mar, 3-6.

UBC Library Research Guides

Education

Library, Archival, and Information Science

Learning Through Literacy and Technology

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