UBC Reads Sustainability at IKBLC, Sept 28, 2012
UBC Reads Sustainability returns to IKBLC for 2012/2013! The lecture series is an exciting program that brings well-known sustainability authors to UBC campus to engage in a campus-wide discussion. It’s part book club, part lecture series, and part opportunity to learn beyond the classroom. Above all, it’s a forum for students across disciplines to discuss sustainability issues.
Each year UBC Sustainability selects leading sustainability books, work with instructors across campus to integrate the books into courses, and then we bring the authors to UBC for a public lecture series.
- Ozzie Zehner author of Green Illusions: September 28, 2012, 12.00-1.00PM at the Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Ozzie Zehner is the author of Green Illusions and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent publications include public science pieces in Christian Science Monitor, The American Scholar, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Humanist, The Futurist, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. He has appeared on PBS, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, and regularly guest lectures at universities. Zehner’s research and projects have been covered by The Sunday Times, USA Today, WIRED, The Washington Post, Business Weekand numerous other media outlets. He also serves on the editorial board of Critical Environmentalism.
Zehner primarily researches the social, political and economic conditions influencing energy policy priorities and project outcomes. His work also incorporates symbolic roles that energy technologies play within political and environmental movements. His other research interests include consumerism, urban policy, environmental governance, international human rights, and forgeries.
Green Illusions pioneers a critique of alternative energy from an environmental perspective, arguing that concerned citizens should instead focus on walkable communities, improved consumption, governance, and most notably, women’s rights. Get a Free Chapter Now by sharing GreenIllusions.org on Facebook.
For more information about the UBC Reads Sustainability Series, please find here.
Film Screening and Discussion: Spring River Flows East 一江春水向东流
In collaboration with the UBC Chinese Centre for Research, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre is pleased to co-sponsor this film showing, the first in a series of classic Chinese films to be screened at UBC over the academic year.
The was first shown in 1947, the first major film after the end of the Resistance War in 1945. It is considered one of the greatest of pre-Communist films. It deals with family separation during the war, when a young husband has to flee to Chongqing, leaving his wife in Shanghai. After the war the reunion is very unhappy. The title refers to the eastward flow of refugees coming back down the Yangzi to the coast from Chongqing after the war.The film will be screened on Wednesday, September 19th at 5 PM in the Lilloet Room (301) of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre.
Place: Lilloet Room (301) of the I.K. Barber Learning Centre
Dates: Wednesday, Sep 19, 2012
Time: 5:00 pm to 7:00pm
For more details or questions, please contact Professor Diana Lary, lary@mail.ubc.ca
iFormations Exhibition Featured at Hamburg
IKBLC visited Hamburg! Exhibited at the Learning Centre in 2011, this month-long exhibition, iFormations, continued its journey as it went on a travelling exhibition from Canada to Hamburg as part of an academic conference. As part of the Digital Humanities Conference in 2012, iFormations exhibition took place in the West Wing of the Main Building in front of room 221 (see venue maps) as part of the conference’s sessions, posters, panels and discussions!
Curated by Ksenia Cheinman, with artists: Nathan McNinch, Kevin Day, Yan Lou, the iFormations exhibition was Inspired by the article “The behaviour of the researcher of the future (the ‘Google generation’)” written by David Nicholas for the Art Libraries Journal1, iFormations are sets of studies exploring the subtle links between information, knowledge and meaning.
Over the past decade, as the letter “i” became interchangeably associated with information, individual and the internet technologies, the integration of the three components deepened and solidified. This new entity’s hybrid identity, while boasting blink-of-an-eye-speeds and access to an unimaginable density of informational nodes, is often ill-equipped when it comes to synthesizing the iContent, having no adequate information literacy skills.
Through the iFormations, each individual artist proposes different scenarios for reconsidering the ways we engage with and understand information. By excluding interactivity and by including pieces that take time to decode, differences between reading and viewing information are made evident.
For more information, please contact Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian.
New VST Archival Resource Launch Celebration
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Vancouver School of Theology. The H.R. MacMillan Library at the Vancouver School of Theology recently acquired four sections of the Church Missionary Archives microfilm, covering Anglican Missionary activities throughout British Columbia, North West Canada and the West Indies. On July 11, 2012, VST launched this new resource and held a celebration featuring presentations by members of the Indigenous community, VST faculty and UBC library staff on the background of this resource and its significance to Church and First Contact histories.
Speakers for this event include: Darrell Bailie, Pat Dutcher-Walls, Raymond Jones, Gene Joseph, Mark MacDonald, and Amelia McComber.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Hannon, E., Hobbs, G., & Vancouver School of Theology. (1984). The methodist heritage, 1784-1984: Catalogue of an exhibition held at Vancouver school of theology, November 5-23, 1984. Vancouver: The School.
Vessey, M. (2011). The calling of the nations: Exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Vanhoozer, K. J. (2010). Remythologizing theology: Divine action, passion, and authorship. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.
UBC Library Research Guides
Jonathan Kift and Josh Rose – Telling Stories with Data
Webcast sponosred by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS). Topic: What good is open data if we don’t know how to find and use it? The digital age has ushered in new opportunities to better understand our communities and demand accountability from our governments. In an intensive two-day master class, digital publishing expert Phillip Smith introduced some of the “working with data” tricks he has learned in over 15 years working with advocacy organizations, publishers and groups such as Civic Access and the Electoral Data Consortium. He is currently working to advance the field of “news innovation” through Mozilla and The Tyee. SLAIS graduate students Josh Rose and Jonathan Kift present on how organizations make sense of data, and to use data to tell compelling stories. Introduction by Gordon Yusko, Assistant Director of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Cushnier, S., Heaney, R., Price, B., & Zappala, J. (1999). Developing a transfer data consortium. Michigan Community College Journal: Research & Practice, 5(2), 43.
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Raminder Sidhu – Tears of Mehndi, Lillooet Room, IKBLC on Sept 28, 3PM
A courageous and timely novel, Tears of Mehndi explores the rich, complex and often heartbreaking lives of a tight-knit community in Vancouver’s Little India. Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within the Indo-Canadian community, a difficult and often dissembled subject. Sidhu’s characters are women caught between two cultures, struggling to understand the traditions they are obliged to follow while still embracing and often welcoming the fundamentally different values of the West.
Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within Canada’s Punjabi community, a difficult and often dissembled subject. Sidhu’s characters are women caught between two cultures, struggling to understand the traditions they are obliged to follow while still embracing and often welcoming the fundamentally different values of the West.
“Tears of Mehndi” captures the family struggles of South Asians in British Columbia, and tells the stories of women caught between tradition and western culture. Sidhu was born and raised in Mackenzie, BC.
Raminder Sidhu was born and raised in Mackenzie, BC, and now resides in Surrey, BC. She holds a B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia and a BBA from the University of the Fraser Valley. Tears of Mehndi is her debut novel.
To register for this event, please find here.
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Links of Interest
Raminder Sidhu – Author’s Website
Jan Wong – Out of the Blue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. In collaboration with the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society’s month of ExplorAsian festival, Jan Wong will read from “Out of the Blue, A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness”. For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of the Globe and Mail’s best-known reporters. Then one day she turned in a story that set off a firestorm of controversy, including death threats, a unanimous denunciation by Parliament and a rebuke by her own newspaper. For the first time in her professional life, Wong fell into a severe clinical depression. Yet she resisted the diagnosis, refusing to believe she had a mental illness. As it turned out, so did her company and insurer. With wit, grace and insight, Wong tells the harrowing tale of her struggle with workplace-caused depression, and of her eventual emergence … Out of the Blue.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Summerfield, D. (2012). Depression in the workplace: What is depression? British Journal of Psychiatry, 201(4), 327-327. doi:10.1192/bjp.201.4.327. [Link]
Mezerai, M., Dahane, A., & Tachon, J. (2006). Depression in the workplace. Presse Medicale, 35(5), 823-830. [Link]
Greden, J. F. (2013). Workplace depression: Personalize, partner, or pay the price. American Journal of Psychiatry, 170(6), 578-581. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2012.13030382. [Link]
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