Live-in For Literacy Is Hiring
Live-in For Literacy’s Room to Read UBC is HIRING!
It is a charity group with a strong focus on the equal access to education. We believe that changing the world starts from educated children. Please visit the Room to Read website for more information on our causes: http://www.roomtoread.org/.
One of the largest student campaigns at UBC, Live-in for Literacy involves students camping out at the Irving K Barber Learning Centre to raise money and awareness for approximately a week. This Live-in for Literacy initiative occurs on 10 Canadian campuses nation-wide. We will also be hosting several other events and fundraisers throughout the year.
*What are the positions available?*
Events Coordinators (5) –> Help initiate and organize our events and fundraisers!
Sponsorship Coordinators (2) –> Help us gain support from local organizations!
Marketing Coordinator (1) –> Help us get the word out about our causes and initiatives!
*What can you expect?* The commitment is usually about 2-5 hours a week, with more hours required for fundraisers, especially during the Live-in for Literacy week in January. We ask that you attend all weekly meetings, and take initiative where possible. We always encourage creative ideas and we love cupcakes!
*How can you apply?* Simply send an updated resume to RoomtoReadUBC@gmail.com, indicating which position(s) you are interested in. Deadline for applications is November 15th.
*Any questions?*
Email us at RoomtoReadUBC@gmail.com, and we will get back to you as soon as we can!
B.C. Digitization Program wins BCLA award
The B.C. History Digitization Program (BCHDP), an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, has been awarded a Programs and Services Merit Award by the British Columbia Library Association (BCLA). The award was presented at the annual BCLA conference in April. The awards committee noted that the organization was impressed with the project’s scope and its ability to connect communities across the province through their histories.
The BCHDP, launched in 2006, provides matching funds for digitization projects that provide free online access to B.C.’s unique historical material. In 2007, funding was awarded to 17 successful program applicants from around the province; that number increased to 21 in 2008. For more information, please visit www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca.
Congratulations to University Archivist Chris Hives, and his team members Bronwen Sprout and Rob Stibravy, who developed and administered the program. Congratulations also to the adjudication team members: Pat Roy, George Sipos, Mark Jordan, Chris Ball, Patrick Dunnae and Simon Neame. Thank you all for your vision and commitment.
Henry Yu – Asian Heritage Month National Symposium – Chinese Canadian Stories
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Dr. Henry Yu is a Vancouver speaker at the 2nd Annual Asian Heritage Month National Video Conference presented by VAHMS as part of explorASIAN 2012 in partnership with IKBLC and the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC. Dr. Henry Yu will be presenting his involvement and experience with a $1.2 million multi-media platform: Chinese Canadian Stories.Dr. Yu is the Principal for St. John’s Graduate College (UBC) and Director of the Initiative for Student Teaching and Research in Chinese Canadian Studies (INSTRCC). Outside of UBC, Dr. Yu serves as Co-Chair for City of Vancouver’s “Dialogues Between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver” as well as a founding member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC.
Biography
Professor Henry Yu is currently the Principal of St. John’s Graduate College, UBC’s international graduate college, and served as its Associate Principal from 2005-2009. A Founding Board Member of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia http://www.cchsbc.ca, Prof. Yu continues to serve on the Board of Directors and actively engages his UBC students in community history projects through CCHSBC.
In 2012, Prof. Yu was honoured for his work with a Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Yu, Henry. (2011) “The Rhythms of the Trans-Pacific” and “The Intermittent Rhythms of the Cantonese Pacific,” in Donna Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, editors, Connecting Seas and Connecting Ocean Rims: Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans and China Seas Migrations from the 1830s to the 1930s. (Leiden: Brill, 2011). [Link]
Yu, Henry. (2011). “Nurturing Dialogues between First Nations, Urban Aboriginal, and Immigrant Communities in Vancouver,” in Ashok Mathur, Jonathan Dewar, Mike DeGagné, editors, Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity. (Ottawa: Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2011):300-308. [Link]
Yu, Henry. (2009). “Global Migrants and the New Pacific Canada,” International Journal. (Autumn, 2009):147-162. [Link]
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C.E. Gatchalian – Robson Reading Series at IKBLC Presents "Falling in Time"
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. C.E. Gatachalian will be reading from his new book, “Falling In Time.” Gatchalian is a playwright, fiction writer, poet, editor, and teacher. He is an alumnus of the University of British Columbia’s Creative Writing program, and the author of three books: Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays (2003), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; a chapbook of poetry, tor/sion (2005); and Broken, a suite of one-act plays. Gatchalian was the recipient of the 2005 Gordon Armstrong Playwrights’ Rent Award. His work has been produced on stages in Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg and New Zealand, as well as radio (CBC) and television (the Bravo! Channel).
Author’s Titles at UBC Library
Gatchalian, C. E. (2012). Falling in time. Winnipeg: Scirocco Drama. [Link]
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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.
Jan Wong is a third-generation Canadian who grew up in Montreal speaking English, some French and zero Chinese. In the summer of 1972, while majoring in Asian studies at McGill University, she traveled alone to the People’s Republic of China. At 19, she talked her way into a spot at Peking University, becoming the first of two Westerners to study in China during the Cultural Revolution, a tale she recounts in her memoir, Red China Blues, My Long March from Mao to Now.
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 at the Lillooet Room (Room 301) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC on May 24, 2012, 5.00-6.00pm.
Praise for Out of the Blue, a Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness
“Jan Wong has clearly and accurately presented the history, signs and symptoms of depression and its underlying and associated pathological correlates. Her research is thorough and presented clearly. Bravo! Perhaps more importantly, she has painted an accurate and evocative portrait of a person trying to live a life with major depression. Jan Wong tells the story like a human being, in a way which will edify, disturb, or comfort the reader depending on who he or she is, but whatever that reader’s detailed response, they’ll be seriously engaged.”
— Dr. Irvin Wolkoff, Toronto psychiatrist, writer and broadcaster.
“Jan Wong is a wonderful writer and, as she tells her own story, she speaks for me and for many. Some say depression is a gift. Well, it’s not. But this book is.”
— Shelagh Rogers, O.C., Broadcast journalist and recipient of the Champion of Mental Health Award
NOW Magazine wondering why Doubleday suddenly decided to drop the book: “I mean, really, what’s likely to sell more, a book about depression with a courageous personal account by a survivor of the disease or a book about depression with a courageous personal account by a survivor of the disease that includes her conflict with her employer, Canada’s iconic national newspaper?
For more information, please contact Allan Cho
Joshua Knobe – Moral Judgments and the 'True Self'
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. It has often been suggested that people’s ordinary capacities for understanding the world make use of much of the same methods one might find in a formal scientific investigation. A series of recent experimental results offer a challenge to this widely-held view, suggesting that people’s moral judgments can actually influence the intuitions they hold both in folk psychology and in causal cognition. The present target article distinguishes two basic approaches to explaining such effects. One approach would be to say that the relevant competencies are entirely non-moral but that some additional factor (conversational pragmatics, performance error, etc.) then interferes and allows people’s moral judgments to affect their intuitions. Another approach would be to say that moral considerations truly do figure in workings of the competencies themselves. Dr. Knobe argues that the data available now favor the second of these approaches over the first.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Knobe, J. M., Nichols, S., & MyiLibrary. (2008). Experimental philosophy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. [Link]
Knobe, J. (2003). Intentional action and side effects in ordinary language. Analysis, 63(3), 190-194. doi:10.1093/analys/63.3.190. [Link]
Knobe, J. (2010). Person as scientist, person as moralist. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(4), 315-329. doi:10.1017/S0140525X10000907. [Link]
Knobe, J. (2010). Action trees and moral judgment. Topics in Cognitive Science, 2(3), 555-578. doi:10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01093.x. [Link]
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