Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Lisa Piper is Professor at the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, and specializes in the field of environmental history. Liz Piper is currently involved in a research project that examines the relationship between disease outbreaks and environmental change in the North, with a focus on the Mackenzie and Yukon river basins in the period between 1860 and 1970.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Douglas, I., & Ebrary Academic Complete (Canada) Subscription Collection. (2013). Cities: An environmental history. London: I. B. Tauris.
Duke, D. F. (2006). Canadian environmental history: Essential readings. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholars’ Press.
Kheraj, S. (2013). Inventing Stanley park: An environmental history. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Chakrabarti, R., & Jadavpur University. Department of History. (2006). Does environmental history matter?: Shikar, subsistence, sustenance, and the sciences. Kolkata: Readers Service.
There is a near universal interest in morality that has sparked thought-provoking inquiry for thousands of years. Much of that inquiry proceeded without the benefit of modern cognitive science, but that is now changing. And the change promises to shed new light on morality, particularly its practices, development, and the psychology behind ethical thought. In this series we bring together speakers from a vast array of disciples–from philosophy and law to biology and psychology–to discuss cutting edge research in the cognitive science of morality. Dr. Haidt is a Professor in the Social Psychology area of the Department of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He studys morality and emotion, and how they vary across cultures. He is also active in positive psychology (the scientific study of human flourishing) and study positive emotions such as moral elevation, admiration, and awe. Dr. Haidt’s research these days focuses on the moral foundations of politics, and on ways to transcend the “culture wars” by using recent discoveries in moral psychology to foster more civil forms of politics. Morality, by its very nature, makes it hard to study morality. It binds people together into teams that seek victory, not truth. It closes hearts and minds to opponents even as it makes cooperation and decency possible within groups.
Select Articles and Books from UBC Library
Haidt, J. (2007). The new synthesis in moral psychology. Science, 316(5827), 998-1002. doi:10.1126/science.1137651 [Link]
Haidt, J. (2012) For revealing the psychology of partisanship. Foreign Policy, (197), 110. [Link]
Haidt, J. (2013). Moral psychology for the twenty-first century. Journal of Moral Education, 42(3), 281-297. doi:10.1080/03057240.2013.817327 [Link]
Keyes, C. L. M., Haidt, J., & PsycBOOKS. (2002). Flourishing: Positive psychology and the life well-lived. Washington: American Psychological Association. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by SLAIS. Bertram (Chip) Bruce is a Professor Emeritus in Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In our Youth Community Informatics project , university students and faculty work with diverse underserved communities to help young people learn about new technologies and develop academic potential through self expression and community building. Participants engage in inquiry units such as video documentaries, community journalism, oral history, multimedia and podcasting, GIS/GPS, protest songs, asset mapping, and setting up community technology center. The activities occur in schools, but also in after-school programs, boys and girls clubs, libraries, museums, and community centers. This presentation covers the background in pragmatism, the inquiry-based activities, the experiences to date, international partnerships, and what we’ve learned. Chip Bruce’s research goals include contributing to a conception of democratic education, meaning both the development of critical, socially-engaged citizens and of learning environments (formal and informal learning centers, home and work, and online), which are themselves democratic. Aspects of this work include research on community inquiry through collaborative community-based work, inquiry-based learning, drawing especially upon scholarship of the American pragmatists and the history of Progressive Education, and technology-enhanced learning, including research on the affordances and constraints of new media for learning.
Bruce, B. C., International Reading Association, & International Reading Association, N., DE. (2003). Literacy in the information age: Inquiries into meaning making with new technologies. Newark, Del: International Reading Association.
Bruce, B. (1999). Digital content: The babel of cyberspace. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 42(7), 558-563. [Link]
Bruce, B. (1998). Learning through expression. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 42(4), 306-310. [Link]
World Poetry Poetic Necklace Exhibit, World Poetry Peace Poems, Photos and Art featured in the at Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia
Curated by Ariadne Sawyer; World Poetry Society in partnership with VAHMS, this exhibition will present A Poetic Necklace of peace poems from around the world and photographs from award winning photographers displayed on the walls of IKE Cafe in the UBC Library. 150 gift poems will also be available with a posted address for visitors to” a create a peace poem” and send it to ariadnes@uniserve.com Selected poems will be read on The World Poetry Cafe Radio Show and put in the www.worldpoetry.ca site. Award Winning Photos/art by : Jaypee Belarmino, Zayra Yves, Neamat Haidari, Jesus Salgueiro, Ibrahim Honjo, Janet Kvammen, Yilin Wang, Mamta Agarwal and Caroline Nazareno.
Created by poets Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea in 1997, the mandate of the World Poetry Society is to recognize multicultural and multilingual poets and writers, who have written in more than 100 languages spoken in Canada.
