Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. The Composers’ Collective is proud to offer the third annual concert of Michael Park and Friends, an evening featuring contemporary works performed by the pianist Michael Park and accompanying guests. Michael Park is currently a third-year DMA student in Music Composition at UBC, while remaining active as a pianist, interpreting music of both established and emerging contemporary composers. This intimate fireside concert of chamber music, in the tradition of the 19th century salon, demonstrates the eclectic nature of contemporary Western Art Music. The innovation, ingenuity and beauty of today’s musical scene will be given focus through live performances and introductions from the composers themselves.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Kolt, R. P. (2015). Nationalism in western art music: A reassessment. National Identities, 17(1), 63-71. doi:10.1080/14608944.2014.920806 [Link]
VanWeelden, K. (2012). Classical music as popular music: Adolescents’ recognition of western art music. Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 31(1), 14-24. [Link]
Warren Cariou is from Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he grew up in a family of Métis, German, and French heritage. He has written a book of novellas, The Exalted Company of Roadside Martyrs, and a memoir/cultural history entitled Lake of the Prairies, and he has also edited several texts by Aboriginal writers including Marvin Francis’s Bush Camp and the recent anthology from Kegedonce Press: W’daub Awae: Speaking True. He has recently produced a documentary film, Land of Oil and Water, and he is working on a documentary about storytelling. He is also working on a novel and a collection of poems. Cariou is a Canada Research Chair at the University of Manitoba, where he directs the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture. Marie Clements is an award-winning performer, playwright, screenwriter, director, producer and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway. Her ten plays including Copper Thunderbird, Burning Vision, The Unnatural and Accidental Women, and Urban Tattoo have been presented on some of the most prestigious stages for Canadian and international work including the Festival de Theatre des Ameriques (Urban Tattoo 2001, Burning Vision 2003) in Montreal, and The Magnetic North Festival (Burning Vision 2003 and Copper Thunderbird 2007) in Ottawa, and have garnered awards including 2004 Canada-Japan Award, short listed for the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award, Jessie Richardson Awards and a Jack Webster Journalism nomination. As writer and producer her full-length play Copper Thunderbird premiered as a co-production with The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, May 2007 and at The Magnetic North Festival 2007.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Cariou, W. (2002). Epistemology of the woodpile (the woodpile metaphor in Canadian and American fiction). University of Toronto Quarterly, 71(4), 909-917. [Link]
Cariou, W. (2007). Demography in the balance. Literary Review of Canada, 15(8), 22. [Link]
Cariou, W. (2006). Humanity behind bars. Literary Review of Canada, 14(1), 18. [Link]
Rebecca Irani, marketing and communications manager at UBC Bookstore, Annie Moss and Randy Hooper, founders of Discovery Organics and Chef Steve Golob from Place Vanier Residence will discuss the business case behind sustainable food and the cost and benefit of eating local, organic, and fair trade. Speakers will discuss the business case behind sustainable food.
Hosted by Common Energy UBC, Oxfam UBC, and the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Sustainability Committee, “Chew On This,” is a week-long series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops. Common Energy UBC is a student-run organization of diverse and forward-thinking individuals working to incorporate sustainability into all aspects of the UBC community. It aims to affect real change by building strong networks and working proactively with the University, while fostering leadership and engaging peers through innovative programming. Oxfam UBC is an organization committed to developing innovative ways to support Oxfam’s important aid and relief work, and to raise awareness of global poverty. The UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society‘s Sustainability Committee works to provide opportunities for Sauder students to educate themselves on what sustainability means in the context of business and motivate students to integrate sustainability into their professional and personal lives. As well as using the CUS as a model for how sustainability can be implemented into the operations and strategic thinking of an organization. The purpose behind this week is to open a dialogue about sustainable food on campus and engage students through a variety of different forums. This is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to engage in an open discussion around these topics which are growing increasingly important as the world’s population continues to grow and the effects of climate change on food production begin to show.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Eweje, G., Perry, M., & Emerald Business,Management & Economics Book Series. (2011). Business and sustainability. Bingley; Ipswich: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [Link]
Wells, P. E., & ebrary eBooks. (2013). Business models for sustainability. Northampton: Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated. doi:10.4337/9781781001530 [Link]
Ionescu-Somers, A., Steger, U., & Palgrave Connect Business & Management Collection 2008. (2008). Business logic for sustainability: A food and beverage industry perspective. New York; Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, hosted by Common Energy UBC, Oxfam UBC, and the UBC Commerce Undergraduate Society’s Sustainability Committee. “Chew On This,” is a week-long series of lectures, panel discussions, and workshops. A diverse group of panelists will share their research and thoughts on the topic of Canada and what it means to have sustainable food in Canada.
Panelists include:
* Dr. Andrew Riseman, Associate Professor of Applied Biology and Plant Breeding in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems; co-chair of the Campus Academic Plan committee working to guide the future of the UBC Farm.
* Dr. Sean Smukler, Assistant Professor of Applied Biology and Soil Science; Junior Chair, Agriculture and the Environment; research working with farmers to assess impacts of farm management practices.
* Dr. James Vercammen, Professor in both the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and the Sauder School of Business; research focussing on food and resource economics.
* Will Valley, Project Coordinator, Think&Eat Green@School; member of Inner City Farms. Will’s research interests include the analysis and application of community-engaged scholarship and food system education
* Anelyse Weiler, Communications Coordinator, UBC Farm
* and Sophia Baker-French, Registered Dietician; MSc Candidate in Human Nutrition; previous Research Assistant with Think and Eat Green @ School; prior coordinator at the UBC Farm School Tours program.
Moderator: Amy Frye, Acting Director of UBC Farm
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Chapagain, T., & Riseman, A. (2012). Evaluation of heirloom and commercial cultivars of small grains under low input organic systems. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 3(5), 655-669. doi:10.4236/ajps.2012.35080 [Link]
Chapagain, T., & Riseman, A. (2014). Barley-pea intercropping: Effects on land productivity, carbon and nitrogen transformations. Field Crops Research, 166, 18-25. doi:10.1016/j.fcr.2014.06.014 [Link]
Sánchez-Moreno, S., Smukler, S., Ferris, H., O’Geen, A. T., & Jackson, L. E. (2008). Nematode diversity, food web condition, and chemical and physical properties in different soil habitats of an organic farm: 1. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 44(5), 727. doi:10.1007/s00374-007-0256-0 [Link]
Brodt, S., Klonsky, K., Jackson, L., Brush, S. B., & Smukler, S. (2009). Factors affecting adoption of hedgerows and other biodiversity-enhancing features on farms in California, USA. Agroforestry Systems, 76(1), 195-206. doi:10.1007/s10457-008-9168-8 [Link]
As part of the Learning Centre’s community information resources page, this week we are highlighting a fairly new open access resource, the World Digital Library (WDL) which is a multilingual digital portal with significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world, containing a world map and a timeline, and organized by geographic regions. This resource is useful for researchers, educators, history enthusiasts, particularly those who are interested in content-rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, prints, sound recordings, and films. A large number of libraries, archives, and cultural institutions collaborated with the WDL in contributing their collections of cultural content.
Not surprisingly, the World Digital Library contains many cultural treasures. One of them for example, is the Complete Library in Four Sections (Siku Quanshu), held at the National Library of China. The Siku quanshu (Complete library in four sections) was compiled during Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, was the largest collection of texts in pre-modern China and has an important historical place in the histories of cultural texts and academic thought in China.
Or how about the famous original watercolour drawing of “Retreat of Napoleon from Leipzig“? An original 1813 watercolor drawing by John Augustus Atkinson, this digitize art piece shows Napoleon seated in a tent shelter, surrounded by soldiers and members of his staff.
To find out more about this impressive open access product, you can go to the World Digital Library.
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability. Captain Charles Moore, a scientist and activist, discusses “The Greatest Infection of the Sea” detailed in his acclaimed new book Plastic Ocean. Learn the shocking truth about the unintended consequences of the “Age of Plastics”, how we got here, & what we must do to stop adding to the millions of tons of plastic choking the world’s oceans. In 1997, Captain Charles Moore discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch– a whirlpool of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean. Since his discovery, Moore has been analyzing the giant litter patch and its disastrous effects on ocean life. Through the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, he hopes to raise awareness about the problem and find ways to restrict its growth. He’s now leading several expeditions to sample plastic fragments across thousands of miles of the Pacific.
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Gross, M. (2015). Oceans of plastic waste. Current Biology : CB, 25(3), R93-R96. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.01.038 [Link]
Marris, E. (2014). Fate of ocean plastic remains a mystery. Nature, doi:10.1038/nature.2014.16508 [Link]
Ecklund, E. (2005). The ocean’s plastic plague. California Coast & Ocean, 21(4), 25-25.
Plastics in oceans decompose and release hazardous chemicals. (2009). Clean-Soil Air Water, 37(9), 682-682. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Bioethics was born of the problem of “lifeboat ethics,” the situation in which resource limits insist some must die that at least some others might live. The idea of scarcity as a natural condition is fundamental to current economic theory and to the ethics that has driven bioethics since the 1960s. In this lecture, we consider this idea and its medical application in law and history and medicine. It begins with the problems of the lifeboat and the great index case of US v Holmes in 1842. The relation of assumptions of scarcity to medicine and in ethics are critiqued through a reinvestigation of that case. Those lessons are then applied, in the end, to the general problems which are assumed to be resource-defined in medical ethics today as an example.
UBC Library Resources
Koch, T. (2002). Scarce goods: Justice, fairness, and organ transplantation. Westport, Conn: Praeger. [Link]
Koch, T. (2011). Disease maps: Epidemics on the ground. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Koch, T. (2000). Age speaks for itself: Silent voices of the elderly. Westport, Conn: Praeger.
Koch, T. (1998). The limits of principle: Deciding who lives and what dies. Westport, Conn: Praeger.
In our ongoing series of blog posts featuring the B.C. places used in the Irving K. Barber Centre room names, this week we will take a look at Kitimat. Kitimat was established as a company town in the truest sense. It was established when the Aluminum Company of Canada (Alcan) built a hydroelectric dam and smelter in the area in the 1950′s. Its entry in B.C. Geographical Names shows the name Kitimat was used for a village in the area in the early 20th century, but was rescinded mere years before Alcan established the new town.
Rare Books and Special Collections has an excellent source of primary materials related to the planning and establishment of Kitimat by Alcan in the Thomas McDonald fonds. McDonald was an urban planner who worked primarily in Greater Vancouver, but the fonds also contains files that appear to be from the Alcan offices related to the establishment of Kitimat. As examples, the two images below show plans for the city:
Overall perspective of city center, Kitimat B.C., Thomas McDonald fonds file 2-5
Master plan of townsite, Kitimat B.C., Thomas McDonald fonds file 2-5
The files also contain a wealth of textual records including agreements between Alcan and the Province of B.C., promotional material, and office documents regarding the plans for town development.
For help using our archival resources, check out our research guide for archival material.
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Zimbabwean author, NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the annual £10 000 Caine Prize for African Writing, as announced at the Bodleian Library in Oxford this evening. Bulawayo wins the 2011 prize for her short story, “Hitting Budapest”, which Chair of Judges, Hisham Matar, described as being “reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange.” NoViolet Bulawayo is the pen name of Elizabeth Tshele, who is currently a Truman Capote Fellow at Cornell University in America. For a full transcript of this program, please find here.
Select Articles and Books Available at UBC Library
Bulawayo, N. (2011). In america.Callaloo, 34(3), 730-739. [Link]
Bulawayo, N. (2013). We need new names. London: Chatto & Windus. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College’s Thematic Series: Bringing the Collective Together: Nonhuman Animals, Humans and Practice at the University. This series probes the questions of the value for humans of medical research on nonhuman animals, the value for nonhuman animals, and the role of culture and corporate interests in discourses on human disease and security. Each speaker will speak for 15 minutes followed by 30 minutes of discussion. This talk features: Fabio Rossi, Canada Research Chair in Regenerative Medicine, Medical Genetics, UBC; Bill Milsom, Zoology, UBC; Nelly Auersperg, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, UBC; Dan Weary, Animal Welfare Program, UBC.
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Nelly Auersperg is a pioneer of gynecological cancer research who has focused her career on advancing the medical community’s ability to detect ovarian cancer at its early stages. In 1974, when she received the first of many research grants from the Canadian Cancer Society, few others were studying the disease. Nelly’s work continued long after her official retirement from UBC in 1994. In fact, she held research grants and carried out experiments for another 15 years, and published her most recent article in early 2011. She remains an honorary professor of obstetrics and gynecology at UBC, a trailblazing figure in ovarian cancer research, and a trusted mentor to a new generation of researchers.
Dr. Bill Milsom is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. His research involves determining the physiological basis of biodiversity in vertebrates. He studies respiratory, cardiovascular, thermoregulatory and metabolic adaptations for life in environments with low / high levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature, food and water. He is also particularly interested in the neural control of these processes and their function in unanesthetized, freely behaving animals.
Dr. Fabio Rossi is currently a faculty member in the Department of Medical genetics and a member of the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests at The Biomedical Research Center span embryonic and adult stem cell physiology, and in particular how multiple types of stem cells coordinate their actions to regenerate complex tissues.
Dr. Daniel Weary is a Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair at The University of British Columbia. Dan co-founded UBC’s Animal Welfare Program and co-directs this active research group now consisting of over 25 visiting researchers, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers. Dan’s research focuses on developing behavioral measures for the objective assessment of animal welfare and developing practical methods of improving the welfare of farm animals, lab animals and wildlife. He has published hundreds of articles and is one of the most highly cited authors in animal welfare science.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Lehnertz, B., Northrop, J. P., Antignano, F., Burrows, K., Hadidi, S., Mullaly, S. C., Rossi, F. M., & Zaph, C. (2010). Activating and inhibitory functions for the histone lysine methyltransferase G9a in T helper cell differentiation and function. The Journal of experimental medicine, 207(5), 915-922. [Link]
Maines-Bandiera, S., Woo, M. M., Borugian, M., Molday, L. L., Hii, T., Gilks, B., … & Auersperg, N. (2010). Oviductal glycoprotein (OVGP1, MUC9): a differentiation-based mucin present in serum of women with ovarian cancer.International Journal of Gynecological Cancer, 20(1), 16-22. [Link]
Shelton, G., Jones, D. R., & Milsom, W. K. (2010). Control of breathing in ectothermic vertebrates. Comprehensive Physiology. [Link]
Weary, D. M. (2011). A Good Life for Laboratory Animals–How Far Must Refinement Go?. and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, Montreal 2011, 11. [Link]
