On every August 1, we all celebrate British Columbia (BC) Day, a civic holiday. According to the Protocol and Events Branch of the British Columbia government, the “British Columbia Day Act, R.S.B.C. 1996 c.34 was first introduced in 1974 as Bill 61 by the Hon. Ernie Hall, the Provincial Secretary under Premier Dave Barrett. The explanatory notes prefacing the bill states: “The purposes of this Bill is to recognize the pioneers of British Columbia by declaring the first Monday of August in each year to be a public holiday known as British Columbia Day.”
The decision to make BC a holiday was debated during the 4th session of the 30th Parliament in 1974. This debate took place in the chamber of the British Columbia Parliament building.
Image credit: Chung Collection, CC-PH-02031
The Parliamentary Room, room 155 in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, was modeled after this room in the British Columbia Parliament. This room is quite different from a traditional lecture hall and is intended to support collaborative student learning and debate.
An exhibit produced by two UBC graduate students is now on display in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. The Pose Stands for Potentiality – featuring works by Jordy Hamilton and curated by Toby Lawrence – juxtaposes UBC’s presidential portraits with a series of smaller works, fostering a conversation between contemporary and traditional forms of painting.
Jordy Hamilton and Toby Lawrence are pursuing an MFA and MA, respectively, in UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory.
The Pose for Potentiality, which runs until October 14, 2011, is located on both levels of the Ridington Room, located on the third and fourth floors at the north end of the Learning Centre.
Summer is, believe it or not, coming to a close in 6 short weeks. Have you been to the beach yet?
For many in B.C., a trip to Tofino is synonymous with a trip to the beach. Located on the west coast of Vancouver Island, Tofino is the home of the world-famous Pacific Rim National Park and beautiful Long Beach. Major industries have traditionally included fishing and forestry, and in recent decades of course tourism, as visitors flock to the resorts and beaches in all seasons.
The photographs below are from the Chung Collection, held in Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection holds 8,000 historic photographs, many showing various locales in British Columbia. These photographs are both from an album of photographic negatives, taken during the 1930′s by an unknown photographer. While we do not know anything about the photographer or the origin of the photographs, it is a rich source of historic photographs. This album alone contains more than 1,400 photographs! They can all be found in the Chung Collection by searching for the identifier CC-PH-09370.
Using examples from MOA’s collection, Curator of Archaeology and UBC Associate Professor Susan Rowley gives an illustrated talk about the creation of the Inuit art market. Dr. Rowley’s research interests are in public archaeology, Arctic archaeology, oral history, ethnohistory, and material culture.
Canada’s universities are becoming truly global, and when an unthinkable assault happens to a student from abroad, we need to ask the questions we would if she were a Canadian citizen: How could this happen? Why? What can be done to make sure it never happens to anyone else? This timely discussion took place at St. John’s College Lecture Hall. Panelist of this special panel, “Justice for Rumana Monzur — A Debate about violence against women from a legal and global perspective” include:
Louisa Russell (Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter)
Dr. Susan Boyd (Professor of Law, Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at UBC)
Dr. Janine Benedet (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at UBC)
Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr (Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UBC)
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Vertinsky (Professor, School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Using examples from MOA’s collection, Curator of Archaeology and UBC Associate Professor Susan Rowley gives an illustrated talk about the creation of the Inuit art market.
Biography
Susan Rowley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and a Curator at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia. Her personal research interests include public archaeology, material culture studies, representation, repatriation, intellectual property rights and access to information on cultural heritage.
Select Articles Available at UBC
Rowley, Susan. (2003). Folk Art in Greenland Throughout a Thousand Years. Arctic. 56(1). pp. 98-99 [Link]
Hertzman, Emily; Anderson, David; Rowley, Susan. (2008). Edutainment Heritage Tourist Attractions: A Portrait of Visitors’ Experiences at Storyeum. Museum Management and Curatorship. 23(2). pp. 155-175 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Canada’s universities are becoming truly global, and when an unthinkable assault happens to a student from abroad, we need to ask the questions we would if she were a Canadian citizen: How could this happen? Why? What can be done to make sure it never happens to anyone else? This timely discussion took place at St. John’s College Lecture Hall. Panelist of this special panel, “Justice for Rumana Monzur — A Debate about violence against women from a legal and global perspective” include:
Louisa Russell (Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter)
Dr. Susan Boyd (Professor of Law, Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at UBC)
Dr. Janine Benedet (Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law at UBC)
Dr. Tyseer Aboulnasr (Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, Professor, Electrical Engineering, UBC)
Moderator: Dr. Patricia Vertinsky (Professor, School of Human Kinetics, UBC)
Relevant Books and Articles at UBC Library
Boyd, S. C., Scholars Portal Books: Canadian Electronic Library, & Canadian Publishers Collection. (1999). Mothers and illicit drugs: Transcending the myths. Buffalo; Toronto: University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/j.ctt2ttgjn [Link]
Boyd, S. B., Scholars Portal Books: Canadian Electronic Library, & Canadian Publishers Collection. (1997). Challenging the public/private divide: Feminism, law, and public policy. Buffalo; Toronto: University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442672819 [Link]
Benedet, J. (2010). The age of innocence: A cautious defense of raising the age of consent in Canadian sexual assault law. New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 13(4), 665-687. doi:10.1525/nclr.2010.13.4.665 [Link]
Benedet, J. (2010). The sexual assault of intoxicated women. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, 22(2), 435-462. doi:10.3138/cjwl.22.2.435 [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by St. John’s College. Moderated by St. Johns College Alumnus, Asad Kiyani, this panel features experts who will discuss the global implications of the recent death of Osama Bin Laden. This panel includes Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray (UBC French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies); Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron (UBC Political Science); Ivan Somlai (Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria); and Alnoor Gova (UBC Education). This event took place at St. John’s College, Fairmont Social Lounge on Thursday, June 2, 2011.
Speaker Biographies
Asad Kiyani is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. His research focuses on the development of modern international criminal law, and the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court. He is specifically interested in the intersection between international law and criminal law, and the justification of punishment in the international context.
Dr. Jon Beasley-Murray is a Professor at the University of British Columbia in the department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies and in the Arts One Program. Some of his research interests include Latin American cultural, literary, and political history, The Latin American left and social movements, Colonial Latin America and its maritime links with Spain, The theory and practice of Latin American cultural studies. For more information, please visit Dr. Beasley-Murray’s website: http://blogs.ubc.ca/jbmurray/
Dr. Maxwell A. Cameron is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He specializes in comparative politics (Latin America) and international political economy. In addition to publishing numerous works, Dr. Cameron is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (2011-12) where he organized a colloquium series Aristotle’s idea of “practical wisdom” and its relevance in politics today.
Ivan Somlai is an Associate at the University of Victoria’s Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. Since September 2006, he has been Director of Global Collaboration, through which he pursues international development consulting. His preferred areas are rural health systems and services; social forestry; ecotourism; multiculturalism; decentralisation; governance; executive leadership training; alternative conflict mitigation; motivation of multidisciplinary/intercultural teams; and ethnobureaucratic analysis. For more information about Ivan Somlai, please visit: http://www.capi.uvic.ca/content/somlai
Alnoor Gova is PhD candidate in the Faculty of Education. His research focuses on the present Canadian political scene, largely in the areas of Citizenship, Multiculturalism, Immigration, National Security and Law; and specifically focuses on an instrument of governmentality known as ‘community-government’ employed within the not-for-profit sector.
Select Books and Articles Available at UBC
Beasley-Murray, Jon. (2010). Posthegemony. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [Link]
Cameron, Maxwell A. (2012). After the Democratic Charter’s First Decade: Achievements, Limitations, and Next Steps. Latin American Policy, Vol. 3, no. 1, 2012, pp. 58-73. [Link]
Gova, Alnoor; Kurd, Rahat. (2008). The Impact of Radical Profiling: a MARU Society/UBC Law Faculty Study. Working Paper Series, Vol. 8-14.
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Hosted by the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Canadian Society for Asian Arts, Rosalie Stronck Family Foundation, and UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program. Drawing on his most recent book, Sacred Sites of Burma, renowned scholar Donald Stadtner gives an illustrated lecture on how sacred sites have come into existence. This lecture is co-presented by MOA, Canadian Society for Asian Arts, Rosalie Stronck Family Foundation, and UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation. This talk is part of the Asian Illuminations Series Lecture.
Biography
Dr. Donald Stadtner has taught Art History at the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Ancient Pagan: Buddhist Plain of Merit (2005) and Sacred Sites of Burma: Myth and Folklore in an Evolving Spiritual Realm (2010). He has conducted many study groups to Burma (Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum, the World Affairs Council, and The Smithsonian Institution).
Select Articles Available at UBC
Stadtner, Donald. (2003). Inventory of Monuments at Pagan. Ars Orientalis. Vol. 33. pp. 212-214. [Link]
Stadtner, Donald. (2007). Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company, 1634-1680. Journal of Early Modern History. Vol. 11, Issue 4-5. pp. 395-396. [Link]
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. “When you know it’s not a good idea to spend all that money, why do you do it anyways? Why can people not control their behaviour?” These are some of the questions UBC Psychology Professor Michael Souza asks himself as he works on creating a new course on the psychology of gambling.
In this lecture, Michael Souza reviews reward and addiction from a behavioral, cognitive and neurobiological standpoint. He examines the social psychology behind gambling behavior, casino structuring and casino marketing.
Speaker Bio
Michael Souza is an Instructor in the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His research interests include the frontal lobes and executive functions, with a particular interest in changes due to age, psychological illness or neurological injury. Cognitive training and neuroplasticity.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Wendelken, C., Munakata, Y., Baym, C., Souza, M.J. & Bunge, S.A. (2012). Flexible rule use: common neural substrates in children and adults. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(3): 329-39. [Link]
Souza, M.J., Donohue, S.E. & Bunge, S.A. (2009). Controlled retrieval and selection of action-relevant knowledge mediated by partially overlapping regions in left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. NeuroImage, 46(1): 299-307. [Link]
Image credit: Chung Collection, CC-PH-02031
Image credit: Parliamentary Room, UBC Library
