Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and UBC Woodward Library as part of the “Health Information Series.” Dr. Larry Goldenberg is an award-winning Canadian researcher, pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer and world-renowned advocate of patient education. Dr. Goldenberg authored one of the first books to explain prostate cancer treatment options in layman’s terms. Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment, now in its third edition, is widely considered to be one of the best resources available to men diagnosed with the disease. Dr. Goldenberg talks about how the 21st century will be a century of aging, and how the Men’s Health Initiative will help people not only live long, but live healthy.
Kate Hennessy – Repatriation, Digital Media, and Culture in the Virtual Museum
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS). Many Canadian First Nations and Aboriginal organizations are using digital media to revitalize their languages and assert control over the representation of their cultures. At the same time, museums, academic institutions, and individuals are digitizing their ethnographic collections to make them accessible to originating communities. In this presentation I will explore how the term “virtual repatriation” is being applied to the digitization and return of heritage to Aboriginal communities, and draw attention to the opportunities, challenges, and critiques associated with digitization, circulation, and remix of Aboriginal cultural heritage. I will discuss recent projects including the collaborative production of a Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit with the Doig River First Nation, a Dane-zaa community in northeastern British Columbia, and a current collaborative production of a virtual exhibit with members of the Inuvialuit community in the western Arctic and curators at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. I will show that while access to cultural heritage in digital collections can facilitate the articulation of intellectual property rights to digital cultural heritage—-including the right to restrict circulation—-it also amplifies the difficulty of enforcing those rights. Kate Hennessy is an Assistant Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT). She has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia and an MA in the Anthropology of Media from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. As the director of the Making Culture Lab at SIAT, her research explores the role of digital technology in the documentation and safeguarding of cultural heritage, and in the mediation of culture, history, objects, and subjects in new forms. Her video and multimedia works investigate documentary methodologies to address Indigenous and settler histories of place and space. She is a founding member of the Ethnographic Terminalia Curatorial Collective, an international group exploring the borders of anthropological, curatorial, and artistic practice (http://ethnographicterminalia.org). As assistant editor of the journal Visual Anthropology Review, she designed its first multimedia volume. Her work has been published in journals such as American Indian Quarterly, Museum Anthropology Review, and Visual Anthropology Review. She was a Trudeau Foundation Scholar from 2006-2010, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholar from 2005-2009, a Canadian Polar Commission Scholar in 2006-2007, and a Commonwealth Scholar in 2001-2002.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Hennessy, K. (2012). Cultural heritage on the web: Applied digital visual anthropology and local cultural property rights discourse. International Journal of Cultural Property, 19(3), 345-369. doi:10.1017/S0940739112000288. [Link]
Hennessy, K. (2009). Virtual repatriation and digital cultural heritage: The ethics of managing online collections. Anthropology News, 50(4), 5-6. doi:10.1111/j.1556-3502.2009.50405.x. [Link]
Hennessy, K., & Moore, P. (2006). New technologies and contested ideologies: The tagish FirstVoices project. The American Indian Quarterly, 30(1), 119-137. doi:10.1353/aiq.2006.0006. [Link]
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Kevin Laland – The Evolution of Culture
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Green College. Both demographically and ecologically, humans are a remarkably successful species. This success is generally attributed to our capacity for culture. But how did our species’ extraordinary cultural capabilities evolve from its roots in animal social learning and tradition? In this seminar, Laland will provide a provisional answer. After characterizing contemporary research into animal social learning, he will focus in on a case study of stickleback learning that illustrates the strategic nature of animal copying. Laland will go on to describe the findings of an international competition (the “social learning strategies tournament”) that he organized to investigate the best way to learn. Laland will suggest that the tournament sheds light on why copying is widespread in nature, and why humans happen to be so good at it. Finally, he will end by describing some other theoretical and experimental projects suggesting feedback mechanisms that may have been instrumental to the evolution of Culture.
UBC Library Resources
Laland, K. (2004). Social learning strategies. Learning & Behaviour, 32(1), 4-14. [Link]
Reader, S. M., & Laland, K. N. (2002). Social intelligence, innovation, and enhanced brain size in primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 99(7), 4436-4441. doi:10.1073/pnas.062041299. [Link]
Hoppitt, W., Laland, K. N., & ebrary eBooks. (2013). Social learning: An introduction to mechanisms, methods, and models. Princeton: Princeton University Press. [Link]
Laland, K. N., & Brown, G. R. (2011). Sense and nonsense: Evolutionary perspectives on human behaviour. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.
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Faisal Devji – The Meaning of Global Jihad
Global Islam: Past, Present and Future is presented by UBC Continuing Studies, the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution. It is part of UBC Continuing Studies’ Lifelong Learning Series. Faisal Devji is a historian who specializes in studies of Islam, globalization, violence and ethics. His multidisciplinary work grounds empirical historical issues in philosophical questions. He has taught at The New School in New York City. Since 2009, Devji is Reader in Modern South Asian History, Oxford University. He also is a senior fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge (New York University). Now a Canadian citizen, Devji is Zanzibari, having been born in Dar es Salaam in 1964 to a family of Indian ethnicity. His undergraduate education was at the University of British Columbia, where he received double honors in history and anthropology. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago with his dissertation Muslim Nationalism: Founding Identity in Colonial India and was chosen to be a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. He has taught at Yale University and also served as Head of Graduate Studies at The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He knows English, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Kutchi, Khojki, Swahili, Persian, Sindhi and Urdu. In 2005, Cornell University Press published his Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity, exploring the ethical content of jihad as opposed to its more widely-studied purported political content. The book draws a distinction between the majority of Islamic fundamentalist organizations concerned with the establishing of states and al-Qaeda with its decentralized structure and emphasis on moral rather than political action. His next book was The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics, published by Columbia University Press in October 2008. Devji is also a regular contributor to the scholarly journal Public Culture and serves on its Editorial Committee. Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Devji, F. (2013). Muslim Zion. Harvard University Press. [Link]
Devji, F. (2012). The impossible Indian: Gandhi and the temptation of violence. London: Hurst & Co.
Khan, N. (2014). Faisal Devji. Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a political idea. The American Historical Review, 119(5), 1663-1664. doi:10.1093/ahr/119.5.1663. [Link]
Devji, F. (2013). Communities of violence. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 45(4), 801-803. doi:10.1017/S0020743813000949. [Link]
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Digitization project/program in the Abbotsford News
An article about the digitization of photo archives from the Reach Gallery Museum appears in the Abbotsford News. This project received funding from the BC History Digitization Program, an initiative of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
You can view the article here, and find out more about the BC History Digitization Program here.
David Der-wei Wang – Writing History after "Post-History": On Contemporary Chinese Fiction
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and sponsored by the Wat Endowment and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies. Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture. David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies at Harvard University. The world’s leading scholar of modern Chinese fiction, his research specialties include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama, and comparative literary theory. Wang received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and has taught at National Taiwan University and Columbia University. His many honors include an honorary doctorate from Lingnan University (Hong Kong), and his appointments as an Academician of the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and as a Yangtze River Scholar affiliated with Fudan University (Shanghai). Writing at a time when History has collapsed and Revolution has lost its mandate, writers cannot take up the two subjects without pondering their inherent intelligibility. Drawing upon theories on “post-history” as developed by scholars such as Jacques Derrida, Li Zehou and Liu Zaifu, and contemporary fictional works as created by writers such as Mo Yan, Yan Lianke and Wang Anyi, this lecture will address the following three issues: History after Post-History, Enlightenment versus Enchantment and Socialist Utopia and “the Best of all Best Possible Worlds”.
Author’s Titles at UBC Library
Wang, D. (1999). Under the soviet shadow: The Yining incident; ethnic conflicts and international rivalry in Xinjiang, 1944-1949. Wantage: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. [Link]
Wang, D., & Rojas, C. (2007). Writing Taiwan: A new literary history. Durham: Duke University Press. [Link]
Wang, D., & Shang, W. (2005). Dynastic crisis and cultural innovation: From the late Ming to the late Qing and beyond. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center. [Link]
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Book, Theatre and Film Reviews
Ingrid Parent — Fast forward: 21st Century Libraries in a Global Context Webcast Online
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) colloquium series. In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new competencies. No doubt, the library is a force of change, contributing to and accelerating the ever growing needs of e-research. Yet libraries can do more. Libraries need to shift their paradigm from “They will come” to “We will go to them” and in doing so, be prepared to explore new methods of outreach and community engagement at a local level and beyond. How do we, as librarians and information professionals, meet these demands? What trends are libraries currently facing that will impact future generations of information professionals? This presentation will address these key issues and offer a review of libraries and librarianship in a global context.
Ingrid Parent is the 14th University Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Ms. Parent assumed leadership of the UBC Library on July 1, 2009, shortly after winning an award from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship. She is also President-elect of IFLA and will serve as president from 2011-2013. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Ms. Parent has an honours degree in History and a Masters in Library Science, both from UBC. She has held a variety of positions in the information profession prior to returning to her alma mater, including the role of Assistant Deputy Minister at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
IKBLC Gallery Presents "Letters To the Garden"
From the Westcoast Calligraphy Society “Letters to the Garden” is a design of colour, illustration, bookbinding, and paper making for everyone interested in the art of letters – with the theme of “Springtime” and “Gardens.” “Letters to the Garden” is a travelling exhibition that has been displayed throughout the lower mainland, including Cloverdale Library and Fleetwood Public Library in Surrey, and the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver, B.C. This exhibit at IKBLC can be seen in Learning Centre foyer and Ike’s Cafe Gallery.
Larry Goldenberg – Men's Health: Connecting the Dots
On March 2, 2011, Dr. Larry Goldenberg, an award-winning Canadian researcher, pioneer in the treatment of prostate cancer and world-renowned advocate of patient education. Dr. Goldenberg authored one of the first books to explain prostate cancer treatment options in layman’s terms. The Intelligent Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment is widely considered to be one of the best resources available to men diagnosed with the disease. Dr. Goldenberg talks about how the 21st century will be a century of aging, and how the Men’s Health Initiative will help people not only live long, but live healthy.
Faculty Research Publications
Goldenberg, S. Larry, Ian M. Thompson, and Carol Glegg. Intelligent Patient Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment. Gordon Soules Book Pub, 2001. [Available at BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacks- Call Number: WJ752 .G64 2001]
Goldenberg, S. Larry, Ian M. Thompson, and Carol Glegg. Intelligent Patient Guide to Prostate Cancer: All You Need to Know to Take an Active Part in Your Treatment. Gordon Soules Book Pub, 2001. [Available at WOODWARD LIBRARY stacks – Call Number: WJ752 .G64 1997]
Goldenberg, Larry. (2005). Further fine tuning of hormone therapy. The Journal of urology, 174(2), 415-416. [Link to journal article]
Akakura, Koichiro, Nicholas Bruchovsky, Goldenberg, Larry, Paul S. Rennie, Anne R. Buckley, and Lorne D. Sullivan. “Effects of intermittent androgen suppression on androgen‐dependent tumors. Apoptosis and serum prostate‐specific antigen.” Cancer 71, no. 9 (1993): 2782-2790. [Link to journal article]
Are you interested in more about this area? There are open access resources available online selected by UBC Librarians
PubMed – Premier database containing over 23 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a focus on biomedicine.
MedlinePlus (Consumer Health) – Freely-searchable consumer health information site linking to simple overviews, dictionaries, directories, organizations and news for ~750 topics.
HLWIK International – HLWIKI International was created in 2006 as a tool to support LIBR 534: Health Information Sources and Services at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS) at the University of British Columbia. It encourages all professional health librarians and professionals to participate.
Questions for discussion
What is the biggest social barrier to people getting diagnosed?
What do you think is the best educational tool, in terms of prostate cancer education?
Do you think Movember is effective in closing the social barrier/taboos surrounding prostate cancer?
What sparked your interest in prostate cancer?
Useful online resources
Prostate Cancer Canada – http://www.prostatecancer.ca/
U.S. National Library of Medicine – Prostate Cancer – http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001418/
Canadian Cancer Society – Information, Diagnoses and Treatments
Prostate Cancer Foundation – http://www.pcf.org
MedicineNet, Inc. – Owned and Operated by WebMD and part of the WebMD Network – http://www.medicinenet.com/prostate_cancer/article.htm#_Toc498458212
What Are Some UBC Resources That Might Be Helpful for understanding Prostate Cancer?
Prostate cancer methods and protocols edited by Pamela J. Russell, Paul Jackson, and Elizabeth A. Kingsley [UBC online resource]
Challenges in prostate cancer edited by Winsor Bowsher and Adam Carter [UBC Woodward Library – WJ752 .C493 2006]
Prostate cancer edited by Marc S. Ernstoff, John A. Heaney, Richard E. Peschel [UBC Woodward Library – WJ752 .P7684 1998]
Prostate cancer: making survival decisions by Sylvan Meyer and Seymour C. Nash [UBC Woodward Library – WJ752 .M494 1994]
For more information, please contact Allan Cho
Ingrid Parent – Fast forward: 21st century libraries in a global context
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies (SLAIS) colloquium series. In today’s changing information society, knowledge curation is in demand, information literacy is essential, and those entering the workforce must be ready to demonstrate new competencies. No doubt, the library is a force of change, contributing to and accelerating the ever growing needs of e-research. Yet libraries can do more. Libraries need to shift their paradigm from “They will come” to “We will go to them” and in doing so, be prepared to explore new methods of outreach and community engagement at a local level and beyond. How do we, as librarians and information professionals, meet these demands? What trends are libraries currently facing that will impact future generations of information professionals? This presentation will address these key issues and offer a review of libraries and librarianship in a global context.
Ingrid Parent was the 14th University Librarian at the University of British Columbia. Ms. Parent assumed leadership of the UBC Library on July 1, 2009, shortly after winning an award from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries for Distinguished Service to Research Librarianship. She is also President-elect of IFLA and will serve as president from 2011-2013. The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession. Ms. Parent has an honours degree in History and a Masters in Library Science, both from UBC. She has held a variety of positions in the information profession prior to returning to her alma mater, including the role of Assistant Deputy Minister at Library and Archives Canada (LAC).
Select Articles Available at UBC Library
Parent, I. (2000). Fifty years of service to Canadian libraries. National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
Parent, I. (1992). Speaking from — ABSB (acquisitions and bibliographic services). National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
Parent, I. (2000). Canadian bibliographic centre: The more things change, the more they stay the same. National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
Parent, I. (1999). International conference on national bibliographic services: A truly international experience. National Library of Canada, Marketing and Publishing Services.
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