Remote Community Based Learning Fund 2016/2017 Submissions Now Open!
Faculty members are invited to apply online for up to $5,000 per course for the 2016/2017 academic year.
Health History Lecture: “Curing Queers” Mental Nurses and Their Patients 1935-1974
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | June 14, 2016, 12-1pm | Room T182, 3rd Floor, UBC Hospital | Drawing on a rich array of source materials including previously unseen, fascinating (and often quite moving) oral histories, archival and news media sources, this paper examines the plight of men who were institutionalised in British mental hospitals to receive ‘treatment’ for homosexuality and transvestism, and the perceptions and actions of the men and women who nursed them.
Emily Drabinski – Intersections with Power: Critical Teaching and the Library Catalogue
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | June 1, 2016 | As teaching librarians, we introduce our students to knowledge organization structures that enable inquiry and curiosity in the library, but also use language and logic that we might otherwise contest.
alumni UBC100 What’s Next? : Elizabeth Croft – Future of Robotics
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | May 28, 2016 | The topic of ‘human-robot interaction’ will still be a hot one in 100 years. The tools may change but the problems, such as “How do people and robots get along?” will remain the same.
alumni UBC100 What’s Next? : Meeru Dhalwala – Future of Food Sources
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | May 28, Saturday 2016 | Hear from chef, restauranteur and climate change activist, Meeru Dhalwala, on her insights on these and other aspects of our future food sources.
alumni UBC100 What’s Next? : Tzeporah Berman – Future of the Planet
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | May 28, Saturday 2016 | We are living a turning point in history, the moment when we are re-envisioning industrial society. We now know that the cumulative impacts of our fossil fuel economy threaten the air we breathe, the water we drink and even a stable economy and climate.
alumni UBC100 What’s Next? : Rick Hansen – Future of Accessibility
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | May 28, Saturday 2016 | Through the power of his own story and the inspiration he’s found in others, Rick Hansen encourages us all to dream big and make a difference in our own lives and in the world.
alumni UBC100 What’s Next? : William Shatner – The Curious Life
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre | May 28, 2016 | 5:00pm | Chan Centre for the Performing Arts | What does it mean to live with a spirit of curiosity?
24/7 hours at the Learning Centre
UBC Library’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre will be open 24 hours a day April 10 to 26, 2016.