Barbara Wildemuth – A Conversation on Mixed Methods Research, With a Focus on Why and How
November 5, 12:00-1:00pm in the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Vivian Howard – Reading Practices in a Digital World: Two Case Studies
Tuesday, November 4, 2014 5:00-6.00PM at the Dodson Room (Rm 302), Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Archives Association of British Columbia
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and event hosted by the Archives Association of British Columbia (AABC). How do you manage photographs when you cannot determine who owned them or who holds copyright over them or you don’t know anything about the content of the photograph itself. Do you have a policy […]
Your Next Step: Discovering What Employers Really Want
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by alumni UBC. Your resume lists the best schools (naturally) and your experience and skills meet the requirements of the job postings you come across. Yet despite looking good on paper, your applications don’t seem to be translating into calls and interviews. So what […]
George Marshall – Wired to Ignore Climate Change
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by UBC Reads Sustainability. As part of his new book tour: Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, George Marshall spoke at UBC Reads Sustainability, which brings well-known sustainability authors to UBC’s Vancouver campus to engage in a campus-wide discussion. […]
Alice Goffman – On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Sociology at UBC. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City The War on Crime didn’t just send millions of Black young men to prison and return them home with felony convictions. It created a little known surveillance state […]
Wesbrook Series – Women in Business
This sold out event featured Business in Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business award-winners Barbara Brink, BA’63; Barbara Dunfield, BEd’80; and Barbara Kaminsky, BA’70, MSW’73, MSc’82, in a panel discussion with CBC’s Renee Filippone and host Shelina Esmail, BA’93
Discover the World of Panterra – Journey to the Sea of Cortez
July 23 to August 28 at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (exhibition located on the 2nd floor foyer)
Bonnie Sherr Klein – I Am Who You Are (Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Feminist Legal Studies as part of the Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice. Bonnie Sherr Klein is a documentary filmmaker and long-time activist in the feminist and disability movements. In this lecture she shares her lived experience […]
Margaret Munro – Muzzles, Media Offices and Message Control
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Open UBC Week. The open system that used to encourage and trust federal scientists to discuss their work has been replaced by a tightly controlled system that churns out “approved lines.” Margaret Munro’s stories exposing how the Harper government has muzzled and silenced […]