Reconciling Difficult Colonial Truths: Literature for Children and Youth
Given the legacy of 500 years of colonization, sharing and telling stories for children and young adults about difficult truths is important in moving forward towards reconciliation. As part of the journey, increased sensibilities and approaches are needed and give rise to many questions. How can children’s literature be decolonized and made appropriate for 21st […]
Vivian Howard – Connecting Authors and Readers: Researching and Documenting Atlantic Canadian Books for Youth
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the iSchool at UBC. In their recent history of Canadian children’s illustrated books, Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman observe that “the children’s literature of a nation is a microcosm of that country’s literary and sociocultural values, beliefs, themes, and images, including those of […]
Wat Memorial Lecture – Pai Hsien-yung
Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (Bai Chongxi; 1893–1966). General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the history of the Republic of China: As an eighteen-year-old military cadet in 1911, he joined a “Dare-to-Die” corps that marched to Wuhan to take part […]
Dhahan International Punjabi Literature Prize
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 at 7:00 pm in the Golden Jubilee Room (Level 4) at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Robson Reading Series Presents Al Hunter (Beautiful Razor: Love Poems and Other Lies)
As part of the Robson Reading Series, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the UBC First Nations House of Learning hosted Anishinaabe writer Al Hunter to an author reading of his latest book of poetry. Hunter, who has published poetry in books and journals, has taught extensively and performed internationally. A member of Rainy […]
Fred Wah – Standing in the Doorway – the Hyphen in Chinese-Canadian Poetry
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by Richmond Public Library as part of the “The Joy Of Reading: Chinese Literature Appreciation” lecture series. This talk focuses on living and writing between two cultures, Chinese and Canadian. Racial hybridity has informed most of Prof. Wah’s writing and that of many Chinese-Canadian […]