2012 Events

Learning Lab: Integrating Place and History into Teaching and Learning

Name: Learning Lab: Integrating Place and History into Teaching and Learning Date: Tuesday, October 30 Time: 3:00pm – 4:30pm Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, Seminar Room 2.22 Description: Learning Labs are a hands on opportunity to join in conversations, workshop ideas, actively engage with existing resources and contribute to the development of new ones […]

The Orchard Garden and the Dark Arts

Name: The Orchard Garden and the Dark Arts Date: Friday, November 2 Time: 12:00pm – 2:00pm Location: The Orchard Garden located behind the McMillan Building (http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?locat1=386) Description: The Orchard Garden is hosting a Celebrate Learning Week event in order to share all the wonderful things that have been going on in the garden this year. […]

ISGP/Liu Lecture Series: Community-Based Research

“Innovative Methodologies in Bridging Theory and Practice/Policy on Community-based Research” – A Panel Discussion

2012 ISGP Student Colloquium Series: Jerzy Elzanowski

ISGP Student Colloquium Series: Jerzy Elzanowski – A Natural History in Ruins: Warsaw and the Taxonomy of Destruction, 1944-1947
12:30-1:30, IBLC 158

Library Online Reserves in Connect

Learn how to manage all your print and electronic reserves requests using UBC Library’s new online reserves system. After a brief demo you’ll be able to log in and start adding your own reserves requests and reading list items into the system. To register see http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/series/88.

Wider Symmetries: Watercolours by Lex Alfred Hedley

Wider Symmetries: Watercolours by Lex Alfred Hedley

From August 30 through November 12, 2012, the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC presents Wider Symmetries, an exquisite series of watercolour paintings and sketches of birds by New Zealand-born artist Lex Alfred Hedley.

Missionary Printing Presses Exhibition: “The Iron Pulpit”

UBC Library’s Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) is pleased to present “The Iron Pulpit”: Missionary Printing Presses in British Columbia exhibition.

Featuring materials produced on missionary printing presses in British Columbia between the 1850s and 1910s, this exhibition looks at printed materials in context of Indigenous-Christian encounters, colonialism, and print culture in the province.

The exhibition is located in RBSC, on level one of the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and is open to the public Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturday 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

A PDF of the exhibition catalogue, which includes an introductory essay, detailed item descriptions and a checklist of existing missionary printing press imprints, is available online.

“The Iron Pulpit” was curated by Alicia Fahey (PhD Student, Department of English) and Chelsea Horton (PhD Candidate, Department of History).

For questions about the exhibition, contact Katherine Kalsbeek, Acting Head, Rare Books and Special Collections.

Shanghai Summer Program Information Session

Information session including program dates, costs, academics, eligibility and how to apply.

Diaspora, Diversity, & Dialogue Art Exhibition’s Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Closing Night Art Sale

Diaspora, Diversity, & Dialogue Art Exhibition’s Cross-Cultural Dialogue and Closing Night Art Sale

The October 27 cross-cultural symposium, pecha-kucha style, brings together artists, community organizers, youth leaders, planners and city residents to address questions about the role of arts, culture and artistic expressions in community capacity-building within and across multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, multi-religious diasporic communities, marked by increased internal diversity and interactions with indigenous and settler communities, both old and new.

Greening Your Life with a Little Physics (and Chemistry)

Greening Your Life with a Little Physics (and Chemistry)

“Its easy being green” is a popular mantra, which is quite true … if one adds a “not” somewhere in the sentence. However with the application of some rock-bottom basic physics, like Newton’s laws of motion and the first law of thermodynamics, plus a dash of Chem11, you can identify some achievable personal goals which could make a significant positive difference.