“Humanities From Here” Webcast Online
Posted in Events, Resources on Jul 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Webcast hosted by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Sandra Singh – The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre: How Did We Get Here and Where Are We Going?
Posted in Events on Apr 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
Robson Reading Series Welcomes Lee Henderson at Vancouver Island Public Library
Posted in Events on Apr 1st, 2010 No Comments »
View Larger Map On April 1, 2010, 7-8pm author Lee Henderson will be reading in Courtenay, British Columbia’s Vancouver Island Public Library. Sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre’s Robson Reading Series, Lee will be reading from ‘The Man Game‘. On a recent Vancouver Sunday afternoon, a young man stumbles upon a secret sport [...]
Celebrate UBC Authors Presents Dr. Neil Safier at IKBLC
Posted in Events on Mar 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Come join us as Professor of History, Neil Safier presents from his book, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America.
Essentials of Tibetan Medical System and its role in Community Health Services (IKBLC Webcast)
Posted in Events on Feb 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Presented by the Contemporary Tibetan Studies Program at the Institute for Asian Research, Essentials of Tibetan Medical System and its role in Community Health Services focuses on the role of traditional Tibetan medicine in providing primary health care in Tibetan refugee settlements in India.
Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers (IKBLC Webcast)
Posted in Events on Feb 18th, 2010 No Comments »
In 1989, the Chinook project began with the goal of building a computer program capable of winning the human World Checkers Championship. The reigning human champion was almost perfect, having rarely lost a game in over forty years. To do better required the computer to be perfect.
Ian Wilson Keynote Speech From the BC Digitization Symposium 2009 (IKBLC Webcast)
Posted in Events on Feb 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Ian Wilson describes the new information landscape and its impact on libraries and archives.
Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future (IKBLC Webcast)
Posted in Events on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
As part of the UBC Department of Psychology’s 5th Annual Quinn Memorial Lecture (QML), held on Friday, 9 October 2009 pm. In this lecture “Constructive memory: Remembering the past to imagine the future,” Daniel L. Schacter, Kenan Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and UBC alumnus, presents on his years of research on memory and amnesia memory, which has had a profound impact on psychological science in general and cognitive neuroscience in particular.
Gallery @ IKBLC Presents “Snow, Ice and Gold”
Posted in Events on Feb 14th, 2010 No Comments »
The IKBLC Gallery presents: “Snow, Ice and Gold” an exhibit curated by the Westcoast Calligraphy Society.
Drugs in the Olympics (Webcast)
Posted in Events on Feb 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Dr. John Hoberman is a European cultural and intellectual historian and has done extensive research on sports doping and the intersection of sports, politics, science, public opinion and the Olympics.
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