Mark your Calendars!
2013 Faculty of Education United Way BBQ
Wednesday, November 13
11:30-1:30pm
Day: October 15, 2013
Please be aware of the following deadline for November 2013 Graduation
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Friday, 25 October 2013
Last day for final master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to be accepted by the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for November graduation. Must be approved and accepted by 4:00 pm.
Last day for graduate programs to notify the Faculty of Graduate Studies that all requirements (including major papers) have been met for non-thesis master’s degrees for November graduation.
Last day for late applications for Graduation. Forms must be received by Enrolment Services before 4:00 pm.
The late application form is available on our website at the following link:
https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/late-application-graduation-november-2013
Voting for the U21 3MT Global competition is underway Oct 11 – 25th. Help UBC’s Serbulent Turan win the People’s Choice award by voting at
http://vimeo.com/channels/u213mt2013/page:4 .
Registration is now open for:
Getting on Track with your Thesis
Tuesday, Oct 22nd, 2013, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
For a complete session description, please visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10417-gps-workshop-getting-track-your-thesis
To register, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2c07
Foundations of Project Management I (offered with the Mitacs Step program)
Thursday, Oct 24th and Friday, October 25th, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm (students must attend both days).
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/9905-gpsmitacs-event-foundations-project-management-i-team-based-approach-2-days
To register, see http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2c7e
Space is still available in this week’s GPS/CSI&C Job Search Strategies workshop, Thursday, October 17, 2013 – 1:30pm – 3:15pm; Registration is open at: http://bit.ly/1hwTyGD .
For upcoming GPS workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events
For CTLT, Library and Career Services workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/ubc-graduate-student-events .
Social Justice @UBC Lecture Event: Indigenous Pedagogies Social Justice
Monday October 21, 1-2:30 pm - Snacks provided! First Nations Longhouse, UBC 1895 West Mall Resistance to Norms: Listening to Youth Indigenous Voices Jessica Danforth Founder & Executive Director Native Youth Sexual Health Network The NYSHN is an organization for and by indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice throughout the United States and Canada. NYSHN are resistors of violence from the state, violence on the land and violence on bodies. Restoration of knowledge, justice, and ways to be safer in communities is critical to their work. And yes, resistance is sexy! Ronnie Dean Harris Ronnie is a St?:lo/St'=E1t'imc multimedia artist based in Vancouver, B.C. In the past years he's worked along side many amazing people on equally amazing projects. Most prominently as an actor and composer for APTN/Showcase dramatic series Moccasin Flats. Ron has performed in numerous festivals and has opened for acts including Guru, K'naan, Abstract Rude and Snoop Dogg to name a few. In the last 10 years Ronnie has also been active in facilitating and crating workshop programs for youth empowerment in media arts and hip-hop. Jerilyn Webster Jerilyn is a Vancouver based female hip-hop artist, beat-boxer, performing artist, aboriginal educator, single mother, award- winning actor, and member of the Nuxalk and Cayauga Nations who is using [her] words to go upwards/not backwards. She is an Idle No More organizer.
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Oct 28 – Upcoming CILS event
Seminar Presentation on 'Dizionario delle Collocazioni' or how words combine in Italian. Lessons for Language Teachers When: Monday, October 28, from 4:30 to 6 pm Where: Italian Cultural centre click on link for details on directions http://italianculturalcentre.ca/ Il dizionario delle collocazioni Le combinazioni delle parole in italiano In linguistics the term 'collocation' is used to mean a combination of lexical items that regularly or habitually occurs together, and sounds natural, in speech or writing. The way words combine in a language is not determined by rules of syntax or grammar but is instead established through repeated context-dependent use within the language community. The Dizionario delle collocazioni is specifically designed to help choose t= he right words to express ideas in an effective way. With a selection of about 200,000 collocations it is a useful tool to develop an increased range of vocabulary and facility of expression in idiomatic Italian.