Month: January 2014

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Feb 1: Vancouver student seminar on policy issues‏

Explore Public Policy Issues Student Seminar

February 1, 2014 | Vancouver, BC
Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 

Please join us for a day of fun-filled discussion and inquiry – free of charge. Explore ideas while listening and conversing with leading policy experts and peers.

Speakers and topics include:

Is China the Next Superpower?
Nick Eberstadt
Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research

Canada’s Underground World of Human Trafficking
Ben Perrin
Professor, UBC Faculty of Law and former legal advisor to
Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Fracking, Pipeline Development and Green Energy
Ken Green
Senior Director, Centre for Natural Resources,
Fraser Institute

A Humane Economist’s Case for Drug Legalization
David R. Henderson
Associate Professor of Economics, Naval Postgraduate School and Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

What to Expect from the B.C. and Federal Budgets
Sean Speer
Associate Director, Centre for Fiscal Studies, Fraser Institute and former economic advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty

Click here to Register

For more information, please contact Julie Walton, Fraser Institute Education Programs Coordinator, at 604-688-0221 ext. 533 or email julie.walton@fraserinstitute.org

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EDCP Seminar Videos‏

For those who were unable to attend Peter Grimmett’s talk on Dec 13th and would like to view the recording, please go to http://m2.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/seminars/seminars2013/4-grimmett.mp4.

Please note that a lot of our seminars were taped and the video links can be found on our website at http://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/community/seminars/.  This page lists EDCP seminars (with posters and video links) from 2010 onwards.

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Walkabout 2014

The 8th Walkabout is almost here! Just in time for those of us that put a little weight on over the holidays with just one too many mince-pies and want to take off that added weight before it starts to feel like it belongs. What better way to reset some good eating and activity habits than by joining the walkabout challenge where you can share with friends and colleagues?!

Create a team (5 members) and register and pay online (Save $5 by registering by January 12th):

http://walkabout.educ.ubc.ca/.  Register online before January 15th and be entered for a prize draw!

Program kick off: January 15th (weds) at 12:30 in Room 310

  • Pick up your team package and pedometers (if ordered)
  • Register if you haven’t done so online
  • Find a team – we’ll help
  • Listen to a pep talk and find out the new parts of the program as it relates to Year of Teacher Education.
  • Enjoy some healthy snacks
  • Win some door prizes

The nine-week program begins: January 20th and finishes March 23rd.

Cost: $5 by January 12th – $10 after the 12th.

Pedometers: $15

Time to get moving!

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Join us for GRSJ Social Justice @ UBC Lecture Series

Social Justice @UBC Noted Scholars Lecture Series, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice

www.grsj.arts.ubc.ca

Directions to Office 038, Jack Bell Building: http://bit.ly/R5WyjE

NB: Lunch will be provided at no cost for those who RSVP: wynn.archibald@ubc.ca 

Wednesday January 22, 12-1pm

Black, White and Green: Food Justice, Farmers Markets and the Green Economy 

Dr. Alison Alkon

Assistant Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of the Pacific

Wednesday January 29, 12-1pm

Integrating Gender Considerations In Health Research: Shaping Science For A Healthier World 

Dr. Joy Johnson

Professor, School of Nursing, UBC and Director, CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

Wednesday February 12, 12-1pm

Ethno-Specificity As Critique Of The ‘Sexual Normal’: A Queer-Of-Colour Geography 

Dr. JP Catungal

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and Department of Geography, UBC

Wednesday February 26, 12-1pm

“We Welcome Applications From Members Of Visible Minority Groups”: Reflections On Race, Gender And Life At Three Universities 

Dr. Annette Henry

Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education, UBC

Wednesday March 19, 12-1pm

CWILA and the Problem of Counting for Race 

Madeleine Thien

Author of Dogs at the Perimeter and Simple Recipes, Simon Fraser University Writer-in-Residence 2013-2014

Dr. Laura Moss

Associate Professor of Canadian Literature, Department of English, UBC and Acting Editor of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review

Dr. Mary Chapman

Associate Professor of American Literature, Department of English, UBC

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Jan 23: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Reflections on the Renaissance Papacy

Please join the SFU Department of History on January 23rd for the fourth installment of our public lecture series, Heroes & Villains: Rethinking Good and Evil in History.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Reflections on the Renaissance Papacy
A public lecture presented by Dr. Emily O’Brien

January 23, 2014 | 5:30 PM
Fletcher Challenge Theatre, Harbour Centre
515 W. Hastings St., Vancouver, BC

In popular culture, the Renaissance papacy (c. 1417-1534) seems an intriguing mixture of highs and lows. On the one hand, it dazzles us with artistic achievements – the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s, to name but two. On the other, it shocks us with personalities infamous enough to thrive on cable television (“The Borgias,” anyone?). While this blend of extremes may draw us to the Renaissance papacy, how much can it actually teach us? A great deal, in fact. This lecture tours the good, the bad and the ugly of this period in papal history and, in so doing, illuminates how this era represented a turning point for the Western Church.

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited, and registration is strongly encouraged. Reserve your spot online: http://www.sfu.ca/history/events/papacy.html.
Unable to attend? Check out all of our public lectures on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjovwYJ237SlP75IFJ-yVKQ/videos.

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

First GSS Weekly Newsletter 2014!‏

Dear Graduate Students,

Warm wishes for a happy and productive new year from all of us at the GSS!

We know that you agree or strongly agree that funding/financial issues cause you as a UBC graduate student stress or anxiety on a regular basis. You know and we know that Time to Completion for graduate studies programs is continually increasing at UBC and across Canada. Despite the GSS’s best efforts, despite the fact that graduate students number 20% of the student body, we’ve seen little change. We would like to ask for your help.

Come out on Friday, January 10th at 11am to Graduate Student Society’s Thea Koerner House on 225-6371 Crescent Rd. Let’s show the UBC Administration that Less Money and More Time isn’t a good or sustainable way to treat it’s hardworking and talented graduate student body. Stand and be counted!

GSS Elections:
– The Call for Nominations for the 2014-2015 GSS Executive Team will remain open until January 15th! Are you interested in making a difference in graduate student life at UBC as a GSS Executive? Find out how you can get involved [here]

GSS Workshops & Conferences:
– Class is in Session! Learn French, and “Fall in love” in our January GSS Art Class.  Swahili is also being offered now via the UBC Linguistics Department.

– And, this Saturday, January 11th, 2014, UBC hosts the largest student-led conference in North America.  New this year are workshops run by and specifically for grad students looking for ways to expand their leadership skills.  Register to learn about how students, staff, faculty, alumni, community partners, are coming together from around the world to “be infinite” at slc.ubc.ca.

GSS Social & Recreational:
– Advance Tickets Now On Sale for our New Term Party on January 24th!

– There’s still time to Sign Up for your Term 2 Fitness Class! GSS is offering Bellydance, Pilates, Zumba and Yoga classes starting the week of January 20th! Do it now before the classes fill up!

– There’s still a slot for you to go to Whistler with the GSS on Jan 19!

– January 10th is January Orientation Day at the GSS!  We still need a few volunteers and welcoming folks to help! There’s tickets in it for you for the New Term Party…!

Finally, a warm Congratulations to UBC Faculty members and alumnae named to The Order of Canada. It’s a great way to start the year! So how will you “be infinite” in 2014?

Ngwatilo

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2014 Tri-Nations Education Conference – Call for Papers‏

2014 Tri-Nations Education Conference

March 29-30, 2014 @ The University of British Columbia | Vancouver, Canada

Internationalization in Education: Its Nature, Challenges and Possibilities in an Increasingly Globalized World

Internationalization in Education is being discussed and debated globally as universities compete for the best students and researchers expand their networks and collaborations across national borders. University reputation and rankings are influenced by the degree of international engagement and many institutions are responding to this imperative. Yet many concerns have been raised about the motives behind internationalization, its benefits and challenges, and the short- and long-term benefits of student and faculty mobility. This conference provides a forum for a critical examination of these and other issues arising from this powerful global phenomenon.

Join us this spring in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.  Submit your proposal to present at the 2014 Tri-Nations Education Conference. Proposals will be reviewed as they are received and authors notified as soon as possible. The Call for Papers closes January 27, 2014

This conference, initiated by the Deans of Education of five partner universities in China, Australia and Canada, is intended to encourage research exchange and collaboration on topics of importance to educators from around the world, but especially of interest in the Asia-Pacific Region.  Paper and presentation proposals are invited in any area related to the overall theme of the conference, but especially in the following areas:

  • Preparing teachers to work with increasingly diverse learners
  • Reciprocity, equity and social justice
  • Cooperation for global human development
  • Models of program and research collaboration
  • The value and challenges of comparative research
  • Cultural differences and educational research
  • Use of technology, online collaborative programs, MOOCs
  • Ethics of internationalization
  • Assessing the outcomes of internationalization
  • Internationalization of the curriculum
  • Institutional structures and processes
  • National policies and priorities
  • Language and international collaboration
  • Economics of internationalization
  • University status and rankings

Summaries of presentations and full papers will be published in the online 2014 Tri-Nations Education Conference proceedings after the conference.

Conference Languages

The official language of the conference is English.

Deadlines

Proposal & Abstract Submission Deadline: January 27, 2014

Early Bird Registration: before March 14, 2014

Conference: March 29-30, 2014

Submit your proposal by January 27 at: http://trinations.educ.ubc.ca

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Speak Swahili‏

My name is Joash Johannes and I am a doctoral student in the UBC Linguistics Department. As a coordinator of the “Speak Swahili”  (Sema Swahili) I would like to welcome you all to our UBC Swahili classes. Swahili is  currently a Lingua Franca of Africa and is mainly spoken in Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Burundi, Madagascar, Parts of Uganda, Congo (DRC), Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia etc. If you have been considering learning an African Language for various reasons such as:

◦ Doing research in Swahili speaking countries.

◦ Taking Swahili summer courses  for credits under the ‘study abroad UBC program’.

◦ Planning to enroll in African minor degree program of UBC in future.

◦ Learning an African language as your second or third language.

◦ Travelling to one of the 15 Swahili speaking countries.

◦ Planning to work in: Charitable organizations, etc that are based in Swahili speaking countries.

◦ Planning to volunteer in Africa under UBC Go Global program.

◦ Planning for a Safari i.e. in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda etc.

◦ Interested in learning Swahili culture (customs and traditions).

◦ Interested in being a Swahili language trainer.

You can register for our classes at: www.semaswahili.com. The website provides relevant info about registration and UBC Sema Swahili Program. Feel free to contact us should you have any questions.

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Jan 15 – Doc & Talk

In this new series, graduate students are invited to converse around a curated selection of documentary films.

The first meeting will be Wednesday January 15 at 4:30pm in the Den (Scarfe 6A).

Join fellow grad students for a new monthly short documentary film and discussion series. This month’s films are American Juggalo and That B.E.A.T. Discussion will focus on the construction of the idea of “subcultures” and also issues surrounding race, class, gender, sexuality representation, and voice. The conversation will be facilitated by Brooke Madden and Sam Stiegler. Grad students who are interested in selecting films (and leading discussions) for future sessions should most certainly attend with their ideas!

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Call for Papers: AAACS and Graduate Student Paper Award

2014 Graduate Student Paper Award
Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our inaugural Graduate Student Paper Award. The award will recognize one graduate student‘s work for its contribution to this year’s conference theme “Ethical Engagement among Communities without Consensus.” Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Graduate Student Committee and then submitted for final peer review by established scholars in curriculum studies. One selected paper will be recognized at the 2014 annual conference. Submissions are due by March 1st, 2014 and should be no longer than 10 pages double-spaced (not including references) with 1-inch margins, 12 pt Times New Roman Font and APA formatting. We encourage graduate students to submit papers drawn on proposals that have been accepted for the 2014 conference. Please email your paper to 
AAACSgradpaperaward@gmail.com.

2014 AAACS Call for Papers

In a symposium entitled “Ethical Engagement among Communities without Consensus” AAACS 2013, Janet Miller and Bill Pinar emphasized the importance of a ‘shared community of dissensus’ for ‘complicated conversations’ in curriculum studies to take place. In this discussion, the notion of “engaged generosity” emerged that urged curriculum studies scholars who disagree to maintain an ethics of generous engagement and commitment to curriculum studies, its goals, and it underlying activism.

Taking Miller’s proposition seriously and considering the challenges of the current educational context, including aspects internal and external to the area of curriculum studies, the Executive and Conference Committees of AAACS invite curriculum studies scholars to engage with the potential difficulties, barriers, joys, and benefits of taking responsibility for creating such community and enabling such conversations. Drawing on contemporary thinking about democracy, otherness, knowledge/power, being, and beyond, we would like to explore how to create an AAACS disciplinary space that advances themes that are urgently pressing in a time in which curriculum studies is becoming increasingly marginalized.
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ASD & Family Quality of Life Discussion Series

The Autism and Developmental Disorders Lab at SFU, together with the Laurel Foundation, is co-hosting 3 community events 
entitled, "ASD & Family Quality of Life Discussion Series." The 3 themes will be: Families and School, Families and Transitions, 
and Families and Mental Health. The aim of these events is to facilitate discussion among a range of stakeholders, including 
individuals and their families, researchers, and professionals about important Quality of Life issues. These events are FREE and
open to the public, so please join us and bring your questions, ideas, and comments to what is sure to be a lively discussion! 
During the events, we will also be giving families an opportunity to participate in our research.
 
1. Family and Schools
 
Saturday, January 18, 2014, 1 - 4pm
West Mall Complex 2200
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
 
Spots are limited, so please RSVP at http://autismlab.psyc.sfu.ca/events

Panelists:
 
Dr. Grace Iarocci, Associate Professor of Psychology, SFU
Emily Gardiner, Doctoral Candidate, Psychology, SFU
Dr. Pat Mirenda, Professor of Educational & Counseling Psychology, & Special Ed. And Director, Centre for Interdisciplinary 
Research and Collaboration in Autism (CIRCA), UBC
 
Amelia Poitras, Learning Support Teacher, Westcot Elementary School
 
Jody Langlois, Assistant Superintendent, School District No. 48
Evangeline Torres, Director, Learning Resource Centre, BC Christian Academy
 
Colleen Fuller, Parent and Counselor
Laurel Foundation
 
**Dates and times for the other 2 events are currently being finalized. Please check our website for the most up to date information.
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TerreWEB Seminar this Thursday‏

We hope that you all had some time to rest over the holidays. We will continue this term with our seminar series every Thursday in Macmillan 154 from 2:00-3:00pm. We hope to see more and more of you. Feel free to forward any of these announcements to people you may think would be interested.

For this week’s TerreWEB seminar we have Novak Rogic, who will be talking about “Resource Management, Content Sharing and Republishing at UBC – Case Studies and Possibilities.” Everyone is welcome!

Abstract:UBC runs MediaWiki and WordPress platforms for personal publishing (over 20,000 users) content management (over 700 websites), content sharing and republishing, ePortfolio and general teaching and learning for over 40,000 students and 10,000 faculty and staff. Novak Rogic will present a few interesting teaching and learning projects and share current developments.

Bio: Novak Rogic is the Web Strategy Manager at the UBC’s Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology. He is responsible for UBC Blogs, Wiki and CMS and leads the web projects that emphasize sharing, producing and collaboration on the Internet.

When: This Thursday, January 9th

Where: Macmillan Building, Room 154

Time: 2:00-3:00pm (3:30 for TerreWEB Scholars)

Live Webinar: If you are unavailable to attend, we will have live webinar which can be accessed live here: Webinar Link – Please log in 5 minutes early and use your name for the “login” field.

Ongoing info about TerreWEB seminars can be found HERE. (Coming soon)

Hope to see you there!

Preston Cumming

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Statistical Opportunity for Students (SOS) program — UBC Department of Statistics

Dear UBC Graduate Students and Faculty:

Are you having trouble with the statistics needed for your thesis? The Statistical Consulting And Research Laboratory (SCARL) in the Department of Statistics at UBC is pleased to offer limited statistical consulting to UBC graduate students at no charge. Please visit the SOS webpage for more information about the program and how to apply.
http://www.stat.ubc.ca/SCARL/HowSCARLHelp/Detail/SOS.php The SOS program is made possible through funding from the Office of the Provost and VP, Research and International.

Thanks in advance.

Rick White
Managing Director
Statistical Consulting and Research Laboratory

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Jan 27 – Anne Frank: A history for today Teacher Preview

RSVP to INFO@VHEC.ORG

On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank receives a diary as a gift. Just weeks later her family enters into hiding in Amsterdam. For more than two years, Anne carefully records her thoughts, feelings, and observations in her now-iconic diary, one of the most widely read books in the world today. Through photos, narratives, and artefacts, Anne Frank – A History for Today illuminates the effect of National Socialism on one Jewish family, and explores the legacy of this history for all Canadians. The exhibit also features artefacts of child survivors who settled in Canada after the war.

Students grade six and up will participate in an interactive school tour and complementary workshop exploring themes of discrimination, social responsibility and resistance, and diarizing through the lens of the exhibit.

Exhibit produced by The Anne Frank House. Supported by Consulate of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Isaac and Sophie Waldman Endowment Fund of the Vancouver Foundation, and Ralph Markin & Bob Markin, in honour of a dear friend, Leslie Spiro z”l.

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EQUIPMENT LOANS at UBC‏

Dear Students,

The note below is a reminder that that the Audio Visual room in Scarfe Room 1 closed on November 12th. You probably know that UBC provides equipment loans to students.  The following two links provide information on how to borrow:

·         Laptops

·         Camcorders and Tripods

·         Camcorder and Projectors

·         LCD Projectors

·         Mac Display Adaptors

·         Calculators

·         A wide range of chargers

·         Headphones

·         Other presentation supplies

http://learningcommons.ubc.ca/tech-support-2/equipment-lending/

http://services.library.ubc.ca/computers-technology/technology-borrowing/

The Learning Commons is at: Room 300, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre

Sincerely, Colin Sharwood

Director of Finance, Faculty of Education – UBC

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