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Draft Timetables for Summer 2013 (All Students)
The DRAFT Timetables for the 2013 Summer Sessions are available here: http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/timetables/timetables.htm Registration for the 2013 Summer Session will probably open in mid-March 2013.
SLAIS Gallery, Bralorne Reading Room, and Trail Room Closed – November 22, 2012 (All Students)
On November 22, 2012, SLAIS will be hosting the SLAIS November Graduation Reception for our new graduates and their families (about 50 people). Unfortunately SLAIS Gallery, the Bralorne Reading Room, and the Trail Room will be closed for any student use for the morning (8 am – 12 pm). You are welcome to use the […]
Resume Clinic @LSI (All Students)
Registration is now open for: Resume and Cover Letter Clinic @ the Life Sciences Institute Wednesday, November 28, 2012 – 2:30pm – 4:00pm For a complete description, please visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7712-gpscareer-services-event-resume-cover-letter-clinic To register, see https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2017. For a new calendar of upcoming graduate student workshops and sessions offered by our campus partners such as the research commons, […]
Queer U 2013 – Fluidity in Queer Identity (All Students)
As part of Outweek (Feb 4-9), PRIDE UBC, with the support of Critical Studies in Sexualities and The Network: Queer Grad Students, is organizing Queer U, an annual graduate level academic conference on sexualities and genders. The conference centers on bringing the research and work of graduate students and established scholars from across the West […]
Journal of Graduate Research in Young People’s Materials and Culture (MLIS, Dual)
Call for Papers Journal of Graduate Research in Young People’s Materials and Culture (JGR) Based at the Universityof British Columbiathe Journal of Graduate Research in Young People’s Materials and Culture (JGR) is a peer-reviewed open-access e-journal publishing graduate student research in the areas of children’s and young adult literature, childhood studies, and cultural studies related to […]
Visual Resources Association Conference Travel Awards 2013 (All Students)
VRA Travel Awards are available for attendance at the 2013 VRA conference “Capitalizing on Creativity” in Providence, Rhode Island April 3-6. The deadline for receipt of applications will be Monday, November 26, 10 am EST. The list of recipients will be announced on the VRA listserv the third week of December. A preliminary conference schedule […]
American Library Association – New free streaming video broadcasts, AL Live (MLIS, Dual)
AL Live, the new free streaming video broadcast from American Libraries, launches this Friday, November 16, at 1:00 pm Central time (2:00pm Eastern, 11:00am Mountain, 10:00am Pacific) with “Library 2017: Tech at Warp Speed.” In this first episode, author and ALA TechSource columnist Jason Griffey moderates a discussion on libraries in the near future, with […]
Thesis Defence for MA in Children’s Literature – Sae Yong Kim (MACL, MLIS, Dual)
Thesis Defence for MA in Children’s Literature Sae Yong Kim , MA Candidate Topic: “An Analysis of a Selection of English-language Korean Folktale Picture Books” Wednesday, November 28th Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Location: Language and Literacy Education Ponderosa Annex E, Boardroom, Room 105 2034 Lower Mall, University of British Columbia http://www.maps.ubc.ca/PROD/index_detail.php?show=y,n,n,n,n,y&bldg2Search=n&locat1=871-2 […]
MACL Faculty, Grad Publish Paper on Québecois YA Lit
Professor Theresa Rogers, a faculty member from UBC Department of Language and Literacy Education and part of the interdisciplinary faculty for the Master of Arts in Children’s Literature, and recent MACL graduate Geneviève Brisson have published “Reading Place: Bodies and Spaces in Québecois Adolescent Literature.” The original paper appears in Children’s Literature in Education “Online […]
Ingrid Parent Interviewed on Changing Library Model
Constantly evolving technology and dramatic changes in student and faculty research habits has forced academic libraries to rethink how they collect, manage information and create knowledge in the digital age. UBC has embarked on a major restructuring of its collections and services, and University Librarian Ingrid Parent, a SLAIS alumna, discusses these changes with UBC […]
