The MACL Program is co-sponsoring a lecture on June 12th by Dr. Ian Horton of the London School of Communication called “Colonialist Stereotypes and Narrative Form in European Comic Books.
Wednesday June 12th,
12:00-1:30 pm
West Mall Annex 216
1933 West Mall, UBC
Please RSVP to alk1959@interchange.ubc.ca
To see flyer, got to:
Please take a look at the link below regarding the PhD Information and Recruitment Session.
See https://slais.sites.olt.ubc.ca/?attachment_id=3748
GPS Workshop
Registration is now open for:
Scholar, Blogger, Tweeter, Author: Building your academic profile (in partnership with the UBC Library)
Thursday, June 6th
1:30 – 4:00 PM
For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/9265-gpslibrary-workshop-scholar-blogger-tweeter-author-building-your-academic
To register, please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g27d6
On Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 (two weeks today) the Centre for Student Involvement & Careers, in partnership with the Graduate Pathways to Success program, is providing a day-long symposium featuring insights from employers and career professionals. The day will include an expert panel, networking opportunities and workshops customized to graduate student needs.
Faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows and graduate students are invited to attend the morning sessions and networking lunch. Graduate students may also register for two afternoon job search seminars.
To register please visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2780
Event location: Buchanan Building (room details provided with registration)
Event schedule:
• 10:00 to 10:45 – Opening lecture: Graduate Student Careers in the 21st Century by David Helliwell
• 11:00-12:30 – Expert Panel– What do employers look for when they hire Graduate Students?
• 12:30-2:00 – Networking Lunch – meet alumni, employers and advisors
• 2:00-3:00 – Job Search Strategy Seminars: Session 1
o Grow Your Professional Network with an Amazing LinkedIn Profile, by John Horn
o Start Smart – Salary Negotiations for Job Offers, by Marlene Delanghe
o Getting the Interview – How to Make Your Application Stand Out, by Matthew Heiydt
o Career Transitions for International Graduate Students, by Harish Vasudevan and Lisa Brunner
• 3:15-4:15 – Job Search Strategy Seminars: Session 2 (session 1 repeated)
o Grow Your Professional Network with an Amazing LinkedIn Profile, by John Horn
o Start Smart – Salary Negotiations for Job Offers, by Marlene Delanghe
o Getting the Interview – How to Make Your Application Stand Out, by Matthew Heiydt
o Career Transitions for International Graduate Students, by Harish Vasudevan and Lisa Brunner
Panelist and speaker information provided online at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7724-gpscsic-event-job-search-strategies
Who will benefit most from these seminars? Graduate students who are undertaking their job search or are interested in learning more about careers beyond The Academy.
ALISE/The Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition
Deadline: June 30, 2013
The Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) is now accepting proposals for its 2014 Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition. Dissertations must deal with substantive issues related to library and information science, but applicants may be from within or outside LIS programs.
Up to two outstanding dissertations completed between December 15, 2011 and June 30, 2013 will be selected. Each winner will receive $500, plus 2014 conference registration and personal membership in ALISE for 2014. Winners of the Dissertation Competition will present a summary of their work at the 2014 ALISE annual meeting.
Submission Requirements
Your submission must include:
(1) – A 200-word-abstract of the dissertation
(2) – A copy of the dissertation completed between December 15, 2011 and June 30, 2013
(3) – Proof of university acceptance. We accept the following evidence as proof of university acceptance: a university transcript facsimile, official or unofficial, showing doctoral degree awarded or a letter from the advisor indicating university acceptance within the timeframe.
Please note: You should merge multiple files to make a single PDF file for submission. Please place “Proof of university acceptance” in the first page of your PDF file.
Judging
The members of ALISE Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee will judge the dissertations. In cases where the research or methodology warrants it, additional assistance will be obtained from ALISE members outside the committee. Dissertations will be judged according to the following criteria:
Submission Instructions:
Submissions will be made through the Easy Chair system, at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=alise2014.
Follow these steps:
1. Log on the system (create an EasyChair account if you do not already have one).
2. Choose ALISE 2014 if you see other conferences in the list.
3. If you are also a reviewer, please be sure to select “author” as your role for your submission.
4. Select “New Submission.”
5. Select the “Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award” track and press “Continue.”
6. Complete all the entries requested. Enter a title and provide an abstract for your submission.
7. Upload your file (Proof of university acceptance and a copy of your dissertation) and press “Submit.”
8. You will receive a confirmation email from the EasyChair system.
Soo Young Rieh, Chair of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee
Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
The RCMP have issued a warning for a suspect who’s been groping women, usually late at night.
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Please be aware of your surroundings – Campus Security provides whistles
entrepreneurship@UBC is pleased to announce that it will be hosting a cutting edge pilot course on Leadership from June 26 – July 3, 2013 featuring a team of world renowned instructors. Open to all UBC students, faculty, staff and alumni, the course will work with participants to develop them as leaders, allowing them to respond naturally in leadership situations. Rather than having to remember and apply leadership theory, course participants will leave understanding what allows them to be effective leaders in any situation.
The course is ideal for any member of the UBC community who wishes to develop their leadership abilities, but is especially beneficial to those in leadership positions in research groups, student clubs and societies, entrepreneurial activities, or other organizational endeavours. (more…)
Congratulations to five MACL students who have had papers or posters accepted at upcoming peer-reviewed conferences.
Stephanie Dror’s paper, “Katniss as Environmental Champion: Reading Nature as a Game Space in The Hunger Games,” has been accepted at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (PAMLA 2013), taking place in San Diego this November.
Megan Harrison’s paper, “Trauma Depiction in Refugee Memoirs for Children,” has been accepted for the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth (SHCY) Conference in June at the University of Nottingham, U.K.
MACL students will also be well-represented at Congress 2013 at the University of Victoria taking place in June.
Cynthia Nugent’s paper, “Extending Picturebook Multimodal Theory to Encompass the Affordances of the iPad” has been accepted for the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL/ALCQ) Conference at Congress. Aline Frederico will be presenting her paper, “The Construction of Meaning in Three Fairy Tale Enhanced Electronic Picturebooks” and Yash Kesanakurthy will be presenting her poster, “Sense, Sensitivity and Censorship: An Analysis of Gate-Keeping Behaviour in the Online Nerdfighter Community,” as part of the Canadian Association for Information Science Conference at Congress.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is accepting applications for the Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW), a program designed to recruit master of library and information science (MLIS) students from traditionally underrepresented ethnic and racial minority groups into careers in research libraries. The IRDW includes a stipend in support of MLIS education of up to $10,000 over two years, leadership and career development training, a site visit to the Purdue University Libraries, financial support for skills development, and a formal mentorship program.
Applications are due by June 14, 2013. For information on how to apply, click here.
The International World Wide Web Conference 2013 (#WWW2013) is underway and an iSchool@UBC faculty member is already making waves in Rio. Professor Heather O’Brien, presenting with Mounia Lalmas from Yahoo! Labs and Elad Yom Tov from Microsoft Research, made the list of “Highlights from Opening Day” for her tutorial on “Measuring User Engagement.” The tutorial focused on how user engagement is currently being measured as well as future considerations for its measurement.
The World Wide Web Conference is a yearly international conference on the future direction of the World Wide Web. It began in 1994 at CERN and is organized by the International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee (IW3C2). The Conference runs from May 13-17 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
