ANNOUNCEMENT

2013 Summer Institute

Living Our Indigenous Languages
July 2­August 2 | UBC Vancouver Campus

Please join us for a summer institute that will bring together a diverse community of people who are interested in reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous languages, many of which are endangered.

Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, faculty, staff, language advocates, community members, policy-makers, educators, practitioners, and scholars will be in attendance.

We invite you to enroll in all 4 courses (12 credits in 5 weeks), or in individual courses ranging from one to three weeks.

You will learn first-hand from language speakers, learners, and educators about their personal and professional experiences. You will also gain an understanding of practices in Indigenous language revitalization efforts.

REGISTRATION

Register by: Monday, June 3Visit pdce.educ.ubc.ca/LivingLanguages2013 for details.

LEARN MORE

Web: pdce.educ.ubc.ca/LivingLanguages2013
Contact: candace.galla@ubc.ca

To see poster, go to:

https://slais.sites.olt.ubc.ca/?attachment_id=3669

Dr. Lorne Whitehead: Enhancing the synergy between use-inspired university research and excellence

Thursday April 25, 2013 12:30-1:20pm Leonard S. Klinck Building room 464

Co-sponsored by Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program (ISGP) and Integrated Science Program, Faculty of Science. Free and open to all students and faculty. Refreshment will be served.

*Dr. Whitehead’s research centers on applying novel geometrical configurations to applied physics problems. His research also involves the study of high dynamic range display systems, and his work in this area led to a new a new display technology developed by UBC spin-off company, Brightside Technologies.  The company was acquired in 2007 by Dolby Laboratories and became Dolby Canada. Most recently, his research developed a technology for bringing sunlight deep into buildings for illumination, in order to reduce the need for electric lighting and improve the overall lighting quality.  This technology is now under development by UBC spin-off SunCentral Inc.

*from UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy web site

The Children and Childhood Studies Area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association invites you to participate in the annual MAPACA conference. Papers in this area examine the impact of popular culture on children and childhood, as well as the role of children and young adults as influencers and creators of popular and American culture.

Work from the world of Children’s Literature would be most welcome in this area!

Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

Proposals should take the form of 300-word abstracts. The deadline for submission is Friday, June 14, 2013. This year’s conference will be in Atlantic City, NJ, Nov. 7-9, 2013. For the complete call as well info on how to submit a proposal, please see http://mapaca.net/. Please direct any questions about the Children and Childhood Studies area to area chair Patrick Cox at ptcox@camden.rutgers.edu.

MAPACA welcomes proposals on all aspects of popular and American Culture.

For a list of MAPACA’s other areas and area chair contact information, visit Subject Areas <http://mapaca.net/areas/>. General questions can be directed to mapaca@mapaca.net.

MAPACA is an inclusive professional organization dedicated to the study of popular and American culture in all their multi-disciplinary manifestations. The association is comprised of college and university faculty, independent scholars and artists, and graduate and undergraduate students. It is a regional division of the Popular Culture and American Culture Association <http://pcaaca.org/>, which, in the words of Popular Culture Association founder Ray Browne, is a “multi-disciplinary association interested in new approaches to the expressions, mass media and all other phenomena of everyday life.”

SSHRC Talent Award

Value: $50,000 over one to three years
Eligibility: Open to current SSHRC doctoral and postdoctoral award holders

The Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a current SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellowship or scholarship award holder at the time of application. The Talent Award is given to an individual who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector.  One Talent Award will be awarded by SSHRC from the nominations submitted by Canadian universities.

For more information and nomination procedures, please consult the Graduate Studies website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/sshrc-talent-award

The department’s internal deadline is Friday, May 3^rd , 2013 at 4 pm.

Deadline for departmental nominations to the Faculty of Graduate Studies: 4:00pm Friday 10 May 2013