Wednesday, January 30th, (new room and time) 11:45– 12:45 pm, SLAIS colloquium, Barber — Chilcotin Board Room (IKBLC 256). Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Carol Tilley, “Children, Comics, Critics, and a Researcher”

Saturday, February 23rd, 8:30 am on, Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable Illustrator’s Breakfast, UBC Golf Club, the remarkable Oliver Jeffers. Student rate. Registration at this link.

http://vclr.ca/events-2012-13/illustrators-breakfast-2013/

Wednesday, February 27th, 7:30-8:50 pm, Room 46, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, (in Judi’s children’s literature class), Sarah Ellis and Kit Pearson on writing for the middle reader. All welcome.

Friday, March 1st, 3:30-6:30 pm, Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. MACL organized Symposium on Maurice Sendak (free, registration necessary, more information to follow). Speakers include professor of creative writing, professor of children’s literature, authors, illustrators, and librarians, among others – Christianne Hayward, Helene Høyrup, Shannon Ozirny, Kathie Shoemaker, Rhea Tregebov

Wednesday, March 20th, noon to 1 pm, Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. SLAIS colloquium series: Helene Høyrup: “Literature between Bookspace and New Literacy Space: Towards a Connective Ethnography of Children’s Literature and Digital Media”

Background on Visiting Children’s Literature Professor, Helene Høyrup, her talks at UBC, and her courses:

The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies is pleased to announce that Helene Høyrup, Ph.D., of the Royal School of Library and Information Science in Denmark, will be joining us as the inaugural Dodson Visiting Professor — She will be in the position for the second Winter Term, January to April 2013.

Dr. Høyrup is Associate Professor in children’s literature and digital literacy at RSLIS n Copenhagen. She is an international scholar in children’s literature studies and has published extensively in the field. She is particularly interested in the theoretical development of children’s literature scholarship, the interface between children’s literature, art and literature for adults, and the situation of children’s literature and its studies in different nations and regions. As part of her work on digital literacy, Dr. Høyrup has co-edited a research volume on “New Knowledge Media” and is currently co-editing a book on the philosophy of information and digital library functions (with Birger Hjørland and Hans Jørn Nielsen, RSLIS). Additionally, Dr. Høyrup is an international Hans Christian Andersen scholar and a partner in several Danish, Scandinavian and European research projects on children’s literature and canonicity, and on theories of informal learning with digital media.

In addition to teaching two one-credit classes over the term, she will be a guest speaker in other classes and at a university-wide colloquium and a Maurice Sendak symposium on children’s literature.

Høyrup Special Talks

1. Symposium on Maurice Sendak, Friday, March 1st, 3:30-6:30 pm, Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC (more information to come)

Helene Høyrup: “Maurice Sendak’s Modernism for Children. A Celebration of the Signifier?”

2. SLAIS colloquium series:

Wednesday, March 20th, noon to 1 pm, Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC

Helene Høyrup: “Literature between Bookspace and New Literacy Space: Towards a Connective Ethnography of Children’s Literature and Digital Media”

Høyrup Children’s Literature Courses (one credit courses; there may still be student places in the courses for registration)

LIBR 522K: Children’s Literature in a New Literacy Perspective (1 credit). Taught by Helene Høyrup. Saturday February 23 [1:00-5:00 and 6:00-9:00] in IBLC 191 and Friday March 15 [9:00-12:00/1:00-5:00] in SCARF 201. In this course students will learn about a number of aesthetic and narrative developments in contemporary children’s literature and about theories of how the new media landscape and digital culture interact with our notions of children’s literature. http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/coursdes/libr/libr522k.htm

LIBR 522M: Children’s Literature, Canon Formation, and Canonicity (1 credit). Taught by Helene Høyrup. Saturday March 9 [9:00-12:00/1:00-5:00] and March 23 [9:00-12:00/1:00-5:00] in IBLC 191. In this course students will learn about theories and examples of canon formation and canonicity in relation to children’s literature. http://www.slais.ubc.ca/courses/coursdes/libr/libr522m.htm

In collaboration with Mitacs, UBC has created the Globalink Graduate Fellowships for Mitacs Globalink alumni students who wish to pursue a research Master’s or PhD program at UBC. UBC will fund up to six students per year, depending on availability of funding from Mitacs, the quality of the students, and their fit with their prospective graduate programs.  For further information about the Mitacs Globalink program, please see:  http://www.mitacs.ca/globalink/what-globalink.

The fellowship provides $35,000 per year for two years, comprised of: – $10,000 stipend from UBC – $10,000 stipend from Mitacs – $15,000 from graduate program / research supervisor in the form of research assistantships, teaching assistantships, GSI award funding or any combination thereof

Complete information regarding nomination materials and procedures is available at:  http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/globalink-graduate-fellowship.  Nomination packages must be received by the Faculty of Graduate Studies by 4:00pm on Thursday 31 January 2013.

Registration is now open for:
Job Search Clinic: learn about job search strategies from Centre for Student Involvement and Careers Advisors as well as a panel of professionals.

Wednesday, January 16^th, 2:00 – 5:00 PM
For complete session details visit: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7723-gps-career-services-workshop-job-search-strategies
To register, visit: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g21bf

Perfectionism: do you struggle to complete tasks on time and worry they do not meet your high standards?  Does this lead to procrastinating?  Learn strategies to manage perfectionism.

Thursday, January 17^th, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
For complete session details, visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/7943-gpslife-career-centre-event-perfectionism
To register, visit https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g21c0

For all new students, registration remains open for this Thursday’s new graduate student orientation at https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g208c.

For all other upcoming GPS workshops and seminars, visit http://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events .

Please note, the research commons has several thesis formatting and citation management workshops throughout the month of January.  For their schedule, please visit http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/ or http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/series/58 .

The Student Leadership Conference takes place this Saturday, January 12^th on UBC campus. For more information on the program, keynote speakers, or how to register visit http://slc.ubc.ca/ .

The University of British Columbia offers multi-year fellowships to Master’s and doctoral Aboriginal students. Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through an annual competition, administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies in consultation with the First Nations House of Learning. Approximately a dozen new fellowships are offered each year.

More information about Aboriginal Graduate Fellowships is available on our website at https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/aboriginal-graduate-fellowships

The SLAIS departmental deadline is Friday, January 25, 2013 by 4 pm.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

We are thrilled to announce the iSchool@UBC’s Research Day 2013!

Infrastructures of Knowledge: Mediating Memories, Representing Relationships, Framing Futures

The iSchool@UBC, invites UBC faculty and students to join us in sharing the depth and breadth of our research endeavours at the intersections of information, people and technology. Our 4th Annual Research Day will be held on Friday, March 8, 2013. This event will showcase recent and ongoing research by faculty and students, a day set aside for reflecting on our work as designers, scholars and stewards of infrastructures of knowledge.

SUBMISSIONS

The day’s agenda will consist of an inspiring array of presentations and demonstrations.

**  Presentations:  Talks and Posters **

The presentation category is divided into short talks and posters of recent and ongoing work. The majority of submissions will be accepted as posters, with a few selected for presentation as a 10-minute talk. Poster presenters will participate in a Madness session early in the day, a fast-paced format during which poster authors will present the core ideas of their research in succinct, two-minute presentations.

* Demonstration

The demonstration category consists of tutorials, search interfaces, applications and other displays of recent and ongoing work that are best experienced through direct engagement

SUBMISSION FORMAT AND DUE DATE

Please submit an extended abstract (400-500 words) in .pdf format by Monday, January 14, 2013 to [lisa.nathan@ubc.ca] As a courtesy please include  [Research Day Submission] in the subject line.

Extended abstracts should include:

·       Author name(s), contact information and submission type (presentation or demonstration)

·       Introduction to the issue under consideration and its relationship to the field

·       Method or approach proposed/taken

·       Actual or anticipated results or outcomes, and

·       Contributions of the work

Notifications of participation will be sent out during the 2nd week of February, 2013.

Please direct queries to:

Dr. Lisa Nathan, lisa.nathan@ubc.ca

Elizabeth Shaffer, eshaffer@mail.ubc.ca