INSIGHTS Newsletter
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of the INSIGHTS Newsletter is now available on our website. Download your digital copy here.
IDEAS@MOA: A Tour of Indigenous Collections and Indigitisation Efforts at MOA
Join IDEAS@UBC for this private tour and learn more about Indigenous Collections and Indigitisation Efforts at MOA
Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story
This exhibit, produced by Karen Jamieson Dance, was researched and co-written by MASLIS students Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Charlotte Leonard.
INFO Courses for Graduate Students
In 2021-22, the School of Information launched a new Minor in Informatics, which expanded the school’s teaching to the undergraduate level. The course offering in 2022-23 includes a wide range of topics, including Media Design, Cultural Informatics and Information and Data Design. UBC iSchool students can take up to two upper-level undergraduate courses (i.e. […]
INFO Courses for Graduate Students
The INFO course offering in 2022-23 includes a wide range of topics, including Media Design, Cultural Informatics and Information and Data Design.
Dr. Hannah Turner receives 2021 Labrecque-Lee Book Award
The prize recognizes her book “Cataloguing Culture” and its valuable insight into the history of anthropology and its complicity in the dispossession of Indigenous peoples in North America.
The 2020 (Re)Collection
Students in the Theory and Practice of Oral History course created this exhibit to revisit the lives and memories and document the experiences of different individuals during the pandemic.
Listening to the Earth
Students talked to scientists and collected stories about their favourite organisms. This audio-based exhibit examines these interviews and the interesting, funny, and sometimes sad, futures for these organisms.
Exploring the oldest manuscript of Constantine the African’s Pantegni
Professor Erik Kwakkel’s new book offers unprecedented insights into the revolutionary arrival of Arabic medicine to medieval Europe