Chinese Community Policing Centre is a non-profit organization, in partnership with Vancouver Police Department, established in 1992 to serve the Chinese community in police-related matters. We now are recruiting Foot Patrol Volunteers and Special Event Helpers. This would be a great opportunity for students to build capacity and gain experiences while being engaged with the community.
Community Policing Patrol & Special Event Volunteer Opportunity
Register today for ITST419/ITAL409: "Italy and China" for Term 2
“Italy and China,” taught by Prof. Gaoheng Zhang
Since Marco Polo, Italy’s communication with China is the longest in Europe on written record. Through examining key
contemporary Italian-Chinese events, such as Italian intellectuals’ discussions about the Cultural Revolution and Chinese migration to Italy, we will put Italian and European interpretations of China as a rising superpower in perspective. The language of instruction is English. No prior knowledge is required. This course fulfills Arts’ Literature Requirement.
ITST419/ITAL409
Term 2
M/W/F, 11:00-12:00
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Access and Diversity Seeking ASIA 100 Tutor
Access and Diversity is seeking a tutor to work for 4 hours a week in course content directly relating to ASIA 100. The position will start immediately and continues until approximately December 20th, end of Term 1. There is a possibility of extension into Term 2. The tutor role pays $21.43 per hour.
Please submit applications (cover letter, resume, and transcript) to access.tutors@ubc.ca. Note that as we receive numerous applications, only the successful candidates will be notified.
Apply today for the Global Seminar: Heritage of Chinese Migration Kaiping/Hong Kong!
Join Dr. Henry Yu (UBC History) and Dr. Selia Tan (Wuyi University), while exploring multi-disciplinary perspectives on the histories, cultures, and geographies of Cantonese migration from Kaiping to North America. Supported by an Arts Research Abroad grant, this course is unique in also involving students in an on-going international research project, giving them invaluable experience on how new research knowledge is created at the scholarly level. Kaiping will become for the students a “living heritage laboratory” where local knowledge about the medicinal properties of local food, as well as technologies for irrigation, planting, seed propagation, and food preparation, will be examined as the subject of in-depth research. Students will learn and document how these technologies and techniques circulated across and around the Pacific region, brought along by the migrants who went back and forth between the “Four Counties” and Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and other parts of the Pacific and Caribbean.
This is an Arts Research Abroad (ARA) funded program. ARA is a generous funding body made of the Faculty of Arts – Dean’s Office, Anonymous Donors and Go Global that supports research intensive Global Seminars. ARA Funding provides eligible students 70% of funding for the Program Fee, and a budgeted flight
Find out more at students.ubc.ca/globalseminars
Application deadline is October 26th, 2017
Shamsia Hassani Artist Talks & the Traces of Words Exhibition at MOA
Image: Shamsia Hassani, What about the Dead Fish?, 2011
Shamsia Hassani (b. Iran, 1988) is regarded as the first female graffiti artist from Afghanistan. Her work is currently shown in the Traces of Words: Art and Calligraphy from Asia at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (on until October 9, 2017).
Through her art, Shamsia aims to colour over the sad memories of wars and to bring positive changes to society. Her work often depicts women in burqas, and fish. When she cannot work on the street, she creates a “dreaming graffiti” by painting on photographic images of her city. She has held solo and group exhibitions both internationally and in Afghanistan and was selected as one of the top ten artists for the second Afghan Contemporary Art Prize in 2009. She teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Kabul University, and is one of the founders of the Berang Arts organization.
Artist Talks
Creating and Speaking through Art
Presented by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and the Museum of Anthropology
http://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/shamsia-hassani-artist-talk/
Monday, September 25, 2017
5:30 – 7:30 pm
Audain Art Centre, Room 1002, UBC
6398 University Boulevard
Calligraphy in my Art
MOA Visual and Material Culture Research Seminar Series
http://moa.ubc.ca/portfolio_page/research-seminar-series/
Thursday, September 28, 2017
4 – 5pm
Room 213 at MOA at UBC
6393 NW Marine Drive
Searching for Graduate Student Mentors: Research Experience Program (REX)
Undergraduate Research Opportunities is a student-led, AMS-constituted UBC
club. They run the Research EXperience (REX) program where undergraduate
students are paired with post-doctoral and graduate students to design a
theoretical research project. At the end of the program, the undergraduate
students present their finished projects at MURC, one of the largest
undergraduate research conferences in BC. This initiative provides
undergraduates early exposure to the valuable world of research without
the monetary and logistical constraints associated with the traditional
laboratory experience. The 2015-16 program saw the participation of over
110 mentors and 450 undergraduate applicants.
What is REX?
REX is a six-month long program designed to help undergraduate students
build essential research skills through a prospective research project (no
results, lab time, or lab resources required). The skills acquired by the
prospective students include:
· Answering research questions
· Understanding how to perform literature reviews
· Synthesizing an experimental design
· Creating & printing a research poster
· Learning how to present a research poster
They are currently looking for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows
who are interested in committing a minimum of 3 hours each month to act as
a mentor. It is a great opportunity for graduate students to gain
mentorship, leadership, and management skills. Furthermore, the REX
program assists mentors on the lookout for promising students to take into
their lab through direct evaluation for 6 months (October to March).
Sign up for a REX mentor information session:
http://www.uroubc.ca/mentor-registration/
Check out their website for more information on the REX program:
http://www.uroubc.ca/rex/
Further information:
REX Mentor Brochure:
http://www.uroubc.ca/Finalized-2017-18-Mentor-Brochure.pdf
REX Timeline:
http://www.uroubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Timeline.pdf