Abject Learning

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    59 episodes
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Episodes of Abject Learning

    • Canadian Mining in Latin America: the Politics a...

      A Roundtable with * David Deisley, Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs, and General Counsel, Goldcorp * Steve Stewart, Program Director, CoDevelopment Canada, and Mining Justice Alliance * Marcello Veiga, Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering, UBC Moderated by Jon Beasley-Murray, Latin American Studies, UBC. November 17, 2011, Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University For centuries, Latin America’s mineral resources have lured adventurers and entrepreneurs. From Colu...

      • Release date
        Nov 18, 2011
      • Runtime
        02:01:56
    • Adrian Johns: "The Intellectual Property Defense...

      This session was recorded Wednesday on October 20th, 2011, at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. With the rise of the information economy has come the development of an industry devoted to policing that economy. This industry is composed of both public institutions like the United States' FBI and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and private companies marketing protective and detective services. Its primary focus is the major structuring element of the information w...

      • Release date
        Oct 21, 2011
      • Runtime
        01:21:30
    • Animation of the UBC Wiki Home Page

      It's come a long way, baby

      • Release date
        Mar 30, 2011
      • Runtime
        00:20
    • Street music in Buenos Aires

      Just a small sampling...

      • Release date
        Nov 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:12
    • Closing of the Gutenberg Parenthesis Seminar

      Sorry for the jerky camerawork... I can't film when I'm dancing.

      • Release date
        Nov 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:56
    • Closing of the Gutenberg Parenthesis Seminar

      The original file by JuLito Alonso is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIHrvOMMY8c

      • Release date
        Nov 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:13
    • Stewart Brand: Rethinking Green

      Founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the Global Business Network, the Long Now Foundation and the Well, writer, editor and game designer, Stewart Brand has helped to define the collaborative, data-sharing, forward-thinking world we live in now. In his newest book, Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto, he compiles reflections and lessons learned from more than 40 years as an environmentalist. Brand suggests a shift in the environmentalists’ dogmatic approach and describes a process...

      • Release date
        Oct 6, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:33:55
    • David Korten at UBC

      September 29, 2010 in Vancouver

      • Release date
        Oct 1, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:37:21
    • Trooper in East Van

      That's my boy on the left of the group... a head taller than the other kids, wearing blue, and singing and dancing up a storm...

      • Release date
        Jun 30, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:37
    • WikiRadio

      Audio from the 2004 presentation

      • Release date
        Feb 16, 2010
      • Runtime
        21:25
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