scholarly journals Changing sovereignty and changing borders: vox dei or vox populi?

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (418/419) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Jean Laponce
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Main Research ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The University ◽  
Science Association

The author is professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. One of his main research interests is the study of the relation between territory and ethnicity (see The Protection of Minorities, University of California Press, 1961; Languages and their Territories, University of Toronto Press, 1987; Sovereignty and Referendums, UBC Institute of International Relations, 2001). He is a member of the research committee on Political Geography of the International Political Science Association, a committee he founded in 1975 and co-chaired with Jean Gottmann.

Birney, (Alfred) Earle (1904–1995)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasmine Johnston
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Sound Media ◽  
The University

Earle Birney was a Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist and professor. Born in 1904 in Calgary, Alberta, he spent his childhood in rural Alberta and British Columbia. His adult life was predominately spent in Canada, the USA, and the United Kingdom, although he travelled extensively. He died in Toronto in 1995. While Birney’s poetics were influenced by his academic training in Old English and Middle English, he frequently experimented with the avant-garde use of typography, orthography, dialect, and sound media. Following studies at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of London, he accepted a professorship in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia in 1946. His teaching led to the foundation of the Department of Creative Writing at University of British Columbia in 1965. In the same year, however, he departed to the University of Toronto to serve as the school’s first writer-in-residence.

Preschools for Science: The Child Study Centre at the University of British Columbia, 1960–1997

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penney Clark ◽  
Mona Gleason ◽  
Stephen Petrina
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Child Study ◽  
Study Centre ◽  
History Of ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Although not entirely neglected, the history of preschool reform and child study in Canada is understudied. Historians have documented the fate of “progressivism” in Canadian schooling through the 1930s along with postwar reforms that shaped the school system through the 1960s. But there are few case studies of child study centers and laboratory schools in Canada, despite their popularity in the latter half of the twentieth century. Histories of child study and child development tend to focus on the well-known Institute of Child Study directed by the renowned William E. Blatz in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto (U of T). Yet there were over twenty other child study centers established in Canadian universities during the 1960s and 1970s directed by little-known figures such as Alice Borden and Grace Bredin at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

scholarly journals "Under moral obligation to stay:" Herbert R. Christie and the Origins of Forestry Education at the University of British Columbia, 1910-1933

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Kuhlberg
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Forestry Education ◽  
Il Y A ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The University ◽  
First World

Judging from the contrasting state of affairs at the forestry schools at the University of Toronto and the University of British Columbia, it is difficult to believe the situation that prevailed roughly eight decades ago. Today, UBC’s program is thriving whereas the forestry school at the University of Toronto is but a shadow of its former self. Exactly the opposite was true in the early twentieth century. Ironically, forestry education at UBC owes its existence to the profound commitment that Herbert Read Christie, a graduate of Toronto’s Faculty, showed to it in the years after the First World War. This article explores Christie’s role in building the UBC forestry school, and sheds light on the development of forestry as an academic discipline in Canada. -- En regard de l’évolution académique des écoles de foresterie de l’Université de Toronto et de l’Université de Colombie Britannique (UBC), il est difficile d’imaginer la situation qui existait il y a environ quatre-vingts ans. Alors que de nos jours, le programme de UBC s’avère florissant, les études en foresterie de l’Université de Toronto font piètre figure en comparaison de ce qu’elles étaient au début du XXe siècle où l’inverse prévalait. Il est ironique de souligner que le programme de foresterie développé à UBC, peu après la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, est l’oeuvre de Herbert Read Christie, un diplômé de l’Université de Toronto en ce domaine. Cet article explore le rôle marquant joué par Christie dans l’implantation de cette école et de l’essor académique de cette discipline au Canada.

Assessing Three Elements of “Canadian” International Relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Michael P. A. Murphy ◽  
Andrew Heffernan
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
French Language ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Canadian Context ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Setting

Abstract This research note addresses the ongoing debate over the existence of a “Canadian” International Relations (IR) by interrogating the university setting, the professoriate and important institutions of IR in the Canadian context. We not only contribute an update to the data but also enrol a larger number of Canadian universities and a wider sample of journals and conferences. Our analysis is structured around three existing groupings of institutions: the three most “Americanized” departments (the BMT)—University of British Columbia, McGill University and University of Toronto; the four most “critical” departments (the Four Nodes)—McMaster University, University of Ottawa, University of Victoria and York University; and the four largest French-language institutions (the FLIs)—Université de Montréal, Université du Québec à Montréal, Université Laval and Université de Sherbrooke. The characteristic openness often taken to define IR in Canada is more often found at the Four Nodes, the FLIs or unclassified schools than at the BMT schools, which are not only more Americanized in training but also isolated from other Canadian institutions.

IPO-mechanisms, monitoring and ownership structure11We would like to thank the referee, Larry Benveniste, and the editor, William Schwert, as well as Bruno Biais, Patrik Bolton, Susanne Espenlaub, Michael Fishman, Thierry Foucault, Gunther Franke, Julian Franks, Mark Grinblatt, Jean Jacque Laffont, Alexander Ljungqvist, Ernst Maug, Gerhard Orosel, Pegaret Pichler, Raguram Rajan, Jay Ritter, Ailsa Röell, Kristian Rydquist, Jean Tirole, Elu von Thadden, Ivo Welch, William Wilhelm, Joe Williams and Andrew Winton for helpful comments. This paper has been presented at the University of Alberta, Baruch College, the Free University of Brussels, the University of Gothenburg, HEC, the University of California, Irvine, the University of Lausanne, the London School of Economics, the University of Odense, Stockholm School of Economics, the University of British Columbia, UCLA, the University of Utah, the CEPR conferences in Tolouse and Gerzensee, the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association and the European Finance Association. This paper was written while Stoughton visited the University of Vienna. He expresses his appreciation to the faculty and staff for an enjoyable stay.

1998 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal M Stoughton ◽  
Josef Zechner
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
University Of California ◽  
London School ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
University Of Vienna ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Baruch College ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
The University

Watson, Sheila (1909–1998)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Millar Usiskin
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Daphne Marlatt ◽  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
Sheila Watson ◽  
The University

Canadian writer Sheila Watson (1909–1998) is best known for her modernist novel The Double Hook (1959) about the redemptive struggles of a small, rural community as they deal with the murder of one of their members. Born Sheila Martin Doherty in New Westminster, BC, Watson received her BA, (Hons) in English (1931) and MA (1933) from the University of British Columbia. She taught elementary students in a number of rural schools in British Columbia before marrying Wilfred Watson in 1941. She then continued to teach in Toronto, in Vancouver at the University of British Columbia, and in Powell River, BC While living in Calgary during 1951–52, Watson completed The Double Hook, which was published to mixed reviews. After its publication, Watson began her PhD under he guidance of Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto and completed her dissertation Wyndham Lewis: Post Expressionist at the University of Alberta in 1961. While working as a professor at the University of Alberta, Watson continued to write and publish. She maintained correspondence with several Canadian scholars and writers, including Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, and Daphne Marlatt. After her retirement in 1980, Sheila and her husband moved to Nanaimo, BC, where they died in 1998.

scholarly journals Editor's Note

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-362
Author(s):  
Jon Pevehouse
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Science ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Global Affairs ◽  
The University

As of July 2012, a new editorial team will take the reins at International Organization (IO). The journal's office will move from the Munk School of Global Affairs (and the Department of Political Science) at the University of Toronto to the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. This move represents a return to some of IO's early roots: the University of Wisconsin was the home of IO's first academic editor, Professor of Political Science David Kay. Although much has changed since Professor Kay began editing the journal in 1972, the goal of the journal to publish the best work in the field of international relations (IR) has not.

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