Global Encounters: An Interdisciplinary Project for Enhancing the Teaching of Cultural Contact and Exchange at UBC

TitleGlobal Encounters: An Interdisciplinary Project for Enhancing the Teaching of Cultural Contact and Exchange at UBC
Faculty/College/UnitArts
StatusCompleted
Duration2 Year
Initiation04/01/2009
Completion05/30/2011
Project Summary

This project will produce an interactive, web-based environment to enrich the undergraduate and graduate student experience in courses dealing with encounters between peoples and cultures over time and space. Building on an existing network of individuals across a range of disciplines whose teaching and research already address these issues, the Global Encounters project will serve as a virtual resource portal bringing together teaching materials, digital collections and databases (including maps, narratives, illustrations, and archival materials from Rare Books and Special Collections), information on lectures and events, forums for discussion, electronic exhibition spaces, and opportunities to share works-in-progress between students and faculty. The project has hired students from the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies (SLAIS), and Arts faculties to plan and coordinate the elaboration of the project website, assisted by a professional web/graphic designer who is overseeing the integration of the site’s overall architecture and individual learning modules.

Funding Details
Year 1: Project YearYear 1
Year 1: Funding Year2009/2010
Year 1: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 1: Principal InvestigatorNeil Safier
Year 1: Funded Amount36,659
Year 1: Team Members

Neil Safier, History, Faculty of Arts
Katherine Kalsbeek, Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Library
Sarah Romkey, Chung Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Library
Bronwen Wilson, Art History, Faculty of Arts
Handel Kashope Wright, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, Faculty of Education
Peter Seixas, Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, Faculty of Education
Cristina Lupton, English, Faculty of Arts
Kim Beauchesne, French and Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Arts
Anthony Shelton, Museum of Anthropology
Graeme Wynn, Geography, Faculty of Arts
Sally Hermansen, Geography, Faculty of Arts
Coll Thrush, History, Faculty of Arts
Danny Vickers, History, Faculty of Arts
Henry Yu, History, Faculty of Arts
Renisa Mawani, Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Year 2: Project YearYear 2
Year 2: Funding Year2010/2011
Year 2: Project TypeSmall TLEF
Year 2: Principal InvestigatorNeil Safier
Year 2: Funded Amount3,600
Year 2: Team Members

Neil Safier, History, Faculty of Arts
Katherine Kalsbeek, Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Library
Sarah Romkey, Chung Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, UBC Library
Bronwen Wilson, Art History, Faculty of Arts
Handel Kashope Wright, Centre for Culture, Identity and Education, Faculty of Education
Peter Seixas, Centre for the Study of Historical Consciousness, Faculty of Education
Cristina Lupton, English, Faculty of Arts
Kim Beauchesne, French and Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Arts
Anthony Shelton, Museum of Anthropology
Graeme Wynn, Geography, Faculty of Arts
Sally Hermansen, Geography, Faculty of Arts
Coll Thrush, History, Faculty of Arts
Danny Vickers, History, Faculty of Arts
Henry Yu, History, Faculty of Arts
Renisa Mawani, Sociology, Faculty of Arts