Events

Join us for Teachings and Tea: Thirteen Moon with Opoloahsomuwehs – UNB Elder-in-residence Imelda Perley. This session will include a talking circle, ceremonies, traditional teas, and ancestral teachings.

Sunday, March 25th
1pm – 3pm
Harriet Irving Library
1st floor, Reading Room #(109)

All are welcome!

Join Jeannie Bail and Joshua Dickison in a discussion about the current state of Fair Dealing in the context of the Canadian Copyright Act Review.

Join us for Teachings and Tea: Thirteen Moons with Opoloahsomuwehs – UNB Elder-in-residence Imelda Perley. This session will include a Talking Circle, ceremonies, traditional teas, and ancestral teachings.

Sunday, February 25th
1pm – 3pm
Harriet Irving Library
1st floor, Reading Room #(109)

All are welcome!

Dr. Helene Staveley, this year’s Eileen Wallace Research Fellow, will be presenting a talk entitled, “At Play in the Atlantic Playground: Children and Communities in the Maritime Books of the Eileen Wallace Children’s Literature Collection.” Dr. Staveley is a lecturer at Memorial University with research interests in Canadian, Atlantic Canadian and Children’s & Young Adult Literature.

Flu Season is here!

Get your flu vaccine at the HIL Flu Clinic:

When:  Wednesday, November 8th, 2017

10:00am – 2:00pm

Where:  Reading Room (Rm. 109), Harriet Irving Library, UNBF

The Student Accessibility Centre in partnership with the H.I.L. Accessibility Centre is hosting an event on Wednesday, Nov. 8. ‘UNB Learning Bar: What’s New in EdTech?’ will showcase four different assistive technology tools including:

Come celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Harriet Irving Library (October 11, 1967- October 11, 2017) with birthday cake, and an exhibit of photos from Archives & Special Collections on Wednesday, October 11, from 11am-1pm in the Commons Cafe at Harriet Irving Library. All are welcome! #HIL50

University of New Brunswick (UNB) Archives & Special Collections is honoured to be the repository for Deborah Joy Corey’s archival collection, which currently consists of material from her award-winning first novel, Losing Eddie, and will expand, as Corey has agreed to contribute all of her archival papers to UNB!

We’re celebrating the launch of Whispers of Mermaids and Wonderful Things: Atlantic Canadian Poetry and Verse for Children, edited by Sheree Fitch and Anne Hunt (Nimbus, 2017).

Fake news is not new but it has, in the last year or so, played an important role in conversations about news and politics. This presentation will look at examples of fake news and examine its political consequences. It will also give participants tools and strategies to identify and debunk fake news.