Join CAUSA (Collective for the Advanced and Unified Studies in the Visual Arts) for this multi-site exhibition – Nitobe Memorial Garden: Vast Ocean, Vast Heaven from December 3, 2015  to January 31, 2016 at the Asian Centre/Library, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Rare Books and Special Collections.

Upcoming events:

Japan and the Cinema
a CAUSA / UBC Film Society collaboration at Norman Bouchard Memorial Theatre, 6138 Student Union Boulevard (map)
• Saturday January 16th 7:00 pm: HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, 1959)
• Saturday January 16th 9:00 pm: FLOATING WEEDS (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959)
• Sunday January 24th 7:00 pm: DOUBLE SUICIDE (Masahiro Shinoda, 1969)

Past Event:

A One-Day Symposium
Date: Saturday, January 9th, 2016
Time: 10am – 12:30pm & 1:30pm – 4pm
Place: UBC Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – Lillooet Room

Speakers: CAUSA Research Curators in association with:
• Adrian Archambault, cultural studies archivist
• Donald Luxton, architectural heritage consultant and advocate
• Bryan Mulvihill, tea ceremony educator, Urasenke Foundation of Vancouver
• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, landscape architect
• Terence Russell, Asian Studies Centre, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• Ryo Sugiyama, curator, Nitobe Memorial Garden, University of British Columbia

Two Lectures hosted by CAUSA in association with the Asian Library
Date: Saturday, January 23rd, 2016
Time: 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Place: Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall (map)

1. “Design of Kurimoto Japanese Garden – University of Alberta,” by Isao Nakase, Director General, Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo, Japan
2. “Garden of Enlightenment of Tohoku,” by Koichi Kobayashi, Landscape Architect; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Hyogo, Japan

For more information visit http://www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/nitobe/ or email causa.research@gmail.com.