Do You Consider Nature to be ‘Sacred’? The first Resident Members’ Series talk asks some tough questions
In a year where twists and turns of a global pandemic have ruptured the normally closely-knit graduate student community at Green College, the first episode of the Resident Member series was a truly welcome event.
Hallah Kassem is in the first year of her Masters of Science in Population and Public Health at UBC. She graduated with a Bachelors in Applied Science in Public Health and Safety from Ryerson University. She is in her first year of residence at Green College.
*This is a transcript of our conversation on January 6, 2021. It has been edited for length and clarity.
In conversation with Michelle Good, author, lawyer and voice of wisdom
Michelle Good, a Cree writer and lawyer who recently published her debut novel, Five LIttle Indians, will be kicking off her residency at Green College with a lecture on January 19 entitled ‘The Critical Role of Residential Schools in the Colonial Toolkit’. It is the first episode of the J.V. Clyne series she will be overseeing for the year at Green College on the topic of ‘Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Fingerprints in the 21st Century’.
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: GREEN COLLEGE ADVISORY BOARD
The Nominating Committee for the Advisory Board of Green College at the University of British Columbia invites its Resident Members, Society Members (former Resident Members) and Members of Common Room to put forward names for possible nominees to Board positions.
Positions are open for (1) Member at Large from the general community, (1) Society Member (former Resident Member), and (1) UBC Faculty Member of Common Room.
Patara McKeen is SSHRC funded scholar at the University of British Columbia and is in their second year of residence at Green College. Patara is author of “OPINION: It’s time to sit down and listen. The pandemic is racist” and submitted article “Shaping Sensibility, A Riots Production of Civility.”
*This is a transcript of our conversation on December 5, 2020. It has been edited for length and clarity.
The Húy̓at Interactive Web Site is a living archive. An outcome of generations of knowledge, years of work and an entire history of the land and people, the website is an indication of a new direction for archaeology, one that “isn’t just about stone tools.”
Four Leading Scholars walk into a bar.
For the first scholar, it’s a world of architecture and story, where the stools and tables, the mirror hanging over the bar, create a space where characters enact their stories and play out their narratives.
For the second, it’s a world of cross-cultural encounters, where the commercially-imported beer from Germany meets the potatoes grown and harvested in China that have become American-style French fries on the tables.
A Storytelling Event in Four Parts
How often do you stop to consider the narrative framework of your life? How do words, images, metaphors and scenes around you engage you as an audience member in creating worlds of imagination and storytelling? What other people do you share those worlds with? And importantly, how might we reshape those worlds in less destructive and more equitable ways?
Bruno Arderucio, Green College Resident Member and UBC PhD in Theoretical Physics, explains the interest—and oddity—of the award
Bruno Arderucio
Bruno Arderucio has talked with Sir Roger Penrose on the latter’s visits to UBC and Green College in recent years. As he explains below, the timing of the British scientist's Nobel laureateship has a significance beyond black holes.
