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Interview with a GC Resident Member: Jane Kuznetsova

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Jane Kuznetsova is in the second year of her PhD in Language and Literacy Education at UBC. She holds a Master’s in Humanities Computing from the University of Alberta and a combined Specialist degree in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Her current focus is particularly in games-related education and her research interests include systematic portrayals of romance and intimacy in games and digital media, mechanical representations of psychological trauma in games and subversions of player agency.

An Existential Moment for Theatre

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“We want to see down your throat,” said Colleen Murphy. “Or at least I do.”

No, the situation Murphy was describing wasn’t a doctor giving you a laryngoscopy. She was talking about the nature and role of theatre during and after a pandemic. When three-dimensional live theatre becomes translated onto a two-dimensional screen as it has during the COVID-19 pandemic, the intensity, the operatic tone, the putting of grief and fury into a safe place, must become more, well, in your face.

Interview with a GC Resident Member: Hallah Kassem

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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

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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

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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.

Interview with a GC Resident Member: Patara McKeen

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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.

Sitting On Top of Many Different Worlds

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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.

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