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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.

A Storytelling Event in Four Parts

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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?

Why Sir Roger Penrose’s Nobel Prize in Physics Comes as a Surprise

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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.

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