Current Lecture Series

Anthropocene Dialogues: Readings, Short Talks, and Conversations

Organized by Jaspreet Singh, Writer in Residence at Green College

The Anthropocene (even when described informally) challenges the strange modern separation between "nature” and “humanity,” destabilizes our human-centric maps and our sense of time, and creates new forms of affect and thought; it calls for an integration of diverse disciplines to address the climate crisis and interspecies relationships, and to further the project of decolonization.
 

Series Conveners: Jaspreet Singh, 20th Writer in Residence at Green College

Event Dates: Jan 29, Feb 11, Mar 5

Early Music Vancouver at Green College

Organized by Early Music Vancouver

Early Music Vancouver (EMV) has a reputation for the presentation, production and study of Western classical repertoires in an historical, international and cross-cultural context. It offers one of the most ambitious programs of its type in North America, featuring renowned local and guest artists. Green College and EMV have had a close association since the mid-1990s and EMV has for many years mounted a recital series at the College.

Series Conveners: Suzie LeBlanc, Early Music Vancouver

Event Dates: Sep 25, Oct 23, Jan 15, Feb 5

Emeritus College Series             
Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge

Co-hosted with UBC Emeritus College

This series will bring together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have changed over time. The conversation will inevitably lead to a consideration of cross-disciplinary influences and interdisciplinary trends, as participants account for changes in the cognitive strength of sub-disciplines and the rise and fall of disciplinary paradigms. The intent will be to identify underlying reasons for the observed changes and, by the end of the series, to draw some general conclusions about mechanisms of (inter)disciplinary interaction and development, in the spirit—if not necessarily the style—of Thomas Kuhn and Michel Foucault.

Series Conveners: Donald Fisher, Foundation Fellow, Green College; Emma Cunliffe, Principal, Green College

Event Dates: Oct 24, Nov 21, Jan 16, Feb 27, Mar 20, Apr 10

Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Precarity and Uncertainty

This Green College Leading Scholars series explores the difficulties and opportunities presented in precarious and uncertain conditions, including in research, academia, public health, and in understanding large data sets.

Series Conveners: Rubee Dev, Nursing; Joel Finbloom, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Torsten Jaccard, Economics; Jaya Joshi, Wood Science; Tarun Khanna, Public Policy and Global Affairs; Hyosub Kim, Kinesiology; Alexandra Peck, Art History, Visual Art and Theory; Katharina N. Piechocki, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies; Elizabeth Shaffer, Information; Felix Wiesner, Wood Science; Helena Wu, Asian Studies; Ron Yang, Business

Event Dates: Oct 29, Nov 28, Jan 30, Feb 26

Resident Members' Series

Each week, the Green College Resident Members’ Series features a different presenter (or presenters) from among the Resident Members of Green College. Graduate students, Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars offer talks and events on their areas of research or study and, as appropriate, bring in their research colleagues from outside the College. 

Series Conveners: Nicolo Jimenez, Geography; Erin Evans, Microbiology and Immunology

Event Dates: Sep 16, Oct 7, Oct 21, Oct 28, Nov 4, Nov 25, Dec 2, Dec 9, Jan 13, Jan 20, Jan 27, Feb 3, Feb 10, Feb 24, Mar 3, Mar 10, Mar 17, Mar 24, Mar 31, Apr 7, Apr 14

Stories from the Front Line: Universities and Global Citizenship

This series engages with the critical question of what role public universities should occupy in international sustainable development, particularly informed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by all Member States, including Canada, in 2015. As the UN explains, the SDGs “are an urgent call for action by all countries—developed and developing—in a global partnership. They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth—all while tackling climate change and working to preserve our oceans and forests.”

To better understand what is at stake with this question, conveners of this series will stage a series of conversations with people working on the front lines of university global engagement. The first three events of the series will be centred on personal stories and experiences generated from the work of three organizations with permanent, satellite, or temporary homes at UBC: the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative, the Scholars at Risk program, and Academics Without Borders. In the fourth and final event, panelists will revisit the larger question of the ethics and risks of university engagement in international partnerships and around a common cause, as well as discuss what it looks like to build capacity, what it means to develop a sense of global citizenship, as what they see as the current and future challenges and limitations of this kind of work.

Series Conveners: Nancy Gallini, Academics Without Borders; Natasha Nobell, Scholars at Risk UBC; Kishor M. Wasan, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative

Event Dates: Jan 28, Mar 19, Apr 15  

Special Lectures and Events

Talks and performances by visitors invited to Green College and UBC for the Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professorships Program, the Richard V. Ericson Lectures and other endowed appointments, and by distinguished Visiting Scholars, Writers, Artists, Journalists, etc. in Residence at the College, and Early Music Vancouver among others.

Event Dates: Sep 24, Sep 26, Oct 1, Oct 3, Oct 8, Oct 9, Oct 10, Oct 16, Oct 17, Nov 27, Dec 3, Jan 21, Feb 6, Feb 13, Feb 25, Mar 12, Mar 18, Mar 25, Mar 27

Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Truth and Imagination

Which stories are told, which forgotten, and how are stories and their storytellers reconfigured in the telling? The Truth and Imagination series investigates the form and re-presentation of archives and experiences, including those of bodies, languages, family, histories, and the law. We are curious about the relational and embodied nature of truth and its representation, including biases, absences, and silences. We invite you to imagine into the gaps with us through this series of talks, film, interactive workshops, and cross-disciplinary conversation.

Series Conveners: Aleska Alaica, Anthropology; Laura Yvonne Bulk, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; Nikki Georgopulos, Art History, Visual Art and Theory; Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Creative Writing; Caroline Lebrec, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies; Supriya Routh, Law

Event Dates: Nov 26, Dec 4, Feb 12, Feb 24, Mar 4

The Whole Cloth Reading Series

Co-organized with Creative Writing, UBC

An experience in deep listening, each Whole Cloth Reading Series event features a single poet who reads an entire book of poems from cover to cover. While poets devote immense craft to shaping a book, public readings tend to favor selections and excerpts. Uniting writer and audience in a celebration of expansive and unhurried attention, this series creates a rare environment for the investigation of poetry, sound, delivery and reciprocity. Each event features a transformative (short!) book and concludes in time for a cordial reception and conversation.

Series Conveners: Elee Kraljii Gardiner, poet; Bronwen Tate, Creative Writing

Event Dates: Oct 30, Nov 20, Jan 22, Apr 2