The Critical Play Speaker Series

The Critical Play Speaker Series features local, national, and international speakers presenting on interdisciplinary game studies, innovative and justice-oriented approaches to game design, and the theory and practice of critical play. The series engages with ideas about the role and importance of games in society, how game mechanics and aesthetics are embedded with larger cultural narratives, and what the affordances of games and game design offer for innovating teaching and research.

Co-organized with UBC's Critical Play Lab and Pop Culture Cluster.

Series Conveners: Germaine Koh, Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; Elizabeth Nijdam, Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies; Christopher Patterson, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice; and Alexander Ross, Information.

Event Dates: Nov 3, Jan 19, Feb 23, and Mar 23

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.

Co-organized with Early Music Vancouver.

Series Convener: Suzie LeBlanc, Early Music Vancouver

Event Dates: Sept 29, Oct 29, Feb 4, and TBD

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: TBA

Event Dates: Sept 28, Oct 5, Oct 19, Oct 26, Nov 2, Nov 16, Nov 30; Term 2 dates TBD

Mediatic Empire: Critical Inquiries into Environment, Technology, and Media Cultures   

This series features five public lectures by scholars conducting inventive research at the intersections of environmental humanities, science and technology studies, media theory, race and ethnicity, and critical Indigenous studies. The series is interested in inquiries that expand our conceptualizations of media and mediation. Specifically, what entangled forms of scientific and technological thinking might be contended with or excavated if we examine the legacies of empire and settler colonialism as media histories? How does turning to the concept and materiality of mediation in environments, ecologies, and everyday infrastructures expand our models of knowledge production and our analyses of power? The lectures hosted by this series offer pressing inquiries into these questions, providing insights and important context for our contemporary juncture of overlapping climate disaster, techno-capitalism, and global capitalism. 

Co-organized with UBC's Centre for Climate Justice, English Language and Literatures, the Pacific Islands Research Network, and the Public Humanities Hub.

Series Conveners: Kimberly Bain, English Language and Literatures; Alex Dick, English Language and Literatures; Christine Kim, English Language and Literatures; Chris Lee, English Language and Literatures; and Danielle Wong, English Language and Literatures

Event Dates: Oct 20, Nov 18, Jan 20, Mar 17, and Apr 8

Talks and performances by visitors invited to Green College and UBC for the Cecil H and Ida Green visiting professors program, the Richard V Ericson lectures, the Dal Grauer memorial lectures, other endowed appointments, and by distinguished visiting scholars, artists, journalists, etc. in residence at the college, among other special guests.

Event Dates: Sept 17, Sept 22, Oct 6, Oct 7, Oct 8, Oct 14, Oct 21, Oct 28, Nov 5, Nov 17, Feb 2, Feb 3, Mar 3, Mar 16, Apr 1

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 conversation.

Co-organized with Creative Writing, UBC.

Series Conveners: Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Poet Laureate of Vancouver; and Bronwen Tate, Creative Writing, UBC

Event Dates: Oct 15, Nov 4, Jan 21, and Mar 31