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 Convener: Tariq Harney, Resources, Environment, and Sustainability; and Benjamin Mulchinock, Philosophy

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

Living Conversations

Living Conversations is a public dialogue series that brings together scholarly research, justice-oriented practice, and lived community expertise. Featuring UBC scholars and guest speakers in conversation, the series explores insurgent social and cultural questions across diverse ways of knowing. 

Presented by UBC’s Public Humanities Hub in collaboration with Green College.

Series Convener: Althea Thauberger, Public Humanities Hub

Event Dates: Oct 22, Nov 24, Jan 27, and Feb 25

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

NOISE

A Green College Leading Scholars Series

To make a discovery, to bring about change, or to just get through day-to-day decisions often requires us to sift through noise or to make sense of it.  We typically endeavor to separate meaning from noise, but could this approach reflect an overly narrow view of what noise is and its role in life and society?  The series explores alternative ways of engaging with noise. Our goal is to expand and deepen our relationship to noise and act more deliberately in the face of it.  

Series Conveners: Karthik Akkiraju, Materials Engineering; Peter Chen, Computer Science; Godwin Dzah, Law; Melissa Hunte, Language and Literacy Education; Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Forest Resources Management; Bavisha Kaylan, Civil Engineering; Asher Leeks, Zoology; Lennon Mhishi, Anthropology; Dana-Lynn Mackenzie, Forest Resources Management; Jennifer Moss, Creative Writing; Joan Danielle Ongchoco, Psychology; Alberto Padoan, Electrical and Computer Engineering; CJ Park, Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education; Sadia Shirazi, Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; Silvia Stringhini, Population and Public Health; Meaghan Thumath, Nursing; Kimberly Yazzie, Forestry and Conservation Sciences

Event Dates: Oct 27, Nov 19, Jan 28, Feb 10, and Mar 10

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 favour 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