As the central hub for interdisciplinary dialogue and learning at UBC, all listed events at Green College are free, open to the general public, and do not require advanced registration (unless otherwise indicated on the event page).
Featured upcoming events
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October 29, 2026When Traditions Talk Back: Hindustani Music and Jazz in Conversation with Shruti Ramani
What happens when two musical traditions become part of the same musician’s way of listening? In this performance lecture, Shruti Ramani explores the conversation between Hindustani music and jazz through her own experiences as a vocalist, composer, and student of both traditions. Using examples…
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November 2, 2026Beyond the Haze: What Wildfire Smoke Really Contains
Wildfire smoke research has largely focused on fine particle (PM2.5) mass rather than the complex chemical mixtures that may pose distinct health risks. From March to September 2024, we deployed passive air samplers in two British Columbia communities to capture chemical profiles before, during,…
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November 3, 2026Pedagogies of Play
This first workshop in The Critical Play Speakers' Series focuses on how the interactive, dynamic experiences at the heart of games can be used as a new kind of teaching experience. Christopher Kawika Guillermo (Dr Christopher B Patterson) of UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social…
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October 29, 2026When Traditions Talk Back: Hindustani Music and Jazz in Conversation with Shruti Ramani
What happens when two musical traditions become part of the same musician’s way of listening? In this performance lecture, Shruti Ramani explores the conversation between Hindustani music and jazz through her own experiences as a vocalist, composer, and student of both traditions. Using examples…
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November 2, 2026Beyond the Haze: What Wildfire Smoke Really Contains
Wildfire smoke research has largely focused on fine particle (PM2.5) mass rather than the complex chemical mixtures that may pose distinct health risks. From March to September 2024, we deployed passive air samplers in two British Columbia communities to capture chemical profiles before, during,…
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November 3, 2026Pedagogies of Play
This first workshop in The Critical Play Speakers' Series focuses on how the interactive, dynamic experiences at the heart of games can be used as a new kind of teaching experience. Christopher Kawika Guillermo (Dr Christopher B Patterson) of UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social…
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November 4, 2026Misha Solomon Reads "My Great-Grandfather Danced Ballet"
Two timelines intersect, weaving an alternate reality of queer ancestors, half-truths, domesticity, and desire. What if the queer ancestor you always wondered about had really existed—and could speak to you across all time? When there’s only one document to be found in the archive, can our…
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November 5, 2026From the First Quantum to the Second Quantum Revolution
Join three quantum scientists at UBC at different stages of their careers as they discuss past and future quantum revolutions in their field. Led by Dr Anthony Ayari, senior researcher from the Light and Matter Institute at the University of Lyon, the panelists will interrogate how they…
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November 7, 2026Entangled Futures: Technology, Material Consumption, and the Changing Environment
Join artist Jean Shin for a conversation exploring the relationships between technology, material consumption, and the changing environment, presented in conjunction with the Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change. Shin’s practice transforms…
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November 16, 2026The Arctic, Climate Change, and You: Discovering Meaning in our Changing World
The Arctic is currently undergoing a rapid and widespread change due to anthropogenic warming of the Earth System. This has major implications for the global environment, as the Arctic plays an essential role as a planetary heat sink. At the same time, the measures required to address present-day…
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November 17, 2026From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V Jackson—In Conversation
From the Deep is Ayana V Jackson’s first major institutional exhibition, commissioned for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in 2023. On the eve of its premiere at the UBC Museum of Anthropology, this discussion will centre on this project as a pretext and an anchor to familiarize…
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November 18, 2026The Elsewhere is Black
Dr Marisa Solomon explores how waste is a mundane part of poor Black survival and a condition of settler colonial racial capitalism. Focusing on the interconnected relations that make Black life disposable in the gentrified neighbourhood of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and the Virginia Tidewater, a dumping…
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November 19, 2026Red Power’s Legacies: Land and Liberation from the 1970s to the Present
Join us for the second event in Living Conversations, a series presented in partnership with UBC's Public Humanities Hub.Living Conversations is a public dialogue series that brings together scholarly research, justice-oriented practice, and lived community expertise. Featuring UBC scholars and…