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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July 24, 2025Embracing the Impossible: Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, and the Occultural Turn in Detective Fiction
In his famous maxim from The Sign of Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes declares “the impossible" to be precisely what the detective must exclude in order to arrive at a true solution. My talk focuses on an alternative tradition of new religious literary detection emergent during the long fin de siècle…
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September 24, 2025Rising Tides
This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness…
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October 8, 2025The Consone Quartet: Our Journey to the Romantics
Since our formation in 2012, our aim has always been to explore the great wealth of string quartet repertoire from an historically informed perspective, whether that be using appropriate equipment—gut strings and historical bows—or studying the sources of the time. In this informal lecture…
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September 24, 2025Rising Tides
This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness…
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October 8, 2025The Consone Quartet: Our Journey to the Romantics
Since our formation in 2012, our aim has always been to explore the great wealth of string quartet repertoire from an historically informed perspective, whether that be using appropriate equipment—gut strings and historical bows—or studying the sources of the time. In this informal lecture…
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October 16, 2025Ocean Songs
Green College writer in residence Clara Kumagai will host a musical performance by Leah Abramson, a singer and songwriter. Leah’s multidisciplinary show Songs for a Lost Pod explores human relationships with marine mammals in a polluted planet, intertwined with her own family history and…
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October 29, 2025On the Salish Sea
This event will feature Justin Neal, a Squamish playwright and 2024 SFU Shadbolt Fellow. His latest play, Keepers of the Salish Sea, premiered in November 2024, and infused Coast Salish knowledge with the human quest for the meaning of life. This event will be followed by a reception in…
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November 19, 2025Water Binds Me to Your Name
In this final public event of Clara Kumagai's residency, she will welcome Saeed Teebi, a writer and lawyer based in Toronto, in conversation. His 2022 debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize and the Rakuten Kobo…