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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September 17, 2026An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us
In this talk, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Ed Yong shares how he became a birder. After becoming burnt out from years of pandemic reporting, Yong turned to birdwatching to help improve his mental health and return to his nature writing beat. Along the way, Yong found a much deeper…
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September 22, 2026Education, Opportunity, and the Future of Work in an Age of Smart Machines
This talk seeks to answer the question of whether we’re entering a new age of opportunity or witnessing the end of knowledge work as we know it. Here, I challenge the dominant narrative that today’s industrial transformation will ultimately create more and better jobs, with education remaining the…
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October 7, 2026Jaspreet Singh’s “The Time of the Earth”
The Time of the Earth is the last in Jaspreet Singh’s “Still Astonished” poetry trilogy, following How to Hold a Pebble and Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock.Investigating the emotional and existential registers of inner life in this epoch informally named the Anthropocene, The Time…
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September 17, 2026An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the World Around Us
In this talk, Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Ed Yong shares how he became a birder. After becoming burnt out from years of pandemic reporting, Yong turned to birdwatching to help improve his mental health and return to his nature writing beat. Along the way, Yong found a much deeper…
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September 22, 2026Education, Opportunity, and the Future of Work in an Age of Smart Machines
This talk seeks to answer the question of whether we’re entering a new age of opportunity or witnessing the end of knowledge work as we know it. Here, I challenge the dominant narrative that today’s industrial transformation will ultimately create more and better jobs, with education remaining the…
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October 3, 2026The Future Of Work In An Age Of AI
Professor Phillip Brown was a distinguished research professor at Cardiff University, UK, before giving up his day job to become an emeritus professor. He spent much of his academic career studying the future of work and its relationship to education, economy, and society. His research has…
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October 7, 2026Jaspreet Singh’s “The Time of the Earth”
The Time of the Earth is the last in Jaspreet Singh’s “Still Astonished” poetry trilogy, following How to Hold a Pebble and Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock.Investigating the emotional and existential registers of inner life in this epoch informally named the Anthropocene, The Time…
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October 8, 2026Misunderstanding Quantum Physics at a Deeper Level
It’s quite common in physics to hear that no one understands quantum mechanics and that the only possible way to teach it can be summed up by the phrase “shut up and calculate.” Among the general public, there are a number of misleading metaphors circulating, the best known of which is Schrödinger…
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October 15, 2026Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier read "Jaws [tiburón]"
“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack. JAWS is a book about water,…
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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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January 21, 2027Juliana Spahr reads "Ars Poeticas"
During the time of an increasingly powerful alt-right which was also the time when species extinction was ever increasing, Juliana Spahr sat down to read Brecht. She was looking for an answer to Brecht’s question about the dark times, about whether there will also be singing during the dark times…
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March 31, 2027A Communal Reading of Inger Christensen's "alphabet"
alphabet is a startling and gorgeous work by Denmark’s most admired poet, Inger Christensen. Susanna Nied’s remarkably beautiful translation was awarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger. alphabet is based structurally on Fibonacci’s mathematical…