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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March 19, 2026Hope + Anger + Multi-species Resilience: A Recipe for Transforming Doom into Climate Justice
Join elin kelsey for an exploration of ways to care for and honour the emotions you may be feeling in response to the very real and urgent issues we face, and what choices support our collective capacities to transform those crises. elin will be drawing on the new science of climate emotions and…
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March 21, 2026Climate Change and Climate Policy: A Canadian Forest Ecologist's Perspective
Please note that this a Vancouver Institute event co-organized with UBC Emeritus College and is being held at PA Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. For full information, visit the event homepage.Dr Catherine Potvin is a distinguished tropical forest ecologist whose research advances…
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March 23, 2026Sissy Geographies: Sexuality, Coloniality, and the Reterritorialization of Desire
Dear reader, would you like to call me a sissy? Am I a girl under all this butch drag? Homosexuality has long been linked to decadence, to disarray, to the unproductive—where the sissy inhabits an excess of femininity, the sodomite operates outside of procreation in the name of pleasure, and the…
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March 19, 2026Hope + Anger + Multi-species Resilience: A Recipe for Transforming Doom into Climate Justice
Join elin kelsey for an exploration of ways to care for and honour the emotions you may be feeling in response to the very real and urgent issues we face, and what choices support our collective capacities to transform those crises. elin will be drawing on the new science of climate emotions and…
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March 21, 2026Climate Change and Climate Policy: A Canadian Forest Ecologist's Perspective
Please note that this a Vancouver Institute event co-organized with UBC Emeritus College and is being held at PA Woodward Instructional Resources Centre. For full information, visit the event homepage.Dr Catherine Potvin is a distinguished tropical forest ecologist whose research advances…
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March 23, 2026Sissy Geographies: Sexuality, Coloniality, and the Reterritorialization of Desire
Dear reader, would you like to call me a sissy? Am I a girl under all this butch drag? Homosexuality has long been linked to decadence, to disarray, to the unproductive—where the sissy inhabits an excess of femininity, the sodomite operates outside of procreation in the name of pleasure, and the…
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March 24, 2026The Role of Scholars in a Time of Social and Ecological Crisis
This panel was proposed by Professor Catherine Potvin, the inaugural Emeritus College Patricia Merivale scholar in residence at Green College. It seeks to respond to a question often asked of Dr Potvin by more junior scholars: “What can and should we do in these troubled times?” The five panelists,…
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March 26, 2026Reflections on the Work of Play in Early-career Scholarship and Pedagogy
This moderated panel explores how the concept of play, broadly defined, has shown up and shaped our experiences as early-career academics. Members of the 2024-26 Green College leading scholars cohort will reflect on the themes raised during our year of ‘Seasons of Play,’ reflecting on how play…
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March 31, 2026The Politics of Common Reading Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894–1954
What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated China’s long Republic (1894-1954)? How did they manage the challenges of the era—from new technologies to novel diseases, from institutional failure to commercial globalization? What did they know and how did they know it?…
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April 1, 2026Voicing the Archive
‘Voicing the Archive’ explores rich connections between archives, songwriting, and contemporary music. Archives hold a space where historical figures and stories of struggle can be explored and revisited in imaginative performances. The final event of the ‘Living Archives’ series will see two…
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April 7, 2026Should Destroying the Planet Be a Crime?
Calls to criminalise severe environmental harm have gained remarkable momentum in recent years, most visibly through proposals to recognise ecocide as an international crime. Advocates argue that criminal law can deliver accountability, deterrence, and symbolic recognition of environmental…
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April 8, 2026A Community Reading of Bronwen Wallace's "Signs of the Former Tenant"
Signs of the Former Tenant gives voice to the hidden lives of women. The collection begins in childhood memory, teasing out the sores and slights of gendered socialization alongside the hushed attention of games of red light, green light and searing moments of girlhood intimacy. A second…
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April 9, 2026Secrets on our Doorstep: Vancouver and the Shadow on the World Cup
As Vancouver prepares to host 2026 World Cup games—a crowning feat for hometown FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani—a chilling local history haunts the celebration. While Montagliani scaled soccer’s elite ranks, a shadow spread across the city and country he helped lead. In 2008, Canada Soccer…