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 14, 2026From Sorceresses to Scholars: Literary Taste, Gender, and the Intersectional Body Politic(s) of Late-Medieval England
What people read for fun has always been a matter of personal choice, but literary taste is also shaped by social groups and cultural forces. This talk focuses on a period of widening access to literary culture – in England during the later Middle Ages—and considers how changes in society shape…
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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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October 19, 2026Green College Resident Members' Series
This is the third event in the Green College Resident Members' Series.
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October 14, 2026In Defense of Public Wrongs
The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies Lecture Series presents "In Defense of Public Wrongs" with Professor Michelle Madden Dempsey, as part of her visit co-sponsored by Green College. For full event information, visit the Allard Law event page.Please note the special time and location of this…
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October 14, 2026From Sorceresses to Scholars: Literary Taste, Gender, and the Intersectional Body Politic(s) of Late-Medieval England
What people read for fun has always been a matter of personal choice, but literary taste is also shaped by social groups and cultural forces. This talk focuses on a period of widening access to literary culture – in England during the later Middle Ages—and considers how changes in society shape…
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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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October 19, 2026Green College Resident Members' Series
This is the third event in the Green College Resident Members' Series.
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October 20, 2026"Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone": Deepening Climate Justice Against Extraction
This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea mining in an area bordering the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and the entangled forms of economic and scientific thinking about the Mariana Trench as a site for extraction. It considers…
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October 21, 2026Humour and Play in Rabbinic Literature: Laughing at God
Dr Christine Hayes is Sterling professor emerita of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Yale University.
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October 22, 2026Graphic Theory: On the Production of Knowledge and Culture for Palestine Today
Xaytun Ennasr and Dr Jasbir K Puar come together to discuss This Death Is Not One, a collaborative project (co-authored with Nasser Abourahme and edited by Adam HajYahia) unfolding across theory, image, translation, land, and the wounded body. The project takes up Puar’s The Right to Maim to…
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October 26, 2026
Timelines and Lines through Time: The History of Borders and Why it Matters
This is the fourth event in the Green College Resident Members' Series.
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October 27, 2026When the NOISE in Your Head Cancels out the Noise in Your Heart: Exploring Indigenous Ways of Being with the Land and with Ourselves
The first session of NOISE brings together three Indigenous individuals: lecturer and senior manager, EDI and Indigeneity, Dana-Lyn Mackenzie from the Hwlitsum First Nation; Cree medicine gatherer, trapper, and drummer Mitchell Tourangeau; and bear dancer Aileen Lil Bear Michel. Together, these…
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October 28, 2026Novel Distortions: Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America
The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Dr Tamara L…