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February 2016

Tue
23
Feb
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Arif Dirlik, Independent Scholar, Eugene, OR, USA/Professor of History and Anthropology, Duke University, 1971-2001

The talk will explore problems thrown up by the predicaments and contradictions of global modernity, with special attention to the continued cultural and political significance of critical practices that are the legacies of Enlightenment universalism.

March 2016

Thu
17
Mar
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Anthropology, Stanford University

Join us for a talk by Tanya Luhrmann, Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor, as she reflects on her work about how the same God is known differently in distinct parts of the world.

April 2016

Tue
5
Apr
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Rita Charon, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Centre and Executive Director, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

The entwined forces of creativity and doubt may be as pivotal in the sciences as they are in the arts. Since the sciences and the arts are not mutually exclusive human enterprises but, rather, resonating forms of perception and representation, the distinction between them might be replaced by the distinction between those scientists and artists who tolerate or appreciate doubt and those who try to banish it.

October 2016

Tue
4
Oct
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Tom Kirkwood, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing; University of Copenhagen Center for Health Aging

The prospect of finding the “secret of youth” has fascinated humanity for centuries, but could it one day become the realm of science fact, rather than fantasy?

January 2017

Thu
26
Jan
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Kevin Patterson, writer

March 2017

Wed
1
Mar
Richard V. Ericson Lecture

Denise Lievesley, CBE, Professor of Statistics and Principal, Green Templeton College, Oxford; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

Denise Lievesley will talk, from the perspective of a statistician and a former data archivist, about some of the challenges of this new data environment for those who care about access to data for research purposes.
Sat
4
Mar
The Vancouver Institute Lecture

Professor Denise Lievesley, CBE, Professor of Statistics and Principal, Green Templeton College, Oxford; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

April 2017

Sat
1
Apr
The Vancouver Institute Lecture

Lawrence Hill, author; Creative Writing, University of Guelph; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC

Tue
4
Apr
Green College Special Lecture

Lawrence Hill, author; Creative Writing, University of Guelph; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC

October 2017

Sat
14
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture

Margaret MacMillan, History, University of Toronto; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

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