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April 2016

Mon
4
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Vancouver Book Launch: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo's Dagoretti Corner

Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Green College Society Member

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Tue
12
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Branding Asia: Chinese and Indian Medicine Today

Nazrul Islam, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

This talk will examine the scenarios of medicine in China and India through an ethnographic investigation, and will expand on why modern students and graduates from the schools of Asian medicine perceive Asian medicine to be as important as Western medicine.
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Wed
13
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
How "Climate" Became the "Environment"

Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar

How did climate become an issue of major environmental concern? Find out in this talk, as Sverker Sörlin navigates the history of climate’s modern breakthrough.
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Tue
19
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
The Future of Humanity and the Future of Humanities: Planetary Transformation Agendas and the University in the Anthropocene

Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar

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Tue
26
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
How the Fox Got its Name: Representation and the Power of Ya

Fox Benwell, author and creative writing tutor

Drawing upon personal experience as a transgender, queer, disabled writer working with diverse groups of teenagers, Fox will address the power of story in young adult literature, and the importance of minority representation—as mirrors, windows, and doors.
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November 2016

Wed
2
Nov
Green College Special Lecture
The Digital Humanities: Some Contexts, Concepts and Initiatives

Ray Siemens, English and Computer Science, University of Victoria (BC)

This talk, by one of Canada's leading authorities in the field, will lay out some key contexts and concepts in the "digital humanities," focusing on themes such as social knowledge creation, consensus-driven pedagogical communities and collaborative research partnership.
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Fri
4
Nov
Green College Special Lecture
Hundreds, Thousands or Millions of Words: Fitting Our Methods to the Question

Ted Underwood, English and Information Sciences, University of Illinois

In this talk, Ted Underwood will briefly survey the scales of analysis before dwelling on some approaches suited to the middle of the spectrum.
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January 2017

Tue
31
Jan
Green College Special Lecture
Anatomy of an Investigative Project: How Collaboration, Science and Ingenuity Exposed the Flaws in the 'Less Lethal' Weapon Used by Police Forces Round the World

Sandra Bartlett, investigative journalist, Visiting Professor at the School of Journalism, Journalist in Residence at Green College

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February 2017

Tue
28
Feb
Green College Special Lecture
Edward Hopper’s Hotel Paintings and Modern “Occupancy”

Robert Davidson, Spanish, University of Toronto; Director, Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College

This lecture offers a brief history of the hotel in western painting and how it is presented in Hopper’s work through the concept of "occupancy".
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March 2017

Tue
14
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
Privilege and Radical Love

Carrie Jenkins, Philosophy, UBC

In this talk Carrie Jenkins will discuss some of the multiple interlocking relationships between privilege, power, and love, drawing on British Philosopher Russell's life and Jenkins’ own as case studies.
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