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March 2017

Tue
21
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
Talking Toleration in a Time of Sectarian Controversy and Violence: Speech, Silence and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England

Alexandra Walsham, History, University of Cambridge; Ian Dyck Visiting Lecturer in History at Simon Fraser University

In this lecture, through bringing the social histories of toleration and of language into dialogue, Alexandra Walsham brings to light the deep and unresolved tensions that shaped daily life, periodically precipitating outbreaks of prejudice and violence.
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April 2017

Tue
4
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Faction: Merging History and Fiction in The Book of Negroes

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

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Tue
11
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Sarah Ruden Reading

Sarah Ruden, poet and translator

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September 2017

Fri
15
Sep
Green College Special Lecture
Colonial Knowledge and Rural Insurgency: From the Self-Emancipation of Slaves and Serfs to Decolonization

Andrew Zimmermann, History, George Washington University, Washington DC

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Tue
19
Sep
Green College Special Lecture
Self and No Self: Poetic Undoing

Anne Simpson, Green College Writer in Residence

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November 2017

Tue
28
Nov
Green College Special Lecture
Eighty Years On, What Is Left of Stephen Leacock?

Leslie Robbins-Conway and Paul Conway, storytellers

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January 2018

Tue
30
Jan
Green College Special Lecture
The State of the Book: Is it an Endangered Species?

Scott McIntyre, publisher

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March 2018

Tue
13
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
Views of the Salish Sea: 150 Years of Change around the Strait of Georgia

Howard Stewart, author

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Tue
20
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
Turkey and Europe: Negotiating Identities through History

Bahar Rumelili, Jean Monnet Chair of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science, UBC; Emel Tastekin, Arts Studies in Research and Writing, UBC

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April 2018

Mon
9
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity from 19th-Century Race Science to the Age of Trump

Sander L. Gilman, Liberal Arts and Psychiatry, Emory University; returning Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor

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