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October 2015

Wed
7
Oct
Green College Special Lecture
Almost There: Reflections on the Longest Campaign

Richard Johnston, Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation; Political Science, UBC

Do campaigns “matter” at all? Richard Johnston will comment on developments within the 2015 campaign, drawing upon work by himself and others on campaigns in Canada and elsewhere.
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Thu
8
Oct
Green College Special Lecture
Popular Patriotism: How Hong Kong Star Andy Lau Rediscovered His Cultural Identity

Joyleen Christensen, English Language & Foundation Studies Centre, The University of Newcastle

How is cultural identity expressed through popular culture? In this talk, Joyleen Christensen, Visiting Scholar at UBC’s Centre for Cinema Studies, will argue that the placement of celebrities within a nationalist discourse, whilst hardly a new phenomenon, is an approach deserving of re-evaluation in light of the recent recognition of transnational cultural flows within film theory.
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Mon
26
Oct
Green College Special Lecture
Life is a Cross Disciplinary Adventure

Sarah Dunant, novelist

Best-selling historical novelist Sarah Dunant offers some insights from a battle field of a career which has taken her from academic history, through two decades of BBC journalism, television and radio, literary criticism and thriller writing back to her first and greatest love—the past.
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November 2015

Thu
12
Nov
Green College Special Lecture
Time and Tragic Optimism

Mohamed Fahmy, Former English Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera, Egypt Office; Adjunct Professor, School of Jounalism, UBC; Green College Journalist in Residence

It has been dubbed “media’s trial of the century”—from the televised arrest, incarceration in three of Egypt’s notorious prisons with some of the Middle East’s most hardened extremists, two show trials, and eventual pardon from the Egyptian president. Hear about it all from Mohamed Fahmy himself.
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January 2016

Tue
26
Jan
Green College Special Lecture
From Gutenberg to Virtual Reality: Will Journalism Survive the Apocalypse?

Steve Woodward, School of Journalism, UBC

This talk will tackle the challenges that journalism faces at a time when alternatives to traditional journalism are being created almost daily and indeed the very definition of journalism is in question.
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February 2016

Wed
3
Feb
Green College Special Lecture
Why Everyone Should Care About Access to Justice

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell, Justice in Residence at Green College

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Wed
24
Feb
Green College Special Lecture
A Journey Towards the Human City: Travelling the World to Find What Cities Can Do to Become More People-Oriented

Maria Alejandra Pineda Escobar, School of Business, Economics and Accounting Sciences, Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano; Liu Institute Visiting Scholar in Residence at Green College

Through a combination of narrative and visual media, this talk will illustrate the objectives behind the Towards the Human City Project and will show case some of the initiatives that have been documented.
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March 2016

Wed
2
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
The Future of the Sepik River and Its People: The Dilemmas of Cultural Heritage in a Changing Papua New Guinea

Andrew Moutu Director of the National Museum of Papua New Guinea, John Barker, Anthropology, UBC

Join us for a conversation between Dr. Andrew Moutu, director of the Papau New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery, and Dr. John Baker, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, UBC.
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Tue
8
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
Academia and the Butterfly Mind: How I Got From There to Here

Farah Mendlesohn, English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

In which our speaker tries to explain how a PhD in relief work in the Spanish Civil War led her to signing a contract for a book on the English Civil War and secured her a reputation for Fantasy.
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Wed
9
Mar
Green College Special Lecture
Clean Drinking Water in First Nations: What Will it Really Take?

Madjid Mohseni, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC

This talk focuses on highlighting some of the clean drinking water challenges facing Canadian small and First Nations communities, and provides an analysis on some of the relevant innovations and initiatives towards a better solution in this area.
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