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February 2017

Thu
9
Feb
2017 McLean Lectures in Canadian Studies: Decolonizing Conversations—Indigenous Texts in the Pacific Northwest before 1992
Stories We Didn’t Hear: Controlling Traditional Oral Stories

Margery Fee, English; Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at UBC

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Sat
11
Feb
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Hot, Uneven, and Connected: Urban Planning in Metro Vancouver’s Latest Global Age

Andy Yan, Director, The City Program, Simon Fraser University

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Mon
13
Feb
Green College Resident Members' Series
Vancouver Housing Market: Where Are We Heading?

Ida Grigoryeva, Geography

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Tue
14
Feb
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Cyclic Behaviour: From Cell to Society, Success and Failure, Life and Death

Dave Hardwick, Faculty of Medicine

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Tue
14
Feb
Possible Worlds: Fireside Conversations on Literature, Science and the Arts
Reading and Discussion with Gary Geddes and Joan Morris

Gary Geddes and Joan Morris

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Wed
15
Feb
Access to Justice
International Dimensions of Access to Justice: Human Rights and Extractive Industries

Joe Fiorante, QC, Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP; Kirsten Dales, Associate Director, Programs, Canadian International Resources & Development Institute

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Sat
25
Feb
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Antibiotic Resistance, Why Antibiotics Fail and New Ways of Overcoming Difficult Infections

Robert Hancock, OC, OBC, Canada Research Chair, Microbiology and Immunology, UBC

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Mon
27
Feb
Adapting to Global Changes in Oceans and Fisheries
The Human Dimension of Marine Conservation

David Gill, The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC); Gerald Singh, Nereus Program, UBC

This lecture discusses the intersection of ocean sustainability and Sustainable Development Goals on a global scale.
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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

Wed
1
Mar
Richard V. Ericson Lecture
The Challenges of the New Data Environment

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.
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