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March 2016
Thu
24
Mar
Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present
Madeleine Reeves, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
This talk explores the relationship between waiting, leaving, house-building and hope in the context of contemporary Kyrgyz transnational migration.
Tue
29
Mar
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Graham Reynolds, Law, UBC Mark Turin, Anthropology and First Nations Language Program, UBC
This paired presentation explores the intersection of Graham Reynolds and Mark Turin’s shared research interests in—and commitments to—the areas of language, culture, heritage, intellectual property, human rights, and copyright.
Wed
30
Mar
Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective
Roopa Trilokekar, Education, York University
Is internationalization yet another manifestation of Orientalism where “East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”?
Thu
31
Mar
Early Music Vancouver at Green College
Tekla Cunningham and Elly Winer, viola d’amore
April 2016
Sat
2
Apr
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Valerie Hansen, History Department, Yale University
Mon
4
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Green College Society Member
Mon
4
Apr
Green College Resident Members' Series
Genevieve Breau, Interdisciplinary Oncology Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
In this talk, Genevieve Breau will discuss why people with Intellectual Disabilities have significantly lower breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening rates, relative to the general population—and why the reasons for these disparities are poorly understood.
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.
Sat
9
Apr
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Rita Charon, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia
Mon
11
Apr
Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present
Olga Rosenblum, Philology and History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
How did “public opinion” emerge around the Joseph Brodsky affair? This talk will focus on this emergence, as well as how and why the intelligentsia defended Brodsky.