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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.

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