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September 2016

Tue
20
Sep
Possible Worlds: Fireside Conversations on Literature, Science and the Arts
“Into the Cosmic Auditorium”: Readings, Reflections, Mixed Media

Henry Beissel, poet; Arlette Francière, artist and translator, Gary Geddes, poet and essayist and returning Green College Writer in Residence

Join a distinguished panel of thinkers, artists and performers as they explore and critique the worlds we find and make for ourselves in various media.
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Wed
21
Sep
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Indigenous Futures and Pasts at the Heart of Empire: Notes from Indigenous London

Coll Thrush, History, UBC

Are urban and Indigenous histories mutually constitutive? Join us for this talk, drawn from a new book on the history of Indigenous visitations to London, England, over the past five centuries.
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Thu
22
Sep
Adapting to Global Changes in Oceans and Fisheries
The Ocean is Changing – Will We Change Too? Setting the Scene

Yoshi Ota and William Cheung Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Nereus Program, UBC; Rashid Sumalia, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC; Larry Crowder, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

The ocean is changing and human society needs to adapt. What is the scale of this change and what will be the impacts?
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Sat
24
Sep
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Transnational Organized Crime - Are We on the Titanic?

Superintendent Calvin Chrustie, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Multinational CIMIC Group, United Nations

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Mon
26
Sep
Green College Resident Members' Series
The Hermits’ Expeditions: Stories about the Habitat, Flora, Fauna and People in Northwest America

Silu Wang, Zoology

Camping nomadically for months is the summer life of many wildlife biologists. This talk will tell the story of three naturalistic girls who study the melodious warblers in the old-growth forests—and found themselves on a life-changing adventure.
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Wed
28
Sep
Access to Justice
Why Don’t We Have Appropriate Access to Justice?

The Honourable Justice Thomas Cromwell, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Chair of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters

What stands in the way of adequate access to justice? The Hon. Thomas Cromwell, recently retired from the Supreme Court of Canada and chair of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters will share his thoughts on why we still do not have appropriate access to justice in civil and family matters and provide a brief update on some promising initiatives.
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October 2016

Sat
1
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Why and How Are We Living Longer?

Tom Kirkwood, CBE FMedSci, Associate Dean for Aging, Newcastle University, UK

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Mon
3
Oct
Green College Resident Members' Series
The Possibility of a Better World: Research, Pedagogy, and Podcasting

Christine "Xine" Yao, English

What might the imaginative and affective conditions for revolution look like? In this presentation Xine will undertake a three-part discussion of how this question undergirds her research, teaching, and outreach via the iTunes podcast PhDivas.
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Tue
4
Oct
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor
How Close Are We to Discovering the “Secret of Youth”? Key Challenges in the Search to Prolong the Human Healthspan

Tom Kirkwood, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing; University of Copenhagen Center for Health Aging

The prospect of finding the “secret of youth” has fascinated humanity for centuries, but could it one day become the realm of science fact, rather than fantasy?
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Wed
5
Oct
Green College Special Event
The Poetics of Fragility

Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani, filmmakers

"The Poetics of Fragility" (HD 63 minutes) is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the texture, vitality and aesthetics of fragility. It interweaves stories of bodily frailty with optical vignettes of nature’s delicacy to reclaim fragility as intrinsic to existence, not something to be bemoaned or overcome.
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