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February 2016

Sat
6
Feb
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
City of Gold: Excavations at Ancient Sardis, Turkey

Nick Cahill, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Tue
9
Feb
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
My Career as a Drug Czar(ina)

Gail Bellward, Pharmaceutical Sciences. UBC

Dr. Bellward will provide an overview of her extensive career in pharmacology and toxicology—from research on effects of dioxin contamination from pulp mill effluent in avian wildlife species to a drug education program for elementary school children.
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Wed
10
Feb
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Trace Memory Erasure Return: Biography, History and the Geographical Imagination

Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies, and Executive Officer for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Drawing on history, biography, theatre, field research, and academic documents, this lecture will focus on what can be gleaned through various individuals’ embodied knowledge of the sedimented historical geographies of the Bronx and Detroit, of exploring and making a community of memory in place, and of activating alternative geographical imaginations.
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Thu
11
Feb
Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective
Interrogating Internationalization: Complex Relations in a Globalizing Campus

Kumari Beck, Education, Simon Fraser University

In this talk, Kumari Beck will explore the complex process of internationalization through the frame of postcolonial analysis.
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Sat
20
Feb
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Building Quantum Materials, One Atomic Layer at a Time

Jennifer Hoffman, Department of Physics, UBC

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Mon
22
Feb
ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change
Just Another Resource? Inuit Interactions with Whalers in the Mid-19th Century

Susan Rowley, Anthropology, UBC

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Mon
22
Feb
Green College Resident Members' Series
Writing a Life: Diaries and Autobiographies as Sources of the Self

Emilia Halton-Hernandez, English

Why do we keep a diary or write an autobiography? What does it mean to write about the self or write down a life? This talk will explore the most important trends in life-writing studies throughout the twentieth century.
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Tue
23
Feb
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor
The Cultural and Political Predicament of Global Modernity

Arif Dirlik, Independent Scholar, Eugene, OR, USA/Professor of History and Anthropology, Duke University, 1971-2001

The talk will explore problems thrown up by the predicaments and contradictions of global modernity, with special attention to the continued cultural and political significance of critical practices that are the legacies of Enlightenment universalism.
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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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Thu
25
Feb
Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present
Sex, Politics, and Putin

Valerie Sperling, Political Science, Clark University

Is Vladimir Putin a macho man, or is he a “fag”? In her lecture, Valerie Sperling will explore how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in Putin’s Russia.
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