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November 2016

Tue
29
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Interviews and Analysis: Conversations Across Disciplines and Cultures in India and Mozambique and...

Robinder Bedi, Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education; David Morton, History

The interview is a conversation, an interaction, a personal relationship, and, for many scholars, a research tool. Please join us for a conversation about interview methodology across cultures and academic disciplines. Researchers working in African history, educational and counselling psychology, and men’s health research will interview each other about their respective projects. The discussion will be wide-ranging and open-ended, and the audience is invited to take part.
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December 2016

Sat
3
Dec
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Bee Time: What Can We Learn From the Demise Of Bees?

Mark Winston, Professor of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University

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Mon
5
Dec
Green College Resident Members' Series
Here and Queer on the West Coast: Small Presses, a Poetics of Sexual Disgust, and North America’s Lesbian and Gay Liberation Movements

Mathieu Aubin, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program

How can the production and circulation of poetry facilitate the formation of transnational alliances that contribute to queer rights efforts? This presentation proposes that these presses produced intersectional spaces of resistance through the production, circulation, and reception of a poetics of sexual disgust that contributed to the development of local, national, and transnational queer counterpublics.
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Mon
12
Dec
Green College Resident Members' Series
A View on Poetry and Science: Two Ways of Understanding

Arthur Després, Materials Engineering

Science and poetry are often opposed, one trying to describe reality with rational thought, the other being a more lyrical expression of the mind and therefore not necessarily true.
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January 2017

Mon
9
Jan
Green College Resident Members' Series
Head Tilt and Perceptions of Dominance: A Facial Expression Imposter?

Zachary Witkower, Psychology

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Tue
10
Jan
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
What is a Probabilist?

Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood, Mathematics

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Mon
16
Jan
Green College Resident Members' Series
A Physics Perspective of Life

Daniel Lüsebrink, Physics and Astronomy

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Tue
17
Jan
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Ritual and Cognitive Processes

Katherine Bowers, Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies; Matthew McCarty, Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies; Ève Poudrier, Music; Lindsey Richardson, Sociology

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Wed
18
Jan
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Revisiting “Moral Zoning” in Pompeii: The Case of Pompeii’s Purpose-Built Brothel

Sarah Levin-Richardson, Classics, University of Washington

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Thu
19
Jan
Adapting to Global Changes in Oceans and Fisheries
Indigenous Fisheries, Ocean Policy and Human Security

Marjo Vierros, United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS); Yoshitaka Ota, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor and Suzanne von der Porten, Nereus Program, UBC

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