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April 2016

Mon
11
Apr
Green College Resident Members' Series
Bridging the Gap Between Commerce and Medicine in Workplace Mental Health Research

Johannes Rebane, School of Population and Public Health

In this talk, Johannes Rebane will present an overview of the current state of workplace mental health and discuss ways in which the management and medical sciences can work together to find effective and practical solutions to this issue.
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Tue
12
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
Branding Asia: Chinese and Indian Medicine Today

Nazrul Islam, School of Population and Public Health, UBC

This talk will examine the scenarios of medicine in China and India through an ethnographic investigation, and will expand on why modern students and graduates from the schools of Asian medicine perceive Asian medicine to be as important as Western medicine.
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Wed
13
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
How "Climate" Became the "Environment"

Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar

How did climate become an issue of major environmental concern? Find out in this talk, as Sverker Sörlin navigates the history of climate’s modern breakthrough.
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Mon
18
Apr
Green College Resident Members' Series
The Pain of Meaninglessness: Why it Hurts to be Uncertain

Rachele Benjamin, Psychology

How would you feel if you woke up tomorrow, and all of your furniture was on the ceiling? This talk explores the various consequences of uncertainty, and how we behave in the face of meaninglessness.
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Tue
19
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
The Future of Humanity and the Future of Humanities: Planetary Transformation Agendas and the University in the Anthropocene

Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar

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Tue
26
Apr
Green College Special Lecture
How the Fox Got its Name: Representation and the Power of Ya

Fox Benwell, author and creative writing tutor

Drawing upon personal experience as a transgender, queer, disabled writer working with diverse groups of teenagers, Fox will address the power of story in young adult literature, and the importance of minority representation—as mirrors, windows, and doors.
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May 2016

Mon
2
May
Green College Resident Members' Series
From Menace to Treasure: Engineering Sustainability through Biotechnology Mediated Valorization of Waste

Anupama Sharan, Chemical and Biological Engineering

In this talk, Anupama will draw on her thesis work, which is focused on examining a specific industrial waste—pulp and paper mill sludge—as a feedstock for development of a circular bioprocess around this industry.
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September 2016

Tue
13
Sep
Early Music Vancouver at Green College
Handel Trio Sonatas G.F. Handel

Alexander Weimann, harpsichord; Chloe Meyers, violin; Matthew Jennejohn, oboe; Beiliang Zhu, cello

Four members of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra demonstrate why, with their boldness of invention, their expressive range and their extraordinary variety of three-part textures, Handel’s trio sonatas represent to many the peak of the trio sonata as a genre.
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Sat
17
Sep
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
The Future of National Security in the Age of ISIS

Lara Logan, Lara Logan, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News, and correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes

A native of South Africa, Ms. Logan has earned a reputation as one of the world's best foreign correspondents, reporting stories from most of the world’s major conflict zones including Egypt, Afghanistan, Northern Ireland, Israel and Kosovo.
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Tue
20
Sep
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Follow your Passion

Les Lavkulich, Land and Food Systems

We are simply a keystone species in a complex, adaptive evolving world—one full of surprises. How does following our passion play into this world?
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