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October 2015
Mon
26
Oct
Green College Special Lecture
Sarah Dunant, novelist
Best-selling historical novelist Sarah Dunant offers some insights from a battle field of a career which has taken her from academic history, through two decades of BBC journalism, television and radio, literary criticism and thriller writing back to her first and greatest love—the past.
Mon
26
Oct
Green College Resident Members' Series
Idaliya Grigoryeva, Geography
This talk will look why some large cities are driving their countries forward and why others are not. How do we measure this discrepancy? Is there an upward or a downward trend in city-country inequality?
Tue
27
Oct
Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present
Michael Hathaway, Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University
Within the social sciences over the last decade, there is much interest in research that “follows the object,” especially drawing on Actor-Network-Theory and other influences. In this talk, Michael Hathaway demonstrates how his work with the Matsutake Worlds Research Group, a collaborative group of six anthropologists, has drawn on and also deviated from some of the main tendencies from these approaches.
Thu
29
Oct
Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective
Dan Hiebert, Co-Director of Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS)
In this talk, Dr. Dan Hiebert will look at the rapidly demographic changes that are happening globally, the case of immigration to Canada, and the impact of immigration on Canadian society.
Sat
31
Oct
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Mr. Mohamed Fahmy, Former English Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera, Egypt Office
November 2015
Mon
2
Nov
Green College Resident Members' Series
Rebecca Gibbons, Public Health, Amalie Lambert, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
While children have always played, playgrounds only emerged as an urban institution in the early 1900s. Over the past century, the evolution of these structures has reflected key perspectives about human nature and society. What do playgrounds tell us about our values and interests? What are the implications for children’s health and development?
Tue
3
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Judith Paltin, English, UBC
This presentation compares conventional analytical approaches to two famous crowd actions, the Irish Easter Rising (1916) and the London Battle at Cable Street (1936), to roughly contemporaneous fictional representations of crowd movements and collective mental states.
Tue
3
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Ivan Beschastnikh, Computer Science, UBC
Software runs the world. Much of our daily life is wrapped up in software, yet most software comes with no assurance that it will work, or that it works as expected. In this talk, Ivan Beschastnikh will discuss a research area in software engineering that concerns itself with reverse engineering of software specifications.
Tue
3
Nov
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Judith Paltin, English, UBC
This presentation compares conventional analytical approaches to two famous crowd actions, the Irish Easter Rising (1916) and the London Battle at Cable Street (1936), to roughly contemporaneous fictional representations of crowd movements and collective mental states.
Thu
5
Nov
ARCTIC-WISE: Bridging Northern Knowledges of Change
Edward Struzik, Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen’s University
Join author/photographer Edward Struzik as he takes you on a 45-million year journey into the Arctic’s past and a whirlwind tour of what is happening there now. Discover what the past and the present tell us about the future that is unfolding.