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March 2016
Fri
11
Mar
Green College Special Event
Keynote Speaker Farah Mendlesohn, Head of Department, Anglia Ruskin University
Sat
12
Mar
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Turi King, Lecturer in Genetics and Archaeology, University of Leicester
Mon
14
Mar
Green College Resident Members' Series
David Gill Community and Regional Planning; Idaliya Grigoryeva, Geography; Adam Yang, Sociology
Join Ida, Adam, and David for a global urban tour that will make you reflect upon the conflict and creativity behind the spaces we live in.
Tue
15
Mar
Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life
Judith Myers, Zoology
Judith Myers will talk about her career path through this transition, touching on her passion for basic and applied ecology, women in science, and current environmental challenges.
Wed
16
Mar
The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time
Michael Storper, Urban Planning, The University Of California, Los Angeles
Join us for a talk on how San Francisco outpaced L.A.’s urban growth in an unconventional way.
Thu
17
Mar
Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor
Invisible Others: How the Same God is Known Differently in Ghana, India and the US (SPOTLIGHT EVENT)
Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor, Anthropology, Stanford University
Join us for a talk by Tanya Luhrmann, Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor, as she reflects on her work about how the same God is known differently in distinct parts of the world.
Fri
18
Mar
Green College Special Event
Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Green College’s UBC Centennial Event, a Forum on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report released on December 15, 2015
Sat
19
Mar
The Vancouver Institute Lecture
Tanya Luhrmann, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Mon
21
Mar
Green College Resident Members' Series
Maya Lefkowich, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program
From her research on community-based men’s health programs and Men’s Sheds, Maya will grapple with: barriers that many men often face in addressing their health, challenges that service providers experience in reaching men, meaningful research practices for working with men, and opportunities for change.
Tue
22
Mar
Green College Leading Scholars' Series
Vanessa De Oliviera Andreotti and Sereana Naepi-Patterson Educational Studies, UBC
In this seminar, we critically explore the debates around turning universities into 'pluri-versities' as a way to protect spaces for socially accountable, critically informed, rigorous, sober, and multi-voiced critical conversations about alternative futures.