Green College offers visiting opportunities to distinguished and emerging interdisciplinary scholars, artists, and musicians through its endowed visitor programs, often in partnership with UBC faculty hosts. These programs offer a welcoming and peaceful environment for visitors to deepen their work and engage with UBC scholars, graduate students, and members of the public. They also greatly enrich the college’s academic and creative community.
The Richard V Ericson Lecture series was inaugurated in 2011 by Andrew Coyne, National Editor of Maclean's Magazine. The lectures are partly funded from the Richard V Ericson Lecture Endowment, which honours the memory of the founding principal of Green College Richard Ericson (1948-2007), world-renowned criminologist and sociologist. Dr Ericson, BA, MA, PhD, LittD, FRSC, was Professor of Criminology and Sociology (1974-93, 2005-07) and Director of the Centre of Criminology (1992-93, 2005-07) at the University of Toronto; Professor of Sociology and Law, Distinguished University Professor, and founding principal of Green College (1993-2003); and Professor of Criminology, Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, and Professorial Fellow of All Souls College at the University of Oxford (2004-05). He was a Canada Council Killam Research Fellow in 1998-2000 and held visiting appointments at universities in the UK, US, Europe, and Australia. Dr Ericson's many acclaimed publications spanned police work, crime reporting, risk and regulation, insurance and governance, and the sociology of knowledge. He was especially proud of his role in the creation of Green College at UBC as a unique combination of residential academic community and public venue for non-curricular, interdisciplinary inquiry.
The JV Clyne Lecture series, now administered by Green College on behalf of the university, is made possible by an endowment created to honour John Valentine Clyne (1902-89) at the conclusion of his service as Chancellor of UBC in 1984. JV Clyne was also a former Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court, and was a Companion of the Order of Canada. The purpose of the endowment is to provide public lectures to UBC and the wider Vancouver community by individuals with outstanding expertise in one or more of the fields in which the honorands also distinguished themselves, namely Government, Business, Law, and the Arts.
The Dal Grauer Memorial Lectureship held its first lecture in 1966 in memory of AE Dal Grauer. He was President of the BC Electric Company and was serving a second term as chancellor of UBC when he died in 1961. The lectures reflect Dal Grauer’s wide range of interests: the arts, especially music and literature; economics; science; and social and political concerns.
The Hewitt Bostock Lecturer is appointed by Green College to support collaborative programming with other UBC units or local partner organizations. Hewitt Bostock (1864-1930) was a Canadian publisher, businessman, politician, and founder of the Province newspaper.