As the central hub for interdisciplinary dialogue and learning at UBC, all listed events at Green College are free, open to the general public, and do not require advanced registration (unless otherwise indicated on the event page).
Featured upcoming events
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January 26, 2026Renormalizing Our Universe: Some Grand Challenges in Modern Theoretical Physics
What happens when we keep zooming into a digital photo? We see the individual pixels. If we knew the colour and location of every pixel in the image, we would know everything there is to know about the image. However, this doesn't exactly tell us what the image is about. To understand what the…
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January 27, 2026Indigenous Relationality in the Grind of the Shitty Future
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession (Duke University Press, 2025), Jodi A Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing…
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January 28, 2026Kayla Czaga Reads "Midway"
“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, Midway, an exploration of grief. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least…
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January 26, 2026Renormalizing Our Universe: Some Grand Challenges in Modern Theoretical Physics
What happens when we keep zooming into a digital photo? We see the individual pixels. If we knew the colour and location of every pixel in the image, we would know everything there is to know about the image. However, this doesn't exactly tell us what the image is about. To understand what the…
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January 27, 2026Indigenous Relationality in the Grind of the Shitty Future
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession (Duke University Press, 2025), Jodi A Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing…
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January 28, 2026Kayla Czaga Reads "Midway"
“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, Midway, an exploration of grief. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least…
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February 4, 2026Queer Form Unfollows Function
In this presentation, artist Jade Yumang will explore the frameworks of queer form as a method of cultural inquiry and aesthetic expression. This exploration will encompass several projects that investigate how bodies are oriented and perceived both optically and spatially. The discussion is…
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February 5, 2026AI and Co-researching: Hallucinations are a Feature of LLMs—Let’s Use Them
AI confabulations are integral to how large language models (LLMs) work. They are a feature, not a bug. LLMs are trained on texts, not truths. Each text bears traces of its context, including its genre, voice, audience, and the history and local politics of its place of origin. A correct sentence…
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February 10, 2026"Heaven Has Eyes": Canadian Book Launch
Philip Holden’s short story collection Heaven Has Eyes spans three cities—Singapore, Vancouver, and London—exploring belonging across space, language, culture, and time. Its new North American edition contains new stories that consider the place of the past in the present, and which are also…
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February 11, 2026Lives of Archivists and Scholars
This second event of the ‘Living Archives’ series looks at how archives are a vehicle for historical and personal discoveries, and how we can creatively engage with scholarly texts in fiction and poetry. Aislinn Hunter’s novel The World Before Us features an archivist in a small London museum…
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February 12, 2026Getting Into, and Branching Out From, Immunology: A UBC Career of Research, Teaching, Mentoring, and Leadership
For Dr Mike Gold, being a UBC faculty member has been a rewarding career spanning over three decades. He led a research laboratory and trained the next generation of scientists, engaged students in multiple courses, mentored students and junior faculty members, took on leadership roles, and…
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February 26, 2026Can a Trombone Weep as Well as a Voice?
More information on this event will be posted closer to the event date. This event is open to the general public and does not require registration (but please note that our seating is limited). Co-organized with Early Music Vancouver.
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March 4, 2026Perspectives on Ethical Policing
In 1919, German sociologist Max Weber defined the state as “a human community that successfully claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence within a given territory.” Weber’s definition can be interpreted as follows: Physical violence may only be used legitimately by the state itself; all…