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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September 16, 2025Relating to Land Through Play
What happens when you slow down your pace as you walk and play in the forest? How does your experience of a forest change when you mindfully engage with the sonic environment? These are some of the questions that will guide our forest therapy and soundwalk in the Green College gardens. …
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September 22, 2025Small Telescope, Big Science: CGEM and the Origin of the Universe
The Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) is a new 4-metres single-dish radio telescope located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near Penticton, BC, built to map the polarization of the galaxy we inhabit, the Milky Way. This new instrument has been designed with a clear objective…
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September 24, 2025Rising Tides
This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness…
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September 16, 2025Relating to Land Through Play
What happens when you slow down your pace as you walk and play in the forest? How does your experience of a forest change when you mindfully engage with the sonic environment? These are some of the questions that will guide our forest therapy and soundwalk in the Green College gardens. …
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September 22, 2025Small Telescope, Big Science: CGEM and the Origin of the Universe
The Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) is a new 4-metres single-dish radio telescope located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near Penticton, BC, built to map the polarization of the galaxy we inhabit, the Milky Way. This new instrument has been designed with a clear objective…
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September 24, 2025Rising Tides
This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness…
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September 25, 2025From Biodiversity Preservation to Innovation: The Role of Biological Resource Centres
Biological Resource Centres (BRCs) play a crucial role across many scientific domains by acting as specialized libraries for living organisms and their genetic material. Their work in preservation and distribution is fundamental to research and innovation in the animal, plant, environmental, and…
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September 26, 2025Over the Mountain and Down the River to the Coast
The schedule for the annual Latin American Studies conference at UBC is below. For full information and to register, visit the conference home page. Session 1. 9:30 am to 11:00 – Historical Landscapes Chair. Aleksa Alaica. UBC, Anthropology and Archaeology Aleksa Alaica. Multispecies…
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October 7, 2025Teaching Video Games in Catastrophic Times: Perils, Pleasures, and Possibilities
Though video games are played widely across North America, they rarely register as an influential cultural media that comments upon and critiques our political and social worlds. Despite their ability to connect players globally, video games are rarely seen as opportunities of empowerment,…
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October 8, 2025The Consone Quartet: Our Journey to the Romantics
Since our formation in 2012, our aim has always been to explore the great wealth of string quartet repertoire from an historically informed perspective, whether that be using appropriate equipment—gut strings and historical bows—or studying the sources of the time. In this informal lecture…
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October 9, 2025Is Medico-legal Death Investigation Really Five Times Worse in Canada than in the United States? Exoneration Registries in Comparative Perspective
Exoneration registries—online archives of known cases of false conviction and exoneration—are an idea whose time has come. Starting with the creation of the first such registry in the United States in 2012, three more national/regional registries have launched in recent years, including The…
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October 15, 2025Victoria Chang Reads "With My Back to the World"
A new collection of poetry inspired by the work of Agnes Martin, exploring topics of feminism, art, depression, and grief, by the author of the prizewinning collection OBIT. "Yesterday I slung my depression on my back and went to the museum. I only asked four attendants where the Agnes…
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October 16, 2025Ocean Songs
Green College writer in residence Clara Kumagai will host a musical performance by Leah Abramson, a singer and songwriter. Leah’s multidisciplinary show Songs for a Lost Pod explores human relationships with marine mammals in a polluted planet, intertwined with her own family history and…