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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November 20, 2025Feeling, Thinking, and Moral Hierarchies: Reflections on the Qur’an and Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility"
What is the relationship between intellect, feelings, and moral action in different contexts? In this talk, Dr Karen Bauer considers this question in two texts from vastly different times and places: the Qur’an, from 7th century Arabia, and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, published in England…
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November 24, 2025Leave it to (Nuisance) Beavers: Manitoba's Beaver Management Problem, 1930 to 1953
This talk is an animal history of the beaver in Manitoba from 1930, the year of the Natural Resources Transfer Acts, to 1953, the year of the first open season on beavers in southern Manitoba since 1898. Catherine St. John will analyze how beavers shaped wildlife management policy in the province…
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November 25, 2025A 21st-century Lute Song Book: Crafting the Toronto Book of Ayres
Duo Oriana’s latest endeavour, the Toronto Book of Ayres, sets four texts commissioned from contemporary poets Martin Gomes and Melissa Davidson to music by lutenist Jonathan Stuchbery. Together, these four songs form the beginning of a 21st-century collection of music for lute and voice. In…
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November 20, 2025Feeling, Thinking, and Moral Hierarchies: Reflections on the Qur’an and Jane Austen’s "Sense and Sensibility"
What is the relationship between intellect, feelings, and moral action in different contexts? In this talk, Dr Karen Bauer considers this question in two texts from vastly different times and places: the Qur’an, from 7th century Arabia, and Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, published in England…
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November 24, 2025Leave it to (Nuisance) Beavers: Manitoba's Beaver Management Problem, 1930 to 1953
This talk is an animal history of the beaver in Manitoba from 1930, the year of the Natural Resources Transfer Acts, to 1953, the year of the first open season on beavers in southern Manitoba since 1898. Catherine St. John will analyze how beavers shaped wildlife management policy in the province…
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November 25, 2025A 21st-century Lute Song Book: Crafting the Toronto Book of Ayres
Duo Oriana’s latest endeavour, the Toronto Book of Ayres, sets four texts commissioned from contemporary poets Martin Gomes and Melissa Davidson to music by lutenist Jonathan Stuchbery. Together, these four songs form the beginning of a 21st-century collection of music for lute and voice. In…
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December 1, 2025Immunotherapies: Speaking the Language of our Immune System to Treat Disease
Immunotherapies have transformed how we treat many diseases, especially cancer and autoimmune conditions. Over the past decade, these therapies have dramatically improved cancer survival rates and even shifted some cancers, such as lymphomas, from life-threatening diseases to treatable…
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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 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 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 12, 2026Frescobaldi in the North: Transmission of the Stilo Nuovo by Keyboardists in Amsterdam and Hamburg
More information on this event and performer will be posted shortly. 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. This event will be followed by a reception in the Piano Lounge…
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April 8, 2026A Community Reading
More information on this final Whole Cloth Reading Series 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).