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 17, 2026Telling Stories of Nature in Times of Darkness
Drawing from his extensive experience as a science writer, and his newfound passion for birding, Ed Yong talks about the necessity, potential, and limits of storytelling at a time when the living world is under enormous threat. In this lecture, Yong shows how he crafts compelling narratives,…
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September 22, 2026Education, Opportunity, and the Future of Work in an Age of Smart Machines
This talk seeks to answer the question of whether we’re entering a new age of opportunity or witnessing the end of knowledge work as we know it. Here, I challenge the dominant narrative that today’s industrial transformation will ultimately create more and better jobs, with education remaining the…
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September 29, 2026Le Dame di Margherita: Reviving the Art of Historical Self-Accompanied Singing
This talk-performance explores the historical practice of singing while self-accompanying, focusing on the musical atmosphere of the Estense court in Ferrara at the turn of the seventeenth century. Specialized in early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the musicians of the trio Le dame di…
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September 17, 2026Telling Stories of Nature in Times of Darkness
Drawing from his extensive experience as a science writer, and his newfound passion for birding, Ed Yong talks about the necessity, potential, and limits of storytelling at a time when the living world is under enormous threat. In this lecture, Yong shows how he crafts compelling narratives,…
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September 18, 2026Do You Trust AI? Finding the Humanity in Canada's AI Strategy
Please note that this event is located at the Place of Many Trees, Liu Institute for Global Issues.The Federal government’s AI for All strategy is centred on developing Canadians’ trust in AI. In this panel discussion, members of the Centre for Humanities AI Scholarship and Education…
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September 22, 2026Education, Opportunity, and the Future of Work in an Age of Smart Machines
This talk seeks to answer the question of whether we’re entering a new age of opportunity or witnessing the end of knowledge work as we know it. Here, I challenge the dominant narrative that today’s industrial transformation will ultimately create more and better jobs, with education remaining the…
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September 29, 2026Le Dame di Margherita: Reviving the Art of Historical Self-Accompanied Singing
This talk-performance explores the historical practice of singing while self-accompanying, focusing on the musical atmosphere of the Estense court in Ferrara at the turn of the seventeenth century. Specialized in early music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the musicians of the trio Le dame di…
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October 3, 2026The Future of Work in an Age of AI
Professor Phillip Brown was a distinguished research professor at Cardiff University, UK, before giving up his day job to become an emeritus professor. He spent much of his academic career studying the future of work and its relationship to education, economy, and society. His research has…
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October 6, 2026Green College Lecture
Dr Anita L Allen is the Henry R Silverman professor of law and professor of philosophy, emerita.
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October 7, 2026Jaspreet Singh’s “The Time of the Earth”
The Time of the Earth is the last in Jaspreet Singh’s “Still Astonished” poetry trilogy, following How to Hold a Pebble and Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock.Investigating the emotional and existential registers of inner life in this epoch informally named the Anthropocene, The Time…
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October 8, 2026Misunderstanding Quantum Physics at a Deeper Level
It’s quite common in physics to hear that no one understands quantum mechanics and that the only possible way to teach it can be summed up by the phrase “shut up and calculate.” Among the general public, there are a number of misleading metaphors circulating, the best known of which is Schrödinger…
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October 14, 2026From Sorceresses to Scholars: Literary Taste, Gender, and the Intersectional Body Politic(s) of Late-Medieval England
What people read for fun has always been a matter of personal choice, but literary taste is also shaped by social groups and cultural forces. This talk focuses on a period of widening access to literary culture – in England during the later Middle Ages—and considers how changes in society shape…
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October 15, 2026Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier Read "Jaws [tiburón]"
“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack. JAWS is a book about water,…