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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October 19, 2026How Organizations Come Alive: Records Management and Institutional Memory at Green College
Organizations are ever-changing, complex systems—they age, grow, and shift in focus, function, and personnel, all while accumulating records. In their daily course of work, people within organizations continuously create memoranda, minutes, photos, reports, and all sorts of other records. For…
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October 20, 2026"Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone": Deepening Climate Justice Against Extraction
This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea mining in an area bordering the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and the entangled forms of economic and scientific thinking about the Mariana Trench as a site for extraction. It considers…
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October 21, 2026Humour and Play in Rabbinic Literature: Laughing at God
In many legends and stories, the Talmudic rabbis depict the biblical god in shockingly human terms: the divine being prays, studies Torah, weeps, makes mistakes, and suffers correction by humans. Were the rabbis just having fun? Or were these anthropomorphic representations of…
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October 19, 2026How Organizations Come Alive: Records Management and Institutional Memory at Green College
Organizations are ever-changing, complex systems—they age, grow, and shift in focus, function, and personnel, all while accumulating records. In their daily course of work, people within organizations continuously create memoranda, minutes, photos, reports, and all sorts of other records. For…
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October 20, 2026"Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone": Deepening Climate Justice Against Extraction
This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea mining in an area bordering the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and the entangled forms of economic and scientific thinking about the Mariana Trench as a site for extraction. It considers…
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October 21, 2026Humour and Play in Rabbinic Literature: Laughing at God
In many legends and stories, the Talmudic rabbis depict the biblical god in shockingly human terms: the divine being prays, studies Torah, weeps, makes mistakes, and suffers correction by humans. Were the rabbis just having fun? Or were these anthropomorphic representations of…
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October 22, 2026Graphic Theory: On the Production of Knowledge and Culture for Palestine Today
Xaytun Ennasr and Dr Jasbir K Puar come together to discuss This Death Is Not One, a collaborative project (co-authored with Nasser Abourahme and edited by Adam HajYahia) unfolding across theory, image, translation, land, and the wounded body. The project takes up Puar’s The Right to Maim to…
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October 26, 2026Anne Carson, A Poet in Fragments
Join us for a celebration of the poetry and essays of Canadian poet and translator Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Anne Carson’s writings are steeped in ancient Greek literature, and she tests the limits of what a translation can be. Through a selection of readings…
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October 26, 2026Timelines and Lines through Time: The History of Borders and Why it Matters
We live in a world divided, partitioned, and carved up by a multitude of borders. These boundaries can be political or geographic, peaceful or contested, enforced or intangible. They control the exchange of goods, restrict the movement of people, and outline the identities of nations. In many ways,…
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October 27, 2026When the NOISE in Your Head Cancels out the Noise in Your Heart: Exploring Indigenous Ways of Being with the Land and with Ourselves
The first session of NOISE brings together three Indigenous individuals: lecturer and senior manager, EDI and Indigeneity, Dana-Lyn Mackenzie from the Hwlitsum First Nation; Cree medicine gatherer, trapper, and drummer Mitchell Tourangeau; and bear dancer Aileen Lil Bear Michel. Together, these…
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October 28, 2026Novel Distortions: Postnationalism and Literary Form in Mexico and Central America
The novel emerged in lockstep with the nation-state, serving as the cultural counterpart to political form in the modern era. However, these dynamics are unraveling as the raison d’être of the contemporary state veers from its people to the neoliberal market. In Novel Distortions, Dr Tamara L…
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October 29, 2026When Traditions Talk Back: Hindustani Music and Jazz in Conversation with Shruti Ramani
What happens when two musical traditions become part of the same musician’s way of listening? In this performance lecture, Shruti Ramani explores the conversation between Hindustani music and jazz through her own experiences as a vocalist, composer, and student of both traditions. Using examples…
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November 2, 2026Green College Resident Members' Series
This is the fifth event in the Green College Resident Members' Series.