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, 2026A Musical Performance-Lecture
More information on this performance-lecture and the performers 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.
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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, 2026A Musical Performance-Lecture
More information on this performance-lecture and the performers 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.
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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 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,…
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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 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…