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 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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November 5, 2025Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen Reads "Roughly for the North"
Roughly for the North is Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s debut collection of poetry. It encompasses her love and longing for her ancestral home of Ugiuvak (King Island, Alaska). In the work, she also comes to grips with her beloved Aaka Cecilia Muktoyuk’s cancer illness and passing. It is full…
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November 6, 2025A Roundtable on “A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing”
“A Precarious Enterprise has all of the DNA necessary for future historians to fully understand the joyous and unexpected rodeo that was CanLit 1.0. It was a cherished window in time, and Scott tells of it with love and the ultimate insider’s POV.” — Douglas Coupland, author and artist…
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November 13, 2025Ten Surprising Things About the History of Photography in Canada
What did Canadians know about photography, and when did they know it? Some years ago, I set out to answer that two-part question. My first surprise was the tenor of the discussion as news of the inventions began to circulate in 1839. Photography seemed to be anticipated in British North America and…
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November 19, 2025Water Binds Me to Your Name
In this final public event of Clara Kumagai's residency, she will welcome Saeed Teebi, a writer and lawyer based in Toronto, in conversation. His 2022 debut collection of short stories, Her First Palestinian was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize and the Rakuten Kobo…
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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 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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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 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).