Past events
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January 21, 2026Imagined Histories
In the first event of the series ‘Living Archives’, Green College writer in residence Theresa Muñoz will be in conversation with novelist Madeleine Thien, discussing how to weave archives and research materials into poetry and fiction. Theresa Muñoz’s latest poetry collection Archivum explores…
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January 19, 2026Inside ChatGPT: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Modern AI
Can machines think? Does ChatGPT understand? Pierre Mackenzie will let you decide for yourself. In this talk, he will give a brief history of AI and an overview of the field of machine learning with a focus on the bedrock of many modern AI systems—the artificial neural network. He will conclude by…
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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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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 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 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 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 18, 2025Climate Change and Microbial Biodiversity: Possible Impacts on our Food and Gut Microbiota
While climate change threatens iconic animal species, its impact on microbes—invisible to the naked eye—is just as critical, especially for our food and our health. Climate change isn't just about rising temperatures; it's a cascade of environmental perturbations that are disrupting ecosystems…
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November 17, 2025Building Heaven on Earth: Hutterites and Utopian Socialism in North America
“There is a large and somewhat secretive group of communists, called Hutterites, living on the Great Plains of North America. They own no private property, are self-sufficient, are fierce pacifists, and separate themselves from the materialism of the outside world.” In this talk, Daniel Miksha…
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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…