Past events
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September 26, 2025Over the Mountain and Down the River to the Coast
The schedule for the annual Latin American Studies conference at UBC is below. For full information and to register, visit the conference home page. Session 1. 9:30 am to 11:00 – Historical Landscapes Chair. Aleksa Alaica. UBC, Anthropology and Archaeology Aleksa Alaica. Multispecies…
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September 25, 2025From Biodiversity Preservation to Innovation: The Role of Biological Resource Centres
Biological Resource Centres (BRCs) play a crucial role across many scientific domains by acting as specialized libraries for living organisms and their genetic material. Their work in preservation and distribution is fundamental to research and innovation in the animal, plant, environmental, and…
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September 24, 2025Rising Tides
This inaugural event in the series "Where the Waves Take Us: Art, Identity, and the Sea," will feature novelist Christine Lai, whose acclaimed novel Landscapes centres on an archivist cataloguing art after environmental disaster. Landscapes was longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness…
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September 22, 2025Small Telescope, Big Science: CGEM and the Origin of the Universe
The Canadian Galactic Emission Mapper (CGEM) is a new 4-metres single-dish radio telescope located at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near Penticton, BC, built to map the polarization of the galaxy we inhabit, the Milky Way. This new instrument has been designed with a clear objective…
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September 16, 2025Relating to Land Through Play
What happens when you slow down your pace as you walk and play in the forest? How does your experience of a forest change when you mindfully engage with the sonic environment? These are some of the questions that will guide our forest therapy and soundwalk in the Green College gardens. …
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July 24, 2025Embracing the Impossible: Arthur Conan Doyle, Aleister Crowley, and the Occultural Turn in Detective Fiction
In his famous maxim from The Sign of Four (1890), Sherlock Holmes declares “the impossible" to be precisely what the detective must exclude in order to arrive at a true solution. My talk focuses on an alternative tradition of new religious literary detection emergent during the long fin de siècle…
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April 14, 2025
Much More Than a Blood Clot: How Blood Coagulation Shapes our Immunity and Metabolic Health
Abbey Sugars-Keen, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine When we think about blood coagulation, we usually think of a scab forming over a cut or of cardiovascular diseases like heart attack and stroke. There’s a general conception of blood clotting as a discrete physiological process that acts…
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April 10, 2025
Anthropology Over Time
Patricia Shaw, Professor Emerita, Anthropology; Aleksa Alaica, Assistant Professor, Anthropology; Kelly Thomas, PhD Student, Anthropology, and a Resident Member of Green CollegeCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedThursday, April 10, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to followin the…
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April 7, 2025
Ambition and its Public Reception: A Social Media Analysis of Chalamet's SAG Speech
Kyla McCallum, Library and Information StudiesCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, April 7, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series What exactly is ambition? How much is considered too much, and how do people respond to an unfiltered expression of obsessive…
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April 2, 2025
A Community Reading of Pat Lowther’s "A Stone Diary"
For our final event of the year, The Whole Cloth Reading Series welcomes you to a community reading of Pat Lowther’s A Stone Diary in collaboration with Dead Poets Reading Series.On the 50th Anniversary of Vancouver poet Pat Lowther’s death, we’ll gather in her memory to read her final collection A…