Past events
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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…
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March 31, 2025
Helping Children Overcome Disordered Anxiety: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach
Andrés Montiel, Clinical PsychologyCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, March 31, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health concerns in childhood. Children who struggle with anxiety disorders face negative…
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March 27, 2025
The Nettle Dress Film Screening
Moderated by Alexandra Peck, Art History, Visual Art, and Theory; and Alex Tavasoli, Mechanical EngineeringCoach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 27, 5-6:10 pmin the seriesGreen College Special Event | First Annual Slow Fashion Season at UBC 'Dylan Howitt’s poetic…
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March 25, 2025
Variations on a Garden
Abbas Akhavan, curtain call, variations on a folly, 2021/2023, barley straw, subsoil, lightweight leca, sharp sand, puddle clay, wood, chromakey green paint, pink noise, 390 x 650 x 1230 cm. Photo: David Stjernholm; courtesy of the artist.Join visual artist Abbas Akhavan as he discusses some…
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March 24, 2025
Putting the "U" in JUSTICE
Layla Haddad, Public Policy and Global Affairs; Karyna Howell, Soil Science; and Lindsey Nkem, Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice; chaired by Sofie McComb, Forestry ScienceCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, March 24, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident…
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March 20, 2025
Law Over Time
Susan Boyd, Professor Emerita of Law, University of British Columbia; Fiona Kelly, Dean of Law, University of Alberta; Régine Tremblay, Associate Professor of Law, University of British Columbia; and Reina Magistro Nadler, PhD student, Law, University of British Columbia,…