Past events
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March 19, 2024
Narratives from Australia’s Offshore Refugee Prisons: Creative Resistance, Collaboration and Experimentation
Omid Tofighian, lecturer, researcher and community advocate; Elahe Zivardar, artist, architectural designer, journalist and documentary filmmaker Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, March 19, 5-6:30pm, with reception to follow in the series Green College Special…
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March 18, 2024
Lola Didi's Grilled Cheese: Food-Making as Care (Labour)
Roxanne Angela Bella, Geography Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 18, 8-9pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series In this discussion, I discuss my embodied experiences of transience as a 1.5-generation Pilipinx-Canadian migrant as…
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March 12, 2024
Inevitable Impositions: Censorship and Modern Chinese Literature
Michel Hockx, Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, March 12, 5-6:30 pm with reception to follow Coffee and tea will be available at 4:30 pm in the Piano Lounge, Graham House in the series Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting…
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March 11, 2024
A Bond a Braid, or a Knot: An Autotheory of Embodied Curating
Ellinee Nelson, Critical and Curatorial Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 11, 8-9pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Bodies, birth, death, machines Those are four immense things We have in common You could call it a…
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March 11, 2024
Academic Appetizer Hour with Green College Leading Scholars
Katharina N. Piechocki, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies; and Ron Yang, Business Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Monday, March 11, 5-6 pm, with reception to follow in the series Green College Leading Scholars Program Bite-sized…
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March 6, 2024
From Genocide to Climate Change: The Role of International Law in Global Crises
Michael Byers, Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law, Political Science Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, March 6, 5-6:30 pm with reception to follow Coffee and tea will be available at 4:30 pm in the Piano Lounge, Graham House in…
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March 5, 2024
Smelling the Humanities
Bob Davidson, Spanish and Catalan Studies, University of Toronto; and Director, Northrop Frye Centre Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, March 5, 5-6:30 pm with reception to follow Coffee and tea will be available at 4:30 pm in the Piano Lounge, Graham House in…
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March 4, 2024
The Spatial Footprint of Tech Giants
Nico Jimenez, Geography Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 4, 8-9pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series We live in an era dominated by tech giants, where the rising growth of ‘Big Tech’ (e.g. Alphabet, Meta, and Apple)…
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February 29, 2024
Sound Unseen: Auscultating Gendered Violence in Mexican Fiction
Tamara Mitchell, French, Italian and Hispanic Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Thursday, February 29, 5-6:30pm with reception to follow in the series Sound Silence Power Thinking with Nietzsche, Peter Szendy asserts that auscultation…
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February 28, 2024
China Urbanizing in Global Context: Impacts and Transitions
Weiping Wu, Urban Planning, Columbia University Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, February 28, 5-6:30pm with reception to follow in the series China Logics China’s urbanization has evolved amid the interconnected forces of…