Past events
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October 17, 2022
Using the Body's Own Immune System Against Tumours: Could Immunotherapy Cure Cancer?
Elahe Shenasa, Interdisciplinary Oncology Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, October 17, 8-9pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Immunotherapy uses the person’s own immune system to attack cancer cells. Promising results have…
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October 13, 2022
Opening Up Our Coursework and Coursebooks
Samuel Beswick, Law; and Renren Yang, Asian Studies; with Zachary Couture, Green College Resident Member, and Law; and Alisa Zeng, English Language and Literatures, and Asia Area Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Thursday, October 13, 5-6:30pm in the…
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October 12, 2022
Macro-Institutional Change and Guanxi Dynamics in China
Yanjie Bian, Sociology, University of Minnesota Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Wednesday, October 12, 5-6:30pm, with reception to follow in the series China Power How does macro-institutional change alter the dynamics of guanxi, or…
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October 11, 2022
NECESSITY: Documentary Screening and Discussion
Janice Haaken, Documentary Filmmaker, Psychologist and Professor Emerita, Psychology, Portland State University, and Naomi Klein, Associate Professor and UBC Professor of Climate Justice, Geography, UBC Norman Bouchard Memorial Theatre, UBC Tuesday, October 11, 5:30-8pm in the…
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October 6, 2022
Privacy Law and Racial Justice
Anita L. Allen, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Thursday, October 6, 5-6:30pm in the series Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor Online…
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October 5, 2022
Flow: People, Ideas and Technologies
Anna Blakney, Biomedical Engineering; Matias Margulis, Public Policy and Global Affairs; and Lydia Wytenbroek, Nursing Coach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamed Wednesday, October 5, 5-6:30pm in the series Moving On: New Research on Migration, Borders and Health …
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October 5, 2022
ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE: On the Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance
Janice Haaken, Documentary Filmmaker, Psychologist and Professor Emerita, Psychology, Portland State University Room 122, Allard Hall, UBC Wednesday, October 5, 12:30-2pm in the series John Grace Memorial Filmmaker in Residence As political pressure…
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October 4, 2022
Barcelona: Tourism and Its Discontents
Photograph of graffiti in Barcelona, taken by Anna Casas Aguilar. Anna Casas Aguilar, French, Hispanic and Italian Studies, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, October 4, 5-6:30pm with reception to follow in the series Green College Special…
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October 3, 2022
Staring at the 'Baby Picture' of our Universe: The Cosmic Microwave Background
Pedro Villalba González, Physics and Astronomy Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, October 3, 8-9pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Since it's discovery in 1965, the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has proven to be a…
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October 3, 2022
Coalition of Space as Inter-Generational Learning | The Antagonisms Between Bourgeois and Coalitional Formations
Roderick Ferguson, William Robertson Coe Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Professor of American Studies, Yale University; and Gail Lewis, Visiting Senior Fellow, Gender Studies, London School of Economics, and Reader Emerita, Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck…