Past events
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January 28, 2019
Shamanic Practices and Conservation Actions by the Ashaninka People in the Brazilian Amazon
Alice Fortes, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, January 28, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series / Actors on the Anthropo(s)cene The Ashaninka of the Apiwtxa village are a people living between…
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January 28, 2019
Un Tenable: A Panel Discussion on Housing in Vancouver
Hosted by the Green College Outreach Committee Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, January 28, 5-6:30 pm in the series Green College Special Event Low vacancy rates, high housing costs, and high rates of homelessness belie Vancouver’s perennial ranking…
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January 22, 2019
Searching, Accessing and Using Web Resources: A Chicken-and-Egg Dilemma?
Pierluigi Feliciati, Records and Information Science, University of Macerata, Italy; Visiting Professor in the UBC iSchool and in Residence at Green College Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, January 22, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow in the series Green College Special…
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January 21, 2019
Of Muskox and Men: Arctic Ecology and Climate Change
Zoe Panchen, Geography Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, January 21, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Climate change and its impacts on our environment is a contemporary and sometimes contentious interdisciplinary issue. The Arctic…
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January 16, 2019
Organizing Silence: Pantomime as a Universal Language
Hedy Law, Music, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, January 16, 5-6:30 pm in the series Transforming Silence Pantomime was used in many musical and theatrical French genres in the second half of eighteenth century. Featuring gesture, dance, acting,…
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January 15, 2019
Lecture 1 (of 3): Where Are the Students?
Registration is now closed for this event but some places will still be available in the Coach House for those who arrive in good time on the evening, and there will also be ample overflow seating for a livestream in the Great Hall. Please pre-register to secure priority seating in the Coach…
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January 14, 2019
The Process of Design: Realising the World of “Lion in the Streets”
Emily Dotson, Theatre and Film Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, January 14, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Lion in the Streets (1990), by award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, is a work that confronts the cruelty of…
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January 10, 2019
Solving Puzzles, Applying Solutions: A Career in Air Pollution Meteorology
Douw G. Steyn, Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, January 10, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow in the series Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions That Drive Academic Life Physicist by training, atmospheric scientist…
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January 9, 2019
The Jihad of Iyad Ag Ghali
Christopher Wise, English, Western Washington University Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, January 9, 5-6:30 pm in the series Critical Nationalisms, Counterpublics Christopher Wise will speak about the conflict in Northern Mali. In 2012, the Tuareg Salafist…
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January 7, 2019
Interactions Between Korean and Foreign Women in Korea, 1884-1945
Kyrie Vermette, Asian Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, January 7, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries thousands of North American missionary women and Japanese settler…