Past events
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March 17, 2025
From Bats to Pandemics: How Bat Immune Systems Fuel Deadly Viruses
Thomas Worthington, Microbiology and ImmunologyCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, March 17, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series Bats are the only mammals to have evolved the ability to fly, a trait that has made them one of the most successful…
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March 12, 2025
Shared Futures: The Reordering of Indigenous Justice
L. Jane McMillan, Anthropology, Saint Francis Xavier UniversityCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedWednesday, March 12, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to followCoffee and tea are available in the Piano Lounge at 4:30 pmin the seriesRichard V. Ericson Lecture Through the lens of an…
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March 10, 2025
Bioethics in Action: Ethical Challenges in the Collection and Use of Reproductive Health Data
Amanda Sears, Population and Public HealthCoach House, Green College, UBCMonday, March 10, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series This presentation considers how the theory of epistemic injustice can be applied as a bioethical tool in healthcare spaces, with a specific focus…
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March 5, 2025
Short Talks in the Anthropocene
Laurie D. Graham, poet; Derek Pardue, Global Studies, Aarhus University; annie ross, Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University; Helmut Weissert, ETH Zürich, Switzerland; hosted by Jaspreet Singh, Writer in Residence at Green CollegeCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedWednesday, March…
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March 4, 2025
Reimagining Professional Reasoning: Teaching and Learning with Art and Nature
Jaci Benson, Occupational Therapy; Katie Lee Bunting, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy; Shelly Rosenblum, Belkin Art Gallery; and Holly Schmidt, visual artistMeeting Point: Lobby of the Belkin Art Gallery, UBC Tuesday, March 4, 4-6 pm with reception to followin the…
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March 3, 2025
Transfiguring Historical White Cis-heteronormativity in "Hogwarts Legacy": Victorian-Era 'Wizarding World' Video Game Representations of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Grace Mitchell, HistoryCoach House, Green College, UBC, and livestreamedMonday, March 3, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series Hogwarts Legacy is an award-winning 2023 immersive, open-world, action role-playing video game set in the Scottish Highlands during the 1890-1891…
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February 27, 2025
Immunology Over Time
Michael Gold, Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Maria Tokuyama, Assistant Professor, Microbiology and Immunology; Erin Evans, PhD Student, Microbiology and Immunology, and Green College Resident Member; Tom Worthington, PhD Candidate, Microbiology and Immunology, and Green College…
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February 26, 2025
Having Bayes’ Theorem in the Scientific Toolkit: Experiences and Reflections
Paul Gustafson, StatisticsCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedWednesday, February 26, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to followin the seriesPrecarity and Uncertainty: A Green College Leading Scholars Series Uncertainty is everywhere, whether we’re talking about the weather, a clinical…
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February 25, 2025
Centring Communities of Knowledge: Beading Histories in Tlingit Aaní and Beyond
Megan Smetzer, Art History, Capilano University; and Green College Society MemberCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedTuesday, February 25, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to followin the seriesGreen College Special Event From the initial explorations of an artistic practice little known…
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February 24, 2025
Transfeminist Transhumanism
Reina Magistro Nadler, LawCoach House, Green College, UBCMonday, February 24, 8-9 pm and livestreamedin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series What is our nature? How ought we go about living a human life? Existentialism is the philosophy that rejects fixed, universal answers to…