Past events
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February 3, 2025
Ecocentric Constitutional Law: What, Why, and How
Mark Howard, LawCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, February 3, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series As the global climate crisis grows more dire, it seems increasingly clear that contemporary environmental law has failed to deliver on its promise of …
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January 30, 2025
Leading in a Time of Uncertainty: My Road to Kindness
Bonnie Henry, Provincial Health OfficerHEBB Building, Room 100, 2045 East Mall, UBC Thursday, January 30, 5-6:30 pm and livestreamedin the seriesPrecarity and Uncertainty: A Green College Leading Scholars Series Please note the off-site location of this lecture.Dr. Bonnie Henry, the…
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January 29, 2025
Jaspreet Singh’s “Dreams of the Epoch & the Rock”: A Book Launch and Readings
Jaspreet Singh, 20th Writer in Residence at Green College; with Daphne Marlatt, poet and novelist; and surprise musical guestsPiano Lounge, Green College, UBCWednesday, January 29, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to followin the seriesAnthropocene Dialogues: Readings, Short Talks, and Conversations …
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January 28, 2025
ONLINE EVENT: Real Stories from the Front Lines: Research with Impact Sponsored by the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative (NGDI), UBC
Richard Lester, Medicine, UBC, and Director, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative; Jason Nickerson, Law, University of Ottawa, and Humanitarian Representative, Doctors without BordersOnline via ZoomTuesday, January 28, 5-6:30 pmin the seriesStories from the Front Line: Universities and Global…
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January 27, 2025
Cultural Hallucinations and the Illusion of the Psychedelic Renaissance
Kelly Thomas, Medical AnthropologyCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, January 27, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series Although psychedelics have been present in cultures around the world for thousands of years, they have a comparatively short and…
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January 22, 2025
Marc Perez Reads Dayo
Marc Perez, poetCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedWednesday, January 22, 5-6:30 pmin the seriesThe Whole Cloth Reading Series An elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging.Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who exists in a place not their own. A…
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January 21, 2025
Applied Critique
Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Social Development Studies and Social Work, University of Waterloo; Julia Bullard, Information; Hannah Kia, Social WorkCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedTuesday, January 21, 5-6:30 pmin the seriesGreen College Special Lecture Social justice and related…
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January 20, 2025
“For I Am Still A Type-Writer Girl—At Another Office”: Metonymic Mobility In Fin De Siècle Fiction
Mackenzie Ashcroft, English Language and LiteraturesCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, January 20, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series First published under the female pseudonym “Olive Pratt Rayner,” Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl is an important…
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January 16, 2025
Astrophysics Over Time
William H. McCutcheon, Professor Emeritus, Physics and Astronomy; Jess McIver, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy; and Pedro Villalba González, PhD Candidate, Physics and Astronomy, and Green College Resident MemberCoach House, Green College, UBC and…
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January 15, 2025
Gregorius: The Holy Sinner
Sequentia: Benjamin Bagby, voice, harp, and artistic direction; Jasmina Črnčič voice and harp; leiken, voiceCoach House, Green College, UBCWednesday, January 15, 5-6:30 pm with reception to followin the seriesEarly Music Vancouver at Green College How did medieval German…