Past events
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April 1, 2017
Crossing Seas: Refugees in the World and in the Imagination
CECIL AND IDA GREEN LECTURE Lawrence Hill, author; Creative Writing, University of Guelph; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor at UBC Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, April 1, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures …
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March 29, 2017
Cities through the Ages: One Thing or Many?
Michael Smith, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, March 29, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time If we consider cities from…
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March 27, 2017
**CANCELLED** Philosophy and Art
Please note this event has been cancelled. Jo Wong, Philosophy Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 27, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series While certain aspects of art and aesthetics are plausibly universal, the aesthetic…
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March 25, 2017
The Decline of the West: Geopolitics in the 21st Century
MARK ZACHER DISTINGUISHED VISITOR LECTURE Jennifer Welsh, International Relations, and Somerville College, Oxford University Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, March 25, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures  …
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March 22, 2017
Public Engagement and Political Discourse Over Access to Justice
Julie Macfarlane, Law, University of Windsor Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, March 22, 5-6:30 pm in the series Access to Justice Watch the podcast here. The urgency of Canada’s Access to Justice crisis – where more than half of family…
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March 21, 2017
Talking Toleration in a Time of Sectarian Controversy and Violence: Speech, Silence and Religious Coexistence in Early Modern England
Alexandra Walsham, History, University of Cambridge; Ian Dyck Visiting Lecturer in History at Simon Fraser University Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 21, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Green College Special Lecture Five hundred years after the…
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March 20, 2017
Detroit 2028: Leveraging Infrastructure Spending for Co-Housing
Nicole Tischler, Architecture; Dominik Neuenfeld, Physics Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 20, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series A phenomenon shared by all fields in academia is that seemingly unrelated questions can have…
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March 18, 2017
Global Climate Change: Can the Next Generation Avert a Catastrophe?
DAL GRAUER MEMORIAL LECTURE James Hansen, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, and Head, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, March 18, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures …
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March 18, 2017
The Green College Players Present: Votes for Women! (Night Three)
The Green College Players Present: Votes for Women! The Great Hall, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 16, 8-10 pm Friday, March 17, 8-10 pm Saturday, March 19, 8-10 pm The Green College Players “One woman’s mishap?—what is that? A…
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March 17, 2017
The Green College Players Present: Votes for Women! (Night Two)
The Green College Players Present: Votes for Women! The Great Hall, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 16, 8-10 pm Friday, March 17, 8-10 pm Saturday, March 19, 8-10 pm The Green College Players “One woman’s mishap?—what is that? A…