Past events
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March 16, 2017
The Green College Players Present: Votes for Women!
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 18, 8-10 pm The Green College Players “One woman’s mishap?—what is that? A…
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March 16, 2017
Lives We Overlooked: Framing Indigenous Life Stories
Margery Fee, English; Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 16, 7-8 pm 2017 McLean Lecture Series in Canadian Studies: Decolonizing Conversations - Indigenous Texts in the Pacific Northwest before 1992 …
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March 16, 2017
Managing Marine Wildlife: The Extinction of Fauna in the Ocean
Doug McCauley, Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 16, 5-6:30 pm in the series Adapting to Global Changes in Oceans and Fisheries Marine defaunation, or human-caused animal…
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March 14, 2017
Privilege and Radical Love
Carrie Jenkins, Philosophy, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 14, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Green College Special Lecture Bertrand Russell wrote in 1929 that a professional man would lose his position for living in "open sin," yet added in a…
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March 13, 2017
How to Save the World
David Laing, Science Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 13, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series The universe’s history is unimaginably long, and its future will stretch longer still. If our species survives, there will be…
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March 11, 2017
The Natural History of Polar Bears and the Threat of Climate Warming
Dr. Ian Stirling OC, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, March 11, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Ian Stirling Dr. Stirling is one of the world…
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March 9, 2017
Writing We Didn't Read: Manifestos, Declarations and Other Collective Texts
Margery Fee, English; Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies at UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 9, 7-8 pm 2017 McLean Lecture Series in Canadian Studies: Decolonizing Conversations - Indigenous Texts in the Pacific Northwest before 1992 …
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March 9, 2017
Aspects of the Influence of Predators on the Evolution of Polar Ice-Breeding Seals
Dr. Ian Stirling, OC, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 9, 5-6:30 pm in the series ARCTIC-WISE: BRIDGING NORTHERN KNOWLEDGES OF CHANGE The ice-breeding seals of the Arctic and Antarctic marine…
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March 7, 2017
“Flâneuse” in the Palimpsest City: Some Reflections of An Old-Style Comparatiste
Patricia Merivale, English Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 7, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life This is the story of a female wanderer or flâneuse in the City of Books,…
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March 6, 2017
“And you, Brutus?” Blame in Personal Relationships
Irwin Chan, Philosophy Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 6, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series When we blame our friend for back-stabbing, our sibling for not helping us when we are in need, or our partner for breaking an…