Past events
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October 31, 2016
"Mother’s Not Herself Today”: Alternative Readings of the Monstrous Maternal in Horror Cinema
Amanda Greer, Film Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, October 31, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series The horror film is positively pregnant with mothers, both good and evil, overbearing and absent, nurturing and ice cold…
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Let Them Eat Dirt: Raising Children with Their Microbes
UBC IN EXCELLENCE RESEARCH LECTURE Brett Finlay, OC, OBC, Professor in the Michael Smith Laboratories, and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Microbiology and Immunology, UBC Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, October 29, 8:15-9…
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October 27, 2016
Global Fishing Watch: Using Satellites to Track Fishing Activity
David Kroodsma, Research Program Manager, SkyTruth, USA Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, October 27, 5-6:30 pm in the series Adapting to Global Changes in Oceans and Fisheries Can we have eyes in the sky to monitor global fishing efforts? The Global…
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October 25, 2016
Can We Shame for Good?
Catherine Corrigall-Brown, Sociology; Michael Daniels, Sauder School of Business Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, October 25, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Green College Leading Scholars' Series Shame is a powerful and often damaging…
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October 24, 2016
Ignorance As Strategy
Maya Lefkowich, Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program; Dan Carney, Physics and Astronomy Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, October 24, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Ignorance, or simply not knowing, has taken on negative…
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October 22, 2016
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
BEL N. NEMETZ LECTURE Ellen Ruppel Shell, Co-Director, Science Journalism Program, College of Communication, Boston University Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, October 22, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures …
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October 19, 2016
Access to Justice and Sexual Violence
Janine Benedet, Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC; Tracy Pickett, Medicine, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, October 19, 5-6:30 pm in the series Access to Justice Watch the podcast here. What does &ldquo…
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October 18, 2016
A Geographer's Dilemma
Olav Slaymaker, Geography Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, October 18, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life Geographers study everything and, some would say, nothing. They take their lead…
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October 17, 2016
When Feelings Trump Facts: The Consequences of the 2016 American Presidential Election
Brent Holmes, Journalism; Mackenzie Lockhart, Political Science; Aidan Davis, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, October 17, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Donald Trump's…
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October 15, 2016
Threats from Nuclear Weapons and Materials
THE SIMONS FOUNDATION LECTURE Frank von Hippel, Senior Research Physicist and Professor of Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, October 15,…