Past events
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October 12, 2016
Hot, Uneven and Connected: Planning in Metro Vancouver’s Global Age
Andy Yan, Researcher and Urban Planner, Bing Thom Architects Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, October 12, 5-6:30 pm in the series The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time Climate change, uneven patterns in the post-industrial economy, and global…
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October 5, 2016
The Poetics of Fragility
Nicolás Grandi and Lata Mani, filmmakers Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, October 5, 5-6:30 pm Green College Special Event A Transmedia Project 2016 Film with introduction and discussion The Poetics of Fragility (HD 63 minutes) is a…
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October 4, 2016
How Close Are We to Discovering the “Secret of Youth”? Key Challenges in the Search to Prolong the Human Healthspan
Professor Tom Kirkwood, CBE, Newcastle University Institute for Ageing; University of Copenhagen Center for Health AgingCoach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, October 4, 5-6:30 pm, reception to followin the seriesCecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor As human longevity…
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October 3, 2016
The Possibility of a Better World: Research, Pedagogy, and Podcasting
Christine "Xine" Yao, English Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, October 3, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series What might the imaginative and affective conditions for revolution look like? In this presentation Xine will undertake a…
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October 1, 2016
Why and How Are We Living Longer?
CECIL AND IDA GREEN LECTURE Tom Kirkwood, CBE FMedSci, Associate Dean for Ageing, Newcastle University, UK Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, October 1, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Tom Kirkwood As…
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September 28, 2016
Why Don’t We Have Appropriate Access to Justice?
The Honourable Thomas Cromwell, former Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada; Chair of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, September 28, 5-6:30 pm in the series Access to Justice Watch…
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September 26, 2016
The Hermits’ Expeditions: Stories about the Habitat, Flora, Fauna and People in Northwest America
Silu Wang, Zoology Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, September 26, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Camping nomadically for months is the summer life of many wildlife biologists. This talk will tell the story of a particular…
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September 24, 2016
Transnational Organized Crime - Are We on the Titanic?
Superintendent Calvin Chrustie, Royal Canadian Mounted Police; Multinational CIMIC Group, United Nations Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, September 24, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Inspector Calvin…
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September 22, 2016
The Ocean is Changing – Will We Change Too? Setting the Scene
Yoshi Ota and William Cheung, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries; Nereus Program, UBC; Rashid Sumalia, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, UBC; Larry Crowder, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday,…
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September 21, 2016
Indigenous Futures and Pasts at the Heart of Empire: Notes from Indigenous London
Coll Thrush, History, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, September 21, 5-6:30 pm in the series The Next Urban Planet: Rethinking the City in Time In relation to the broad telos of “civilization,” Indigenous peoples are often framed as though…