Past events
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April 12, 2016
Branding Asia: Chinese and Indian Medicine Today
Nazrul Islam, School of Population and Public Health, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, April 12, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Green College Special Lecture Asian medicine was developed as a knowledge-based science and relatively dissimilar to a…
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April 11, 2016
Bridging the Gap Between Commerce and Medicine in Workplace Mental Health Research
Johannes Rebane, School of Population and Public Health Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, April 11, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series It has been said that “the worlds of mental health and work have elaborated two cultural…
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April 11, 2016
Intelligentsia and Intellectuals, Community and Individuals: The Defence in the Joseph Brodsky Affair and After
Olga Rosenblum, Philology and History, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, April 11, 5-6:30 pm in the series Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present This talk will focus on the emergence of "public…
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April 9, 2016
The Power of Narrative Medicine: Helping Clinicians Understand What Patients Are Telling Them
CECIL AND IDA GREEN LECTURE Rita Charon, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, April 9, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Rita Charon Dr. Charon is a…
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April 5, 2016
Radical Doubt and the Creative Process: A Mobius Strip for Artists and Scientists
Rita Charon, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Centre and Executive Director, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia UniversityCoach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, April 5, 5-6:30 pm, reception to followin the seriesCecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor …
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April 4, 2016
Primary Care Providers’ Attitudes and Experiences Recommending Cancer Screening to Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities
Genevieve Breau, Interdisciplinary Oncology Program, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, April 4, 8-9:00 pm in the series Resident Members' Series People with Intellectual Disabilities have significantly lower breast,…
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April 4, 2016
Vancouver Book Launch: Ngwatilo Mawiyoo's Dagoretti Corner
Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, Green College Society Member Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, April 4, 5-6:30 pm Green College Special Lecture Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, a Kenyan poet recently shortlisted for the £3000 Brunel University African Poetry Prize for the second…
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The Interconnected World of the Year 1000
DAL GRAUER LECTURE Valerie Hansen, History Department, Yale University Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, April 2, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Valerie Hansen Dr. Valerie Hansen teaches Chinese and…
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March 31, 2016
Viola d’amore duets
Tekla Cunningham and Elly Winer, viola d’amore Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, March 31, 5-6:30 pm in the series Early Music Vancouver at Green College The viola d’amore is a 7- or 6- stringed…
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March 30, 2016
Orientalism: Alive and Well? The Contradictions and Paradoxes Surrounding Canadian Policy Discourse on International Student Mobility
Roopa Trilokekar, Education, York University Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, March 30, 5-6:30 pm in the series Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective Both AUCC’s recent survey (2014) and the federal government’s latest international…