Past events
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January 28, 2025
ONLINE EVENT: Real Stories from the Front Lines: Research with Impact Sponsored by the Neglected Global Diseases Initiative (NGDI), UBC
Richard Lester, Medicine, UBC, and Director, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative; Jason Nickerson, Law, University of Ottawa, and Humanitarian Representative, Doctors without BordersOnline via ZoomTuesday, January 28, 5-6:30 pmin the seriesStories from the Front Line: Universities and Global…
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January 27, 2025
Cultural Hallucinations and the Illusion of the Psychedelic Renaissance
Kelly Thomas, Medical AnthropologyCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, January 27, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series Although psychedelics have been present in cultures around the world for thousands of years, they have a comparatively short and…
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January 22, 2025
Marc Perez Reads Dayo
Marc Perez, poetCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedWednesday, January 22, 5-6:30 pmin the seriesThe Whole Cloth Reading Series An elegant debut collection that illuminates the contours of un/belonging.Dayo: a Tagalog word referring to someone who exists in a place not their own. A…
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January 21, 2025
Applied Critique
Margaret F. (Meg) Gibson, Social Development Studies and Social Work, University of Waterloo; Julia Bullard, Information; Hannah Kia, Social WorkCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedTuesday, January 21, 5-6:30 pmin the seriesGreen College Special Lecture Social justice and related…
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January 20, 2025
“For I Am Still A Type-Writer Girl—At Another Office”: Metonymic Mobility In Fin De Siècle Fiction
Mackenzie Ashcroft, English Language and LiteraturesCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, January 20, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series First published under the female pseudonym “Olive Pratt Rayner,” Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl is an important…
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January 16, 2025
Astrophysics Over Time
William H. McCutcheon, Professor Emeritus, Physics and Astronomy; Jess McIver, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy; and Pedro Villalba González, PhD Candidate, Physics and Astronomy, and Green College Resident MemberCoach House, Green College, UBC and…
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January 15, 2025
Gregorius: The Holy Sinner
Sequentia: Benjamin Bagby, voice, harp, and artistic direction; Jasmina Črnčič voice and harp; leiken, voiceCoach House, Green College, UBCWednesday, January 15, 5-6:30 pm with reception to followin the seriesEarly Music Vancouver at Green College How did medieval German…
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January 13, 2025
The Curious Case of the Hippocampus: From Safeguarding the Brain to Safeguarding the Ocean
Ruth Arnold, Oceans and Fisheries; Nathan Arnold, Psychiatry, University of OxfordCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, January 13, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series In this joint talk, learn about the fascinating worlds of Alzheimer's disease research…
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December 16, 2024
From des Mille Collines to Hinds Hall, Locating the Place-Time of Genocide
Leo Evans, LawCoach House, Green College, UBCMonday, December 16, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series More information on this event to be posted shortly. See Lectures in this Series See Our Other Series Support Green College Unless otherwise noted, all of…
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December 9, 2024
A Dog in a Daisy Patch: Exploring the Recursive Playground
Join livestream: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68180627700 Andrew Alexander, MathematicsCoach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamedMonday, December 9, 8-9 pmin the seriesGreen College Resident Members' Series One of the most powerful and broadly applicable tools in mathematics is that…