Past events
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March 12, 2016
Richard III: The Resolution of A 500-Year-Old Cold Case
IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE LECTURE Turi King, Lecturer in Genetics and Archaeology, University of Leicester Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, March 12, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Turi King Dr…
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March 11 - March 12, 2016
The Fantasy of Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Fantastic Literature
The Fantasy of Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Fantastic Literature March 11-12, 2016 Friday, March 11 9:30 am - 4:30 pm Keynote speaker: Farah Mendlesohn, Anglia Ruskin University 9:30 am: Breakfast 10:00 am: Welcome Address 10:15 am: Panel I. Visions of Justice: Gender…
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March 9, 2016
Clean Drinking Water in First Nations: What Will it Really Take?
Madjid Mohseni, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, March 9, 5-6:30 pm Green College Special Lecture Ensuring safe drinking water in small, rural and indigenous communities has long been recognized as a priority…
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March 8, 2016
Academia and the Butterfly Mind: How I Got From There to Here
Farah Mendlesohn, English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 8, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Green College Special Lecture Dr. Mendlesohn’s research interests are in the areas of…
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March 8, 2016
Following My Nose, or Academia and the Butterfly Mind: How I Got From There to Here
Farah Mendlesohn, English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, UK Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 8, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Fireside Chat, 8 pm, Piano Lounge Green College Special Lecture Abstract…
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March 7, 2016
How Does a Mathematician (Try to) Outsmart Cancer?
Joshua Scurll, Mathematics Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 7, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Alice and Bob are both 62, and both have stage IV aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). They were even diagnosed by the same…
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March 5, 2016
At the Frontier of Genetic Research: Recent Advances and Future Possibilities
UBC EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH LECTURE Marco Marra, OBC, Department of Medical Genetics, UBC Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, March 5, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Marco Marra Dr. Marra received the…
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March 2, 2016
Fireside Chat
Denise Lievesley, Principal, Green Templeton College Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, March 2, 8-9 pm Denise Lievesley took up her role as Principal of Green Templeton College on 1 October 2015. Before coming to Oxford, she was Executive Dean of the Faculty of…
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March 2, 2016
The Future of the Sepik River and Its People: The Dilemmas of Cultural Heritage in a Changing Papua New Guinea
Andrew Moutu, Director of the National Museum of Papua New Guinea; John Barker, Anthropology, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, March 2, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Green College Special Lecture The Sepik River in Papua New Guinea is one of the…
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March 1, 2016
How Does an Engineer Approach Problems of Health and Medicine?
The Green College Leading Scholars' Series features two speakers at each event. For more information on the other talk being given, please click here. Vikram Yadav, Chemical and Biological Engineering, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 1, 5-6:30 pm, reception to…