Past events

  1. April 18, 2016

    The Pain of Meaninglessness: Why it Hurts to be Uncertain

    Rachele Benjamin, Psychology Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, April 18, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series   How would you feel if you woke up tomorrow, and all of your furniture was on the ceiling? As human beings, we are highly…

  2. April 13, 2016

    How "Climate" Became the "Environment"

    Sverker Sörlin, Environmental History at KTH (the Royal Swedish Institute of Technology), Peter Wall Institute Visiting Research Scholar at UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, April 13, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow Green College Special Lecture   …

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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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