Past events
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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…
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February 29, 2016
The Body and its Regulation: Interdisciplinary Thoughts on Power
Victoria Cowan, English; Kiran Sunar, Asian Studies; Kristi Carey, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice; Sereana Naepi, Educational Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, February 29 , 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series In a…
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February 27, 2016
The Rise of China and the End of the World as We Know It
CECIL AND IDA GREEN LECTURE Arif Dirlik, Independent Scholar, Eugene, OR, USA/Professor of History and Anthropology, Duke University, 1971-2001 Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, February 27, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures …
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February 25, 2016
Sex, Politics, and Putin
Valerie Sperling, Political Science, Clark University Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, February 25, 5-6:30 pm in the series Eurasian States and Societies: Past and Present Is Vladimir Putin a macho man, or is he a …
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February 24, 2016
A Journey Towards the Human City: Travelling the World to Find What Cities Can Do to Become More People-Oriented
School of Business, Economics and Accounting Sciences, Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano; Liu Institute Visiting Scholar in Residence at Green CollegeCoach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, February 24, 5-6:30 pmGreen College Special Lecture Today, more…
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February 23, 2016
The Cultural and Political Predicament of Global Modernity
Arif Dirlik, Independent Scholar, Eugene, OR, USA/Professor of History and Anthropology, Duke University, 1971-2001Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, February 23, 5-6:30 pm, reception to followin the seriesCecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor “Our ways of knowing” are in…
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February 22, 2016
Writing a Life: Diaries and Autobiographies as Sources of the Self
Emilia Halton-Hernandez, English Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, February 22, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Why do we keep a diary or write an autobiography? What does it mean to write about the self or write down a life? This…
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February 22, 2016
Just Another Resource? Inuit Interactions with Whalers in the Mid-19th Century
Susan Rowley, Anthropology, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, February 22, 5-6:30 pm in the series ARCTIC-WISE: BRIDGING NORTHERN KNOWLEDGES OF CHANGE This is the story of an encounter between Inuit and American whalers at the mouth of Frobisher Bay…
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February 20, 2016
Building Quantum Materials, One Atomic Layer at a Time
UBC EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH LECTURE Jennifer Hoffman, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UBC Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, February 20, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Jennifer Hoffman Dr. Hoffman…
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February 11, 2016
Interrogating Internationalization: Complex Relations in a Globalizing Campus
Kumari Beck, Education, Simon Fraser University Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, February 11, 5-6:30 pm in the series Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective Higher education faces new challenges in a world more globally connected than before and yet…