Past events
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March 15, 2016
The Only Woman in the Room: Tales of a Female Ecologist
Judith Myers, Zoology, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, March 15, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life In the 1960s ecology was a relatively new field and, like most sciences,…
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March 14, 2016
Whose Place is it Anyway? The City From Above and Within
David Gill, Community and Regional Planning; Idaliya Grigoryeva, Geography; Adam Yang, Sociology Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, March 14, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series What makes up the urban spaces of everyday life? While…
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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…