Past events
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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…
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February 10, 2016
Trace Memory Erasure Return: Biography, History and the Geographical Imagination
TRACE MEMORY ERASURE RETURN: BIOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL IMAGINATION Cindi Katz, Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies, and Executive Officer for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Coach House,…
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February 9, 2016
My Career as a Drug Czar(ina)
Gail Bellward, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, February 9, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life Dr. Bellward will provide an overview of her extensive…
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February 6, 2016
City of Gold: Excavations at Ancient Sardis, Turkey
CRAIG LARONGE/UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LECTURE Nick Cahill, Department of Art History University of Wisconsin-Madison Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, February 6, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures Nick Cahill …
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February 4, 2016
Internationalization, Student Experience and Graduate Studies Governance in Canada: Twenty-first Century Challenges and Possible Solutions
Timothy J. Stanley, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa Coach House, Green College, UBC Thursday, February 4, 5-6:30 pm in the series Higher Education Policy in Global Perspective Leading universities around the world today see the internationalization of…
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February 3, 2016
Why Everyone Should Care About Access to Justice
Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell, Justice in Residence at Green CollegeCoach House, Green College, UBC Wednesday, February 3, 5-6:30 pm, reception to followFireside Chat to follow, 8 pm, Piano Lounge Green College Special Lecture The Honourable Thomas Cromwell was…
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February 2, 2016
Death & Devotion
Soprano Dorothee Mields (Music of the North German Baroque); Sumner Thompson, American baritone; Marc Destrubé, violin Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, February 2, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Early Music Vancouver at Green College …
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February 1, 2016
The Weight of Water
Will Preston, Creative Writing Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, February 1, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Framing a dying friendship against a breathless race for survival, “The Weight of Water” is a work of fiction…
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January 30, 2016
An Inconvenient Mind - The Climate Challenge Within, and What to Do About it
BEL N. NEMETZ LECTURE Andrew Revkin, New York Times Journalist and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University, New York Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC Saturday, January 30, 8:15-9:30 pm in The Vancouver Institute Lectures …