Past events
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September 15, 2015
Reflecting on the Pleasures and Perils of Three Decades Researching Indigenous Topics as a Non-Indigenous Person
Jean Barman, Education, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC Tuesday, September 15, 5-6:30 pm, reception to follow in the series Senior Scholars' Series: The Passions that Drive Academic Life When Jean Barman first wrote on an…
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September 14, 2015
Metal Making in the 21st Century
Arthur Després, Materials Engineering Coach House, Green College, UBC Monday, September 14, 8-9 pm in the series Green College Resident Members' Series Is it still worth it to work on metals? Yes. After being considered…
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August 27, 2015
To the Music Itself! Folk Phenomenology and the Return to Original Melody
Education, as Hannah Arendt showed us, exists in a pre-political sphere, and this means it is properly understood as existing against the state. How do we arrive at this ‘proper’ understanding of education, to this utopian intuition, which is to say, How are we moved into and then…
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May 4, 2015
Opting out of Hetero-Normative Pathways: Queer Choices vs. Marriage and Family
This does not necessarily mean that alternatives to hetero-normative coupling and reproduction have lost relevance or validity, but that they are better framed in terms of queer politics than LGTBQ rights. The queer perspective ranges from dense academic theory, to community discourse, to…
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September 24, 2014
Oecologies: The Histories of Sustainability
“Sustainability” is a longstanding desideratum in environmental politics. Recent discussion posits that environmental upheavals mean the world is entering a new geological epoch, the “Anthropocene.” Those two notions—the ideal of sustainability and the proposal of…