Green College hosts around 80 public lectures on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics each year. We warmly welcome you to attend lectures in person at the College, which frequently also offers the opportunity to continue the conversation with the speakers and audience members afterwards in a reception or at dinner (reservations required). Many of our lectures are also recorded and published on our YouTube channel.
Enjoy the Journey, by Rea Beaumont, composer-pianist
Dr Rea Beaumont composed Green Pieces, which she named in tribute to Green College and the ‘green-ness’ of its setting in Vancouver and the Pacific Northwest. The three movements in the set of Green Pieces are Vancouver Vibe, Mountain Morning, and Western Waters, with each capturing a different mood and aspect of the region. The set of Green Pieces is available on Rea’s sixth album Enjoy the Journey, along with a set of French-Canadian folksongs for violin and piano, plus other solo piano works. This album takes listeners on a journey from Vancouver, through Quebec, and beyond. Dr Beaumont also wrote a special commissioned arrangement of Green Pieces as a gift for the Green College community, including “past, current, and future residents.” This album celebrates the 30th anniversary of the College.
A number of podcasts have been produced in association with Green College. Some of these podcasts are lecture series that were recorded and converted into this form, to preserve the content and make it available to a wider audience. Other series have been produced by college members as podcasts. These podcasts include the following series:
Part of the 2016-17 public lecture series Cross-Sectoral Consultation: Access to Justice, hosted by Green College and convened by Mary Liston and Andrew Pilliar of the Allard School of Law.
Beginning in 2021, Patchworks was organized and recorded by resident members of Green College.
TRANSFORMING SOUNDS / ALTERED SELVES
This podcast was created by resident members of Green College, partly inspired by a series of public lectures and discussions hosted at the College in 2017-18.
Green College’s visitors and lecture series have produced numerous published works. Here is a selection of works with strong ties to Green College, with links to the publisher where possible:
JV Clyne lecturer series
What Could a University Be? Revolutionary Ideas for the Future
Robert Gibbs
The University of Chicago Press © 2025
JV Clyne lecturer series
A Precarious Enterprise: Making a Life in Canadian Publishing
Scott McIntyre
ECW Press © 2025
Green College Society Member
Painful Beauty: Tlingit Women, Beadwork, and the Art of Resilience
Megan Smetzer
University of Washington Press © 2025
JV Clyne lecturer series
A Rule of Law for Our New Age of Anxiety
Stephen J Toope
Cambridge University Press © 2023
Green College lecture series
Environment, Power, and Justice: Southern African Histories
Edited by Graeme Wynn, Jane Carruthers, and Nancy J. Jacobs
Ohio University Press © 2022
Green College lecture series
The Calling of the Nations: Exegesis, Ethnography, and Empire in a Biblical-Historic Present
Edited by Mark Vessey, Sharon Betcher, Robert A. Daum, and Harry O. Maier
University of Toronto Press © 2011
Green College lecture series
Learning Civil Societies: Shifting Contexts for Democratic Planning and Governance
Edited by Penny Gurstein and Leonora Angeles
University of Toronto Press © 2007
Green College lecture series
The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility
Edited by Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V Ericson
University of Toronto Press © 2005
Green College lecture series
Love, Hate, and Fear in Canada's Cold War
Edited by Richard Cavell
University of Toronto Press © 2004
Green College lecture series
The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation-States: Realignments of Belonging
Edited by Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger
University of Toronto Press © 2004
Green College lecture series
Multiple Lenses, Multiple Images: Perspectives on the Child Across Time, Space, and Disciplines
Edited by Hillel Goelman, Sheila K. Marshall, and Sally Ross
University of Toronto Press © 2004
Green College lecture series
Risk and Morality
Edited by Richard V Ericson and Aaron Doyle
University of Toronto Press © 2003
Green College lecture series
Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: A Rough Guide
Mieke Bal
University of Toronto Press © 2002
Green College lecture series
Governing Modern Societies
Edited by Richard V Ericson and Nico Stehr
University of Toronto Press © 2000
Green College lecture series
History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies
Dominick LaCapra
University of Toronto Press © 2000
Green College lecture series
Intelligent Machines: Myths and Realities
Edited by Clarence W. de Silva
CRC Press © 2000