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Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti with Cécile Accilien

Buchanan Tower 1873 East Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Join the CMS Circulation: Africa and its Diasporas Research Group and the UBC Latin American Landscape Cluster for “Re-Framing Disaster Narratives around Haiti” with Dr. Cécile Accilien. Dr. Accilien’s talk will delve into the complexity around simplistic disaster narratives surrounding Haiti by providing historical and cultural context. It will further consider how ensekirite in its various forms […]

Free

Climate Anxiety & Creativity: Workshop with Kate Schapira

Online/Virtual Event

Can we write our way out of the climate crisis? Not exactly—but imagining, discussing, recording and reimagining a livable present and future can expand our interest and flexibility, building us a vision to work toward and reasons to work toward it—even in the context of the climate realities we know. Bring your anxiety, rage, despair, […]

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Mosquitos and Us: The Intricate Interplay Between Human History and the Transmission of Mosquito-Borne Viruses

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Roenick P. Olmo, Centre national de la recherche scientifique Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Tuesday, September 24, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow This event is co-sponsored with the Cultural and Scientific Office of the French Embassy in Canada. Mosquitoes are major vectors for many significant viral diseases in humans. Aedes mosquitoes, particularly […]

Mr. Goldberg and his Variations

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Early Music Vancouver at Green College Alexander Weimann, keyboardist Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, September 25, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow A lecture-recital with Alexander Weimann. The recital will be a combination of Alex Weimann playing some of the variations and talking about the quite tricky task of arranging them for […]

“1700 Square Kilometres of Title”: Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Chief Roger William (Xeni Gwet'in), Plaintiff; Louise Mandell, K.C.; Val Napoleon, Law Foundation Professor of Aboriginal Justice and Governance, University of Victoria; and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President, Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC); with moderator Andrea Hilland, K.C. and Assistant Professor, Law, UBC Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Thursday, September 26, 5-6:30 […]

Meaningful Networks: Who Do You Trust?

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Green College Special Event Anna Collar, Archaeology, University of Southampton Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Thursday, October 4, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow This is the keynote lecture for the 2024 conference of The Connected Past: People, Networks and Complexity in Archaeology and History. Network analysis in archaeology should always recall its […]

Righting a Wrongful Conviction: Advocating for Kathleen Folbigg

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Green College Special Event Tracy Chapman, advocate; Emma Cunliffe, Green College and Law, UBC; and Gary Edmond, Law, Society and Criminology, University of New South Wales, Sydney Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Thursday, October 10, 5-6:30 pm, with reception to follow In 2003, Australian mother Kathleen Folbigg was wrongly convicted of killing her […]

Kinesiology Over Time

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge Co-hosted with the UBC Emeritus College Patricia Vertinsky, Member of Common Room at Green College and Professor Emerita of Kinesiology, UBC; Nicola Hodges, Professor of Kinesiology, UBC; Jasmin Ma, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology, UBC; and Matthew Fliss, PhD Candidate, Kinesiology, UBC Coach House, Green […]

Jane Huffman Reads Public Abstract

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Whole Cloth Reading Series Jane Huffman, poet Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, October 30, 5-6:30 pm Winner of the 2023 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, Jane Huffman’s intricate debut collection, Public Abstract, examines illness and recovery, loss and addiction: the ripples of influence an addict has on their family circle, and vice […]

Joyelle McSweeney Reads Death Styles

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

The Whole Cloth Reading Series Joyelle McSweeney, poet Coach House, Green College, UBC and livestreamed Wednesday, November 20, 5-6:30 pm In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writing a poem a day […]

Political Science Over Time

Green College 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Disciplines Over Time: Making, Keeping and Breaking the Boundaries of Knowledge Co-organized with the UBC Emeritus College Richard Johnston, Professor Emeritus of Political Science (and Canada Research Chair in Public Opinion, Elections, and Representation); Afsoun Asahi, Assistant Professor of Political Science; and Henrik Jacobsen, Society Member of Green College and PhD Candidate, Political Science Coach […]