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Green College is a graduate residential college at the University of British Columbia, with a mandate to promote advanced interdisciplinary inquiry. It is also, by virtue of its continuing relationships with those who have lived at the College and participated in its activities, a society of scholars reaching around the world. The College offers resident membership to graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and visiting scholars at UBC, and (non-resident) faculty membership to UBC and other faculty. In keeping with its original mandate, the College is committed to the cultivation of intellectual and creative connections at the edge of the main disciplinary and academic space of the university. To that end, it offers public lectures, events and performances to the UBC and wider local community, without charge. The College has accommodation for University visitors, bookable rooms for meetings and events, and its own catering service. All are welcome to our publicly advertised events, or simply for dinner and conversation. Do join us!
WHAT'S ON :
  • January 28 8:15 pm - 9:30 pm
    Location: The Vancouver Institute, Lecture Hall No. 2, Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, 2194, Health Sciences Mall, UBC
    Speaker: Patricia Churchland, Neuroscience and Philosophy, University of California, San Diego; Salk Institute for Biological Studies Coach House, Green College, UBC

    Self-preservation is embodied in our brain’s circuitry: we seek food when hungry, warmth when cold, and sex when lusty. In the evolution of the mammalian brain, circuitry for regulating one’s own survival and well-being was modified. For sociality, the important result was that the ambit of me extends to include others—me-and-mine. Offspring, mates, and kin came to be embraced in the sphere of me-ness; we nurture them, fight off threats to them, keep them warm and safe. >Read More

  • January 29 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
    Location: Graham House, Green College, UBC
    Speaker: Led by Green College Residents Kosta Kushlev, Laura Nimmon, Brandon Miliate, Kieran Fox and Chanone Ryane

    Green College is offering weekly yoga and meditation workshops open to both residents and non-residents of the College. The workshops are designed to help community members find greater peace, happiness and balance in their lives. > Read More

  • January 30 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    Location: Coach House, Green College, UBC
    Speaker: Jonathan Lanman, Psychology, UBC

    A five-year program of research, based in Oxford but with a significant UBC component, investigates one of the most powerful mechanisms by which groups may be formed, inspired, and coordinated—ritual. >Read More 

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