Introduced by George McWhirter, Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Vancouver
Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
September 15, 2009 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Green College’s 2009 Writer-in-Residence, Oana Avasilichioaei, is a poet and translator from Montreal.
Mahamudu Bawumia, Visiting Scholar, and U. Rashid Sumaila, Director, Fisheries Centre
Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
September 22, 2009 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
A possible root cause of Somali piracy is the (illegal) overfishing that has been taking place in the country’s waters,
Leslie Howsam, University Professor, Department of History, University of Windsor
Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
September 29, 2009 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
In this talk Leslie Howsam draws upon material in the British and Foreign Bible Society archives and incorporates the transnational approach to book history wherein the tangled relationships between donor and recipient are examined by looking at translation, printing and missionary support through the lens of book publication.
John Robinson, Department of Geography, IRES and Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS), UBC
Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
October 06, 2009 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
UBC will release its new Strategic Plan. This presentation will describe the Sustainability Academic Strategy report, including its major recommendations.
Kai Chan and Rebecca Martone, IRES, UBC; Russell Markel, Department of Zoology, UBC
Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
October 13, 2009 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
This talk explains how an integrated interdisciplinary research project can provide relevant understanding by investigating the likely ecological and social changes.
May 07, 2013The Global Civic Policy Society presents a Public Salon on Wednesday, June 5 from 7:30-9pm at the Vancouver Playhouse. A diverse range of speakers from very different walks of life will each spend 7 minutes speaking about something they are passionate about.
January 04, 2013Seven Green College students volunteered at Lord Strathcona Elementary School in East Vancouver as part of UBC’s Community Learning Initiative TREK program, matching groups UBC students with elementary schools in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, and helping with reading and writing lessons and tutoring students on a one-on-one basis.
Mark Vessey has been invited to the University of Bristol to give the Blackwell-Bristol Lectures 2013 at the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition.
Dame Anne Salmond will give three talks on how different cultures define and communicate ways of being.
