As the central hub for interdisciplinary dialogue and learning at UBC, all listed events at Green College are free, open to the general public, and do not require advanced registration (unless otherwise indicated on the event page).
Featured upcoming events
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October 8, 2026Misunderstanding Quantum Physics at a Deeper Level
It’s quite common in physics to hear that no one understands quantum mechanics and that the only possible way to teach it can be summed up by the phrase “shut up and calculate.” Among the general public, there are a number of misleading metaphors circulating, the best known of which is Schrödinger…
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October 14, 2026From Sorceresses to Scholars: Literary Taste, Gender, and the Intersectional Body Politic(s) of Late-Medieval England
What people read for fun has always been a matter of personal choice, but literary taste is also shaped by social groups and cultural forces. This talk focuses on a period of widening access to literary culture – in England during the later Middle Ages—and considers how changes in society shape…
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October 15, 2026Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier Read "Jaws [tiburón]"
“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack. JAWS is a book about water,…
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October 8, 2026Misunderstanding Quantum Physics at a Deeper Level
It’s quite common in physics to hear that no one understands quantum mechanics and that the only possible way to teach it can be summed up by the phrase “shut up and calculate.” Among the general public, there are a number of misleading metaphors circulating, the best known of which is Schrödinger…
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October 14, 2026In Defense of Public Wrongs
The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies Lecture Series presents "In Defense of Public Wrongs" with Professor Michelle Madden Dempsey, as part of her visit co-sponsored by Green College. For full event information, visit the Allard Law event page.Please note the special time and location of this…
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October 14, 2026From Sorceresses to Scholars: Literary Taste, Gender, and the Intersectional Body Politic(s) of Late-Medieval England
What people read for fun has always been a matter of personal choice, but literary taste is also shaped by social groups and cultural forces. This talk focuses on a period of widening access to literary culture – in England during the later Middle Ages—and considers how changes in society shape…
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October 15, 2026Dora Prieto and Daniela Rodríguez Chevalier Read "Jaws [tiburón]"
“Something in my name turns me into a fish under attack,” says Jaws: shark, worker, spectacle. This award-winning poetry collection collapses the distance between sea and office, aquarium and classroom, factory and vacation resort, resumé and body under attack. JAWS is a book about water,…
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October 19, 2026Green College Resident Members' Series
This is the third event in the Green College Resident Members' Series.
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October 20, 2026"Our Ocean is Not a Sacrifice Zone": Deepening Climate Justice Against Extraction
This lecture centres Indigenous responses to climate change by focusing on a US proposal for deep-sea mining in an area bordering the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument and the entangled forms of economic and scientific thinking about the Mariana Trench as a site for extraction. It considers…
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October 21, 2026Humour and Play in Rabbinic Literature: Laughing at God
Dr Christine Hayes is Sterling professor emerita of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at Yale University.
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October 22, 2026Graphic Theory: On the Production of Knowledge and Culture for Palestine Today
Xaytun Ennasr and Dr Jasbir K Puar come together to discuss This Death Is Not One, a collaborative project (co-authored with Nasser Abourahme and edited by Adam HajYahia) unfolding across theory, image, translation, land, and the wounded body. The project takes up Puar’s The Right to Maim to…
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October 26, 2026
Timelines and Lines through Time: The History of Borders and Why it Matters
This is the fourth event in the Green College Resident Members' Series.
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October 27, 2026Green College Leading Scholars Panel Discussion
This event marks the 2025-27 Green College leading scholars' inauguration of their series on noise.