Events
Film Screening & Talk – Peter Blow & ‘Village of Widows’
Tuesday, January 31, 4:30-6:30 pm Michael M. Ames Theatre, UBC Museum of Anthropology Admission to MOA: UBC staff, students & faculty free with ID; Others $9 ‘Village of Widows’ ―a documentary directed by award-winning filmmaker Peter Blow―recounts the remarkable story of the Sahtu Dene people, who were employed by the Canadian Government during WWII to […]
Robson Reading Series – Sachiko Murakami and Nick Thran
UBC Library/Bookstore at Robson Square “These are angry poems. Proud and angry. But smart and quirky, too, daring us to tear up our death pledge to real estate, and rethink our citizenship in scandalous cities.” –Meredith Quatermain, author of Recipes from the Red Planet more info
Transforming canada: SIZE AND THE NATURE of CANADA
Alan Maceachern, Department of History, University of Western ontario GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE
Transforming Canada lecture
Disease and the Nature of Canada, Paul Hackett, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Saskatchewan Coach House, Green College, UBC October 17 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Robson reading series presents Michal V. Smith
This event will take place on November 10th, 2011 from 2-3pm at the Lillooet Room (Rm 301) in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Michael V. Smith is an assistant professor at UBC, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel, Cumberland, was shortlisted for the Amazon.com/Books in Canada First novel Award. His short fiction […]
Robson Reading Series presents Timothy Taylor
Timothy Taylor is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. The Blue Light Project, his most recent novel, was published in 2011. Born in Venezuela, he was raised in West Vancouver, British Columbia and Edmonton, Alberta. Taylor’s short story “Doves of Townsend” won the Journey Prize in 2000. He had two other stories on the […]
“Colonialism, Marginalization, and Gendered Violence” Symposium
“Colonialism, Marginalization, and Gendered Violence” Symposium (panels on Colonialism and Missing Women; Criminalizing Women: Poverty, Sexuality and Marginaliza- tion; and Indigenous Women Organizing for Change. * Podcast is forthcoming Location: Green College Great Hall
Evelyn Lau and Ray Hsu
Evelyn Lau (author of Living Under Plastic) and Ray Hsu (author of Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon) will be reading in the Robson Reading Series.
Katherine Govier
Katherine Govier will read from and discuss her new novel The Ghost Brush.
Play Chthonics Reading Series 2010-2011
September speakers: Peter Cole and Pat O’Riley (environmental justice scholars). Peter Cole is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at UBC, and a member of the Douglas First Nation (Southern Stl’atl’imx). His research interests include orality, narrativity, Aboriginal education, environmental thought, Indigenous self-determination, and Aboriginalizing methodology. He is the author of […]