» Transforming canada: HISTORIES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE – Climate, Culture, and Change
April 16, 2012
Liza Piper, History and Classics, University of Alberta Coach House, Green College, UBC April 16 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
» Transforming canada: FISH AND FUR AND THE NATURE of CANADA
March 19, 2012
Stephen Hornsby, Director, Canadian-American Center, University of Maine Geography Building Room 130 Monday, March 19, 5-6:30 pm
» Transforming canada: CITIES AND THE NATURE of CANADA
March 12, 2012
Michèle Dagenais – Département d’histoire – Université de Montréal – on MONDAY 12 March 2012 in the GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE at 5:00pm CITIES AND THE NATURE OF CANADA Although some 80 percent of Canadians are urban dwellers, Canadians have long held a somewhat ambivalent—even antagonistic—attitude toward cities, and especially large cities. Cities are rarely [...]
» Transforming canada: COMMUNICATIONS AND THE NATURE OF CANADA
February 29, 2012
Ken Cruikshank, Department of History, McMaster University Wednesday 29th February, 5:00PM Geography room 130 KEN CRUIKSHANK is a historian from McMaster University. He has written effectively on the Intercolonial Railway and the administrative state and he is interested in the interaction of business, state and society in Canada and the United States between the 1850s [...]
» Transforming canada: WILDERNESS CULTURE AND THE NATURE of CANADA
February 13, 2012
Claire Campbell, Department of History, Dalhousie University GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE CLAIRE CAMPBELL is a historian from Dalhousie University where she lso heads up the Canadian Studies programa dn was a foundation member fo their Sustainability BA program. Her interests are in Parks (editor of a recent volume with UC Press) and Public History and [...]
» Play Chthonics 2012 series
February 12, 2012
Graham House (in the Piano Lounge), UBC Green College: 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, from 5:00 to 6:30 on the Wednesday dates below.
Warren Cariou (Winnipeg) 15-Feb-12
Marie Clements (Galiano Island) 15-Feb-12
» Film Screening & Talk – Peter Blow & ‘Village of Widows’
January 31, 2012
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
January 19, 2012
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
January 16, 2012
Alan Maceachern, Department of History, University of Western ontario GREEN COLLEGE COACH HOUSE
