“What happens when an ecologist, a civil engineer, and a structural engineer, walk into a bar…”
Michelle Tseng, Omar Swei, and Carlos Molina Hutt
The Leading Scholars’ Series is great for many reasons, but especially in the way it brings people together across disciplines, and generates dialogues on topics people didn’t know that they had in common.
Social-Distancing Tips and Tricks -by Mairi Stirling Hill, GC Resident Member and Blog Writer
As the global COVID19 continues to unfold and things get more unpredictable, it is necessary to take note of our mental and physical wellbeing. This can be tough, especially in times of crisis, but that just means that it is all the more important to check in on yourself as well as others, and be prepared with some techniques for coping with the rapidly changing situation.
Don’t Get Locked In
Henrik Jacobsen on Climate Change and the “Smart City”
The second lecture in the Resident Members’ Series this year was brought to us by Henrik Jacobsen, a third-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. The talk focused on the concept of the “smart city” especially in the context of our current climate crisis.
In February, art historian Ruth Phillips visited Green College from Carleton University. The former director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA), located next door to the college, she opened her talk with a painting by Cree artist Kent Monkman called The Scream. The painting, which you can view here, depicts RCMP officers forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families and homes to be placed in residential schools.
Leading Scholars on Confronting Categorisation
With Julia Bullard, Patrick Moran, Kerry Wilbur, Leah Macfadyen, and Muhammed Abdul-Mageed.
Thinking (About) Computers
With Kevin Leyton-Brown
[image - Artificial Intelligence: The Journey So Far, and the World in 2029 2030]
Even one year can see dramatic changes in the development of, and our usage of, Artificial Intelligence. The struck-out year on the title of Kevin Leyton-Brown’s talk, 2029 to 2030, is evocative of the pace at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is moving and evolving in the twenty-first century.
Hope as Rebellion: Changing Environmental Thought and the Climate Crisis
Following the release of The Nature of Canada, Green College was host to a panel discussion about the nature of Canada and the nature of Canadians, important considerations just one week after the global climate strike.
The first lecture in Green College’s Leading Scholars’ Series, Challenging Differences, was hosted by John Paul Catungal, Assistant Professor in the Social Justice Institute, and given by Hannah McGregor, Assistant Professor of Publishing at SFU.
I’ll stick with good old storytelling
- Scott McIntyre
This semester’s John V. Clyne lecture series at Green College is presented by Scott McIntyre and focuses on the history of publishing in building Canadian literary culture. Founding partner of Douglas & McIntyre Publishers, Scott’s three lectures look at the role of publishers in shaping Canadian public literary culture.
A Dynamic Universe
