Green College’s second Workshop for Inter-Discipline Exchange and Novelty took place on December 2, 2013, eliciting some great discussions. Enthusiasm for the WIDEN format is building at the college and we will be hosting further WIDENs in the coming academic year, so stay tuned! The lineup: Shoshana Deutsh (science and technology studies): Human and machine […]

Happy new year! On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the first Junior Fellow Lecture/WIDEN of 2014. Please join us at 7:45pm on Tuesday, January 7th in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “Science and Fiction”. We have a promising panel of Junior […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the last Junior Fellow Lecture of this calendar year. Please join us at 8:15pm on Thursday November 21st in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “Checkmate”. Our speakers and their talk titles […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the first Junior Fellow Lecture of this year. Please join us at 7:45pm on Tuesday October 1st in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “Underrated”. Our speakers are: Chizoba Imoka (Educational Administration […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the third Junior Fellow Lecture of this year. Please join us at 7:45pm on Thursday November 7th in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “Conundrums”. Our speakers are: Anne Ahrens-Embleton (Anthropology): “Museums and […]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the second Junior Fellow Lecture of this year. Please join us at 7:45pm on Thursday October 17th in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion under the theme “The Empire Strikes Back”. Our speakers and their talk […]

On September 30th, 2013, Green College initiated its WIDEN series with an institution-appropriate theme: “Lean, Green and Built to Last.“ From Roman aqueducts to skyscrapers of engineered timber to building community (like Green College) so that we can last, this interdisciplinary panel will discuss the brilliance of concrete (literally) as well as abstract building ideas […]

Our final WIDEN UTSC session of the 2012-13 season was on the theme of Noise, and we thought it was our strongest yet. We had three utterly different perspectives on the theme, a good, engaged audience, and a lively discussion following. You can watch the full session on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZjC3CIiMf4

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The last Junior Fellow Lecture, on the topic of Contact, is now online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYZdvPwQ2c8&feature=youtu.be Thank you, and I hope you will all have a great summer! Best Regards, Louis-Philippe Thibault

Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the Junior Fellow Lecture Series committee I would like to invite you to the last Junior Fellow Lecture of the year. Please join us at 7:45pm on Tuesday, April 9 in the Upper Library for three lectures and discussion on the topic of On Contact. Our speakers this week will be: Si Yue […]