On September 26, Green College and UBC’s Creative Writing Department (celebrating its 50th anniversary) present a new lecture series, Utopia/Dystopia: Creating the Worlds That We Want, that will bring nationally and internationally acclaimed nonfiction authors.
Sept. 26: Ronald Wright, author of Stolen Continents – “Surviving Progress”
Oct. 17: Elizabeth May, MP and author of Losing Confidence: Power, Politics And The Crisis In Canadian Democracy – “Crisis in Democracy”
Nov. 21: Andrew Nikiforuk, author of The Energy of Slaves – “Energy Slaves and the Fate of Hydrocarbon Culture”
Jan .14: Ron Deibert, author of Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace – “Cyber Swarming: Distributed Counter Intelligence and Surveillance as Global Civil Security”
Feb. 20: J.B. MacKinnon, author of 100-Mile Diet – “Rewilding Vancouver”
Mar. 20: Ann Jones, author of Women Who Kill – “Women and War in Afghanistan”
All talks will be held at Cecil Green Park House, 5-6:30 p.m. except the Nikiforuk talk which starts at 4:30 p.m. More details on the series and speakers can be found here.
