* Free Public Lectures *
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Please see the Vancouver Institute home page.
Saturday evenings, 8:15 p.m. (doors open 7:30 p.m.), except where otherwise noted.
The Fall 2006 season comprises nine lectures, from September 16 to November 25, omitting October 7 (Thanksgiving) and November 11 (Remembrance Day).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 16 |
Professor John Camp, Director, American School of Classical Studies,
Athens, Greece Old and New in the Agora of Athens, Birthplace of Democracy |
| Sep 23 |
Woodward Lecture Professor Daron Acemoglu, Department of Economics, MIT Rethinking the Wealth of Nations |
| Sep 30 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Jack Horner, Regents Professor, Montana State University, and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies How To Recreate a Living, Breathing Dinosaur |
| Oct 7 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 14 |
Dr. Stephen Toope, President,
UBC International Law and Global Citizens |
| Oct 21 |
St. John's College Lecture Professor Mario Levi, Turkey Istanbul: Difference and Coexistence; The Soul of a City |
| Oct 28 |
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Dr. Helen Mayberg, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Paths to Recovery: The Role of Brain Imaging in the Development of New Treatments For Depression |
| Nov 4 |
Professor Robert Silverman, School of Music,
UBC Why I Play Mozart On a Real Piano: Lecture and Recital in Celebration of Mozart's 250th Anniversary |
| Nov 11 | Remembrance Day—NO LECTURE |
| Nov 18 |
Professor Neil Boyd, School of Criminology,
Simon Fraser University Controlling Legal and Illegal Drugs: Challenges for the 21st Century |
| Nov 25 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Rognvaldur Hannesson, Research Director, Centre for Fisheries and Economics, Foundation for Research in Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway The World's Fisheries: A Source of Trouble or a Source of Wealth? |
