Vancouver Institute Fall 1999 Program

* Free Public Lectures *

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

General Information

Please see the Vancouver Institute home page

Lecture Times

Saturday evenings, 8:15 p.m. Doors open 7:30 p.m.

The Fall 1999 season comprises ten lectures, from 25 September to 4 December.

Fall 1999 Lecture Schedule

(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)

September 25 Mr. Sam McKinney, Maritime Museum, Vancouver
Our West Coast Heritage: Captains Cook, Vancouver, and Bligh
October 2 Professor John Lampe, Department of History, University of Maryland
Crisis and Challenge in Southeast Europe: After the War in Kosovo
October 9 Thanksgiving--No Lecture
October 16 Professor Geoff Eley, Department of History, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
History and Cinema: Imagining Britain's Past
October 23 Dean Daniel Muzyka, Faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia
Building the Adaptive Corporation
October 30 Professor Rod Preece, Department of Political Science, Wilfred Laurier University
Life in Harmony With Animals and Nature: Contemporary Cultural Myths
November 6 Professor Daniel Pauly, Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia
Global Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Is Co-existence Possible?
November 13 Dr. Ian McDonald, Royal College of Physicians, London, England
Multiple Sclerosis
November 20 Dr. Sam Ting, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Search For Antimatter in Space
November 27 Dr. Mieke Bal, Professor of Theory of Literature, University of Amsterdam
Performing Art: Images As Cultural Interventions
December 4 Dr. Doris Kavanagh-Gray, Former Head, Department of Cardiology, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver
Coronary Heart Disease: Does Gender Make a Difference?

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