* 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 Spring 2002 season comprises nine lectures, from January 26 to April 13, omitting February 16 (Midterm break), February 23 (Cancellation), and March 30 (Easter).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 26 |
Mr. George Dyson, Western Washington University Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship |
| Feb 2 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Dr. Kevern Cochrane, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome What You Want is What You Get: A Fishy Look at the Limitations of Science |
| Feb 9 |
Professors Les Lavkulich and Hans Schreier, Institute for Resources and Environment, UBC Walkerton: Could it Happen Here? Need it Happen Here? |
| Feb 16 | Midterm Break—No Lecture |
| Feb 23 | Cancelled |
| Mar 2 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Patrick McGrath, Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University The Burden of Children's Pain |
| Mar 9 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor Bob Hancock, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, UBC New Approaches to Treating Infections |
| Mar 16 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Domna Stanton, Distinguished Professor, City University of New York The Nation As Its Others: Protestants and Women in the Age of Louis XIV |
| Mar 23 |
Professor Burton Richter, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Energy in the 21st Century |
| Mar 30 | Easter—No Lecture |
| Apr 6 |
Professor David Suzuki, Department of Zoology, UBC The Challenge of an Ecological Millennium: Setting the Bottom Line |
| Apr 13 |
Professor Sherrill Grace, Head, Department of English, UBC Ideas of North |
