* 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 2003 season comprises eleven lectures, from September 27 to December 13, omitting October 11 (Thanksgiving).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 27 |
Professor William McKibben, Department of Environmental Studies,
Middlebury College, Vermont Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age |
| Oct 4 |
Professor Errol Durbach, Professor of Theatre and English, UBC The Theatre Experience: or, why do we enjoy watching real people counterfeiting fictional people? |
| Oct 11 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 18 |
Professor John Eakin, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography? |
| Oct 25 |
Dr. Gavin Stuart, New Dean of Medicine,
UBC Lessons Learned From Cancer Control For the Health Care System |
| Nov 1 |
Dr. Marco Marra, Director, Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Research Centre Genomics Research in BC |
| Nov 8 |
Dr. Maria Tippett, Faculty of History, Cambridge University Bill Reid: The Making of a Reputation |
| Nov 15 |
Dr. Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate in Physics,
National Institute of Standards and Technologies,
Boulder, Colorado Bose-Einstein condensation: quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe |
| Nov 22 |
Dr. Quentin Cronk, Director,
UBC Botanical Garden The Thin Green Line: Plants and the Future of Humanity |
| Nov 29 |
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Mr. Joe Schlesinger, Journalist and Author, Toronto Winning Wars, Losing the Peace |
| Dec 6 |
Professors Jim Phillips and Rosemary Gartner, Professor of Law, History, & Criminology,
and
Professor of Criminology and Sociology,
respectively,
University of Toronto Murdering Holiness |
| Dec 13 |
Hampton Place Community Fund Lecture Professor John F. Helliwell, O.C., Department of Economics, UBC Globalization and Well-being |
