* 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 2003 season comprises eleven lectures, from January 18 to April 5, omitting March 22--the speaker was forced to cancel by illness in the family.
Please note that the February 1 lecture will be held in the UBC Music Building.
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 18 |
Mr. James Delgado, Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum Discovering Kubla Khan's Lost Fleet |
| Jan 25 |
Ms. Nettie Wild and Mr. Philip Owen, Director, FIX: The Story of an Addicted City,
Vancouver and
Former Mayor, City of Vancouver,
respectively The Politics and Art of a Social Revolution |
| Feb 1 |
Special Lecture and Recital--UBC Music Building Professor Nancy Hermiston, School of Music, UBC My Favourite Ladies of the Stage: A Celebration of Great Female Personalities Alternate location: Recital Hall, UBC Music Building |
| Feb 8 |
Professor Jeff Hurwit, Art Historian, University of Oregon The Athenian Acropolis: The Uses of the Past |
| Feb 15 |
Mr. Roy Peterson, Editorial Cartoonist, The Vancouver Sun The Art of Political Cartooning |
| Feb 22 |
Professors Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Department of Comparative Literature and
Faculty of Medicine, respectively,
University of Toronto Beauty Is As Beauty Does: The Ethics and "Physick" of Opera |
| Mar 1 |
Dr. Alan Shotter, Director, TRIUMF, UBC The Life and Death of Stars |
| Mar 8 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Elinor Ostrom, Arthur B. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University, and Co-Director, U.S. National Science Foundation Managing Resources in the Global Commons |
| Mar 15 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor William Rees, School of Community and Regional Planning, UBC Is Humanity Fatally Successful? |
| Mar 22 | CANCELLED—Illness |
| Mar 29 |
Professor Peter Frost, Edgar F. Kaiser Professor of Organizational Behaviour,
Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration,
UBC Toxic Emotions at Work |
| Apr 5 |
Professor Lee Gass, Department of Zoology, UBC A Decade of Innovation in Science Education |
