* 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 2004 season comprises eleven lectures, from September 18 to December 4, omitting October 9 (Thanksgiving).
Please note that the first lecture in November is on a Monday, rather than the usual Saturday, that it will be held in the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and that admission to this lecture is limited.
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 18 |
Professor Joel Bakan, Faculty of Law,
UBC The Corporation |
| Sep 25 |
Mr. William Deverell, Lawyer and Author,
Vancouver Obscenity, Hate and Artistic Freedom |
| Oct 2 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Kelly Oliver, Women's Studies and Chair, Philosophy Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook Conflicted Love: Why We Feel Unloved and Unlovable |
| Oct 9 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 16 |
Professor Ransom Myers, Department of Biology,
Dalhousie University Consequences of Global Overexploitation of Fisheries |
| Oct 23 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Ramachandra Guha, Historian and biographer, Bangalore, India Arguments With Gandhi: In His Times and Ours |
| Oct 30 |
Dr. Martin Gleave, M.D., Department of Surgery, UBC,
And Director, Clinical Research,
The Prostate Centre, Vancouver General Hospital From Mice to Men: Translating Discoveries in Prostate Cancer Research Into Improved Patient Care |
| Nov 6 | NO LECTURE |
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Monday Nov 8 |
Ralph Bunche Memorial Lecture Dr. Hans Blix, Chief Weapons Inspector for the U.N. in Iraq, Chair, Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission Weapons of Mass Destruction: Lessons from Iraq Alternate location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia |
| Nov 13 |
Professor John Oleson, Department of Greek & Roman Studies,
University of Victoria Ancient Humayma: Water and Society in the Jordanian Desert |
| Nov 20 |
Professor Thomas J. Ruth, Director,
Positron Emission Tomography,
TRIUMF, UBC A Needle in a Haystack: The Science of Radiotracers |
| Nov 27 |
St. John's College Lecture Professor Immanuel Wallerstein, Department of Sociology, Yale University Whose Right to Intervene? From the "Discovery" of America to Today |
| Dec 4 |
Mr. David Tarrant, Horticulturist,
UBC Botanical Garden Chasing Spring Around the World |
