* 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 2005 season comprises nine lectures, from September 24 to November 26, omitting October 8 (Thanksgiving).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 24 |
Professor Heribert Adam, Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Simon Fraser University Mandela's Legacy: Reconciliation Between Israelis and Palestinians? |
| Oct 1 |
Professor Margaret MacMillan, Department of History and Provost of Trinity College,
University of Toronto Lessons of History: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 |
| Oct 8 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 15 |
Professor Sara Davis Buechner, School of Music,
UBC Piano Music and the Movies Alternate location: Recital Hall, UBC Music Building |
| Oct 22 |
St. John's College Lecture Professor Pierre-Etienne Will, Directeur d'études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris Democracy, Human Rights, and the Chinese Political Tradition |
| Oct 29 |
Dr. William Bowie, MD, FRCP, Professor of Infectious Diseases,
UBC Emerging Epidemics and Pandemics: Are They Inevitable and Catastrophic? |
| Nov 5 |
Professor Tim Barnes, FRSC, Department of Classics,
University of Toronto Render Unto Caesar? Early Christianity and the Roman Empire |
| Nov 12 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Gary Geddes, Distinguished Professor of Canadian Culture, Western Washington University The Search for an Asian Marco Polo |
| Nov 19 |
Mr. Ronald Wright, Novelist, historian and essayist,
Saltspring Island, B.C. The Traps of Progress |
| Nov 26 |
Ms. Karen Connelly, Canadian writer and poet,
Greece Writing "The Lizard Cage" |
