* 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 2005 season comprises eleven lectures, from January 22 to April 16.
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 22 |
St. John's College Lecture Ms. Sharon Butala, Novelist and Writer, Saskatchewan What Makes a Westerner |
| Jan 29 |
Mr. Dirk Ryneveld, Senior Prosecuting Trial Attorney,
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,
The Hague, Netherlands The Milosevic Trial—An Update on the Ongoing Saga |
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Thursday Feb 3 7:30 p.m. |
CANADA-NORWAY PEACE PRIZE SYMPOSIUM LECTURE Dr. Stephen Toope, President, The Trudeau Foundation The Fate of the Disappeared: Addressing a Human Security Crisis |
| Feb 5 | NO LECTURE |
| Feb 12 |
St. John's College Lecture Mr. D.D. Jackson, Pianist/composer, New York Can Jazz Be Classical? Alternate location: Recital Hall, UBC Music Building |
| Feb 19 | Midterm Break—NO LECTURE |
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Tuesday Feb 22 |
St. John's College Lecture Tendzin Choegyal, 15th Ngari Rinpoche, Tibet Personal Transformation |
| Feb 26 |
Thompson Memorial Lecture Professor Susan Rotroff, Dept. of Classics, Washington University, St. Louis New Light on an Old Agora: Excavations in Athens' Civic Centre |
| Mar 5 |
Sir John Daniel, President and CEO,
The Commonwealth of Learning,
Vancouver Education for Development: Can Technology Help? |
| Mar 12 |
UBC Celebraton of Research Lecture Professor Max Cynader, Director, Brain Research Centre, UBC The Aging Brain |
| Mar 19 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Lawrence Keppie, Senior Curator, Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow The Romans in Scotland: Their Far Frontier |
| Mar 26 | Easter—NO LECTURE |
| Apr 2 |
Dr. James Cahill, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art,
University of California at Berkeley Chinese Painting: The Realities Behind the Ideals |
| Apr 9 | NO LECTURE |
| Apr 16 |
Triumf Lecture Professor Barry Barish, Physics Department, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA An Einstein Celebration: Albert Einstein's Legacy—Our Best Description of the Universe |
