* 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 2006 season comprises twelve lectures, from January 14 to April 8, omitting February 18 (Midterm Break).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 14 |
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Mr. Michael Adams, President, Environics, Toronto, Ontario Fire, Ice and American Backlash: Social Change Above the Rio Grande |
| Jan 21 |
Mr. James Delgado, Executive Director,
Vancouver Maritime Museum Gold Rush Pompeii: The Buried Waterfront and Lost Ships of Early San Francisco |
| Jan 28 |
Professor Michael Byers, Academic Director,
Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC On Thinning Ice: Challenges to Canadian Sovereignty in the Northwest Passage |
| Feb 4 |
Professor Françoise Sullivan and Dr. Sylvia L'Écuyer, Painter, Sculptor, Photographer,
Montreal,
and,
Senior Producer, CBC,
Vancouver,
respectively A Conversation With Françoise Sullivan |
| Feb 11 |
St. John's College Lecture Mr. Andy Milne, Jazz Pianist, Brooklyn, New York An Evening With Andy Milne: Lecture and Performance Alternate location: Recital Hall, UBC Music Building |
| Feb 18 | Midterm Break—NO LECTURE |
| Feb 25 |
St. John's College Lecture Professor Mark Osiel, College of Law, University of Iowa International Law at the Crossroads: How Exaggerated Hopes Produce Exaggerated Despair |
| Mar 4 |
Mr. Bernie Lucht, Producer, IDEAS,
CBC Toronto The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight |
| Mar 11 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor John Robinson, Director, Sustainable Development Research Initiative, UBC Accelerating Sustainability in British Columbia |
| Mar 18 |
Professor Stanley Coren, Department of Psychology,
UBC How Dogs Think |
| Mar 25 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Kennedy School, Harvard University Governing Life: The Comparative Politics of Biotechnology |
| Apr 1 |
Triumf Lecture Professor David Gross, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Director, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara The Future of Physics: What We Don't Know |
| Apr 8 |
Professor Robert Littman, College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature,
University of Hawaii at Manoa Moses: Myth, Archeology and History |
