* 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 2007 season comprises eleven lectures, from January 20 to April 14, omitting February 17 (Midterm Break) and April 7 (Easter).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 20 |
Dr. David Sweet, Faculty of Dentistry,
And Director, BOLD,
UBC Crime Scene Investigation: Identifying Victims and Perpetrators Using New Forensic Science Methods |
| Jan 27 |
Professor Cole Harris, Department of Geography,
UBC Colonialism and Its Consequences: Creating and Solving the Native Land Question |
| Feb 3 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Gert Groening, Deputy Executive Director, Institute for the History and Theory of Design, Berlin University of the Arts Gardens as Elements of an Urbanizing World |
| Feb 10 |
Professor Mark Jaccard, School of Resource and Environmental Management,
Simon Fraser University Fossil Fuels: Friend or Foe? |
| Feb 17 | Midterm Break—NO LECTURE |
| Feb 24 |
Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Former British Ambassador to the United Nations,
And Her Majesty's former Special Representative in Iraq Globalization or Polarization: Where is the World Heading? |
| Mar 3 |
Professor Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human
Values,
Princeton University Democracy: Fashions, Failures, and Fantasies |
| Mar 10 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor Daniel Pauly, Director, Fisheries Centre, UBC Global Fisheries: Are the Gloom and Doom Justified? |
| Mar 17 |
Dr. Patrick L. McGeer, Faculty of Medicine,
UBC Can We Eliminate Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias? |
| Mar 24 |
Baroness Susan Greenfield, Senior Research Fellow,
Lincoln College, Oxford,
And Director,
Royal Institution of Great Britain Tomorrow's People: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel |
| Mar 31 |
Dr. Christopher Gaze, Artistic Director,
Bard on the Beach,
Vancouver The Bard In Vancouver: A National Treasure |
| Apr 7 | Easter—NO LECTURE |
| Apr 14 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Matthew Paterson, School of Political Science, University of Ottawa Moving the Earth: Car Culture and Global Environmental Politics |
