* 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 2008 season comprises eight lectures, from September 27 to November 29, omitting October 4th (venue unavailable) and 11th (Thanksgiving).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 27 |
J. V. Clyne Lecture Professor Steven Pinker, Department of Psychology, Harvard University The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature |
| Oct 4 | Lecture Hall Unavailable—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 11 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 18 |
Dr. Art McDonald, Director,
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory How To Tell a Neutrino From a Hole In the Ground |
| Oct 25 |
Professor Pat Marchak, Department of Sociology,
UBC No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Crimes Against Humanity |
| Nov 1 |
Mr. Steven Galloway, Novelist and author of The Cellist of Sarajevo,
Vancouver An Evening With Steven Galloway |
| Nov 8 |
Dr. Louis Lefebvre, Canada Research Chair in Genomic Imprinting,
UBC Variation On a Gene: The Advent of Epigenetics |
| Nov 15 |
Dr. John S. MacDonald, Co-founder of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates,
and CEO of Day4 Energy Inc. Energy in the 21st Century |
| Nov 22 |
Professor Michael Tenzer, UBC School of Music Indonesia's Gamelan Music — Lecture and Performance |
| Nov 29 |
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Professor Peter Clarke, Professor of Modern British History, and former Master, Trinity Hall College, Cambridge University The Two Careers of Winston S. Churchill |
