* 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 2009 season comprises ten lectures, from September 19 to November 28, omitting October 10th (Thanksgiving).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 19 |
John K. and Marta Friesen Lecture Dr. Nigel Fisher, President and CEO, UNICEF Canada Pandemics, Poverty, and Children |
| Sep 26 |
Dr. Nigel Lockyer, Director, TRIUMF,
UBC Quarks, Isotopes and the Future of Subatomic Physics |
| Oct 3 |
Dr. Charles Jencks, Architectural theorist, landscape architect and designer,
Dumfries, Scotland The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: Nature Talking to Nature |
| Oct 10 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 17 |
Woodward Lecture Dr. Mark Rosenzweig, Department of Economics, Yale University The International Flow of Migrants: Causes and Consequences |
| Oct 24 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Sander Gilman, Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University, Georgia Why Don't We Trust Our Food? Obesity and Infection Today |
| Oct 31 |
St. John's College Lecture General John de Chastelain, OC, Former Chief of the Defence Staff, Canadian Armed Forces The Northern Ireland Peace Process 1994–2009: Is It Working? |
| Nov 7 |
Dr. Laura Brandon, Chief Curator of War Art,
Canadian War Museum,
Ottawa What Is War Art? |
| Nov 14 |
Professor Bruce McNaughton, Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience,
University of Lethbridge Memories and Sleep: The Trace Reactivation Theory of Memory Consolidation |
| Nov 21 |
Arthur Erickson Memorial Lecture In Architectural Excellence Mr. Moshe Safdie, CC, Architect and Urban Designer, Sommerville, Massachusetts Megascale, Order and Complexity |
| Nov 28 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Dr. Grant Gillett, Chair, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand Neuroethics and Human Identity |
