* 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 2010 season comprises twelve lectures, from September 18 to December 4, omitting October 9th (Thanksgiving) and including a Monday Noon lecture on November 8.
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 18 |
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Mr. Gwynne Dyer, Author and commentator, London Geopolitics in a Hotter World |
| Sep 25 |
Bel N. Nemetz Lecture Mr. David Baines, Columnist, The Vancouver Sun Securities Fraud: How Crooks Rip Off the Public, How Professionals Facilitate Their Crimes, and How Regulators and Police Let Them Get Away With It |
| Oct 2 |
Dr. Memory Elvin-Lewis, Department of Biology,
Washington University,
St Louis, Missouri Healing From Rain Forests: The Value of Traditional Knowledge |
| Oct 9 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 16 |
Dr. Nancy Olivieri, Professor, Pediatrics, Medicine and Public Health Sciences,
University of Toronto Medicine, Morals, and Money |
| Oct 23 |
Mr. Robert Fowler, Former Canadian Diplomat,
Ottawa Sleeping With Al Qaeda |
| Oct 30 |
Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Department of Geology,
University of Toronto Can Carbon Capture and Storage Solve Global Climate Change? Lessons From Nature |
| Nov 6 |
Professor Peter Klein, School of Journalism,
UBC Digital Dumping Ground: The Global Trade in Electronic Waste |
|
Monday Nov 8 Noon |
See lecture page re tickets
Special Co-sponsored LectureDr. Dambisa Moyo, International Economist and Author Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa Alternate location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia |
| Nov 13 |
Craig Laronge University of Wisconsin Lecture Professor Deborah Blum, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin – Madison Cocktails and Cyanide |
| Nov 20 |
Dr. Peter Timmer, Professor of Developmental Studies,
Harvard University Local Food – Global Food: The Future of Food Security |
| Nov 27 |
Professor Stan Coren, Department of Psychology,
UBC The Human-Animal Bond: Our History With Dogs |
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Dec 4 8:00 p.m. |
Canadian Mathematical Society Lecture Dr. Ronald Graham, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California – San Diego Searching For the Shortest Network: Hard Problems, Communication Networks, VLSI Design and Molecular Phylogenetics Alternate location: Coast Plaza Hotel, 1763 Comox Street, off Denman |
