* 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 2011 season comprises eleven lectures, from January 15 to April 9, omitting February 19th (midterm break) and March 12th.
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 15 |
Mr. Ray Villard, Space Telescope Science Institute,
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, Maryland When Will We Find Earth II—the First Inhabited Extrasolar Planet? |
| Jan 22 |
St. John's College Lecture Dr. Andrew Goudie, Master, St. Cross College, Oxford University Desert Dust and the World’s Environments |
| Jan 29 |
Professor Julian Davies, Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
UBC Are We Going Back to the Pre-antibiotic Era? |
| Feb 5 |
Professor Bruce Alexander, Department of Psychology,
Simon Fraser University Addiction: Much More Than a Drug Problem |
| Feb 12 |
Mr. Lawrence Martin, Columnist,
The Globe & Mail The Decline and Fall of Canadian Democracy |
| Feb 19 | Midterm Break—NO LECTURE |
| Feb 26 |
John K. and Marta Friesen Lecture Professor Ian Morris, Departments of Classics and History, Stanford University Why the West Rules—For Now |
| Mar 5 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor Sherrill Grace, Department of English, UBC The Haunting of Canadian Culture: From the Ghost of Tom Thompson to the Ghosts of Vimy Ridge |
| Mar 12 | NO LECTURE |
| Mar 19 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Jerrilynn Dodds, Dean, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York Meaning and Identity of the Destructions of Architecture: From the Parthenon to the World Trade Center |
| Mar 26 |
Professor Gage Averill, Dean, Faculty of Arts,
UBC Prodigal Music: Repatriating the 'Alan Lomax in Haiti, 1936-37' Collection to Haiti—Lecture with Music |
| Apr 2 |
Arthur Erickson Memorial Lecture In Architectural Excellence Mr. Bing Thom, C.M., Principal, Bing Thom Architects Inc., Vancouver, B.C. The Transformative Power of Architecture: The Works of Bing Thom |
| Apr 9 |
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Professor William McKibben, Scholar in Residence, Middlebury College, Vermont Eaarth: Making a Life On a Tough New Planet |
