* 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 2012 season comprises nine lectures, from January 28th to March 31st, omitting February 18th (midterm break).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 28 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Patricia Churchland, Department of Philosophy, University of California – San Diego Morality and the Brain |
| Feb 4 |
Professor Ken Sharpe, Department of Political Science,
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do the Right Thing |
| Feb 11 |
Dr. John Grunsfeld, Deputy Director,
Space Telescope Science Institute and
Former NASA Astronaut,
Baltimore, Maryland A Hubble Adventure: Repairing the Telescope and Its Exciting New Discoveries |
| Feb 18 | Midterm Break—NO LECTURE |
| Feb 25 |
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Professor Lawrence Krauss, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, Arizona State University Life, the Universe, and Nothing: A Cosmic Mystery Story |
| Mar 3 |
Ms. Elizabeth Hay, Canadian Novelist and winner of the Giller Prize, 2007,
Ottawa The Writer as Returned Traveller |
| Mar 10 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor Peter Dauvergne, Director, Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of BC The Big Brand Takeover of Sustainability |
| Mar 17 |
Bel N. Nemetz Lecture Ms. Alexandra Morton, Marine Biologist, B.C. If We Want Wild Salmon, It Is Up To Us |
| Mar 24 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Master, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University Herculaneum: From Ashes to Ashes |
| Mar 31 |
Craig Laronge University of Wisconsin Lecture Professor Stephen Ward, Director, Center for Journalism Ethics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Media Ethics on the Digital Frontier |
