* 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 2013 season comprises ten lectures, from January 26th to April 13th, omitting February 16th (midterm break) and March 30th (Easter).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Jan 26 |
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Dr. Jerome Groopman and Dr. Pamela Hartzband, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making |
| Feb 2 |
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
Professor Alex Himelfarb, Director of the Glendon School of
Public and International Affairs,
York University, and
Former Clerk of The Privy CouncilTax Isn't a Four-letter Word |
| Feb 9 |
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Mr. Philipp Blom, Historian, novelist and journalist, Vienna The Forgotten Enlightenment— Radical Humanism in the 21st Century |
| Feb 16 | Midterm Break—NO LECTURE |
| Feb 23 |
Mark Zacher Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Professor John Ruggie, Kennedy School of Government, and Law School, Harvard University Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights |
| Mar 2 |
UBC Excellence in Research Lecture Professor Edward Slingerland, Department of Asian Studies, U.B.C. Do We Really Live in a Secular Age? |
| Mar 9 |
CANCELLED DUE TO INJURY
Ms. Marci McDonald, Canadian author and journalistReligion and Politics: Is Canada Becoming More Like the United States? |
| Mar 16 |
Mr. Mario Canseco, Vice President, Angus Reid Public Opinion Co.,
Vancouver The Challenges of Conducting Sound Public Opinion Research |
| Mar 23 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Renaissance Discovery of the Jewish Roots of Christianity |
| Mar 30 | Easter—NO LECTURE |
| Apr 6 |
Professor Roger Wilson, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies,
U.B.C. Luxury Living in Late Roman Sicily: The Villa Near Piazza Armerina and its Context |
| Apr 13 |
Erich Vogt Lecture Professor Jane Coop, School of Music, U.B.C. Johannes Brahms: Some Personal Discoveries —— Musical Lecture |
