* 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 2014 season comprises nine lectures, from October 4 to November 29, omitting October 11th (Thanksgiving).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Oct 4 |
BC Cancer Foundation Lecture Dr. Siddharta Mukherjee, MD, PhD, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
| Oct 11 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 18 |
Dr. Marc-Andre Bernier, Chief, Underwater Archaeology Service,
Parks Canada Diving Into Canada's History: 50 Years of Underwater Archaeology at Parks Canada |
| Oct 25 |
Dr. Arvind Gupta, President of the University of BC An Evening With UBC's 13th President |
|
Sunday Oct 26 7:00 p.m. |
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Lecture Ms. Naomi Klein, Canadian Author and Social Activist This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate Alternate location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia |
| Nov 1 |
Professor Charlotte Townsend-Gault;
Professor Jennifer Kramer; and
Ḳi-ḳe-in, Department of Art History, UBC;
Department of Anthropology, UBC; and
Historian and poet; respectively Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas |
| Nov 8 |
Dal Grauer Memorial Lecture Ms. Stephanie Nolen, South America bureau chief, The Globe and Mail The Change We Seek—Why some countries make real progress on inequality |
| Nov 15 |
Mark Zacher Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Professor Robert Keohane, Department of Political Science, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University Anti-Americanism or Fear of Impingement? Evidence from the Arabic Twitter Universe |
| Nov 22 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Clifford Ando, Department of Classics, History and Law, University of Chicago The Long Defeat and Fall of the Roman Empire in the East and the West |
| Nov 29 |
Bel N. Nemetz Lecture Mr. Chris Turner, Author and journalist, Calgary How to Breathe Underwater: Innovation in an Age of Radical Change |
