* 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 2015 season comprises nine lectures, from September 26th to November 28th, omitting October 10th (Thanksgiving).
(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)
| Sep 26 |
Mr. Ronald Wright, Novelist, historian and essayist,
Saltspring Island, BC The Gold Eaters |
| Oct 3 |
Professor Vaclav Smil, CM, Department of Geography,
University of Manitoba Energy and the Environment: Dangerous Myths and Hard Realities |
| Oct 10 | Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE |
| Oct 17 |
Ms. Sheila Watt-Cloutier, OC, Activist, author and politician,
International Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Council The Right To Be Cold— One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet |
| Oct 24 |
Professor Jennifer Berdahl, Sauder School of Business, UBC Gender and Diversity In Organizations: From Fixing the Women To Liberating the Men |
| Oct 31 |
Mr. Mohamed Fahmy, Former English Bureau Chief,
Al Jazeera, Egypt Office |
| Nov 7 |
Mark Zacher Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture Professor Janice Stein, CM, OO, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto The Middle East In Flames: The Drive For Purification |
| Nov 14 |
Dr. Patrick Taylor, Novelist and
Professor Emeritus, UBC Faculty of Medicine An Evening With an Irish Country Doctor |
| Nov 21 |
UBC Centennial Lecture Professor Neil Turok, Director, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Waterloo The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything |
| Nov 28 |
Mr. Preston Manning, PC, CC, AOE, Founder and CEO, Manning Centre for Building Democracy Reforming Canadian Democracy: Looking Back and Looking Ahead |
