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COVID-19 has impacted the way we do everything, including the delivery of our events. The safety of our speakers and guests in attendance is of the utmost importance to us, and for that reason, we are assessing the delivery model for the 2020/21 season. To help us develop a plan, we would like to hear from you. Please complete this very short survey. Once we have finalized our plans, we will update this page, and send information to the mailing list. We miss you, and can't wait to connect with you again.
2020/21 Season Announced
Sep 24 '20 Glenda Bonifacio
Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?
Oct 29 '20 Gail Michener
Love Them, Despise Them, Study Them: Perspectives on an iconic prairie animal.
Nov 26 '20 Elizabeth Galway
What’s So Childish about Children’s Stories? Exploring the Complex World of Literature for Young Readers.
Jan 28 '21 Trevor Harrison
The Promise and Peril of Populism
Feb 25 '21 James MacKenzie
Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place
*Rescheduled from last March 2020.
Mar 25 '21 Trushar Patel
How not to get viral: Understanding the communication between viruses and humans
Previous Year's Talk Dates & Details
Feb 27 '20 Hillary Rodrigues
COMBATTING DELUSION: Gleanings from the Hindu Great Goddess and Eastern Sages
Jan 23 '20 Carly Adams
"Hey, why don't we have a bonspiel?" Oral Histories, Sport, and (re)Imagining Community
Nov 21 '19 Jackie Rice
The Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
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Oct 24 '19 Matthew Tata
How to Talk to Your Robot: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Make Robots That Can Hear
Sep 26 '19 Louise Barrett
Supercharged Apes and Supersized Minds: How to Think Like an Animal
Mar 21 '19 | Hester Jiskoot, Geography
Glaciers — A Hot Topic
Feb 28 '19 | Tom Johnston, Geography
The Geography of Circumstance
Jan 24 '19 | Alexander Darku, Economics
The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics
Nov 22 '18 | Amy Shaw, Canadian Studies
‘A Devil-May-Care Sort of Swagger’: A Case for Remembering Canada in the Boer War
Oct 25 '18 | Maura Hanrahan, Geography
Creating Heroes and Claiming the North: Captain Robert Abram Bartlett in the Arctic
Sep 20 '18 | Sergio Pellis, Neuroscience (CCBN)
A Journey Through the Fields of Play
Mar 22 '18 | Catherine Kingfisher, Anthropology
Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism
Feb 15 '18 | Tom Robinson, Religious Studies
Sex, Drugs, Jesus, and Gin
Jan 25 '18 | Paul Vasey, Psychology
Beyond the Binary: What the West Can Learn from Non-Western Approaches to Gender Diversity
Nov 23 '17 | René Barendregt, Geography
Global Climate Archives in Mud and Rock: The Magnetic Recorder is Always On [Somewhere]!
Oct 26 '17 | Jo-Anne Fiske, Women & Gender Studies
Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers: Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture
Sep 21 '17 | Ute Kothe, Biochemistry
From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters
Mar 23 ‘17 | Stacey Wetmore, Chemistry & Biochemistry
DNA Damage, Repair and Disease: How Computers Can Help Us Understand
Feb 16 ‘17 | Kent Peacock, Philosophy
Alberta in the Anthropocene
Jan 26 ‘17 | Janay Nugent, History
Converting a Nation: family, religion, and Calvinism in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Scotland
Nov 24 ‘16 | Goldie Morgentaler, English
How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters
Oct 20 ‘16 | Roy Golsteyn, Biological Sciences
Flower Power: A scientific Search for New Medicines in Prairie Plants
Sep 22 '16 | Kevin McGeough, Geog & Archaeology
'I Met a Traveller From an Antique Land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse
Mar 17 ‘16 | Reg Bibby, Sociology
Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada
Feb 25 ‘16 | Shawn Bubel, Archaeology
Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at the Fincastle Site
Jan 21 ‘16 | Harold Jansen, Political Science
The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada
Nov 26 ‘15 | Jennifer Copeland, Kinesiology
Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour
Nov 19 ‘15 | Craig Coburn, Remote Sensing
Understanding the Complexities of Imaging the Earth: The Challenge of Image Calibration
Oct 22 ‘15 | Olga Kovalchuk, Biological Sciences
Epigenetics of Health and Disease: From Personalized Science to Personalized Medicine
Sep 24 ‘15 | Craig Cooper, History
Catching the Crook in Classical Athens
Mar 19 '15 | Michelle Hogue, FNTP / Chem & Biochemistry
Two-Eyed Seeing: A Different Vision for Teaching Aboriginal Learners Science and Mathematics
Feb 26 ‘15 | John Harding, Religious Studies
Buddha’s World Tour: Global Buddhism in the Modern Era
Jan 22 ‘15 | David Naylor, Physics & Astronomy
Why Invest in Space Exploration
Nov 20 ‘14 | Ian MacLachlan, Geography
Changing Livestock Geographies and Global Meat Consumption: What are the implications?
Oct 23 ‘14 | Patrick Wilson, Anthropology
Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador
Sep 25 ‘14 | Robbin Gibb, Neuroscience
The Forgotten Parent: The Importance of Fathers and Their Experience on the Brain Development of Their Children