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2020/21 Current Season

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

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