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Spring 2007 |
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| Date |
Topic |
With |
Fri. Feb. 2 |
Barry Lando, Journalist |
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Mon. Feb. 12 |
Rachel Holmes |
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Thurs. Mar. 29 |
Ishmael Beah |
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Weds. May 2 |
Stephanie Nolen, Author and Journalist |
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Mon. May 14 |
JB MacKinnon & Alisa Smith |
Fall 2006
| Date |
Topic |
With |
|---|---|---|
Mon. Sept. 13 |
Reluctant Genius: The Passionate Life and Inventions of Alexander Graham Bell |
Charlotte Gray, Biographer and Author |
Wed. Oct. 4 |
Walking After Midnight: One Woman's Journey Through Murder, Justice and Forgiveness |
Katy Hutchinson, Author |
Mon. Nov. 6 |
The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization |
Thomas Homer Dixon, author and Director of the Center for the Study of Peace and Conflict at the University of Toronto, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto |
Tues. Nov. 21 |
Bruce Powe, Author and Professor of Humanities, York University |
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Weds. Nov. 22 |
Toward a Canada of Light |
Bruce Powe, Author and Professor of Humanities, York University |
Spring 2006
| Date |
Topic |
With |
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Wed. Jan. 18 |
The Secret Meeting Between Roosevelt and Churchill That Changed the World |
David Bercuson, historian and author of a new, called One Christmas in Washington |
Thu. Feb. 16 |
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism |
Historian and author Ross King |
Wed. Mar. 1 |
The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit |
Taras Grescoe, journalist and author |
Fri. Apr. 7 |
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions |
Karen Armstrong author of numerous books on religious affairs, including The Spiral Staircase |
Mon. Apr. 17 |
How We Are Changing The Climate And What It Means For Life On Earth Location: Oliver Secondary School, 530 East 41st St. Vancouver |
Internationally acclaimed scientist, explorer and conservationist, Tim Flannery |
Mon. May 1 |
My Heart is Africa: A Flying Adventure |
Scott Griffin, Board Member African Medical and Research Foundation |
Fall 2005
| Date |
Topic |
With |
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Wed. Sep. 14 |
Kim Bolan, journalist and author of a new book on the Air India bombing, called Loss of Faith |
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Mon. Sep. 26 |
Mathematician and author Jeffrey Rosenthal |
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Mon. Oct. 3 |
Educator and author Mary Gordon and founder of Roots of Empathy |
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Mon. Oct. 31 |
Mao: The Unknown Story |
Jung Chang (author of Wild Swans) and Jon Halliday |
Mon. Nov. 7 |
Theatre of the Mind, Pulling Back the Curtain on Consciousness |
Broadcaster and author Jay Ingram |
Tue. Nov. 29 |
Crows, Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World |
Author Candace Savage |
Spring 2005
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Date |
Topic |
With |
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Fri. Jan. 14 |
Pauline Holdstock, essayist and author of Beyond Measure (shortlisted for the Giller Prize) |
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Thu. Feb. 17 |
Brian Greene, author and Professor of Physics, Columbia University |
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Thu. Feb. 24 |
Redesigning Democracy, Single Transferable Vote and How We Elect Our MLA's |
Shoni Field, David Wills, Members of the Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform and Bill Tieleman, Georgia Straight Columnist and political commentator |
Fri. Mar. 11 |
From Monkey Bars to Monkey Business, Building Better Outdoor Playgrounds |
Susan Herrington, Landscape Architect UBC |
Thu. Apr. 28 |
John Kelly, Author and journalist |
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Thu. May 12 |
John Vaillant, Author and journalist |
Fall 2004
| Date |
Topic |
With |
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| Fri. Dec. 10 |
Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation |
Chris Turner, author of Planet Simpson |
| Thu. Nov. 25 |
Ronald Wright, Presenter of the 2004 Massey Lectures |
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| Tue. Nov. 9 |
The Rebel Sell: If We All Hate Consumerism Why Can't We Stop Shopping? |
Andrew Potter (Professor of Philosophy Trent University) and Joe Heath (Professor of Philosophy University of Toronto) |
Wed. Oct. 27 |
Patrick Watson, Author and Broadcaster |
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Wed. Oct. 6 |
At Home in the World: Canada's Global Vision for the 21st Century |
Jennifer Welsh, Professor of International Relations Oxford University |
Thu. Sep. 23 |
Heather Mallick, Globe & Mail columnist with her new book |
Winter / Spring 2004
| Date |
Topic |
With |
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| Thu. May 13 |
Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Judith Hall, Dr. Shelley Hymel. |
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| Tue. Apr. 27 |
Dr. Judith Maxwell, Dr. Jon Kesselman, Doug McArthur. |
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| Tue. Apr. 27 |
Dr. Andrew Mack of the Liu Institute for Global Issues. |
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| Tue. Apr. 6 |
CanLit academic and editor David Staines. |
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| Tue. Mar. 16 |
Dr. Amanda Vincent, Director of Project Seahorse. |
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| Mon. Mar. 8 |
With Anne Kingston, journalist and author. |
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| Fri. Feb. 20 |
Bill Richardson, author and broadcaster; Zsuzsi Gartner, Aislinn Hunter, Timothy Taylor, and Nancy Lee. |
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| Wed. Feb. 4 |
Margo Langford, copyright lawyer; Tod Maffin, broadcaster and technology futurist; Ian Giesbrecht, BCIT journalism student and musician; Geoff Stowe, BCIT journalism student. |
Fall 2003
| Date |
Topic |
With |
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| Mon. Dec. 15 |
Ronnie Burkett, Ronnie Burkett’s Theatre of Marionettes. |
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| Mon. Dec. 8 |
Dr. Robert Brunham, Director of the BC Centre for Disease Control, Dr. David Patrick, Director of Epidemiology BCCDC, Monika Naus, Associate Director Epidemiology BCCDC. |
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| Thu. Nov. 20 |
Jack Hodgins, author of the novel, Distance. |
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| Wed. Nov. 12 |
Simon Winchester, author of The Meaning of Everything. Special Guest: Dr. John Willinsky, Professor of Language and Literacy Education. |
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| Tue. Nov. 4 |
Award-winning science writer and author of The Song of the Dodo, David Quammen explores the significance of man-eating predators in the natural world and in our imagination. |
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| Wed. Oct. 29 |
Susan Crean, author of Opposite Contraries. |
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| Thu. Oct. 16 |
Geoffrey Stevens, former editor of The Globe and Mail, on the life and times of Dalton Camp. |
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| Thu. Sep. 25 |
Irshad Manji, journalist, lecturer and author. |
Spring 2003
| Date |
Topic |
With |
|---|---|---|
| Fri. May 23 |
Nature Via Nurture: Genes, Experience and What Makes Us Human |
Matt Ridley, author of Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters. |
| Tue. May 6 |
John MacLachlan Gray, author of A Gift for the Little Master and a new novel, The Fiend in Human. |
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| Mon. Apr. 28 |
Stan Persky, author and Philosophy Instructor at Capilano College; Graham Good, author and professor of English at UBC; Craig Jones, lawyer and former President of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association; Ian Slater, political scientist, novelist and author of The Road to Airstrip One: The Development of George Orwell's Political and Social Thought from Burmese Days to 1984. |
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| Mon. Mar. 17 |
Pico Iyer, author of The Global Soul, Video Night in Kathmandu and a new novel, Abandon. |
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| Wed. Mar. 12 |
War Crimes, Genocide and the Birth of the International Criminal Court |
Joanne Lee, Faculty of Law PhD program and research associate, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy. |
| Thu. Mar. 6 |
Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919, New York Times Editors’ Choice 2002. |
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| Tue. Feb. 25 |
The film It's Elementary, followed by panel discussion. |
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| Thu. Jan. 23 |
Dr. Patricia Baird, Chair Royal Commission on Reproductive Health, and Professor of Medical Genetics, UBC. |
Last reviewed 09-October-2007
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