* Free Public Lectures *
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Saturday evenings, 8:15 p.m. Doors open 7:30 p.m.
The Fall 1998 season comprises ten lectures, from 26 September to 5 December, omitting 10 October (Thanksgiving weekend).
| September 26 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Thomas King, Department of English, Guelph University An Evening With Thomas King (Tentative title) |
| October 3 |
Grauer Lecture Paul Fussell, Donald T. Regan Professor of English Literature, University of Pennsylvania The Poetry of Three Wars (WWI, WWII, and Vietnam) |
| October 10 | No lecture - Thanksgiving Weekend |
| October 17 |
Professor James Hudson,
Department of Pathology, UBC Evaluation of Mother Nature's Antivirals: Traditional Medicine Meets Modern Science |
| October 24 |
Grauer Lecture Ms. Karen Armstrong, Author, teacher, and commentator, London A History of God |
| October 31 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor William Chafe, Dean of Arts, Duke University Feminism and Civil Rights: A Comparative Study of Social Movements |
| November 7 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Professor Bruno Latour, Centre de Sociologie, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris On Seeing Paris as a Whole: The Notion of Panopticon |
| November 14 |
Cecil and Ida Green Lecture Dr. Timothy O'Riordan, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Environmentalism is Dead: Long Live Sustainability |
| November 21 |
Leon and Thea Koerner Lecture Dr. William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin (Madison) Environmental History |
| November 28 |
Grauer Lecture Mr. John Ralston Saul, Novelist and essayist, Toronto Democracy and the Implications of Global Economics |
| December 5 |
Dr. Gail Anderson,
Department of Criminology, Simon Fraser University Murder and Maggots: The Use of Insects in Criminal Investigation |
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