| Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
2000 |
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| Jan. 22 | Finlay, Brett | Confronting the Microbe Menace (a) |
| Feb. 5 | Duke, Daryl | Redefining English Canada: The Failure of the Media (a) |
| Feb. 12 | Winston, Mark | Nature Wars: Pests vs. People (a)(v) |
| Feb. 19 | Gowing, Nik | Information in War and Emergencies: Who Really Commands the High Ground (a)(v) |
| Feb. 26 | Valian, Virginia | The Advancement of Women: Why So Slow? (a) |
| March 4 | Rose, Brian | New Excavations at Ancient Troy (a) |
| March 11 | McLachlin, Beverly | The Role of the Courts in a Modern Democracy (a)(v) |
| March 18 | Kohn, Walter | Through a Glass Darkly: A Physicist Looks at the Future (a) |
| March 25 | Cameron, Silver Donald | Energy, Environment and the Left (a) |
| April 1 | Pollock, Sharon | Will Theatre Survive? (a) |
| April 8 | Hayden, Michael;
van Ommen, Gert-Jan;
Tsui, Lap-Chee;
Collins, Francis |
Panel discussion: The Human Genome Project: Where Do We Go From Here? (a)(v) |
| April 15 | Stackhouse, John | The End of Development (a) |
| Sept. 16 | Simpson, Jeffrey | Star-Spangled Canadians: Canadians Living the American Dream (a)(v) |
| Sept. 23 | Kimura, Doreen | Are Men's and Women's Brains Really Different? |
| Sept. 30 | Bliss, Michael | William Osler and the Canadian Tradition of Medical Excellence (a) |
| Oct. 14 | Mansell, Alice | Bio/Graphics: The Role of Technology in the Art of Story-Telling (a) |
| Oct. 21 | Schaller, Jane G. | World Hazards for Children: War and Civil Unrest (a) |
| Oct. 28 | Homer-Dixon, Thomas | The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future? (a) |
| Nov. 4 | Gitlin, Todd | The Overloaded Self in a Jump-Cut Culture (a) |
| Nov. 18 | Bresnick, Martin | Bresnick After Blake: The Gates of Paradise (a) |
| Nov. 25 | Marchak, Patricia | "God's Assassins": A Dramatization (a)(v) |
| Dec. 2 | Matthews, Jaymie | The Search for Alien Worlds (a) |
| Dec. 9 | Howe, Roger | Chinese Excellence in Mathematics Teaching: Can We Match It In North America? (a)(v) |
2001 |
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| Jan. 20 | Axworthy, Lloyd | An Encounter With EMMA: The Case for Rethinking Security and State Sovereignty in the New Century (a)(v) |
| Jan. 27 | Vanderhaeghe, Guy | An Evening With Guy Vanderhaeghe (a)(v) |
| Feb. 3 | Davis, Natalie Zemon | Braided Histories: Jews, Africans and Slavery (a) |
| Feb. 10 | Sande, Merle | The Crisis in Infectious Diseases (a)(v) |
| Feb. 17 | Kiczales, Gregor | Programming: Poetry, Gears or Magic? (a) |
| Feb. 24 | Humphrey, Elaine | Discovering Microscopic Worlds (a) |
| March 3 | Parsons, Tim | Oceanography in the Service of Fisheries (a)(v) |
| March 10 | Delgado, James P. | Diving to the "Titanic" (a)(v) |
| March 17 | Dretske, Fred | Animal Minds (a) |
| March 24 | Stevenson, Michael | Politics and Education: Reflections on Current Dilemmas (a) |
| Sept. 29 | Boraine, Alex | Unmasked at Midnight: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission(a)(v) |
| Oct. 13 | Dyson, Freeman | Davos Debates (a)(v) |
| Oct. 20 | Hepburn, John | Terra Incognita: Pathfinding in Science (a) |
| Oct. 27 | Hansen, Mogens Herman | Direct Democracy: Ancient and Modern (a) |
| Nov. 3 | Coleman, Kathleen | The Virtues of Violence: Gladiators, the Arena, and the Roman System of Values (a) |
| Nov.17 | Rose, Steven | Genetic Determinism: Life Beyond Genes (a) |
| Nov. 24 | Dallaire, Romeo | Is Conflict Resolution the New Peacekeeping? Are There Casualties Involved? (a)(v) |
| Dec. 1 | Myers, Judith | Insects as Friends and Foes (a) |
2002 |
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| Jan. 26 | Dyson, George | Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship (a) |
| Feb 2 | Cochrane, Kevern | What You Want is What You Get: A Fishy Look at the Limitations of Science (a) |
| Feb 9 | Lavkulich, Les; Schreier, Hans | Walkerton: Could It Happen Here? Need It Happen Here? (a) |
| March 2 | McGrath, Patrick | The Burden of Children's Pain (a) |
| March 9 | Hancock, Bob | New Approaches to Treating Infections (a) |
| March 16 | Stanton, Domna | A History of Censorship (originally scheduled as "The Nation As Its Others: Protestants and Women in the Age of Louis XIV") (a) |
| March 23 | Richter, Burton | Energy in the 21st Century (a) |
| April 6 | Suzuki, David | The Challenge of an Ecological Millennium: Setting the Bottom Line (a)(v) |
| April 13 | Grace, Sherrill | Ideas of North (a) |
| Sept. 28 | Berger, Thomas | One Man’s Justice: The Law and the Struggle for a Just Society (a) |
| Oct. 5 | Broome, John | Weighing Lives: The Value of Being Alive (a) |
| Oct. 19 | Richards, Carol | Maximizing Walking Capacity After Stroke (a) |
| Oct. 26 | Guillet, James | Plastics, Energy and Ecology (a) |
| Nov. 2 | Burns, Peter | The U.N. Committee Against Torture: From Pinochet to a Borderless World (a) |
| Nov. 9 | Wachsmann, Shelley | The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000-year-old Discovery (a) |
| Nov. 16 | Snowman, Daniel | Hitler's Emigres: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism (a) |
| Nov. 23 | Echard, Sian | The Once and Present King: Arthur, Medieval and Modern (a) |
| Nov. 30 | Altieri, Miguel | Fatal Harvest: Overcoming the Ecological Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture (a) |
2003 |
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| Jan. 18 | Delgado, James | Discovering Kubla Khan's Lost Fleet (a)(v) |
| Jan. 25 | Wild, Nettie; Owen, Philip | The Politics and Art of a Social Revolution (a)(v) |
| Feb. 1 | Hermiston, Nancy | My Favourite Ladies of the Stage: A Celebration of Great Female Personalities |
| Feb. 8 | Hurwit, Jeff | The Athenian Acropolis: The Uses of the Past (a) |
| Feb. 15 | Peterson, Roy | The Art of Political Cartooning (a) |
| Feb. 22 | Hutcheon, Linda and Michael | Beauty Is As Beauty Does: The Ethics and "Physick" of Opera(a) |
| March 1 | Shotter, Alan | The Life and Death of Stars (a) |
| March 8 | Ostrom, Elinor | Managing Resources in the Global Commons (a) |
| March 15 | Rees, William | Is Humanity Fatally Successful? (a) |
| March 29 | Frost, Peter | Toxic Emotions at Work (a) |
| April 5 | Gass, Lee | A Decade of Innovation in Science Education (a) |
| Sept. 27 | McKibben, William | Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (a) |
| Oct. 4 | Durbach, Errol | The Theatre Experience: or, why do we enjoy watching real people counterfeiting fictional people? (a) |
| Oct. 18 | Eakin, John | What Are We Reading When We Read Autobiography? (a) |
| Oct. 25 | Stuart, Gavin | Lessons Learned From Cancer Control For the Health Care System (a) |
| Nov. 1 | Marra, Marco | Genomics Research in British Columbia (a) |
| Nov. 8 | Tippett, Maria | Bill Reid: The Making of a Reputation (a)(v) |
| Nov. 15 | Wieman, Carl | Bose-Einstein condensation: quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe (a) |
| Nov. 22 | Cronk, Quentin | The Thin Green Line: Plants and the Future of Humanity (a) |
| Nov. 29 | Schlesinger, Joe | Canada Through a Looking Glass (a)(v) |
| Dec. 6 | Phillips, Jim | Murdering Holiness (a) |
| Dec. 13 | Helliwell, John F. | Globalization and Well-being (a) |
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| Jan. 31 | Rose, Brian | The Greeks in Afghanistan and Persia (a) |
| Feb. 7 | Fulton, Jim | Climate Chaos (a) |
| Feb. 21 | Kurland, Geoffrey | My Own Medicine: A Doctor's Life As a Patient (a) |
| Feb. 28 | Nadel, Ira | Picturing Poets and Eyeing Pound (a) |
| Mar. 6 | Magness, Jodi | The Dead Sea Scrolls (a) |
| Mar. 13 | Finlay, Brett; Patrick, David | Dealing With SARS (a)(v) |
| Mar. 20 | Yorsh, Ralph | Medical Hypnosis in the 21st Century: What Can It Do For You? (a) |
| Mar. 27 | Norris, David Owen | What's the Point of Classical Music? (a)(v) |
| Apr. 3 | Wachsmann, Shelly | In Search of Darius' Lost 492 BC Fleet (a)(v) |
| Sept. 18 | Bakan, Joel | The Corporation (a)(v) |
| Sept. 25 | Deverell, William | Obscenity, Hate and Artistic Freedom (a) |
| Oct. 2 | Oliver, Kelly | Conflicted Love: Why We Feel So Unloved and Unlovable (a) |
| Oct. 16 | Myers, Ransom | Consequences of Global Overexploitation of Fisheries (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Guha, Ramachandra | Arguments with Gandhi: In His Times and Ours (a) |
| Oct. 30 | Gleave, Martin | From Mice to Men: Translating Discoveries in Prostate Cancer Research Into Improved Patient Care (a) |
| Nov. 8 | Blix, Hans | Weapons of Mass Destruction: Lessons from Iraq (v) |
| Nov. 13 | Oleson, John | Ancient Humayma: Water and Society in the Jordanian Desert (a) |
| Nov. 20 | Ruth, Thomas J. | A Needle in a Haystack: The Science of Radiotracers (a) |
| Nov. 27 | Wallerstein, Immanuel | Whose Right to Intervene? From the "Discovery" of America to Today (a) |
| Dec. 4 | Tarrant, David | Chasing Spring Around the World (a) |
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| Jan. 22 | Butala, Sharon | What Makes a Westerner (a) |
| Jan. 29 | Ryneveld, Dirk | The Milosevic Trial — An Update on the Ongoing Saga (a) |
| Feb. 3 | Toope, Stephen J. | The Fate of the Disappeared: Addressing a Human Security Crisis (a)(v) |
| Feb. 12 | Jackson, D.D. | Can Jazz Be Classical? |
| Feb. 22 | Choegyal, Tendzin | Personal Transformation (a)(v) |
| Feb. 26 | Rotroff, Susan | New Light on an Old Agora: Excavations in Athens' Civic Centre (a) |
| Mar. 5 | Daniel, Sir John | Education for Development: Can Technology Help? (a) |
| Mar. 12 | Cynader, Max | The Aging Brain (a) |
| Mar. 19 | Keppie, Lawrence | The Romans in Scotland: Their Far Frontier (a) |
| Apr. 2 | Cahill, James | Chinese Painting: The Realities Behind the Ideals (a) |
| Apr. 16 | Barish, Barry | An Einstein Celebration: Albert Einstein's Legacy - Our Best Description of the Universe (a) |
| Sept. 24 | Adam, Heribert | Mandela's Legacy: Reconciliation Between Israelis and Palestinians?(a) |
| Oct. 1 | MacMillan, Margaret | Lessons of History: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 (a)(v) |
| Oct. 15 | Buechner, Sara Davis | Piano Music and the Movies |
| Oct. 22 | Will, Pierre-Etienne | Democracy, Human Rights, and the Chinese Political Tradition (a) |
| Oct. 29 | Bowie, William | Emerging Epidemics and Pandemics: Are They Inevitable and Catastrophic? (a) |
| Nov. 5 | Barnes, Tim | Render Unto Caesar? Early Christianity and the Roman Empire (a) |
| Nov. 12 | Geddes, Gary | The Search for an Asian Marco Polo (a) |
| Nov. 19 | Wright, Ronald | The Traps of Progress (a)(v) |
| Nov. 26 | Connelly, Karen | Writing "The Lizard Cage" (a) |
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| Jan. 14 | Adams, Michael | Fire, Ice and American Backlash: Social Change Above the Rio Grande(a) |
| Jan. 21 | Delgado, James | Gold Rush Pompeii: The Buried Waterfront and Lost Ships of Early San Francisco (a) |
| Jan. 28 | Byers, Michael | On Thinning Ice: Challenges to Canadian Sovereignty in the Northwest Passage (a) |
| Feb. 4 | Sullivan, Françoise; L'Écuyer, Sylvia | A Conversation With Françoise Sullivan (a) |
| Feb. 11 | Milne, Andy | An Evening With Andy Milne: Lecture and Performance |
| Feb. 25 | Osiel, Mark | International Law at the Crossroads: How Exaggerated Hopes Produce Exaggerated Despair (a) |
| March 4 | Lucht, Bernie | The Best Ideas You'll Hear Tonight (a)(v) |
| March 11 | Robinson, John | Accelerating Sustainability in British Columbia (a) |
| March 18 | Coren, Stanley | How Dogs Think (a) |
| March 25 | Jasanoff, Sheila | Governing Life: The Comparative Politics of Biotechnology (a) |
| April 1 | Gross, David | The Future of Physics: What We Don't Know (a)(v) |
| April 8 | Littman, Robert | Moses: Myth, Archeology and History (a) |
| Sept. 16 | Camp, John | Old and New in the Agora of Athens, Birthplace of Democracy (a)(v) |
| Sept. 23 | Acemoglu, Daron | Rethinking the Wealth of Nations |
| Sept. 30 | Horner, Jack | How To Recreate a Living, Breathing Dinosaur (a)(v) |
| Oct. 14 | Toope, Stephen | International Law and Global Citizens (a)(v) |
| Oct. 21 | Levi, Mario | Istanbul: Difference and Coexistence; The Soul of a City (a)(v) |
| Oct. 28 | Mayberg, Helen | Paths to Recovery: The Role of Brain Imaging in the Development of New Treatments For Depression (a)(v) |
| Nov. 4 | Silverman, Robert | Why I Play Mozart On a Real Piano: Lecture and Recital in Celebration of Mozart's 250th Anniversary (a)(v) |
| Nov. 18 | Boyd, Neil | Controlling Legal and Illegal Drugs: Challenges for the 21st Century (a)(v) |
| Nov. 25 | Hannesson, Rognvaldur | The World's Fisheries: A Source of Trouble or a Source of Wealth? (a)(v) |
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| Jan. 20 | Sweet, David | Crime Scene Investigation: Identifying Victims and Perpetrators Using New Forensic Science Methods (a)(v) |
| Jan. 27 | Harris, Cole | Colonialism and Its Consequences: Creating and Solving the Native Land Question (a)(v) |
| Feb. 3 | Groening, Gert | Gardens as Elements of an Urbanizing World (a)(v) |
| Feb. 10 | Jaccard, Mark | Fossil Fuels: Friend or Foe? (a)(v) |
| Feb. 24 | Greenstock, Sir Jeremy | Globalization or Polarization: Where is the World Heading? (a)(v) |
| March 3 | Pettit, Philip | Democracy: Fashions, Failures, and Fantasies (a)(v) |
| March 10 | Pauly, Daniel | Global Fisheries: Are the Gloom and Doom Justified? (a)(v) |
| March 17 | McGeer, Patrick L. | Can We Eliminate Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias? (a)(v) |
| March 24 | Greenfield, Baroness Susan | Tomorrow's People: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Think and Feel (a)(v) |
| March 31 | Gaze, Christopher | The Bard In Vancouver: A National Treasure (a)(v) |
| April 14 | Paterson, Matthew | Moving the Earth: Car Culture and Global Environmental Politics (a)(v) |
| Sept. 15 | Welsh, Jennifer | Canada's Foreign Policy: Do Citizens Have a Say? (a)(v) |
| Sept. 22 | Williams, Hector | Excavations in Arcadia: Uncovering Ancient Stymphalos (a)(v) |
| Sept. 29 | Pound, Richard | Human Athletes or Chemical Stockpiles? Doping in Sport (a)(v) |
| Oct. 13 | Sachs, Harvey | The Toscanini Letters: A Musician Looks at his World (a)(v) |
| Oct. 20 | Packer, Craig | Why the Lion is Disappearing from Africa (a)(v) |
| Oct. 27 | Joya, Malalai | Warlords, Women's Rights and Foreign Troops: An Afghan Experience (a)(v) |
| Nov. 3 | Schindler, David | A Life with Pesticides (a)(v) |
| Nov. 17 | Majeski, Stephen | Clients, Enemies, and Empire (a)(v) |
| Nov. 24 | Rogers, Garry | The Earthquake Threat to British Columbia (a)(v) |
| Dec. 1 | Danielson, Dennis | From Copernicus to E.T. and Why it Matters (a)(v) |
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| Jan. 12 | Tovey, Bramwell | An Evening With Bramwell Tovey (a)(v) |
| Jan. 19 | Byers, Michael | Transferring to Torture: Canada, Human Rights, and Detainees (a)(v) |
| Jan. 26 | Turner, Nancy | The Song of the Salmonberry Bird: Why Diversity Matters in Nature and Culture (a)(v) |
| Feb. 2 | Quraishi, Asifa | Islamic Law, Women, and the Headlines: A Commentary (a)(v) |
| Feb. 9 | Gibson, William | An Evening With William Gibson (a)(v) |
| Feb. 23 | Brook, Tim | Vermeer's Hat: What 17th Century Dutch Paintings Reveal of Our Global World (a)(v) |
| March 1 | Suzuki, David | Sustainability: What is it? (a)(v) |
| March 8 | Akerlof, George | Economics and Identity: Moving Beyond the Doctrine of Selfishness (a)(v) |
| March 14 | Yunus, Mohammad | [Michael Smith Memorial Nobel Lecture] |
| March 29 | Steyn, Douw | Air Pollution: How We Treat the Atmosphere Like a Sewer (a)(v) |
| Sept. 27 | Pinker, Steven | The Stuff of Thought: Language As a Window Into Human Nature (a)(v) |
| Oct. 18 | McDonald, Art | How To Tell a Neutrino From a Hole In the Ground (a)(v) |
| Oct. 25 | Marchak, Pat | No Easy Fix: Global Responses to Crimes Against Humanity (a)(v) |
| Nov. 1 | Galloway, Steven | An Evening With Steven Galloway (a)(v) |
| Nov. 8 | Lefebvre, Louis | Variation On a Gene: The Advent of Epigenetics (a) |
| Nov. 15 | MacDonald, John S. | Energy in the 21st Century (a)(v) |
| Nov. 22 | Tenzer, Michael | Indonesia's Gamelan Music -- Lecture and Performance (a)(v) |
| Nov. 29 | Clarke, Peter | The Two Careers of Winston S. Churchill (a)(v) |
2009 |
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| Jan. 31 | Delgado, James | The Great Museum Beneath the Sea: A Global Tour of Some of History's Greatest Shipwrecks (a)(v) |
| Feb. 7 | Stallman, Richard | Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks (a)(v) |
| Feb. 14 | Gerges, Fawaz | Inside Al Qaeda: A Crisis of Authority and Legitimacy (a) (v) |
| Feb. 21 | Angell, Marcia | Health Care: A Tale of Two Countries (a) (v) |
| Feb. 28 | Wright, Ronald | What is America? (a) (v) |
| March 7 | Schindler, David | The Environmental Impacts of Exploiting the Alberta Tar Sands (a) (v) |
| March 14 | Evans, Robert | Sustainable Transportation: How B.C. Can Be a Showcase For the New Electricity Economy (a) (v) |
| March 21 | Bearman, Peter | Understanding the Increased Prevalence of Autism (a)(v) |
| March 28 | Hare, Robert | Psychopathy: A Journey to the Dark Side? (a) (v) |
| April 4 | Jordanova, Ludmilla | Portraiture and Identity (a) (v) |
| Sept. 19 | Fisher, Nigel | Pandemics, Poverty, and Children (a) (v) |
| Sept. 26 | Lockyer, Nigel | Quarks, Isotopes and the Future of Subatomic Physics (a) (v) |
| Oct. 3 | Jencks, Charles | The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: Nature Talking to Nature (a) (v) |
| Oct. 17 | Rosenzweig, Mark | The International Flow of Migrants: Causes and Consequences (a) |
| Oct. 24 | Gilman, Sander | Why Don't We Trust Our Food? Obesity and Infection Today (a) (v) |
| Oct. 31 | de Chastelain, John | The Northern Ireland Peace Process 1994–2009: Is It Working? (a) (v) |
| Nov. 7 | Brandon, Laura | What Is War Art? (a) (v) |
| Nov. 14 | McNaughton, Bruce | Memories and Sleep: The Trace Reactivation Theory of Memory Consolidation (a) (v) |
| Nov. 21 | Safdie, Moshe | Megascale, Order and Complexity (a) (v) |
| Nov. 28 | Gillett, Grant | Neuroethics and Human Identity (a) (v) |