| Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
2010 |
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| Jan. 23 | Thomson, James | Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (a) |
| Jan. 30 | Miller, Steve | A Rival to the Olympics: Excavating Ancient Nemea and Reviving the Nemean Games (a) |
| Feb. 6 | Lyon, Annabel | An Evening With Annabel Lyon (a) |
| March 6 | Trites, Andrew | Journey of the Blue Whale (a) |
| March 13 | Kidd, Bruce | Sport and Legacy/Sustainability |
| March 20 | Borealis String Quartet | Lecture and performance (a) |
| March 27 | Paris, Erna | The Writer and Human Rights (a) |
| April 10 | Pedersen, Tom | Responding to Global Warming: The Challenge, the Opportunity, & the Politics (a) (v) |
| April 17 | Wallace, Doug |
Human Mitochondria: Window Into Our Origins, Ailments, and Longevity (a) |
| April 24 | Provost, Rene | Waltzing With al-Bashir: Juggling Peace and Justice in Darfur (a) (v) |
| Sept. 18 | Dyer, Gwynne | Geopolitics in a Hotter World (a) |
| Sept. 25 | Baines, David | Securities Fraud: How Crooks Rip Off the Public, How Professionals Facilitate Their Crimes, and How Regulators and Police Let Them Get Away With It (a) |
| Oct. 2 | Elvin-Lewis, Memory | Healing From Rain Forests: The Value of Traditional Knowledge (a) |
| Oct. 16 | Olivieri, Nancy | Medicine, Morals, and Money (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Fowler, Robert | Sleeping With Al Qaeda (a) |
| Oct. 30 | Lollar, Barbara Sherwood | Can Carbon Capture and Storage Solve Global Climate Change? Lessons From Nature (a) |
| Nov. 6 | Klein, Peter | Digital Dumping Ground: The Global Trade in Electronic Waste (a) |
| Nov. 8 | Moyo, Dambisa | Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa |
| Nov. 13 | Blum, Deborah | Cocktails and Cyanide (a) |
| Nov. 20 | Timmer, Peter | Local Food – Global Food: The Future of Food Security (a) |
| Nov. 27 | Coren, Stanley | The Human-Animal Bond: Our History With Dogs (a) |
| Dec. 4 | Graham, Ronald | Searching For the Shortest Network: Hard Problems, Communication Networks, VLSI Design and Molecular Phylogenetics |
2011 |
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| Jan. 15 | Villard, Ray | When Will We Find Earth II—the First Inhabited Extrasolar Planet? (a) (v) |
| Jan. 22 | Goudie, Andrew | Desert Dust and the World’s Environments (a) |
| Jan. 29 | Davies, Julian | Are We Going Back to the Pre-antibiotic Era? (a) |
| Feb. 5 | Alexander, Bruce | Addiction: Much More Than a Drug Problem (a) |
| Feb. 12 | Martin, Lawrence | The Decline and Fall of Canadian Democracy (a) |
| Feb. 26 | Morris, Ian | Why the West Rules—For Now (a) |
| March 5 | Grace, Sherrill | The Haunting of Canadian Culture: From the Ghost of Tom Thompson to the Ghosts of Vimy Ridge (a) |
| March 19 | Dodds, Jerrilynn | Meaning and Identity of the Destructions of Architecture: From the Parthenon to the World Trade Center (a) |
| March 26 | Averill, Gage | Prodigal Music: Repatriating the 'Alan Lomax in Haiti, 1936-37' Collection to Haiti -- Lecture with Music (a) |
| April 2 | Thom, Bing | The Transformative Power of Architecture: The Works of Bing Thom (a) |
| April 9 | McKibben, William | Eaarth: Making a Life On a Tough New Planet (a) |
| Sept. 24 | Weaver, Andrew | Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming (a) |
| Oct. 1 | Bakan, Joel | Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (a) |
| Oct. 15 | Emmerson, Charles | Canada and the Geopolitics of Oil and Gas (a) |
| Oct. 22 | Turpel-Lafond, Mary Ellen | Who Speaks for the Child? The Role of a Public Advocate (a) |
| Oct. 29 | Saliba, George | What Did Galileo Know of Arabic/Islamic Science and How Did He Know It? (a) (v) |
| Nov. 5 | Coyne, Andrew | Democracy and Freedom: Strange Bedfellows (a) |
| Nov. 12 | Trites, Andrew | The Puzzling Disappearance of Sea Lions in Alaska: Is the North Pacific Ecosystem on the Verge of Collapse? (a) (v) |
| Nov. 19 | Farrer, Matthew | Genetics of Parkinson Disease: Paradigm Shifts and Future Prospects (a) (v) |
| Nov. 26 | Silverman, Robert | Hammering the Klavier: Beethoven's Earthshaking and Bone-crushing Masterpiece (a) (v) |
2012 |
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| Jan. 28 | Churchland, Patricia | Morality and the Brain (a) (v) |
| Feb. 4 | Sharpe, Ken | Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do the Right Thing (a) (v) |
| Feb. 11 | Grunsfeld, John | A Hubble Adventure: Repairing the Telescope and Its Exciting New Discoveries (a) |
| Feb. 25 | Krauss, Lawrence | Life, the Universe, and Nothing: A Cosmic Mystery Story (a) (v) |
| March 3 | Hay, Elizabeth | The Writer as Returned Traveller (a) (v) |
| March 10 | Dauvergne, Peter | The Big Brand Takeover of Sustainability (a) (v) |
| March 17 | Morton, Alexandra | If We Want Wild Salmon, It Is Up To Us (a) (v) |
| March 24 | Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew | Herculaneum: From Ashes to Ashes (a) (v) |
| March 31 | Ward, Stephen | Media Ethics on the Digital Frontier (a) (v) |