| Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
1990 |
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| Jan. 27 | Stevens, Geoffrey | Uneasy Bedfellows: Politicians and the Press (a)(v) |
| Feb. 3 | Krugman, Paul | Third World Debt: Their Problem or Ours? (a)(v) |
| Feb. 10 | Rogers, Gary | Earthquakes (a)(v) |
| Feb. 17 | Oke, Timothy | Warming Cities: Local or Global Climatic Changes? (a)(v) |
| Feb. 24 | Hellenkemper, Hansgerd | Cologne - Archaeology in a Living City (a)(v) |
| March 3 | Whyte, Martin | China's Student Demonstrations: Their Social Roots (a)(v) |
| March 10 | Keatley, Philip | Television Drama In Canada: The End of the Line (a)(v) |
| March 17 | Ridgway, Brunilde | An Ancient Masterpiece Recreated: The Parthenon in Nashville (a)(v) |
| March 24 | Doll, Richard | Progress Against Cancer: An Epidemiologist's Assessment (a)(v) |
| March 31 | Fyfe, William S. | Change on Planet Earth (a)(v) |
| Sept. 29 | Harper, John L. | Global Warming (a)(v) |
| Oct. 6 | Polishchuk, Leonid | The Soviet Economy in Transition (a)(v) |
| Oct. 13 | Ames, Bruce N. | Carcinogens and Aging (a)(v) |
| Oct. 20 | Langguth, G. | German Unity - What Next? (a)(v) |
| Oct. 27 | Brock, William A. | Butterflies and Business Cycles: Is Economic Turbulence Like Nature's Turbulence? (a)(v) |
| Nov. 3 | Raduchel, William J. | Information Technology in the Global Economy (a)(v) |
| Nov. 10 | Cynader, Max | Space, Time, Seeing and Hearing: Cortical Mechanisms of Sensing (a)(v) |
| Nov. 17 | Strong, David | Universities on a Changing Earth (a)(v) |
| Nov. 24 | Scott, E.W. | European Colonialism and Its Impact on Indigineous Peoples (a)(v) |
| Dec. 1 | Wolfe, Saul | Drug Receptor Interactions: A Chemist's Approach (a)(v) |
1991 |
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| Jan. 26 | Gigantes, Philippe Deane | The Fate of Canada (a)(v) |
| Feb. 2 | Thomas, Christopher | The GAAT, Protectionism and Continentalism: A New International Trading Order (a)(v) |
| Feb. 9 | Lederman, Leon | Particle Physics: Miletus to Waxahachee - A Tale of Two Cities (a)(v) |
| Feb. 16 | Coop, Jane | Mozart's Genius: A Pianist's Perspective (a)(v) |
| Feb. 23 | Gibson, Edward M. | Architectural History of Vancouver (a)(v) |
| March 2 | Fortier, Yves | The United Nations After the Cold War (a)(v) |
| March 9 | Melzack, Ronald | The Tragedy of Needless Pain (a)(v) |
| March 16 | Boyle, Christine | Sexual Assault: Issues Which Won't Go Away (a)(v) |
| March 23 | Demnain, Arnold | Biotechnology: Blotting and Dotting; Bubbling and Boiling (a)(v) |
| March 30 | Parfitt, Michael A. | Fragile Bones in Fragile People: Age Related Fractures (a)(v) |
| Sept. 28 | Andrew, Christopher M. | The KGB: From Lenin to Gorbachev (a)(v) |
| Oct. 5 | Head, Ivan L. | A World Turned Upside Down (a)(v) |
| Oct. 12 | Zadeh, Lotfi A. | Fuzzy Logic: Principles, Applications and Perspectives (a)(v) |
| Oct. 19 | Slessor, Keith N. | Insect Semiochemicals: A Smelly Business (a)(v) |
| Oct. 26 | Goldberg, Michael A. | Vancouver: North America's First Pacific Rim City (a)(v) |
| Nov. 2 | McGee, Terrance G. | The Mega Cities of Eastern Asia: A New Phase in Global Urbanization (a)(v) |
| Nov. 9 | Page, Shelley A. | Symmetries in Physics (a)(v) |
| Nov. 16 | Hart, Oliver S. | The Modern Corporation: The Theory of Its Financial Structure (a)(v) |
| Nov. 23 | Abella, Rosalie | Law and Public Policy: Who Decides? (a)(v) |
| Nov. 30 | Vogt, Erich | The Birth of Kaon (a)(v) |
1992 |
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| Jan. 18 | Pyke, David A. | Diabetes: What Causes It; Can We Cure It? (a)(v) |
| Jan. 25 | Delgado, James | The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb (a) |
| Feb. 1 | Close, Frank | Cold Fusion: Too Hot to Handle? (a)(v) |
| Feb. 8 | Marchak, Patricia | The Integrated Circus: The New Right and the Restructuring of Global Markets (a)(v) |
| Feb. 15 | Bowering, George | Readings and Commentary (a)(v) |
| Feb. 22 | Crowcroft, Peter | Why Have Zoos? (a)(v) |
| Feb. 29 | Dickson, Brian | The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Has It Americanized the Canadian Judiciary? (a)(v) |
| March 7 | Seaton, Peter | Will Medicare Survive? (a)(v) |
| March 14 | Gauthier, David | Making Morality (a)(v) |
| March 21 | Gray, Harry B. | Chemistry and Solar Energy (a)(v) |
| March 28 | Meron, Theodor | Shakespeare's Henry V and the Laws of War (a)(v) |
| Sept. 26 | Baudouin, Jean Louis | How Far Can the Law Go? (a)(v) |
| Oct. 3 | Williams, E.H. | The Archaeology of a Vampire or Digging Up Ancient Lesbos (a)(v) |
| Oct. 10 | Vandenberg, Donald | Star Clusters, Stellar Evolution, and Cosmology (a)(v) |
| Oct. 17 | Shulman, David | Playing Dice With God: Myths of Siva and the Feminine (a)(v) |
| Oct. 24 | Watson, Alan | Religion and war in Ancient Rome: Lessons for Modern Conflict (a)(v) |
| Oct. 31 | Wrist, Peter | Sustainable Development and its Implications for the Forest Products Industry (a)(v) |
| Nov. 7 | Barron, Caroline | Women in Medieval London (a)(v) |
| Nov. 14 | Stager, Lawrence E. | Excavations at Ashkelon: in the Footsteps of the Philistines (a)(v) |
| Nov. 21 | Aberbach, Alan D. | Giuseppe Verdi: Liberty, Catholicism and the Rise of Italian Nationalism (a)(v) |
| Nov. 28 | Harris, R. Cole | The Background of the Native Land Question (a)(v) |
1993 |
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| Jan. 23 | Miller-Collett, Stella | Tombs and Treasures of Ancient Macedonia: Recent Discoveries in Northern Greece (a) |
| Jan. 30 | Fruin, W. Mark | Knowledge-based Competition: The Japanese Challenge (a) |
| Feb. 6 | Merchant, Carolyn | Reinventing Nature (a) |
| Feb. 13 | Safdie, Moshe | Architecture in Search of the Public Realm (a)(v) |
| Feb. 20 | Fersht, Alan R. | Protein Engineering: Basic Research and Biotechnology (a) |
| Feb. 27 | Aridjis, Homero | 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile, the History of an Historical Novel (a) |
| Mar 6 | Posner, Michael | Images of the Mind: Pictorial Review of Brain Changes During Thought (a) |
| Mar 13 | Webb, Phyllis | Poetry and Psychobiography (a) |
| Mar 20 | Vogt, David | Canada's Stonehenges (a)(v) |
| Mar 27 | Scales, Ann; Caputi, Jane | The Pornography of Everyday Life (a)(v) |
| Sept. 25 | Jacobs, Michael | Symbols of Revolt: Environmental Politics and Beyond (a)(v) |
| Oct. 2 | Shamuyarira, Nathan M. | Southern Africa in the New World Order (a) |
| Oct. 9 | Astrom, Karl J. | Black Boxes and White Noise (a) |
| Oct. 16 | Gray, John | An Evening with John Gray (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Davies, Julian | The Rise and Fall of Antibiotics (a) |
| Oct. 30 | Fisher, William | Reducing the Risk: Understanding and Promoting AIDS-Preventive Behaviour (a) |
| Nov. 6 | Broecker, Wallace | Is Fossil Fuel CO2 greening the Earth? (a) |
| Nov. 13 | Hayden, Michael | Genes R Us: The Link between our Past and Future (a) |
| Nov. 20 | Tickell, Crispin | The United Nations in Peace and War (a) |
| Nov. 27 | Kieffer, Susan | Researching the Earth: Living it, Loving it, Sharing it (a) |
1994 |
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| Jan. 22 | Stubbs, John | Computerizing the Oxford Dictionary (a) |
| Jan. 29 | Shleifer, Andrei | Privatizing Russia? (a) |
| Feb. 5 | Cruikshank, Julia | The Discovery of Klondike Gold: contributions from First Nations' Oral Tradition (a) |
| Feb. 12 | Smith, Murray G. | After NAFTA: Where do we go from here? (a) |
| Feb. 19 | Baird, Patricia | Proceed With Care: New Reproductive Technologies in Canada (a) |
| Feb. 26 | Green, Peter | Alexander the Great's New City of Alexandria (a) |
| Mar 5 | Ericson, Richard | The Decline of Innocence (a) |
| Mar 12 | Wachtel, Eleanor | The Lives of Writers (a) |
| Mar 19 | Rorty, Richard | Do We Need Ethical Principles? (a)(v) |
| Mar 26 | Falkow, Stanley | Diarrhea, Tuberculosis and Genetic Engineering (a)(v) |
| Sept. 24 | Smith, Michael | The Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1993 (a)(v) |
| Oct. 1 | Taylor, Richard | Small! Smaller! Smallest? The Finding of the Quark |
| Oct. 8 | Moore, Mavor | Re-inventing Canada (a)(v) |
| Oct. 15 | Weller, Geoffrey | The Future of the Canadian Intelligence Services in the Post Cold War World (a) |
| Oct. 22 | Bergmann, Frithjof | The Future of Work: The Future of Culture (a) |
| Oct. 29 | Norris, David Owen | The Craft of Music (a) |
| Nov. 5 | Gregory, Derek | A Boating Trip Interspersed With Ruins: Imagined Geographies of Egypt (a) |
| Nov. 12 | Margulis, Lynn | GAIA: The Living Earth from Space (a)(v) |
| Nov. 19 | Rees, Sir Martin J. | Our Universe and Others (a)(v) |
| Nov. 26 | Anderson, Robert | Intervenors in Trouble: Communication in Conflict (a) |
| Dec. 3 | Granatstein, Jack | The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior commanders in WWII (a) |
1995 |
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| Feb. 4 | Conway, Jill Ker | Getting to Know Canada (a)(v) |
| Feb. 11 | Bateman, Robert | An Evening With Robert Bateman: Artist and Environmentalist (a)(v) |
| Feb 18 | Sinclair, Anthony | Is Conservation a Lost Cause? From BC to Alberta (a) |
| Feb 25. | Boadway, Robin | Reforming Social Policy: Can the Federal Government Deliver? (a) |
| Mar 4 | Ford, John | Killer Societies: The Natural History and Culture of Killer Whales (a)(v) |
| Mar 11 | Reid, Angus | The Future of Canada and Quebec: Paths of Convergence or Divergence? (a)(v) |
| Mar 18 | Thomas, Audrey | An Evening With Audrey Thomas (a) |
| Mar 25 | Simpson, Jeffrey | Reflections on the United States (a)(v) |
| Apr 1 | O'Brien, Conor Cruise | Prospects for Peace in Ireland |
| Apr 8 | Penrose, Roger | The Emperor's New Mind Revisited (a)(v) |
| Sep. 30 | Saddlemyer, Ann | Out of a Medium's Mouth: W.B. Yeats and His Wife George Create a "Vision" (a) |
| Oct. 14 | Colville, Alex | Canadian Culture at the Millenium (a)(v) |
| Oct. 21 | Butzer, Karl W. | After 1492: Reflections on the Columbian Controversy (a) |
| Oct. 28 | Bates, David | Growth Without Air Pollution: Vancouver and Elsewhere (a) |
| Nov. 4 | Klawe, Maria | Is "Edutainment" an Oxymoron? (a) |
| Nov. 11 | Head, Ivan | Shaping Canada's Foreign Policy, 1968-84 (a) |
| Nov. 18 | Grenier, Robert | Red Bay: A 16th Century Basque Seafaring, Shipbuilding and Whaling Site in Labrador (a) |
| Nov. 25 | Walters, Carl | The Crisis in Canadian Fisheries (a) |
| Dec. 2 | Tunnicliffe, Verena | A Deep Sea Fantasy World (a) |
| Dec. 9 | Newman, Peter C. | The Canadian Revolution: From Deference to Defiance 1985-1995 (a)(v) |
1996 |
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| Jan. 27 | Mustard, J. Fraser | Prosperity or Decline: Canada's Choice (a) |
| Feb. 3 | Evans, Robert G. | Healthy, Wealthy and Cunning? Profit and Loss From Health Care Reform (a) |
| Feb. 10 | Gagnon, Lysiane | Between Two Referendums: The Future of Quebec and Canada (a)(v) |
| Feb. 17 | Shaw, Patricia | The Sounds of Silence: Endangered Languages (a) |
| Feb. 24 | Hoffman, Roald | One Culture: What Art and Science Have in Common (And How The Differ) (a)(v) |
| Mar 2 | Campbell, Kim | What's a Nice Country Like Us Doing in a Place Like This? (a)(v) |
| Mar 9 | Williamson, Jeffrey G. | Dealing With the Challenge of Globalization: The Long View (a) |
| Mar 16 | Clegg, Stewart | The Rhythm of the Saints (a) |
| Mar 23 | Johns, Timothy | Myrrh, Medicine and Maasai in the Land of Milk and Honey (a) |
| Mar 30 | Falkowski, Paul | Phytoplankton, Oil Futures and Global Climate Change (a) |
| Sep. 28 | Tousignant, Guy | Peacekeeping: Soldiers and Aid Workers - Partners Apart (a) |
| Oct. 5 | Marchak, Pat | Universities After a Millenium: Whither or Wither? (a) |
| Oct. 19 | LaCapra, Dominick | History and Memory: The Shadow of the Holocaust (a) |
| Oct. 26 | Fujikura, Koichiro | When Can We Return to the Earth? Japanese Pollution Experiences (a) |
| Nov. 2 | Pratt, Mary | An Evening With Mary Pratt (a)(v) |
| Nov. 9 | Pateman, Carole | Democratization: Questions for the Year 2000 (a) |
| Nov. 16 | Nadel, Ira | Leonard Cohen: "The Only Tourist in Havana" (a) |
| Nov. 23 | Davis, Chuck | Today, Vancouver; Tomorrow, Everything (a) |
| Nov. 30 | Cairns, Alan | Canada: Can We Survive? (a) |
1997 |
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| Jan. 25 | Piper, Martha | Brainpower: The New Natural Resource (a)(v) |
| Feb. 1 | Harcourt, Michael | Democracy in Peril (a) |
| Feb. 8 | Richards, David Adams | An Evening With David Adams Richards (a) |
| Feb. 15 | Cynader, Max | Brains, Genes and Society (a) |
| Feb. 22 | Thom, Bing | From the Ground Up: Designing and Building a New City in China (a) |
| Mar 1 | Rotblat, Joseph | How to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons (a)(v) |
| Mar 8 | Eaves, Connie | The Origin of Blood Cells: A Matter of Life and Death (a) |
| Mar 12 | Drakulic, Slavenka | Words and Bullets: A Writer and the War (a)(v) |
| Mar 15 | Pollay, Richard | A Pack of Lies: The Truth About Cigarette Advertising (a)(v) |
| Mar 22 | Blundell, Richard | Reforming Our Tax and Welfare System (a) |
| Apr 5 | Borwein, Peter | Newton On Line: The Electronic Revolution in Mathematics (a) |
| Apr 12 | Fish, Stanley; Fekete, John | Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University (a)(v) |
| Sep. 20 | Thorsell, William | Good News, Bad News: Power in Canadian Media and Politics (a) |
| Sep. 27 | Messerli, Bruno | Mountain Ecosystems: The Last Frontier (a) |
| Oct. 4 | Atkinson, Anthony B. | Can Welfare States Compete in a Global Economy? (a) |
| Oct. 18 | Cuban, Larry | What Are Good Schools and Why Are They So Hard To Get? (a)(v) |
| Oct. 25 | Quayle, Moura | Urban Countryside / Rural Metropolis (a) |
| Nov. 1 | Dollimore, Jonathan | From Homosexual to Bisexual: Erotic Dissonance at the End of the Century (a)(v) |
| Nov. 8 | Kennedy, David M. | Immigration: What the U.S. Can Learn From Canada (a) |
| Nov. 15 | Arthurs, Harry | Globalization and Its Discontents (a) |
| Nov. 22 | Pullan, Bruce | The Human Voice (a) |
| Nov. 29 | Adam, Heribert | Contradictions and Liberation: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation in South Africa (a) |
| Dec. 6 | Silverman, Robert | On Performing Beethoven |
1998 |
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| Jan. 31 | Baines, David | Lambs to the Slaughter: The VSE and the Exploitation of Speculation (a) |
| Feb. 7 | Choy, Wayson | The Importance of Story: The Hunger for Personal Narrative (a) |
| Feb. 14 | White, Richard | History as the Enemy of Memory: An Anatomy of Remembering (a) |
| Feb. 28 | Church, Michael | A River in Time: The Natural History of the Fraser River (a) |
| Mar 7 | Holsti, Kal | War in the 20th Century: Can We Do Better in the 21st? (a) |
| Mar 14 | Perl, Martin | What Einstein Couldn't Have Known: Very Small Particles at Very High Densities (a) |
| Mar 21 | Laiou, Angeliki E. | Two Versions of Christian Warfare: The Crusade and the Byzantine Empire(a) |
| Mar 28 | Coren, Stanley | Dogs and People: The History and Psychology of a Relationship (a)(v) |
| Apr 4 | Shields, Carol | Making Words / Finding Stories (a)(v) |
| Sep. 26 | King, Thomas | A Wasted Evening With Thomas King (a)(v) |
| Oct. 3 | Fussell, Paul | The Poetry of Three Wars (WWI, WWII, and Vietnam) (a) |
| Oct. 17 | Hudson, James | Evaluation of Mother Nature's Antivirals: Traditional Medicine Meets Modern Science (a) |
| Oct. 24 | Armstrong, Karen | A History of God (a)(v) |
| Oct. 31 | Chafe, William | Feminism and Civil Rights: A Comparative Study of Social Movements (a) |
| Nov. 7 | Latour, Bruno | On Seeing Paris as a Whole: The Notion of Panopticon (a)(v) |
| Nov. 14 | O'Riordan, Timothy | Environmentalism is Dead: Long Live Sustainability (a) |
| Nov. 21 | Cronon, William | Rethinking the Foundations of Environmentalism (a) |
| Nov. 28 | Saul, John Ralston | Democracy and the Implications of Global Economics (a)(v) |
| Dec. 5 | Anderson, Gail | Murder and Maggots: The Use of Insects in Criminal Investigation (a)(v) |
1999 |
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| Jan. 30 | Raduchel, William | The Network Age, the Network Economy, and the Network Society (a)(v) |
| Feb. 6 | Abella, Rosalie | Human Rights and Women: A General Snapshot (a)(v) |
| Feb. 13 | Krebs, Charles J. | Lemmings and Snowshoe Hares (a) |
| Feb. 20 | McGeer, Patrick; McGeer, Edith | Prospects for Preventing Alzheimer's Disease (a)(v) |
| Feb. 27 | Nash, Knowlton | Trivia Pursuit (a)(v) |
| March 6 | Hertzman, Clyde | Why are Some Societies Healthier than Others? (a) |
| March 13 | MacDonald, John | Monitoring the World's Oceans from Space (a) |
| March 20 | Coop, Jane | Chopin and his Milieu: Antecedents and Consequences |
| March 27 | Kaplan, Ann | Multicultural Women's Films: Resisting Current Stereotypes (a) |
| April 10 | Fallows, James | How the Media Undermined Democracy (a) |
| Sept. 25 | McKinney, Sam | Our West Coast Heritage: Captains Cook, Vancouver, and Bligh (a) |
| Oct. 2 | Lampe, John | Crisis and Challenge in Southeast Europe: After the War in Kosovo (a) |
| Oct. 16 | Eley, Geoff | History and Cinema: Imagining Britain's Past (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Muzyka, Daniel | Building the Adaptive Corporation (a)(v) |
| Oct. 30 | Preece, Rod | Life in Harmony With Animals and Nature: Contemporary Cultural Myths (a) |
| Nov. 6 | Pauly, Daniel | Global Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Is Co-existence Possible? (a)(v) |
| Nov. 13 | McDonald, Ian | The Enigma of Multiple Sclerosis (a)(v) |
| Nov. 20 | Ting, Sam | The Search for Antimatter in the Universe (a) |
| Nov. 27 | Bal, Mieke | Performing Art: Images as Cultural Interventions (a) |
| Dec. 4 | Kavanagh-Gray, Doris | Coronary Heart Disease: Does Gender Make a Difference? (a) |