* Free Public Lectures *

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Please see the Vancouver Institute home page.

Saturday evenings, 8:15 p.m. (doors open 7:30 p.m.), except where otherwise noted.

The Fall 2010 season comprises twelve lectures, from September 18 to December 4, omitting October 9th (Thanksgiving) and including a Monday Noon lecture on November 8.

(Please click on the lecture date for further detail.)

Sep 18

Mr. Gwynne Dyer, Author and commentator, London

Geopolitics in a Hotter World

Sep 25

Mr. David Baines, Columnist, The Vancouver Sun

Securities Fraud: How Crooks Rip Off the Public, How Professionals Facilitate Their Crimes, and How Regulators and Police Let Them Get Away With It

Oct 2 Dr. Memory Elvin-Lewis, Department of Biology, Washington University, St Louis, Missouri

Healing From Rain Forests: The Value of Traditional Knowledge

Oct 9 Thanksgiving—NO LECTURE

Oct 16 Dr. Nancy Olivieri, Professor, Pediatrics, Medicine and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

Medicine, Morals, and Money

Oct 23 Mr. Robert Fowler, Former Canadian Diplomat, Ottawa

Sleeping With Al Qaeda

Oct 30 Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Department of Geology, University of Toronto

Can Carbon Capture and Storage Solve Global Climate Change? Lessons From Nature

Nov 6 Professor Peter Klein, School of Journalism, UBC

Digital Dumping Ground: The Global Trade in Electronic Waste

Monday

Nov 8

Noon See lecture page re tickets

Dr. Dambisa Moyo, International Economist and Author

Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa

Alternate location: Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, University of British Columbia

Nov 13

Professor Deborah Blum, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Cocktails and Cyanide

Nov 20 Dr. Peter Timmer, Professor of Developmental Studies, Harvard University

Local Food – Global Food: The Future of Food Security

Nov 27 Professor Stan Coren, Department of Psychology, UBC

The Human-Animal Bond: Our History With Dogs