UBC’s new dean of Commerce and Business Administration Daniel Muzyka,
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sam Ting and Dr. Doris Kavanagh-Gray,
former head of Cardiology at St. Paul’s Hospital are some of the
speakers in the Vancouver Institute free public lecture series at
UBC, which runs from Sept. 25 to Dec. 4.
All lectures take place at 8:15 p.m. in Lecture Hall 2, Woodward
Instructional Resources Centre. For more information check the Web
site at http://psg.com/~ted/vaninst or call 604.822.1444.
Sept. 25: Sam McKinney, Our West Coast Heritage: Captains
Cook, Vancouver, and Bligh
A maritime historian, McKinney has traced Capt. Vancouver’s 1792
circumnavigation around Vancouver Island and published Bligh,
A True Account of the Mutiny Aboard the HMS Bounty. The lecture
coincides with the visit to Vancouver this fall of a replica of
Captain Cook’s ship, HMS Endeavour.
Oct. 2: John Lampe, Crisis and Challenge in Southeast Europe:
After the War in Kosovo
An expert on Eastern Europe and the Balkans from the University
of Maryland, Lampe has been director of the East European Studies
program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
in Washington since 1987. He appears regularly on Canadian and U.S.
television.
Oct. 16: Geoff Eley, History and Cinema: Imagining Britain’s
Past
A professor of History at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor),
Eley is a prominent specialist on the history of modern Germany
and has written 11 books on this subject. He is researching the
role of the media in shaping and perpetuating knowledge and images
of the past.
Oct. 23: Daniel Muzyka, Building the Adaptive Corporation
Recently appointed dean of Commerce and Business Administration
at UBC, Muzyka was educated at Wharton and the Harvard Business
School. He studies entrepreneurship and focuses on how companies
can better adapt in the competitive global economy.
Oct. 30: Rod Preece , Life in Harmony With Animals and Nature:
Contemporary Cultural Myths
A professor of Political Science at Wilfred Laurier University,
Preece has written, co-written and edited books on German politics,
European socialization, animal welfare and political theory. He
recently authored Animals and Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural
Realities, published by UBC Press.
Nov. 6: Daniel Pauly, Global Fisheries and Marine Conservation:
Is Co-existence Possible?
A professor with UBC’s Fisheries Centre, Pauly has worked in Germany
and the Philippines in the area of aquatic resources management.
He has published numerous items on fish biology, fisheries management
and ecosystem modeling.
Nov. 13: Dr. Ian McDonald, The Enigma of Multiple Sclerosis
One of the world’s leading experts on multiple sclerosis, McDonald
is president-elect of the World Congress of Neurology and has received
many international awards in recognition of his outstanding contributions
to medicine.
Nov. 20: Sam Ting, The Search for Anti-matter in the Universe
Sam Ting won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the
charmed quark, one of nature’s basic building blocks. Leader of
an international team of about 500 physicists working at CERN, the
particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Ting is investigating
antimatter and other particles beyond the earth’s atmosphere.
Nov. 27: Mieke Bal, Performing Art: Images as Cultural Interventions
A professor of Theory of Literature from the University of Amsterdam,
Bal is an interdisciplinary scholar whose lecture style has been
described as “electrifying.” Her research encompasses narrative
theory, the Old Testament, visual art and cultural analysis. Her
books have been translated into many languages including German,
Spanish and Chinese.
Dec. 4: Dr. Doris Kavanagh-Gray, Coronary Heart Disease:
Does Gender Make a Difference?
Founder and former head of the Dept. of Cardiology at St. Paul’s
Hospital, Vancouver, Kavanagh-Gray has received numerous honours
in recognition of her outstanding achievements. She has been invited
to lecture in Shanghai and Beijing and has been part of a Canadian
medical advisory delegation to Poland.
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