Introduction

Story

Purpose

Governance and Steering Committee

Current Events

Archive of Events

Status of Project

Doctoral Students Advisory Group

Friends of The College

Contact Information

Previous Events
Co-sponsored by Burnaby Mountain College

 

2008

Date Description
March 27th David Vocadlo
Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair
Department of Chemistry
The Sweet Spot: Complex Sugars in Health and Disease
February 28th Mark Leier
Professor, Department of History
Director, Centre for Labour Studies
An Anarchist Critique of Life, the University, and Everything:
Michael Bakunin in the 21st Century
January 22nd Olena Hankivsky
Associate Professor
Public Policy Program
Dominantion Contracts: Canada's Health Care System


2007

Date Description
October 11 President's Faculty Lecture
Diane Gromala, Associate Professor, School of Interactive Arts & Technology
Pain & New Technologies
October 4 Dialogue with the Honourary Degree Recipient
Richard Lipsey, Economics
"Through the University and Beyond"
March 27 President's Faculty Lecture
Charlotte Waddell, Faculty of Health Sciences
"Bad Kids' and Public Health Policy"
February 7 President's Faculty Lecture
Paul Edward Dutton, Department of Humanities
"The Mote in Clio's Eye: Micro Medieval Studies"


2006

Date Description
November 7 President's Faculty Lecture
David V. Burley, Department of Archaeology
"In Search of Polynesian Origins"
October 12 President's Faculty Lecture
Dipankar Sen, Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
"The Many Lives of DNA"
March 29 President's Faculty Lecture
Stephen Wright, Department Psychology
February 23 President's Faculty Lecture
Carole Gerson, Department of English


2005

Date Description
December 1 President's Faculty Lecture
David Baillie, Department of Molecular Biology
November 10 President's Faculty Lecture
Joseph Taylor, Department of History
March 23 President's Faculty Lecture
Dr. Cindy Patton
Department of Sociology and Anthropology.
"Conceiving Global Disease: How Journalists Use Science to Imagine the Pandemic of AIDS"
February 22 President's Faculty Lecture
Dr. Jamie Scott
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.
"The Prevention of AIDS"
January 26 President's Faculty Lecture
Dr. Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Department of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics.
"What is Holism?"


2004

Date Description
December 1 President's Faculty Lecture,
Mark Fettes, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education,
Stelsmethet Ethel B. Gardner, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education,
Lisa Sterling, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education
"Indigenizing Education for the 21st Century"
March 24 Carl Lowenberger, CRC Chair in Parasites and Vectors of Disease
"Vector-transmitted parasitic diseases: why doesn't the insect bite back?"
March 15 Trudy Govier (Independent Scholar, Calgary),
"How Could They Trust Again? : reflections on 'national reconciliation' in Iraq"
Dr Govier is author of of "Forgiveness and Revenge" (2002), "The Dilemmas of Trust" (1998) and "Social Trust and Human Communities" (1997)
February 10 Mary Lynn Stewart, Womens Studies
"Fashioning Modern Women: Haute Couture Reconfigures Feminity, 1919-1939"
January 26 The Presidents Lecture, Andrew Feenberg, CRC Chair in Philosophy of Technology, SFU
"Values and the Environment"


2003

Date Description
December 2  The President’s Lecture, Arthur Robson, CRC Chair in Economics and Evolution, SFU “The Biological Implications of Investment in Human Beings”
November 25 The Munro Lecture, “Defending Science – Within Reason”  Susan Haack, Professor of Philosophy, and Law, University of Miami, Florida.
November 20 “The Lives of Writers in Difficult Times”, Eleanor Wachtel, CBC broadcaster
October 31 Senator Douglas Roche, (former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament)  “The Human Right to Peace” 
October 21 Jonathan Borwein, CRC Chair in Information Technology, SFU. “Mathematics by Experiments: plausible reasoning in the 21st century”  
May 26 John Willinsky,  cosponsored with The SFU library 
March 24 President's Lecture, Phil Winne, CRC Chair in educational learning theorist (Faculty of Education, SFU). 
March 11 Paul Delany, lecture 


2002

Date Description

December 3 

The President's Lecture, Neil Branda, Nanotechnology researcher (Department of Chemistry),

"Creating and Controlling Molecular Machinery"

November 13 

Ronald Wright seminar and reception for College faculty, Diamond Club.

November 12 

Munro Lecture, Ronald Wright, Author and anthropologist.

November 5 

The President's Lecture, Arthur Robson, CRC Chair in Economics and Evolution, SFU

Randall Perterman (Resource & Environmental Management), President's Lecture. Reception afterwards.

 

Image credits: SFU Aerial View by Janine Prevost (2006). Courtesy of the artist.