Previous Events
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| 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.
