Archive: 1998 Activities

  • Lecture and Panel discussion: “Citizenship and the Welfare State” Ed Broadbent, Marjorie Cohen, Ian Angus and Stephen McBride.
  • Lecture: Margo Wilson and Martin Daly, “The Truth About Cinderella: Abuse of stepchildren in myth and in reality”
  • “Foundational Narratives Conference” with various speakers.
  • Lecture: Lawrence Paul Yuxeluptun “Salish totem poles may have changed their mind”
  • Housing and Gentrification in Grandview Woodland: a forum.
  • Lecture: Cindy Bernard, “Filmic Geographies and Other Landscapes”
  • Lecture: Charles Crawford, “Can evolutionary psychology validate the beauty myth?”
  • Lecture: Eleanore Bond, “City Living and Inflated Futures”
  • Forum: “What Happens On Our Community Streets?”
  • Lecture: Derek Gregory, “Millennial Landscapes: Imperial Nostalgia and Cultures of Representation in Fin-de-siecle Egypt”
  • Philosoper's Cafe with John Dixon: “Words That Wound: How Much Free Speech is Enough for Democracy?”
  • Lecture: Johanne Sloan, “Millennial Landscape Art: Time Travelling and Circumventing Nature”
  • Lecture: Rodney Graham, “The Tree and I”
  • Lecture: Vito Acconci, “Landscape, Landfalls and Landmines”
  • Lecture: Allan Sekula, “Dismal Science: Photography and Imaginary Economies”
  • Lecture: Ron Ydenberg, “How to use and abuse the idea of natural selection”
  • Forum: “Art and Community”
  • Philosopher's Cafe with Leonard Angel, “Minds, Bodies, Machines and Clones”
  • Lecture: Modris Eksteins, “Culture and Catastrophe: The 20th century and its legacy”
  • Lecture: Arne Naess, “The Environmental Effects of Industrial Civilization and the Legacy of the Ecology Movement”
  • Lecture: Susan Griffin, “Private Lives and Public Meaning”
  • Philosopher's Cafe, “Gods, Ghosts, Aliens and Elvis: Goodbye to The X-Files”
  • Thakore Visiting Scholar Seminars, “Human Rights in Latin Ameria” with Marta Torres.
  • Gandhi Commave Program with Marta Torres.
  • Surrey Art Gallery Exhibition, Hari Sharma Photo Exhibition of everyday life in India.
  • Symposium. “Nuclear Terror in the Economy of Scarcity” with Asma Jahangir, Kuldip Nayar, T. Sher Singh. Moderator: Ed Broadbent.
  • Conference. “Equality and the Democratic State”
  • “Scapegoat” one day symposium on Rene Girard.
photo by Greg Ehlers, LIDC