Lecture
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (2012-2013)
Jan 20, 2013
“Humanizing the Urban: The Poetics of Citizenship” Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was an Italian Canada author, editor, and priest. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with the B.A. in 1973 and a B.Ed. in 1976. A trip to Italy in the 1970s inspired him to become a [...]
Stephanie Inglis (2012-2013)
Sep 24, 2012
“The Mi’kmaq Nation and Cape Breton University: 25 Years of Success” Stephanie Inglis is a linguist who has been a professor at Cape Breton University since 1986. She was integral in creating the first Native Studies courses in the university and has had a hand in the [...]
Ralph Nader (2011-2012)
Mar 21, 2012
“Going Green in a Corporate Climate” Ralph Nader is a former American presidential nominee, who some claimed was a deciding factor in the 2000 election, and was named by Time magazine as one of the top one-hundred most influential people. Throughout his career, he has been [...]
Frances Myrna Kamm (2011-2012)
Jan 30, 2012
“The Prospect of Harm to Civilians in the Ethics of War” Frances Myrna Kamm is Henry Rutgers University Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. She is also Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at [...]
Ariella Azoulay (2011-2012)
Jan 20, 2012
“Toward a Visual Declaration of Human Rights: Revisiting The Family of Man” Ariella Azoulay is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. She is Professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at [...]
David Wilson (2010-2011)
Feb 15, 2011
“Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: American Style” David Wilson is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography and a member of the unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally recognized, [...]
Sheila McLean (2010-2011)
Nov 30, 2010
“Autonomy and Consent: Sisters or Strangers Under the Skin?” Sheila McLean is Professor Emerita of Law and Ethics in Medicine in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. After completing her PhD there in 1987, she was appointed the first International Bar Association [...]
Michael Kirby (2010-2011)
Oct 30, 2010
“HIV/AIDS: The Epidemic Where Law Has a Positive Role to Play but Often Doesn’t” Michael Kirby is an academic and jurist who is a former High Court Justice of Australia. He attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1959, of Laws in 1961, and [...]
Mary Louise Pratt (2009-2010)
Mar 03, 2010
“Globalization and the Ecology of Language” Mary Louise Pratt is an emeritus professor at New York University, where before retirement she was Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She studied at the University of Toronto, the [...]
Gauvin A. Bailey (2009-2010)
Feb 20, 2010
“The Andean Hybrid Baroque: Converging Cultures in the Churches of Colonial Peru” Gauvin A. Bailey is Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at 鶹, a position he has held since 2011. At the time of his talk, Bailey was a professor of Renaissance [...]