Lecture
Enric Bou i Maqueda (2009-2010)
Feb 10, 2010
“Dali: Secret Writing, Hidden Paint” & “El Mundo Almodovar: Obsesiones Rotas” Enric Bou is professor of Iberian Studies at the University Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He has taught in universities in France, Spain and the USA. His research interests, always from the perspective of [...]
Lori Beaman (2009-2010)
Jan 30, 2010
Lori Beaman is professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Beaman’s research had helped to develop the concept of deep equality and an emerging [...]
Bill Blaikie (2009-2010)
Jan 20, 2010
“The God Squad in Politics: From Affection to Derision to New Possibilities” Bill Blaikie was one of Canada’s longest serving members of parliament, representing a variety of Manitoba ridings from 1979-2008. Blaikie served as Deputy Leader and House Leader of the New [...]
David Goldberg (2009-2010)
Oct 30, 2009
“Enduring Occupations on Racial Neoliberalism” David Theo Goldberg is the Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. As a [...]
Marjorie Garber (2008-2009)
Jan 20, 2009
“After the Humanities” Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of nineteen single-authored books and the editor or co-editor of seven edited collections. She has also [...]
Lewis Wolpert (2007-2008)
Jan 30, 2008
“What Determines Our Beliefs?” Lewis Wolpert is Emeritus Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at University College London. He is a developmental biologist and a well-known advocate for public scientific [...]
Frederick A. de Armas (2007-2008)
Jan 20, 2008
“Quixotic Frescos: Cervantes and Italian Art” Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is a literary scholar, critic and novelist whose [...]
David Kuhl (2007-2008)
Jan 10, 2008
“What Dying People Want” David Kuhl is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Practice and the Centre for Practitioner Renewal at the University of British Columbia. He began his career in palliative care almost two decades ago, providing medical care for people [...]
Sherene Razack (2006-2007)
Jan 30, 2007
“Dangerous Muslim Men, Imperiled Muslim Women, and Civilized Europeans: Law and the War on Terror” Sherene Razack is Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies at UCLA. She was previously Emeritus Professor in the Department of Social [...]
Elie Wiesel (2006-2007)
Nov 22, 2006
“Against Indifference” Elie Wiesel is a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. His family was captured and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 two weeks before D-Day. There, his mother and sisters were taken [...]