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Deans' Lunchtime Lecture Series Spring 2012

Join us for this popular lecture series brought to you in partnership with the Greater Victoria Public Library. The series is sponsored by UVic’s Faculties of Education, Fine Arts, Graduate Studies, Humanities, Law, Science and Social Sciences, and the Division of Continuing Studies. You’ll enjoy lectures by distinguished instructors from the University of Victoria.

Lectures in the Deans’ Lunchtime Lecture Series are held at the Greater Victoria Public Library, Central Branch, 735 Broughton Street. Parking is available underground. You’re welcome to bring a bag lunch.

Admission is free, but please call 250-472-4747 to register so we can guarantee you a seat.

Please note that Registration will open on December 13th
Online registration is NOT available for the Dean’s Lunchtime Lecture Series. Due to the popularity of this series, each individual is limited to registering in four lectures in order to increase access for as many members of the community as possible. If you wish to register for additional lectures, please call one week prior the lecture and we will register you if space is available.

Spring 2012 Lectures


What’s New in Social Science?

The Social Tide that Drives our Thoughts and Judgments

Date: Friday, January 20, 12:30-1:45 pm
Speaker: Elizabeth Brimacombe, PhD, Chair, Department of Psychology
Course Code: ASDS240 2012S E01


What’s New in Law?

The Growing Challenge of Managing Conflict in the 21st Century

Date: Friday, January 27, 12:30-1:45 pm
Speaker: M. Jerry McHale, QC, Lam Chair of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law and School of Public Administration
Course Code: ASDS255 2012S E01


What’s New in Graduate Studies?

Values and Value Changes in the Narratives of Astronauts and Cosmonauts

Date: Friday, February 3, 12:30-1:45 pm
Speaker: Katya Legkaia, MA Candidate, Counselling Psychology Program
Department of Educational Psychology & Leadership Studies
Course Code: ASDS279 2012S E01


What’s New in Science?

Targeted Cancer Therapies: The Role of Chemistry in Modern Drug Development

Date: Friday, February 10, 12:30-1:45 pm
Speaker: Fraser Hof, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular and Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Course Code: ASDS268 2012S E01


What’s New in Social Science?

Overcoming the Conditions of Evil: Tolstoy’s Watershed

Date: Friday, February 24, 12:30-1:45
Speaker: Peyman Vahabzadeh, PhD, Department of Sociology
Course Code: ASDS240 2012S E02


What’s New in Humanities?

The Politics of Last Dying Speeches in 18th Century England: Truth, Charity and Treason

Date: Friday, March 2, 12:30-1:45 pm
Speaker: Andrea McKenzie, PhD, Department of History
Course Code: ASDS259 2012S E01


What’s New in Education?

Did you Ever Kill Anyone? Stories of Military to Civilian Transition for Canadian Forces Members

Date: Friday, March 23, 12:30-1:45
Speaker: Timothy Black, PhD, Department of Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies
Course Code: ASDS280 2012S E01


What’s New in Fine Arts?

Haida Manga

Date: Friday, March 30 2, 12:30-1:45 pm
Speaker: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Audain Professor in Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest, Department of Visual Arts
Course Code: ASDS267 2012S E01


 

Coming Up

2/14 Enchanted Evenings at the Opera
2/15 A Listener's Guide to Instrumental Music: Concertos
2/15 Black History in Victoria
2/15 Hollywood Art Deco
2/16 An Evening in … Antarctica
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