| Date | Speaker(s) | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
2010 |
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| Jan. 23 | Thomson, James | Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (a)(v) |
| Jan. 30 | Miller, Steve | A Rival to the Olympics: Excavating Ancient Nemea and Reviving the Nemean Games (a)(v) |
| Feb. 6 | Lyon, Annabel | An Evening With Annabel Lyon (a)(v) |
| March 6 | Trites, Andrew | Journey of the Blue Whale (a)(v) |
| March 13 | Kidd, Bruce | Sport and Legacy/Sustainability (v) |
| March 20 | Borealis String Quartet | Lecture and performance (a)(v) |
| March 27 | Paris, Erna | The Writer and Human Rights (a)(v) |
| April 10 | Pedersen, Tom | Responding to Global Warming: The Challenge, the Opportunity, & the Politics (a)(v) |
| April 17 | Wallace, Doug |
Human Mitochondria: Window Into Our Origins, Ailments, and Longevity (a)(v) |
| April 24 | Provost, Rene | Waltzing With al-Bashir: Juggling Peace and Justice in Darfur (a) (v) |
| Sept. 18 | Dyer, Gwynne | Geopolitics in a Hotter World (a)(v) |
| Sept. 25 | Baines, David | Securities Fraud: How Crooks Rip Off the Public, How Professionals Facilitate Their Crimes, and How Regulators and Police Let Them Get Away With It (a)(v) |
| Oct. 2 | Elvin-Lewis, Memory | Healing From Rain Forests: The Value of Traditional Knowledge (a)(v) |
| Oct. 16 | Olivieri, Nancy | Medicine, Morals, and Money (a) |
| Oct. 23 | Fowler, Robert | Sleeping With Al Qaeda (a) |
| Oct. 30 | Lollar, Barbara Sherwood | Can Carbon Capture and Storage Solve Global Climate Change? Lessons From Nature (a)(v) |
| Nov. 6 | Klein, Peter | Digital Dumping Ground: The Global Trade in Electronic Waste (a)(v) |
| Nov. 8 | Moyo, Dambisa | Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa |
| Nov. 13 | Blum, Deborah | Cocktails and Cyanide (a)(v) |
| Nov. 20 | Timmer, Peter | Local Food – Global Food: The Future of Food Security (a)(v) |
| Nov. 27 | Coren, Stanley | The Human-Animal Bond: Our History With Dogs (a)(v) |
| Dec. 4 | Graham, Ronald | Searching For the Shortest Network: Hard Problems, Communication Networks, VLSI Design and Molecular Phylogenetics |
2011 |
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| Jan. 15 | Villard, Ray | When Will We Find Earth II—the First Inhabited Extrasolar Planet? (a) (v) |
| Jan. 22 | Goudie, Andrew | Desert Dust and the World’s Environments (a) (v) |
| Jan. 29 | Davies, Julian | Are We Going Back to the Pre-antibiotic Era? (a) (v) |
| Feb. 5 | Alexander, Bruce | Addiction: Much More Than a Drug Problem (a) (v) |
| Feb. 12 | Martin, Lawrence | The Decline and Fall of Canadian Democracy (a) (v) |
| Feb. 26 | Morris, Ian | Why the West Rules—For Now (a) (v) |
| March 5 | Grace, Sherrill | The Haunting of Canadian Culture: From the Ghost of Tom Thompson to the Ghosts of Vimy Ridge (a) (v) |
| March 19 | Dodds, Jerrilynn | Meaning and Identity of the Destructions of Architecture: From the Parthenon to the World Trade Center (a) (v) |
| March 26 | Averill, Gage | Prodigal Music: Repatriating the "Alan Lomax in Haiti, 1936-37" Collection toHaiti -- Lecture with Music (a)(v) |
| April 2 | Thom, Bing | The Transformative Power of Architecture: The Works of Bing Thom (a) (v) |
| April 9 | McKibben, William | Eaarth: Making a Life On a Tough New Planet (a) (v) |
| Sept. 24 | Weaver, Andrew | Generation Us: The Challenge of Global Warming (a) (v) |
| Oct. 1 | Bakan, Joel | Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (a) (v) |
| Oct. 15 | Emmerson, Charles | Canada and the Geopolitics of Oil and Gas (a) (v) |
| Oct. 22 | Turpel-Lafond, Mary Ellen | Who Speaks for the Child? The Role of a Public Advocate (a) (v) |
| Oct. 29 | Saliba, George | What Did Galileo Know of Arabic/Islamic Science and How Did He Know It? (a) (v) |
| Nov. 5 | Coyne, Andrew | Democracy and Freedom: Strange Bedfellows (a)(v) |
| Nov. 12 | Trites, Andrew | The Puzzling Disappearance of Sea Lions in Alaska: Is the North Pacific Ecosystem on the Verge of Collapse? (a) (v) |
| Nov. 19 | Farrer, Matthew | Genetics of Parkinson Disease: Paradigm Shifts and Future Prospects (a) (v) |
| Nov. 26 | Silverman, Robert | Hammering the Klavier: Beethoven's Earthshaking and Bone-crushing Masterpiece (a) (v) |
2012 |
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| Jan. 28 | Churchland, Patricia | Morality and the Brain (a) (v) |
| Feb. 4 | Sharpe, Ken | Practical Wisdom: The Right Way To Do the Right Thing (a) (v) |
| Feb. 11 | Grunsfeld, John | A Hubble Adventure: Repairing the Telescope and Its Exciting New Discoveries (a) (v) |
| Feb. 25 | Krauss, Lawrence | Life, the Universe, and Nothing: A Cosmic Mystery Story (a) (v) |
| March 3 | Hay, Elizabeth | The Writer as Returned Traveller (a) (v) |
| March 10 | Dauvergne, Peter | The Big Brand Takeover of Sustainability (a) (v) |
| March 17 | Morton, Alexandra | If We Want Wild Salmon, It Is Up To Us (a) (v) |
| March 24 | Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew | Herculaneum: From Ashes to Ashes (a) (v) |
| March 31 | Ward, Stephen | Media Ethics on the Digital Frontier (a) (v) |
| Sept. 29 | Simpson, Jeffrey | Chronic Condition: Dragging Canadian Health Care Into the 21st Century (a) (v) |
| Oct. 13 | McArthur, John | Millenium Development Goals: Lessons for the Next Generation (a) (v) |
| Oct. 20 | Horne, Matthew, et. al. | B.C.'s Energy Policy: A Solution or a Problem? (a) (v) |
| Oct. 27 | Hébert, Chantal | French Kiss: The Quebec Factor in Federal Politics (a) (v) |
| Nov. 3 | Otto, Sarah | The Evolution and Loss of Biological Diversity (a) (v) |
| Nov. 17 | Rawlins, Nicholas | Pain, the Brain and Decisions (a) (v) |
| Nov. 24 | Wasserman, Jerry | Being at Home With Elvis: Canadian Theatre and American Power (a) (v) |
| Dec. 1 | Flanagan, Thomas | Harper's Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (a) (v) |
2013 |
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| Jan. 26 | Groopman, Jerome; Hartzband, Pamela | When Experts Disagree: The Art of Medical Decision Making (a) |
| Feb. 9 | Blom, Philip | The Forgotten Enlightenment -- Radical Humanism in the 21st Century (a) (v) |
| Feb. 23 | Ruggie, John | Just Business: Multinational Corporations and Human Rights (v) |
| March 2 | Slingerland, Edward | Do We Really Live in a Secular Age? (v) |
| March 16 | Canseco, Mario | The Challenges of Conducting Sound Public Opinion Research (v) |
| March 23 | Grafton, Anthony | How Jesus Celebrated Passover: The Renaissance Discovery of the Jewish Roots of Christianity (v) |
| April 6 | Wilson, Roger | Luxury Living in Late Roman Sicily: The Villa Near Piazza Armerina and its Context (v) |
| April 13 | Coop, Jane | Johannes Brahms: Some Personal Discoveries - Musical Lecture (v) |
| Sept. 21 | Nutt, Samantha | Damned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid |
| Sept. 28 | Van Tilburg, Jo Anne | The Mystery of Easter Island (v) |
| Oct. 5 | Grace, John | Should We, and Can We, Phase Out Canada's Oil Sands? |
| Oct. 19 | Fallis, Terry | Momus in Ottawa: Satire and the Search for Honesty in Politics (v) |
| Oct. 26 | McDonald, Marci | Religion and Politics: Is Canada Becoming More Like the United States? (v) |
| Nov. 2 | Deibert, Ron | Under Cover of the Net: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of Cyberspace (v) |
| Nov. 9 | Cashman, Neil | Neurodegenerative Diseases: The Distorted Origami of Protein Misfolding (v) |
| Nov. 16 | Janigan, Mary | Let the Eastern Bastards Freeze in the Dark (v) |
| Nov. 23 | Mazzetti, Mark | America’s Shadow War (v) |
| Nov. 30 | Himelfarb, Alex | Tax Isn't a Four-letter Word (v) |
2014 |
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| Jan. 18 | Davis, Wade | The Sacred Headwaters: The Fight to Save the Stikine, Skeena and Nass (v) |
| Jan. 25 | Kessler, David A. | The End of Overeating |
| Feb.1 | Raduchel, William | Will Technology Save Us or Doom Us? (v) |
| Feb. 8 | Meany, Michael | Is Adult Behaviour Determined Early In Life? The Mystery of Epigenetics |
| Feb. 15 | Rennie, Bob | Why Collect Art? Who Cares? (v) |
| March 1 | Connelly, Joan | The Parthenon Enigma: A New Understanding of Greece’s Most Iconic Building (v) |
| March 8 | MacLachlan, Mark | Bug Shells and Butterfly Wings: New Materials Inspired by Nature (v) |
| March 15 | Carnes, Molly | Why Are John and David More Likelyto Become Department Chair than Joan or Jamal? (v) |
| March 22 | MacDonald, Eric | Crimes Against Humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Challenges of Investigating and Prosecuting Cases Beforethe International Criminal Court (v) |
| March 29 | Sumaila, Rashid | The Sustainability of the Global Ocean (v) |
| Oct. 4 | Mukherjee, Siddharta | The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (v) |
| Oct. 18 | Bernier, Marc-Andre | Diving Into Canada's History: 50 Years of Underwater Archaeology at Parks Canada (v) |
| Oct. 25 | Gupta, Arvind | An Evening With UBC's 13th President (v) |
| Oct. 26 | Klein, Naomi | This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate |
| Nov. 1 | Townsend-Gault, Charlotte; Kramer, Jennifer; Ḳi-ḳe-in | Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas (v) |
| Nov. 8 | Nolen, Stephanie | The Change We Seek – Why Some CountriesMake Real Progress on Inequality (v) |
| Nov. 15 | Keohane, Robert | Anti-Americanism or Fear of Impingement? Evidence from the Arabic Twitter Universe (v) |
| Nov. 22 | Ando, Clifford | The Long Defeat and Fall of the Roman Empirein the East and the West (v) |
| Nov. 29 | Turner, Chris | How to Breathe Underwater: Innovation in an Age of Radical Change (v) |
2015 |
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| Jan. 24 | Mora, Alberto J. | On Cruelty: Costs and Consequences of America’s Use of Torture as a Weapon of War (v) |
| Jan. 31 | Bromley, Daniel | The Arab World in Disarray: Reasons, Reactions, Resolutions (v) |
| Feb. 7 | Eng, Janice | Stroke – New Evidence on Prevention and Recovery (v) |
| Feb. 21 | Boyden, Joseph | The Orenda, Writing, and Approaching First Nations Issues in Canada (v) |
| Feb. 28 | Epp, Richard; The UBC Opera Singers | Opera Comes to the Institute: From Mozart to Verdi! (v) |
| March 7 | Toews, Miriam | All My Puny Sorrows (v) |
| March 14 | Hedley, Nick | Connecting Science, Citizens and Riskat the Intersection of Reality and Virtuality (v) |
| March 21 | Audain, Michael | The Art of Collecting. Encounters With Visual Art (v) |
| March 28 | Austermuhle, Stefan | Traveling With Dolphin Killers – What I Learned Working Undercover (v) |
| Sept. 26 | Wright, Ronald | The Gold Eaters (v) |
| Oct. 3 | Smil, Vaclav | Energy and the Environment: Dangerous Myths and Hard Realities |
| Oct. 17 | Watt-Cloutier, Sheila | The Right to be Cold - One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic, and the Whole Planet (v) |
| Oct. 24 | Berdahl, Jennifer | Gender and Diversity In Organizations: From Fixing the Women to Liberating the Men (v) |
| Oct. 31 | Fahmy, Mohammed | Mohamed Fahmy (v) |
| Nov. 7 | Stein, Janice | The Middle East In Flames: The Drive for Purification (v) |
| Nov. 14 | Taylor, Patrick | An Evening With an Irish Country Doctor (v) |
| Nov. 21 | Turok, Neil | The Astonishing Simplicity of Everything (v) |
| Nov. 28 | Manning, Preston | Reforming Canadian Democracy: looking Back and Looking Ahead (v) |
2016 |
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| Jan. 16 | Goldman, Brian | Disrupt Me + Engage You: The Health Care Revolution (v) |
| Jan. 23 | Peacock, Simon | Magnitude 9 Earthquakes: Japan (Tohuku) in 2011 and Cascadia (British Columbia to California) in 2xxx? (v) |
| Jan. 30 | Revkin, Andrew | An Inconvenient Mind - The Climate Challenge Within, and What To Do About It (v) |
| Feb. 6 | Cahill, Nick | City of Gold: Excavations at Ancient Sardis, Turkey (v) |
| Feb. 20 | Hoffman, Jennifer | Building Quantum Materials, One Atomic Layer at a Time (v) |
| Feb. 27 | Dirlik, Arif | The Rise of China and the End of the World As We Know It (v) |
| March 5 | Marra, Marco | At the Frontier of Genetic Research: Recent Advances and Future Possibilities (v) |
| March 12 | King, Turi | Richard III: The Resolution of a 500-Year-Old Cold Case (v) |
| March 19 | Luhrmann, Tanya | When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Experience of God (v) |
| April 2 | Hansen, Valerie | The Interconnected World of the Year 1000 (v) |
| April 9 | Charon, Rita | The Power of Narrative Medicine: Helping Clinicians Understand What Patients Are Telling Them (v) |
| Sept. 16 | Logan, Lara | The Future of National Security in the Age of ISIS (v) |
| Sept. 24 | Chrustie, Calvin | Transnational Organized Crime: Are we on the Titanic? (v) |
| Oct. 1 | Kirkwood, Tom | Why and How Are We Living Longer? (v) |
| Oct. 15 | von Hippel, Frank | Threats from Nuclear Weapons and Materials (v) |
| Oct. 22 | Ruppel Shell, Ellen | Cheap: The high cost of discount culture (v) |
| Oct. 29 | Finlay, Brett | Let Them Eat Dirt: Raising children with their microbes (v) |
| Nov. 5 | Ono, Santa | An Evening with Dr. Santa Ono, UBC's 15th President (v) |
| Nov. 12 | Robinson, Walter | Spotlight on the Church: How sex abuse went unnoticed for so long and what it took to expose it (v) |
| Nov. 19 | Averill, Gage | That Old Quartet of Mine: Barbershop harmony, race, and nostalgia (v) |
| Nov. 26 | Campbell, Deborah | A Disappearance in Damascus (v) |
| Dec. 3 | Winston, Mark | Bee Time: What Can We Learn from the Demise of Bees? (v) |
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| Jan. 28 | Patterson, Kevin | War Stories We Tell Ourselves: Infotainment and conflicy in the post-fact era (v) |
| Feb. 4 | Gessen, Masha | Vladimir Putin's Russia (v) |
| Feb. 11 | Yan, Andy | Hot, Uneven, and Connected: Urban planning in Metro Vancouver's latest global age (v) |
| Feb. 25 | Hancock, Robert | Antibiotic Resistance: Why antibiotics fail and new ways of overcoming difficult infections (v) |
| March 4 | Lievesley, Denise | Measuring the World: Should we trust statistics? (v) |
| March 11 | Stirling, Ian | The Natural History of Polar Bears and the Threat of Climate Warming (v) |
| March 18 | Hansen, James | Global Climate Change: Can the next generation avert a catastrophe? (v) |
| March 25 | Welsh, Jennifer | The Decline of the West: Geopolitics in the 21st Century (v) |
| April 1 | Hill, Lawrence | Crossing Seas: Refugees in the world and in the imagination (v) |
| Sept. 30 | Hermiston, Nancy, and the UBC Opera Chorus | An Evening of Opera (v) |
| Oct. 14 | MacMillan, Margaret | The Meaning of the Great War (v) |
| Oct. 21 | Nightingale, John | Oceans In Peril: Plastics and the destruction of our marine plant environment (v) |
| Oct. 28 | Lewis-Jones, Huw | The Art of Discovery: How explorers' sketchbooks transformed our view of the world (v) |
| Nov. 4 | Feinstein, Andrew | The Shadow World: Inside the global arms trade (v) |
| Nov. 18 | Gosden, Chris | 30,000 Years of Magic: Why magic is still relevant today (v) |
| Nov. 25 | Tortell, Philippe | Ships, Satellites, and Social Media: How we understand Arctic climate change (v) |
| Dec. 2 | Doyle, Michael | Crossing Borders In a Globalized World: A new treaty for migrants and refugees (v) |
2018 |
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| Jan. 27 | Khapalak, Ruhullah | Afghanistan Up Close & From Afar : An Afghan journalist reports for the New York Times |
| Feb. 3 | Tobias, Janet | Unseen Enemy : the risks of a global pandemic and how to prevent it (v) |
| Feb. 10 | Aparicito, Samuel | Defeating the Evolution of Cancer : measurements, mathematics, and lessons from microbes (v) |
| Feb. 24 | Klein, Peter W. | Risk To Democracy: When the fourth estate comes under attack (v) |
| March 3 | McDonald, David | Making Russia Great Again: Putin and the roots of the new global populism (v) |
| March 10 | Jones, Ann | The Democracy Spectrum: From Norway to the U.S. to Afghanistan (v) |
| March 17 | Cline, Eric | 1177 B.C.: The year civilization collapsed (v) |
| March 24 | Nasar, Sylvia | Economic Inequality In America: Facts, fiction, and how to tell the difference (v) |
| April 7 | Gilman, Sander | Stand Up Straight!: Our posture and how history shapes our anatomy (v) |
| June 11 | Frum, David | Trumpocracy: a conversation with David Frum (v) |
| Sept. 29 | Ono, Santa J. | The Art of the Cello: Recital and lecture (v) |
| Oct. 13 | Porter, Anna | The Ghosts of Europe: The return of tyranny, nationalism, racism and denial to Central Europe (v) |
| Oct. 20 | Levitsky, Steven | How Democracies Die (v) |
| Oct. 27 | Dickersin, Kay | Evidence in Medicine: What is it? How do we determine it? And how do we use it to help shape better outcomes? (v) |
| Nov. 10 | Davis, Wade | Of War and Remembrance: Canada and the Great War (v) |
| Nov. 17 | Point, Steven | Reconciliation Begins With You (v) |
| Nov. 24 | Foster, Leonard | Are Bees Really Dying? Are We the Cause or the Solution? (v) |
| Dec. 1 | Weber, Andrej | Climate Change and Problem Solving Amongst Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers: A case study from Lake Baikal (v) |
2019 |
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| Jan. 26 | Khan, Ausma Zehanat | How Literature Can Promote Intercultural Understanding: Marginalized Voices Speak Back |
| Feb. 2 | Wadman, Meredith | The Vaccine Race: An astonishing history and a challenging present (v) |
| Feb. 9 | Silverman, Robert | An Evening of Chopin (v) |
| Feb. 23 | Tolstoy, Maya | The Secret Lives of Deep-Sea Volcanoes (v) |
| March 2 | Cameron, Maxwell A. | Civility and Partisanship: How We Can Train Future Politicians (v) |
| March 9 | Owen, Taylor | What's Behind the Techlash? How Silicon Valley Went from Disruptive Innovation To Undermining Democracy (And What To Do About It) (v) |
| March 16 | Off, Carol | An Evening With Carol Off (v) |
| March 23 | Kelsey, Elin | A Cure for Environmental Doom And Gloom (v) |
| March 30 | Oliver, Kelly | Hunting Girls: Sexual Violence from The Hunger Games to Campus Rape |
| Sept. 28 | Arbour, Louise | Human Rights and the Rule of Law |
| Oct. 10 | Tyndall, Mark | Prohibition, Politics and Neglect: The Making of a Drug Overdose Crisis in Canada |
| Oct. 19 | Talaga, Tanya | Rights Before We Talk Reconciliation: The Reality of Canada's Relationship with Indigenous People |
| Oct. 26 | Ono, Santa J.; Ono, Momoro | Cello and Piano Recital (v) |
| Nov. 2 | Picard, André | Quirky Past, Uncertain Future: A Prescription for Treating Canada's Aging Medicare System (v) |
| Nov. 9 | McIntyre, Scott | The Art of the Impossible: A Life in Canadian Publishing (v) |
| Nov. 16 | Corrales, Javier | Right-Wing vs Left-Wing Populism: Lessons from Venezuela and the US (v) |
| Nov. 23 | Butler, Robert | The Society of Crows (v) |
| Nov. 30 |
Cooper, Lisa | Gertrude Bell in Focus: Exploring and Photographing the Middle East, Past and Present (v) |