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Item The human conceptual system(2005-03-16) Barsalou, Lawrence W.Item Social movements and conflict change(2005-03-22) Siegel, RevaItem Stayin’ alive: A practical look at the business of being a dramatist(2005-03-11) Ledoux, PaulItem Oxygen and the rise of animal life on earth(2005-03-24) Falkowski, PaulItem The gift in the animal: Hunting, human-animal relations and exchange theory in anthropology(2006-02-27) Nadasdy, PaulItem Social science and policy-making: Perspectives in sociology(2005-03-10) Dickinson, HarleyItem Old-growth forests, owls, and conservation paradigms(2005-01-27) Franklin, Jerry F.Item Invasive species, novel ecosystems and no analogue futures : challenges for restoration theory and practice(2008-05-22) Hobbs, RichardItem Archaeology of intangibility monumentality in Cameroon(2012-02-07) David, NicholasItem Desistance is dead, long live desistance?: Can a 1990s theory be relevant for a world in crisis in 2025(2025-05-15) Maruna, ShaddOver the past three decades desistance from crime has become one of the most popular areas of study in criminology. Emerging out of life course and developmental criminology of the 1990s, the study of desistance stood in sharp contrast with the obsession in late 20th Century criminology in identifying “superpredators,” “psychopaths,” and other persistent or “career criminals.” Desistance research also challenged rehabilitation models and inspired strengths-based mutual aid work among people in prison and on probation. It was the right theory for the right moment in criminology in many ways. However, desistance research may have outlasted its relevance in the current political climate. As it became mainstreamed, desistance research has been rightly criticized for being too individualistic, ignoring the structural/political factors impacting individual journeys.Item Transgender & gender-diverse children & youth's development & psychological & brain health: A biopsychosocial perspective(2025-06-11) VanderLaan, DougDespite unprecedented societal and scientific interest in the needs of transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) children and youth, substantial inequities remain. Attention towards this topic tends to be concentrated on Euro-American and clinical populations, resulting in failures to consider large segments of the TGD population in Canada and globally. A multi-disciplinary, multimethod program of cross-cultural and community-focused research sheds light on TGD children and youth who are often overlooked in Canada and in Thailand. With a biopsychosocial framework in mind, a series of studies elucidate the interplay of biological, cognitive, and sociocultural factors in TGD people’s identity development as well as their psychological and brain health. Collectively, these studies point to a need for macro-level changes to address systemic barriers as well as future avenues for improving TGD children and youth’s well-being.Item Collaborating with the immune system to treat antibiotic-resistant superbugs(2025-04-23) Nizet, VictorThe Department of Biochemistry & Microbiology presents the 2025 Lansdowne Lecturer Dr. Victor Nizet, Distinguished Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Israni Biomedical Research Facility. This public lecture is titled “Collaborating with the Immune System to Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs”.Item When do state-dependent local projections work?(2022-09-07) Gonçalves, SílviaSílvia Gonçalves is a Professor of Economics at McGill University specializing in the development of bootstrap methods for the analysis of economic and financial data. Her current research topics include bootstrap inference for time series and spatially dependent data, bootstrap inference in the presence of bias, and estimation and inference of impulse response functions in nonlinear macroeconomic models. Professor Gonçalves currently serves as a Co-Editor of the Journal of Financial Econometrics and as an Associate Editor of the Econometrics Journal, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Time Series Analysis, and the Portuguese Economic Journal. She is an elected Fellow of the Society of Financial Econometrics and of the International Association of Applied Econometrics. Before joining the Department of Economics at McGill University in 2017, she was a Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario and at the Université de Montréal. She is a research member of CIREQ and CIRANO and received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. UVic’s Public Lectures Series features accomplished individuals from a vast array of academic and research endeavours. As host of this lecture series, UVic continues its commitment to making a vital impact on people, places and the planet.Item Beyond imperial aporia: Taiwan and the Inter-Asia work in global transformations(2025-01-28) Wang, Andy Chih-MingIf colonialism is what made modernity, the American empire is the infrastructure of the present, the conditions of possibility that frame and organize the world and our knowledge of it. However, with the re-election of Donald Trump as the next American president who pledges to expel undocumented migrants, to erect a “tariff wall,” and to demand “protection money” from its allies, the American empire is now facing the possibility of its dismantling, a situation that while intellectually willing and jubilantly welcomed by some (the Arab World for instance), may sound like a bad news to others (such as Taiwan), given their worry about the other empire—China. The possibility of a dismantled American empire, and the threat of another emerging empire, creates an intellectual aporia, a political conundrum and a state of puzzlement, that constrains our understanding of the present and imagination of the future. How should critical humanities help us deal with this futurity by envisioning global transformation beyond the age of empire? Or is there room to reconfigure the meaning of empire for survival in the present? This lecture will address this weighty question by first offering a critical reflection on the political and intellectual conditions in Taiwan, as the island nation is gaslighted by both the threat of Chinese invasion and the worry of US abandonment so much so that the discussion of peace becomes unutterable. This “imperial aporia,” the inability to think beyond the terms of empire, particularly about and beyond China, is a serious problem in East Asia, but one not as heeded in the Asian studies of North America. The Inter-Asia cultural studies (IACS), a translocal intellectual movement and network that emerged since the 1990s, is an effort to address this problem. Reflecting on the work of the IACS collective in the last two decades, the lecture intends to explicate how it envisions global transformations through inter-referential methodology as a form of relational thinking and connective history, and how its translocal, translational alliance may generate solidarity and a new subjectivity against empire. Andy Chih-ming WANG currently holds the position of Research Fellow at the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica (Taiwan). Additionally, he serves as the Chair of the Inter-Asian Cultural Studies Society. He is a prominent thinker in the Inter-Asian tradition, which spearheads placed-based collaborative research on interconnected questions of knowledge production, decolonization, the Cold War, and political movements in Asia. His articles have been published in renowned journals such as Contemporary Literature, Geopolitics, boundary 2, Amerasia, and positions, as well as in edited volumes, and translations. Currently, he is engaged in writing his second book titled Multiple Returning: Asian American Literature and Post/Cold War Entanglements.Item Religion and spirituality are not something we have (or do not have), they are something we do(2024-10-24) Hjelm, TitusOur commonsense ways of recognizing and talking about ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ are problematic. Looking at phenomena as varied as rock music, meditation, and the asylum process, I argue that religion and spirituality are not something institutions or individuals possess but are rather constantly co-created and recreated in human interaction. In this lecture, I reflect on the ways our conventional understandings of ‘religion’ and ‘spirituality’ sometimes hinder rather than help us understand the world.Item I am Maya (sometimes): Fetishizing Mayaland(2024-10-23) Castillo Cocom, Juan A.Juan A. Castillo Cocom is Maya (sometimes) and professor at the Maya Intercultural University of Quintana Roo, Mexico. A specialist in Maya philosophy and epistemology, Dr. Castillo Cocom's work challenges deeply held assumptions among scholars and the general public alike about "Maya" identity and Maya identity politics. Using the concept of "ethnoexodus" as an identity strategy, Dr. Castillo Cocom will discuss the temporal, cultural, and situational factors that allow the Maya peoples to escape the discriminatory processes of sociocultural marginalization.Item Little red barns: Hiding the truth, from farm to fable(2024-10-08) Potter, WillWe all know what a farm looks like. It’s happy cows, happy chickens, happy farmers, and little red barns dotting the green countryside. The nostalgic image persists, although those farms of our imagination are disappearing. Award-winning journalist and TED Senior Fellow Will Potter will speak about his 10-year investigation into factory farming, and how the most powerful industries on the planet are outlawing journalism and censoring research to keep consumers in the dark.Item Entitlements, block grants, work requirements, and the safety net: Evidence from the US in times of economic crisis(2024-10-03) Bitler, MarianneMarianne Bitler received her PhD in economics from MIT in 1998. She is currently a professor of economics at UC Davis, and has also worked at UC Irvine, RAND, and the Federal Reserve Board. Her research focuses on the effects of the means tested safety net and economics of the family. She is a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. She has served on a number of National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine panels on topics related to social programs. She is a research associate of the NBER and a Research Fellow at IZA. Her research has been funded by NICHD, RWJ, and USDA. Professor Bitler's research focuses on the effects of government safety net programs on disadvantaged groups, economic demography, health economics, public economics, and the economics of education.Item Mechanisms of injustice: Bridging gaps in access and treatment to address inequities for minoritised children and young people living with chronic pain(2024-09-12) Hood, AnnaPain inequities are a global concern. The mechanisms through which inequities manifest occur for pediatric populations. Antiracism pain scholarship involves recognising and rectifying the racialized pain inequities in assessment, treatment, and outcomes. This session will focus on pain inequities for children living with pain, highlighting the experiences of children living with sickle cell disease (SCD). Here, I will discuss empirical research showing that children living with SCD are labelled as “drug-seekers,” leading to the underestimation of pain, longer wait times, and inappropriate and delayed treatment. Further, children living with SCD from migrant families typically encounter stigma because of differences in culture, beliefs, and healing practices. Additionally, we will discuss the potential pathways for restoration and advocate for change so that pain science and clinical practice move toward equitable treatment for all children living with pain.