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Browsing Lansdowne Lectures by Submit Date
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(2017-05-09)The event begins with a screening of the documentary film, Hawar: My Journey into the Genocide, followed by a presentation and a Question & Answer session.
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(2017-05-09)Does human nature include an emotion signaling system? Two lines of research suggest (1) Recent studies in two remote societies (Papua New Guinea, Mozambique) found that most people do not match the emotion and face in ...
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(2017-05-09)Dr. Guzder shared the results of her research on a school-based project that was designed to respond to the collective trauma of a post-slavery society that struggles with high rates of violence. This project started in ...
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(2017-05-09)Between the mid-eleventh and the late twelfth centuries, the ways in which people perceived, understood, and explored their places in the world were drastically and irreversibly changed. These changes have long been ...
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(2017-05-09)Most people today associate human rights with the secular progressive cause. This talk looks at how, in European history in the middle of the twentieth century, the Christian right made a critical contribution. Based on a ...
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(2017-05-09)Most institutions in North America now acknowledge the importance of diversity in the workplace and in education, and have established dedicated, organizational programs dedicated to promoting and implementing diversity. ...
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(2017-05-09)From at least the mid twelfth century until the Expulsion in 1290, England hosted a community of active rabbinic scholars. Although much of their literary heritage has been lost, several treatises and dozens of responsa ...
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(2017-05-10)The lecture reflects on the history, context and purpose of El Memorial del 68 (The Memorial of 68), an architectural space and gallery that commemorates the massacre of students and workers at the hands of the Mexican ...
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(2017-05-10)In this talk, Dr. Margaret Pearce, a U.S. based academic, cartographer and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, will introduce cartography as a form of language, explore some of the structural details of that language, ...
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(2017-05-11)Dr. Hogg talked about the origins of HIV-1 in Central and West Africa. Several theories were examined and he also explained how social change, migration, and population growth helped to spread the epidemic throughout Africa ...
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(2017-05-11)"Chernobyl" today is not only an actual event, but also a symbolic one. As such, it is similar to other traumatic events in twentieth century history - the Holocaust, Auschwitz, and Hiroshima. After Chernobyl the image of ...
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(2017-05-12)This talk will explore Indigenous resurgence and nationhood through story, song and video. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will discuss resurgence as an ongoing ntervention into the colonial project by sharing works from her ...
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(2017-05-15)The majority of the world’s ecosystems have been profoundly altered by human activities in ways that are essentially irreversible. Global population growth will place ever greater demands on ecosystems and the services ...
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(2017-05-15)Dr. Sigrid Adriaenssens is a structural engineer specializing in the form finding and optimization of structures. This lecture is based on her long-term research with the goal to transform the engineering design framework ...
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(2017-05-15)In this lecture, Dr. Conrad explores when to trigger conservation programs to save endangered species. The concepts, applicable to many BC species, are brought to life with an example drawn from a captive breeding program ...
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(2017-05-18)In this lecture, Dr. Lewis will give a historical overview of the evolution of antimicrobial resistance in the gonococcus and discuss current approaches to manage the public health threat of untreatable gonorrhea.
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(2017-05-18)During the 1963 international graph theory conference in Smolenice, Czechoslovakia, Gerhard Ringel formulated the following conjecture: The complete graph with vertices can be decomposed into subgraphs, each isomorphic ...
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(2017-10-04)Divisions over Israel have become an increasingly significant feature of Diaspora Jewish communities in recent years, leading at times to serious conflicts and difficulties in communal cooperation. These divisions have ...
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(2017-10-24)One of the best predictors of physical and mental health along with cognitive development among children is poverty. But what psychosocial processes and experiences underlie these inequalities? In this talk professor Evans ...
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