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Videos (Sep 2014 - Apr 2023)

If you missed a talk, want to share it with a friend, or simply want to watch it again, we have you covered. All videos are posted to YouTube (individually linked below). In addition, the PUBlic Professor Series is broadcast on Shaw Lethbridge at 2 p.m. daily.

Dr. David Hobbs
What Do We Do

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Dr. David Logue
The Science of Birdsong

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Dr. Chris Burton
Identity and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

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Dr. Habiba Kadiri
Resilience in Mathematics

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Dr. Saurya Das
Our Universe: its beginning, flow and end

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Apooyak'ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete
The Kainai Stolen Children Era

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Dr. Laura Chasmer
Living with the changing flammability of forests

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Dr. Alain Takam
Translating in a context of official bilingualism: What happens to the minority language?

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Dr. Leroy Little Bear
The Comeback: The Parallel Experiences of the Blackfoot and the Buffalo

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Dr. Katharina Stevens
Arguing Without Being Cruel: What Morality Has to Say About How We Should Give Reasons

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Dr. Trushar Patel
How not to get viral: Understanding the communication between viruses and humans

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Dr. James MacKenzie
Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place

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Dr. Trevor Harrison
The Promise and Peril of Populism

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Dr. Elizabeth Galway
What’s So Childish about Children’s Stories? Exploring the Complex World of Literature for Young Readers.

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Dr. Gail Michener
Love Them, Despise Them, Study Them: Perspectives on an iconic prairie animal.

CBC News interview with Dr. Michener

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Dr. Glenda Bonifacio
Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?

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Dr. Hillary Rodrigues
COMBATTING DELUSION: Gleanings from the Hindu Great Goddess and Eastern Sages

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Dr. Carly Adams
"Hey, why don't we have a bonspiel?" Oral Histories, Sport, and (re)Imagining Community

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Dr. Jackie Rice
The Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence

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Dr. Matthew Tata
How to Talk to Your Robot: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Make Robots That Can Hear

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Dr. Louise Barrett
Supercharged Apes and Supersized Minds: How to Think Like an Animal

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Dr. Hester Jiskoot
Glaciers — A Hot Topic

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Dr. Tom Johnston
The Geography of Circumstance

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Dr. Alexander Darku
The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics

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PUBlic Professor Series talk explores the building blocks of African development

Dr. Amy Shaw
'A Devil-May-Care Sort of Swagger’: A Case for Remembering Canada in the Boer War.

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PUBlic Professor Series talk explores why Canadians remember some wars and let others fade

Dr. Maura Hanrahan
Creating Heroes and Claiming the North: Captain Robert Abram Bartlett in the Arctic

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Dramatic Arctic rescue story of Captain Robert Abram Bartlett the focus of PUBlic Professor Series talk

Dr. Sergio Pellis
A Journey Through the Fields of Play

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Examination of why play is so important for children

Dr. Catherine Kingfisher
Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism

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Kingfisher explores models of happiness

Dr. Tom Robinson
Sex, Drugs, Jesus, and Gin

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Robinson finds rich story in research quest

Dr. Paul Vasey
Beyond the Binary: What the West Can Learn from Non-Western Approaches to Gender Diversity

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Vasey eager to engage healthy discussion on sexual and gender diversity

Dr. René Barendregt
Global Climate Archives in Mud and Rock: The magnetic recorder is always on [somewhere]!

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Barendregt follows the science when studying climate change

Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske
Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers. Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture

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PUBlic Professor talk a very personal story for Fiske

Dr. Ute Kothe
From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters

Video: We had some technical difficulties with the video recording of this talk, however, we have been able to recover the majority of content for your review.

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Kothe eager to bring science to the community

Dr. Stacey Wetmore
DNA Damage, Repair and Disease: How Computers Can Help Us Understand

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Wetmore harnesses power of computers to tackle some of society's biggest problems

Dr. Kent Peacock
Alberta in the Anthropocene

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Peacock presenting a big picture view of Alberta's future

Dr. Janay Nugent
Converting a Nation: family, religion, and Calvinism in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Scotland

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Nugent honing critical thinkers through history

Dr. Goldie Morgentaler
How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters

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Morgentaler revels in the beauty of literature

Dr. Roy Golsteyn
Flower Power: A scientific search for new medicines in Prairie Plants

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Prairie view opens new research frontier for Golsteyn

Dr. Kevin McGeough
'I met a traveller from an antique land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse.

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Surely the ancient Maya never predicted their downfall, nor did the Roman Empire foresee its society coming to an end and yet they both vanished into history. What can we learn from these civilizations and how can it relate to the normal we know today?

Dr. Reg Bibby
Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada

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Bibby asks the questions that are on everyone's mind

Dr. Shawn Bubel
Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at Fincastle Site

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Thrill of the find keeps Bubel digging

Dr. Harold Jansen
The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada

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Jansen's devotion to political world, student engagement indicative of department

Dr. Jennifer Copeland
Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour

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Copeland always on the move - for good reason

Dr. Craig Coburn
Understanding the Complexities of Imaging the Earth: The Challenge of Image Calibration

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Coburn comfortable stepping into the unknown

Dr. Olga Kovalchuk
Epigenetics of Health and Disease: From Personalized Science to Personalized Medicine

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Kovalchuk research points to a future of personalized medical treatments

Dr. Michelle Hogue
Two-Eyed Seeing: A Different Vision for Teaching Aboriginal Learners Science and Mathematics

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Hogue bridges Aboriginal and Western science education

Dr. John Harding
Buddha’s World Tour: Global Buddhism in the Modern Era

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Understanding the Asian roots of modern Buddhism

Dr. David Naylor
Why Invest in Space Exploration?

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Making the case for space exploration

Download Dr. Naylor's presentation here.

Dr. Ian MacLachlan
Changing Livestock Geographies and Global Meat Consumption: What are the Implications?

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Understanding the consequences of the global ‘livestock revolution

Dr. Patrick Wilson
Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador

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The plight of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples

Dr. Robbin Gibb
The Forgotten Parent: The Importance of Fathers and Their Experience on the Brain Development of Their Children

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Dads' impact on kids' development deeper than we think

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