Talk Dates & Details (2014-2023)

Living with the changing flammability of forests

The Kainai Stolen Children Era 

Identity and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Science of Birdsong

What Do We Do

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

The Comeback: The Parallel Experiences of the Blackfoot and the Buffalo

Translating in a context of official bilingualism: What happens to the minority language?

Resilience in Mathematics

The secrets of salamanders: what can amphibians teach us about environmental change and resilience?

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Our Universe: its beginning, flow and end

Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?

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

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

The Promise and Peril of Populism

Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place

How not to get viral: Understanding the communication between viruses and humans

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COMBATTING DELUSION: Gleanings from the Hindu Great Goddess and Eastern Sages

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

How to Talk to Your Robot: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Make Robots That Can Hear

Supercharged Apes and Supersized Minds: How to Think Like an Animal

Glaciers — A Hot Topic

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The Geography of Circumstance

The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics

‘A Devil-May-Care Sort of Swagger’: A Case for Remembering Canada in the Boer War

Creating Heroes and Claiming the North: Captain Robert Abram Bartlett in the Arctic

A Journey Through the Fields of Play

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

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Global Climate Archives in Mud and Rock: The Magnetic Recorder is Always On [Somewhere]!

Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers: Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture

From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters

DNA Damage, Repair and Disease: How Computers Can Help Us Understand

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Alberta in the Anthropocene

Converting a Nation: family, religion, and Calvinism in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Scotland

How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters

Flower Power: A scientific Search for New Medicines in Prairie Plants

'I Met a Traveller From an Antique Land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse

Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada

Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at the Fincastle Site

The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada

Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour

Understanding the Complexities of Imaging the Earth: The Challenge of Image Calibration

Epigenetics of Health and Disease: From Personalized Science to Personalized Medicine

Catching the Crook in Classical Athens

Two-Eyed Seeing: A Different Vision for Teaching Aboriginal Learners Science and Mathematics

Buddha’s World Tour: Global Buddhism in the Modern Era

Why Invest in Space Exploration

Changing Livestock Geographies and Global Meat Consumption: What are the implications?

Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador

The Forgotten Parent: The Importance of Fathers and Their Experience on the Brain Development of Their Children