Previous Talks
26-Sep-24 | Rebecca Schiff
Ending Homelessness
30-Oct-24 | Shelley Hoover
Fiat lux (or, why honey bees are practically magic)
28-Nov-24 | Sidney Shapiro
Will Generative AI Change the World?
30-Jan-25 | Lars Hallstrom
Political and Policy Innovation in Alberta: The More Things Change...?
27-Feb-25 | Emily Gale
Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People
27-Mar-25 | Robin Bright
Does Reading Even Matter Anymore?
28-Sep-23 | Digvir Jayas
Recent Trends in the Food Industry
26-Oct-23 | Sienna Caspar
Person-centred Care from Rhetoric to Reality
23-Nov-23 | Sheila McManus
Borders are Stupid
25-Jan-24 | Melissa Shouting & Christine Clark
Weaving World Views: The Web as a Space for Cultural Vitality
29-Feb-24 | Sandra Dixon
Owning my Voice and Speaking my Truth in Academic Spaces
28-Mar-24 | Rob Sutherland
Why is the Brain Important?
29-Sep-22 | Laura Chasmer
Living with the changing flammability of forests
27-Oct-22 | Apooyak'ii, Tiffany Prete
The Kainai Stolen Children Era
24-Nov-22 | Saurya Das
Our Universe: its beginning, flow and end
26-Jan-23 | Habiba Kadiri
Resilience in Mathematics
23-Feb-23 | Chris Burton
Identity and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
30-Mar-23 | David Logue
The Science of Birdsong
13-Apr-23 | David Hobbs
What Do We Do
23-Sep-21 Katharina Stevens
Arguing Without Being Cruel: What Morality Has to Say About How We Should Give Reasons
28-Oct-21 | Leroy Little Bear
The Comeback: The Parallel Experiences of the Blackfoot and the Buffalo
25-Nov-21 | Alain Takam
Translating in a context of official bilingualism: What happens to the minority language?
Sep 24 '20 | Glenda Bonifacio
Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?
Oct 29 '20 | Gail Michener
Love Them, Despise Them, Study Them: Perspectives on an iconic prairie animal.
Nov 26 '20 | Elizabeth Galway
What’s So Childish about Children’s Stories? Exploring the Complex World of Literature for Young Readers.
Jan 28 '21 | Trevor Harrison
The Promise and Peril of Populism
Feb 25 '21 | James MacKenzie
Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place
Mar 25 '21 | Trushar Patel
How not to get viral: Understanding the communication between viruses and humans
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Feb 27 '20 | Hillary Rodrigues
COMBATTING DELUSION: Gleanings from the Hindu Great Goddess and Eastern Sages
Jan 23 '20 | Carly Adams
"Hey, why don't we have a bonspiel?" Oral Histories, Sport, and (re)Imagining Community
Nov 21 '19 | Jackie Rice
The Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
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Oct 24 '19 | Matthew Tata
How to Talk to Your Robot: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Make Robots That Can Hear
Sep 26 '19 | Louise Barrett
Supercharged Apes and Supersized Minds: How to Think Like an Animal
Mar 21 '19 | Hester Jiskoot
Glaciers — A Hot Topic
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Feb 28 '19 | Tom Johnston
The Geography of Circumstance
Jan 24 '19 | Alexander Darku
The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics
Nov 22 '18 | Amy Shaw
‘A Devil-May-Care Sort of Swagger’: A Case for Remembering Canada in the Boer War
Oct 25 '18 | Maura Hanrahan
Creating Heroes and Claiming the North: Captain Robert Abram Bartlett in the Arctic
Sep 20 '18 | Sergio Pellis
A Journey Through the Fields of Play
Mar 22 '18 | Catherine Kingfisher
Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism
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Feb 15 '18 | Tom Robinson
Sex, Drugs, Jesus, and Gin
Jan 25 '18 | Paul Vasey
Beyond the Binary: What the West Can Learn from Non-Western Approaches to Gender Diversity
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Nov 23 '17 | René Barendregt
Global Climate Archives in Mud and Rock: The Magnetic Recorder is Always On [Somewhere]!
Oct 26 '17 | Jo-Anne Fiske
Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers: Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture
Sep 21 '17 | Ute Kothe
From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters
Mar 23 ‘17 | Stacey Wetmore
DNA Damage, Repair and Disease: How Computers Can Help Us Understand
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Feb 16 ‘17 | Kent Peacock
Alberta in the Anthropocene
Jan 26 ‘17 | Janay Nugent
Converting a Nation: family, religion, and Calvinism in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Scotland
Nov 24 ‘16 | Goldie Morgentaler
How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters
Oct 20 ‘16 | Roy Golsteyn
Flower Power: A scientific Search for New Medicines in Prairie Plants
Sep 22 '16 | Kevin McGeough
'I Met a Traveller From an Antique Land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse
Mar 17 ‘16 | Reg Bibby
Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada
Feb 25 ‘16 | Shawn Bubel
Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at the Fincastle Site
Jan 21 ‘16 | Harold Jansen
The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada
Nov 26 ‘15 | Jennifer Copeland
Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour
Nov 19 ‘15 | Craig Coburn
Understanding the Complexities of Imaging the Earth: The Challenge of Image Calibration
Oct 22 ‘15 | Olga Kovalchuk
Epigenetics of Health and Disease: From Personalized Science to Personalized Medicine
Sep 24 ‘15 | Craig Cooper
Catching the Crook in Classical Athens
Mar 19 '15 | Michelle Hogue
Two-Eyed Seeing: A Different Vision for Teaching Aboriginal Learners Science and Mathematics
Feb 26 ‘15 | John Harding
Buddha’s World Tour: Global Buddhism in the Modern Era
Jan 22 ‘15 | David Naylor
Why Invest in Space Exploration
Nov 20 ‘14 | Ian MacLachlan
Changing Livestock Geographies and Global Meat Consumption: What are the implications?
Oct 23 ‘14 | Patrick Wilson
Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador
Sep 25 ‘14 | Robbin Gibb
The Forgotten Parent: The Importance of Fathers and Their Experience on the Brain Development of Their Children