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Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Feb 24/89

Prof Mort Mishkin
Chief, Neuropsychology
National Inst. Of Mental Health

Ramsay and Genesee
Psychology

The Anatomy of Memory

March 2/89

Prof George Fletcher
Law, Columbia

MacDonald and Stevens
Faculty of Law

Inside Gorbachev's Courts

April 19/89

Prof Allen Newell
Comp. Sc. and Psychology
Carnegie-Melon

Caines
Electrical Engineering

SOAR: An Ingrated Architecture for Intelligence

Sept 23/89

Dr Katherine Harris
City U of NY in Speech and Hearing
Sciences and Linguistics

Baum
Human Communications Disorders

Movement towards Integration: Comm.
Research for Next 25 Years

Sept 26/89

Prof Sir Michael Atiyah
Mathematicien/Scientist
Oxford University

Russell
Math and Statistics

New Ideas in Geometry and Physics

Sept 29/89

Dr Robert Shepard
PsychcologyStanford University

Genesee/Bregmen
Psychology - Co-sponsored Hebb Series

How the Mind Reflects the World

Dec/89

Dr Robert Weinberg
Biology, MIT

Johnstone
Biochemistry

Oncogenes and Antioncogenes: A Clue to Cancer

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

March 8-9/90

Dr Sandra Scarr
Psychology
U of Virginia

Genesee/Aboud
Psychology - Co-sponsored Hebb Series

Genes and Environ. Combine in Development

March 12-16/90

Prof Gerald Postema
Philosopher and Legal TheoristUNC

Perry
Law

Foundations of Political Community

March 16-17/90

Dr Ward Swingle

Stoltzfus
Music

Swingle Stype Contemporary Vocal Techniques

Spring/90

Dr S.C. Jacobson
Engineering Design, U of Utah

Hunter
McRCIM

High Performance Robotics

March 25-28/90

Dr S. Muntemba
Enviro. Liason Centre International,
Nairobi

Galaty
Anthropology

Third World Perspectives on Sustainable Development

March 30/90

Prof R.J. Birgeneau
MIT

Grant
Physics

High Temperature Superconductivity

Sept 20-21/90

Dr Jay Weiss Duke University

Genesee/Ditto
Psychology - Co-sponsored Hebb Series

Immune System Responses to Stress

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

March 6/91

Prof David Sugarman
Lancaster University

Perry
Law

New Directions in Modern Legal History

March 11-13/91

Dr Roy Porter
Wellcome Institute

Weisz
Medicine

The Development of Psychiatry since the 17th Century

April 29/91

Dr Kenneth Heilman
Neurologist, U of Florida

Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery

The Substrates of Long-Term Memory

Nov 19/91

Gerd Hirzinger
German Aerospace Research Establishment

Hunter
McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Advances in Sensor-Controlled Robot Systems

Dec/91 - April/92

Alan Lesgold, U of Pittsburg
James Greeno, Stanford
Edward Smith, U of Michigan
Janet Kolodner, George Inst. Tec

Patel
Cognitive Science Centre

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

March 2/92

Frances Fox Piven
City University of NY

Torczyner
McHRAT School of Social Work

Justice and Human Rights

March 13/92

Norman Daniels
Tufts

Janda
Law

Distributive Justice, Access to Health Care and Equal Opportunity

March 27/92

Carlos Fuentes
Novelist, Mexico

Boruchoff
Hispanic Studies
co-sponsored with Cummings series

Baroque New World

May 1/92

Dr Edward Zigler
Child Study, Yale University

Derevensky
Ed. Psych

Efficacy of Eary Childhood Education

Oct 6/92

Clemente Ruiz Duran
Universidad Nacional Autonomade
Mexico

Noumoff
Developing Area Studies

Globalization and the Emergence of Regional Markets

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

March 4/93

Gayatri Spivak
Columbia University

Kaite
Communications

Derrida and Marx

March 17/93

Ronald Dworkin
Oxford University

Perry
Law

Justice in the Distribution of Health Care

(n.b. The two lectures below were funded as one series, in memory of Guy Groen) Patel Cognitive Science Centre

April 8/93

Walter Kintsch
University of Toronto

Patel
Cognitive Science Centre

Learning from texts

April 29/93

Anders Ericsson
Flordia State University

Patel
Cognitive Science Centre

Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition

Oct/93

Paul Ekman
University of California

Binik
Pscyholgoy

Faces and Emotion

Nov/93

Laura Nader
UC at Berkeley

Ikawa-Smith
Anthropology

Colonizing the Mind: the Anthropology of Everyday Life

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Jan 26/95

Horacio Boneo, Director,
Electoral Assistance Unit,
Peacekeeping Operations,
United Nations

Donahue
United Nations Students Association

Free Elections in Emerging Democracies

Feb 21/95

Maria Luisa Puga
Mexican novelist

Szanto
Communications

The Culture of an Indocumentado

March 17/95

Urie Bronfenbrenner
Cornell University

Binik
Psychology

Developmental Psychology in the 21st Century: Comments by a Participant Observer

Oct 3/95

Noam Chomsky
MIT

Gillon
Linguistics

The New World Order: Old or New?

Dec 7-8/95

Neil Gilbert
University of California, Berkeley

Torcyzner
Social Work

Changing the Philosophy of Welfare

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Feb 8/96

Jean Bethke Elshtain
University of Chicago

Stevens (Law)
Booth (Political Science)

The King is Dead, Sovereignity at Century's End

March/96

Shelley E. Taylor
UCLA

Binik
Psychology

Positive Illusions, Mental Health and Survival

March 26-27/96

Anthony Smith
Magdalen College, Oxford

D.C. Smith
Culture and Values in Education

Oxbridge: The Real Reasons Why it Works; Information as a Paradigm of Culture

April 1/96

Durand Jacobs
California

Derevensky
Educational and Counselling Psychology

Gambling Behaviour in Children and Adolescents

April 4/96

Keith Hammond
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

Hayes
Animal Science

Lecture in conjunction with FAO's 50th Anniversary

Sept 20/96 as above

John Gordon McVie
European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer;
John Shearer Kelley
University of Edinburgh

Cuello (Pharmacology)
Leyland-Jones (Oncology)
as above

Genes and Jeans;
Four Founders of the McGill Medical Foundation: The Edinburgh Connection

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Feb 7/97

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs
UC at Berkeley

Torczyner
School of Social Work

The Challenge of Multicultural Society: Caribbean Youth in Canada

March 21/97

V.S. Ramachandran
UC at San Diego

Dunbar
Psychology

Illusions of Body Image in Neurology

April/97

Judith Jarvis Thomson
MIT

Benson
Law

Assisted Suicide

April 4/97

Alan Kay
The Walt Disney Company

Merrett
Computer Science

Is the Best Way to Predict the Future to Invent It? Or Prevent It?

May 23/97

J.-C. Yoccoz
Université de Paris-Sud

Hurtubise
Mathematics and Statistics

Celestial Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and Dynamic Systems

Sept 29/97

Patricia Smith Churchland
UC at San Diego

Carli
Anesthesia

Towards a Neurobiology of Consciousness

Oct 23/97

Michael Sandel
Harvard University

Benson
Law

Democracy's Discontent: Political Identity in a Global Age

Nov 5-6/97

William Leroy Hylander
Duke University

Dentistry
Lund

Evolution and Mechanical Loading of the Temporomandibular Joine

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Feb 6-8/98

David Blakenhorn
Author Fatherless America

Cere
Newman Centre, Religious Studies, Culture and Values in Education, Chaplaincy, Continuing Formation Services

Principal speaker of Conference

March 17/98

Bruce McM. Wright
New York, N.Y.

Torczyner
Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training, Consortium for Ethnicity and Strategic Social Planning

Bangs and Whimpers: Enigmas of the Racial Vex

March 19/98

Philippe Schmitter
Stanford University

Oxhorn
Political Science

The Meaning of Citizenship in a Transnational World

April 3/98

Claude Steele
Stanford University

Dunbar
Psychology

A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance)

Sept 22/98

Jörg Sennheiser
Chairman, Sennheiser Electronic, and professor, Technical University of Hannover

Woszczyk
Music

Microphones for the Age of Multimedia

Nov 2/98

Claude Lorius
CNRS, France

Mysak
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Climatic change: a view from polar ice cores

Nov 4/98

Benjamin Gidron
Ben Gurion University
Israel

Torczyner
Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training

Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations in South African, Northern Ireland and Israeli/Palestinian Societies

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Jan 22/99

Jay Budziszewski
University of Texas

D. Cere, D. Smith
Chaplaincy, Culture and Values in Education

Handling Issues of Conscience in the Academy

Jan 28/99

Honourable Justice Richard Goldstone
Constitutional Court of South Africa

Cotler
Law Faculty, InterAmicus

Closing plenary, International Conference on Hate, Genocide and Human Rights: 50 Years Later

March 24/99

Art Spiegelman

Hillel Jewish Student Centre and McGill Chaplaincy

The Making of MAUS

March 25/99

Joseph Raz
Oxford University

S. Smith
Law

Disagreements in Politics

April 8/99

Dr William Maixner
University of North Carolina

Lund
Dentistry

Chronic Pain is Mainly in the Brain

May 11/99

Kathleen M. Foley
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York

Council on Palliative Care

Transforming the Culture of Death

Sept 20, 21, 22/99

Catherine Pickstock
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

D. Williams, D. Farrow
English, Philosophy, Religious Studies, the Montreal Diocesan Theological College

Plato's Liturgical Philosophy: The Good - The City - The Soul

Sept 21/99

Steve Fuller
University of Warwick, U.K.

A. Padjen
Pharmacology and Therapeutics w. several departments

What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger: Why the Science Wars May Turn out to be a Good Thing, After All

Sept 29-30/99

Roger Chartier
Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales
Paris

Lamonde
French Language and Literature

Readings of Revolutions, The Construction of Authorship between Science and Literature, Molière entre la scène et la page

Dec 6/99

Mochtar Buchori
Jakarta

Allen
(Indonesia Project), Philosophy, Education

The Rebuilding of the Indonesian Nation

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Feb 1/00

Dr Michael Benedikt
University of Texas at Austin

Graduate Program in Communications

Re-Evaluation

Feb 11/00

Catherine E. Snow
Harvard University

Taylor
Psychology

Ensuring success in literacy acquisition: Why is it so hard?

Feb 17/00 and March 9/00

Astrobiology Lecture Series on "Exploring the Origins, Evolution and Distribution of Life in the Universe"

Lecture 1:
David Levy, Jarnac Observatory and Science Editor of Parade

Lecture 2:
Various speakers

Vali, Bergeron
The Departments of Earth and Planetary Science; Anatomy and Cell Biology; Geography

More Things in Heaven and Earth: Speculations on Life in the Universe


Astrobiology forum

Sept 28/00

Claude Hagège
Collège de France

Gagnon
Quebec Studies Program
Second Language Education
English and French Language Centre
Linguistics, Languages and Translation

Multilingualism within the North American Context

Sept 28/00

Marjorie Garber
Harvard University

Art History and Communication Studies

Representing the Unrepresentable

Nov 2/00

Brendan O'Leary
London School of Economics

Paul
Research Group in International Security
Political Science

Irish Peace Accord: Prospects and Problems

Nov 30/00

Robert George
Princeton University

S. Smith
Faculty of Law

Kelsen and Acquinas on the 'Natural Law Doctrine'

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

Jan 25/01

Nancee Blum, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa

Paris
Department of Psychiatry (MUHC);
Bond
McGill Couple and Family Clinic (School of Social Work)

The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder on Patients and Families

Esther Jungreis
Founder of Hineni

Chabad House and McGill Chaplaincy

Discovering the value of spirituality in post-Holocaust North America

March 8/01

Peter Singer
Princeton University

S. Smith
Faculty of Law

Changing Attitudes to Life and Death

March 16/01

Mike Davis

Art History and Communication Studies

Wild in the Streets: Hot Rod Riots and the Origins of the New Left

March 21/01

Barbara Epstein
Genesis Israel

Torczyner
The McGill Middle East Program

A Conceptual Model for Understanding Empowerment Practice

October 18/01

Alain Touraine
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

Department of Sociology (received support from the Consulat general de France à Québec)

In or Out: Social Movements and Globalization

October 29/01

Luc Ferry
Paris, France

Faculty of Law and Department of Philosophy (received support from the Consulat general de France à Québec)

Qu'est qu'une vie bonne?

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

January 25/02

Bunker Roy
Director, Barefoot College of India

McGill Chapter of Engineers without Borders

Demystifying Technology

January 31/02

John D. Caputo
Villanova University

Faculty of Religious Studies and the Department of Philosophy

There are no truths, only texts

February 20, 2002

John Rummel
NASA

Departments of Earth & Planetary Science and Anatomy & Cell Biology

Colonizing Mars: Dream or Reality?

March 14, 2002

Peter Birks
Oxford

Faculty of Law

Conscientious Enemies of the Rule of Law

May 7, 2002

Ned Cassem
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Univesity

Council on Palliative Care

Lessons in Living from the Dying - Celebrating Life Together

May 20, 2002

Greil Marcus
Berkeley, CA

Department of Art History and Communication Studies, in conjunction with the Canadian Branch of the International Association of Popular Music.

The Sound of One City: In Los Angeles, Early 50s, Easy Rawlins Meets the Medallions, Agrees to Disagree

Sept 23, 2002

Sir John Daniel
Assistant Director General, Education, UNESCO

The Centre for University Teaching and Learning

Technology is the Answer: What was the Question?

Nov. 11, 2002

Professor Rodolfo Sacco
University of Turin, Italy

The Centre for Private and Comparative Law

"Une baguette et deux chimpanzés"

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

January 30, 2003

Douglas Erwin
Interim Director of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

Redpath Museum

A Cambrian Conundrum: Ecology and Development in the Birth of Animals

February 5, 2003

Sari Nusseibeh
President, Al Quds University

McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building,

School of Social Work

Peace, Partnerships and Politics in the Middle East: Directions for the Brave

March 12, 2003

Miroslav Radman
Director, Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire Evolutive et Médicale (France)

Departments of Pharmacology & Therapeutics,

Physiology, Sociology, Social Studies in Medicine

Conservation Versus Change: Lesson From Evolution

March 19, 2003

Christopher McKay
Planetary scientist, NASA Ames Research Centre

Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology,

Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences

The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life

March 28, 2003

Michel Delon
Professeur de littérature à la Sorbonne

Départment de langue et littérature françaises,

English Department

Un débat moral au Siècle des Lumières: peut-on inventer un plaisir nouveau?

April 3, 2003

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Berkley, California

Department of Biochemistry

Exploring DNA structure and enzymology using single molecule methods

April 10, 2003

Mary Zanarini
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University

Department of Psychiatry,

School of Social Work

Borderline Personality Disorder:What patients and families need to know

May 6, 2003

Eric J. Cassell
Clinical Professor of Public Health at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University

The Council on Palliative Care

Lessons in Living from the Dying: Suffering and Healing

November 7, 2003

Henry Giroux
Professor and Waterbury Chair in Secondary Education, Pennsylvania State University

Faculty of Education

Higher Education, Youth and the Crisis of Intellectuals

November 21, 2003

John T. Cacioppo
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

Department of Psychology

Living an Isolated Existence in a Changing Social World

December 15, 2003

John Campbell
Senior Lecturer, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury

Department of Chemistry and the McGill Sigma-Xi Interdisciplinary Research Society

Rutherford, Scientist Supreme: His Years at McGill and the Nobel Prize

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

March 16, 2004

James Kasting, Penn State University, Christopher McKay, NASA-Ames Research Centre, and Hojatollah Vali, McGill

Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Geography

Who on Earth Wants to go to Mars?

March 31, 2004

Judit Bokser, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Departments of Jewish Studies and Political Science

Latin American Jewish Communities: A Challenging Present

May 4, 2004

David Kissane, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York

Council on Palliative Care (Sandra Goldberg Lecture)

Lessons in Living from the Dying: Discovering Meaning in Illness and Suffering

September 23, 2004

Sir James Black

Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind

November 5, 2004

John Willinsky, Director, Public Knowledge Project (UBC)

Graduate Students Society and the Faculty of Education

Keep the World at Your Fingertips

November 24, 2004

Mohammed Al-Hadid, President, Jordan Red Crescent

McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building

Human Relationships as a Crucial Component of Peace Building in the Middle East

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

January 26, 2005

Peter Fitzpatrick,
Birkbeck College

Law

Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy — The American empire and the rule of law

February 14, 2005

Lev Manovich,
University of California, San Diego

Art History and Communication Studies, Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité de l'Université de Montréal and Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Info-aesthetics: The new information aesthetics

March 30, 2005

Seth Shostak,
Centre for SETI Research

Departments of Earth and Planetary Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Geography

When will we detect extraterrestrials?

May 3, 2005

Diane Meier,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York)

Council on Palliative Care

Lessons in Living from the Dying: Palliative Care in Hospitals.

October 20, 2005

Dr. Hung Wu,
University of Chicago

Departments of East Asian Studies and Art History and Communication Studies

"Ruins" in Traditional Chinese Art and Visual Culture

October 26, 2005

Professor Geoffrey Samuel,
University of Kent

Faculty of Law

Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy: Is Law Truly a Social Science?

Lecturer

Sponsor, with Department

Lecture title

January 5, 2006

Roger Blandford,
Stanford University

Department of Physics

Black holes: The end of time or a new beginning?

March 8, 2006

Dr. William Ruddiman,
University of Virginia

Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre

How did humans first alter global climate?

March 30, 2006

Robert Kirshner, Clowes Professor of Science, Harvard; president, American Astronomical Society.

Department of Physics

Exploding stars, dark energy and the accelerating cosmos

April 4, 2006

Sandra Harding, University of California

McGill Centre for Research & Teaching on Women, Department of History, Philosophy of Science and Social Studies of Medicine

Women, Science and Modernity

April 27, 2006

Karen Armstrong, religious scholar and author

Faculty of Religious Studies and McGill Bookstore

The Great Transformation

May 1, 2006

Gerri Frager, Dalhousie University

The Council on Palliative Care

Lessons in Living from the Dying: Critical Communication in the Care of Children

October 19, 2006

Douglas Kellner, UCLA

Art History and Communication Studies and Political Science

Hegemony and Resistance in Cyberculture