Meetings from the 2010s

A brief list of meetings, speakers, and topics since 2010.

 
No. 148

25 January 2010

"McGill University and Sigma Xi - Companions in Zealous Research"

Professor M.A. Whitehead

Joint meeting with the McGill-Montreal Chapter of Sigma Xi

 
No. 149

26 April 2010

"How Do We Think About Religion in the University? The McGill Experience"

Professor Ellen B. Aitken

 
No. 150

4 October 2010

"Chronicling McGill's History: What Comes Next?"

Professor Peter F. McNally

 
No. 151

8 November 2010

"McGill Remembers: The McGill University War Records"; Presidential Address

Mr. Gordon Burr

Mr. François Dansereau

 
No. 152

28 February 2011

"Denis Stevens and Helmut Blume - the Battle for McGill's Faculty of Music, 1956-57"

Professor Paul Helmer

 
No. 153

9 May 2011

“The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars”

Doctor Victoria Kaspi

 
No. 154

3 October 2011

“From Bloomers to Body Mass Index: One-Hundred Years of Physical Education at McGill”

Dr. Greg Reid

co-sponsored by the McGill Associates

 
No. 155

28 November 2011

Book Launch: "Sir William Osler: The Man and His Books"

co-sponsored by the Montreal Neuro History Project

 
No. 156

27 February 2012

“Builders, Benefactors and Scholars: McGill - 190 Years Young”

Professor Peter McNally

Mr. Chris Lyons

co-sponsored by the McGill Campus Community Committee

 
No. 157

30 April 2012

“McGill College: The Street, not the University”

Professor David Covo

 
No. 158

1 October 2012

"McGill university Health Centre: Past, Present and Future. Maysie MacSporran Annual Lecture"

Mr. Normand Rinfret

 
No. 159

26 November 2012

"The Evolution of McGill’s French Department: Le Département de langue et littérature françaises"

Professor Yvan Lamonde.

 
No. 160

18 February 2013

"Dr. Stanley Frost: 100th Birthday Celebrations"

 

 
No. 161

19 April 2013

"Hundred Year History of Pulp and Paper at McGill: 1913-2013."

Dr. Theo van de Ven

 
No. 162

7 October 2013

"Women and the Faces of Philanthrophy at McGill"

Susan Button

 
No. 163

25 November 2013

"McGill University and the Olympic Games"

Richard Pound

 
No. 164

25 November 2013

"McGill’s Faculty of Law & the Inception of University-based Legal Education in Canada"

John Hobbins

 
No. 165

29 April, 2014

"Sir Andrew Taylor: McGill's Late Great Victorian Architect"

Susan Wagg

 
No. 166

6 October, 2014

"McGill University and Quebec City, 1960-2002"

Peter McNally

 
No. 167

17 Novemeber, 2014

"How McGill Won the Great War"

Desmond Morton

 
No. 168

9 February, 2015

"Women in Science at McGill"

Ingrid Birker

 
No. 169

27 April, 2015

"Canada’s Archival Heritage, the University and You: an Archivist’s Perspective"

Theresa Rowat

 
No. 170

6 October, 2015

"A Conversation with Principal and Vice-Chancellor Suzanne Fortier"

Suzanne Fortier

 
No. 171

16 November 2015

"Hockey Sticks, Outdoor Rinks and Climate Change"

Lawrence Mysak

 
No. 172

15 Februrary, 2016

"Royal Victoria Hospital: Heritage and Healing"

Jonathan L. Meakins

 
No. 173

18 April, 2016

"Sibling Rivalry: McGill’s Faculties under three Principals 1970-2002"

Peter F. McNally

 
No. 174

26 September, 2016

"An Ocean of Noise: H. E. Reilley, and the Fight against Noise in Montreal"

Jarrett Rudy

 
No. 175

14 November, 2016

"Edward Lear: Naturalist, Artist, Illustrator, Author, and Poet"

Robert McCracken Peck

 
No. 176

7 March, 2017

"Documenting McGill’s Architectural Heritage"

Julia Gersovitz

 
No. 177

24 April, 2017

"The Maude Abbott Medical Museum 1822 – 2017"

Dr. Richard Fraser

 
No. 178

10 October, 2017

"McGill@Expo67"

Annmarie Adams, Jennifer Garland, David Theodore

 

 

NO. 179

 

27 November, 2017

“Climate in the Age of Empire: Weather observers in colonial Canada”

Dr. Victoria Slonosky

 
No. 180

19 February, 2018

"Academic Art: when McGill trained artists"

Gwendolyn Owens

 
No. 181

30 April, 2018

The Iron Chancellor: Sir Edward Beatty & McGill University

Don Nerbas

 
No. 182

25 September, 2018

Radicalism and Conservatism: Student Life at McGill, 1960-2000

Peter F. McNally

 
No. 183

12 November, 2018

McGill Remembers: The Great War Honour Roll

Wes Cross

 
No. 184

11 February, 2019

Sir Arthur Currie as a Leader in Peace and War

Tim Cook

 
NO. 185

30 April, 2019

‘Collection or Obsession’ Dr. Casey Wood and McGill’s Natural History and Medical Collections

Christopher Lyons

Maysie MacSporran Annual Lecture and Presidential Lecture

 
NO. 186

7 October, 2019

McGill at 200: Organizing McGill’s Bicentenary Celebrations, 2020-2021

Gérald Cadet

Stanley Frost Annual Lecture

 
NO. 187

4 November, 2019

Tracings of Gerald Le Dain’s Legacy – the McGill Years and Later

Bonnie Brown, Richard Janda

 

 

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