Chief justice one of series' speakers

Genes, bees and Troy among Vancouver Institute's spring topics

Canada's new chief justice Beverley McLachlin and Canadian author and playwright Silver Donald Cameron are among the speakers in the Vancouver Institute free public lecture series at UBC which runs every Saturday to April 15. All lectures take place at 8:15 p.m. in Woodward Instructional Resources Centre lecture hall 2.

Upcoming lectures include:

Feb. 5: Daryl Duke, "Redefining English Canada: The Failure of the Media."
Feb. 12: Prof. Mark Winston, "Nature Wars: Pests vs. People."
Feb. 19: Nik Gowing, "Information in War and Emergencies: Who Really Commands the High Ground."
Feb. 26: Prof. Virginia Valian, "The Advancement of Women: Why So Slow?"
March 4: Prof. Brian Rose, "New Excavations at Ancient Troy."
March 11: Beverley McLachlin, "The Role of the Courts in a Modern Democracy."
March 18: Prof. Walter Kohn, "Through a Glass Darkly: A Physicist Looks at the Future."
March 25: Silver Donald Cameron, "Energy, Environment and the Left."
April 1: Sharon Pollock, "Will Theatre Survive?"
April 8: Panel discussion: Prof. Michael Hayden, Prof. Gert-Jan van Ommen, Prof. Lap-Chee Tsui, and Francis Collins, "The Human Genome Project: Where Do We Go from Here?"
April 15: John Stackhouse, "The End of Development." The spring series started Jan. 22 with Prof. Brett Finlay's lecture, "Confronting the Microbe Menace." Recent books published by series speakers will be available at the door and the UBC Bookstore.

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