SEMINARS/LECTURES

October 31, 2008

Microbiology and Immunology Seminar
4 pm, Room B450, Health Sciences

•  Nov. 6, John Gordon, veterinary microbiology, presents Therapeutic tolerization of immunologic disease

CMRS Series

• Nov. 27, 4 pm, Room 344B STM, Walter Klaassen, Dept. of History and College of Emmanuel and St. Chad, presents Pilgram[sic] Marpeck: Mystery and History

Chemistry Seminars
Fridays, 4 pm, Rom 159 Thorvaldson

•  Oct. 31, Gilbert Walker, University of Toronto, presents Nanoscale Mechanics and Optics of Self-Assembling Peptides, Proteins and Polymers
  
•  Nov. 7, Gregory Scholes, University of Toronto, presents Light harvesting and coherence in multichromophoric systems: From Nature to nanoscale
  
• Nov. 14, Torsten Hegmann, University of Manitoba, presents Effects of Functionalized Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticles in Liquid Crystals

Geology Seminar

•  Oct. 31, 4 pm, Geology room 155, PhD candidate Jenni Scott presents Applications of animal traces for paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Pliocene to Holocene saline lake and wetland deposits of the Kenya Rift Valley

Biochemistry Seminar
Wednesday, 12:30-1:20 pm, Room B450 Health Sciences

• Nov. 5, Vikram Misra present Bat Viruses! Potential Cause of Human Pandemics?
• Nov. 12, Dave Palmer presents Inositol Dehydrogenase: Much More Interesting that it Sounds

Technology Week Forum
The fourth annual Technology Week forum, titled Connect and Explore, takes place Nov. 6 from 9-11:30 am in Convocation Hall.  Speakers include Carl Gutwin from the Dept. of Computer Science and Rick Bunt, associate vice-president of information and communication technology. For more information, visit www.usask.ca/technologyweek.

Archaeology Seminar

• Nov. 7, 7:30 pm, Room 132 Archaeology, graduate students Alan Korejbo, Heather Milsom and Matt Stewart will be presentations on their summer field activities

Public Health Seminar

• Nov. 6, noon-1 pm, Room 4314 RUH, Josh Marko, chronic disease epidemiologist, Saskatoon Health Region, presents Health Status of Rural Residents in the Saskatoon Health Region

Power of Goodness

• Nov. 19, 7:30 pm, St. Andrew's College lounge, David Jobling, professor emeritus of Hebrew scriptures at STM, presents The Seductive Power of Goodness:  Bertholt Brecht in Feminist, Marxist and Biblical Perspectives

Process Philosophy Presentations
The U of S Process Philosophy Research Unit presents Adam Scarfe, formerly with California State University, Bakersfield, who will give two talks:

•  Nov. 12, 5 pm, Education Building faculty lounge, he will present Adventures of Ideas:  Education and Process Philosophy
  
•  Nov. 14, 3:30 pm, STM room 344A, he will present James Mark Baldwin and Alfred North Whitehead on Organic Selection: The Neglected Side of 'Evolutionary Machinery'

Memorial History Lecture
Valerie Korinek from the Dept. of History will present the inaugural Dave Debrou Memorial Lecture in History Oct. 22 at 7 pm in at the Frances Morrison Library theatre. The presentation titled Re-orienting Prairie History: Three Portraits of Prairie Activism will address the histories of gay and lesbian communities in the prairie provinces in the post-Second World War.

Bilson Lecture
The Bilson Lecture, sponsored by the Dept. of History, will take place Nov. 3 at 7:30 pm in the Radisson Hotel. This year's speaker is award-winning children's author Sarah Ellis who will present The Historian as Chrysanthemum.

Public Policy/Vet Medicine Seminar

• Nov. 19, 12:30-1:30 pm, Room 2115 WCVM, Andrijana Rajic, senor epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada, presents Research Synthesis and Translation in Veterinary/Public Health:  Opportunities for Epidemiologists and Public Health Specialists

Law Speaker Series
Noon, Room 150, MLT Lecture Theatre, College of Law

• Nov. 3, The Honourable Mr. Justice James MacPherson, Ontario Court of Appeal, presents The Intersection of Law and Politics: Same Sex Marriage through the Ages and Around the World

Veterinary Microbiology
Fridays at 12:30 pm, Room 2105, WCVM

• Oct. 31, Chris Luby presents Bovine peripheral blood mononuclear cell responses to Staphylococcus aureus, and Sanjeev Anand presents Role of mitochondria during BAdV-3 infection
  
• Nov 7, Audrey Chu presents Immunomodulation by Shiga toxin 2, and Kathy McIntosh presents ISCOMs + PCV2-VLPs + pigs ­ PMWS/PCVD.... the 'circus'virus saga continues
  
• Nov 14, Volker Gerdts presents Linking innate and acquired immunity to develop single-shot vaccines for neonates

Philosophy in the Community
The lecture and discussion series Philosophy in the Community is held the second Wednesday of each month at The Refinery, 609 Dufferin Ave. starting at 7 pm.

• Nov. 12, Learn to Spot and Avoid Fallacies or Risk Annihilation!: A Crash Course in Critical Thinking with Derek Postnikoff

Does North America Exist?
Stephen Clarkson, professor of political economy, University of Toronto and author of Does North America Exist? Governing the continent after NAFTA and 9/11, will be speaking at 4:30 pm Nov. 13 in room 140 St. Thomas More College.