Public Policy

Nov. 16, 1:30 pm, Diefenbaker Building Theatre, Michael Atkinson, executive director of the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, presents Why is Canada so Corrupt?

Just the Flu

Nov. 25, 7 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, the schools of public policy and public health present Dr. Jim Cross, senior medical officer, Prince Albert Parkland Health Region, who will give a lecture entitled if it’s just the flu, why are we all going to die? 

Labour Policy

Nov. 19, 10:30 am, Diefenbaker Building Theatre, Roy Adams, the Ariel F. Sallow Chair of Human Rights for 2009-10, presents Labour Policy as if International Commitments Matter: Some Implications of the Supreme Court’s New Direction on Trade Union Rights

Chemistry Seminars

Fridays at 4 pm, Room 159 Thorvaldson

• Nov. 13, Sylvie Morin, Dept. of Chemistry, York University, presents Structure and Electrochemical Properties of Atomic and Molecular Assemblies at Surfaces
• Nov. 20, Aliaksei Boika, Dept. of Chemistry, will present Hot Microelectrodes: Fundamental Studies and Applications

Group of Seven Lecture

Rose King, author of Brunelleschi’s Dome, The Judgement of Paris and Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, will present The European Adventures of the Group of Seven at 4 pm Dec. 4 in Convocation Hall.

Judaism Lecture

Does Judaism Equal Israel? is the title of a lecture presented Nov. 19 by Marc Ellis, a Jewish theologian, at 7:30 pm in Room 146 Arts Building. For more information, contact Santiago Slabodsky at 966-8084.

Law Speaker Series

Nov. 16, noon, Room 150 Law, David Scott presents the 2009  Silas Halyk, Q.C. Visiting Scholar in Advocacy lecture entitled Advocacy Now and Then: Access to Justice and Advocacy in the Electronic Age

Veterinary Microbiology

Fridays, 12:30 pm, Room 2105 WCVM

• Nov. 13, Isha Katyal presents Characterization of Genomic Diversity in the Enteroccocus Community of the Pig Intestine and Teenus Paramel presents Characterization of the “Core” Vaginal Microbiome of Clinically Healthy Women of Reproductive Age
• Nov. 20, Emily Jenkins presents Emerging Parasitic Zoonoses of Public health Significance in Western Canada
• Nov. 27, John Ellis presents Do Maternal Antibodies Block Mucosal Vaccination in Neonatal Calves?
• Dec. 4, Sarah Mackenzie-Dyck presents Enhancing Efficacy of DNA Vaccines
• Dec. 11, Monika Polewicz presents Novel Vaccine Formulations Against Whooping Cough to Overcome Interference of Maternal Antibodies
• Dec. 18, Sanjeev Anand presents Role of Mitochondria During Bovine Adenovirus 3 Infection
• Jan. 8 in the VIDO Lecture Theatre, Patrick Fries presents The Distribution of Lamina Propria Leukocytes in the Ileum and Jejunum of Calves

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 2:30 pm in Room 127 Physics

• Nov. 13, Cherie Westbrook presents Water Table Dynamics in the Peat-Capped Rocky Mountain Valley
• Nov. 20, Ryan Walker presents Urban Themes for the 21st Century: Canadian Cities in Transition
• Nov. 27, Alec Aitken presents Arctic Joint Research: U of S, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Canadian Museum of Nature
• Dec. 4, Shannon Bruyneel presents Shared Landscape, Divergent Visions: Environmental Management in the Northern Great Plains

Philosophy in the Community

Wednesdays at 7 pm at The Refinery. For more information visit www.usask.ca/philosophy

• Dec. 9, Emer O’Hagan presents The Moral Necessity of Self-Knowledge

Microbiology and Immunology

Thursdays at 4 pm, Room B6, Health Sciences

• Nov. 19, Susan Kaminskyj, Dept. of Biology, presents Major impacts from minor components of the Aspergillus nidulans cell wall – the story of ugmA and gfeA
• Nov. 26, Suresh Tiloo, VIDO, School of Public Health and WCVM, presents Adenovirus DNA Packaging
• Dec. 3, Lindsay Ball presents A large scale genomic screen reveals mechanisms of yeast postreplication repair