Fine Arts Lecture

• Feb. 7, 7:30 pm, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Fine Arts Research Lecture Series presents Walter Kreyszig and performance by Kerstin Hettinga, soprano and Daniel Regnier, organ. For information, contact Gregory Marion at 966-8355

Aboriginal Storytelling

• Feb. 11, 2 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling Month event, stories by Rita Bouvier, local Metis poet, writer and educator.

Religion and Culture Lecture

• Feb. 11, 4 pm, Arts 202, Sadeq Rahimi, assistant professor, Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, presents The Thin Line Between Madness and Sainthood: Examining Islam and Mental Health in Turkey

Edwards Family Lecture

• Feb. 26, 3:30 pm, Room 18 ESB, The Edwards Family Lecture in Business Ethics and Religion, Chris MacDonald, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, presents Greenwashing and Corporate Moral Motivation

Whelen Lecture

• Feb. 23, 7 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, best-selling author and anthropologist Margaret Visser presents I Swear: Oaths, Curses, and Modernity. A book signing and reception will follow. Admission is free.

Continuing Nursing Education

• Feb. 26, 8:30-12:30 pm, E-Learning Event: Comprehensive School Health in Action: Using the Renewed Provincial Health Education Curriculum. Register online at www.usask.ca/nursing/cne/

Saskatoon Archaeological Society

• Feb. 12, 7:30 pm, Room 132 Archaeology, Tam Huynh and Denise Gibs present Between the Buried and Me: A look at the Gravestones at Halifax’s “Old Burying Ground”

Law Lectures

• Feb. 8, noon, Room 150 Law, Justice Day Event, Donna Miller, assistant deputy minister of justice, presents The Role of the Attorney General and the Practice of Crown Law
• Feb. 9, 3:30 pm, Diefenbaker Centre, Dwight G. Newman presents The Ongoing Development of the Duty to Consult Aboriginal Peoples

WCVM Lectures

• Feb. 18, 12:30 pm, Room 2115 WCVM, D.L.T. Smith Visiting Scientist Lecture, Stephan von Hörsten, Alexander Frederick University, Erlangen, Germany, presents Role of the neuropeptide Y (NPY) – dipeptidyl-peptidase IV (DP4/CD26) axis in neuroendocrineimmune interactions
• March 22, 12:30, Room 2115 WCVM, J.G. O’Donoghue Memorial Lecture, Cornelia Farnum, professor of zoology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., presents Understanding Growth Plate Dynamics: In vivo-based approaches at multiple time scales

Humanities Research Unit

• Feb. 23, 4-6 pm, Arts 146, Dorit Naaman, Queen’s University, will present Between Diary and Documentary: Video Perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, a public screening and discussion.
• Feb. 25, 4-6 pm, Arts 146, Lorraine Weir, professor, UBC, presents In Defence of Reading: R.v. Sharpe to R.v. Leugner

Economics Seminar

• Feb. 10, 4 pm, Arts 807, Mobinul Huq presents Theoretical Analysis on Valuation of Time Saving

Physics and Engineering Physics

• March 11, 3:30 pm, Room 103 Physics, A. Kumarakrishnan, York University, presents Interchaning the Roles of Light and Matter

Philosophy in the Community

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

• Feb. 10, Viola Woodhouse presents How Informed is Informed Consent in Health Care?
• March 10, Leslie Howe presents Olympic Sports: An Oxymoron?

Biology Seminars

3:30 pm, Room 125 Biology

• Feb. 5, Pawel Brzezowski presents Talking with Singlet Oxygen: Eavesdropping on Conversations Between Chloroplasts and the Nucleus
• Feb. 12, Room 106 Biology, David Sanders presents A Protein Crystallographer’s View of Structural Biology: From Drug Design to Functional Understanding

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 1 pm in 1E85 Agriculture

• Feb. 5, Garth van der Kamp presents Ecohydrology of the Southern Boreal Forest in Saskatchewan
• Feb. 12, Octavio Ixtacuy López presents Social Organization, Territory and Indigenous People in Chiapas, Mexico
• Feb. 26, Sandeep Gupta presents GIS Techniques for a Road Information Management System: Dehradun, Uttarakhand
• March 19, Felix Hoehn presents The Law of Procedural Fairness in Land Use Planning
• March 26, Murray Bell presents Aquatic Cumulative Effect Indicators in Current Practice

Veterinary Microbiology

Fridays, 12:30 pm

• Feb. 12, VIDO lecture theatre, John Gordon, Canadian Centre for Health and Safety in Agriculture, presents The Interleukin-8 Chemokine Family: Much More Than Simple Triggers for Inflammation
• Feb. 19, VIDO lecture theatre, John Rubin presents Relatedness of Canine and Human S. aureus Isolated in Saskatoon

Microbiology and Immunology

Thursdays at 4 pm, Room B6, Health Sciences

• Feb. 11, David Palmer, Dept. of Chemistry, presents Understanding Enzymes of Bacterial Inositol Metabolism
• Feb. 25, William Roesler, Dept. of Biochemistry, presents Regulation of transcription factor activity through nuclear compartentation
• March 4, Sylvia van den Hurk, VIDO, presents Structure and Function of VP*, one of the major herpesvirus tegument proteins
• March 11, Keith Bonham, Saskatoon Cancer Centre, presents Drugging the cancer epigenome

Chemistry Seminars

• Feb. 5, 4 pm, Room 159 Thorvaldson, Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, presents Laser spectroscopy of clusters of linear triatomic molecules using a rapid-scan pulsed supersonic jet expansion source
• Feb. 11, 4 pm, Room 124 Thorvaldson, Priyabrat Dash, Dept. of Chemistry presents Towards the Rational Design of Nanoparticle Catalysts
• Feb. 12, 4 pm, Room 159 Thorvaldson, Allan East, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Regina, presents Computational studies of transition metal chemistry: summary of recent collaborations
• Feb. 24, 4 pm, Room 105 Thorvaldson, Sarathy Partha, Dept. of Chemistry, presents Structural and Inhibition Studies on UDP-galactopyranose Mutase