Sorokin Lecture

• March 31, 7:30 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, the 42nd annual Sorokin Lecture features Andrea Doucet, Carleton University, who will present Breadwinning Moms and Caregiving Dads:  A Quiet Revolution, A Resilient Problem, and One Persistent Puzzle

Law Lectures

• March 7, noon, Room 150, MLT Lecture Theatre, College of Law, Teresa Scassa, CRC In Information Law, University of Ottawa, presents Ambush Marketing
• March 14, noon, Room 150, MLT Lecture Theatre, College of Law, Peter Grant, Grant Native Law, Vancouver, BC, presents Aboriginal Law and Aboriginal Title

Israeli Scholar Lecture

• March 10, 4:30 pm, Neatby-Timlin Theatre, David Menashri, Tel Aviv University/Oxford University, presents Iran: Domestic Challenges and Regional Ramifications

Women’s Theatre and Drama

• March 30, 4:30-5:30 pm, Room 161 John Mitchell Building, Kym Bird, professor at York University, presents “The Aspirations of my Sex”: Theatre and the question of women in fin de siecle and early Twentieth Canada

J.M. Boving Lecture

• March 31, 7:30 pm, Room 18 Edwards School of Business, the Department of Economics is presenting the inaugural J.M Boving Lecture where Dani Rodrick, Hariri Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, will present The Globalization Paradox.

WRTC Seminar

For more information or to register, contact the Western Regional Training Centre for Health Services Research at 966-8866

• March 11, 11 am-12:30 pm, Studio B (EMAP), Education Building, Sara Allin, postdoctoral fellow, University of Toronto, presents Examining Aspects of Equity in Canada’s Health System. 

Bob McDonald Lecture

• March 7, 7 pm, Neatby-Timlin Lecture Theatre, Bob McDonald, host of the popular CBC science show Quirks and Quarks, will present What If Everything You Know Is Wrong?, a historical look at how science has continuously shown that human perception of the universe is incorrect.

English Research Colloquium

• March 4, 3:30 pm, Digital Research Centre, 145 Arts, Marcel DeCoste, University of Regina, presents “(AND YOU GET FAR TOO MUCH PUBLICITY ALREADY WHOEVER YOU ARE)”: Gossip, Celebrity and Modernist Authorship in Evelyn Waugh’s Vile Bodies

Governor General Lecture Series

• March 25, noon, Convocation Hall, the U of S, the CBC and the Royal Society of Canada are featuring Clyde Hertzman, CRC in Population Health and Human Development, UBC, presenting a Governor General Lecture entitled Are we the people we need to be? Early human development and the challenges of the 21st century

Veterinary Microbiology Seminar Series

12:30 p.m., Lecture Theatre – VIDO

• March 4, Jean Potter presents Epithelial cell signaling in innate immune responses to infection
• March 18, Suresh Tikoo presents Non-Human Adenovirus

Neural Systems Lecture

• March 25, 2 pm, Room B450 Health Sciences, the Neural Systems and Plasticity Research Groups presents Kurt Haas, Dept. of Cellular and Physiological Sciences and the Brain Research Centre, UBC, who will deliver Imaging Structural and Functional plasticity in the intact and awake developing brain

WCVM Events

Room 2115, WCVM

• March 8, 12:30-1:30 pm, Robert and Virginia Rausch Visiting Professorship, Dr. Hana Weingartl, CFIA, Winnipeg, presents Pathogenesis of Nipah virus in swine
• March 9, 12:30-1:30 pm, Robert and Virginia Rausch Visiting Professorship, Dr. Hana Weingartl, CFIA, Winnipeg, presents Emergence of zoonotic viruses – the pig connection
• March 29, 12:30-1:30 pm, DLT Smith Short Term Visitorship, Dr. Matthias Ochs, Hannover Medical School, Germany, presents Quantitative microscopic analysis of the pulmonary surfactant system

Microbiology and Immunology Series

4 pm, Room B6 Health Sciences Building

• March 10, Biomedical Sciences Divisional Speaker Abigail Salyers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presents The human intestinal tract: a hotbed of antibiotic resistance gene transfer
• March 17, Christopher Rudulier, PhD student seminar, supervisor Peter Bretscher, presents CD4 T cell Number Controls the Th1/Th2 Phenotype: Mechanism and Implication for Disease Treatment

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 3:30 pm in Room 146 Kirk Hall

• March 4, Sandra Beardsall presents Talking to Strangers: Feminist Women in Ecumenism (International Women’s Day public lecture)
• March 11, Kai Wang presents Optical and Radar Remote Sensed Data in Large-Area Wildlife Habitat Mapping

Philosophy in the Community

7 pm, The Refinery, 609 Dufferin Ave.  www.usask.ca/philosophy/

• March 9, Anthony Jenkins presents Skepticism and the Fate of Philosophy