Whelen Lecture

Best-selling author and anthropologist Margaret Visser will deliver the 2010 Whelen Lecture on Feb. 23. Her talk is titled, I Swear: Oaths, Curses, and Modernity. The public lecture starts at 7 pm in the Neatby-Timlin Theatre (241 Arts), followed by a book signing and reception. Admission is free.

Sorokin Lecture

On  Jan. 28 in Arts 143, Yanjie Bian, University of Minnesota and Xi’an Jiaotong University, will present the Sorokin Lecture, this year entitled The Increasing Significance of Guanxi in Chinese Transitional Economy. The lecture begins at 7:30 pm.

Spirituality and Medicine

The Dept. of Psychology and the Culture and Human Development Program present AM. Ghadirian, professor, McGill University, who will present Is Spirituality Relevant to the Practice of Medicine? Feb. 4 at 4 pm in the Neatby-Timlin Theatre.

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

Electronic Text Research at the U of S

• Jan. 28, 3 pm, Arts 145, Jeff Smith will present Kaleidoscapes: Reimagining the Necessary Features of Writing and Analysis Tools

Languages and Linguistics Research Seminar

• Jan. 27, 3:50 pm, Arts 145.1, Ben Daniel will present Modelling Social Capital in Virtual Communities: Bayesian Belief Network Approaches

Public-Private Mix in Health Care

• Feb. 2, 6:30 pm, Diefenbaker Building theatre, Haizhen Mou will present The Public-Private Mix in Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries: An Empirical Investigation

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

• Jan. 22, Joshua Traylor presents Comparative Breeding Ecology in Arctic Geese of Different Body Size: An Example in Ross’s and Lesser Snow Geese
• Jan. 29, Lipu Wang presents The Role of TGA Transcription Factors n Modulating Plant Defense Responses
• Feb. 5, Pawel Brzezowski presents Talking with Singlet Oxygen: Eavesdropping on Conversations Between Chloroplasts and the Nucleus 

Geography and Planning Colloquia

Fridays at 2:30 pm in Room 146 Kirk Hall

• Jan. 22, Xuezhong Jiang (Guo) presents Remote Sensing in the Yangtze Estuary Under Reduced Sediment Flux
• Jan. 29, Paul Hackett presents Historical Photos: A Data Source for Aboriginal Health
• Feb. 5, Garth van der Kamp presents Ecohydrology of the Southern Boreal Forest in Saskatchewan

Veterinary Microbiology

Fridays, 12:30 pm, Room 2105 WCVM

• Jan. 29 in the VIDO Lecture Theatre, Chunyan Li presents The Characterization and Function of Endogenous Dendritic Cells in DCIL-10 Treated Asthmatic Mouse Model; and Lisanework Ayalew presents The Role of Polypeptide VIII (pVIII) of Bovine Adenovirus-3 in Viral Replication
• Feb. 5 in the VIDO Lecture Theatre, Jean Potter presents Epithelial Cell Signaling in the Innate Immune Response to Bacterial Infection

Microbiology and Immunology

Thursdays at 4 pm, Room B6, Health Sciences

• Jan. 28, Janet Hill, Dept. Veterinary Microbiology, presents Genomic Diversity in Natural Microbial Communities
• Feb. 4, Henry Tabel, Dept. Veterinary Microbiology, presents How Does a Blood Parasite Fool the Immune System?
• Feb 11, David Palmer, Dept. of Chemistry, presents Understanding Enzymes of Bacterial Inositol Metabolism