Following is a list of lecturers who ... - McGill University

Following is a list of lecturers who have participated in McGill’s Beatty Talks as

well as their affiliated organization, titles of their presentations, date of the event,

and sponsoring group or groups.

2010s

Margaret Rossiter "Women in Science and Medicine: Reflections on a Century"

October 13, 2012

Science Outreach, Redpath Museum, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, History and

Classical Studies, Medicine

Catherine Driscoll University of Sydney, Australia

"Media, Social Change and Lives of Girls"

October 11, 2012

Arts, Institute of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

Jeremy Waldron All Souls College, University of Oxford

"The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property"

October 4, 2012

Arts

Francis Fukuyama Stanford University

"The Origins of Political Order"

September 23, 2012

Political Science

Andrew Chanen University of Melbourne

"Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents"

May 10, 2012

Royal Victoria Hospital, Psychiatry

Michael Kearney Palliative Care Service Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: Whole Person Self-Care"

May 8, 2012

Council on Palliative Care

Jacques Neefjes Netherlands Cancer Institute

"A Genome-Wide Multidimentional RNAi Screen Reveals Pathways Controlling MHC Class II

Antigen Presentation"

February 27, 2012

Microbiology and Immunology

Harvey V. Fineberg Institute of Medicine

"The Health Populations: Roles and Responsibilities for the 21st Century"

February 16-17, 2012

Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health

Michael Holquist Yale University

"Why the Humanities Must Lose"

October 28, 2011

Law, Arts

Carla Hesse University of California, Berkeley

"Speech into Print: Charting the Rise of Female Authorship in the Nineteenth Century"

September 16, 2011

English

Ira Byock Palliative Care Service, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Centre, New Hampshire

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: The Ethics and Practice of Loving Care"

May 4, 2011


Fazie Hasan Abed Building Bridges across Communities (BRAC)

"Education is that which Liberates" and "Organizing People for Power Through the Path of

Education"

May 2-3, 2011

Education

Chris Impey University of Arizona

"How it Ends"

March 24, 2011

Anatomy and Cell Biology, Physics, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Nosheen Ali University of California, Berkeley

"Of Books and Bombs: Representing the War on Terror"

March 11, 2011

Integrated Studies in Education

Rodney Evans Temple University

"Excavations: Creating Black Gay History on Film"

March 4, 2011

Music

Naomi Oreskes University of California

"Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth"

February 10, 2011

School of Environment

Jocelyn Downie Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

"Assisted Death"

January 13, 2011

Law, McGill Research Group on Health and Law

Michael Watts University of Cambridge

"The Gulf War Never Happened: Baudrillard's Interrogation of 'Reality' and Social Theory"

October 14, 2010


Garrett Stewart Iowa University

"Bookwork: Medium to Concept to Object to Art"

September 23, 2010

German Studies

Kathleen M. Foley Cornell University

"Palliative Care: Shedding Light on Euthanasia"

May 4, 2010


John A. McCumber University of California, Los Angeles

"Substance and Freedom in Spinoza and Hagel"

April 9, 2010

Philosophy

Mona Domosh Dartmouth College

"The World was Never Flat: Early Global Encounters and the Messiness of Empire"

March 31, 2010

Geography

Lawrence Gostin Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University

"Meeting the Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Towards a Framework

Convention on Global Health"

March 25, 2010

McGill Research Group on Health and Law

Nathan Glazer Harvard University

"The Role of the Public Intellectual in America: Then and Now"

March 22, 2010

Sociology

Richard L. Sherwin New York Law School

"Legimatric: From the Digital Neo-Baroque to the Ethical Sublime in the Visualization of Law"

February 17, 2010

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI)

Priya Parmar Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)

"Hip Hop Culture and Youth Empowerment"

February 11, 2010


Colm Toibin Author

"Oscar Wilde in Prison"

February 11, 2010

Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, English

Nathan Cherny National Institute of Health, Washington, D.C.

"Caring for the Dying in Situations of War and Conflict: Finding Hope and Building Bridges"

April 28, 2009


Lewis Hyde Poet, Cultural Critic, and Public Intellectual

"For Forgetting"

April 20, 2009

English, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI)

Sheila Jasanoff Pforzheimer Harvard University

"Life and the Law: Configuring the Human"

March 19, 2009

Law, Bioethics, Social Studies in Medicine

Geoffrey A. Landis NASA John Glen Research Centre

"Colonizing Venus with Floating Cities"

March 5, 2009

Anatomy and Cell Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Joan Wallach "Public Education and Religious Symbols in France"

November 24, 2008

Dror Wahrman "God and the Enlightenment: Shifting Ideas About Providence and Causation in Eighteenth-

Century Western Europe"

October 19, 2008

Santra J. T. M. Evers "Lex Loci Meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in

Madagascar"

October 11, 2008

History

Linda Emanuel "Lessons in Living from the Dying: Understanding and Implementing Preference for Care"

May 6, 2008


Patrick Chamoiseau "Créolité"

May 1, 2008

History

John Gunderson "Psychoeducation of Borderline Patients and their Families: Overdue and Underutilized"

April 24, 2008

Psychiatry

Carl B. Pilcher "The Quest for Habitable Worlds and Life Beyond Earth"

March 15, 2008


M. Nylan "Beliefs about Seeing: The Moral Technology of Optics in Early China"

February 20, 2008

Centre for East Asian Research

Carlos Monsivais "Imagining the Americas"

February 13, 2008

Institute for the Study of Canada

John M. Coffin "Persistence & Diversity: New Insights into HIV-Host Relationship"

January 23, 2008

Microbiology and Immunology

John Witte "Ethics in the Secular State: New Horizons for Religious Consensus"

September 13, 2007

Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish "The Climate for Scientific Breakthrough: Then Versus Now"

August 2007

G. Scott Hubbard "Space Exploration: The Moon and Mars - A Vision of the Future"

March 15, 2007

Electron Microscopy Centre

Peter McLaren "Critical Pedagogy: An Elegy, Reprise of Revival?"

March 9, 2007

Education

Allen Scott "Capitalism and Urbanization in a New Key? The Cognitive-Cultural Dimension"

March 9, 2007

Geography

Douglas Kellner University of California, Los Angeles

"Hegemony and Resistance in Cyberculture"

October 19, 2006

Art History and Communications Studies, Political Science

Gerri Frager Dalhousie University

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: Critical Communication in the Care of Children"

May 1, 2006

The Council on Palliative Care

Karen Armstrong Religious Scholar and Author

"The Great Transformation"

April 27, 2006

Religious Studies and the McGill Bookstore

Sandra Harding University of California

"Women, Science and Modernity"

April 4, 2006

McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, History, Philosophy of Science, Social

Studies of Medicine

Robert Kirshner Harvard and American Astronomical Society

"Exploding Stars, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Cosmos"

March 30, 2006

Physics

William Ruddiman University of Virginia

"How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate?"

March 8, 2006

Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre

Roger Blandford Stanford University

"Black Holes: The End of Time or a New Beginning?"

January 5, 2006

Physics

Geoffrey Samuel University of Kent

"Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy: Is Law Truly a Social Science?"

October 26, 2005

Law

Hung Wu University of Chicago

"Ruins in Traditional Chinese Art and Visual Culture"

October 20, 2005

East Asian Studies, Art History and Communications Studies

Diane Meier Mount Sinai School of Medicine

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: Palliative Care in Hospitals"

May 3, 2005


Seth Shostak Centre for SETI Research

"When Will We Detect Extraterrestrials?"

March 30, 2005

Earth and Planetary Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Geography

Lev Manovich University of California, San Diego

"Info-Aesthetics: The New Information Aesthetics"

February 14, 2005

Art History and Communication Studies, Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité de l'Université

de Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Peter Fitzpatrick Birkbeck College

"Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy: The American Empire and the Rule of

Law"

January 26, 2005

Law

Mohammed Al-Hadid President, Jordan Red Crescent

"Human Relationships as a Crucial Component of Peace Building in the Middle East"

November 24, 2004

McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building

John Willinsky Public Knowledge Project, University of British Columbia

"Keep the World at Your Fingertips"

November 5, 2004

Graduate Students’ Society, Education

Sir James Black "The Greatest Benefit to Mankind"

September 23, 2004

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

David Kissane Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: Discovering Meaning in Illness and Suffering"

May 4, 2004

Council on Palliative Care (Sandra Goldberg Lecture)

Judit Bokser Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

"Latin American Jewish Communities: A Challenging Present"

March 31, 2004

Jewish Studies, Political Science

James Kasting, Christopher McKay, and Hojatollah Vali Penn State University, NASA-Ames Research Centre, McGill University

"Who on Earth Wants to Go to Mars?"

March 16, 2004

Anatomy and Cell Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Geography

John Campbell University of Canterbury

"Rutherford, Scientist Supreme: His Years at McGill and the Nobel Prize"

December 15, 2003

Chemistry, McGill Sigma-Xi Interdisciplinary Research Society

John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago

"Living an Isolated Existence in a Changing Social World"

November 21, 2003

Psychology

Henry Giroux Pennsylvania State University

"Higher Education, Youth and the Crisis of Intellectuals"

November 7, 2003

Education

Eric J. Cassell Cornell University

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: Suffering and Healing"

May 6, 2003


Mary Zanarini Harvard University

"Borderline Personality Disorder: What Patients and Families Need to Know"

April 10, 2003

Psychiatry, School of Social Work

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli University of Berkley, California

"Exploring DNA Structure and Enzymology Using Single Molecule Methods"

April 3, 2003

Biochemistry

Michel Delon Sorbonne

"Un Débat Moral au Siècle des Lumières: Peut-On Inventer un Plaisir Nouveau?"

March 28, 2003

Langue et littérature françaises, English

Christopher McKay NASA Ames Research Centre

"The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life"

March 19, 2003


Miroslav Radman Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire Evolutive et Médicale (France)

"Conservation Versus Change: Lesson from Evolution"

March 12, 2003

Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Physiology, Sociology, Social Studies in Medicine

Sari Nusseibeh Al Quds University

"Peace, Partnerships and Politics in the Middle East: Directions for the Brave"

February 5, 2003

McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building, School of Social Work

Douglas Erwin Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

"A Cambrian Conundrum: Ecology and Development in the Birth of Animals"

January 30, 2003

Redpath Museum

Rodolfo Sacco University of Turin, Italy

"Une Baguette et Deux Chimpanzés"

November 11, 2002

Centre for Private and Comparative Law

Sir John Daniel UNESCO

"Technology is the Answer: What was the Question?"

September 23, 2002

Centre for University Teaching and Learning

Greil Marcus University of California, Berkley

"The Sound of One City: In Los Angeles, Early 50s, Easy Rawlins Meets the Medallions, Agrees

to Disagree"

May 20, 2002

Art History and Communication Studies, Canadian Branch of the International Association of

Popular Music

Ned Cassem Harvard University

"Lessons in Living from the Dying: Celebrating Life Together"

May 7, 2002


Peter Birks University of Oxford

"Conscientious Enemies of the Rule of Law"

March 14, 2002

Law

John Rummel NASA

"Colonizing Mars: Dream of Reality?"

February 20, 2002

Earth and Planetary Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology

John D. Caputo Villanova University

"There are no Truths, Only Texts"

January 31, 2002

Religious Studies, Philosophy

Bunker Roy Barefoot College of India

"Demystifying Technology"

January 25, 2002

McGill Chapter of Engineers without Borders

Luc Ferry Paris

"Qu'est Qu'une Vie Bonne?"

October 29, 2001

Law, Philosophy (with support from the Consulat général de France à Québec)

Alain Touraine École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

"In or Out: Social Movements and Globalization"

October 18, 2001

Sociology (with support from the Consulat général de France à Québec)

Barbara Epstein Genesis Israel

"A Conceptual Model for Understanding Empowerment Practice"

March 21, 2001

McGill Middle East Program

Mike Davis "Wild in the Streets: Hot Rod Riots and the Origins of the New Left"

March 16, 2001

Art History and Communication Studies

Peter Singer Princeton University

"Changing Attitudes to Life and Death"

March 8, 2001

Law

Esther Jungreis Hineni

"Discovering the Value of Spirituality in Post-Holocaust North America"

January 25, 2001

Chabad House and McGill Chaplaincy

Nancee Blum University of Iowa

"The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder on Patients and Families"

January 25, 2001

Psychiatry (MUHC), McGill Couple and Family Clinic (School of Social Work)

Robert George Princeton University

"Kelsen and Acquinas on the 'Natural Law Doctrine'"

November 30, 2000

Law

Brendan O'Leary London School of Economics

"Irish Peace Accord: Prospects and Problems"

November 2, 2000

Research Group in International Security, Political Science

Marjorie Garber Harvard University

"Representing the Unrepresentable"

September 28, 2000

Art History and Communication Studies

Claude Hagège Collège de France

"Multilingualism within the North American Context"

September 28, 2000

Quebec Studies Program, Second Language Education, English and French Language Centre,

Linguistics, Languages and Translation

David Levy Jarnac Observatory and Parade

"More Things in Heaven and Earth: Speculations on Life and the Universe"

February 17, 2000 (followed by an astrobiology forum on March 9, 2000 with various speakers)

Earth and Planetary Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Geography

Catherine E. Snow Harvard University

"Ensuring Success in Literacy Acquisition: Why is it so Hard?"

February 11, 2000

Psychology

Michael Benedikt University of Texas at Austin

"Re-Evaluation"

February 1, 2000

Graduate Program in Communications

Mochtar Buchori Jakarta

"The Rebuilding of the Indonesian Nation"

December 6, 1999

Indonesia Project, Philosophy, Education

Roger Chartier École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris)

"Readings of Revolutions, the Construction of Authorship between Science and Literature,

Molière entre la scène et la plage"

September 29-30, 1999

French Language and Literature

Steve Fuller University of Warwick

"What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Stronger: Why the Science Wars May Turn Out to be a Good

Thing, After All"

September 21, 1999

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Catherine Pickstock Emmanuel College, Cambridge

"Plato's Liturgical Philosophy: The Good - The City - The Soul"

September 20, 21 and 22, 1999

English, Philosophy, Religious Studies, the Montreal Diocesan Theological College

Kathleen M. Foley Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York

"Transforming the Culture of Death"

May 11, 1999


William Maixner University of North Carolina

"Chronic Pain is Mainly in the Brain"

April 8, 1999

Dentistry

Joseph Raz University of Oxford

"Disagreements in Politics"

March 25, 1999

Law

Art Spiegelman "The Making of MAUS"

March 24, 1999

Hillel Jewish Student Centre and McGill Chaplaincy

Hon. Justice Richard Goldstone Constitutional Court of South Africa

"Closing Plenary, International Conference on Hate, Genocide and Human Rights: 50 Years

Later"

January 28, 1999

Law, InterAmicus

Jay Budziszewski University of Texas

"Handling Issues of Conscience in the Academy"

January 22, 1999

Chaplaincy, Culture and Values in Education

Benjamin Gidron Ben Guiron University, Israel

"Peace/Conflict Resolution Organizations in South African, Northern Ireland and

Israeli/Palestinian Societies"

November 4, 1998

Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training

Claude Lorius CNRS, France

"Climatic Change: A View from Polar Ice Cores"

November 2, 1998

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Jörg Sennheiser Sennheiser Eletronic, Technical University of Hannover

"Microphones for the Age of Multimedia"

September 22, 1998

Music

Claude Steele Stanford University

"A Threat in the Air: How Stereotypes Shape Intellectual Identity and Performance"

April 3, 1998

Psychology

Philippe Schmitter Stanford University

"The Meaning of Citizenship in a Transnational World"

March 19, 1998

Political Science

Bruce M. Wright New York

"Bangs and Whimpers: Enigmas of the Racial Vex"

March 17, 1998

Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training, Consortium for Ethnicity and Strategic Social

Planning

David Blakenhorn Author of Fatherless America

Principal Speaker at Conference "Show us the Father: Paternity in Faith and History"

February 6-8, 1998

Newman Centre, Religious Studies, Culture and Values in Education, Chaplaincy, Continuing

Formation Services

William Leroy Hylander Duke University

"Evolution and Mechanical Loading of the Temporomandibular Joine"

November 5-6, 1997

Michael Sandel Harvard University

"Democracy's Discontent: Political Identity in a Global Age"

October 23, 1997

Law

Patricia Smith Churchland University of California, San Diego

"Towards a Neurobiology of Consciousness"

September 29, 1997

Anesthesia

J.-C. Yoccoz Université de Paris-Sud

"Celestial Mechanics, Statistical Mechanics and Dynamic Systems"

May 23, 1997

Mathematics and Statistics

Alan Kay The Walt Disney Company

"Is the Best Way to Predict the Future to Invent It? Or Prevent It?

April 4, 1997

Computer Science

Judith Jarvis Thomson Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Assisted Suicide"

April 1997

Law

V. S. Ramachandran University of California, San Diego

"Illusions of Body Image in Neurology"

March 21, 1997

Psychology

Jewelle Taylor Gibbs University of California, Berkeley

"The Challenge of Multicultural Society: Caribbean Youth in Canada"

February 7, 1997

School of Social Work

John Gordon McVie European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer

"Genes and Jeans"

September 20, 1996

Pharmacology and Oncology

John Shearer Kelley University of Edinburgh

"Four Founders of the McGill Medical Foundation: The Edinburgh Connection"

September 20, 1996

Pharmacology and Oncology

Keith Hammond Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

"Lecture in Conjunction with FAO's 50th Anniversary"

April 4, 1996

Animal Science

Durand Jacobs University of California

"Gambling Behaviours in Children and Adolescents"

April 1, 1996

Educational and Counselling Psychology

Anthony Smith Magdalen College, University of Oxford

“Oxbridge: The Real Reasons Why it Works: Information as a Paradigm of Culture”

March 26-27, 1996

Culture and Values in Education

Shelley E. Taylor University of California, Los Angeles

"Positive Illusions, Mental Health and Survival"

March 1996

Psychology

Jean Bethke Elshtain University of Chicago

"The King is Dead, Sovereignty and Century's End"

February 8, 1996

Law and Political Science

Neil Gilbert University of California, Berkeley

"Changing the Philosophy of Welfare"

December 7-8, 1995

Social Work

Noam Chomsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"The New World Order: Old or New?"

October 3, 1995

Linguistics

Urie Bronfenbrenner Cornell University

"Developmental Psychology in the 21st Century: Comments by a Participant Observer"

March 17, 1995

Psychology

Maria Luisa Puga Mexican Novelist

"The Culture of an Indocumentado"

February 21, 1995

Communications

Horacio Boneo United Nations

"Free Elections in Emerging Democracies"

January 26, 1995

United Nations Students Association

Laura Nader University of California, Berkeley

"Colonizing the Mind: The Anthropology of Everyday Life"

November 1993

Anthropology

Paul Ekman University of California

"Faces and Emotion"

October 1993

Psychology

Anders Ericsson Florida State University

"Expert Performance: Its Structure and Acquisition"

April 29, 1993

Cognitive Science Centre

Funded in memory of Guy Groen

Walter Kintsch University of Toronto

"Learning from Texts"

April 8, 1993


Funded in memory of Guy Groen

Ronald Dworkin University of Oxford

"Justice in the Distribution of Health Care"

March 17, 1993

Law

Gayatri Spivak Columbia University

"Derrida and Marx"

March 4, 1993

Communications

Clemente Ruiz Duran Universidade Nacional Automade, Mexico

"Globalization and the Emergence of Regional Markets"

October 6, 1992

Developing Area Studies

Edward Zigler Yale University

"Efficacy of Early Childhood Education"

May 1, 1992

Educational Psychology

Carlos Fuentes Novelist, Mexico

"Baroque New World"

March 27, 1992

Hispanic Studies, Cummings Series

Norman Daniels Tufts University

"Distributive Justice, Access to Health Care and Equal Opportunity"

March 13, 1992

Law

Frances Fox Piven City University of New York (CUNY)

"Justice and Human Rights"

March 2, 1992

McHRAT School of Social Work

Alan Lesgold, James Greeno, Edward Smith and Janet Kolodner University of Pittsburg, Stanford University, University of Michigan, George Institute of

Technology

"Cognitive Science Colloquium"

December 1991-April 1992


Gerd Hirzinger German Aerospace Research Establishment

"Advances in Sensor-Controlled Robot Systems"

November 19, 1991

McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Kenneth Heilman University of Florida

"The Substrates of Long-Term Memory"

April 29, 1991

Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery

Roy Porter Wellcome Institute

"The Development of Psychiatry since the 17th Century"

March 11-13, 1991

Medicine

David Sugarman Lancaster University

"New Directions in Modern Legal History"

March 6, 1991

Law

Jay Weiss Duke University

"Immune System Responses to Stress"

September 20-21, 1990

Psychology, Hebb Series

R. J. Birgeneau Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"High Temperature Superconductivity"

March 30, 1990

Physics

S. Muntemba Environmental Liaison Centre International, Nairobi

"Third World Perspectives on Sustainable Development"

March 25-28, 1990

Anthropology

S. C. Jacobson University of Utah

"High Performance Robotics"

Spring 1990

McRCIM

Ward Swingle "Swiggle Stype Contemporary Vocal Techniques"

March 16-17, 1990

Music

Gerald Postema University of North Carolina

"Foundations of Political Community"

March 12-16, 1990

Law

Sandra Scarr University of Virginia

"Genes and Environment Combine in Development"

March 8-9, 1990


Robert Weinberg Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Oncogenes and Antioncogenes: A Clue to Cancer"

December 1989

Biochemistry

Robert Shepard Stanford University

"How the Mind Reflects the World"

September 29, 1989


Sir Michael Atiyah University of Oxford

"New Ideas in Geometry and Physics"

September 26, 1989

Math and Statistics

Katherine Harris City University of New York (CUNY)

"Movement Towards Integration: Communications Research for the Next 25 Years"

September 23, 1989

Human Communications Disorders

Allen Newell Carnegie-Mellon University

"SOAR: An Integrated Architecture for Intelligence"

April 19, 1989

Electrical Engineering

George Fletcher Columbia

"Inside Gorbachev's Courts"

March 2, 1989

Law

Mort Mishkin National Institute of Mental Health

"The Anatomy of Memory"

February 24, 1989

Psychology

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