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February 10 2001: Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance and personal evil.
May 11 2003: Guy Proulx
Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care delivers a lecture entitled, Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging Brain.
February 3 2001:Kay Redfield Jamison
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
January 24 2004: Lee Smolin
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
April 15 2001: Mark Kingwell
Mark Kingwell delivers a lecture on Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life. Has pop culture ruined the intellectual?
January 24 2004: Zach Hall
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
March 21 2003: Leon Kass
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses a fundamental philosophical question: Why not immortality?
March 11 2001: Wendy Steiner
Wendy Steiner, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania presents a lecture based on her book The Trouble with Beauty.
June 28 2008: Norman Doidge
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, discusses the findings in his latest book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of brain neuroplasticity.
June 21 2008: Howard Gardner
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of "Five Minds for the Future". In this lecture he discusses his latest theories on cognition and creativity and outlines why he is currently researching…
June 14 2008: Andrea Mandel-Campbell
Business journalist Andrea Mandel-Campbell, author of "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson", discusses her views on why Canadian corporations have failed to take advantage of the benefits of globalization and emerging markets, a trend that she believes…
June 14 2008: John Stape
John Stape, the author of "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad", outlines the ways in which his book, released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the novelist's birth, differs from earlier biographies of Conrad.
June 7 2008: Hamida Ghafour
Journalist Hamida Ghafour on her book "The Sleeping Buddha: Portraits of a Changing Afghanistan".
May 31 2008: Michael Eric Dyson
Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "April 4, 1968", discusses the life and death of Martin Luther King as they pertain to race issues in the U.S. and around the world. 40 years after King's assassination, the race for the leadership of the Democratic …
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