Video Presentations
2026
Hurricanes in Nova Scotia: the 1757 Hurricane That Nearly Rewrote World History … And More (John Dickie)
2026-01-13
2026-01-13
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List of Past Lectures
#1 (2011) Eric Parsons - Environmental Problems and Their Remediation @HRM
#2 (2011) Jock Murray - An Historical View of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems @HRM
#3 (2012) Andrew Hebda - Insects and Other Invertebrates that Share our Homes. It’s Their World, Not Ours @HRM
#4 (2012) Phil Belitsky - Story of Transplantation and How It Helped Transform 20th Century Medicine @HRM
#5 (2012) Christine Chambers - Pain, the Fifth Vital Sign @HRM
#6 (2012) Christopher Field - Some of What We Should Know About Statistics @HRM
#7 (2012) Melissa Andrew - Problems of Aging @HRM
#8 (2012) Paul Mandell - History of the Earth’s Climate and Its Changes @HRM
#9 (2013) Monica MacDonald - Atlantic Canada and the War of 1812 @HRM
#10 (2013) Michael Collins - Impressionist Paintings, Economic and Social Reasons @HRM
#11 (2013) Philip Welch - End of Life Issues and Physician-Assisted Death @HRM
#12 (2013) Jocelyn Downie - An Overview of End of Life Law and Policy in Canada and Abroad @HRM
#13 (2013) Robert C. Hutchins - Renewable Resources in Nova Scotia @HRM
#14 (2013) Francoise Baylis - Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation @HRM
#15 (2013) Burris Devanne - A Funny Thing Happened on My Way through Africa @HRM
#16 (2013) Gail Eskes - Brain Fitness: A Prescription for Successful Aging @HRM
#17 (2014-Feb-11) Mayann Francis - The Vice-Regal Office @HRM
#18 (2014-Feb-25) Daphna Levit - An Israeli Explores the Concept of a Homeland for the Jews in Palestine @HRM
#19 (2014-Mar-25) Patricia Doyle Bedwell - Mi’kmaq Women: Educational Equity and Cultural Rejuvenation @HRM
#20 (2014-Apr-02) Elizabeth Haigh - The Troubles in Ukraine: Past, Present, Future @HRM
#21 (2014-Apr-29) Jeanne Desveaux - Legal Problems of the Elderly @HRM
#22 (2014-May-27) Peter Glenister - Glenn Gould @HRM
#23 (2014-Jun-10) Colin Starnes & Mary Lu Redden - University Set Free: Halifax Humanities @HRM
#24 (2014-Sep-11) Wanda Morris - Dying with Dignity @HRM
#25 (2014-Dec-02) Jennifer Farrell - Christmas Eve in Paris: The Setting for Puccini’s Opera, La Bohème
@HRM
#26 (2015-Jan-21) Bud Snow - Peacekeeping – A Police Perspective @HRM
#27 (2015-Mar-25) Glenn Rodrigues - Rethink Pharmacy @HRM
#28 (2015-Apr-15) William Fenrick - Prosecuting War Criminals in the Hague @HRM
#29 (2015-Apr-27) Fred Vaughan - Anthony Trollope @HRM
#30 (2015-May-25) Laurette Geldenhuys - Laboratory Medicine and Its Contribution to Clinical Care: A Historical Perspective @HRM
#31 (2015-Oct-01) Philip Welch - Canada Needs a National Pharmacare Program – URGENTLY! @HRM
#32 (2015-Nov-12) Janet Maybee - The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey @HRM
#33 (2015-Dec-03) Natalia Koutovenko - The Hermitage and itsTreasures @HRM
#34 (2016-Mar-31) Mary Lu Redden - Life Lessons from the Great Books @HRM
#35 (2016-Apr-21) Alan Wilson - Highland Shepherd: James MacGregor-Father of the Scottish Enlightenment in Nova Scotia
@HRM
#36 (2016-Apr-28) Janet Guildford - Women Volunteers: How They Helped Win the War: Reinterpreting the Impact of the Second World War on Halifax
@HRM
#37 (2016-Oct-13) William Fenrick - Law and Contemporary Conflicts: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and ISIS
@HRM
#38 (2016-Nov-03) George Boyd - A Tribute to Number 2 – The Inside Story of the Only Black Battalion in Canadian history
@HRM
#39 (2017-Feb-09) Andrew Welch - Rethinking Tomorrow's Values: A new way to view yesterday's values in the context of today's world
@HRM
#40 (2017-Mar-02) Stephen Kimber - The Future of Journalism, with special reference to the local situation
@HRM
#41 (2017-May-04) Jock Murray & Janet Murray - Sir Charles Tupper, from fighting doctor to Father of Confederation
@HRM
#42 (2017-May-11) Bosko Loncarevic - Danubia: The Heart of Europe @HRM
#43 (2017-Oct-26) Mary Anne White - What an Informed Person Should Know about Energy @HRM
#44 (2017-Nov-23) Megan Bailey - Intergenerational Fisheries Access and the Future of Fish as Food @HRM
#45 (2018-Mar-08) Robert Cervelli - Rebuilding resilient local communities and local economies @HRM
#46 (2018-Apr-16) Christopher Cutler - Pollinator declines & pesticides: are neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments important? @HRM
#47 (2018-May-14) Bosko Loncarevic - Discoverers of the Northwest Passage: From Hearne (1771) to Harper (2016) @HRM
#48 (2018-Oct-22) David Patriquin - The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands @HRM
#49 (2018-Nov-26) Rollie Thompson - What Every Senior Needs to Know about Family Law (But Never Got Around to Asking) @HRM
#50 (2019-Feb-25) Alex Boutilier - From 14th Colony to Confederation: 1749-1867 @HRM
#51 (2019-Mar-25) Lianne Bradshaw - Investment Fraud and Current Threats in the Marketplace @HRM
#52 (2019-May-02) Hilda Taylor - Classical Chinese Gardens @HRM
#53 (2019-Jun-03) Paula Wedge - The Trifecta of Estate Planning: Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Personal Directives @HRM
#54 (2019-Oct-21) Clary Croft - Folklore: Something Old is Always New @HRM
#55 (2019-Nov-25) David Gardner - Insomnia Keeping You Up? Sleeping Pills Getting You Down? @HRM
#56 (2020-Feb-24) Allan Marble - The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920: The Nova Scotia Experience @HRM
#57 (2021 Jan 25) Paige Black - Children’s Rights Upfront: Centering Children in the Quest for Sustainable Peace @HRM
#58 (2021-Mar-24) Bill Li - Biological Oceanography: Plankton Ecology Research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography 1962-2012 @HRM
#59 (2021-Jun-03) Nabiha Atallah - Welcome Home: Newcomers to Nova Scotia @HRM
#60 (2021-Oct-28) Vernon Oickle - Things That Go Bump In The Night @HRM
#61 (2021-Nov-23) Delvina Bernard - Reparations as an economic and social development strategy to overcome the legacy of enslavement, colonization and cultural genocide @HRM
#62 (2022-Feb-14) Robin Metcalfe - Why People Hate Art @HRM
#63 (2022-Mar-10) Shelagh Meagher & Sarah Tanner - Bladder Issues: Why They Happen, Why Kegels Don’t Help, and How to Get Control Back @HRM
#64 (2022-May-16) Janet Sperling - Lyme Disease in Nova Scotia @HRM
#65 (2022-Sep-16) Sylvain Charlebois with Costas Halavrezos - It's Time To Learn More About Canada's Food System @Liverpool
#66 (2022-Oct-06) Simon Robinson, Sibylle Marquardt, Anna Plaskett - The Wonderful World of Dance and Music @HRM
#67 (2022-Nov-07) Mayann Francis - Conviction @HRM
#68 (2023-Jan-16) Steven Schwinghamer - Pier 21 @HRM
#69 (2023-Jan-30) Jackie Barkley & Alec Stratford - Poverty is a Political Choice @HRM
#70 (2023-Feb-01) David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 1 @Mahone Bay
#71 (2023-Feb-13) Kristin Williams - Four Women Leaders @HRM
#72 (2023-Feb-15) David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 2 @Mahone Bay
#73 (2023-Jun-09) Arad Gharagozli - Galaxia Mission Systems @Mahone Bay
#74 (2023-Sep-07) Cavan O'Leary - The Battle of Agincourt @HRM
#75 (2023-Sep-14) Mike LaLeune - Olympic Games: A Look Behind the Curtain @Liverpool
#76 (2023-Sep-19) Harry Thurston - A Writer's Life In Nature @Truro
#77 (2023-Sep-27) Stephen Augustine - The Mi'kmaw Creation Story @HRM
#78 (2023-Oct-05) Sharon Reashore - The Canadian Arctic: Life in Nunavut @HRM
#79 (2024-Jan-16) Lori Weber - MAiD: A Family Affair @HRM
#80 (2024-Feb-12) Mark Alberstat - Sherlock Holmes: From Popular Read To Pop Culture @HRM
#81 (2024-Mar-21) Zoe Lucas - Fifty Years of Connecting with Savle Island @Mahone Bay
#82 (2024-Apr-02) George Butters - Artificial Intelligence: Living With OpenAI and ChatGPT @HRM
#83 (2024-May-06) Jim Abraham - Nova Scotia's Changing Climate @HRM
#84 (2024-Jun-07) Ken Johnson - Space Debris and the Global Positioning System @Mahone Bay
#85 (2024-Sep-12) Kevin Deveau - Democracy: In Decline or Just a Transition? @Liverpool
#86 (2024-Sep-25) Jules Chiasson - The Acadians Here and Now @HRM
#87 (2024-Sep-27) Peter Welch - What On Earth Are You Thinking? @Mahone Bay
#88 (2024-Nov-21) Dan Conlin and Patricia Acheson - Fun With Flags @HRM
#89 (2025-Jan-13) Stewart Lamont - Fish Farming: Who Speaks For The Lobster? @HRM
#90 (2025-Mar-10) Mary Ellen MacDonald - Grief Literacy: Understanding Grief @HRM
#91 (2025-Mar-21) Ian Tomaz - Lecture With Performed Music In A Concert Hall @Mahone Bay
#92 (2025-Mar-24) Andrea Currie - Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves @HRM
#93 (2025-May-26) Adam Lajeunesse - How Secure is Canada’s Arctic? @HRM
#94 (2025-Sep-05) Lynette Richards - Call Me Bill @HRM
#95 (2025-Sep-25) Anne Marie Lane Jonah - Placing Women's Stories In The Historical Landscape @Liverpool
#96 (2025-Oct-03) Emily Cormier - An Eye in the Sky: Using Satellites to Monitor Young Lemon Sharks Habitat @Mahone Bay
#2 (2011) Jock Murray - An Historical View of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems @HRM
#3 (2012) Andrew Hebda - Insects and Other Invertebrates that Share our Homes. It’s Their World, Not Ours @HRM
#4 (2012) Phil Belitsky - Story of Transplantation and How It Helped Transform 20th Century Medicine @HRM
#5 (2012) Christine Chambers - Pain, the Fifth Vital Sign @HRM
#6 (2012) Christopher Field - Some of What We Should Know About Statistics @HRM
#7 (2012) Melissa Andrew - Problems of Aging @HRM
#8 (2012) Paul Mandell - History of the Earth’s Climate and Its Changes @HRM
#9 (2013) Monica MacDonald - Atlantic Canada and the War of 1812 @HRM
#10 (2013) Michael Collins - Impressionist Paintings, Economic and Social Reasons @HRM
#11 (2013) Philip Welch - End of Life Issues and Physician-Assisted Death @HRM
#12 (2013) Jocelyn Downie - An Overview of End of Life Law and Policy in Canada and Abroad @HRM
#13 (2013) Robert C. Hutchins - Renewable Resources in Nova Scotia @HRM
#14 (2013) Francoise Baylis - Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation @HRM
#15 (2013) Burris Devanne - A Funny Thing Happened on My Way through Africa @HRM
#16 (2013) Gail Eskes - Brain Fitness: A Prescription for Successful Aging @HRM
#17 (2014-Feb-11) Mayann Francis - The Vice-Regal Office @HRM
#18 (2014-Feb-25) Daphna Levit - An Israeli Explores the Concept of a Homeland for the Jews in Palestine @HRM
#19 (2014-Mar-25) Patricia Doyle Bedwell - Mi’kmaq Women: Educational Equity and Cultural Rejuvenation @HRM
#20 (2014-Apr-02) Elizabeth Haigh - The Troubles in Ukraine: Past, Present, Future @HRM
#21 (2014-Apr-29) Jeanne Desveaux - Legal Problems of the Elderly @HRM
#22 (2014-May-27) Peter Glenister - Glenn Gould @HRM
#23 (2014-Jun-10) Colin Starnes & Mary Lu Redden - University Set Free: Halifax Humanities @HRM
#24 (2014-Sep-11) Wanda Morris - Dying with Dignity @HRM
#25 (2014-Dec-02) Jennifer Farrell - Christmas Eve in Paris: The Setting for Puccini’s Opera, La Bohème
@HRM
#26 (2015-Jan-21) Bud Snow - Peacekeeping – A Police Perspective @HRM
#27 (2015-Mar-25) Glenn Rodrigues - Rethink Pharmacy @HRM
#28 (2015-Apr-15) William Fenrick - Prosecuting War Criminals in the Hague @HRM
#29 (2015-Apr-27) Fred Vaughan - Anthony Trollope @HRM
#30 (2015-May-25) Laurette Geldenhuys - Laboratory Medicine and Its Contribution to Clinical Care: A Historical Perspective @HRM
#31 (2015-Oct-01) Philip Welch - Canada Needs a National Pharmacare Program – URGENTLY! @HRM
#32 (2015-Nov-12) Janet Maybee - The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey @HRM
#33 (2015-Dec-03) Natalia Koutovenko - The Hermitage and itsTreasures @HRM
#34 (2016-Mar-31) Mary Lu Redden - Life Lessons from the Great Books @HRM
#35 (2016-Apr-21) Alan Wilson - Highland Shepherd: James MacGregor-Father of the Scottish Enlightenment in Nova Scotia
@HRM
#36 (2016-Apr-28) Janet Guildford - Women Volunteers: How They Helped Win the War: Reinterpreting the Impact of the Second World War on Halifax
@HRM
#37 (2016-Oct-13) William Fenrick - Law and Contemporary Conflicts: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and ISIS
@HRM
#38 (2016-Nov-03) George Boyd - A Tribute to Number 2 – The Inside Story of the Only Black Battalion in Canadian history
@HRM
#39 (2017-Feb-09) Andrew Welch - Rethinking Tomorrow's Values: A new way to view yesterday's values in the context of today's world
@HRM
#40 (2017-Mar-02) Stephen Kimber - The Future of Journalism, with special reference to the local situation
@HRM
#41 (2017-May-04) Jock Murray & Janet Murray - Sir Charles Tupper, from fighting doctor to Father of Confederation
@HRM
#42 (2017-May-11) Bosko Loncarevic - Danubia: The Heart of Europe @HRM
#43 (2017-Oct-26) Mary Anne White - What an Informed Person Should Know about Energy @HRM
#44 (2017-Nov-23) Megan Bailey - Intergenerational Fisheries Access and the Future of Fish as Food @HRM
#45 (2018-Mar-08) Robert Cervelli - Rebuilding resilient local communities and local economies @HRM
#46 (2018-Apr-16) Christopher Cutler - Pollinator declines & pesticides: are neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments important? @HRM
#47 (2018-May-14) Bosko Loncarevic - Discoverers of the Northwest Passage: From Hearne (1771) to Harper (2016) @HRM
#48 (2018-Oct-22) David Patriquin - The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands @HRM
#49 (2018-Nov-26) Rollie Thompson - What Every Senior Needs to Know about Family Law (But Never Got Around to Asking) @HRM
#50 (2019-Feb-25) Alex Boutilier - From 14th Colony to Confederation: 1749-1867 @HRM
#51 (2019-Mar-25) Lianne Bradshaw - Investment Fraud and Current Threats in the Marketplace @HRM
#52 (2019-May-02) Hilda Taylor - Classical Chinese Gardens @HRM
#53 (2019-Jun-03) Paula Wedge - The Trifecta of Estate Planning: Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Personal Directives @HRM
#54 (2019-Oct-21) Clary Croft - Folklore: Something Old is Always New @HRM
#55 (2019-Nov-25) David Gardner - Insomnia Keeping You Up? Sleeping Pills Getting You Down? @HRM
#56 (2020-Feb-24) Allan Marble - The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920: The Nova Scotia Experience @HRM
#57 (2021 Jan 25) Paige Black - Children’s Rights Upfront: Centering Children in the Quest for Sustainable Peace @HRM
#58 (2021-Mar-24) Bill Li - Biological Oceanography: Plankton Ecology Research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography 1962-2012 @HRM
#59 (2021-Jun-03) Nabiha Atallah - Welcome Home: Newcomers to Nova Scotia @HRM
#60 (2021-Oct-28) Vernon Oickle - Things That Go Bump In The Night @HRM
#61 (2021-Nov-23) Delvina Bernard - Reparations as an economic and social development strategy to overcome the legacy of enslavement, colonization and cultural genocide @HRM
#62 (2022-Feb-14) Robin Metcalfe - Why People Hate Art @HRM
#63 (2022-Mar-10) Shelagh Meagher & Sarah Tanner - Bladder Issues: Why They Happen, Why Kegels Don’t Help, and How to Get Control Back @HRM
#64 (2022-May-16) Janet Sperling - Lyme Disease in Nova Scotia @HRM
#65 (2022-Sep-16) Sylvain Charlebois with Costas Halavrezos - It's Time To Learn More About Canada's Food System @Liverpool
#66 (2022-Oct-06) Simon Robinson, Sibylle Marquardt, Anna Plaskett - The Wonderful World of Dance and Music @HRM
#67 (2022-Nov-07) Mayann Francis - Conviction @HRM
#68 (2023-Jan-16) Steven Schwinghamer - Pier 21 @HRM
#69 (2023-Jan-30) Jackie Barkley & Alec Stratford - Poverty is a Political Choice @HRM
#70 (2023-Feb-01) David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 1 @Mahone Bay
#71 (2023-Feb-13) Kristin Williams - Four Women Leaders @HRM
#72 (2023-Feb-15) David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 2 @Mahone Bay
#73 (2023-Jun-09) Arad Gharagozli - Galaxia Mission Systems @Mahone Bay
#74 (2023-Sep-07) Cavan O'Leary - The Battle of Agincourt @HRM
#75 (2023-Sep-14) Mike LaLeune - Olympic Games: A Look Behind the Curtain @Liverpool
#76 (2023-Sep-19) Harry Thurston - A Writer's Life In Nature @Truro
#77 (2023-Sep-27) Stephen Augustine - The Mi'kmaw Creation Story @HRM
#78 (2023-Oct-05) Sharon Reashore - The Canadian Arctic: Life in Nunavut @HRM
#79 (2024-Jan-16) Lori Weber - MAiD: A Family Affair @HRM
#80 (2024-Feb-12) Mark Alberstat - Sherlock Holmes: From Popular Read To Pop Culture @HRM
#81 (2024-Mar-21) Zoe Lucas - Fifty Years of Connecting with Savle Island @Mahone Bay
#82 (2024-Apr-02) George Butters - Artificial Intelligence: Living With OpenAI and ChatGPT @HRM
#83 (2024-May-06) Jim Abraham - Nova Scotia's Changing Climate @HRM
#84 (2024-Jun-07) Ken Johnson - Space Debris and the Global Positioning System @Mahone Bay
#85 (2024-Sep-12) Kevin Deveau - Democracy: In Decline or Just a Transition? @Liverpool
#86 (2024-Sep-25) Jules Chiasson - The Acadians Here and Now @HRM
#87 (2024-Sep-27) Peter Welch - What On Earth Are You Thinking? @Mahone Bay
#88 (2024-Nov-21) Dan Conlin and Patricia Acheson - Fun With Flags @HRM
#89 (2025-Jan-13) Stewart Lamont - Fish Farming: Who Speaks For The Lobster? @HRM
#90 (2025-Mar-10) Mary Ellen MacDonald - Grief Literacy: Understanding Grief @HRM
#91 (2025-Mar-21) Ian Tomaz - Lecture With Performed Music In A Concert Hall @Mahone Bay
#92 (2025-Mar-24) Andrea Currie - Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves @HRM
#93 (2025-May-26) Adam Lajeunesse - How Secure is Canada’s Arctic? @HRM
#94 (2025-Sep-05) Lynette Richards - Call Me Bill @HRM
#95 (2025-Sep-25) Anne Marie Lane Jonah - Placing Women's Stories In The Historical Landscape @Liverpool
#96 (2025-Oct-03) Emily Cormier - An Eye in the Sky: Using Satellites to Monitor Young Lemon Sharks Habitat @Mahone Bay
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We acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is protected by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship that did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. Further, we recognize and commit to addressing the need for continual engagement and learning in the spirit of Peace and Friendship and in the work of Truth and Reconciliation. Msit No’kmaq. (All My Relations}
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. This territory is protected by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship that did not surrender Indigenous land, resources or sovereignty but instead established rules for an ongoing relationship between nations. Further, we recognize and commit to addressing the need for continual engagement and learning in the spirit of Peace and Friendship and in the work of Truth and Reconciliation. Msit No’kmaq. (All My Relations}