PAST PUBLIC LECTURES
1. 2011 Eric Parsons - Environmental Problems and Their Remediation
2. 2011 Jock Murray - An Historical View of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems
3. 2012 Andrew Hebda - Insects and Other Invertebrates that Share our Homes. It’s Their World, Not Ours
4. 2012 Phil Belitsky - Story of Transplantation and How It Helped Transform 20th Century Medicine
5. 2012 Christine Chambers - Pain, the Fifth Vital Sign
6. 2012 Christopher Field - Some of What We Should Know About Statistics
7. 2012 Melissa Andrew - Problems of Aging
8. 2012 Paul Mandell - History of the Earth’s Climate and Its Changes
9. 2013 Monica MacDonald - Atlantic Canada and the War of 1812
10. 2013 Michael Collins - Impressionist Paintings, Economic and Social Reasons
11. 2013 Philip Welch - End of Life Issues and Physician-Assisted Death
12. 2013 Jocelyn Downie - An Overview of End of Life Law and Policy in Canada and Abroad
13. 2013 Robert C. Hutchins - Renewable Resources in Nova Scotia
14. 2013 Francoise Baylis - Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation
15. 2013 Burris Devanne - A Funny Thing Happened on My Way through Africa
16. 2013 Gail Eskes - Brain Fitness: A Prescription for Successful Aging
17. 2014 Mayann Francis - The Vice-Regal Office
18. 2014 Daphna Levit - An Israeli Explores the Concept of a Homeland for the Jews in Palestine
19. 2014 Patricia Doyle Bedwell - Mi’kmaq Women: Educational Equity and Cultural Rejuvenation
20. 2014 Elizabeth Haigh - The Troubles in Ukraine: Past, Present, Future
21. 2014 Jeanne Desveaux - Legal Problems of the Elderly
22. 2014 Peter Glenister - Glenn Gould
23. 2014 Colin Starnes & Mary Lu Redden - University Set Free: Halifax Humanities
24. 2014 Wanda Morris - Dying with Dignity
25. 2014 Jennifer Farrell - Christmas Eve in Paris: The Setting for Puccini’s Opera, La Bohème
26. 2015 Bud Snow - Peacekeeping – A Police Perspective
27. 2015 Glenn Rodrigues - Rethink Pharmacy
28. 2015 William Fenrick - Prosecuting War Criminals in the Hague
29. 2015 Fred Vaughan - Anthony Trollope
30. 2015 Laurette Geldenhuys - Laboratory Medicine and Its Contribution to Clinical Care: A Historical Perspective
31. 2015 Philip Welch - Canada Needs a National Pharmacare Program – URGENTLY!
32. 2015 Janet Maybee - The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey
33. 2015 Natalia Koutovenko - The Hermitage and itsTreasures
34. 2016 Mary Lu Redden - Life Lessons from the Great Books
35. 2016 Alan Wilson - Highland Shepherd: James MacGregor-Father of the Scottish Enlightenment in Nova Scotia
36. 2016 Janet Guildford - Women Volunteers: How They Helped Win the War: Reinterpreting the Impact of the Second World War on Halifax
37. 2016 William Fenrick - Law and Contemporary Conflicts: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and ISIS
38. 2016 George Boyd - A Tribute to Number 2 – The Inside Story of the Only Black Battalion in Canadian history
39. 2017 Andrew Welch - Rethinking Tomorrow's Values: A new way to view yesterday's values in the context of today's world
40. 2017 Stephen Kimber - The Future of Journalism, with special reference to the local situation
41. 2017 Jock Murray & Janet Murray - Sir Charles Tupper, from fighting doctor to Father of Confederation
42. 2017 Bosko Loncarevic - Danubia: The Heart of Europe
43. 2017 Mary Anne White - What an Informed Person Should Know about Energy
44. 2017 Megan Bailey - Intergenerational Fisheries Access and the Future of Fish as Food
45. 2018 Robert Cervelli - Rebuilding Resilient Local Communities and Local Economies
46. 2018 Christopher Cutler - Pollinator declines & pesticides: are neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments important?
47. 2018 Bosko Loncarevic - Discoverers of the Northwest Passage: From Hearne (1771) to Harper (2016)
48. 2018 David Patriquin - The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands
49. 2018 Rollie Thompson - What Every Senior Needs to Know about Family Law (But Never Got Around to Asking)
50. 2019 Alex Boutilier - From 14th Colony to Confederation: 1749-1867
51. 2019 Lianne Bradshaw - Investment Fraud and Current Threats in the Marketplace
52. 2019 Hilda Taylor - Classical Chinese Gardens
53. 2019 Paula Wedge - The Trifecta of Estate Planning: Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Personal Directives - (presentation)
54. 2019 Clary Croft - Folklore: Something Old is Always New
55. 2019 David Gardner - Insomnia Keeping You Up? Sleeping Pills Getting You Down?
56. 2020 Allan Marble - The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920: The Nova Scotia Experience
57. 2021 Paige Black, Amara Bangura, Anthony Di Carlo (Dallaire Institute) - Children’s Rights Upfront: Centering Children in the Quest for Sustainable Peace
58. 2021 Bill Li - Biological Oceanography: Plankton Ecology Research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography 1962-2012
59. 2021 Nabiha Atallah - Welcome Home: Newcomers to Nova Scotia
60. 2021 Vernon Oickle - Things That Go Bump In The Night
61. 2021 Delvina Bernard - Reparations as an economic and social development strategy to overcome the legacy of enslavement, colonization and cultural genocide
62. 2022 Robin Metcalfe - Why People Hate Art
63. 2022 Shelagh Meagher & Sarah Tanner - Bladder Issues: Why They Happen, Why Kegels Don't Help, and How To Get Control Back
64. 2022 Janet Sperling - Lyme Disease in Nova Scotia
65. 2022 Sylvain Charlebois with Costas Halavrezos - Its Time To Learn More About Canada's Food System (Liverpool)
67. 2022 Mayann Francis - Conviction
68. 2023 Steven Schwinghamer - Pier 21
69. 2023 Jackie Barkley and Alec Stratford - Poverty is a Political Choice
70. 2023 David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 1 (Mahone Bay)
71. 2023 Kristin Williams - Four Women Leaders
72. 2023 David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 2 (Mahone Bay)
73. 2023 Galaxia Mission Systems - Arad Gharagozli (Mahone Bay)
74. 2023 Cavan O'Leary - The Battle of Agincourt
75. 2023 Mike LaLeune - Olympic Games: A Look Behind the Curtain (Liverpool)
76. 2023 Stephen Augustine - The Mi'kmaw Creation Story
77. 2023 Sharon Reashore - The Canadian Arctic: Life in Nunavut
78. 2024 Lori Weber - MAiD: A Family Affair
79. 2024 Mark Alberstat - Sherlock Holmes: From Popular Read to Pop Culture
80. 2024 Zoe Lucas - Fifty Years of Connecting with Savle Island (Mahone Bay)
81. 2024 George Butters - Artifical Intelligence: Living With OpenAI and ChatGPT
82. 2024 Jim Abraham - Nova Scotia's Changing Climate
83. 2024 - Ken Johnson - Space Debris and the Global Positioning System (Mahone Bay)
2. 2011 Jock Murray - An Historical View of the U.S. and Canadian Health Care Systems
3. 2012 Andrew Hebda - Insects and Other Invertebrates that Share our Homes. It’s Their World, Not Ours
4. 2012 Phil Belitsky - Story of Transplantation and How It Helped Transform 20th Century Medicine
5. 2012 Christine Chambers - Pain, the Fifth Vital Sign
6. 2012 Christopher Field - Some of What We Should Know About Statistics
7. 2012 Melissa Andrew - Problems of Aging
8. 2012 Paul Mandell - History of the Earth’s Climate and Its Changes
9. 2013 Monica MacDonald - Atlantic Canada and the War of 1812
10. 2013 Michael Collins - Impressionist Paintings, Economic and Social Reasons
11. 2013 Philip Welch - End of Life Issues and Physician-Assisted Death
12. 2013 Jocelyn Downie - An Overview of End of Life Law and Policy in Canada and Abroad
13. 2013 Robert C. Hutchins - Renewable Resources in Nova Scotia
14. 2013 Francoise Baylis - Ethics of Deep Brain Stimulation
15. 2013 Burris Devanne - A Funny Thing Happened on My Way through Africa
16. 2013 Gail Eskes - Brain Fitness: A Prescription for Successful Aging
17. 2014 Mayann Francis - The Vice-Regal Office
18. 2014 Daphna Levit - An Israeli Explores the Concept of a Homeland for the Jews in Palestine
19. 2014 Patricia Doyle Bedwell - Mi’kmaq Women: Educational Equity and Cultural Rejuvenation
20. 2014 Elizabeth Haigh - The Troubles in Ukraine: Past, Present, Future
21. 2014 Jeanne Desveaux - Legal Problems of the Elderly
22. 2014 Peter Glenister - Glenn Gould
23. 2014 Colin Starnes & Mary Lu Redden - University Set Free: Halifax Humanities
24. 2014 Wanda Morris - Dying with Dignity
25. 2014 Jennifer Farrell - Christmas Eve in Paris: The Setting for Puccini’s Opera, La Bohème
26. 2015 Bud Snow - Peacekeeping – A Police Perspective
27. 2015 Glenn Rodrigues - Rethink Pharmacy
28. 2015 William Fenrick - Prosecuting War Criminals in the Hague
29. 2015 Fred Vaughan - Anthony Trollope
30. 2015 Laurette Geldenhuys - Laboratory Medicine and Its Contribution to Clinical Care: A Historical Perspective
31. 2015 Philip Welch - Canada Needs a National Pharmacare Program – URGENTLY!
32. 2015 Janet Maybee - The Halifax Explosion and the Persecution of Pilot Francis Mackey
33. 2015 Natalia Koutovenko - The Hermitage and itsTreasures
34. 2016 Mary Lu Redden - Life Lessons from the Great Books
35. 2016 Alan Wilson - Highland Shepherd: James MacGregor-Father of the Scottish Enlightenment in Nova Scotia
36. 2016 Janet Guildford - Women Volunteers: How They Helped Win the War: Reinterpreting the Impact of the Second World War on Halifax
37. 2016 William Fenrick - Law and Contemporary Conflicts: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and ISIS
38. 2016 George Boyd - A Tribute to Number 2 – The Inside Story of the Only Black Battalion in Canadian history
39. 2017 Andrew Welch - Rethinking Tomorrow's Values: A new way to view yesterday's values in the context of today's world
40. 2017 Stephen Kimber - The Future of Journalism, with special reference to the local situation
41. 2017 Jock Murray & Janet Murray - Sir Charles Tupper, from fighting doctor to Father of Confederation
42. 2017 Bosko Loncarevic - Danubia: The Heart of Europe
43. 2017 Mary Anne White - What an Informed Person Should Know about Energy
44. 2017 Megan Bailey - Intergenerational Fisheries Access and the Future of Fish as Food
45. 2018 Robert Cervelli - Rebuilding Resilient Local Communities and Local Economies
46. 2018 Christopher Cutler - Pollinator declines & pesticides: are neonicotinoid insecticide seed treatments important?
47. 2018 Bosko Loncarevic - Discoverers of the Northwest Passage: From Hearne (1771) to Harper (2016)
48. 2018 David Patriquin - The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands
49. 2018 Rollie Thompson - What Every Senior Needs to Know about Family Law (But Never Got Around to Asking)
50. 2019 Alex Boutilier - From 14th Colony to Confederation: 1749-1867
51. 2019 Lianne Bradshaw - Investment Fraud and Current Threats in the Marketplace
52. 2019 Hilda Taylor - Classical Chinese Gardens
53. 2019 Paula Wedge - The Trifecta of Estate Planning: Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Personal Directives - (presentation)
54. 2019 Clary Croft - Folklore: Something Old is Always New
55. 2019 David Gardner - Insomnia Keeping You Up? Sleeping Pills Getting You Down?
56. 2020 Allan Marble - The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1920: The Nova Scotia Experience
57. 2021 Paige Black, Amara Bangura, Anthony Di Carlo (Dallaire Institute) - Children’s Rights Upfront: Centering Children in the Quest for Sustainable Peace
58. 2021 Bill Li - Biological Oceanography: Plankton Ecology Research at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography 1962-2012
59. 2021 Nabiha Atallah - Welcome Home: Newcomers to Nova Scotia
60. 2021 Vernon Oickle - Things That Go Bump In The Night
61. 2021 Delvina Bernard - Reparations as an economic and social development strategy to overcome the legacy of enslavement, colonization and cultural genocide
62. 2022 Robin Metcalfe - Why People Hate Art
63. 2022 Shelagh Meagher & Sarah Tanner - Bladder Issues: Why They Happen, Why Kegels Don't Help, and How To Get Control Back
64. 2022 Janet Sperling - Lyme Disease in Nova Scotia
65. 2022 Sylvain Charlebois with Costas Halavrezos - Its Time To Learn More About Canada's Food System (Liverpool)
67. 2022 Mayann Francis - Conviction
68. 2023 Steven Schwinghamer - Pier 21
69. 2023 Jackie Barkley and Alec Stratford - Poverty is a Political Choice
70. 2023 David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 1 (Mahone Bay)
71. 2023 Kristin Williams - Four Women Leaders
72. 2023 David Jarvis - From Soldier to Fighting Food Poverty - Part 2 (Mahone Bay)
73. 2023 Galaxia Mission Systems - Arad Gharagozli (Mahone Bay)
74. 2023 Cavan O'Leary - The Battle of Agincourt
75. 2023 Mike LaLeune - Olympic Games: A Look Behind the Curtain (Liverpool)
76. 2023 Stephen Augustine - The Mi'kmaw Creation Story
77. 2023 Sharon Reashore - The Canadian Arctic: Life in Nunavut
78. 2024 Lori Weber - MAiD: A Family Affair
79. 2024 Mark Alberstat - Sherlock Holmes: From Popular Read to Pop Culture
80. 2024 Zoe Lucas - Fifty Years of Connecting with Savle Island (Mahone Bay)
81. 2024 George Butters - Artifical Intelligence: Living With OpenAI and ChatGPT
82. 2024 Jim Abraham - Nova Scotia's Changing Climate
83. 2024 - Ken Johnson - Space Debris and the Global Positioning System (Mahone Bay)
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