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Judith Butler
Judith Butler, March 24, 2013
A Politics of the Street - The Wall Exchange

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Judith Butler
A Politics of the Street The Wall Exchange
March 24, 2013

Judith Butler

The Wall Exchange Spring 2012
About the Author
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.
About the Talk
A Politics of the Street. What is happening when bodies amass in the public square, the university commons, and the street, or when they gather for episodic occupations? It seems we are in the midst of a new form of politics, one that depends upon bodies amassed and moving together, holding firm, sitting still, and even sleeping in public. Whether resistance in the streets of Vancouver, Madrid, or Athens, the coming together of bodies in coordinated protest worldwide takes new forms, even as it calls upon more classical ideals of public action. Can we say that this is a new politics of the body? This lecture will pursue the question: has contemporary politics taken a bodily turn? Or have street actions become so media-driven that we are witnessing a disembodiment of the public sphere? What role does the body play in a politics of the street?
Tom Grigliatti
Tom Grigliatti, November 28, 2012
Personalized Medicine: The Promise of Pharmacogenetics - Wall Associates' Dinner

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Tom Grigliatti
Personalized Medicine: The Promise of Pharmacogenetics Wall Associates' Dinner
November 28, 2012

Tom Grigliatti

Wall Associates' Dinner
About the Author
Tom Grigliatti's research work has encompassed a variety of topics and organisms. His very early work, where he created conditional paralytic mutants in the fruit fly, Drosophila, helped establish the field of neurogenetics. Later, he turned his attention to identifying genes and mutations in chromatin remodeling proteins, and this work help found the now rapidly expanding field of epigenetics. In the last 7 or 8 years he's used functional genomics and proteomics to focus on several different areas of human health. Along the way, he developed technology that allows the functional reconstruction of virtually any portion of the human proteome in cells grown in tissue culture. In addition to defining the genes/proteins that are both necessary and sufficient for the function any specific physiological pathway or process and how naturally occurring mutations in these genes alter the outcome, the technology serves as a platform for drug discovery and development. Dr. Grigliatti came to UBC in 1977. In addition to being a Professor in the Life Sciences Institute, he is an Associate Member of both the Dept. of Medical Genetics (Fac. of Medicine), and the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He is a member of several international research consortia, including the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries, the Centre for Complex Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders-CARC, and the Centre for Drug Discovery and Development. He has also been an advisor to NASA and the Canadian Space Agency for design and research on the space station.
About the Talk
For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has taken the "one drug fits all" approach. These days, we are barraged with advertisements that encourage us to consult with our doctor about a drug that might help us cope with some ailment, but following some testimonials about the drug's utility, there is a litany of potential side effects. Can it be true that in doctors' offices world-wide, patients are given medications that either don't work for them, or cause severe adverse effects? Additionally, with a number of different drugs available for each ailment, many patients must return to their doctor several times until they find, by trial and error, a drug that works for them. Pharmacogenetics promises a day when, using your personal genotype, your doctor eliminates drugs from which you would derive little or no benefit, and/or those for which you may have adverse effects, and instead finds a drug that benefits you, with very minor or no adverse effects. Is this promise probable or fanciful?
Martin Rees
Martin Rees, October 15, 2012
A Cosmic Perspective for the 21st Century - The Wall Exchange

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Martin Rees
A Cosmic Perspective for the 21st Century The Wall Exchange
October 15, 2012

Martin Rees

The Wall Exchange Fall 2012
About the Author
Sir Martin Rees, eminent astronomer, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, and Astronomer Royal.
About the Talk
Our cosmos began more than 13 billion years: we are beginning to understand how atoms, stars and planets emerged, and how, on our own planet, Darwinian evolution led to the emergence of creatures able to ponder their origins. Over the whole of science, advances proceed apace, revealing remarkable insights, and opening up an ever-widening range of applications -- both opportunities and threats. We live on an ever more interconnected and crowded planet, where each person is empowered by transformative technology and increasingly demanding of resources. There is a widening gulf between what science enables us to do, and what it's prudent or ethical actually to do. The Earth has existed for 45 million centuries but this is the first when one species, ours, can determine the long-range planetary future. The stakes are high; optimum policies require a longer-term and less parochial perspective than normally prevails in political debate, the deployment of the best scientific advice, and engagement of a wider public. In science itself, the most dramatic conceptual advances are the least predictable. But, in scanning these intellectual horizons, we must be mindful that there may be fundamental limits to our understanding -- key aspects of reality that human brains (even computer-aided) can't grasp.
Michael Chandler
Michael Chandler, September 26, 2012
Selfhood Under Siege: Links to Suicide in Indigenous & Non-Indigenous Youth - Wall Associates' Dinner

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Michael Chandler
Selfhood Under Siege: Links to Suicide in Indigenous & Non-Indigenous Youth Wall Associates' Dinner
September 26, 2012

Michael Chandler

Wall Associates' Dinner
About the Author
Dr. Michael Chandler, Professor Psychology
About the Talk
Motivated by a concern that various ongoing post-colonial practices set special obstacles in the path of young Indigenous persons, Dr. Chandler's research examines the comparative course of identity development as it unfolds in both First Nations and non-Indigenous Canadian youth. In his talk, he will offer a possible line of explanation for the dramatic differences known to divide those Indigenous communities that suffer highly elevated rates of youth suicide from other 'bands' or 'tribes' in which suicide and other manifestations of a loss of futurity are largely absent.
Maxwell Cameron
Maxwell Cameron, February 29, 2012
Between Rules and Practice: Practical Wisdom in Constitutional Democracies - Faculty Associates Forum

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Maxwell Cameron
Between Rules and Practice: Practical Wisdom in Constitutional Democracies Faculty Associates Forum
February 29, 2012

Maxwell Cameron

Professor of Political Science, and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
Why are politicians seen as untrustworthy? Why do we hold parties and parliament in such contempt? This talk will ask how we can make our democracy stronger and more vigorous by empowering parliament, reducing the toxicity of partisanship, and engaging citizens in more meaningful forms of deliberation. This can be done, I argue, not with more rules or regulations, but by improving the way that the roles and offices in our constitutional democracy are practiced. Aristotle used the words �practical wisdom� to describe the kind of moral skill and will necessary for a flourishing democracy. I will explore some of the ways that practical wisdom is still relevant � and needed � today.
Kenneth Sharpe

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Kenneth Sharpe
Practical Wisdom and Its Enemies: Nurturing Good Character in an Age of Rules and Incentives Workshops & Colloquia
February 9, 2012

Kenneth Sharpe

Political Science
About the Author
Kenneth Sharpe is a William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College, PA and the author of "Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to do the Right Thing" (with Barry Schwartz). Professor Sharpe specializes in political philosophy, public policy and U.S. foreign policy. He is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at UBC, where he is teaching a course on practical wisdom.
Rena Sharon
Rena Sharon, January 25, 2012
Art Song - An Endangered Species? - Faculty Associates Forum

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Rena Sharon
Art Song - An Endangered Species? Faculty Associates Forum
January 25, 2012

Rena Sharon

UBC School of Music and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
When an art form thrives for centuries and then begins to vanish, what is at risk? If we think of it as part of the world "artistic ecosystem", has it perhaps run its course as a species? Or does it need to be rescued? Would some subtle forfeit bear long-range consequence to the world if it disappeared? This talk and mini-concert focuses on Art Song, the fusion of poetry of 100 languages with music from around the globe. It is the meeting place of verbal and non-verbal communication modalities, a key code to classical music, a synaesthetic experience of poetry, a journal of a composer's interior realm. Despite those fascinating attributes, Art Song as a performance genre is in such erosion that some have labelled it a non-performative "archival art". Since songs must be sung to fulfill their existence, 100,000 art works may become functionally extinct. In researching innovative solutions for its renewal, UBC's Vancouver International Song Institute resides at the flashpoint of controversy between tradition and change. Would it matter if Art Song vanished? Hear some performed by students and alumni of UBC School of Music, and decide for yourself!
Patricia S. Churchland
Patricia S. Churchland, January 24, 2012
What is the Role for Rules in Social Behavior? - Workshops & Colloquia

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Patricia S. Churchland
What is the Role for Rules in Social Behavior? Workshops & Colloquia
January 24, 2012

Patricia S. Churchland

Professor Emerita, Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor
About the Author
Professor Churchland�s research focuses on the interface between neuroscience and philosophy. She is author of the groundbreaking book, Neurophilosophy (MIT Press 1986), co-author of The Computational Brain (MIT 1992), On The Contrary (MIT 1998) and author of Brain-Wise (MIT 2002). Her current work focuses on morality and the social brain, and appeared in Braintrust: What Neuroscience tells us about Morality, (Princeton University Press 2011). She has been president of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, and won a MacArthur Prize in 1991 and the Rossi Prize in 2008.
About the Talk
Recent developments in the neuroscience of social bonding, the psychology of problem-solving, and the role of imitation in social behavior jointly suggest an approach to morality that meshes with evolutionary biology. The basic platform for morality is attachment and bonding, and the caring behavior motivated by such attachment. This hypothesis connects to a different, but currently unfashionable tradition, beginning with Aristotle�s ideas about social virtues, and David Hume�s 18th century ideas concerning �the moral sentiment�. One surprising outcome of the convergence of scientific approaches is that the revered dictum -- you cannot infer an �ought� from an �is� � looks dubious as a general rule restricting moral (practical) problem solving.
Timothy Stainton
Timothy Stainton, November 16, 2011
In from the Margins: New Foundations for Personhood and Legal Capacity in the 21st Century - Faculty Associates Forum

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Timothy Stainton
In from the Margins: New Foundations for Personhood and Legal Capacity in the 21st Century Faculty Associates Forum
November 16, 2011

Timothy Stainton

UBC School of Social Work
About the Talk
Challenge: Article 12 of The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities affirms the rights of persons with disabilities to receive recognition as persons before the law and calls on State Parties to recognize that persons with disabilities enjoy legal capacity on an equal basis with others in all aspects of life and to take appropriate measures to provide access to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity. Considerations include: 1) the conceptual foundations of moral and legal personhood; 2) the definition and criteria for legal capacity found in ethics and law; 3) implications for law and policy for adult protection, substitute and supported decision-making, health and social care consent, contract and criminal law; and 4) emerging social and legal forms of support and reasonable accommodation that enable people with significant cognitive or psychosocial disabilities to maximize their legal capacity. Dr. Stainton led a Wall Exploratory Workshop to examine from a 'ground up' perspective the issues raised by Article 12.
David Olson

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David Olson
The Search for the Beginnings of Wisdom: Agency, Intentionality and Responsibility in Childhood Workshop and Colloquia
November 15, 2011

David Olson

Human Development and Education
About the Author
David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. He a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and holds Honorary Doctorates from Gothenberg University (1994) and the University of Saskatchewan (1996). He has published extensively on language, literacy and cognition, including the widely anthologized article "From utterance to text: The bias of language in speech and writing" (Harvard Educational Review, 1977). His book The World on Paper: The conceptual and Cognitive Implication of Writing and Reading (Cambridge, 1994) has been translated into eight languages. He is co-editor with Nancy Torrance of The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (2009) and The Handbook of Education and Human Development (Blackwell, 1996), coeditor with Michael Cole of Technology, Literacy and the Evolution of Society: Implications of the Work of Jack Goody (Erlbaum, 2006), coeditor with Janet Astington and Paul Harris of Developing Theories of Mind (Cambridge, 1988), co-editor with Janet Astington and Philip Zelazo of Developing Theories of Intention (Erlbarm, 1998), co-editor with Nancy Torrance of Literacy and Orality (Cambridge, 1991), and with Nancy Torrance and Angela Hildyard of Literacy, Language and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 1985). His most recent authored books are Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind And Society (Cambridge, 2003) and Jerome Bruner: The Cognitive Revolution in Educational Theory (Continuum, 2007).
About the Talk
This talk was part of the Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence Public Talk Series on Practical Wisdom organized by Maxwell Cameron, UBC Political Science, and co-sponsored with Green College.
Guy Dumont
Guy Dumont, October 26, 2011
Comfortably Numb: Cruise Control for Anesthesia - Faculty Associates Forum

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Guy Dumont
Comfortably Numb: Cruise Control for Anesthesia Faculty Associates Forum
October 26, 2011

Guy Dumont

Electrical & Computer Engineering and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
Computer control has become ubiquitous in our daily lives, from cruise control to autopilots, from anti-lock braking systems to DVD players. Many of modern-life's devices would not be possible if it were not for sophisticated control theory working in conjunction with high performance sensors and actuators. Early and premature attempts at automating drug delivery in the operating room took place as early as 1950. However, it is only in the last decade that the prospects of fully automatic control of drug delivery for anesthesia have become serious. This talk will present some recent efforts toward measuring and controlling the effects of anesthetic drugs automatically, in a system akin to a cruise controller or an autopilot for anesthesiologists. Technical challenges and potential benefits of such a system will also be discussed.
Richard Unger
Richard Unger, September 28, 2011
Energy Consumption and the Environmental Impact of the Black Death - Faculty Associates Forum

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Richard Unger
Energy Consumption and the Environmental Impact of the Black Death Faculty Associates Forum
September 28, 2011

Richard Unger

History and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
In the mid fourteenth century European population fell by between 40 and 50 per cent. The demographic disaster affected almost all aspects of life in the short term and less obviously but equally emphatically in the long term. Total energy consumption went down with population and the shrinking of settlement meant land went out of cultivation. The retreat of the humans did not mean a straightforward reversion of large tracts of land to some wild state because of the various ways in which people reacted to a world with a much smaller numbers of them. Europeans relied on agriculture as the principal source of energy to sustain their way of life. An effort to calculate energy consumption by Europeans before and after the Black Death indicates the problems of trying to generate reliable data for large populations in the years before there were governments to publish aggregate figures. More important the results, despite considerable potential error, show that the impact on the environment varied and human strategies, dictated by economics, technology, psychology and tastes, mitigated any dramatic changes in the ways people dealt with the natural world around them. The Black Death did in some ways liberate the survivors to explore new ways to use what they could extract from nature.
Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz, September 27, 2011
Video interview with Dr. Alain Berthoz - Wall Special Event Video

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Alain Berthoz
Video interview with Dr. Alain Berthoz Wall Special Event Video
September 27, 2011

Alain Berthoz

Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and Honorary Professor at the College de France, Paris
About the Author
Alain Berthoz is a leading neurophysiologist and an honorary professor at the prestigious College de France where he holds the Chair of Perception and Action Physiology. Pr. Berthoz studies the neuronal bases of the four main cognitive and motor functions commanding eye movement, locomotion, space-memory strategies and the perception of the emotional expressions and actions of others.
About the Talk
After a first visit at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in 2009, Pr Berthoz came back to UBC in September 2011 as a Wall Distiguished Returning Professor. In this interview he tells us about the applications of his research in real life. Through the concept of "Simplexity", he also explains how living organisms find solutions to the world complexity; he considers the role of sensitive experience in our society and touches on the Chinese concept of "Wu-Wei". Video courtesy of the French Consulate, Vancouver.
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Derek Gregory
Derek Gregory, September 26, 2011
The Everywhere War - The Wall Exchange

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Derek Gregory
The Everywhere War The Wall Exchange
September 26, 2011

Derek Gregory

UBC Department of Geography and Wall Distinguished Professor
About the Author
Dr. Gregory is a renowned political geographer whose honours include honorary degrees from one of Europe's youngest (Roskilde) and oldest (Heidelberg) universities, elections to the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy, the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and, most recently, the invitation to present the British Academy's Annual Lecture in London in 2012. His distinctions also include a UBC Killam Research Prize, a UBC Killam Teaching Prize, and a UBC Killam Prize for Graduate Mentoring. His former doctoral students, twenty-seven to date, have moved into positions of influence among the world's top universities.
About the Talk
In this talk Dr. Gregory speaks on "The Everywhere War" - wars conducted in the shadows of 9/11 that have much to tell us about the future of violence, security, and everyday life. Many commentators have claimed that the face of war has changed dramatically since 9/11: they talk not just of 'new wars' but, crucially, of 'endless war', 'unending war', and what New York Times reporter Dexter Filkins calls the 'forever war'. All of these descriptions focus on time, which means that they all overlook the importance of the slippery spaces through which war now takes place. One of the characteristics of late modern war is the eventful quality of violence that can, in principle, occur anywhere: a commuter train in Madrid, a house in Gaza City, a poppy field in Helmand, or a street in Ciudad Juarez. I want to show how what I call the everywhere war has changed the very nature of war in the early twenty-first century. The killing space still has a terrible intimacy, but we now live in a world where death can be delivered across vast distances and successive American administrations openly speculate about how to conduct war in countries we are not at war with. All this makes it hard to see where war ends and peace begins. To bring these changes into view, and to think about their implications, I examine three cases in which the global North reaches deep into the global borderlands: the use of drones (UAVs) in Afghanistan-Pakistan by NATO forces and the CIA; the militarization of the US-Mexico border and the prosecution of narco-war; and the emergence of cyber-warfare. Taken together, they have much to tell us about the future of violence, security and everyday life. Recording courtesy of CBC Radio.
Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz, September 14, 2011
Brain Mechanisms for Empathy and the Cognitive Foundations of Tolerance - Wall Special Event Audio

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Alain Berthoz
Brain Mechanisms for Empathy and the Cognitive Foundations of Tolerance Wall Special Event Audio
September 14, 2011

Alain Berthoz

Founding Director of the Laboratory of Physiology of Perception and Action (LPPA) of CNRS and 2011 Returning Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor
About the Author
Dr. Alain Berthoz is currently Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, Paris, member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Technologies and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
About the Talk
Understanding others� thoughts, desires, and emotions, and accepting a plurality of opinions and feelings is a fundamental basis of social interaction. Empathy and sympathy allow humans to understand each other. Both are essential for developing respect, social norms, moral behavior, and tolerance. One challenge for modern neuroscience is to try to understand the cognitive basis of empathy. This talk examines recent behavioural and brain imaging studies which contribute to this goal. Also included is a "spatial theory of empathy" which distinguishes between sympathy, a cognitive and emotional resonance process, and empathy as a complex dynamic process requiring manipulation of spatial reference frames, perspective changes, and both simulation and inhibition of emotion. The talk will propose that empathy uses brain mechanisms similar to those for spatial memory and navigation. It also discusses how children develop this capacity, the consequences of deficits of the brain mechanisms involved in empathy in the psychiatry, and the potential risks of preventing empathy during development at "critical periods" in children, leading them to make intolerant judgments.
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Philippe Sansonetti
Philippe Sansonetti, June 22, 2011
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Fair Scenario for our Microbial Environment? - Faculty Associates Forum

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Philippe Sansonetti
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Fair Scenario for our Microbial Environment? Faculty Associates Forum
June 22, 2011

Philippe Sansonetti

Professor and Chair, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, College de France, and Professor, Pasteur Institute, Paris, and 2011 Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor
About the Author
Philippe Sansonetti is one of Europe’s leading microbiologists. His research mainly focuses on the understanding of several aspects of the pathogenesis of Shigella, a Gram-negative bacterium causing severe diarrhea. This work spans a large set of disciplines in biology and medicine and ranges from molecular genetics, to cell biology, immunology and the development of vaccines against dysentery. He also actively contributes to the development of vaccine candidates against the major shigellae causing dysentery in the developing world.
About the Talk
In this lecture, Professor Sansonetti provides a global view of the nature of the microbes that humans are facing, from the truly symbiotic/mutualistic ones constituting our permanent microbiota to the pathogenic ones that affect our health by causing infections. As usual, nature isn’t black and white, and an increasing grey zone appears between these two well-defined categories that encompasses the so called pathobionts whose functions seem essential in shaping our immune system which has evolved under the schizophrenic constraint of keeping the good, rejecting the bad, and dealing with the ugly… In this complex cross talk may reside the major parameters of the Hygiene Hypothesis.
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Philippe Sansonetti
Philippe Sansonetti, June 14, 2011
Video interview with Dr. Philippe Sansonetti - Wall Special Event Video

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Philippe Sansonetti
Video interview with Dr. Philippe Sansonetti Wall Special Event Video
June 14, 2011

Philippe Sansonetti

Head, Microbial Pathogeny at the Institut Pasteur, Chair of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, College de France and 2011 Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor
About the Author
Philippe Sansonetti is one of Europe's leading microbiologists. His research mainly focuses on the understanding of several aspects of the pathogenesis of Shigella, a Gram-negative bacterium causing severe diarrhea. This work spans a large set of disciplines in biology and medicine and ranges from molecular genetics, to cell biology, immunology and the development of vaccines against dysentery. He also actively contributes to the development of vaccine candidates against the major shigellae causing dysentery in the developing world.
About the Talk
Video interview with Dr. Philippe Sansonetti courtesy of the French Consulate, Vancouver. June 2011
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John Steeves
John Steeves, May 25, 2011
Traversing Clinical Trials - Faculty Associates Forum

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John Steeves
Traversing Clinical Trials Faculty Associates Forum
May 25, 2011

John Steeves

ICORD and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
Everyone is generally familiar with clinical trials, but what is actually involved in the translation of a promising biomedical discovery to human application. It is a long, complex multi-phase process where each phase has a particular goal and unique set of demands. It requires a rigor uncommon to science, which may explain why many scientists wish others take over the pursuit. Above all else, it is incredibly expensive, with a single drug requiring hundreds of millions to complete all the requirements for approval as a treatment. In this talk, I will outline some of the tough lessons learned when science enters the business world of human studies.
J. Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter, May 3, 2011
Synthetic Life - The Wall Exchange

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J. Craig Venter
Synthetic Life The Wall Exchange
May 3, 2011

J. Craig Venter

Leading genomic scientist and sequencer of the human genome.
About the Talk
Leading genomic scientist and sequencer of the human genome, on the construction of the first synthetic cell and the global ocean sampling expedition. Recording courtesy of CBC Radio.
Fabio Rossi

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Fabio Rossi
The Hype About iPS: Ethical and Practical Implications of Recent Advances in Stem Cell Research Faculty Associates Forum
April 27, 2011

Fabio Rossi

Medical Genetics and Biomedical Research Centre and 2011 Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
Stem cells hold tremendous promise for both therapeutic and commercial applications. However, theoretical, practical, ethical, and regulatory obstacles hinder the path to these achievements. While we wait, scrupleless individuals whom, operating abroad, are not bound by the same regulatory constraints existing in “western” countries give patients false hopes and thrive on “stem cell tourism.” How long before we see these promises realized? Which applications will come first?
Richard Kurth
Richard Kurth, April 13, 2011
Singing Meaning into Lost Childhood in Arcade Fires "The Suburbs" - Faculty Associates Forum

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Richard Kurth
Singing Meaning into Lost Childhood in Arcade Fires "The Suburbs" Faculty Associates Forum
April 13, 2011

Richard Kurth

Professor and Director, UBC School of Music
About the Talk
"The Suburbs," by the Montreal-based indie rock band Arcade Fire, was recently awarded Album of the Year in a surprise finish at the 2011 Grammy Awards. The album's words and music are a generation's lament for a childhood overwhelmed by suburban sprawl and the cycles of industrialized consumer economy, and an attempt to define a viable adult identity and future. The music, built in layers, works out ambiguities and ironies, resolving some, and accepting others. The talk will explore how the first two songs (a linked pair) reconfigure familiar features of pop music, symbolically recycling the predictable materials of suburban life, and expressing the sediments of mixed feelings, past and present.
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene, April 7, 2011
Reading in the Brain - Wall Special Event Video

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Stanislas Dehaene
Reading in the Brain Wall Special Event Video
April 7, 2011

Stanislas Dehaene

Experimental Cognitive Psychology, College de France and 2011 Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor
About the Author
Professor Dehaene is one of Europe's leading cognitive neuroscientists. He uses advanced techniques in functional magnetic resonance imaging, electro-encephalography, interacranial electrodes, and psychological manipulations to study how culture and biology interact in the human brain. His work on the neural bases of reading abilities, mathematical language, bilingualism, and consciousness is internationally known. A prolific, award-winning author, Professor Dehaene is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
About the Talk
Through education we expand the competences of our human brains beyond those initially provided by evolution. This lecture describes how literacy changes the brain.
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Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene, April 6, 2011
The Depth and Limits of Subliminal Processing - Faculty Associates Forum

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Stanislas Dehaene
The Depth and Limits of Subliminal Processing Faculty Associates Forum
April 6, 2011

Stanislas Dehaene

Experimental Cognitive Psychology, College de France and 2011 Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor
About the Author
Professor Dehaene is one of Europe's leading cognitive neuroscientists. He uses advanced techniques in functional magnetic resonance imaging, electro-encephalography, interacranial electrodes, and psychological manipulations to study how culture and biology interact in the human brain. His work on the neural bases of reading abilities, mathematical language, bilingualism, and consciousness is internationally known. A prolific, award-winning author, Professor Dehaene is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
About the Talk
Everybody knows about subliminal images. In the laboratory, we can easily flash visual stimuli so quickly, and in such close temporal proximity to other masking stimuli, that they cannot be consciously perceived. My colleagues and I are using behavioral measurements and images of brain activity to probe the depth of processing of subliminal words and digits in the human brain. The results indicate that subliminal stimuli receive considerable cortical processing. Many stages of reading can unfold without consciousness: visual word recognition, invariance for font and case, semantic access, categorization according to instructions, and even motor preparation all operate non-consciously. The brain is also able to accumulate evidence from several subliminal stimuli presented serially or in parallel. The question then arises: Does non-conscious processing exhibit any limits? Recent experiments suggest that conscious access is needed for some high-level supervisory operations, including the flexible and rational control of our decisions and the chaining of several steps within a non-routine mental algorithm.
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Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene, April 3, 2011
A video interview with Dr. Stanislas Dehaene - Wall Special Event Video

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Stanislas Dehaene
A video interview with Dr. Stanislas Dehaene Wall Special Event Video
April 3, 2011

Stanislas Dehaene

Experimental Cognitive Psychology, Collège de France and 2011 Wall Distinguished Visiting Professor
About the Author
Professor Dehaene is one of Europe's leading cognitive neuroscientists. He uses advanced techniques in functional magnetic resonance imaging, electro-encephalography, interacranial electrodes, and psychological manipulations to study how culture and biology interact in the human brain. His work on the neural bases of reading abilities, mathematical language, bilingualism, and consciousness is internationally known. A prolific, award-winning author, Professor Dehaene is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
About the Talk
A video interview with Dr. Dehaene courtesy of the Consulat général de France à Vancouver during his visit to the Wall Institute in April 2011.
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Jerrilynn Dodds
Jerrilynn Dodds, March 17, 2011
Historic Monuments and the Politics of Cultural Genocide in Bosnia (1991-1994) - Workshops & Colloquia

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Jerrilynn Dodds
Historic Monuments and the Politics of Cultural Genocide in Bosnia (1991-1994) Workshops & Colloquia
March 17, 2011

Jerrilynn Dodds

Architectural Historian and Dean of the College, Sarah Lawrence College, New York and UBC Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor
About the Author
Jerrilynn Dodds is Dean of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. In addition to being a lecturer and consultant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and known as an author and prize-winning documentary filmmaker, she has previously been Distinguished Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the City University of New York. She has also curated numerous museum exhibitions. Her work centers on issues of artistic interchange, and how groups form their identities through art and architecture.
About the Talk
In the Balkan wars of the early 1990s, the destruction of architecture became a tool of successive campaigns of cultural genocide, meant to help erase one or more of the multiple groups who inhabited contested territories. This lecture will explore the architecture of Orthodox, Catholic and Muslim populations of Bosnia, both in historical encounters, and in the devastating wars of the 1990s.
Frank Ko
Frank Ko, March 9, 2011
Nanofibre Technology: New Frontier in Advanced Materials Research - Faculty Associates Forum

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Frank Ko
Nanofibre Technology: New Frontier in Advanced Materials Research Faculty Associates Forum
March 9, 2011

Frank Ko

Materials Engineering and Director of AMPEL
About the Talk
Polymeric fibrous materials are the fundamental building blocks of living systems. From the 1.5 nm double helix strand of DNA molecules, including cytoskeleton filaments with diameters around 30 nm; to sensory cells such as hair cells and rod cells of the eyes, nanoscale fibers form the extracellular matrices for tissues and organs. Based upon these blueprints laid out by nature, it is reasonable to hypothesize that the availability of nanoscale (less than 100 nm diameter) fibers made of polymers having adjustable electronic, biological and mechanical properties will not only enable novel biotechnology, neuroscience, microelectronics, and nanoscience research, but also open new opportunities for numerous applications related to health, energy, and environment. After a brief introduction to nanofibre technology the exciting research and commercial opportunities of nanofibre technology will be illustrated through examples of the growing nanofibre-related research activities at UBC.
Gu Xiong
Gu Xiong, February 23, 2011
Waterscapes - Faculty Associates Forum

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Gu Xiong
Waterscapes Faculty Associates Forum
February 23, 2011

Gu Xiong

Art History, Visual Art & Theory and 2002-2003 Wall Early Career Scholar
About the Talk
Waterscapes explores the potential of using seas, ocean basins, and river networks as frameworks of historical analysis, highlighting the central role of trans-oceanic relationships and exchanges in the shaping of world regions and identities. They deal with transnational migration along major waterways, globalization, and cultural hybridity, and explore the contemporary and historical meaning of waterscapes in the context of large-scale migrations in/to China and Canada.
Andrew Macnab
Andrew Macnab, February 9, 2011
Creative Spaces for the Mind - Faculty Associates Forum

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Andrew Macnab
Creative Spaces for the Mind Faculty Associates Forum
February 9, 2011

Andrew Macnab

Pediatrics
About the Talk
“We must go beyond textbooks, and travel and explore and tell the world of the glories of our journey” – John Hope Franklin. This over arching title will allow reflection on three elements: The time spent with an outstanding group of international Fellows at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS), which afforded unique opportunities for dialogue and collaborative research. One such collaboration evaluated a Canadian model for school-based health promotion employed in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, and the impact this program is having on child health and social behaviors. And another initiative begun to explore how to help new parents acquire knowledge and skills that promote early childhood development; in Canada this now involves UBC researchers and the application of new technologies to make evidence from current research more accessible.
Holger Hoos
Holger Hoos, January 26, 2011
à La recherche de l'intelligence artificielle: Machines That Think, Create and Play - Faculty Associates Forum

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Holger Hoos
à La recherche de l'intelligence artificielle: Machines That Think, Create and Play Faculty Associates Forum
January 26, 2011

Holger Hoos

Computer Science, University of British Columbia and 2010 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
The creation of artificial intelligence (AI) - of machines that think, feel, and communicate like humans do - is one of the great dreams of humankind, and a quest that has been hotly pursued over the last fifty years. Popularised by science fiction novels, films, and a host of colourful characters, visions of AI have become part of mainstream culture. But is AI really possible? And if so, how will it shape our future? While Dr. Hoos cannot provide conclusive or exhaustive answers to these questions, he will attempt to shed some light on what is possible today and speculate on where this may lead us in the future.
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Benjamin Perrin
Benjamin Perrin, January 12, 2011
Human Trafficking: Research, Advocacy & Action to Address Emerging Social Challenges - Faculty Associates Forum

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Benjamin Perrin
Human Trafficking: Research, Advocacy & Action to Address Emerging Social Challenges Faculty Associates Forum
January 12, 2011

Benjamin Perrin

Law, University of British Columbia
About the Talk
Professor Benjamin Perrin, author of Invisible Chains: Canada's Underground World of Human Trafficking, shares the compelling story behind researching underground criminal activity in Canada and the multi-faceted public engagement, media and advocacy campaign based on this research for this three-year project. The role of public universities in addressing emerging social challenges is an important theme that is explored through the case study under discussion.
Dan Edelstein
Dan Edelstein, November 26, 2010
Rethinking the History of Natural Right - Workshops & Colloquia

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Dan Edelstein
Rethinking the History of Natural Right Workshops & Colloquia
November 26, 2010

Dan Edelstein

French, Stanford University
About the Author
Dan Edelstein is an Associate Professor of French at Stanford University. His first book, "The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution" (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) won the 2009 Oscar Kenshur Book Prize. He co-directs the "Mapping the Republic of Letters" project, which uses visualization software to represent the circulation of letters, people, and ideas in the early-modern period.
About the Talk
Scholars tend to study the history of natural right using very traditional methods: great men wrote canonical books which were read by other great men who wrote more canonical books, until finally the French revolutionaries declared the rights of man and of the citizen. But recent works on natural right contest this historiographical approach, and challenge us to rethink the way we write the history of natural right. What if the real question was not one of intellectual lineage, but of cultural acceptance? What made natural right theory a political language that was adopted by a wide range of actors -- and not just employed by the famous philosophers?
Mark Warren
Mark Warren, November 24, 2010
Voting with your feet: Exit-based Empowerment in Democratic Theory. - Faculty Associates Forum

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Mark Warren
Voting with your feet: Exit-based Empowerment in Democratic Theory. Faculty Associates Forum
November 24, 2010

Mark Warren

Political Science, University of British Columbia and 2010 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
Contemporary democratic theory is modeled primarily on membership combined with empowered voice. An alternative to voice, however, is exit: when they have choices, dissatisfied members may choose to leave a collectivity rather than voice their dissatisfactions. But because the concept of exit is often viewed as appropriate only for economic markets, its democratic potentials have not been theorized. The costs to democratic norms are extensive: contemporary theorists implicitly work with a monopoly-based view of organizational power, tacitly approving relationships of domination owing to the formal�though often ineffective�presence of voice-based mechanisms. Contemporary democratic theory should be re-thought to include exit-based empowerments as among its most fundamental features.
Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf, November 10, 2010
Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications - Faculty Associates Forum

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Michael Wolf
Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications Faculty Associates Forum
November 10, 2010

Michael Wolf

Chemistry, University of British Columbia
About the Talk
The emerging energy crisis requires new materials to be found for energy harvesting, generation and storage. Nanomaterials will play a major role in new developments in this important research field in solar energy harvesting and photovoltaic devices (solar cells), power generation and storage, and in gas storage and fuel cells. Transformational technologies will be enabled by the use of nanomaterials as electrodes in batteries, in organic solar cells and as electrodes in fuel cells. Dr. Wolf recently led a Wall Exploratory Workshop to address these issues.
Steven Meyer
Steven Meyer, November 8, 2010
Pre-Pragmatisms and Robust Empiricisms: James, Whitehead, Wilson - Workshops & Colloquia

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Steven Meyer
Pre-Pragmatisms and Robust Empiricisms: James, Whitehead, Wilson Workshops & Colloquia
November 8, 2010

Steven Meyer

History, Washington University in St. Louis
About the Author
Steven Meyer teaches intellectual history at Washington University in St. Louis and is the author of Irresistible Dictation: Gertrude Stein and the Correlations of Writing and Science (2001). Among current projects he is completing Robust Empiricisms: Jamesian Modernism between the Disciplines, 1878 to the Present.
About the Talk
In Wandering Significance (2006), Mark Wilson develops a dissenting "pre-pragmatist," post-Quinean stance with regard to the classical picture of concepts provided by Bertrand Russell in response to late-nineteenth-century crises in classical mechanics and applied mathematics. Although Wilson portrays William James as a "fully fledged" pragmatist, accounts by Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour strikingly characterize James in a manner that deserves to be called pre-pragmatist as well. Wilson's historical reconstruction of the crises also makes it possible, perhaps for the first time, to appreciate the motivation they provided for Alfred North Whitehead to move toward what James called a "process philosophy" and toward the more robust empiricism he shares with James and Wilson.
Margaret Schabas
Margaret Schabas, October 27, 2010
Hume on Happiness - Faculty Associates Forum

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Margaret Schabas
Hume on Happiness Faculty Associates Forum
October 27, 2010

Margaret Schabas

Philosophy, University of British Columbia and 2010 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
David Hume (1711-1776), the most influential philosopher to have written in the English language, maintained that happiness was the goal of all human activity. �For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modelled.� Hume was also one of the first to analyze and assimilate the rise of commerce and trade, and recognized that the pursuit of luxuries, while a source of happiness, could drive humans onto the wrong developmental path. The significant increase in wealth in Western Europe tended to deplete the stock of non-pecuniary goods, such as friendship, and induce an increase in military expenditures and thus government debt. As would John Maynard Keynes two centuries hence, Hume admired the wealth-creating effects of the capitalist system while deploring its dehumanizing and destabilizing tendencies. This talk outlines Hume�s vision for human prosperity and the pursuit of happiness, both individual and collective.
Edwin Moore
Edwin Moore, October 13, 2010
Nanospace Biophysics - Faculty Associates Forum

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Edwin Moore
Nanospace Biophysics Faculty Associates Forum
October 13, 2010

Edwin Moore

Cellular & Physiological Sciences
About the Talk
There is a critical knowledge gap in biology that needs to be addressed: cytoplasmic nanospace biophysics. Some examples of critical cellular processes occurring in nanospaces are excitation-contraction coupling in muscles, cell division, proliferation, intracellular trafficking, the stabilization and control of multiprotein complexes such as cellulose synthases, focal adhesion turnover in cell migration, calcium homeostasis and intracellular signaling. While the traditional deterministic view of these processes is inaccurate, it dominates hypothesis generation in the research community as well as both graduate and undergraduate education. It is therefore necessary to develop appropriate probabilistic models that can be quantitatively analysed to guide future research into both healthy and diseased states, and to provide more accurate visualization tools necessary for research and education. Dr. Moore recently led a Wall Exploratory Workshop to address these issues: www.nanospace.pwias.ubc.ca
Janis Sarra

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Janis Sarra
Pragmatic, Prescient and Prudential: Corporate Governance of Banks in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Faculty Associates Forum
September 29, 2010

Janis Sarra

Law, University of British Columbia and 2010 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
About the Talk
The recent financial crisis witnessed the first "runs" on banks in more than 75 years. The collapse of financial institutions placed people's homes, pensions and economic security at risk. The crisis itself was the result of multiple factors, including inappropriate risk taking and inappropriate compensation incentives. Arguably, corporate governance of banks and other financial institutions differs from the governance of corporations because of prudential regulation and the different nature of stakeholders with investments at risk. A highly contested question is the extent to which there ought to be new regulatory oversight of bank governance, or whether there is a need for a more nuanced model of interactive governance. Our collective interest as depositors, investors, and mortgage holders in the effective governance of banks necessitates a new understanding of the incentive effects of various strategies.
Rachel Silvey
Rachel Silvey, June 29, 2010
Transnational Migration and Economic Justice - Workshops & Colloquia

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Rachel Silvey
Transnational Migration and Economic Justice Workshops & Colloquia
June 29, 2010

Rachel Silvey

University of Toronto, Department of Geography
Barbara Grosz
Barbara Grosz, June 25, 2010
Can't You See I'm Busy? Designing Computers that Only Interrupt when they Should - Faculty Associates Forum

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Barbara Grosz
Can't You See I'm Busy? Designing Computers that Only Interrupt when they Should Faculty Associates Forum
June 25, 2010

Barbara Grosz

Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies
About the Talk
Ever been annoyed by a dialogue box that pops up trying to be helpful, but asks something stupid instead? Sometimes a computer system has information that would be helpful to its user; at other times, the system may need information that only its user has. Too often, computer systems control an interaction, forcing their users to accommodate them. Harvard computer scientist and Radcliffe Institute Dean Barbara J. Grosz will describe research that aims to shift the burden of adaptation from human to computer, so that computers respect our needs and adapt to us rather than the other way around.
Brett Finlay

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Brett Finlay
Revisiting the Hygiene Hypothesis - Clean Living and the Effect of Microbiota on Diarrhea and Asthma Faculty Associates Forum
May 12, 2010

Brett Finlay

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Microbiology & Immunology and Wall Distinguished Professor
About the Talk
The microbiota (normal flora) is comprised of many microbes living in and on our bodies. Only recently have we begun to appreciate the impact of these organisms on our health and disease, impacting on obesity, bowel diseases, type I diabetes, immune development, etc. In developed countries, we have gone to great lengths to minimize our exposure to microbes, both pathogenic and harmless. The Hygiene Hypothesis suggests that perhaps we have gone too far, as hominids have evolved in a sea of microbes and actually need exposure early in life to microbes to minimize allergic diseases, including asthma. Recent work in our lab has begun to explore the role of the microbiota in experimental asthma and infectious diarrhea. We are finding that the microbiota play central roles in these diseases. Recent results in this area will be discussed, as will their implications in our quest to minimize our exposure to microbes.
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Arthur Ray
Arthur Ray, April 28, 2010
Telling it to the Judge: Historical Evidence and Mètis Rights in Canada - Faculty Associates Forum

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Arthur Ray
Telling it to the Judge: Historical Evidence and Mètis Rights in Canada Faculty Associates Forum
April 28, 2010

Arthur Ray

History, University of British Columbia
About the Talk
The Canadian philosopher Ralston Saul declared in his recent acclaimed book, A Fair Country, that Canada is a Mètis nation that should embrace its mixed aboriginal and settler ancestry. Although the sentiment may be admirable, the reality is quite different. Canada’s Mètis people and communities have struggled for their rights through armed conflicts in 1869-70 and in 1885 and thereafter through political activism. A breakthrough was achieved in 1982, when Section 35 of Canada’s new Constitutional Act recognized Mètis as Aboriginal people and protected their existing Aboriginal rights. It would, however, be left to the courts to determine: Who is Mètis? Where do the Mètis live? What cultural practices are distinctly Mètis? Since 1982, these questions have been asked and argued in Canadian courts as Mètis press for legal recognition of their constitutionally protected, but undefined, Aboriginal rights. Along the way, trial and appeal courts have become the arbiters of Canadian Mètis identity and culture. The rising tide of litigation has reinvigorated historical research to both address the courts’ evolving notions of Mètis rights and influence those conceptualizations. Litigation-oriented research, in turn, challenges the existing scholarship on Mètis history. I will discuss this interactive process from the perspective of my involvement as an ethnohistorical geographer who was an expert witness in R. v. Powley (2003) concerning the Mètis of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. It was the first Mètis rights case to reach the Supreme Court of Canada after 1982. I will also discuss cases in Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan after Powley
Anthony Phillips
Anthony Phillips, April 14, 2010
Epigenetics: A revolution in the making - Faculty Associates Forum

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Anthony Phillips
Epigenetics: A revolution in the making Faculty Associates Forum
April 14, 2010

Anthony Phillips

Psychiatry, University of British Columbia
Claire Young
Claire Young, March 24, 2010
Pensions, Privatisation and Poverty: The Gendered Impact - Faculty Associates Forum

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Claire Young
Pensions, Privatisation and Poverty: The Gendered Impact Faculty Associates Forum
March 24, 2010

Claire Young

Law, University of British Columbia
Robert Brunham
Robert Brunham, March 10, 2010
Navigating TB Transmission Networks with Genomics and Phylogenetics - Faculty Associates Forum

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Robert Brunham
Navigating TB Transmission Networks with Genomics and Phylogenetics Faculty Associates Forum
March 10, 2010

Robert Brunham

Infectious Diseases, University of British Columbia
Alexander Woodside
Alexander Woodside, January 27, 2010
Catastrophe Theory and the Future of Farming (As Seen From China) - Faculty Associates Forum

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Alexander Woodside
Catastrophe Theory and the Future of Farming (As Seen From China) Faculty Associates Forum
January 27, 2010

Alexander Woodside

History, University of British Columbia
Susan Cox and George Belliveau
Susan Cox and George Belliveau, January 13, 2010
Arts-Based Methods in Health Research - Faculty Associates Forum

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Susan Cox and George Belliveau
Arts-Based Methods in Health Research Faculty Associates Forum
January 13, 2010

Susan Cox and George Belliveau

Centre for Applied Ethics and Language & Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
Grant Gillett
Grant Gillett, November 27, 2009
Neuroethics and Hysteria: The Mind and Neurological Disorder - Workshops & Colloquia

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Grant Gillett
Neuroethics and Hysteria: The Mind and Neurological Disorder Workshops & Colloquia
November 27, 2009

Grant Gillett

Medical Ethics, University of Otago Medical School and Cecil H. & Ida Green Visiting Professor
Meeko Oishi

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Meeko Oishi
Removing Barriers and Enabling Individuals: Ethics, Design, and Use of Assistive Technologies Faculty Associates Forum
November 18, 2009

Meeko Oishi

Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
Trevor Barnes

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Trevor Barnes
Two Men of War and Their Big Idea: Walter Christaller, Edward Ullman, and Central Place Theory Faculty Associates Forum
October 28, 2009

Trevor Barnes

Geography, University of British Columbia and 2009 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Sander Gilman
Sander Gilman, October 24, 2009
Connecting Academic Research to Aboriginal Health - Workshops & Colloquia

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Sander Gilman
Connecting Academic Research to Aboriginal Health Workshops & Colloquia
October 24, 2009

Sander Gilman

Emory University and Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor
Sander Gilman
Sander Gilman, October 23, 2009
Ethnicity and Diabetes: The Jews as a 'Diabetic People' - Workshops & Colloquia

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Sander Gilman
Ethnicity and Diabetes: The Jews as a 'Diabetic People' Workshops & Colloquia
October 23, 2009

Sander Gilman

Emory University and Cecil and Ida Green Visiting Professor
Danielle van Jaarsveld & Daniyal Zuberi
Danielle van Jaarsveld & Daniyal Zuberi, October 14, 2009
Globalization and the Service Workplace - Faculty Associates Forum

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Danielle van Jaarsveld & Daniyal Zuberi
Globalization and the Service Workplace Faculty Associates Forum
October 14, 2009

Danielle van Jaarsveld & Daniyal Zuberi

Sauder School of Business and Sociology, University of British Columbia
Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz, September 30, 2009
The Brain and Decisions: Emotion and Reason - Faculty Associates Forum

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Alain Berthoz
The Brain and Decisions: Emotion and Reason Faculty Associates Forum
September 30, 2009
Dinesh Pai
Dinesh Pai, September 16, 2009
Eyes and Hands and Brains! Oh, My! The Biomechanical Modelling of the Eye and Hand - Faculty Associates Forum

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Dinesh Pai
Eyes and Hands and Brains! Oh, My! The Biomechanical Modelling of the Eye and Hand Faculty Associates Forum
September 16, 2009

Dinesh Pai

Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Michael Doebeli
Michael Doebeli, May 27, 2009
Evolution of Diversity - Faculty Associates Forum

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Michael Doebeli
Evolution of Diversity Faculty Associates Forum
May 27, 2009

Michael Doebeli

Mathematics and Zoology, University of British Columbia and 2009 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
David Fraser
David Fraser, May 13, 2009
Conservation and Animal Welfare Science - Faculty Associates Forum

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David Fraser
Conservation and Animal Welfare Science Faculty Associates Forum
May 13, 2009

David Fraser

Land & Food Systems and Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia
Martin Barlow
Martin Barlow, April 29, 2009
Random Walks and Random Structure - Faculty Associates Forum

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Martin Barlow
Random Walks and Random Structure Faculty Associates Forum
April 29, 2009

Martin Barlow

Mathematics, University of British Columbia and 2009 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Thomas Hutton

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Thomas Hutton
The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the Metropolis Faculty Associates Forum
April 15, 2009

Thomas Hutton

Community & Regional Planning and Centre for Human Settlements, University of British Columbia
Harvey Richer
Harvey Richer, March 25, 2009
Watcher of the Sky: An Observational Astronomer's View of the Universe - Faculty Associates Forum

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Harvey Richer
Watcher of the Sky: An Observational Astronomer's View of the Universe Faculty Associates Forum
March 25, 2009

Harvey Richer

Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia and 2009 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Susanna Braund
Susanna Braund, March 11, 2009
Translation and Authority - Faculty Associates Forum

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Susanna Braund
Translation and Authority Faculty Associates Forum
March 11, 2009

Susanna Braund

Classical, Near Eastern, & Religious Studies, University of British Columbia
Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Leah Edelstein-Keshet, February 25, 2009
A Mathematician's Adventures in Cell Biology - Faculty Associates Forum

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Leah Edelstein-Keshet
A Mathematician's Adventures in Cell Biology Faculty Associates Forum
February 25, 2009

Leah Edelstein-Keshet

Mathematics, University of British Columbia and 2009 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Robert Brain
Robert Brain, February 11, 2009
Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture - Faculty Associates Forum

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Robert Brain
Varieties of Empathy in Science, Art and Culture Faculty Associates Forum
February 11, 2009

Robert Brain

History, University of British Columbia
Stephen Sheppard
Stephen Sheppard, January 28, 2009
Changing Our High-Carbon Aesthetic: Shifting Attitudes on Climate Change - Faculty Associates Forum

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Stephen Sheppard
Changing Our High-Carbon Aesthetic: Shifting Attitudes on Climate Change Faculty Associates Forum
January 28, 2009

Stephen Sheppard

Forest Resources Management and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia and 2009 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Sneja Gunew
Sneja Gunew, November 26, 2008
"I'm My Own Muse": Mediating the Personal in Contemporary Women's Art - Faculty Associates Forum

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Sneja Gunew
"I'm My Own Muse": Mediating the Personal in Contemporary Women's Art Faculty Associates Forum
November 26, 2008

Sneja Gunew

English and Women's Studies, University of British Columbia
Holger Hoos
Holger Hoos, November 12, 2008
Taming the Complexity Monster - On Computational Complexity and Ways of Dealing With It - Faculty Associates Forum

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Holger Hoos
Taming the Complexity Monster - On Computational Complexity and Ways of Dealing With It Faculty Associates Forum
November 12, 2008
Philip Austin
Philip Austin, September 24, 2008
The Art and Science of Climate Modeling - Faculty Associates Forum

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Philip Austin
The Art and Science of Climate Modeling Faculty Associates Forum
September 24, 2008

Philip Austin

Earth & Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia
Brett Gladman

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Brett Gladman
Swapping Rocks: Natural Interplanetary Material Exchange and Implications for Planetary Protection Faculty Associates Forum
September 10, 2008

Brett Gladman

Physics & Astronomy, University of British Columbia
Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein, June 25, 2008
The Return of the Peasant: Possible? Desirable? - 2008 Wall Summer Institute for Research

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Immanuel Wallerstein
The Return of the Peasant: Possible? Desirable? 2008 Wall Summer Institute for Research
June 25, 2008

Immanuel Wallerstein

Senior Research Scholar, Yale University, and Peter Wall Summer Institute Fellow, introduced by Arif Dirlik, Professor Emeritus, History, Duke University, and Chair Professor of Chinese Studies, Chine
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, June 23, 2008
Washington Rediscovers Agriculture: The Political Economy of the Agrarian Turn - 2008 Wall Summer Institute for Research

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Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Washington Rediscovers Agriculture: The Political Economy of the Agrarian Turn 2008 Wall Summer Institute for Research
June 23, 2008

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development, United Nations, and Peter Wall Summer Institute Fellow
Ronald Rensink
Ronald Rensink, May 28, 2008
Visual Analytics - Faculty Associates Forum

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Ronald Rensink
Visual Analytics Faculty Associates Forum
May 28, 2008

Ronald Rensink

Psychology and Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Brett Finlay
Brett Finlay, May 14, 2008
The Role of the Microbiota in Infectious Enteric Diseases - Faculty Associates Forum

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Brett Finlay
The Role of the Microbiota in Infectious Enteric Diseases Faculty Associates Forum
May 14, 2008

Brett Finlay

Michael Smith Laboratories, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, and Microbiology & Immunology, University of British Columbia, and Peter Wall Distinguished Professor
Alain Berthoz
Alain Berthoz, May 12, 2008
Brain, Space, and Movement - Special Associates Event

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Alain Berthoz
Brain, Space, and Movement Special Associates Event
May 12, 2008
William Benjamin
William Benjamin, April 23, 2008
Reproducing Music in Silence - Faculty Associates Forum

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William Benjamin
Reproducing Music in Silence Faculty Associates Forum
April 23, 2008

William Benjamin

Music, University of British Columbia and 2008 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Margery Fee
Margery Fee, March 26, 2008
What Can the Humanities Offer Science in Understanding Genetics and Social "Race"? - Faculty Associates Forum

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Margery Fee
What Can the Humanities Offer Science in Understanding Genetics and Social "Race"? Faculty Associates Forum
March 26, 2008

Margery Fee

English, University of British Columbia and 2008 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Tony Pitcher
Tony Pitcher, January 30, 2008
The Sea Ahead: Learning from the Past - Faculty Associates Forum

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Tony Pitcher
The Sea Ahead: Learning from the Past Faculty Associates Forum
January 30, 2008

Tony Pitcher

Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia and 2008 Peter Wall Distinguished Scholar in Residence

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