Previous Talks
Dr. Anne Dymond
From a Communist Doctor to Madonna's Cone Bra: Museums and Cultural Diplomacy in Troubled Times
Sept. 25, 2025
Dr. Sidney Shapiro
AI and Us: Building a Human Future in a Machine World
Oct. 30, 2025
Dr. Richelle Marynowski
Has AI made teachers obsolete?
Nov. 27, 2025
Dr. Claudia Gonzalez
From Action to Cognition: How the Body Shapes the Mind
Jan. 29, 2026
Dr. Don G. McIntyre
Indigenous Childhood Stories Transform Worlds – Want Some?
Feb. 26, 2026
Dr. Rob Williams
Legalized Gambling in Canada: Winners and Losers
March 26, 2026
Dr. Rebecca Schiff
Ending Homelessness
Sept. 26, 2024
Dr. Shelley Hoover
Fiat lux (or, why honey bees are practically magic)
Oct. 30, 2024
Dr. Sidney Shapiro
Will Generative AI Change the World?
Nov. 28, 2024
Dr. Lars Hallstrom
Political and Policy Innovation in Alberta: The More Things Change...?
Jan. 30, 2025
Dr. Emily Gale
Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People
Feb. 27, 2025
Dr. Robin Bright
Does Reading Even Matter Anymore?
Mar. 27, 2025
Dr. Digvir Jayas
Recent Trends in the Food Industry
Sept. 28, 2023
Dr. Sienna Caspar
Person-centred Care from Rhetoric to Reality
Oct. 26, 2023
Dr. Sheila McManus
Borders are Stupid
Nov. 23, 2023
Melissa Shouting & Christine Clark
Weaving World Views: The Web as a Space for Cultural Vitality
Jan. 25, 2024
Dr. Sandra Dixon
Owning my Voice and Speaking my Truth in Academic Spaces
Feb. 29, 2024
Dr. Rob Sutherland
Why is the Brain Important?
Mar. 28, 2024
Dr. Laura Chasmer
Living with the changing flammability of forests
Sept. 29, 2022
Apooyak'ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete
The Kainai Stolen Children Era
Oct. 27, 2022
Dr. Saurya Das
Our Universe: its beginning, flow and end
Nov. 24, 2022
Dr. Habiba Kadiri
Resilience in Mathematics
Jan. 26, 2023
Dr. Chris Burton
Identity and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Feb. 23, 2023
Dr. David Logue
The Science of Birdsong
Mar. 30, 2023
Dr. David Hobbs
What Do We Do
Apr. 13, 2023
Dr. Katharina Stevens
Arguing Without Being Cruel: What Morality Has to Say About How We Should Give Reasons
Sep. 23, 2021
Dr. Leroy Little Bear
The Comeback: The Parallel Experiences of the Blackfoot and the Buffalo
Oct. 28, 2021
Dr. Alain Takam
Translating in a context of official bilingualism: What happens to the minority language?
Nov. 25, 2021
Dr. Glenda Bonifacio
Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?
Sept. 24, 2020
Dr. Gail Michener
Love Them, Despise Them, Study Them: Perspectives on an iconic prairie animal
Oct. 29, 2020
Dr. Elizabeth Galway
What’s So Childish about Children’s Stories? Exploring the Complex World of Literature for Young Readers
Nov. 26, 2020
Dr. Trevor Harrison
The Promise and Peril of Populism
Jan. 28, 2021
Dr. James MacKenzie
Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place
Feb. 25, 2021
Dr. Trushar Patel
How not to get viral: Understanding the Communication Between Viruses and Humans
Mar. 25, 2021
With special thanks to our talk sponsor:
Dr. Louise Barrett
Supercharged Apes and Supersized Minds: How to Think Like an Animal
Sep. 26, 2019
Dr. Matthew Tata
How to Talk to Your Robot: Using Cognitive Neuroscience to Make Robots That Can Hear
Oct. 24, 2019
Dr. Jackie Rice
The Benefits and Risks of Artificial Intelligence
Nov. 21, 2019
With special thanks to our talk sponsor:
Dr. Carly Adams
"Hey, why don't we have a bonspiel?" Oral Histories, Sport, and (re)Imagining Community
Jan. 23, 2020
Dr. Sergio Pellis
A Journey Through the Fields of Play
Sep. 20, 2018
Dr. Maura Hanrahan
Creating Heroes and Claiming the North: Captain Robert Abram Bartlett in the Arctic
Oct. 25, 2018
Dr. Amy Shaw
‘A Devil-May-Care Sort of Swagger’: A Case for Remembering Canada in the Boer War
Nov. 22, 2018
Dr. Alexander Darku
The Building Blocks of Africa's Development: Resources, Politics, and Economics
Jan. 24, 2019
Dr. Tom Johnston
The Geography of Circumstance
Feb. 28, 2019
Dr. Hester Jiskoot
Glaciers — A Hot Topic
Mar. 21, 2019
With special thanks to our talk sponsor:
Dr. Ute Kothe
From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters
Sep. 21, 2017
Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske
Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers: Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture
Oct. 26, 2017
Dr. René Barendregt
Global Climate Archives in Mud and Rock: The Magnetic Recorder is Always On [Somewhere]!
Nov. 23, 2017
Dr. Paul Vasey
Beyond the Binary: What the West Can Learn from Non-Western Approaches to Gender Diversity
Jan. 15, 2018
With special thanks to our talk sponsor:
Dr. Tom Robinson
Sex, Drugs, Jesus, and Gin
Feb. 15, 2018
Dr. Catherine Kingfisher
Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism
Mar. 22, 2018
With special thanks to our talk sponsor:
Dr. Kevin McGeough
'I Met a Traveller From an Antique Land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse
Sep. 22, 2016
Dr. Roy Golsteyn
Flower Power: A scientific Search for New Medicines in Prairie Plants
Oct. 20, 2016
Dr. Goldie Morgentaler
How Dickens Invented Christmas — and Why it Matters
Nov. 24, 2016
Dr. Janay Nugent
Converting a Nation: family, religion, and Calvinism in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Scotland
Jan. 26, 2017
Dr. Kent Peacock
Alberta in the Anthropocene
Feb. 16, 2017
Dr. Stacey Wetmore
DNA Damage, Repair and Disease: How Computers Can Help Us Understand
Mar. 23, 2017
With special thanks to our talk sponsor:
Dr. Craig Cooper
Catching the Crook in Classical Athens
Sep. 24, 2015
Dr. Olga Kovalchuk
Epigenetics of Health and Disease: From Personalized Science to Personalized Medicine
Oct. 22, 2015
Dr. Craig Coburn
Understanding the Complexities of Imaging the Earth: The Challenge of Image Calibration
Nov. 19, 2015
Dr. Jennifer Copeland
Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour
Nov. 26, 2015
Dr. Harold Jansen
The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada
Jan. 21, 2016
Dr. Shawn Bubel
Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at the Fincastle Site
Feb. 25, 2016
Dr. Reg Bibby
Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada
Mar. 17, 2016
Dr. Robbin Gibb
The Forgotten Parent: The Importance of Fathers and Their Experience on the Brain Development of Their Children
Sep. 25, 2014
Dr. Patrick Wilson
Indigenous Territories and the Rights of Nature in Amazonian Ecuador
Oct. 23, 2014
Dr. Ian MacLachlan
Changing Livestock Geographies and Global Meat Consumption: What are the implications?
Nov. 20, 2014
Dr. David Naylor
Why Invest in Space Exploration
Jan. 22, 2015
Dr. John Harding
Buddha’s World Tour: Global Buddhism in the Modern Era
Feb. 26, 2015
Dr. Michelle Hogue
Two-Eyed Seeing: A Different Vision for Teaching Aboriginal Learners Science and Mathematics
Mar. 19, 2015