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2025-2026 Season


Dr. Anne Dymond

Dr. Anne Dymond

From a Communist Doctor to Madonna's Cone Bra: Museums and Cultural Diplomacy in Troubled Times

Sept. 25, 2025

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Dr. Sidney Shapiro

Dr. Sidney Shapiro

AI and Us: Building a Human Future in a Machine World

Oct. 30, 2025

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Dr. Richelle Marynowski

Dr. Richelle Marynowski

Has AI made teachers obsolete?

Nov. 27, 2025

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Dr. Claudia Gonzalez

Dr. Claudia Gonzalez

From Action to Cognition: How the Body Shapes the Mind

Jan. 29, 2026

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Dr. Don G. McIntyre

Dr. Don G. McIntyre

Indigenous Childhood Stories Transform Worlds – Want Some?

Feb. 26, 2026

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Dr. Rob Williams

Dr. Rob Williams

Legalized Gambling in Canada: Winners and Losers

March 26, 2026

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2024-2025 Season


Dr. Rebecca Schiff

Ending Homelessness

Sept. 26, 2024

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Dr. Shelley Hoover

Dr. Shelley Hoover

Fiat lux (or, why honey bees are practically magic)

Oct. 30, 2024

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Dr. Sidney Shapiro

Dr. Sidney Shapiro

Will Generative AI Change the World?

Nov. 28, 2024

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Lars Hallstron sits on the corner of a desk

Dr. Lars Hallstrom

Political and Policy Innovation in Alberta: The More Things Change...?

Jan. 30, 2025

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Dr. Emily Gale

Dr. Emily Gale

Sentimental Songs for Sentimental People

Feb. 27, 2025

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Dr. Robin Bright

Dr. Robin Bright

Does Reading Even Matter Anymore?

Mar. 27, 2025

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2023-2024 Season


Dr. Digvir Jayas

Dr. Digvir Jayas

Recent Trends in the Food Industry

Sept. 28, 2023

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Dr. Sienna Caspar

Dr. Sienna Caspar

Person-centred Care from Rhetoric to Reality

Oct. 26, 2023

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Dr. Sheila McManus

Dr. Sheila McManus

Borders are Stupid

Nov. 23, 2023

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Melissa Shouting (BHSc '19) & Christine Clark (BFA - New Media '10, MFA '14)

Melissa Shouting & Christine Clark

Weaving World Views: The Web as a Space for Cultural Vitality

Jan. 25, 2024

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Dr. Sandra Dixon

Dr. Sandra Dixon

Owning my Voice and Speaking my Truth in Academic Spaces

Feb. 29, 2024

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Dr. Rob Sutherland

Dr. Rob Sutherland

Why is the Brain Important?

Mar. 28, 2024

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2022-2023 Season


Dr. Laura Chasmer

Dr. Laura Chasmer

Living with the changing flammability of forests

Sept. 29, 2022

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Dr. Tiffany Prete

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The Kainai Stolen Children Era

Oct. 27, 2022

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Dr. Saurya Das

Dr. Saurya Das

Our Universe: its beginning, flow and end

Nov. 24, 2022

Dr. Habiba Kadiri

Dr. Habiba Kadiri

Resilience in Mathematics

Jan. 26, 2023

Dr. Chris Burton

Dr. Chris Burton

Identity and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Feb. 23, 2023

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David Logue

Dr. David Logue

The Science of Birdsong

Mar. 30, 2023

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Dr. David Hobbs

Dr. David Hobbs

What Do We Do

Apr. 13, 2023

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2021-2022 Season


Dr. Katharina Stevens

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

Dr. Alain Takam

Translating in a context of official bilingualism: What happens to the minority language?

Nov. 25, 2021

 

2020-2021 Season


Glenda Bonifacio

Dr. Glenda Bonifacio

Communities and disasters: associative acts and total escape?

Sept. 24, 2020

Gail Michener

Dr. Gail Michener

Love Them, Despise Them, Study Them: Perspectives on an iconic prairie animal

Oct. 29, 2020

Elizabeth Galway

Dr. Elizabeth Galway

What’s So Childish about Children’s Stories? Exploring the Complex World of Literature for Young Readers

Nov. 26, 2020

Trevor Harrison

Dr. Trevor Harrison

The Promise and Peril of Populism

Jan. 28, 2021

James MacKenzie

Dr. James MacKenzie

Being Maya: Reflections on Ethnicity, Religion and Place

Feb. 25, 2021

Trushar Patel

Dr. Trushar Patel

How not to get viral: Understanding the Communication Between Viruses and Humans

Mar. 25, 2021

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2019-2020 Season


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

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Dr. Carly Adams

"Hey, why don't we have a bonspiel?" Oral Histories, Sport, and (re)Imagining Community

Jan. 23, 2020

 

2018-2019 Season


Sergio Pellis

Dr. Sergio Pellis

A Journey Through the Fields of Play

Sep. 20, 2018

Maura Hanrahan

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

Tom Johnston

Dr. Tom Johnston

The Geography of Circumstance

Feb. 28, 2019

Hester Jiskoot

Dr. Hester Jiskoot

Glaciers — A Hot Topic

Mar. 21, 2019

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2017-2018 Season


Dr. Ute Kothe

From the Beginnings of Life to Modern Medicine: Why RNA Matters

Sep. 21, 2017

Jo-Anne Fiske

Dr. Jo-Anne Fiske

Remarkable Husbands and Unusual Fathers: Understanding the Great War a Crucible of Tenderness and Nurture

Oct. 26, 2017

Rene Barendregt

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

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Tom Robinson

Dr. Tom Robinson

Sex, Drugs, Jesus, and Gin

Feb. 15, 2018

Catherine Kingfisher

Dr. Catherine Kingfisher

Locating Happiness: Beyond Individualism

Mar. 22, 2018

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2016-2017 Season


Dr. Kevin McGeough

'I Met a Traveller From an Antique Land': The Archaeology of Progress, Decline, and Collapse

Sep. 22, 2016

Roy Golsteyn

Dr. Roy Golsteyn

Flower Power: A scientific Search for New Medicines in Prairie Plants

Oct. 20, 2016

Goldie Morgentaler

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

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2015-2016 Season


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

Jennifer Copeland

Dr. Jennifer Copeland

Sitting, Standing and Stepping: The Health Implications of Our Daily Behaviour

Nov. 26, 2015

Harold Jansen

Dr. Harold Jansen

The Impact of Digital Technology on Democratic Citizenship in Canada

Jan. 21, 2016

Shawn Bubel

Dr. Shawn Bubel

Prehistoric Bison Hunters in Southern Alberta: Excavations at the Fincastle Site

Feb. 25, 2016

Reg Bibby

Dr. Reg Bibby

Beyond the Gods & Back: The Return of Religion in Canada

Mar. 17, 2016

 

2014-2015 Season


Dr. Robbin Gibb

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

David Naylor

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

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