Creative Retirement Speakers
Lloyd Axworthy at the Globe Theatre presenting to the Current World Issues Series participants.
Current World Issues 4624
Experts in their fields will discuss today’s current world
issues. Complimentary parking in Portage Place Parkade
if space is available.
FEES: Members $72/$87 non-members. September 30 – November 25, 8 Thursdays.
10:30-12:00 noon Globe Cinema, Portage Place,
393 Portage Ave, 3rd floor Edmonton Court. Hosts:
Winnifred Warkentin.
September 30, 2010
Youth Victimization: Canada and Abroad
Linda Lee, Partner & VP, Proactive Information
Services
October 7, 2010
Genocide & Indigenous Peoples in Canada
Andrew Woolford, University of Manitoba
October 14, 2010
A Shared History: Canada, Indian
Residential Schools and the Truth and
Reconciliation Commission
Kim Murray, Executive Director,
Truth and Reconciliation Commission
October 21, 2010
Understanding War Through Film
Jim Fergusson, University of Manitoba
October 28, 2010
The State of Canadian Forests
John Pineau, Executive Director,
Canadian Institute of Forestry
November 4, 2010
Grassland Conservation for Prairie Grouse
in North America
Rick Baydack, University of Manitoba
November 18, 2010
Nuclear Strategy: Promise of Murder
or Promise of Peace
Garin Burbank, University of Winnipeg
November 25, 2010
Diaspora & Development: How African
Migrants are Changing the Continent
Ruth Rempel, Menno Simons College
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Men and Women in History 1458
FEES: Members $72/non-members $87 1:30-3:00 p.m., National Research Council - Institute for Biodiagnostics, 435 Ellice Ave. September 27 – November 22, 8 Mondays Host: Tom Graham
September 27
Isabella the Catholic Queen of Spain
Jesús Ángel Mìguel Garcia, Director, Spanish Institute
October 4
Fidel Castro: Phenomenon or Revolutionary?
Ross McCormack, University of Winnipeg
October 18
Earls of Orkney: Canada and the Fur Trade
Peter St. John, University of Manitoba
October 25
Abbé Ritchot: Manitoba’s “Other” Father
of Confederation,
Philippe Mailhot, Director, St. Boniface Museum
November 1
Charles Schulz: The Creator of Peanuts,
Tom Graham
November 8
The Curious World of Lewis Carroll,
Lynne Axworthy
November 15
Isobel and Letitia: Two Women & the Fur Trade,
Mary Louise Chown & Judith Hudson Beattie
November 22
Miquel de Unamuno: All or Nothing,
Bruce Sarbit
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