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Below is the list of the Winter 2010 Speakers Series. Click here for the Schedules

Current Issues Lectuire Series
Lloyd Axworthy at the Globe Theatre presenting to the Current World Issues Series participants.

 

Men and Women in History 1458


FEES: Members $34.00/non-members $49.00 1:30-3:00 p.m., National Research Council - Institute for Biodiagnostics, 435 Ellice Ave.. 4 Mondays. Begins Mar 22 and ends Apr 19. Host: Tom Graham
Men and Women in History - Spring 2010March 22 Lincoln’s Men and Women Problems, Prof Garin Burbank, U of W

March 29 Galileo and Copernicus: Uncentering the Earth, Prof Lyle Lockhart, U of M, retired

April 12 The Romantic Poets: George Gordon, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lynne Axworthy

April 19 London’s Other Ripper: the London Monster in the Late 1700’s, Prof Greg Smith, UofM

 

Nature Series

You may register for all or any individual lectures below. Nature Series Course Number 3938 registers you for all 5 lectures at a discount.

Nature Series 3938
Use this course # if you are registering for all 5 lectures.
FEES: Members $43.00/non-members $60.00. 5 Wednesdays. Begins April 7 and ends May 5, 10:00-11:30 a.m. Creative Retirement Manitoba, 270 Sherbrook St., Classroom.

Natures Series Sprong 2010 - Elk and CougarIndividual Lectures:

Manitoba Plant Life - Our Amazing Inheritance 3939
FEES: Members $10.00/non-members $19.00. Wednesday, April 7. Richard Staniforth.

Cougars - Manitoba’s Mystery Cat 3940
FEES: Members $10.00/non-members $19.00. Wednesday, April 14. Bill Watkins.

Elk in Riding Mountain National Park 3941
FEES: Members $10.00/non-members $19.00. Wednesday, April 21. Ken Kingdon.

Polar Bear Management 3942
FEES: Members $10.00/non-members $19.00. Wednesday, April 28. Daryll Hedman.

Manitoba’s Reptiles and Amphibians: Show and Tell 3943
FEES: Members $10.00/non-members $19.00. Wednesday, May 5. Douglas Collicutt.

 

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 $66.00/$81.00 non-members (or $10 cash or cheque at the door per lecture). Thursdays. 10:30-12:00 noon Globe Cinema, Portage Place, 393 Portage Ave, 3rd floor Edmonton Court. Hosts: Winnifred Warkentin, Phyllis Reader.

Feb 4 Grandmothers and Orphans: Aids in Africa,
Enid Butler
and Charlotte Caron, Grands ‘n’ More Winnipeg

Current World Issues Winter 2010Feb 11 Modern Day Pirates and Politics: Patrolling the Gulf of Aden on the HMSC Winnipeg, Dan Lett, Winnipeg Free Press

Feb 18 Myth and Reality: Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Security,
Prof Jim Fergusson
, U of M

Feb 25 Issues and Experiences in Lebanon, Rick Janzen, Mennonite Central Committee

Mar 4 What Do They Mean, When They Call the Canadian Museum for Human Rights an ‘Idea Museum’?,
Stuart Murray
, Canadian Museum for Human Rights

Mar 11 Does Africa Need a Green Revolution?, Prof Ruth Rempel, Meno Simons College

Mar 18 Ukraine After the Elections, Prof Lasha Tchantourigze, U of M

Mar 25 How Do You Best Convey Historical and Narrative Ideas: Holocaust and News Museum Washington, DC, Yude Henteleff, CM, QC


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