Following Is a List of Lecturers Who Have Participated in Mcgill's Beatty
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Following is a list of lecturers who have participated in McGill’s Beatty Talks as well as their affiliated organization, titles of their presentations, date of the event, and sponsoring group or groups. 2010s Margaret Rossiter "Women in Science and Medicine: Reflections on a Century" October 13, 2012 Science Outreach, Redpath Museum, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, History and Classical Studies, Medicine Catherine Driscoll University of Sydney, Australia "Media, Social Change and Lives of Girls" October 11, 2012 Arts, Institute of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Jeremy Waldron All Souls College, University of Oxford "The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property" October 4, 2012 Arts Francis Fukuyama Stanford University "The Origins of Political Order" September 23, 2012 Political Science Andrew Chanen University of Melbourne "Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents" May 10, 2012 Royal Victoria Hospital, Psychiatry Michael Kearney Palliative Care Service Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital "Lessons in Living from the Dying: Whole Person Self-Care" May 8, 2012 Council on Palliative Care Jacques Neefjes Netherlands Cancer Institute "A Genome-Wide Multidimentional RNAi Screen Reveals Pathways Controlling MHC Class II Antigen Presentation" February 27, 2012 Microbiology and Immunology Harvey V. Fineberg Institute of Medicine "The Health Populations: Roles and Responsibilities for the 21st Century" February 16-17, 2012 Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health Michael Holquist Yale University "Why the Humanities Must Lose" October 28, 2011 Law, Arts Carla Hesse University of California, Berkeley "Speech into Print: Charting the Rise of Female Authorship in the Nineteenth Century" September 16, 2011 English Ira Byock Palliative Care Service, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Centre, New Hampshire "Lessons in Living from the Dying: The Ethics and Practice of Loving Care" May 4, 2011 Council on Palliative Care Fazie Hasan Abed Building Bridges across Communities (BRAC) "Education is that which Liberates" and "Organizing People for Power Through the Path of Education" May 2-3, 2011 Education Chris Impey University of Arizona "How it Ends" March 24, 2011 Anatomy and Cell Biology, Physics, Earth and Planetary Sciences Nosheen Ali University of California, Berkeley "Of Books and Bombs: Representing the War on Terror" March 11, 2011 Integrated Studies in Education Rodney Evans Temple University "Excavations: Creating Black Gay History on Film" March 4, 2011 Music Naomi Oreskes University of California "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth" February 10, 2011 School of Environment Jocelyn Downie Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University "Assisted Death" January 13, 2011 Law, McGill Research Group on Health and Law Michael Watts University of Cambridge "The Gulf War Never Happened: Baudrillard's Interrogation of 'Reality' and Social Theory" October 14, 2010 Integrated Studies in Education Garrett Stewart Iowa University "Bookwork: Medium to Concept to Object to Art" September 23, 2010 German Studies Kathleen M. Foley Cornell University "Palliative Care: Shedding Light on Euthanasia" May 4, 2010 Council on Palliative Care John A. McCumber University of California, Los Angeles "Substance and Freedom in Spinoza and Hagel" April 9, 2010 Philosophy Mona Domosh Dartmouth College "The World was Never Flat: Early Global Encounters and the Messiness of Empire" March 31, 2010 Geography Lawrence Gostin Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University "Meeting the Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Towards a Framework Convention on Global Health" March 25, 2010 McGill Research Group on Health and Law Nathan Glazer Harvard University "The Role of the Public Intellectual in America: Then and Now" March 22, 2010 Sociology Richard L. Sherwin New York Law School "Legimatric: From the Digital Neo-Baroque to the Ethical Sublime in the Visualization of Law" February 17, 2010 Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) Priya Parmar Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY) "Hip Hop Culture and Youth Empowerment" February 11, 2010 Integrated Studies in Education Colm Toibin Author "Oscar Wilde in Prison" February 11, 2010 Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, English Nathan Cherny National Institute of Health, Washington, D.C. "Caring for the Dying in Situations of War and Conflict: Finding Hope and Building Bridges" April 28, 2009 Council on Palliative Care Lewis Hyde Poet, Cultural Critic, and Public Intellectual "For Forgetting" April 20, 2009 English, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) Sheila Jasanoff Pforzheimer Harvard University "Life and the Law: Configuring the Human" March 19, 2009 Law, Bioethics, Social Studies in Medicine Geoffrey A. Landis NASA John Glen Research Centre "Colonizing Venus with Floating Cities" March 5, 2009 Anatomy and Cell Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences Joan Wallach "Public Education and Religious Symbols in France" November 24, 2008 Dror Wahrman "God and the Enlightenment: Shifting Ideas About Providence and Causation in Eighteenth- Century Western Europe" October 19, 2008 Santra J. T. M. Evers "Lex Loci Meets Lex Fori: Merging Customary Law and National Land Legislation in Madagascar" October 11, 2008 History Linda Emanuel "Lessons in Living from the Dying: Understanding and Implementing Preference for Care" May 6, 2008 Council on Palliative Care Patrick Chamoiseau "Créolité" May 1, 2008 History John Gunderson "Psychoeducation of Borderline Patients and their Families: Overdue and Underutilized" April 24, 2008 Psychiatry Carl B. Pilcher "The Quest for Habitable Worlds and Life Beyond Earth" March 15, 2008 Anatomy and Cell Biology, Earth and Planetary Sciences M. Nylan "Beliefs about Seeing: The Moral Technology of Optics in Early China" February 20, 2008 Centre for East Asian Research Carlos Monsivais "Imagining the Americas" February 13, 2008 Institute for the Study of Canada John M. Coffin "Persistence & Diversity: New Insights into HIV-Host Relationship" January 23, 2008 Microbiology and Immunology John Witte "Ethics in the Secular State: New Horizons for Religious Consensus" September 13, 2007 Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish "The Climate for Scientific Breakthrough: Then Versus Now" August 2007 G. Scott Hubbard "Space Exploration: The Moon and Mars - A Vision of the Future" March 15, 2007 Electron Microscopy Centre Peter McLaren "Critical Pedagogy: An Elegy, Reprise of Revival?" March 9, 2007 Education Allen Scott "Capitalism and Urbanization in a New Key? The Cognitive-Cultural Dimension" March 9, 2007 Geography Douglas Kellner University of California, Los Angeles "Hegemony and Resistance in Cyberculture" October 19, 2006 Art History and Communications Studies, Political Science Gerri Frager Dalhousie University "Lessons in Living from the Dying: Critical Communication in the Care of Children" May 1, 2006 The Council on Palliative Care Karen Armstrong Religious Scholar and Author "The Great Transformation" April 27, 2006 Religious Studies and the McGill Bookstore Sandra Harding University of California "Women, Science and Modernity" April 4, 2006 McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women, History, Philosophy of Science, Social Studies of Medicine Robert Kirshner Harvard and American Astronomical Society "Exploding Stars, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Cosmos" March 30, 2006 Physics William Ruddiman University of Virginia "How Did Humans First Alter Global Climate?" March 8, 2006 Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre Roger Blandford Stanford University "Black Holes: The End of Time or a New Beginning?" January 5, 2006 Physics Geoffrey Samuel University of Kent "Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy: Is Law Truly a Social Science?" October 26, 2005 Law Hung Wu University of Chicago "Ruins in Traditional Chinese Art and Visual Culture" October 20, 2005 East Asian Studies, Art History and Communications Studies Diane Meier Mount Sinai School of Medicine "Lessons in Living from the Dying: Palliative Care in Hospitals" May 3, 2005 Council on Palliative Care Seth Shostak Centre for SETI Research "When Will We Detect Extraterrestrials?" March 30, 2005 Earth and Planetary Science, Anatomy and Cell Biology, Geography Lev Manovich University of California, San Diego "Info-Aesthetics: The New Information Aesthetics" February 14, 2005 Art History and Communication Studies, Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité de l'Université de Montréal, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Peter Fitzpatrick Birkbeck College "Annual Lecture in Jurisprudence and Public Policy: The American Empire and the Rule of Law" January 26, 2005 Law Mohammed Al-Hadid President, Jordan Red Crescent "Human Relationships as a Crucial Component of Peace Building in the Middle East" November 24, 2004 McGill Middle East Program in Civil Society and Peace Building John Willinsky Public Knowledge Project, University of British Columbia "Keep the World at Your Fingertips" November 5, 2004 Graduate Students’ Society, Education Sir James Black "The Greatest Benefit to Mankind" September 23, 2004 Pharmacology and Therapeutics David Kissane Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York "Lessons in Living from the Dying: Discovering Meaning in Illness and Suffering" May 4, 2004 Council on Palliative Care (Sandra Goldberg Lecture) Judit Bokser Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico "Latin American Jewish Communities: A Challenging Present" March 31, 2004 Jewish Studies, Political Science James