September 26, 1997

Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research

October 3, noon

Fumio Endo, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Kumamoto University School of Medicine, Kumamoto, Japan, "Apoptosis of Hepatocyte and Early Involvement of Mitochondria in Tyrosinemia Type I." Sponsored by Biochemistry. 452 Heritage Medical Research Building.

Biological Sciences

October 1, noon

Allen Good, "Metabolic Manipulations of Stress Tolerance in Plants." B-105 Biological Sciences Centre.

October 2, 4 p.m.

Joao Sousa, "Don't Count Your Instars Before They Hatch! Description Difficulties with Egg Parasitoid Larvae." TB-W1 Tory Breezeway.

October 8, noon

Larry Guilbert, "The Role of Maternal Immunity in the Transmission of Infectious Diseases During Pregnancy: The Cost of Compromise." B-105 Biological Sciences Centre.

October 9, 4 p.m.

Christian Klingenberg, Department of Zoology, Duke University, North Carolina, "How to Become Lopsided: Development and Evolution of Asymmetry in Insects." TB-W1 Tory Breezeway.

October 10, 3:30 p.m.

Dr. Paul Mains, professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry, University of Calgary, "Meiosis and Morphogenesis in C. elegans, M-149 Biological Sciences Building.

Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies

October 6, 3:30 p.m.

Andrij Hornjatkevyc, "Zinovii Shtokalko's Kobza" (in Ukrainian). 352 Athabasca Hall.

Centre for Gerontology

September 29, 7:30 p.m.

Vivian Manasc, FSC Groves Hodgson Manasc Architects, "Contemporary Concepts in Architectural Design for Aging." 2-07 Corbett Hall.

Centre for Research for Teacher Education and Development

September 29, 1 p.m.

Celia Oyler, Teachers College, Columbia, "Challenging the Dichotomies of Progressive Education." 633 Education South.

Centre for Research in Child Development

September 26, 1 p.m.

David Baine, "Daily Life and Education in Rural India." P-218 Biological Sciences Centre.

October 10, 1 p.m.

J.P. Das, "Issues in Educating South African Children: A Participant's Report." P-218 Biological Sciences Centre.

Chemical and Materials Engineering

October 2, 3:30 p.m.

Suzanne Kresta, "Turbulence in Stirred Tanks: Anisotropic, Approximate, and Applied." 342 Chemical-Mineral Engineering Building.

October 9, 3:30 p.m.

Steven P. Asprey, "Application of Temperature-Scanning in Kinetic Investigations: The Steam-Reforming of Methanol." 342 Chemical-Mineral Engineering Building.

Chemistry

October 1, 1 p.m.

Robert M. Williams, Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, "Synthetic and Biomechanistic Studies on the Antitumor Antibiotics Bioxalomycin, Quinocarcin and FR900482." E3-25 Chemistry Centre.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

September 29, 3 p.m.

Gilbert Gordon, Volwiler Research Professor, Chemistry Department, Miami University, "Do Mixed Oxidants Really Contain Ozone and/or Chlorine Dioxide?" 317 Civil-Electrical Engineering Building.

East Asian Studies

October 3, 11 a.m.

Dominic Cheung, Professor and Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern

California, Los Angeles, "Updating a Hybrid Culture: Modernity and Subjectivity in Modern Taiwanese

Literature." Co-sponsor: Alberta Society for Chinese Literature and Fine Arts. 504 Arts Building.

English

September 26, 3 p.m.

Panel discussion, "Postcolonialism at the Point of Interdisciplinarity." 4-29 Humanities Centre.

Faculty of Arts Kreisel Lecture

October 6, 4 p.m.

Donald Richie, author, scriptwriter, director, and journalist, "Traditional Aesthetics in the Japanese Film." L-2 Humanities Centre.

Anne Hollander, author of Seeing Through Clothes (1978), Moving Pictures (1989), and Sex and Suits (1994), will give a series of three lectures on clothes in arts and literature:

October 7, 3:30 p.m.

"Living Dolls: Children's Clothes in Art." 2-115 Education North.

October 8, 4 p.m.

"Clothes and Words: How Dress is Read." L-2 Humanities Centre.

October 9, 3:30 p.m.

"Literary Fashion: Clothing Character." L-2 Humanities Centre.

Institute for Public Economics

October 2, 3:30 p.m.

Derek Hermanutz, Alberta Treasury, "Leviathan Revisited." 8-22 Tory Building.

Medicine and Oral Health Sciences

September 29, 1 p.m.

The Annual Lecture on Aboriginal Health Issues.

Louise Sanderson, RN, Coordinator of the Royal Alexandra Hospital Aboriginal Diabetes Wellness Program, "The Aboriginal Diabetes Wellness Program: A Holistic and Cultural Way to Wellness."

Malcolm King, "Learning from Traditional Medicine: Mucokinetic Treatment Based on Traditional Native Herbal Preparation." Bernard Snell Hall, Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

Modern Languages and Comparative Studies

Filippo Salvatore, Concordia University, Montreal, an internationally recognized figure in the field of Italian and Italian/Canadian Literature, Cinema and Culture, will present the following lectures:

September 29, 4 p.m.

"Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: from the Novel to the Film." 141 Arts Building.

October 1, 4 p.m.

"A Computer's Prank Leads to Murder: Hermetic Hermeneutics in Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum." 141 Arts Building.

October 3, 4 p.m.

"A Libertine's Shipwreck Becomes a Sacred Epic at 180 Longitude: Umberto Eco's The Island of the Day Before." 141 Arts Building.

October 5, 3 p.m.

"Italy from the First to the Second Republic (1946-1996)." Santa Maria Goretti Community Centre.

October 6, 4 p.m.

"Luchino Visconti's Senso and The Leopard or an Aristocrat's Interpretation of the Unification of Italy." 141 Arts Building.

October 8, 4 p.m.

"Dante and the European Literature of the Twentieth Century: T.S. Elliot, St. John Perse, Pier Paolo Pasolini." 141 Arts Building.

October 10, 4 p.m.

"Marinetti, Futurism and Avant-Garde Movements in Early Twentieth Century Italy." 141 Arts Building.

Molecular Biology and Genetics Research Group

September 26, 3:30 p.m.

Beverley S. Emanuel, Division of Human Genetics and Molecular Biology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, "From Maps to Candidate Genes: Dissection of the Human Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.

October 3, 3:30 p.m.

Shauna Somerville, Department of Plant Pathology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California, "Host-Pathogen Interactions in the Powdery Mildew Disease." G-116 Biological Sciences Centre.

Nursing

October 2, noon

Linda Ogilvie, "Working with Teaching Assistants." 6-107 Clinical Sciences Building.

Perinatal Research Centre

October 7, noon

Murray Mitchell, Professor and Head, Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, New Zealand, "Prostaglandins, Cytokines and Preterm Labour-Something for Everyone." 207 Heritage Medical Research Centre.

Philosophy

October 3, 4 p.m.

Patricia Ireland, "The Connection Between Kant's Ethics and Aesthetics." 4-29 Humanities Centre.

October 10, 4 p.m.

Craig Squires, "Non-Standard Interpretations of the Classical Propositional Calculus." 4-29 Humanities Centre.

Physics

September 26, 2 p.m.

James R. Thompson, Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee and Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, "Improving Mother Nature's Gift: Processing High Temperature Superconductors for High Current Conduction." V-129 Physics Building.

Political Science

October 1, 7 p.m.

Anna Yeatman, "Toward a Politics of Co-existence: Rethinking Political Community." L-1 Humanities Centre.

October 2, 3:30 p.m.

Anna Yeatman, "Toward a New Citizenship: Relational Individualism." 10-4 Tory Building.

Psychology

October 6, 7, and 8, 4:30 p.m.

Charles R. Gallistel, Professor of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles, "Time and Conditioning." CW-410 Biological Sciences Centre.

Public Health Sciences

October 1, noon

Rob Hayward, TBA. 2F1.04 Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

Renewable Resources

October 2, 12:30 p.m.

Frederick C. Miller, Research Scientist, Composting Technology Centre, Olds College, "Composting as a Managed Ecosystem: Transferring What We Know Into Practice." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.

October 9, 12:30 p.m.

Andrei Valichko, Distinguished Visitor, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), "Paleo Evidence for Climate Change in Siberia." 2-36 Earth Sciences Building.

Rural Economy

September 29, 3:15 p.m.

Robert Sugden, Professor, School of Economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia, England, "The Selection of Preferences Through Imitation." 550 General Services Building.

Surgery

October 3, 7:30 a.m.

B.K.A. Weir, "Human Knowledge-Then, Now, and in the Future-Will It Save Us?"

October 3, 8:45 a.m.

P.B.R. Allen, "History of the Department of Surgery."

October 3, 10 a.m.

D.W.C. Johnston, "Robo-Surgeon: A New Member of the Surgical Team."

J.M. Findlay, "Neurosurgery for the Third Millennium."

N.M. Kneteman, "Transplantation-Building the Future."

G.T. Todd and G.L. Warnock, "Virtual Teaching."

October 3, 11:15 a.m.

S.M. Hamilton, "Health Care in the New Millennium-The Canadian Model."

B.K.A. Weir, "Health Care in the New Millennium-The American Model."

All events take place in Bernard Snell Hall, Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre.

The 10th John S. Colter Lecture in Biochemistry

September 29, 4 p.m.

Gottfried Schatz, Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland, "The Life and Death of Mitochondrial Proteins." 2-27 Medical Sciences Building.

TransAlta Environmental Research and Studies Centre

October 2, 4:30 p.m.

Robert Grant, "What Does Global Climate Change Mean for Ecosystems in Western Canada?" Horowitz Theatre, Student's Union Building.

University Teaching Services

September 30, 2 p.m.

Brian Nielsen, "Evaluating Student Performance: Marking, Grading, Use of the Guidelines." TB-W2 Tory Breezeway.

October 2, 3:30 p.m.

Katy Campbell, "Supporting Instruction with Electronic Presentations: Making a Presentation I." Cameron PC MicroLab 1-20G.

October 7, 3:30 p.m.

Janet Smith and Lois Stanford, "Establishing Boundaries in the Classroom." 219 CAB.

October 8, 3 p.m.

Billy Strean, "Of Course I Want to Foster Critical Thinking. How Do I Do It? (Even in Large Classes)." TB-W2 Tory Breezeway.

What's Up Doc?

October 17, noon

Don Horwood, "Winning in Sports and Life." City Room, City Hall, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square.

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