Arts & Sciences Talks: Recent submissions
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"Stewart Lemoine's Teatro la Quindicina: Edmonton's Exotic Community Theatre"
(2011-03-29)For twenty-five years, playwright Stewart Lemoine has negotiated aesthetic distance in Edmonton, setting common human fiobles and social dilemmas in foreign and exotic locales for a loyal local audience. Lemoine's gently ... -
Archaeology in the Rocky Mountains
(2011-03-29)For ten years, Dr. Sheila Greaves, AU's Chair of the Centre for Work and Community Studies; has been analyzing stone tool collections from a series of unique pre-contact housepit villages in the Rocky Mountains. Jointly ... -
Language and Communication: Can Voice-Conferencing Software Assist Students to Face the Challenge of Learning to Speak a Second Language in a Distance Education Setting
(2011-03-29)The focus of this presentation is a pilot project completed in 2005 to assess the suitability of the voice-based conferencing system Horizon Wimba for use by Athabasca students registered in second language courses. In a ... -
Larry David's Jewish Comedy as an Extension of Yiddish Ashkenazic Culture in Later Hollywood Generations
(2011-03-29)On Sienfeld, Larry David mentions earlier American Jewish comedy writers such as Neil Simon. Some shows are based on models that reach far back into the history of Yiddish film, theatre and comedy. For instance, in one ... -
Burkholderia Pseudomallei: An Emerging Bacterial Pathogen and Potential Bioweapon
(2011-03-29)Burkholderia pseduomallei is a bacteria that lives in the soil and water in tropical areas. It is the causative agent of the disease melioidosis which affects both humans and animals. Melioidosis is a fatal pneumonia ... -
Moral Foundations in the Aboriginal/British Crown 'Tradition': Virtue and The Covenant Chain
(2011-03-29)Whether a mutually recognized respectful relationship between North America's First Nations and the British Crown existed forms one concern of this paper. A second, assuming sufficient evidence to affirm the first, is to ...