Arts & Sciences Talks 2007
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Gurus, Globalization, and Hinduism
(2011-03-29)This talk will focus on the pivotal role that Hindu spiritual leaders (gurus) have play in spreading Hinduism beyond the borders of South Asia by outlining the reasons for their movements overseas and the means by which ... -
Environment, Women and Politics-perspectives on Canadian Environmentalism
(2011-03-29)Elizabeth May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, lawyer, and leader of the Green Part of Canada. Elizabeth became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s. She is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and ... -
Close your eyes with holy dread: Reckonings, retribution, revenge and redemption in the new Old West
(2011-03-29)This presentation formalizes some preliminary work on a larger research project that will investigate the western genre in film and will eventually include western literature, post 1990. There has been much work done on ... -
Re-Mapping Policy Space: Understanding the Intersection of International Trade Law and Domestic Health Policy in Canada
(2011-03-29)Debates about the impact of international trade agreements such as the WTO General Agreement on trade in services (GATS) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on health care usually focus upon the scope of ... -
Lost in Transmission: Contextual Variation in Chimpanzee Pant Hoots and its Implications for Referential Communication in Primates
(2011-03-29)Pant hoots are the species-typical 'loud' call used by chimpanzees to communicate over long distances. Some previous studies have explored the possibility that there are acoustically distinct subtypes of pant hoots that ... -
Lucy Broadwood and English Folksong: the Early Years
(2011-03-29)Lucy E. Broadwood was closely involved with the first English Folksong Revival from the late 1880s until her death in 1929. An accomplished singer and pianist, Broadwood was an important folksong collector who also served ... -
Going Global and the World Social Forum: The Struggle for Justice Beyond the Nation-State
(2011-03-29)In the past ten years beginning with the protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle 1999 there has been an intense wave of international activism not unlike the political activism of the late 1960s. Unlike ... -
"Of rice-root, Crabapples, and Huckleberries: Evidence for Environmental Management by First Nations in Northwest British Columbia"
(2011-03-29)In northwest British Columbia, long indigenous occupancy and management of the landscape has had pervasive ecological effects. In such an environment discriminating "natural" and "anthropogenic" vegetation and plant ... -
"Linguistic Fingerprinting and Literary Fraud"
(2011-03-29)Many experts of literary style postulate that style is dictated by the subconscious and forms the "genetic" fingerprint of a writer's work. This implies that (a) it is impossible to disguise one's style and (b) that works ... -
The Changing North American Family.
(2011-03-29)There is a popular belief that changes in the family over the past century (away from the traditional form of two biological parents with father as breadwinner and mother as homemaker) are responsible for declines in moral ... -
"Critical Illness, Family & Nurses: Connecting the Dots"
(2011-03-29)Critical Illness of an adult constitutes a crisis for family members. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to delineate nursing support for family members from their perspective. Results indicated that they were ...
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