Global Day of Action on Military Spending; April 17, 2012
A lecture series co-sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace
- 29 Sep 2011:
- Biochar and Food Security in Post-Fukushima Japan
- Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist, Biochar Ontario (Canadian Biochar Initiative)
- 6 Oct 2011:
- Critical Perspectives on 9/11: Reflections on the September 2011 Toronto Hearings
- Richard B. Lee, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, U. of Toronto
- 13 Oct 2011:
- Canada: A Climate Criminal?
- Margrit Eichler, Professor Emerita of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, OISE/UT
- 20 Oct 2011:
- Civil Society Working for Nuclear Abolition
- Barbara, Birkett, MD. Physicians for Global Survival
- 27 Oct 2011:
- The Sustainability Nexus: Energy, Technology, and Population
- Helmut Burkhardt, Professor of Physics Emeritus, Ryerson University
- 3 Nov 2011:
- Economic and Social Security in the 21st Century: How Does Canada Stack Up Against other Wealthy Developed Nations?
- Dennis Raphael, Professor of Health Policy and Management, York University, Author of _Poverty in Canada_
- 2011-11-03 Dennis Raphael lecture
- 10 Nov 2011:
- Did Explosives Demolish the WTC Towers 1 and 2 ?: A Forensic Investigation Into 9/11
- Ron Craig, Ryerson University and International Society of Explosive Engineers
- 17 Nov 2011:
- Science in the Service of Peace: Monitoring Technologies for UN Peacekeeping
- Walter Dorn, Associate Professor of Defence Studies, Canadian Forces College and Chair, Canadian Pugwash Group. Author of _Keeping Watch: Monitoring Technology and Innovation in UN Peace Operations_
- 24 Nov 2011:
- An Arctic Nuclear Weapon Free Zone as an Element of Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
- Adele Buckley, Ph.D. past Chair, Canadian Pugwash, Pugwash Council, physicist, environmental scientist; formerly Vice President Technology & Research, OCETA
- 1 Dec 2011:
- Protecting Farm Land and Reforesting Our Barren Planet: Essential Remedies for Climate Change
- John Bacher, Ph.D. Researcher, Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society. Author of _Two Billion Trees and Counting_
- 8 Dec 2011:
- Impact of Climate Change on the Water Cycle and Health
- Velma Grover, Ph.D. McMaster University. Editor, _Global warming and Climate Change: Ten Years after Kyoto and Still Counting_
- 15 Dec 2011:
- World Food Security
- Harriet Friedmann, Professor of Sociology and Geography, U. of Toronto
- 12 Jan 2012:
- The Effects of Militarism on a Fragile Planet: Health, Peace and the Environment, with clips from the video "Poison DUst" on DU.
- Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, Education and Film Consultant, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
- 19 Jan 2012:
- Modernizing Islam
- Farzana Hassan, Toronto-based Writer, Past Chairperson, Canadian Muslim Congress
- 26 Jan 2012:
- Democracy and the Decline of Great Powers
- Vsevolod Gunitskiy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
- 2012-01-26 Vsevolod Gunitskiy lecture
- 2 Feb 2012:
- If Canada and Mexico are so Necessary for US Security, Why are they so Impotent when Facing Washington's Border Security Demands?
- Stephen Clarkson, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
- 9 Feb 2012:
- Putin and the Stalinist Legacy
- Robert E. Johnson, Professor of History, University of Toronto
- 16 Feb 2012:
- Entrenched Male-domination, Altered Sex-ratios and Women's Well(ill)-being: The case of India
- Aysan Sev'er, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
- 1 Mar 2012:
- Corporate Law: What Has Sustainable Development Got to Do with It?
- Gail Henderson, SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
- 2012-03-01 Gail Henderson lecture
- 8 Mar 2012:
- The Traffic in Nannies: The Exploitation of Female Labor?
- Susan McClelland, Toronto-based Investigative Journalist
- 2012-03-08 Susan McClelland lecture
- 15 Mar 2012:
- The Culture War in Iran
- Mohamad Tavakoli, Professor of History, Historical Studies, and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
- 2012-03-15 Mohamad Tavakoli lecture
- 22 Mar 2012:
- The Geopolitics of War in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Kosovo
- Valerie Zawilski, Associate Professor of Sociology, Kings University College, U. of Western Ontario
- 2012-03-22 Valerie Zawilski lecture
- 29 Mar 2012:
- Nonviolence in a Global World
- Ramin Jahanbegloo, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
- 2012-03-29 Ramin Jahanbegloo lecture
- 5 Apr 2012:
- Should We Be Afraid? Real and Imagined Security Threats 10 years after 9/11
- Mark Sedra, Senior Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation and U. of Waterloo
- 2012-04-05 Mark Sedra lecture
- 12 Apr 2012:
- Russia and the West After the Cold War
- Sergei Plekhanov, Associate Professor of Political Science, York University
- 2012-04-12 Sergei Plekhanov lecture