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<span style="font-family: Arial | <span style="font-family: Arial">The W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lectures were established in 1981 in honour of </span>the late Desmond Pacey, a UNB professor and administrator who died in 1975. The Desmond Pacey Lecture is presented by leading figures in humanities and social sciences. | ||
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| "Titanic, Myth, and Memory" | | "Titanic, Myth, and Memory"<br/> | ||
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| 8 April 2015<br/> | |||
| J.B. MacKinnon<br/> | |||
| "The Still-Wild Country: Why Canada’s Wilderness Matters to the Future of Life on Earth"<br/> | |||
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Revision as of 14:41, 8 April 2015
The W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lectures were established in 1981 in honour of the late Desmond Pacey, a UNB professor and administrator who died in 1975. The Desmond Pacey Lecture is presented by leading figures in humanities and social sciences.
| Date | Name of Lecturer | Title of Lecture |
| 9 March 1981 | Northrup Frye | "Criticism and Environment" |
| 8 March 1982 | Michael S. Gazzaniga | "Brain Mechanisms and Conscious Experience" |
| 19 October 1982 | Kurt H. Wolff | "Surrender and Catch: An Approach to Human Study Today" |
| 27 September 1983 | H. H. Stern | "Second Language Teaching in Canadian Contexts: Achievements and New Directions" |
| 13 March 1985 | Dorothy E. Smith | "Gender and Power" |
| 4 March 1986 | Brenda Milner | "Memory and the Human Brain" |
| 2 March 1988 | Charles C. Taylor | "Justice after Virtue" |
| 9 March 1989 | Richard G. Lipsey | "The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement: Past Debates, Future Effects" |
| 12 February 1990 | Thomas S. W. Lewis | "Shading the Truth: The Biographer's Craft" |
| 18 March 1991 | Robert J. Brym | "Class Conflict and Other Benefits of Canadian Diversity: Some Consequences of Quebec Sovereignty for Social Inequality in English Canada" |
| 12 February 1992 | Henry T. Lewis | "Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Time to Learn, A time to Teach" |
| 22 February 1993 | Leslie Armour | "The Nation-State: Canada and the Philosophy of History" |
| 26 January 1994 | John Helliwell | "Democracy and Economic Growth" |
| 21 February 1995 | E. Jane Ursel | "Changing Laws, Changing Lives: An Analysis of a Specialized Criminal Court for Family Violence Cases" |
| 20 February 1996 | William Rodman | "Transformations of Tradition in the Postmodern Pacific" |
| 12 February 1997 | Alexander Mackay | "Catastrophe Survived: The Alcestis Plays of Euripides, T.S. Eliot and Thornton Wilder" |
| 23 February 1998 | David Bentley | "Literary Properties in New Brunswick" |
| 17 March 1999 | John Kearney | "Community-Based Management as an Alternative to Privatization: from Maritime Fishing Communities to a New Globalization" |
| 30 March 2000 | Olive Dickason | "The Royal Proclamation of 1763 and its consequences for Canada today" |
| 21 February 2001 | Robert Evans | "A Debt to Machiavel: Death, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income" |
| 9 April 2002 | Janet S. Hyde | "Men are form Earth, Women are from Earth: Psychology vs. the Media on Gender Differences" |
| 18 March 2003 | Vincent Mosco | "Digital Divide: Utopian Visions of an Information Age" |
| 24 February 2004 | Victoria de Grazia | "The Market Empire: American consumer culture's irresistible advance through twentieth century Europe" |
| 22 March 2005 | Robert Anderson | "Rashomon and Us: why is a 55 year-old Japanese film essential to understanding our everyday lives" |
| 14 February 2006 | Lea Stirling | "Statuary of Gods and Heroes from a Late Roman Villa at Corinth" |
| 20 March 2007 | Leah Bradshaw | "Tyranny, Ancient and Modern" |
| 16 January 2008 | Charles Lemert | "Thinking the Unthinkable: Bare Life and the Politics of Social Death" |
| 2 February 2009 | Kenneth Dewar | "F. H. Underhill and the Making of the Intellectual" |
| 16 March 2010 | Noah Augustine | "The Future of First Nations in Atlantic Canada" |
| 24 February 2011 | Michael Ruse | "Science and Religion: Why Can't the Americans Be More Like Canadians?" |
| 28 February 2012 | Tony Penikett | "Indigenous Government: The Future is the Past" |
| 20 March 2013 | Diane Halpern | “Juggling Work & Family: What Women Leaders Can Teach Us” |
| 19 March 2014 | Leon Litvack | "Titanic, Myth, and Memory" |
| 8 April 2015 |
J.B. MacKinnon |
"The Still-Wild Country: Why Canada’s Wilderness Matters to the Future of Life on Earth" |
Source(s):
- UA Case 214.
- UNB Perspectives, March 1989, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 2.
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