Past Lectures from our Science in the City Series

McMaster University was pleased to present this year’s Bourns Lecture in Bioethics, a lectureship made possible by Dr. Arthur Bourns, President Emeritus, whose generous gift enables the university to invite a distinguished expert in the field of bioethics to present a public lecture to the community at large.

The lecture took place Tuesday February 14, 2012 with medical bioethicist Françoise Baylis, Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy (Dalhousie University) who spoke about

Research Ethics: The obligation to include pregnant women in research

The lecture was videotaped and can be viewed on McMasterUTV by clicking here

Tuesday November 15, 2011 with geneticist and anthropologist, Hendrik Poinar, who will be speaking about The Genome of the Black Death.

Of Interest to our Science in the City audience, there will be a CIHR Café Scientifique: What a Pain! – Debate Around the Use of Opioids in Chronic Pain Management on Wednesday November 2 from 7 - 9 p.m. at the McMaster Innovation Park. For more information please click here

Tuesday February 22nd with Canadian astronaut and physician, Dr. Dave Williams who will be speaking about Exploration: Relentlessly Seeking Knowledge with Passion For more information about his lecture and to how to register please click here.

Professor Gerry Wright Antibiotics and Resistance: Is it really that bad?
7 p.m. Thursday October 28, 2010 at The Hamilton Spectator Auditorium

Professors Eileen Schuller and Daniel Machiela, What Are We Learning from the Dead Sea Scrolls Today?
7 p.m. Tuesday April 13, 2010
Read The Hamilton Spectator Interview with Daniel Machiela

Dr. Valerie Taylor, Food for Thought:
How we've dieted ourselves into obesity and what we can do to regain control
7pm January
Read Valerie Taylor's interview with The Hamilton Spectator

Past Anti-Poverty Lectures
February 25, 2010
Professor Evelyn Forget: The Town with No Poverty

Wednesday March 10, 2010
Professor Jim Dunn: Housing, Neighbourhoods and Health: Poverty Traps or Trampolines?
Read Jim Dunn's interview with The Hamilton Spectator

From Our Social Science in the City "Anti-Poverty Series"

Armine Yalnizyan I'm Alright Jack . . . and other hollow arguments for doing nothing about poverty
7p.m. Tuesday April 20, 2010
Read The Hamilton Spectator's Interview with Armine Yalnizyan