Kitchener Public Library Ideas & Issues Lecture Series

Free noon-hour lectures are presented each fall and winter by faculty of Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo.

Fall 2008 lectures:

October 6, 2008 
The US Presidential Election: 2008
Dr. Barry Kay, Department of Political Science 

October 27, 2008 
In Search of Old Ontario: What's Changing in the Rural Countryside?
Warren Stauch, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (retired)

November 10, 2008 
Speaker and topic to be announced

November 24, 2008 
Rum, Salt Fish and Maple Leaves: The Caribbean in Canada
Dr. Carol Duncan, Department of Religion and Culture

Winter 2009 lectures:

January 29, 2009
The Road to Afghanistan: Canada's Peace-Keeping Legacy Betrayed?
Dr. Kevin Spooner, North American Studies Program

February 9, 2009
Infinite Sands on a Finite Beach: How Climate Change Might Impact Sauble Beach
Dr. Mary-Louise Byrne, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

March 2, 2009
Grief: Do's and Don'ts
Dr. Susan Cadell, Faculty of Social Work

March 16, 2009
Topic to be announced
Jean Becker, Elder-in-Residence, Faculty of Social Work

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