| Biosphere Conversation Series: Third Symposium March 19-21, 2010 Clayoquot Field Station Tofino, BC |
Understanding Nature, Changing the World: Food and the Environment A gathering, by invitation only, sponsored by AMRC, the Institute for Coastal Research and the Tofino Botanical Gardens Foundation, to discuss philosophical, ethical, social and political dimensions of food |
| The Malaspina Lecture April 12, 2010: 7 pm Building 355, Room 203 Nanaimo Campus |
Please note new date! |
Neil Safier: "Malaspina in the Torrid Zone: Tropical Passages through the Spanish Enlightenment” Neil Safier is assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia, and is author of Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (Chicago, 2008). |
Educational Symposium |
Murals, Myths and Mariners A talk by John Black on the fictional subject (and the facts behind it) of the recently restored E.J. Hughes' mural "Alejandro Malaspina Sketching the Galleries on Gabriola" |
Concurrent Exhibition |
Malaspina and the Malaspina Galleries |
Public Lecture Series: "Sources of Identity"
Presented by the Heritage Research Group
February 26, 2009 6:30 pm Building 355, Room 203 Nanaimo Campus |
Peter Clarke: The Identity of the English-Speaking Peoples Peter Clarke was until 2004 Professor of Modern British History and Master of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge. |
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March 5, 2009 6:30 pm Building 355, Room 203 Nanaimo Campus |
Maria Tippett: Canadian Art and National Identity |
March 12, 2009 6:30 pm Building 355, Room 203 Nanaimo Campus |
Sheila Rankin Zerr and Glennis Zilm: Nursing Costumes and Professional Identity Sheila Rankin Zerr and Glennis Zilm are in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of British Columbia. This evening will include, as well as their lecture, a fashion show of historical nursing uniforms. |
The Malaspina Lecture |
Charlotte Coté: Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth: Whaling and Cultural Identity Charlotte Coté is in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Washington. Co-sponsored by the First Nations Studies Department and Aboriginal Education |
| Free Public Lecture March 13, 2008, 7:00 pm Building 355, Room 203 Nanaimo Campus |
Kevin Neary: Historical Records, Aboriginal Rights and Aboriginal Title Researcher Kevin Neary has worked with the Mowachaht-Muchalaht and other First Nations on the relevance of the historical record to aboriginal rights and title |
| Free Public Lecture March 10, 2008, 6:30 pm Building 355, Room 203 Nanaimo Campus |
Michael Bliss: Failed and Changing Dreams of Canada Historian Michael Bliss is University Professor-Emeritus at the University of Toronto |
Free Public Lecture |
Barry Gough: Fortune's a River Professor Emeritus of History from Wilfrid Laurier University, Barry Gough will discuss his latest book on the clash of European empires in the Pacific Northwest in the late 18th and early 19th centuries |
Book Launch |
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Research Associate Russell McNeil reads from his recent selected and annotated edition of this work of the second-century Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher |
| Biosphere Conversation Series: Second Symposium October 12-14, 2007 Clayoquot Field Station Tofino, BC |
Understanding Nature, Changing the World: Politics and the Environment A gathering, by invitation only, sponsored by AMRC, the Institute for Practical Philosophy, the Institute for Coastal Research and the Tofino Botanical Gardens Foundation |
| Biosphere Conversation Series: First Symposium April 13-15, 2007 Clayoquot Field Station Tofino, BC |
Understanding Nature, Changing the World: Philosophy and the Environment A gathering, by invitation only, sponsored by AMRC, the Institute for Practical Philosophy, the Institute for Coastal Research and the Tofino Botanical Gardens Foundation Audio Record |
Free Public Lecture |
Dee Longenbaugh: Russian and Spanish Encounters in 18th century Alaska Dee Longenbaugh is an expert on the history and cartography of the Alaska coast |
| Symposium April 21, 2006 Maritime |
WHAT’S NEW TO SAY ABOUT CAPTAIN GEORGE VANCOUVER |
Symposium |
The first symposium of the Institute for Coastal Research (ICR): Charting a Course |
Free Public Lecture |
Dr. Juan Pimentel, of the Spanish Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology, History Institute, History of Science Department: Alexandro Malaspina: in Search of the Nature of Empire |
| Conference on Dionisio Alcalá Galiano, Cabra, October 2005 |
| Free Public Lecture January 18/05, 7 pm Building 355, Room 203 All Welcome! |
Barry Gough, Professor of History (retd), Wilfrid Laurier University: By Sea, By Land: Captain George Vancouver and Sir Alexander Mackenzie, British Imperial Ascendancy on the North West Coast as of 1793 |
| The Life and Times of Alexandro Malaspina, a six-week Continuing Studies course offered by Professors John Black and Russell McNeil: Wednesdays, 7-9 pm, October 6 - November 10, 2004, at the Nanaimo campus of Malaspina University College. Participants read and discussed the biography of Malaspina by Dario Manfredi. An introduction to the life, work and surroundings of the navigator, suitable for those without specialist knowledge of the field. |
| Public Lecture March 4/04 |
Glyndwr Williams, Professor Emeritus of History, Queen Mary, University of London: Malaspina and the Search for the Strait of Ferrer Maldonado |
| Public Lecture November 21/02 |
Christon Archer, University of Calgary: Banishing the Black legend: Spain's Enlightened Offensive on the NW Coast, 1774-1795 |
| Public Lecture Series - "Contact: First Voyages, First Peoples" | |
| October 3/01 | Ron Hamilton, Huupachasaht First Nation |
| October 17/01 | Richard Atleo, Hereditary Chief of the Ahousaht First Nation, and Chair of the First Nations Studies Department, Malaspina University College |
| October 31/01 | Robin Fisher, History Department, University of Northern British Columbia |
| November 14/01 | Charlotte Coté, American Indian Studies Department, University of Washington |
| Public Lecture September 19/01 |
G. Douglas Inglis, Director and Research Professor of History, The Texas Tech University Center in Sevilla: February 27, 2010al Intervention: Imperial Reform of the Trans-Atlantic Mails |
| Public Lectures November 16/00 |
Robin
Inglis, Vancouver Spanish Pacific Historical Society:
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano: The Canadian Adventure of a Spanish Naval
Hero Nick Doe, Editor, SHALE Magazine: Alcalá Galiano's Sketchmaps of Gabriola |
Public Lecture |
Virginia Gonzalez Claveran, El Colegio de Mexico: The Visit of the Malaspina Expedition to Mexico |
| Public Lecture September 14/00 |
John Gascoigne, University of New South Wales: Motives for European Exploration of the Pacific in the Late Eighteenth Century |
| Inaugural
Symposium Public Lectures October 22/99 |
Alexandro Malaspina:
Enlightenment Thinker? [Report on Symposium] [Order Proceedings] |
| Inaugural
Symposium Scholars' Seminar October 23/99 |
Alexandro Malaspina: Enlightenment Thinker? |
| AMRC Planning Meeting October 23/99 | |
Photography Exhibit October 22-30/99 |
Return to a Forgotten History |
Author's Talk: John Kendrick April 8/99 |
Alejandro Malaspina: Portrait of a Visionary |
Updated: February 27, 2010