Lectures 2021

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PERSPECTIVES 2021
(Livestreamed lectures run from 10am to 12 noon)

Sept 10 – Coming to Terms with Changing Nature. Are we losing diversity in nature to rapid change and could there be opportunities to use these changes to benefit our natural world? Lecturer: Marc Cadotte is Professor of Ecology, U of T, Scarborough.

Sept 17 – Whither the Weather? What is Going On? Can we live with the new “normal”? What are the linkages between climate change and our unusual weather? Lecturer: Ellsworth Drew, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo.

Sept 24 – Speaking Love to Power: The Cinematic Legacy of Frank Capra. Stephen Scharper, who enchanted GTLLI members in 2017 with his course on “The Genius of Alfred Hitchcock“, brings the silver screen to life with a lecture on Frank Capra.

Oct 1 – Managing Canada – U.S. Relations in Unpredictable Times. America – do we go along to get along? Lecturer Adam Chapnick, Professor of Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada, is well-known to our GTLLI members. He will examine what we can and should do.

FALL LECTURES 2021

With historian Malcolm Thurlby, join us for this highly informative and entertaining examination of traditional European architecture and its influence on religious and civic Gothic architecture in Canada.

Oct 15  – Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture
Oct 22  – Early Medieval Architecture
Oct 29  – Romanesque Architecture
Nov 5   – Gothic Architecture
Nov 12 – Ecclesiastical Gothic Architecture in Canada
Nov 19 – Gothic Architecture in Canada in the later 19th Century

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Perspectives and Fall lectures are livestreamed.  Videos may be watched until June 30, 2022.