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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Controversies – A Series of Public Lectures by Professors in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ideas can be upsetting, divisive, challenging. This lecture series explores ten controversies that have erupted in various disciplines. By clicking on
<a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a> you can see the full list of lectures being offered this term. All of these lectures are open to students, staff, faculty, and the public. They take place Mondays, 4:30-5:50pm,
in AL 113.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I encourage you to attend one or more of these lectures; you would be supporting your colleagues and learning more about the controversies they’re investigating. And please circulate this message to all of your students, friends, family,
lawn bowling club members, etc. – let everyone know about the thought-provoking scholarship being produced by Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Upcoming Lecture</u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Monday, 7 March 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Ken Coates (Dean of Arts)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">The University Myth: The Truth Behind the World’s Trillion Dollar Gamble on Post-Secondary Education<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">There is near universal agreement that post-secondary education is important. But the expansion of university enrolment has left a major question unasked: Will personal and national investments in
career oriented post-secondary education secure a better future for graduates and their societies?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Ken Coates will be available soon at
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a><b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="color:red">As you know, Prof. Coates finishes his term as Dean of Arts this coming summer. Yet in just a few days his new book,
<u>Campus Confidential: 100 Startling Things You Don’t Know about Canadian Universities</u></span></i><u><span style="color:red">
</span></u><i><span style="color:red">(co-written with Bill Morrison), will be hitting bookstores everywhere. Come hear our Dean explain what he thinks universities should be doing!</span></i><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="color:black">Recent Lectures<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Monday, 28 February 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Grit Liebscher (Germanic and Slavic Studies)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Tie Your Tongue: Should You Use a First Language to Learn a Second One?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">There have always been different ideas about how to learn a second or foreign language best. Recently, one kind of debate is about which role the mother tongue or first language should play. Ban
it? Allow it? Direct its use?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Grit Liebscher will be available soon at
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a><b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 14 February 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Tracy Penny Light (Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies, and History)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Is Medical Science Really a Science?<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style16"><span style="color:black">How does medical science shape our understanding of health and how is that understanding represented in, and/or appropriated by, popular culture? This lecture explores scientific authority
in history and questions whether medical science is actually scientific and, therefore, reliable.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Tracy Penny Light is now available –
</span></b><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a><b>.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 7 February 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Shannon Dea (Philosophy)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Spinoza’s Monstrous Hypothesis<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza argued that the universe is one, and only one, thing – God. For this, he was billed an atheist and proponent of “the most absurd and monstrous hypothesis.” We’ll consider his view,
and why it’s still controversial.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Shannon Dea is now available -
</span></b><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a><b><span style="color:black">.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 31 January 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Robert Ballard (Speech Communications)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Buying Children or Saving Orphans? Controversies of International Adoption<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="style16">Is international adoption a legitimate way of building a family or glorified human trafficking? This lecture will examine the complexities of international adoption including corruption, celebrity adoptions, and the
call for more ethical and transparent adoption practices.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Robert Ballard is now available -
</span></b><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a><b><span style="color:black">.</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="color:black"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Monday, 24 January 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Kathryn Plaisance (Philosophy/Knowledge Integration)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Nature of Nurture: Debates about Parental Influence<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Judith Harris argues for the “idea of zero parental influence” on “who children turn out to be.” She bases this largely on findings from behavioral genetics research, which, I argue, Harris has misinterpreted.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Kathryn Plaisance is now available -
</span></b><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a>.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Monday, 17 January 2011, 4:30pm, AL 113<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Geoff Malleck (Economics)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">Mistakaphobia: A Certain Path to Economic Destruction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black">Effective mistake-making can be a conduit to success. So why are we so afraid to promote mistake-making? This lecture explores an attitude that is bringing economic peril to our once
prosperous nation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black">A podcast of an interview with Geoff Malleck is now available -
</span></b><a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/arts301</a>.<b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Carry on,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">James M. Skidmore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Chair, Germanic and Slavic Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Faculty of Arts / University of Waterloo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore">www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~skidmore</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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