Eric v Lola, featuring Professor Robert Leckey and Maître Johanne O’Hanlon
@ Law & SocietyAre Quebec’s marriage laws unconstitutional? This was the question in the recent Supreme Court case of Eric v Lola. Maître Johanne O’Hanlon, who intervened in the case on behalf of LEAF, and Professor Robert Leckey, an expert on family law, discuss.
May 16, 2013 at 12:32 pm
Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 12 – The Future of Cultural Psychiatry
@ HealthWhat are the forthcoming tasks for cultural psychiatry? How do we complement the focus on the biological individual with an interactional view of human problems?
May 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 10 – Healing, Ritual and Psychotherapy, part 2
@ HealthDr. Kirmayer discusses what is psychotherapy, psychotherapy as narrative processes, modes of narration, and cultural concepts of the person.
May 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 4 – Trance, Possession and Dissociation in Cultural Psychiatry, part 2
@ HealthDr. Kirmayer discusses pathological dissociation and symptoms shaping.
May 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 4 – Trance, Possession and Dissociation in Cultural Psychiatry, part 1
@ HealthDr. Kirmayer discusses varieties of trance and possession and looks at the history of culture-bounds syndromes in psychiatry.
May 15, 2013 at 5:39 pm
Witnessing the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies
@ Science & TechnologyWe live in a Universe of remarkable structure. From super-clusters of galaxies, tens of millions of light years across, to grand-design spiral galaxies and small rocky planets like Earth, structure exists on all scales. It wasn’t always this way: through the extraordinary advancements of observational cosmology of the last several decades, we now know the Universe was homogeneous at its beginning. While the physics which links the young and smooth Universe to its underlying Dark Matter skeleton is well-established, perhaps paradoxically we know very little about how the objects composed of regular matter – the stuff you and I are made of – assembled. In a general sense, cosmological structure grows hierarchically; small systems collapse first then merge to form progressively more massive objects. But this is a violent and energetic process, triggering bursts of star formation, feeding matter onto super-massive black holes, stripping galaxies of their interstellar medium, and fundamentally shaping the complex structure we see around us today.
Dr. Webb’s research centers on the growth of structure in the universe, and galaxies in particular. Her approach is to use data at many different wavelengths of light; each wavelength probes a different physical process and tells us something unique about galaxy formation. Because a lot of the physics in galaxies happens behind thick veils of dust, she focusses much of her research on submillimeter (~400-1200µm) and mid/far-infrared (~3-400µm) observations, which directly detect the dust and provide clues to what’s happening behind it. She primarily studies galaxies in the very distant and young universe (i.e., high-redshift); because of the finite speed of light we are seeing these systems as they existed 5-12 billion years ago and can literally watch them form! However, she is also beginning programs to study near-by galaxies since these systems can be studied in much more detail and will provide insight into the processes which formed the galaxies of today.
April 24, 2013 at 11:15 am
AstroMcGill Episode 31 – David Shoemaker
@ Science & TechnologyGuest: David H. Shoemaker (MIT). David is part of the advancedLaser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and we discussed gravitational waves and how LIGO is expected to detect these ripples in the curvature of space-time predicted by Einstein.
Hosts: Ryan Lynch, Sean Griffin, and Dave Tsang.
Duration: 21 minutes.
April 24, 2013 at 10:29 am
AstroMcGill Episode 30 – Lucy Fortson
@ Science & TechnologyGuest: Lucy Fortson (U. of Minnesota). While Lucy’s initial research interest were focused on high-energy astrophysics, she joined the Zooniverse collaboration (initially the GalaxyZoo project), an online citizen-science project. We discussed what the project its challenges are, as well as some of the science that resulted from it. If you are interest in joining one of the projects of Zooniverse, visit their page and select a project.
Hosts:Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot.
Duration: 33 minutes.
April 24, 2013 at 10:26 am
Research Group on Constitutional Studies Debate: Debra Satz and Matt Zwolinski, “Where Are the Moral Limits of Markets?”
@ Arts & HumanitiesThis debate featured two leading political philosophers: Debra Satz, the Marta Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society and Director of the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University and author of Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale, and Matt Zwolinski, Associate Professor of Philosophy, and Co-Director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at University of San Diego, and founder of the blog Bleeding Heart Libertarians, discussing ethics and commerce as part of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture Series. Their exchange ranges across child labor, organ sales, inequality, public goods, education, and the relationship between commercial activity and moral virtue. The event was held April 11, 2013.
April 18, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 10 – Healing, Ritual and Psychotherapy, part 1
@ HealthDr. Laurence Kirmayer looks at universal aspects of healing, healing traditions in different cultures and the role of emotion and catharsis in healing.
April 17, 2013 at 1:06 pm
