McGill Podcasts

Eric v Lola, featuring Professor Robert Leckey and Maître Johanne O’Hanlon

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:32:11 +0000

Are 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.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 12 – The Future of Cultural Psychiatry

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:39:45 +0000

What are the forthcoming tasks for cultural psychiatry? How do we complement the focus on the biological individual with an interactional view of human problems?

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 10 – Healing, Ritual and Psychotherapy, part 2

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:39:38 +0000

Dr. Kirmayer discusses what is psychotherapy, psychotherapy as narrative processes, modes of narration, and cultural concepts of the person.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 4 – Trance, Possession and Dissociation in Cultural Psychiatry, part 2

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:39:33 +0000

Dr. Kirmayer discusses pathological dissociation and symptoms shaping.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 4 – Trance, Possession and Dissociation in Cultural Psychiatry, part 1

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:39:29 +0000

Dr. Kirmayer discusses varieties of trance and possession and looks at the history of culture-bounds syndromes in psychiatry.

Witnessing the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies

Isabella Liu — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:15:07 +0000

We 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.

AstroMcGill Episode 31 – David Shoemaker

Isabella Liu — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:29:28 +0000

Guest: 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.

AstroMcGill Episode 30 – Lucy Fortson

Isabella Liu — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:26:56 +0000

Guest: 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.

Research Group on Constitutional Studies Debate: Debra Satz and Matt Zwolinski, “Where Are the Moral Limits of Markets?”

Eunah Sung — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:54:27 +0000

This 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.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 10 – Healing, Ritual and Psychotherapy, part 1

Isabella Liu — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:06:56 +0000

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer looks at universal aspects of healing, healing traditions in different cultures and the role of emotion and catharsis in healing.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 9 – The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples, part 2

Isabella Liu — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:04:25 +0000

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer discusses the role cultural continuity plays in mental health. He also discusses resilience and the concept of the ecocentric self.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 9 – The Mental Health of Indigenous Peoples, part 1

Isabella Liu — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:03:41 +0000

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer discusses the impacts of colonization on health, and identity, adaptation and the problem of suicide in indigenous populations.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 8 – Rethinking migrant and refugee children

Isabella Liu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:09:47 +0000

Dr. Cecile Rousseau discusses her research and work with migrant children. She speaks about the challenges of globalization, its impact on children and the implications it has on services.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 7 – Culture and Psychoses, part 2

Isabella Liu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:50:36 +0000

Dr. Constantin Tranulis continues the discussion on culture and psychosis with an emphasis on research possibilities in this field.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 7 – Culture and Psychoses, part 1

Isabella Liu — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:50:15 +0000

Dr. Eric Jarvis compares how different countries treat different aspects of psychosis, particularly in immigrant and migrant groups. He also looks at the clinical and global implications of culture.

AstroMcGill Episode 29 – Dan Stinebring

Isabella Liu — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:30:43 +0000

Guest: Dan Stinebring (Oberlin College).

The discussion was focused on gravitational waves and the NANOGrav collaboration.

Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Sean Griffin.

Duration: 17 minutes.

Bugs, Drugs and the Amazing Race

Isabella Liu — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:11:40 +0000

Wonder why you keep hearing about so many new infectious diseases? How do we manage them? Come explore the perpetual arms race between humans and microbes as we both battle for survival in our modern world.

Qui ne risque rien n’a rien – Souleymane Guengueng et sa lutte pour la justice

Isabella Liu — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:28:50 +0000

Le procès d’Hissène Habré, ancien dictateur du Tchad, marquera les annales d’histoire. Souleymane Guengueng, victime du régime devenu porte-parole, Reed Brody, de Human Rights Watch, et Prof. René Provost, spécialiste de droit humanitaire, nous parlent des nombreux enjeux de l’affaire.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 6 – Culture and Emotion, part 2

Isabella Liu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:46:49 +0000

Dr. Allan Young discusses notions of self in relation to trauma and emotion. Are there culturally specific emotions?

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 6 – Culture and Emotion, part 1

Isabella Liu — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:46:23 +0000

Dr. Allan Young discusses the different notions of the self. Is our idea of the self a distinctly Western notion? Is there a self? Is it essential? Are there cultures without a sense of self?

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 5 – Culture / Psychiatry, part 2

Isabella Liu — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:43:39 +0000

Dr. Allan Young continues his examination of the culture of psychiatry.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 5 – Culture / Psychiatry, part 1

Isabella Liu — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:43:40 +0000

Dr. Allan Young looks at culture and psychiatry: how living within a particular culture impacts on the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders, culture in psychiatry: culture permeates psychiatric practices, there are ethnocentric concepts that take into account a Western world view, and the cultures of psychiatry: just as there are cultures based on nationality and race, there are different cultures of the practice and study of psychiatry.

AstroMcGill Episode 28 – Aaron Parsons

Isabella Liu — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:50:50 +0000

Guest: Aaron Parsons (UC Berkeley). We talked about the PAPER experiment, which is hoping to shed light on the end of the “dark ages” of the Universe, just as the first stars and galaxies started to form.

Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Sean Griffin.

Duration: 19 minutes.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 3 – Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry, part 2

Isabella Liu — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:36:38 +0000

Dr. Kirmayer looks at issues that arise when trying to look across cultures, for example working in one culture with tools that were developed elsewhere. He discusses problems in cross-cultural comparisons and its methodological implications.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 3 – Research Methods in Cultural Psychiatry, part 1

Isabella Liu — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:35:58 +0000

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer examines how knowledge is generated in the field of cultural psychiatry and what the limitations in the field are. The lecture covers philosophical concerns on the nature of experience and cultural difference.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 2 – Somatization and Bodily Idioms of Distress, part 2

Isabella Liu — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:34:54 +0000

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer looks at medically unexplained symptoms, the potential meaning of somatic symptoms and the cultural context of symptom reporting.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 2 – Somatization and Bodily Idioms of Distress, part 1

Isabella Liu — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:33:46 +0000

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer looks at three forms of somatization, the problem of dualism in medicine, cultural idioms of distress and how experience is expressed in and through the body.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 1 – Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction, part 2

Isabella Liu — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:36:50 +0000

Dr. Kirmayer looks at the shifting meanings of culture, especially in an increasingly mobile global population. He also discusses how culture might figure in psychiatric nosology.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 1 – Cultural Psychiatry: a Critical Introduction, part 2

Isabella Liu — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:40:42 +0000

Dr. Kirmayer looks at the shifting meanings of culture, especially in an increasingly mobile global population. He also discusses how culture might figure in psychiatric nosology.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 1 – Cultural Psychiatry: a Critical Introduction, part 1

Isabella Liu — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:38:28 +0000

To understand what is built into our mental health practice in order to look at it critically, Dr. Laurence Kirmayer examines the culture of psychiatry and psychology.

Cultural Psychiatry series, Lecture 1 – Cultural Psychiatry: A Critical Introduction, part 1

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:36:41 +0000

To understand what is built into our mental health practice in order to look at it critically, Dr. Laurence Kirmayer examines the culture of psychiatry and psychology.

Principal Heather Munroe-Blum speaks to the Canadian Club, March 11th, 2013

Isabella Liu — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 19:01:41 +0000

After a decade as Principal, Heather Munroe-Blum reflects on the lessons of her term and the serious challenges facing Quebec’s universities in a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal, March 11, 2013.

Participatory Research: If We Want More Evidence-Based Practice, We Need More Practice-Based Evidence

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:29:52 +0000

On October 24, 2006, PRAM welcomed special guest speaker Lawrence Green, formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and author of the PRECEDE-PROCEED Ecological Model of Health Program Planning & Evaluation.

AstroMcGill Episode 27 – Maxim Lyutikov

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:03:11 +0000

Guest: Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University). We discussed how and why pulsars emit radiation at radio wavelengths, and at higher energies in the gamma-ray and X-ray bands.

Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Dave Tsang.

Duration: 19 minutes.

Trauma: Why Accidents are Rarely Accidental

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:44:33 +0000

An exploration of injury in our communities, from prevention to trauma team response – the good, bad and the ugly of Montreal.

Speaker: Dr. Tarek Razek

Flying Doctors: Air Care

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:43:12 +0000

We will look at the history of aviation medicine from its origins to modern-day practice. We will explore the effects of the unique environment in a pressurized aircraft that the treating doctor must consider in order to properly care for the sick patient being transported over thousands of miles. Finally, we will consider the future of air transport and how modern medicine will be practiced.

Speaker: Dr. Michael Churchill-Smith

ICU: High Intensity Caring

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:40:15 +0000

Exploring the world of the critically ill – how do you end up there, how sick is sick, what are your chances of surviving? A short journey into the difficult world of the sickest patients in the hospital.

Speaker: Dr. Ash Gursahaney

ER: Your Safety Net

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:38:36 +0000

The ER is your safety net. How does it function? When should you use the ER and what can the ER do for you?

Speaker: Dr. Marc Afilalo

Your Heart Health: Getting to the Heart of the matter

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:45:19 +0000

What is heart disease? Why do some people get it and some don’t? Learn about prevention and treatment of common cardiac conditions.

Speaker: Dr. Nadia Giannetti

Caring for Casualties: The Epidemic of Sports Related Injuries

Isabella Liu — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:42:37 +0000

Athletes participating in organized sports at both the amateur and professional levels are experiencing an increasing number of injuries. One of the most troublesome forms of trauma in the athlete is concussion. Recent statistics on the prevalence of trauma in all contact sports will be discussed.

Speaker: Dr. David Mulder

AstroMcGill Episode 26 – Brian Schmidt

Isabella Liu — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:30:55 +0000

Special podcast with 2011 Physics Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt (Australian National University). We had the honor of receiving Brian Schmidt for a podcast interview, during which we talked about his discovery that the Universe was expanding. Brian Schmidt, Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011.

Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Dave Tsang.

Duration: 27 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 25 – Christian Ott

Isabella Liu — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:29:07 +0000

Guest: Christian Ott (CalTech). We discussed the death of massive stars, called supernova explosions, and how we can try to understand them with computer simulations. Here is a link to the YouTube channel mentioned during the podcast: SXS Collaboration YouTube Channel.

Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Dave Tsang.

Duration: 24 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 24 – Joanna Rankin

Isabella Liu — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:27:02 +0000

Guest: Joanna Rankin (U. of Vermont). In this episode, the discussion was focused on her work on the emission mechanism of pulsars, sometimes called “cosmic lighthouses”.

Hosts: Sean Griffin, Ryan Lynch and Dave Tsang.

Duration: 20 minutes.

Trente ans après le rapatriement : quel avenir pour la constitution?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:45:40 +0000

Le 2 février 2012, la Revue de droit de McGill a organisé un débat sur le thème de la constitution et le 30e anniversaire de son rapatriement. Les participants étaient les professeurs Benoît Pelletier, Daniel Turp et Serge Rousselle.

The Syrian conflict and the International Criminal Court: Interview with Human Rights Watch’s Richard Dicker.

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:44:47 +0000

In this interview, Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch’s international justice program, discusses the International Criminal Court and what role it could play in the ongoing conflict in Syria.

AstroMcGill Episode 23 – Chris Thompson

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:10:45 +0000

Guest: Chris Thompson (CITA, U of Toronto). We discussed his research on gamma-ray bursts and magnetars.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 19 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 22 – Chelsea Sharon

George He — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:19:19 +0000

Guest: Chelsea Sharon (Rutgers University). We talked about the study of star formation in very distant galaxies.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 18 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 21 – Victoria Scowcroft

George He — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 18:43:10 +0000

Guest: Victoria Scowcroft (Carnegie Observatory). We talked about her involvement in the Carnegie Hubble Program, a project dedicated to the measurement of the Hubble constant by calibrating the steps of the distance ladder.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 17 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 20 – David Tsang

George He — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:39:42 +0000

Guest: David Tsang (McGill). We talked about neutron star mergers as emitters of gravitational waves. These waves are ripples in the curvature of space-time.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 23 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 19 – Dong Lai

George He — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:47:32 +0000

Guest: Dong Lai (Cornell). We discussed his research on hot Jupiters, a type of exoplanets on which tidal forces play an important role.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 22 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 18 – Ue-Li Pen

George He — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:00:32 +0000

Guest: Ue-Li Pen (CITA, U of Toronto). We talked about his involvement with the rehabilitation of the Algonquin Radio Observatory, and how it was used for radio pulsar scattering observations.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 10 minutes.

Short History of Lord Strathcona and Public Health

George He — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:22:09 +0000

Rebecca Fuhrer talks about the history of Lord Strathcona and public health.

Harvey Fineberg: Why Prevention is a Hard Sell

George He — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:21:49 +0000

The Strathcona Chair in Preventive Medicine lecture on the importance of public health and prevention by the President of the Institute of Medicine.

AstroMcGill Episode 17 – Mathias Zaldarriaga

George He — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 18:42:00 +0000

Guest: Mathias Zaldarriaga (IAS/Princeton). We discussed various topics of cosmology (the Big Bang, inflation, the Cosmic Microwave Background, etc…).

Hosts: James Kennedy, Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 25 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 16 – Abby Vieregg

George He — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:40:04 +0000

Guest: Abby Vieregg (Harvard CfA). We talked about her work on the detection of neutrinos (hard-to-detect fundamental particles) with the balloon-borne instrument ANITA at the South Pole.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 23 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 15 – Abe Falcone

George He — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 18:29:26 +0000

Guest: Abe Falcone (Penn State). The discussion was about cosmic rays, very energetic particles with cosmic origin.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 30 minutes.

Judes Poirier: Le déclin des facultés cérébrales – Alzheimer ou vieillissement normal?

George He — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:29:08 +0000

Judes Poirier, Ph.D., C.Q., est directeur de l’Unité de neurobiologie moléculaire.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Howard Steiger: Gènes, environnements et genre – Une formule pour comprendre les troubles de l’alimentation

George He — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:29:06 +0000

Howard Steiger, Ph.D., est chef du Programme des troubles de l’alimentation.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Mimi Israël: Le fond du baril – Déprime ou épuisement?

George He — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:29:04 +0000

Mimi Israël, M.D., FRCPC, est chef du Département de psychiatrie.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Serge Beaulieu, Suzane Renaud: L’humeur en montagnes russes – Bipolaire ou borderline?

George He — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:29:00 +0000

Serge Beaulieu, M.D., Ph.D., FRCPC, est chef médical du Programme des troubles de l’humeur et du Programme des troubles bipolaires. Suzane Renaud, M.D., est psychiatre.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Camillo Zacchia: Du cœur au cerveau – Des émotions nécessaires à notre survie

George He — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:28:57 +0000

Camillo Zacchia, Ph.D., est psychologue et conseiller principal du Bureau de l’éducation en santé mentale.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Véronique Bohbot: Le cerveau – Puissant et fragile en même temps

George He — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 15:28:53 +0000

Véronique Bohbot, Ph.D., est chercheuse en neurosciences.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

AstroMcGill Episode 14 – Marco Viero

George He — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:43:14 +0000

Guest: Marco Viero (CalTech). He studies the cosmic infrared background and dark matter. We discussed these topics with him.

Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 20 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 13 – Mansi Kasliwal

George He — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:03:27 +0000

Guest: Mansi Kasliwal (Carnegie Institution for Science). Her research aims at the discovery and the understanding of new types of stellar explosions. We discussed what these explosions are and how she discovers them.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 17 minutes.

Christie Rowe: In Search of the Source of Earthquakes

George He — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:46:51 +0000

Speaker: Christie Rowe (Assistant Professor, Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University)

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world. Most are concentrated along the boundaries of tectonic plates, but occasionally, earthquakes happen where we don’t expect them. How do these events start? What controls the location of earthquakes? And what happens to all the energy that is released? Thousands or millions of years of erosion can reveal the deeper crustal rocks, which were the source of ancient earthquakes. Seeking out surface exposures of these ancient faults can give some insight into the physical and chemical controls on earthquakes. Professor Rowe will present stories from her field work across North America, Africa, and the deep ocean offshore Japan in search of answers to these questions. She will show the discoveries made during her April-May 2012 ocean drilling expedition to study the deep ocean fault which produced the great Tohoku 3/11/11 earthquake, and compare this fault to ancient faults in Alaska and Namibia which produced great earthquakes millions of years ago. Finally, she will argue that earthquakes are a key process in forming ore deposits and show examples from Québec and around the world. Here are some links to Scientific American Blog postings written by Dr. Rowe about D/V Chikyu this spring off the coast of Japan and about Earthquake prediction.

AstroMcGill Episode 12 – Joaquin Viera

George He — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:58:18 +0000

Guest: Joaquin Viera (CalTech). We discussed his research focused on bright and distant galaxies discovered with the South Pole Telescope and observed with the ALMA telescope.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 17 minutes.

Canadian politics

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:46:56 +0000

A conference of the Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique (GRIPP) de Montréal, the Centre de Recherche en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM) and McGill University’ Research Group on Constitutional Studies (RGCS).

Chair: Alain-G. Gagnon (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Charles Taylor on Deep Diversity
James Tully (University of Victoria)
Cultural Differences, Languages, Perspicuous Contrasts, and Recognition
Jeremy Webber (University of Victoria)
Démocratie, diversité et inclusion
Dominique Leydet (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

Political philosophy, recognition and multiculturalism

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:44:11 +0000

Chair: Ruth Abbey, Notre-Dame
Protecting Freedom of Conscience in the Secular Age
Cécile Laborde (University College, London)
The Multiple Social Imaginaries of Modern Indian secularism
Rajeev Bhargava (Delhi/Center for the Study of Developing Societies)
“Exercises in Retrieval” : Taylor as a Thinker of Historical Transitions
Paolo Costa, (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)
Memory, Multiculturalism and Democracy
Michele Moody-Adams (Columbia University)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

Moral agency and the Self II

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:40:44 +0000

Chair: Charles Blattberg, Montréal
Self-creation or self-discovery ?
K. Anthony Appiah (Princeton University)
The Status of Abstract Moral Concepts
Joseph Heath (University of Toronto)
Charles Taylor and ethical naturalism
Nigel DeSouza (University of Ottawa)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

Charles Taylor, Public Intellectual

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:30:36 +0000

Chair: Gretta Chambers, former Chancellor of McGill University
Michel Bastarache, retired Justice, Supreme Court
Julius Grey, lawyer
Guy Laforest, Université Laval
Daniel Weinstock, Université de Montréal

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

The Interpretation of Modernity 2

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:25:08 +0000

Chair: Hasana Sharp, McGill
Whatever Happened to the Ontic Logos ?
Michael Rosen (Harvard University)
The Fragility of Things : Fullness, Vitality and the Contemporary Condition
William Connolly (Johns Hopkins University)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

The interpretation of modernity 1

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:20:42 +0000

Chair: Natalie Stoljar, McGill
Social Imaginaries, Human Action, and History
Craig Calhoun (New York University/London School of Economics)
The Telos of Modernity
Jacob Levy (McGill University)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

Moral Agency and the Self I

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 23:13:34 +0000

Chair: Christine Tappolet, Université de Montréal
What is Wrong with Positive Liberty : The Struggles of Agency in a Non-Ideal World
John Christman (Penn State University)
What’s Right With Positive Liberty : Agency, Autonomy, and the Other
Nancy Hirschmann (University of Pennsylvania)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

Religion and modernity

Christophe Philippona — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 22:55:04 +0000

Chair: Simone Chambers, University of Toronto
Varieties of Religious and Secular Phenomenological Experiences – José Casanova (Georgetown University)
A Crisis of Secularism ? – Tariq Modood (University of Bristol)
Taylor, Rawls, and Secularism – Ronald Beiner (University of Toronto)
Muslim Secularism: Between Mimicry and Innovation – Nilufer Gole (CESPRA-EHESS, Paris)
TBA – Jeanne Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago)

Video part of the Charles Taylor at 80: An International Conference series.

The Public Digital Humanities: Panel Discussion

Christophe Philippona — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:55:08 +0000

What are the opportunities and challenges that exist for the digital humanities to reach a broader public and to confirm the relevance of the humanities in today’s society?

Petra Schweinhardt: The Pain-Reward Connection

Minya Yang — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:39:33 +0000

Leading McGill scientists cover many major aspects of pain science, from molecular and neural pathways to the psychological modulation of pain. The series bridges our understanding of how factors such as environment, genetics, gender, age and lifestyle are related to pain.

Pain and reward are two motivational processes that oppose each other. This talk will explore how pain and reward processing interact.

Mark Ware: Just say Know – What Marijuana has Taught us about Pain Control

Minya Yang — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:13:23 +0000

This presentation explores the science behind the extraordinary claims that are made around marijuana and pain management, from demon drug to miracle herb, and suggest there are some intriguing avenues of new research opening up that offer some new ways to treat pain.

Michael Sullivan: Helping People with Pain resume Occupational Involvement

Minya Yang — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:56:12 +0000

This presentation will highlight some of the psychosocial factors that have been shown to contribute to occupational disability in individuals with pain conditions.

Jeffrey Mogil: Pain, Friends, Sex and your Mother: Complexity and Opportunity in Pain Science and Treatment

Minya Yang — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:38:21 +0000

This lecture presents the latest advances in pain genetics, evidence that the sexes may differ qualitatively in their neural processing of pain, and intriguing evidence that pain can be powerfully modulated by social interactions and communication, even in mice.

Catherine Bushnell: How the Mind can alter Pain

Minya Yang — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:19:48 +0000

This lecture will discuss the mechanisms by which psychological state alters pain and how this may be changed in chronic pain conditions.

Joe Schwarcz: The Chemical Conquest of Pain

Minya Yang — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:04:24 +0000

When you are in pain, nothing else matters. ou just want relief. And the right chemicals can provide it. Tracing mankind’s efforts to conquer pain makes for a fascinating romp through chemical history. Fret not, it is painless!

Tim Geary: Medicines for Neglected Tropical Diseases: Reversing the Equation

Minya Yang — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:10:35 +0000

More than a billion people, mostly in developing nations, still serve as hosts to roundworms. They are a source of diseases that often kill – yet medicines for these diseases have generally been adopted from veterinary use and have not been optimized for humans. This lecture provides an introduction to parasitic diseases of poverty and describes a novel drug discovery process – involving scientists living in the most affected areas – that has been implemented in South Africa and Botswana. The integration of multiple levels of development is a significant challenge – but one with great rewards.

AstroMcGill Episode 11 – Kristen Coppin & James Geach

Christophe Philippona — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:48:01 +0000

Guest: Kristen Coppin and James Geach (both post-doctoral researchers at McGill University). We interviewed Kristen and Jim to discuss their results, recently published in a press release. They discovered a large structure of packed galaxies joining two galaxy clusters. We discussed this new result and its implications.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 14 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 10 — Stephanie Juneau

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:50:48 +0000

Guest: Stephanie Juneau (CEA Saclay, France). We talked about supermassive black-holes, in other galaxies and in our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 16 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 9 — Oded Aharonson

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 23 May 2012 18:07:32 +0000

Guest: Oded Aharonson (Center for Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). We discussed the study of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, as well as his interests in other planets of the Solar System.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Kevin MacDermid.

Duration: 17 minutes.

Pierre Schoentje: The Art and Politics of Irony — Ironie, écologie et écriture de la nature

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:22:29 +0000

Irony makes the world new by putting the world that exists in question. Its strength lies in its destabilizing power—it is the politics of art, the art of politics, and the language of dissent. By enabling critical representations of the world as it is known, but from within and against the familiarity of our own expectations, irony gives art and discourse special kinds of access to the public sphere, especially by mining beneath the given, the actual, and the known. A talk from Pierre Schoentje, Universiteit Gent, presented in French.

Part of the series The Art and Politics of Irony presented by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.

Luc Courchesne: You Are Here

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:02 +0000

A lecture from Luc Courchesne, professor at Université de Montréal and director of Metalab, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

David Scott: Supertall and Superfast: Design and Construction Challenges in Steel

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:02 +0000

A lecture from David Scott, Principal, Arup. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

Andrew King: Gerald Sheff Lecture, Winter 2012

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:02 +0000

A lecture from Andrew King, Gerald Sheff visiting professor in Architecture at McGill, 2012. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

Alessandra Ponte: Journey to the North of Quebec: Understanding (McLuhan’s) Media

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:34:01 +0000

A lecture from Alessandra Ponte, professor at Université de Montréal. Part of the Winter 2012 lecture series from McGill’s School of Architecture.

AstroMcGill Episode 8 – Eric Linder

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:12:27 +0000

Guest: Eric Linder, Co-director of the INPA at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. We talked about cosmology and particularly the composition of the Universe (Dark energy, dark matter, normal matter, etc…) and ways to study these different components.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 23 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 7 – Rosalba Perna

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:19:30 +0000

Guest: Rosalba Perna, associate professor at University of Colorado in Boulder. We discussed her research focused on the modelisation of various astrophysical phenomena, including magnetars and hot Jupiters (a type of exoplanets).

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 20 minutes.

Alanna Watt: What is brain assembly?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:59:26 +0000

This Freaky Friday explores the fascinating field of brain development (assembly) and what happens when it goes wrong, in particular in the spinocerebellar ataxia SCA6.

Lila Amirali: Dépression chez les enfants et les adolescents

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:59:26 +0000

Une conférence de Lila Amirali, MD à L’Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants.

Chandra Magill: Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:59:26 +0000

A talk from Chandra Magill, MD, psychiatrist at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Jean Tchervenkov: Transplantation d’organes

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:59:26 +0000

Une conférence de Jean Tchervenkov, MD à L’Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants.

Sylviane Forget: Crohn’s disease in Canada: Environment or genetics?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:59:26 +0000

Canada has the world’s highest incidence of Crohn’s disease. Is it our genes or the environment? A talk from Sylviane Forget, MD at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Laurent Legault: La prévention du diabète est-elle possible?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:59:26 +0000

Une conférence de Laurent Legault, directeur, Cliniques du diabète à L’Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants.

Peter Goodrich: The Art and Politics of Irony — Serio ludere: Legal Humanism, Satire and Critique

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:35:55 +0000

Irony makes the world new by putting the world that exists in question. Its strength lies in its destabilizing power—it is the politics of art, the art of politics, and the language of dissent. By enabling critical representations of the world as it is known, but from within and against the familiarity of our own expectations, irony gives art and discourse special kinds of access to the public sphere, especially by mining beneath the given, the actual, and the known. Keynote speech by Peter Goodrich, Yeshiva University.

Part of the series The Art and Politics of Irony presented by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas.

Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement: Panel Discussion

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:00:15 +0000

This conference and roundtable engage the public in an effort to address many of the media, political and social themes that have transpired during the months-long Occupy protests.

Panel discussion, featuring:

Anna Feigenbaum, Richmond University
Patrick McCurdy, University of Ottawa
Nathalie Des Rosiers, General Counsel and Executive Director of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association
Moderator: Darin Barney, Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship (McGill University).

Chris Hedges: Media, Politics and Protest Camps in the Occupy Social Movement, Keynote address

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:00:08 +0000

This conference and roundtable engage the public in an effort to address many of the media, political and social themes that have transpired during the months-long Occupy protests.

Keynote address by Chris Hedges: journalist, author, war correspondent, and public intellectual. His most recent book is The World As It Is (2011).

AstroMcGill Episode 6 – Adam Showman

George He — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:19:07 +0000

Guest: Adam Showman, professor at the Lunar and Planetary Lab (University of Arizona). We discussed different aspects related to his research on exoplanets.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 20 minutes.

Lawrence Rosenberg: Curing diabetes one cell at a time

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:07 +0000

A talk from Lawrence Rosenberg, Ph. D at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Claudette Bardin: Soins centrés sur le patient et sa famille : qu’est-ce que cela veut dire?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

Une conférence de Claudette Bardin, Ph. D., médecin à L’Hôpital de Montréal pour enfants.

Michael Shevell: Cerebral Palsy: It’s Not What You Think!

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

A talk from Michael Shevell, Ph. D at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Chantal Bernard: Pathology is for life!

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

A talk from Chantal Bernard, Ph. D at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Michel Tremblay: Comprendre les cellules souches : Amies ou ennemies?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

Une conférence du professeur Michel L. Tremblay Ph.D., chercheur au Centre de recherche sur le cancer Rosalind et Morris Goodman de l’Université McGill.

Preetha Krishnamoorthy: Sex Hormones: from precocious to delayed puberty

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

A talk from Preetha Krishnamoorthy, Ph. D at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

Jean Tchervenkov: Organ donation: a special gift

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:30:06 +0000

A talk from Jean Tchervenkov, MD at the Montreal Children’s Hospital.

AstroMcGill Episode 5 – John Tomsick

George He — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:22:14 +0000

Guest: John Tomsick, Assistant Research Scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory (UC Berkeley). We discussed his research in the field of X-ray astrophysics, namely, observations of X-ray binaries (black holes or neutron stars in binary systems with bright X-ray emissions).

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 18 minutes.

The Good Samaritan Law: Interview with Professor Pierre-Gabriel Jobin

George He — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:24:20 +0000

It is commonly accepted that the law must punish those who act badly towards others. But can it require us to be good? This interview with Professor Emeritus Pierre-Gabriel Jobin examines the traditional and emerging civil and common law positions on so-called Good Samaritan laws, as well as the theoretical assumptions that may have contributed to these different starting points, and which may yet lead to their reconciliation.

2012 Annual Lecture: Q & A with Mary Dawson

George He — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:54:23 +0000

Mary Dawson, C.M., Q.C., takes questions from the audience, after delivering the 2012 McGill Law Journal Annual Lecture.

2012 Annual Lecture: “From the Back Room to the Front Lines: Making Constitutional History” delivered by Mary Dawson

George He — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:51:49 +0000

In celebration of the 30^th anniversary of the patriation of the Constitution of Canada, the Law Journal invites Mary Dawson, C.M., Q.C., to deliver the 2012 Annual Lecture and share her experiences as one of the final drafters of the Constitution Act, 1982 and as the principal legal advisor for the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords.

Corporate Accountability: Interview with the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie

George He — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:42:08 +0000

Victims of corporate complicity in violations of international law continue to face some very serious legal hurdles in adjudicating their claims. In this interview, the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie (most recently with the Supreme Court of Canada) examines some of these legal hurdles and explains why existing domestic and international legal fora have not yet succeeded in the pursuit of corporate accountability.

Law and Technology: Interview with Professor Roderick Macdonald

George He — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:39:29 +0000

In this interview, Professor Roderick Macdonald explores the impact of information technology on law, legal scholarship, litigation, and access to justice in the twenty-first century.

André Costopoulos: A diversity / tolerance model of cultural evolution

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:09:09 +0000

Professor Costopoulos argues that while humans are probably selected to have a limited ability to make good decisions. Under the ‘diversity-tolerance’ model of cultural evolution, humans are smart enough to come up with a range of potential solutions to the problems we face but not very good at determining which solution is the best.

Alan Evans: Non-invasive mapping of the human brain

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:04:21 +0000

As a specialist in three-dimensional modeling of the living brain, Alan Evans works to understand neurological pathologies inside-out: the natural history of a disease,” He asks: “What parts of the brain exhibit abnormal changes in cortical thickness, for example, over the duration of Alzheimer’s disease? How does that brain map relate to behaviours, such as a decline in language skills?

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

George He — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:28:42 +0000

Professor Timothy Wu of Columbia Law School gave a free public lecture on Thursday, March 22, 2012, based on material from his most recent book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Alfred A. Knopf: 2010). In The Master Switch, Wu speaks of the cycle of monopolization that has beset the development of information technologies from the telegraph to the telephone, and finally, the Internet. Referring to telecommunications giant AT&T, and more recently Apple, Comcast and Google, Wu identifies a cycle progressing from an openly-operated technology to one increasingly controlled by corporations in a closed system. The talk was co-sponsored by Media@McGill, the AHCS Speaker Series, and the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy.

Timothy Wu is a Professor at Columbia Law School where he teaches copyright and communication. He is a McGill University alum, having received his Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Science in 1995, and a graduate of Harvard Law School. Wu is best known for his contribution to the principle of net neutrality and has also co-authored Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford University Press: 2006) with Jack L. Goldsmith.

AstroMcGill Episode 4 – Keith Vanderlinde

George He — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:15:55 +0000

Guest: Keith Vanderlinde, CIFAR Junior Fellow at McGill University. We discussed his research on cosmology and galaxy clusters, as part of the South Pole Telescope collaboration.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 23 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 3 – George Helou

George He — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:11:28 +0000

Guest: George Helou, Executive director of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center) at CalTech, and deputy director of the Spitzer Infrared Telescope Science team. We discussed his scientific research: Space infrared astronomy and galaxies.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 24 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 2 – Richard Cyburt

George He — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:00:16 +0000

Guest: Richard Cyburt, assistant professor at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) of Michigan State University. We discussed his research on nuclear astrophysics, and how it bridges nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch.

Duration: 20 minutes.

AstroMcGill Episode 1 – Laura Lopez

George He — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:48:43 +0000

Guest: Laura Lopez, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discussed her research on supernova remnants and massive stars, as well as her involvement in public outreach.

Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot.

Duration: 21 minutes.

Charles Foran, City Unique: Montreal in the Life and Imagination of Mordecai Richler

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:23:39 +0000

Mordecai Richler was never more engaged than on the subject of his hometown. In his work he sketched a brilliant comedic canvas of social striving and upward mobility; in his life he cherished the version of Montreal he believed most bold and open, Canada’s only great city. The intersection of the two impulses, in conjunction with the rise of Quebec nationalism, consumed much of his adult life, and came at a cost to his legacy. A lecture about the complex, and as yet unresolved, relationship between a major artist and his society.

Mr. Foran is the author of the recent and much acclaimed biography Mordecai: the Life & Times. Hosted by the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas and the Friends of the Library, in collaboration with the Department of English, the Département de langue et littérature françaises, and the Faculty of Arts Development Office, with support from Benjamin News.

The Importance of Recognizing the Color of Science

George He — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:22:42 +0000

This special Black History Month lecture by Frederic Bertley (Vice-President, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia) focuses on contemporary black and brown scientists who are contributing significantly to science. The talk challenges the idea that scientists in general, regardless of race, are not well recognized and celebrated. This talk is sponsored by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, and the Garvey Institute Inc. in Montreal.

Bravo 2012 – McGill’s Award-Winning Researchers

George He — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:24:22 +0000

McGill celebrates its faculty members who were awarded major national or international prizes in 2011. See the incredible variety of research these award-winners have done—from how to build a brain to investigating how parenting can affect one’s health throughout the lifespan, to developments in mining technologies and advancements in cancer research.

The future of Quantum Mechanics

George He — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:44:15 +0000

By Bill Coish (Physics, McGill). How can we realistically use large scale quantum mechanical effects to our advantage? Check out these interviews in Nature and on CBC Radio 1 where Dr. Coish talks about quantum information science.

Nature or Nurture: Do genes actually determine your personality?

George He — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:09:04 +0000

By Roberta Palmour (Genetics, McGill). How do specific personality traits themselves predispose to particular types of mental illness? Listen to Roberta Palmour’s interview on CBC about personality disorders and her work with monkeys’ personality traits.

Oxytocin me, baby — the truth about the so-called love hormone

George He — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:05:39 +0000

By Jennifer A. Bartz (Psychology, McGill). Oxytocin is widely known as the “love hormone” released during birth and breastfeeding to bond a mother and child, but it’s released other times, too. Like during an orgasm. Or a romantic date. Oxytocin supposedly overflows us with positive feelings about one another. Or does it?

Read more about Dr. Bartz work with oxytocin in this Time Magazine report. Tune into the CBC interview with Dr. Bartz on Freaky Sunday, Feb. 5, that explains how oxytocin is critical in mammalian pair-bonding.

The misunderstanding of dinosaurs

George He — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:59:42 +0000

By Emily Bamforth (Ph.D. candidate, Redpath Museum and Biology, McGill). Is a Pterodactyl really a dinosaur? Could ‘Jurassic Park’ actually happen? Come and find what you may not have known about society’s favorite prehistorical creatures. Check out this interview on CBC Radio 1

The Public Life of Art in the 21st Century

George He — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:13:34 +0000

An important roundtable discussion among leading artists and thinkers on the place and purpose of art and artistic production, and the relationship between art and scholarship in the modern world.

Panellists: Darin Barney (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill), Margie Gillis (dancer and choreographer), Desmond Manderson (Law, McGill), and Kent Stetson (playwright and novelist)

Moderator: Paul Yachnin (English, McGill)

27 September 2011

Andrew Stewart: Shake, Rattle, and Roll: New Music for the T-Stick Digital Musical Instrument

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:00:46 +0000

Keynote Lecture/Performance at the conference The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics

Jane Dutton: Talking Management

George He — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:39:22 +0000

McGill University’s Karl Moore speaks with business professor Jane Dutton who explains how to make a little go a long way in a time of constrained resources.

Thomas Hellwig: Talking Management

George He — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:37:24 +0000

McGill University’s Karl Moore speaks with Thomas Hellwig who explains why Singapore’s prisons are considered among the country’s 10 most wanted employers.

Alternative Medicine under the Microscope – Part II

George He — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:50:06 +0000

The seventh annual Trottier Symposium spotlights “Alternative Medicine.” Four world-renowned experts examine some of its tenets “under the microscope.”

Alternative medicine can be described as practices that are available to the public but which are not taught in conventional medical schools. The focus there lies on evidence-based methods and controlled experiments. Lack of evidence does not mean that a particular treatment cannot work; there may be alternative methods and practices worth pursuing. Alternative treatments can range from acupuncture to reflexology, and its practitioners range from energy healers to magnet therapists. Although risks tend to be low, there is always the danger of patients being seduced by unsubstantiated claims, possibly to the extent of forgoing evidence-based treatments.

Irrespective of one’s views on alternative medicine, there is no doubt that the subject merits attention and scrutiny.

Dr. Edzard Ernst is a former homeopathic practitioner who has become a vocal critic of alternative medical techniques that are not supported by scientific evidence.

Alternative Medicine under the Microscope – Part I

George He — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:59:13 +0000

The seventh annual Trottier Symposium spotlights “Alternative Medicine.” Four world-renowned experts examine some of its tenets “under the microscope.”

Irrespective of one’s views on alternative medicine, there is no doubt that the subject merits attention and scrutiny.

Dr. Paul Offit is one of the most public figures speaking out against the alleged relationship between vaccines and autism. Dr. Harriet Hall is a retired family physician who writes about pseudoscience and questionable medical practices. Dr. Robert (Bob) Park is an Emeritus Professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park who has written pseudoscience, alternative medicine, and the creation/evolution debate.

Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations – Gary Doer and David Jacobson

George He — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:53:39 +0000

Annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada – Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations, March 2011

Speakers:

Gary Doer, Canadian Ambassador to the United States, The Embassy of Canada
David Jacobson, United States Ambassador to Canada, The Embassy of the United States of America

Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations – Opening Address: David Johnston

George He — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:52:18 +0000

Annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada – Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations, March 2011

Opening address by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General and Commander in Chief of Canada

Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations – Brian Mulroney and James A. Baker, III

George He — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:50:36 +0000

Annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada – Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations, March 2011

Speakers:

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Lawyer & Senior Partner, Ogilvy Renault
The Honorable James A. Baker, III, the 61st U.S. Secretary of State and 67th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations – Jean Charest and Peter Shumlin

George He — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:44:33 +0000

Annual conference of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada – Canada & the United States: Conversations and Relations, March 2011

Speakers:

The Honourable Jean Charest, Premier of Québec, Canada
The Honorable Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont, United States of America

Tom Beghin: The Virtual Haydn: a New Recording Experience

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:29:25 +0000

Keynote Lecture at the conference The Ghost in the Machine: Technologies, Performance, Publics

Mark Antaki: The Trial of Louis XVI

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:28:04 +0000

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial of the “major war criminals” of 1945-1946 and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 are often understood as opposite sides of the same very modern moral coin: the trial articulating an understanding of supreme wrong and the Declaration a vision of the ultimate good. It is customary to locate one of the origins of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the French Revolution’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789.

However, the trial of Louis XVI (1792-1793), the opposite side of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, tends not to be identified as an antecedent of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. This lecture will consider the trial of Louis XVI as perhaps the first trial for crimes against humanity, a trial in which the medieval figure of the tyrant begins to give way to the modern figure of the criminal against humanity.

Desmond Manderson: The Trial of Billy Budd

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:27:08 +0000

Herman Melville’s story “Billy Budd” contains one of the most famous trial scenes in US literature. It has given rise to a number of conflicting interpretations which relate to the relationship between legality and legitimacy, or between justice and law. Indeed the story contains surprising connections not only to question about law that have concerned writers for thousands of years, but to particular issues of slavery and judgment that were of immediate concern in 19th century America.

Eugenio Bolongaro: The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:26:34 +0000

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti emigrated from Italy to the US in 1908. They did not meet, however, until 1917 during a strike in which they both participated as anarchist activists. They were accused of the murders of Frederick Parmenter, a paymaster, and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, at the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company, in Braintree, Massachusetts, on April 15, 1920. Their trial was heavily politicized, eventually polarizing public opinion and becoming an international “cause celèbre.” The defense strongly argued that the two men were innocent and that the justice system was participating in a political repression of radical dissent.

On August 23, 1927, after a long and vain legal struggle to obtain a new trial, their pardon or, at least, the commutation of the death sentence, Sacco and Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair. On the 50th anniversary of their execution, Governor Michael Dukakis, acting on the basis of recommendations from the Massachusetts Office of Legal Counsel, declared August 23, 1977 the Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Day. In his proclamation, the Governor stated that the two Italian immigrants had been unfairly tried and convicted, and that “any disgrace should be forever removed from their names.” The legal, political and cultural debates provoked by the Sacco and Vanzetti’s case raise fundamental questions about the nature of justice and the role of the legal system in Western democracies.

Carrie Rentschler: The Trial of Winston Moseley

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:25:43 +0000

On March 13, 1964, an Italian-American and lesbian woman named Kitty Genovese was repeatedly stabbed, sexually assaulted and killed by an African-American man, Winston Moseley, in a suburbanized section of Queens, NY. While Moseley was convicted of Genovese’s murder on June 15th that same year, press attention focused on another set of so-called perpetrators of the crime: the 38 people who were said to have seen or heard parts of the assault and failed to call the police. This talk examines how issues of race, class, gender and sexuality impacted the trial and media coverage of this significant case.

Elena Bennett: Feeding the world without destroying the planet

George He — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:45:47 +0000

By Elena Bennett (Natural Resource Sciences and McGill School of Environment, McGill)

Agricultural landscapes can provide many different ecosystem services, including food, high quality freshwater, opportunities for recreation, and flood control. Yet we often focus narrowly on the production of food, which can unintentionally undermine provision of other key services. The idea of managing for ecosystem services compels us to consider more than one service and obliges us to consider the interactions and relationships among ecosystem services on the landscape. Yet we don’t know very much about these interactions. Thus, a key goal for science in the coming decade is to improve our understanding of how multiple services are provided across agricultural landscapes. What affects the relative proportions of services? Can trade-offs be reduced or synergies strengthened? We are working with local communities in the Vallée-du-Richelieu MRC (Municipalité Régionale de Comté), a 750 km² regional governance body involving 13 towns southeast of Montréal to build models that they can use to objectively quantify the effect of today’s resource and land management decisions on the current and future provision of multiple ecosystem services.

Steve Rayner: Climate Geoengineering Governance

George He — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:01:34 +0000

Special presentation by Steve Rayner (James Martin Professor of Science and Civilization at the Saïd Business School and Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University). He describes himself as an “undisciplined” scholar lending a social science perspective to major matters of science and technology. He was also listed by Wired Magazine on the 2008 smart list as one of the 15 people the next President should listen to. Join us as we listen to him in the Redpath Museum Auditorium.

Colin Chapman: Primate conservation: Is the cup half empty or half full?

George He — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:35:50 +0000

Of the nearly 600 species and subspecies of primates living today, approximately half are in danger of going extinct. In fact, one subspecies in West Africa, Miss Waldron’s red colobus, is likely extinct. Furthermore, the number of recognized threats to primate survival has increased dramatically over the last decade. A decade ago, disease was not considered a factor that could threaten primate populations with extinction, while today there are a number of cases of dramatic primate population declines caused by disease and it is considered a vital factor in conservation planning. Similarly, in the last decade climate change has gone from something largely ignored by many countries to a phenomenon of grave concern. This lecture will discuss the current threats to primate populations, consider how perceptions of these threats have changed, and consider if the situation is hopelessly grave (the cup half empty) or if there are reasons for optimism (the cup half full).

Elizabeth Jones: Blood Flow and Cardiovascular Development

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:48:12 +0000

Every tissue in the body requires blood flow to bring nutrients to the tissue. For this reason, there is significant therapeutic advantage to controlling when and where new blood vessels develop. If we could induce new blood vessels, we could improve wound healing. In situation likes cancer, inhibiting blood vessels from growing into a tumour could starve the tumour and inhibit its growth. This lecture will explain the process of vascular development, the physical forces created by blood flow in cardiovascular physiology and the role that these forces play in forming a mature network of blood vessels.

Shelley Stein-Sacks: Presence and Experience

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:30 +0000

Talent, passion and dedication are musts, so are presence and experience. What that means and why it matters.

Sandy Pearlman: The Twelve Hallelujahs of George Handel and Leonard Cohen

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:30 +0000

How the Voice of God is both delivered and embodied in the ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ of George Frideric Handel and Leonard Cohen’s song ‘Hallelujah’. How one was on purpose and one was not. How one exemplifies an old paradigm of singular authorship and how one exemplifies a much older paradigm of distributed authorship. How one became folk music and one will never be that but is still trying.

Richard King: How to Make a Recording in Three Easy Steps

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:30 +0000

Recording music follows three basic chapters: Recording, editing, and mixing. This lecture will provide a guided tour of a recording project from start to finish, from the audio engineer’s point of view. Audio examples will be presented and explained in detail, according to their role in the project.

Hank Knox: Making Old Things New

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:30 +0000

Watch us undo centuries of technological and musical evolution, excavating instruments from three or more centuries ago, peering at the marks on old sheets of music, arguing over the instruction manuals and comments of our musical predecessors… all in the service of bringing forth forgotten musical treasures and revealing them as they might have been when they were new.

Mark Fewer: Voice of the Violin

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:30 +0000

From the early baroque to jazz and the contemporary avant garde – discover how composers and innovators can’t get enough of the violin, and why so many think of it as the closest instrument to the human voice.

Rémi Bolduc: Talk Jazz with Rémi!

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:15:30 +0000

What goes through the mind of a jazz improviser? Harmony, form, inner time, inner ear – what do these terms mean? Rémi Bolduc teaches you to understand and appreciate jazz by illustrating the basics through the ears of a jazz musician.

Brian Fetherstonhaugh: Talking Management

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:57:01 +0000

McGill University’s Karl Moore talks with OgilvyOne Worldwide’s Brian Fetherstonhaugh on making sales in a new-media world.

Lynda Gratton: Talking Management

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:50:07 +0000

McGill University’s Karl Moore talks with London Business School’s Lynda Gratton about what kind of changes are now expected by this new generation in their working lives.

David Ulrich: Talking Management

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:47:26 +0000

McGill University’s Karl Moore talks with David Ulrich on ‘Why HR Should Be at The C-Suite Table’.

Mark Sutton: In Awe of Atoms – Lego blocks of the world around us

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:53:49 +0000

2012 will be the 100th anniversary of Max von Laue’s paper first demonstrating the diffraction or interference of x-rays. X-ray diffraction was the first way scientists had of directly seeing the atoms of the world around us.

Jens Lindemann: Success in music, success in life: Reflections on the career path of a professional musician

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:00:07 +0000

In this Mini-Music, Jens Lindemann, visiting professor of trumpet at the University of Los Angeles in California, joins us for a candid conversation.

Lisa Jardine: 1688 and all that: Some lasting consequences of ‘Going Dutch’

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 15:51:56 +0000

In Going Dutch Lisa Jardine traced with a broad brush the way in which English and Dutch cultures were altered in the course of the seventeenth century, preparing the ground for a seamless takeover of the English crown by William III in 1688-9. In her Cundill lecture she will look at events surrounding the 1688 invasion through a stronger lens.

CaPS Tutorial: Where to Find Summer Jobs

George He — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:45:32 +0000

Jan Bottomer, your facilitator, will guide you through this session which is aimed at identifying the primary job search steps involved in obtaining a summer job and identifying the sectors which often hire summer employees.

Dick Pound: The World Needs More Canada

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:02:19 +0000

For more than 20 years, Mr. Pound has been one of the most influential members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). He built the Olympics into a multi-billion dollar enterprise by branding and marketing the Olympic rings, and negotiating deals for television rights around the world. Under his leadership, the IOC has grown into one of the richest sports organizations in the world.

The Walrus McGill Debate at the Segal Centre

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:02:19 +0000

Join us for a lively and timely debate featuring Simon Brault, author of No Culture, No Future, vice-chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, and CEO of the National Theatre School, and president of Culture Montréal; McGill alum Witold Rybczynski, BArch’66, MArch’72, DSc’02, author of Makeshift Metropolis, University of Pennsylvania professor, and Slate architecture critic; and La Presse columnist and Radio-Canada broadcaster, Nathalie Petrowski, debating and dissecting city building and the future of culture in Montreal, above and beyond the Quartier des Spectacles partnership.

Barbara Ehrenreich: Reinforcing the culture of optimism

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:01:58 +0000

In North America, people have often tended to be optimistic about solving major problems, but has this optimism helped or hurt them? Can positive thinking actually get in the way of finding solutions, preventing people from accurate and critical examination of a crisis? Barbara Ehrenreich will address that question of optimism: whether, somehow, that thinking frames unhappiness, and critical thought and speech, as pathological and counter-productive.

Joseph Nye: International Governance and the Importance of Emerging Markets

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:12:48 +0000

Hailed as one of America’s leading foreign policy experts and architects, former Dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government Joseph Nye delivers the 2011 Bombardier Lecture.

David Orrell: Perfect Model: Prediction, Science and Aesthetics

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 18:33:17 +0000

This talk takes an overview of the history and the challenges of prediction, from the oracle at Delphi, right up to the latest methods being developed in areas such as systems biology and economics — and argues that our search for the “perfect model” often reveals as much about our sense of aesthetics as it does about the future.

CaPS Tutorial: myFuture’s University Wide Job Search and Career Tool Suite

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:37:39 +0000

Your facilitator, Jean Hepworth, will guide you through this session which is aimed at providing you step-by-step instructions on some of the different features which myFuture has to offer students. myFuture is used by, CaPS, Desautels Management Career Services, Engineering Career Centre and the Law Career Development Office.

CaPS Tutorial: myFuture’s On-Campus Recruitment (OCR)

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 18:37:37 +0000

Your facilitator, Jean Hepworth, will guide you through this session which is aimed at providing you step-by-step instructions on how to search and apply for OCR opportunities. This is a campaign whereby private and public organizations from across Canada, the U.S. and abroad visit McGill to recruit students in their final year of study for full time employment in the areas of Consulting, Finance and Information Technology.

Cynthia Leive: Music research and information literacy: Navigating the virtual library

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:49:11 +0000

In this Mini-Music, Cynthia Leive, head of the Marvin Duchow Music Library, leads a virtual tour through the cutting-edge world of musical information.

Aiyun Huang, Fabrice Marandola: The evolution of the percussion ensemble: A striking story

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:49:09 +0000

In this Mini-Music, percussion professors Aiyun Huang and Fabrice Marandola get hearts pounding with their history of drums and other rhythm-makers.

Douglas McNabney: Haydn: Patriarch of the String Quartet

Cody Rei-Anderson — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:49:08 +0000

Chamber music professor Douglas McNabney offers an introduction to the era of classical music and the classical quartet.

Amir Raz: From the chemistry of chicken soup to the chemistry of the brain and behaviour

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:10:35 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 2: With its underlying chemistry and physiology, the brain is the organ of behaviour. It is fascinating to explore some highlights from neurochemistry and see how these shape our theoretical and practical understanding of behavioural science.

Joe Schwarcz: Chemicals for better and for worse

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:10:35 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 1: In the public mind, “chemicals” equate to “toxins”. The truth is that chemicals are just the building blocks of all matter; they are not good or bad, safe or dangerous. There are safe ways and dangerous ways to use chemicals. The decision is ours.

Scott Bohle: From Jesuit’s bark to synchrotrons – the rise and fall of an antimalarial

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:10:34 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 3: Malaria and its consequences have shaped human history. Science’s attempts to control and understand this disease have also evolved. Tracing how successive generations have grappled with, conquered, and ultimately lost the malaria challenge makes for a fascinating scientific adventure.

Donald Smith: Biofuels — sustainable energy as the oil runs out?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:07:35 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 4: Three of the great challenges for the 21st century are energy supply, climate change and global food security; these come together in biofuels. Biofuels can play an important role as a source of renewable and sustainable energy over the long term.

Paul Wiseman: The dance of the molecules in cells

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:02:10 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 5: Cells are the basis of life. However, their function is entirely regulated by the interactions and actions of macromolecules inside the cell as well as in their environment. Modern biophysical chemistry explores the complex choreography of the dance of molecules in cells.

Ariel Fenster: Nuclear power — energy for the future?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:01:45 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 6: Three Mile Island and Chernobyl clouded the future for nuclear power. However now, with concerns about our dependence on foreign sources of energy and the evidence of climate change, the nuclear option is gaining some new respectability.

Ariel Fenster, David Harpp, Joe Schwarcz: The magic of chemistry

Cody Rei-Anderson — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:00:08 +0000

Mini-Science 2011, episode 7: Combining science, humour, music and magic, you’ve never seen a stage show quite like it! Mini-Science 2011 closes with a blend of entertainment and meaningful science.

Gonzalo Cosa: Structure and dynamics of Supramolecular systems one molecule at a time

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:58:27 +0000

Advances in electronics, optics and nanotechnology have led to a tremendous progress in optical imaging over the past years. Gonzalo Cosa presents the specific case of fluorescence imaging, where the possibility of visualizing single fluorescent molecules with exquisite resolution gave rise to the field of Single Molecule Spectroscopy.

Stan Boutin: Is there room for ecological conservation in the Oil Sands of Alberta?

Cody Rei-Anderson — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:58:25 +0000

The Oil Sands of Alberta present many environmental challenges. Stan Boutin focuses on how terrestrial ecosystems and their components can be conserved in this heavily industrialized landscape.

Mordecai’s Montreal: From Park Avenue to the Main

Cody Rei-Anderson — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:42:16 +0000

A walking tour in support of the Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence Program at McGill University, led by award-winning Richler biographer Charles Foran.

Camillo Zacchia: What goes on in the mind of anxious students? [en]

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:25:38 +0000

Camillo Zacchia, PhD, psychologist at the Douglas Institute.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Camillo Zacchia: Que se passe-t-il dans la tête des étudiants anxieux ? [fr]

Cody Rei-Anderson — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 15:20:51 +0000

Camillo Zacchia, Ph.D. est chef professionnel en psychologie à l’Institut Douglas.

Video courtesy of the Douglas Institute.

Ridha Joober: Les enfants inattentifs, impulsifs et hyperactifs : quand faut-il intervenir ? [fr]