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Desmond Pacey Memorial Lectures

The W.C. Desmond Pacey Memorial Lectures were established in 1981 in to honour the memory and achievements of Dr. Desmond Pacey, a UNB professor and administrator who died in 1975. Among many other activities, Pacey was chair of the Department of English at UNB, acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts, and a leader in Canadian literary history and criticism. He wrote or edited more than twenty books and thirty short stories, published some seventy scholarly articles, and compiled several important literary anthologies.

The Desmond Pacey Lecture series is presented by leading figures in humanities and social sciences and is usually held at both Fredericton and Saint John campuses.

 

Date Name of Lecturer Title of Lecture

Availability (access by request to Archives staff)
9 March 1981 Northrop Frye "Criticism and Environment" Cassette recording
8, 9 March 1982 Michael S. Gazzaniga "Brain Mechanisms and Conscious Experience"  
19, 21 October 1982 Kurt H. Wolff "Surrender and Catch: An Approach to Human Study Today" Cassette recording
27, 29 September 1983 H. H. Stern "Second Language Teaching in Canadian Contexts: Achievements and New Directions"  
11, 13 March 1985 Dorothy E. Smith "Gender and Power"  
4 March 1986 Brenda Milner "Memory and the Human Brain"  
2 March 1988 Charles C. Taylor "Justice after Virtue"  
9 March 1989 Richard G. Lipsey "The Canada-US Free Trade Agreement: Past Debates, Future Effects" Cassette recording
12, 13 February 1990 Thomas S. W. Lewis "Shading the Truth: The Biographer's Craft" Cassette recording
18, 20 March 1991 Robert J. Brym "Class Conflict and Other Benefits of Canadian Diversity: Some Consequences of Quebec Sovereignty for Social Inequality in English Canada" Cassette recording and print
12, 13 February 1992 Henry T. Lewis "Traditional Ecological Knowledge: A Time to Learn, A time to Teach" Cassette recording
22, 23 February 1993 Leslie Armour "The Nation-State: Canada and the Philosophy of History" Cassette recording and print
26, 27 January 1994 John Helliwell "Democracy and Economic Growth" Cassette recording
21, 22 February 1995 E. Jane Ursel "Changing Laws, Changing Lives: An Analysis of a Specialized Criminal Court for Family Violence Cases" Cassette recording
19, 20 February 1996 William Rodman "Transformations of Tradition in the Postmodern Pacific" Cassette recording
12, 13 February 1997 Alexander McKay "Catastrophe Survived: The Alcestis Plays of Euripides, T.S. Eliot and Thornton Wilder"  
23, 24 February 1998 David Bentley "Literary Properties in New Brunswick"  
17, 18 March 1999 John Kearney "Community-Based Management as an Alternative to Privatization: from Maritime Fishing Communities to a New Globalization"  
29, 30 March 2000 Olive Dickason "The Royal Proclamation of 1763 and its consequences for Canada today"  
20, 21 February 2001 Robert Evans "A Debt to Machiavel: Death, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income"  
9, 10 April 2002 Janet S. Hyde "Men are form Earth, Women are from Earth: Psychology vs. the Media on Gender Differences" Cassette recording
18, 19 March 2003 Vincent Mosco "Digital Divide: Utopian Visions of an Information Age" Cassette recording
24-25 February 2004 Victoria de Grazia "The Market Empire: American consumer culture's irresistible advance through twentieth century Europe" Cassette recording
22, 23 March 2005 Robert Anderson "Rashomon and Us: why is a 55 year-old Japanese film essential to understanding our everyday lives" Cassette recording
14, 15 February 2006 Lea Stirling "Statuary of Gods and Heroes from a Late Roman Villa at Corinth" Cassette recording
20, 21 March 2007 Leah Bradshaw "Tyranny, Ancient and Modern" Cassette recording
16, 17 January 2008 Charles Lemert "Thinking the Unthinkable: Bare Life and the Politics of Social Death" Cassette recording
2, 3 February 2009 Kenneth Dewar "F. H. Underhill and the Making of the Intellectual" Cassette recording
16, 17 March 2010 Noah Augustine "The Future of First Nations in Atlantic Canada" Cassette recording
22, 24 February 2011 Michael Ruse "Science and Religion: Why Can't the Americans Be More Like Canadians?" DVD recording
28, 29 February 2012 Tony Penikett "Indigenous Government: The Future is the Past" DVD recording
20, 21 March 2013 Diane Halpern “Juggling Work & Family: What Women Leaders Can Teach Us” DVD recording
18 19 March 2014 Leon Litvack "Titanic, Myth, and Memory" DVD recording
8, 9 April 2015 J.B. MacKinnon "The Still-Wild Country: Why Canada’s Wilderness Matters to the Future of Life on Earth" DVD recording
28 January 2016 Smaro Kamboureli "Money Stories from Qamani'tuaq: Art, Modernity, and the Canadian State"  
11 October 2017 Tony Tremblay "Desmond Pacey at 100: Looking Back at the Legacy"

Digital recording
12 February 2019 Michael V. Smith "The Body Is a Gift: Gender and Meaning-Making in One Man’s Art"

Digital recording
23 February 2022 Lesley Frank "Out of Milk: Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation"

Digital recording
21 March 2024 Matthew Hoffmann "The Politics of Decarbonization"

Digital recording
18 March 2026 Diana Allan "Living Archive: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon"

Digital recording

Source(s):

  • UA Case 214.
  • UNB Perspectives, March 1989, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 2.

  • W. C. Desmond Pacey Fonds - Biographical Sketch

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