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Ursula Franklin speaks : thoughts and afterthoughts /

As a distinguished scientist, pacifist, and feminist, Ursula Franklin has been regularly invited by diverse groups to share her insights into the social and political impacts of science and technology. This collection contains twenty-two of Franklin's speeches and five interviews from 1986 to 2...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Franklin, Ursula M., 1921-2016
Otros Autores: Freeman, Sarah Jane, 1957- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Interview
  • 1. Interview with June Callwood (National Treasures, Vision TV, November 1994)
  • Speeches Given To Citizens
  • 2. When the Seven Deadly Sins Became the Seven Cardinal Virtues (Acceptance speech on receiving the YWCA Women of Distinction Award, Toronto, 1986)
  • 3. The Legacies of War (Keynote address, Voice of Women Conference, Ottawa, 1990)
  • 4. Coexistence and Technology: Society between Bitsphere and Biosphere (Polanyi Lectures, Concordia University, Montreal, 1994 and 1995)
  • 5. Canada and Social Justice (An address given at a Retreat of Anglican Women in 1997)
  • 6.A Drive to Know: The Glory and Hell of Science
  • Reflections in Memory of Jacob Bronowski (The Jacob Bronowski Memorial Lecture, New College, University of Toronto, March 2000)
  • 7. Thinking about Technology (A public 2r;University Lecture,3r; University of Toronto, 2004).
  • 8. The Holy and the Microscope: Conversations between Faith and Knowledge (Guest lecture, Newman Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2007)
  • 9. Reflecting on the Second Wave of Feminism: 1960-2010 (Taped at Massey College for a symposium on the History of the Canadian Women's Movement, Toronto 2008)
  • Interview
  • 10. Ursula Franklin Interviewed by Mary Hynes (Tapestry, CBC Radio, February 2007)
  • Speeches Given To Youth
  • 11. In Conversation with Two Grade 10 Students at the Ursula Franklin Academy, 1997
  • 12. Using Technology as if People Matter (Opening plenary, SciMaTech 96, Cowichan Campus of Malaspina College, Duncan, BC, 1996)
  • 13. Developing a Li of Massey (Acceptance speech, Massey College's 40th Anniversary Awards, University of Toronto, 2004)
  • 14. Three Lessons from the Natural World (Convocation address, McGill University, Montreal, 2006).
  • 15. The Place of Knowledge in Our Personal and Collective Lives (Convocation address, Ryerson University, Toronto, 2012)
  • Interview
  • 16. Interview with Dr Tarah Brookfield (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, 2010)
  • Speeches Given To Professionals
  • 17. Peace: A Necessity for an Equal Society (Conference address, An Equal Society: Into the Year 2000, Toronto, November 1986)
  • 18. Educating Engineers for the Modern World (The Seventh Annual J.W. Hodgins Memorial Lecture, McMaster University, Hamilton, 1990)
  • 19. Monocultures of the Soil, Monocultures of the Mind: Cautionary Tales from the Mechanization of Agriculture (Keynote address, 8th Wendy Michener Symposium for The Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, York University, Toronto, October 1994)
  • 20. The How and Why of Communication: Orienteering in Cyberspace (The Southam Lecture, given to The Canadian Communication Association, McMaster University, Hamilton, 1996).
  • 21. Technology as Social Instruction (Keynote address, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, March 1998)
  • 22. Research, Policy, and Action: Working for Justice through Integrated Research (Keynote address, Research in Women's Health 1999)
  • 23. What Is at Stake?: Universities in Context (Keynote address, Canadian Association of University Teachers, Ottawa, 1999)
  • 24. Research as a Social Enterprise: Are We Asking the Right Questions? (The Royal Society Lecture, Carleton University, Ottawa, November 2002)
  • 25. The However Paragraph (Guest lecture, The Toronto Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists, Toronto, 2010)
  • 26. Reflections on Public Health and Peace: Ask How Are You? Not Who Are You? (The Dr Zofia Pakula 2012 Inaugural Lecture, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Global Health Division, University of Toronto, November 2012)
  • Interview
  • 27. An Interview with Anna Maria Tremonti (The Current, CBC Radio, May 2010).