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  • Rethinking Leadership: Lessons for Turbulent Times

    Produced in partnership with the Executive MBA program at Athabasca University, this series of programs presents a series of high profile business leaders discussing the challenges and rewards of leadership in difficult times. Speakers are: Rajesh Subramaniam, President, Fedex Canada; Dr. Jim Clawson, author of Level Three Leadership and professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business; Carol MacKinnon and Susan Wright, authors of Leadership Alchemy: the Magic of the Leader Coach and academic coaches in Athabasca
    University’s MBA program.

  • Cultures in Conflict

    This five-part series in English and French travels across North America and Europe to investigate how intercultural conflict can become either a basis for violence, or the source of profound creativity. Hosted by Professor Roger Parent of the Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, this series uses historical footage and current events to illustrate key concepts and techniques with respect to cultural analysis and intercultural communication.

  • Cultures et conflits

    Cultures et conflits présente une série de cinq vidéos sur le développement culturel.
    Ces émissions d’une demi-heure, de format grand public, fonctionnent comme un tout mais peuvent être utilisées individuellement, selon les besoins de l’utilisateur. Les vidéos font une introduction à la recherche contemporaine sur la culture. Des images d’actualités et d’événements historiques illustrent les aspects théoriques et méthodologiques d’une approche au développement culturel valable pour toutes les sortes de cultures: familiale, organisationnelle, régionale, etc. Des trousses pédagogiques facilitent l’utilisation des vidéos pour l’éducation post-secondaire et pour la formation professionnelle dans des milieux culturels précis.

  • Legacy – Aboriginal Restorative Justice

    Long before settlers came to Canada, the Blackfoot of the Western Canadian plains lived by a complex and sophisticated legal code of their own. When British justice was imposed on the area, the culture and law of the Blackfoot was ignored and treated with contempt. This clash of cultures is brought to life through the story of Charcoal, a man on the run, caught between two systems of justice.

  • John Houston

    Filmmaker John Houston.

  • Aubrey de Grey

    Everlasting life pioneer Aubrey de Grey poses a question: How can we defeat aging?

  • Jill Tarter

    Jill Tarter, Director of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute’s Center for SETI Research.

  • Michael Rae

    Michael Rae, Research Assistant in the field of radical anti-aging biomedicine, presents calorie restriction as the only intervention able to slow down the aging process.

  • Bob Richards

    Robert (Bob) Richards, Founder and CEO of Odyssey Moon Limited, shares his passion and the importance of space exploration and commercial as well as private access to the moon.

  • Canadian Brass

    Brass quintet Canadian Brass.