Event Category: Lectures

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Lectures of interest to CSCA members, usually indicating free, public lectures (but do see individual event details).

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FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Vancouver chapter presents watch party of the American Scientific Affiliation’s 2025 Winter Symposium including a pizza lunch and in-person panel discussion. Note: Registration is Required Register here. 10-11:30am Webinar (more info.) 11:30-12:15pm Pizza Lunch 12:15-1pm Panel Discussion Confirmed In-Person Panelists Paul Bucci (UBC) is a startup-founder, researcher and interaction designer from Vancouver, BC. His research is on emotional interaction with machines, and has included building soft robots and sensors, building machine learning models of emotion based on biophysical signals, and qualitative sense-making with large-scale data. His design practice spans print, film, 2D and 3D interfaces, and …

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FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Montreal chapter presents a lecture by Peter Schuurman (PhD U Waterloo, Religious Studies). Deconstructing a Young Earth, Deconstructing Faith: Two Stories, Two Directions Peter Schuurman takes a chapter from his new co-authored book (with Angela Reitsma Bick) Blessed are the Undone: Testimonies of the Quiet Deconstruction of Faith in Canada (New Leaf 2024) to demonstrate how modern science forces questions that can lead to the deconstruction and reconstruction of faith. Based on interviews with 28 Canadian Christians, Peter will share data from the interviews that focus on certain teachings about Genesis and how people handle the dissonance they …

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FREE PUBLIC EVENT: CSCA’s Ottawa chapter presents a lecture by Peter Schuurman (PhD U Waterloo, Religious Studies). Deconstructing a Young Earth, Deconstructing Faith: Two Stories, Two Directions Peter Schuurman takes a chapter from his new co-authored book (with Angela Reitsma Bick) Blessed are the Undone: Testimonies of the Quiet Deconstruction of Faith in Canada (New Leaf 2024) to demonstrate how modern science forces questions that can lead to the deconstruction and reconstruction of faith. Based on interviews with 28 Canadian Christians, Peter will share data from the interviews that focus on certain teachings about Genesis and how people handle the dissonance they …