Alumni Hall, Academic Building, University of King’s College

The Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture addresses the intersection of Judaism, medicine and humanitarianism, all three of which Dr. Green was passionate about in his lifetime. The lecture focuses on complex humanistic and ethical challenges. The lectureship has been endowed by a gift from the Green family to honour the memory of Dr. Saul Green…

This year’s lecture will be presented by Dr. Sageev Oore a professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University and Visiting Faculty Research Scientist, Google Brain, Google Research (2016-2018). Dr. Oore’s lecture title is : The Electric Composer: Music, AI and being human. He will talk about neural networks learning to generate music…

This year's Dr. Saul Green Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Bertha Fuchsman-Small. Dr. Bertha Fuchsman-Small obtained a BA in History from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Rochester. She is currently a family physician as well as an assistant professor with McGill University’s Faculty of…

Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice is complicatedly complicit with anti-Semitism and his Othello features a black hero who attracts the racist enmity of elements of the Venetian Republic’s Establishment. These capsule assessments of both plays are verifiable, if, at the same time, relatively superficial.
In his lecture, George Elliott Clarke will examine several Shakespeare plays that scruple to dramatize “racial” difference, while also offering competing counternarratives that align the experience of victimization with mental health disorders, and that, ironically may entertain the socio-political liberation of one group of subjugated persons, while welcoming (or ignoring) the continued suppression of others.