Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Stories, innovations, collections and scientific discoveries fueled by extraordinary friendships.

ROAAr hosts a symposium on the complex intersection of Science and Friendship:

Presentations:
1:02 Land Acknowledgement
2:26 Opening Comments - Nathalie Cooke, ROAAr, McGill Library
6:01 Fossils, Friendship and Scientific Connections: Exploring the Unsettling Lives and Correspondence of Gordon Hewitt and Marie Stopes. Ingrid Birker and Laura Cameron.
18:55 Discussion
30:00 Birds of a Feather: Lomer, Wood and the Creation of an Extraordinary Natural History Collection. Christopher Lyons.
41:47 Discussion
49:39 “Two Heads on the Same Body”: How Wilder Penfield and William Cone Discovered the Human Brain and Lost Each Other. Eric Andrew-Gee.
59:00 Discussion
1:09:00 Science as an Inspiration to Art/Art as an Inspiration to Science: The collaboration of Hans Selye and Marian Dale Scott. Gwendolyn Owens.
1:19:00 Discussion