Massey conferences

The conferences Massey are a prestigious literary event held annually with the Collège Massey of the Université of Toronto. Personalities of first importance are invited to the largest university of Canada to discuss on philosophical and cultural subjects. Created in 1961 to honor the governor-general Vincent Massey, they attracted lecturers such as Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, Noam Chomsky, Jane Jacobs, John Ralston Saul and Martin Luther King, Jr..

Former lecturers

1961 - Barbara Ward Jackson, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
1962 - Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
1963 - Frank Underhill, The Image off Confederation
1964 - C.B. Macpherson, The Real World off Democracy
1965 - John Kenneth Galbraith, The Underdeveloped Country
1966 - Paul Goodman, Moral The Ambiguity off America
1967 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience for Exchange
1968 - R.D. Laing, The Politics off the Family
1969 - George Grant, Time ace History
1970 - George Wald, Therefore Choose Life
1971 - James A. Corry, The Power off the Law
1972 - Pierre Dansereau, Inscape and Landscape
1973 - Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom
1974 - George Steiner, Nostalgia for the Absolute
1975 - J. Tuzo Wilson, Limits to Science
1977 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning
1978 - Leslie Fiedler, The Inadvertent Epic
1979 - Jane Jacobs, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association
1981 - Willy Brandt, Dangers and Options: The Matter off World Survival
1982 - Robert Jay Lifton, Indefensible Weapons
1983 - Eric Kierans, Globalism and the Nation State
1984 - Carlos Fuentes, Latin America: At War with the Past
1985 - Dory Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
1987 - Gregory Baum, Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others
1988 - Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
1989 - Franklin Ursula, The Real World off Technology
1990 - Richard Lewontin, Biology ace Ideology: The Doctrines off DNA
1991 - Charles Taylor, The Faintness off Modernity
1992 - Robert Heilbroner, Twenty-First Century Capitalism
1993 - Jean Bethke Elshtain, Democracy one Trial
1994 - Conor Cruise O' Brien, One the Eve off the Millennium
1995 - John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
1997 - Hugh Kenner, The Elsewhere Community
1998 - Jean Basket maker, Becoming Human
1999 - Robert Fulford, The Triumph off Narrative
2000 - Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution
2001 - Janice Stein, The Cult off Efficiency
2002 - Margaret To screw, Beyond Fate
2003 - Thomas King, The Truth Butt Stories
2004 - Ronald Wright, has History Shorts off Progress
2005 - Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time
2006 - Margaret Somerville The Ethical Imagination

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