Massey Lectures
The Massey Lectures is an annual five-part series of
Some of the most notable Massey Lecturers have included
Sponsorship
The event is co-sponsored by
Prior to 1989, the lectures were recorded for broadcast in a CBC Radio studio in Toronto. From 1989 to 2002, the lectures were delivered before a live audience at the University of Toronto. Since 2002, the lectures have been presented and recorded for broadcast at public events in five different cities across Canada.[4]
The lectures are broadcast each November on Ideas and published simultaneously in book form by House of Anansi Press.[5]
Many of the lectures can be listened to online on the Ideas website, while others can be purchased on various sites.[6]
In addition to the print version for each individual year, several of the earlier lectures are available in compilations, including The Lost Massey Lectures.[7]
Massey lecturers
- 1961 – Barbara Ward, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
- 1962 – Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
- 1963 – Frank Underhill, The Image of Confederation
- 1964 – C. B. Macpherson, The Real World of Democracy
- 1965 – John Kenneth Galbraith, The Underdeveloped Country
- 1966 – The Moral Ambiguity of America
- 1967 – Martin Luther King Jr., Conscience for Change
- 1968 – R. D. Laing, The Politics of the Family
- 1969 – George Grant, Time as History
- 1970 – George Wald, Therefore Choose Life
- 1971 – James Corry, The Power of 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
- 1976 – No Lecture
- 1977 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning
- 1978 – Leslie Fiedler, The Inadvertent Epic
- 1979 – Jane Jacobs, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association
- 1980 – No Lecture
- 1981 – Willy Brandt, Dangers and Options: The Matter of 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 – Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
- 1986 – No Lecture
- 1987 – Gregory Baum, Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others
- 1988 – Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
- 1989 – Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology
- 1990 – Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
- 1991 – Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity
- 1992 – Robert Heilbroner, Twenty-First Century Capitalism
- 1993 – Jean Bethke Elshtain, Democracy on Trial
- 1994 – Conor Cruise O'Brien, On the Eve of the Millennium
- 1995 – John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
- 1996 – No Lecture (see Notes below)
- 1997 – Hugh Kenner, The Elsewhere Community
- 1998 – Jean Vanier, Becoming Human
- 1999 – Robert Fulford, The Triumph of Narrative
- 2000 – Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution
- 2001 – Janice Stein, The Cult of Efficiency
- 2002 – Margaret Visser, Beyond Fate
- 2003 – Thomas King, The Truth About Stories
- 2004 – Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
- 2005 – Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
- 2006 – Margaret Somerville, The Ethical Imagination
- 2007 – Alberto Manguel, The City of Words
- 2008 – Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
- 2009 – Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
- 2010 – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What is to Become of Us
- 2011 – Adam Gopnik, Winter: Five Windows on the Season[8]
- 2012 – Neil Turok, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos[9]
- 2013 – Lawrence Hill, Blood: The Stuff of Life[10]
- 2014 – Adrienne Clarkson, Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship[11]
- 2015 – Margaret MacMillan, History's People: Personalities and the Past [12][13]
- 2016 – Jennifer Welsh, The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century[14]
- 2017 – Payam Akhavan, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey[15][16]
- 2018 – All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward[17]
- 2019 – Sally Armstrong, Power Shift: The Longest Revolution[18]
- 2020 – Ronald J. Deibert, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society[19] (shortlisted for the 2020 Donner Prize)
- 2021 – Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Art, Race and the Future[20]
- 2022 – Tomson Highway, Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death and Accordions[21]
- 2023 – Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
- 2024 – Ian Williams[22]
Notes
For Lawrence Hill's Massey Lectures in 2013, the CBC Radio website featured a visual narrative to accompany that year's theme Blood: The Stuff of Life. The story included full-screen images of blood, animations that visually demonstrated historical attitudes towards blood and videos of people affected culturally by it.
1996 did not feature a lecture because Ideas producers and the selected Lecturer Robert Theobald could not agree on an appropriate manuscript for the programme.[23] The theme was to have been on the future of work. Theobald later published his manuscript as Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium (1997).[24]
See also
References
- ^ "Archives | CBC Massey Lectures | CBC Radio".
- ^ "The Massey Lectures | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
- ^ David, Daniel (19 July 2012). "Thomas King, still not the Indian you had in mind - The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ "The Massey Lectures | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
- ^ "The Massey Lectures | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
- ^ "Archives | CBC Massey Lectures | CBC Radio".
- ^ "The Lost Massey Lectures".
- ^ "Anansi.ca: TITLES". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ^ "House of Anansi: The Universe Within". Archived from the original on 29 May 2014. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
- ^ "House of Anansi:Blood". House of Anansi Press. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "The 2014 CBC Massey Lectures".
- ^ "Margaret MacMillan to deliver the 2015 CBC Massey Lectures". Retrieved 2014-11-29.
- ^ "Margaret MacMillan: History's People". Retrieved 2015-11-05.
- ^ "The Return of History". House of Anansi Press. Retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ^ "In Search of A Better World". House of Anansi Press. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
- ^ "Payam Akhavan | Faculty of Law - McGill University". www.mcgill.ca. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
- ^ "Toronto Star investigative journalist Tanya Talaga to deliver 2018 CBC Massey Lectures". House of Anansi Press. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
- ^ "CBC Massey Lecturer Sally Armstrong argues gender equality is crucial to a thriving future". CBC. July 22, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2019.
- ^ "2020 Massey Lectures: Renowned tech expert Ronald J. Deibert to explore disturbing impact of social media". CBC News. July 7, 2020.
- ^ "Acclaimed author Esi Edugyan to deliver 2021 Massey Lectures on art and race". CBC Radio One, March 29, 2021.
- ^ "Tomson Highway to explore life through laughter in 2022 CBC Massey Lectures". CBC.ca. June 20, 2022. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
- ^ Vivian Rashotte, "'Politeness constrains us': Massey lecturer Ian Williams on developing our own opinions amid cancel culture". CBC News, April 10, 2024.
- ^ Valpy, Michael (1996-09-17). "The Massey Lectures you won't be hearing". Globe & Mail. Toronto, Canada. pp. A15.
- ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2017-01-16.