1980s
Angela Davis (1988-1989)
Feb 09, 1989
鈥淩ace, Class, and Gender in the Reagan-Bush Era鈥 Angela Davis was a prolific American professor and Black activist. During this time, she co-founded Sisters Inside and Critical Resistance. She first gained prominence as a Black nationalist activist during the 1960s, when she beca
Stephen Jay Gould (1987-1988)
Nov 18, 1987
鈥淗uman Equality is a Contingent Fact of History鈥 Stephen J. Gould was an evolutionary scientist, a professor at Harvard, and a leading opponent of scientific creationism. He was also a prominent author. His award-winning book, The Mismeasure of Man, examined the racist [...]
Frank Kermode (1986-1987)
Jan 20, 1987
鈥淎re We Moderns or Post-Moderns? The Present State of the Arts鈥 Frank Kermode was an eminent literary critic and King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. At the time of his talk, he had written and edited 25 books of literary criticism, including books [...]
Mel Hurtig (1985-1986)
Feb 10, 1986
鈥1986: The Most Crucial Year in Modern Canadian History鈥 Mel Hurtig was a publisher, an author, and a well-known Canadian nationalist. During the 1972 federal election, he ran as a Liberal in West Edmonton, finishing second. In 1973, he left the Library party and co-founded [...]
Czeslaw Milosz (1985-1986)
Nov 07, 1985
鈥淭he Artist and Human Dignity鈥 Czeslaw Milosz was a Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet. He was born in Lithuania in 1911, and lived in both Nazi and Stalinist Poland. During the Second World War, he wrote and edited resistance publications. After the war, he moved first to [...]
Mary O鈥橞rien (1984-1985)
Feb 12, 1985
鈥淓thics and Ideology in Health Care: A Feminist Perspective鈥 Mary O鈥橞rien was a professor of the sociology of education at OISE in Toronto. After emigrating to Canada from Scotland in 1956, she worked as a nurse before completing graduate work in political philosophy. Her [...]
Richard Selzer (1984-1985)
Feb 11, 1985
鈥淭he Exact Location of the Soul鈥 Richard Selzer was a surgeon-turned-writer. He was a professor of surgery at Yale University, an award-winning essayist, and the author of four books including Mortal Lessons, a book of essays on the art of surgery. In 1960, following a [...]
Henry Morgentaler (1984-1985)
Feb 05, 1985
鈥淢edical, Moral, and Legal Aspects of Abortion鈥 Henry Morgentaler was a Polish-Canadian doctor and activist. Born in 1923, his family were killed by the Nazis during the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War. Morgentaler himself spent a year in the Auschwitz [...]
Marilyn Ferguson (1983-1984)
Mar 06, 1984
鈥淭he Visionary Factor鈥 Marilyn Ferguson was an American author, editor, and public speaker. She was best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, which became a key text of the New Age movement. After attending Mesa College and the University of Colorado, she began [...]
Ivan Illich (1983-1984)
Feb 28, 1984
鈥淣ewspeak and Computer Language鈥 Ivan Illich was a theologian, philosopher, historian, and sociologist. Forced to leave Austria during the Second World War because of his mother鈥檚 Jewish ancestry, his family moved to Italy, where he completed school and earned a PhD in [...]
John Meisel (1983-1984)
Oct 19, 1983
鈥淣ewspeak in the Information Society鈥 John Meisel was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Studies at 皇冠体育鈥檚 University and a well-known researcher of political behaviour in Canada. From 1949 to 1979, he taught at 皇冠体育鈥檚. Throughout his career, he studied [...]
Julian Symons (1983-1984)
Oct 18, 1983
鈥淔reedom and Order in 1984鈥 Julian Symons was a British crime fiction writer and poet. He founded the poetry magazine Twentieth Century Verse in 1937 and edited it for two years before turning his attention to crime novels. During his lifetime, Symons published more than 70 [...]