Massey Lectures

The Massey Lectures are a prestigious annual event in Canada, in which a noted Canadian or international scholar gives a week-long series of lectures on a political, cultural or philosophical topic. Some of the most famous Massey Lecturers have included Northrop Frye, Noam Chomsky, Jane Jacobs, John Ralston Saul and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Past Massey Lectures

• 1961 - Barbara Ward Jackson, 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 - Paul Goodman, 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 A. 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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 - Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time