The Massey Lectures are a prestigious annual event in Canada for which a noted scholar gives a series of lectures on a matter of import. The event is sponsored by the University of Toronto's Massey College. Until 2002 the lectures were also held at the University of Toronto. In that year, however, the lectures were made into a national tour with each of the five lectures occurring in a different Canadian city. The lectures are broadcast each year on the CBC Radio One show Ideas . The lectures are also almost always published in book form. Many of the lectures are also available as audio transcripts on cassettes or CDs that can be purchased through the CBC.
Past Massey Lectures
1961 - Barbara Ward Jackson , The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
1966 - Paul GoodmanThere have been multiple well-known individuals named Paul Goodman: Paul Goodman (writer), US author, freethinker, anarchist and Gestalt Therapy contributor (see ) Paul Goodman (sound engineer), winner of multiple Grammy Awards) Paul Alexander Cyril Goodm, The Moral Ambiguity of America
1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio - Martin Luther King, Conscience for Change
1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the - R. D. LaingRonald David Laing ( October 7, 1927 August 23, 1989), was a psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. He is noted for his views, influenced by existential philosophy, on the causes and treatment of, The Politics of the Family
1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i - George GrantGeorge Parkin Grant ( 1918- 1988) was a Canadian political philosopher. In 1965, he published Lament for a Nation which regretted what he claimed was Canada's inevitable absorption by the United States. Grant articulated a political philosophy which becam, Time as History
1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January - George Wald, Therefore Choose Life
