Conférences Massey
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Les conférences Massey sont un événement littéraire prestigieux tenu annuellement au collège Massey de l'Université de Toronto. Des personnalités de première importance sont invitées à la plus grande université du Canada pour discuter sur des sujets philosophiques et culturels. Créées en 1961 pour honorer le gouverneur-général Vincent Massey, elles ont attiré des conférenciers tels que Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, Noam Chomsky, Jane Jacobs, John Ralston Saul et Martin Luther King, Jr..
[modifier] Anciens conférenciers
- 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
- 2006 - Margaret Somerville The Ethical Imagination
