Massey Lectures
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{{Otheruses4|the lecture series named For [[Vincent Massey]]|the William E. Massey, Sr., Lectures in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University|Massey Lectures (Harvard University)}}
The '''Massey Lectures''' are a prestigious annual event in [[Canada]], in which a noted Canadian or international scholar gives a week-long series of [[lecture]]s on a political, cultural or [[philosophy|philosophical]] topic. They were created in [[1961]] to honour [[Vincent Massey]], Governor General of Canada. Some of the most famous Massey Lecturers have included [[Northrop Frye]], [[Michael Ignatieff]], [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Jane Jacobs]], [[John Ralston Saul]] and [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]
== Sponsorship ==
The event is co-sponsored by CBC Radio, House of Anansi Press and Massey College in the University of Toronto. Until 2002, the lectures were recorded for broadcast in a CBC Radio studio in Toronto, with a single public lecture given at the University of Toronto. In that year, however, the lectures were taken out of the studio and turned into a truly national event, with each of the five lectures being delivered and recorded for broadcast before an audience in a different Canadian city.
The lectures are broadcast each November on the [[CBC Radio One]] show ''[[Ideas (radio show)|Ideas]]'' and published in book form by [[House of Anansi Press]]. Many of the lectures are also available in CD audio that can be purchased through the CBC. Since 1997 the lectures have included some form of interaction through web forums.
==Past Massey Lectures==
The lecturers are often, but not always, Canadian. Several Nobel laureates have given the lectures, including [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], [[George Wald]], [[Willy Brandt]] and [[Doris Lessing]]. Currently the oldest living lecturer is [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]]. There was no lecture in 1996, because the ''Ideas'' producers and the selected lecturer, [[Robert Theobald]], could not agree on what constituted a sufficent manuscript for the lecture. The topic was to be on the broad theme of the future of work.
*[[1961]] - [[Barbara Ward|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 (writer) | 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 (philosopher)|George Grant]], ''Time as History''
*[[1970]] - [[George Wald]], ''Therefore Choose Life''
*[[1971]] - [[James Corry (academic)|James Corry]], ''The Power of the Law''
*[[1972]] - [[Pierre Dansereau]], ''[[Inscape (disambiguation)|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''
*[[1986]] - [[Harry J. Boyle]], ''Growing up with Canada''
*[[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 (philosopher)|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''
*[[2007]] - [[Alberto Manguel]], ''The City of Words''
== External links ==
*[http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/massey.html CBC Ideas site]
*[http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?series_id=4 House of Anansi Press]
== Notes ==
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