thumb|150px|Barbara Ward, a primeira conferencista MasseyAs Conferências Massey () são palestras anuais que transcorrem durante uma semana, sobre tópicos políticos, culturais e filosóficos, no Canadá.
Surgiram em 1961, denominadas em memória de Vincent Massey., governador-geral do Canadá. Seu propósito é "habilitar autoridades competentes a reportar os resultado e de estudos originais sobre assuntos fundamentais de interesse contemporâneo". Dentre os mais destacados conferencistas incluem-se Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, e os laureados com o Nobel Martin Luther King Jr., George Wald, Willy Brandt e Doris Lessing.
Conferencistas Massey
1961 – Barbara Ward, 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 – Ronald Laing, The Politics of the Family 1969 – George Grant, Time as History 1970 – George Wald, Therefore Choose Life 1971 – James 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 1976 – No Lecture 1977 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning 1978 – Leslie Fiedler, The Inadvertent Epic 1979 – Jane Jacobs, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association 1980 – No Lecture 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, 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 1996 – No Lecture 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: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa 2006 – Margaret Somerville, The Ethical Imagination 2007 – Alberto Manguel, The City of Words 2008 – Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth 2009 – Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World 2010 – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What is to Become of Us 2011 – Adam Gopnik, Winter: Five Windows on the Season 2012 – Neil Turok, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos
Ligações externas CBC Ideas site House of Anansi Press
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