Lecture
Lois Wilson (1982-1983)
Mar 16, 1983
“Remembered Visions for a Human Future” Lois Wilson is a minister, author, diplomat, former senator, and advocate for human rights in the church, Canadian Parliament and the world. After graduating from United College in Winnipeg in 1950, Wilson was ordained as a minister [...]
Ronald Dworkin (1981-1982)
Feb 11, 1982
“The Paradoxes of Equality” Ronald Dworkin was a widely-respected philosopher of law. At the time of his talk, Dworkin was the professor of jurisprudence at Oxford. In his research and teaching, he examined how the law should deal with race, abortion, euthanasia and [...]
Michael Harrington (1981-1982)
Feb 09, 1982
“The Necessity of Solidarity” Michael Harrington was a prolific socialist writer and at the time of his talk was a political scientist at 鶹’s College (NYC). He was also a founding member of Democratic Socialists of America. Harrington served as the first editor of New [...]
Amartya K. Sen (1981-1982)
Oct 07, 1981
“Paradoxes of Liberty” Amartya K. Sen is an Indian economist and philosopher and the current Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He has also taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Jadavpur University Calcutta, the [...]
Han Suyin (1980-1981)
Oct 06, 1980
“The Chinese Perception of the World Today” and “Writers and Writing in China Today” Han Suyin was a well-known author and authority on Chinese literature. Her 15 works of fiction, autobiography, history and cultural analysis include A Many-Splendored Thing (1952), which [...]
Benjamin Spock (1979-1980)
Nov 20, 1979
“Today’s Children” Benjamin Spock was an American pediatrician and influential child care expert. His book, The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books in history. By 1998, it had sold more than 50 million copies, and had been [...]
Gregory Baum (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“The Development of Political Theology in Canada” Gregory Baum was a Canadian priest and theologian in the Roman Catholic Church. He emigrated to Canada from England as a war refugee with his Jewish mother and Protestant father. In the 1960s, he was known for his works on [...]
Klaus Klostmaier (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“Is the West Waiting for Light from the East?” Klaus Klostermaier was University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he began working in 1970. He was born in Munich, Germany, but lived in India for [...]
Michael Novak (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“The Cult of Socialism” Michael Novak was an American Roman Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. He authored and edited more than 50 books, including The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982), which was translated and distributed by underground presses [...]
Peter Slater (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“Religious Ambiguity or the Lady whose Son Prays in his Closet” Peter Slater was born in England and raised in Myanmar, Australia, and Canada. He received degrees in philosophy and theology from McGill, Cambridge, and Harvard. At the time of his talk, he was Dean Emeritus [...]