Massey Lectures - Massey Lecturers

Massey Lecturers

• 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 – R. D. 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

There was no lecture in 1996 because the Ideas producers and the selected lecturer, Robert Theobald, could not agree on what constituted a sufficient manuscript for the lecture. The topic was to be on the broad theme of the future of work and it was later published as Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium.