Nicole and special guest Shauna are talking Massey Lectures this week. Have you read or listened to any of these fascinating talks before? Recommend a title to us, and watch this episode on YouTube! Information about past CBC Massey Lectures found here. Notes from the fall 2020 edition of Read This Next. Watch this and... Continue Reading →
The 2020 Massey Lecture is going to be presented soon! Due to the covid-19 pandemic, this year’s lecture will be presented digitally in November (although it will also be broadcast as usual by CBC Radio). 2020’s lecture, titled Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society, is by Ronald J. Deibert; Deibert will be talking about... Continue Reading →
If you were to read one nonfiction book this year, I highly recommend A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright. A Short History of Progress is Wright’s 2004 Massey Lecture, which is an annual Canadian lecture series presented by a noted scholar on a political, cultural, or philosophical topic. For his talk, Wright chose... Continue Reading →
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