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Edward Shorter talks about the history of sex as chronicled in his book "Written In the Flesh".
Robert Fisk talks about his book "The Great War For Civilisation"
Yossi Klein Halevi lectures on "The View From Israel"
John Ibbitson author of "The Polite Revolution" and Maude Barlow, author of "Too Close for Comfort" disagree about challenges facing Canada
Douglas Massey, professor of sociology at Princton discusses the American record on race and poverty and compares it with Canadian stats.
Jeffrey Friedman: Rockfeller University , MD, PHD, a moleculargenetist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, has recieved two prestigious awards for this work: the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Passano Foundation Award.
Simon Winchester, author of "A Crack in the Edge of the World".
Stephen Lewis, 2005 Massey Lecturer
Christopher Patten on Cousins and Strangers: America, Britain and Europe in a New Century
Mary Gordon on Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child
Clifford Will delivers a lecture titled "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein's Theories Survive Today's Scientific Scrutiny?"
Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the author of a book titled "Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc"
Tariq Ramadan talks about "The Creative Contribution of Islam wiithin Canadian Self-Understanding"
Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson are co-authors of "The Seductions of Islamism: Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution"
Steven Pinker talks about "Words and Rules"
Mahmood Mamdani lectures on "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim"
Samantha Power's talk is entitled Cautionary Tales: International diplomacy lessons the US should learn.
Judea Pearl and Akhbar Ahmed are speaking about divisions between Muslims and Jews
Mohamad Tavakoli is speaking on "Islamic Universalism and Multiconfessionalism"
Thomas King reads from his latest book " A Short History of Indians in Canada"
Abdu'l Missagh Ghadirian speaks about spirituality and healing.
Cosmologist Rocky Kolb talks about dark matter in the universe.
Louis A. Perez, Jr. speaks about Cuban culture and revolution.
Arkady Moshes talks about the relationship between Russia, the EU and the Ukraine.
Authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday discuss their book Mao: The Unkown Story.
Mao Symposium with Jeremy Paltiel, Bernie Frolic, and Jan Wong.
Anna Makolkin discusses Montesquieu.
George Elliott Clarke reads a poem he wrote about Jean Chretien.
Piotr Wrobel lectures on Numbers and Historical Memory.
Venezuela Symposium is about Chavez and the current state of Venezuela.
Robert Buckman and Michael Persinger ask the question " Is God All In Your Head?"
Jeffery Stout delivers a talk entitled "The Monologue of Secularism"
Eugene Rivers is a reverend from Boston. He speaks about Chrsitian faith and high-risk youth.
William Jankowiak makes a case for emotional monogamy.
Michael Adams talks about his book "American Backlash".
Alan Middleton gives a lecture on "Nations as Brands".
Giovanna Franci compares architecture in Italy to reproductions in Las Vagas
Pauline Couture talks about her book "Ice".
Karen Armstrong talks about her latest book "The Great Transformation".
Felipe Frenandez-Armesto talks about the Spanish Conquest and the exchange of cultures.
Michael Geist offers a Canadian solution for the copyright conundrum.
Sarat Maharaj presents "Dynamic Creativity: Remaking Art and non -Art".
Konstanty Gebert is a Polish journalist and a Jewish activist. He talks about Poland, politics, and his life there.
Bob Rae, former Premier and federal Liberal leadership candidate, gives a speech entitled "Future Challenges".
Katherine Barber is the editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. She takes us on a quick tour of the history of the English language.
Lisa Randall is a Professor of Physics at Harvard University. She gives a lecture about higher dimensional space, a lecture based upon her book "Warped Passages"
Seth Lloyd is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His talk, "Programming the Universe", is about the computational power of atoms, electrons, and elementary particles.
Jessica Stern is a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University. She is also the author of "Terror in the Name of God".
Neil Altman is Associate Clinical Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis at New York University. His talk is titled " Suicide Bombers - a Psychoanalytical Perspective".
Meredeth Thursen is a professor at the School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Her talk deals with the subject - gender and war.
Stephen O'Shea discusses his book "Sea of Faith: Islam and Christianity in the Medieval Mediterranean World".
Natalie Zemon Davis dicusses her book, Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth Century Muslim Between Worlds about the journeys of Leo Africanus.
Primatologist Jane Goodall looks at the similarities between chimpanzee and human emotions, preserving the environment, and hope.
Futurist Alvin Toffler on Revolutionary Wealth: how our traditional economic categories are changing.
Elisabeth Lloyd teaches both philosophy and biology at University of Indiana. She is the author of The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution.
Alex Pattakos offers his take on how people can find fulfillment in life and the balance between freedom and responsibility.
Is Canada sufficiently European to join the European Union?
The author of Faster than the Speed of Light leads us into the abstract realm of theoretical physics.
Robert Kagan discusses the growing division between America and Europe.
Vancouver architect Peter Busby specializes in green design.
Conrad Black speaks to the Empire Club about what it would take for the Conservative Party of Canada to make inroads across the regions. The answer: a post-separatist Quebec.
A symposium with Janice Stein of the University of Toronto; Roger Gibbins of the Canada West Foundation; and Antonia Maioni, professor of political science at McGill University.
Harvard professor Roy Mottahedeh discusses pluralism in Islamic tradition. Barry Rubin of Global Research in International Affairs in Israel offers a rather gloomy account of the fallout from the 2006 Hezbollah-Israeli war.
Ontario's Information and Privacy Commissioner for Ontario speaks about privacy in the age of the Internet,
Physicist Paul Steinhardt discusses the creation of "Impossible crystals": quasi-crystals with five-fold symmetry previously believed impossible.
Imagine someone saying that they are terrified by the claim that there cannot be a mathematical theory of everything. Janna Levin is such a person. She is a physicist who is also the author of Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the story of two great mathematical minds, Kurt Godel and Alan Turing. They were men who had the capacity to think about the most abstract of mathematical truths but had very limited abilities when it came to confronting the mundane aspects of life. Both committed suicide.
Historian Margaret MacMillan (Paris 1919) discusses her latest book, Nixon in China: The Week that Changed the World.
Minxin Pei discusses why China's economic and political reform are not in sync and what can be done to encourage a move toward a more democratic political landscape.
David Held is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance based at the London School of Economics.
The "relentlessly genial" Alain de Botton offers his thoughts on the kind of architecture that has the capacity to make us happy.
Professor of psychology Jordan Peterson looks at how music affects us in ways that most of us can't quite put it into words, and yet is very much a kind of language.
The author of Struck by Lightning - and the statistician who crunched the numbers to reveal that a statistically improbable number of lottery retailers were winning major prizes in Ontario - guides us through the maze of numbers and percentages to show us to how calculate correct probabilities.
Our contemporary world creates more and more techniques to manipulate nature. Can it come to its senses and recognize the need for ethical self-control? What is at stake? Nothing less than the essence of our humanness.
