1970s
Joan V. Robinson (1973-1974)
Nov 25, 1974
“The Mythology of Growth” Joan V. Robinson was a distinguished economist from the University of Cambridge and a central figure of post-Keynesian economics. She was the author of The Economics of Imperfect Competition, which challenged the belief that industries are [...]
Ian McHarg (1972-1973)
Oct 25, 1972
“Design with Nature” Ian McHarg was an expert on town planning. Born in Scotland in 1920, he was a proponent of regional planning using natural systems. After his work with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, he moved to the United States to attend the Harvard [...]
Raymond Moriyama (1972-1973)
Oct 24, 1972
“Growth, Temporal and Spiritual” Raymond Moriyama is a well-known Canadian architect. He was born in Vancouver in 1929 and a graduate of the University of Toronto and McGill. Moriyama’s childhood experience as a Japanese Canadian internee during the Second World War was [...]
Garrett Hardin (1972-1973)
Oct 23, 1972
“Population: The Solution is in Our Minds” Garrett Hardin was Professor of Human Ecology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a prominent environmentalist. He specialized in human population dynamics, evolution and the history of science. Hardin authored the [...]
Robert Baffour (1971-1972)
Feb 16, 1972
“The Role of Education in Developing Nations” Robert Baffour was a noted Ghanaian nuclear engineer, businessman, and civil servant. He was a professor and vice-chancellor of Kwame Nkrumah University, a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the president of [...]
Bertram Vivian Bowden (1971-1972)
Oct 05, 1971
“The Education Scene in North America and Europe” Lord Bertram Vivian Bowden was the principal of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. After earning his PhD in natural sciences from Cambridge, Bowden taught physics at a number of schools. [...]
Jean Chrétien (1970-1971)
Mar 17, 1971
“The Unfinished Tapestry: Indian Policy in Canada” At the time of his Dunning Trust lecture, Jean Chretien was the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He was born in Quebec in 1934 and graduated from Laval University. In 1963, he was elected to the House of [...]
Isaac Beaulieu, Donna Tyndall, Herbert Strong Eagle, Arthur Manuel, Walter Currie (1970-1971)
Mar 10, 1971
“Canada’s Indians: Their Place in the Just Society” This panel presentation brought five Indigenous leaders to Queen’s to discuss Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s concept of the “Just Society” and how it related to Indigenous lives. Each emphasized that any place for [...]
Harry Street (1969-1970)
Mar 25, 1970
“Privacy and the Law” Harry Street was a professor of English Law at the University of Manchester and a jurist. He was previously a teacher at the Harvard Law School. He authored “Freedom, the Individual and the Law.” Much of his work focused on civil liberties and tort [...]
Gordon Brown (1969-1970)
Jan 30, 1970
“Aspects of the Interaction Between Technology and Society” Gordon Brown was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an authority on servomechanisms – automatic feedback control systems – and their application to emerging computer [...]