1980s
Jean Sutherland Boggs (1982-1983)
Mar 25, 1983
“The Weight of Tradition in Building the National Museum” Jean Sutherland Boggs was a Canadian art historian and curator. As an academic, her research focused on Edgar Degas, who formed the core of numerous books, articles, and exhibitions authored by Boggs. She served as [...]
Pauline Jewett (1982-1983)
Mar 21, 1983
“Canadian Politics and the Arms Race: A View from Parliament Hill” Pauline Jewett was a Canadian Member of Parliament and activist. She earned a BA and an MA from Queen’s University, and a PhD in political science at Harvard University in 1949. After graduating, she taught [...]
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 Queen’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 [...]