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Donald Creighton (1975-1976)
Jan 14, 1976
“The Individual and the Welfare State” Donald Creighton was a historian and author. After completing graduate work at the University of Oxford, he returned to Canada to teach history at the University of Toronto in 1927, where he remained for his entire career. He was chair [...]
Doris Anderson (1974-1975)
Jan 15, 1975
“Woman’s Role – A Time of Redefinition” Doris Anderson was editor of Chatelaine, Canada’s largest circulation magazine and a champion of women’s rights. Born in Calgary in 1925, she grew up and was educated in Alberta, earning her BA at the University of Alberta. In 1951, [...]
Elizabeth Hardwick (1974-1975)
Jan 14, 1975
“Fame, Romance, and Money -Thoughts on Women Writers” Elizabeth Hardwick was a novelist, essayist, and outstanding literary critic and editor. Born in Kentucky in 1917, she studied at the University of Kentucky and Columbia University. She taught at Barnard College, [...]
Juliet Mitchell (1974-1975)
Jan 13, 1975
“Femininity and Feminism” Juliet Mitchell is an internationally known psychoanalyst, scholar, feminist and author. Born in New Zealand in 1940, Juliet Mitchell moved to England shortly afterward. She was educated at Lausanne University, Switzerland, and St. Anne’s College, [...]
Paul GĂ©rin-Lajoie (1974-1975)
Nov 28, 1974
“The Development Crises and the Canadian Dilemma” Paul Gérin-Lajoie was President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He was born in Montreal in 1920, and studied at Université de Montreal and Oxford University. He served as Quebec’s first Minister of [...]
Pierre Charpentier, Alfred Pick, Allan Roger, Rev. C. William Smith, Pierre Tanguay (1974-1975)
Nov 27, 1974
“Institutional Cooperation Between Canada and Latin America: Government and Church” This panel was part of a series on “Canada’s Involvement in Latin America,” which began with Michael Lubbock’s lecture. The five speakers each addressed a different aspect of Canada-Latin [...]
Michael R. Lubbock (1974-1975)
Nov 26, 1974
“Free Enterprise Responsibility in Latin America” Michael R. Lubbock was Executive Director of the Canadian Association for Latin America. He was born in the United Kingdom in 1906 and graduated from Oxford University. Before World War II, he worked for the Hudson’s Bay [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]