Lecture

Claude Bissell (1968-1969)

Jan 30, 1969

“Academic Freedom -The Student Version” Claude Bissell was the president of the University of Toronto. After completing graduate work in English and Philosophy, he returned to University College at the University of Toronto in 1941, leaving temporarily the next year to join [...]

C. Eric Lincoln (1968-1969)

Jan 24, 1969

“The New Blacks in Search of a Self” C. Eric Lincoln was a professor of sociology and religion at the Union Theological Seminary in NYC. He authored the influential Black Muslims in America and was one of the first scholars to study African-American Islam. He taught at a [...]

Clark Kerr (1968-1969)

Dec 05, 1968

“Higher Education in the US: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times” Clark Kerr was an economist and former Chancellor of the University of California. He was educated at Swarthmore College, Stanford, and Berkeley, where he earned his PhD in economics from 1939. In 1945, he [...]

Russel B. Nye (1968-1969)

Nov 25, 1968

“The Popular Arts in the United States: Reconsidered” Russel B. Nye was a historian and professor at Michigan State University. He received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin, where he taught before relocating to Michigan. He taught English at [...]

Symposium in Honour of Dr. John Deutsch (1968-1969)

Nov 08, 1968

“The University and the Ethics of Change” To celebrate the installation of Dr. John Deutsch as Queen’s Principal, the Dunning Trust sponsored a symposium on the theme of “The University and the Ethics of Change” with panels featuring Koestler, Rene J. Dubos, Martin Meyerson [...]

John Eccles (1968-1969)

Oct 16, 1968

“The Necessity of Freedom for the Flowering of Science” Sir John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher, and professor at a number of universities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, including the University of Buffalo. Eccles was the 1963 [...]

J. A. Leith (1968-1969)

Oct 02, 1968

“The French Revolution of 1968” J. A. Leith was professor and chairman of the Queen’s History Department. He was the author of Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799 and editor of Symbols in Life and Art. In his [...]

Richard Hoggart (1968-1969)

Sep 23, 1968

“Mass Communications: The Argument of Effect” Richard Hoggart was director and co-founder with Stuart Hall of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham. After the Second World War, which interrupted his graduate research, he joined a [...]

Vincent Harding (1967-1968)

Mar 07, 1968

“Black Radicalism in America -From Montgomery to Detroit” Vincent Harding was a theologian, historian of Black America, and the Chairman of the Department of History at Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the course of his career, he taught at University of Pennsylvania, T

Norman Jeffares (1967-1968)

Feb 26, 1968

“Students and Society – Some Literary Views” Norman Jeffares was one of the twentieth century’s most distinguished scholars of the poet W. B. Yeats. After Yeats’ death, Jeffares was given access to his personal papers and library, which enabled him to study the author’s [...]

Leon Dion (1967-1968)

Feb 14, 1968

“Political Participation in Liberal Democracies” Leon Dion was Professor of Political Science at Laval University from 1948-1989. He was best known for studying educational reform and French-English relations. His book Le bill 60 et la société québécoise (1967) studied the [...]

William H. McNeill (1967-1968)

Feb 12, 1968

“The Idea and Practice of World History” William H. McNeill was the Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Chicago, where he taught for 40 years until his retirement in 1987. He was born in 1917 in Vancouver and educated at the University of Chicago and [...]