Politics
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1991-1992)
Mar 26, 1992
“Art War with the State: The Writer and Politics in Africa” Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is an exiled and widely respected Kenyan playwright, critic and novelist who wrote the novel Matigari ma Njiruungi. He has been at the front of the struggle for democracy and social justice in [...]
Ariel Dorfmann (1991-1992)
Jan 20, 1992
“The Authoritarian State” Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-Argentinian-American novelist, playwright, academic, and human rights activist. He is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile and the child of Holocaust refugees. At Duke University, Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page [...]
Anton Shammas (1991-1992)
Nov 07, 1991
“Muffled Voices, Shifting Grounds: To Story-Tell the Middle East” Anton Shammas is a noted Palestinian editor, TV producer, freelance journalist, author and poet. His book, Arabesques, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best novels of 1988 [...]
Angela Davis (1988-1989)
Feb 09, 1989
“Race, Class, and Gender in the Reagan-Bush Era” Angela Davis was a prolific American professor and Black activist. During this time, she co-founded Sisters Inside and Critical Resistance. She first gained prominence as a Black nationalist activist during the 1960s, when she beca
Mel Hurtig (1985-1986)
Feb 10, 1986
“1986: The Most Crucial Year in Modern Canadian History” Mel Hurtig was a publisher, an author, and a well-known Canadian nationalist. During the 1972 federal election, he ran as a Liberal in West Edmonton, finishing second. In 1973, he left the Library party and co-founded [...]
Mary O’Brien (1984-1985)
Feb 12, 1985
“Ethics and Ideology in Health Care: A Feminist Perspective” Mary O’Brien was a professor of the sociology of education at OISE in Toronto. After emigrating to Canada from Scotland in 1956, she worked as a nurse before completing graduate work in political philosophy. Her [...]
Marilyn Ferguson (1983-1984)
Mar 06, 1984
“The Visionary Factor” Marilyn Ferguson was an American author, editor, and public speaker. She was best known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy, which became a key text of the New Age movement. After attending Mesa College and the University of Colorado, she began [...]
John Meisel (1983-1984)
Oct 19, 1983
“Newspeak in the Information Society” John Meisel was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Studies at Queen’s University and a well-known researcher of political behaviour in Canada. From 1949 to 1979, he taught at Queen’s. Throughout his career, he studied [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Gregory Baum (1978-1979)
Jan 20, 1979
“The Development of Political Theology in Canada” Gregory Baum was a Canadian priest and theologian in the Roman Catholic Church. He emigrated to Canada from England as a war refugee with his Jewish mother and Protestant father. In the 1960s, he was known for his works on [...]