1990s
Gwynne Dyer (1999-2000)
Oct 03, 1999
“Democratic Overdog: Strategy, Morality, and Etiquette for the New Masters of the Universe” Gwynne Dyer is a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer, originally trained as a historian. He has served in the armed forces of three nations and has held [...]
Linda McQuaig (1998-1999)
Apr 08, 1999
“Reviving Democracy” Linda McQuaig is an activist, journalist, and author described by the National Post as “Canada’s Michael Moore.” She is the author of numerous books that challenge free-market economic ideology and call for a more egalitarian distribution of wealth [...]
Charles Taylor (1997-1998)
Mar 13, 1998
“Globalization, Ethnicity, and the Future of Canada” Charles Taylor is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. From 1976-1978, he held the Chichele Chair at Oxford University before returning to Canada to participate in the Quebec referendum campaign of [...]
John Ralston Saul (1996-1997)
Oct 09, 1996
“Between Corporatism and Democracy: Surviving as a Citizen in Modern Society” John Ralston Saul is an award-winning Canadian essayist, humanist, and author of the best-selling book, Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992), which examines Western [...]
Ruth Hubbard (1995-1996)
Oct 12, 1995
“In a Science Restructured on Feminist Lines, Would the Laws of Gravity Still Hold?” Ruth Hubbard was a professor of biology at Harvard University, where she was the first woman to hold a tenured professorship in biology. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she made important [...]
Ursula Franklin (1994-1995)
Feb 15, 1995
“Technology and the Task of Civilization: A Perspective of the 20th Century” Ursula Franklin was a scientist, activist, and public figure known for her peace and climate activism. Franklin received her Ph.D. in experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin in [...]
Barbara Kopple (1994-1995)
Jan 20, 1995
“Shades of Grey: The Power and Passion of Documentary Film” Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. She directs documentaries, as well as narrative television and film. Her recent work includes the film Running from Crazy (2013), about the life of [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
“Historical Experience and Multiculturalism” Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]
Richard Lewontin (1992-1993)
Feb 09, 1993
“Genetic Determinism and the Problem of Human Equality” Richard Lewontin is Emeritus Professor of Biology and Emeritus Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. [...]
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 [...]