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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 and power.

Sir Richard Livingstone Livingstone was a classics professor at Corpus Christie College, Oxford University. From 1924-1933, Livingstone served as the Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, overseeing the growth of the university’s prestige. He was knighted in 1931.

Bill Blaikie was one of Canada’s longest serving members of parliament, representing a variety of Manitoba ridings from 1979-2008. Blaikie served as Deputy Leader and House Leader of the New Democratic Party under Jack Layton. After retiring from Parliament, Blaikie began teaching at the University of Winnipeg. He was later elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in Manitoba. Before entering politics, he served in the Canadian military and worked as a labourer with the Canadian National Railway while studying at university.

Lori Beaman is professor and Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. Beaman’s research had helped to develop the concept of deep equality and an emerging “will to religion” and its impact on the growing category of those without religious beliefs. She previously directed the Religion and Diversity Project and is currently the Principal Investigator of the Nonreligion in a Complex Future Project at the University of Ottawa.

Enric Bou is professor of Iberian Studies at the University Ca’ Foscari Venezia. He has taught in universities in France, Spain and the USA. His research interests, always from the perspective of comparative literary studies, cover a broad range of twentieth-century Spanish Peninsular and Catalan literature including poetry, autobiography, the relationships between art and literature, city and literature, and film. Bou was previously Professor of Hispanic Studies at Brown University, where he joined the faculty in 1997.

Gauvin A. Bailey is Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art at Queen’s University, a position he has held since 2011. At the time of his talk, Bailey was a professor of Renaissance and Baroque art history at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He has written extensively on the art and architecture produced by the interaction of European colonists and Indigenous populations across the early modern world.

Mary Louise Pratt is an emeritus professor at New York University, where before retirement she was Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She studied at the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois-Urbana, and Stanford University. Her research has contributed greatly to our understanding of literary narratives and the “contact zone” between cultures. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including her most well-known, Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992).

Michael Kirby is an academic and jurist who is a former High Court Justice of Australia. He attended the University of Sydney, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1959, of Laws in 1961, and of Economics in 1965, as well as a Master of Laws in 1967. He was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1967. In 1975, he became the youngest man appointed to a federal court when he was made Deputy President of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. In 1996, following several other appointments, he was appointed to the High Court of Australia.

Sheila McLean is Professor Emerita of Law and Ethics in Medicine in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. After completing her PhD there in 1987, she was appointed the first International Bar Association Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine in 1990. Her research examines reproductive ethics and genetic engineering, consent, and assisted dying.