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Donald Creighton (1975-1976)
Jan 14, 1976
鈥淭he Individual and the Welfare State鈥 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
鈥淲oman鈥檚 Role 鈥 A Time of Redefinition鈥 Doris Anderson was editor of Chatelaine, Canada鈥檚 largest circulation magazine and a champion of women鈥檚 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
鈥淔ame, Romance, and Money -Thoughts on Women Writers鈥 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
鈥淔emininity and Feminism鈥 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鈥檚 College, [...]
Paul G茅rin-Lajoie (1974-1975)
Nov 28, 1974
鈥淭he Development Crises and the Canadian Dilemma鈥 Paul G茅rin-Lajoie was President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He was born in Montreal in 1920, and studied at Universit茅 de Montreal and Oxford University. He served as Quebec鈥檚 first Minister of [...]
Pierre Charpentier, Alfred Pick, Allan Roger, Rev. C. William Smith, Pierre Tanguay (1974-1975)
Nov 27, 1974
鈥淚nstitutional Cooperation Between Canada and Latin America: Government and Church鈥 This panel was part of a series on 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Involvement in Latin America,鈥 which began with Michael Lubbock鈥檚 lecture. The five speakers each addressed a different aspect of Canada-Latin [...]
Michael R. Lubbock (1974-1975)
Nov 26, 1974
鈥淔ree Enterprise Responsibility in Latin America鈥 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鈥檚 Bay [...]
Joan V. Robinson (1973-1974)
Nov 25, 1974
鈥淭he Mythology of Growth鈥 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
鈥淭he Role of Education in Developing Nations鈥 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
鈥淭he Education Scene in North America and Europe鈥 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
鈥淐anada鈥檚 Indians: Their Place in the Just Society鈥 This panel presentation brought five Indigenous leaders to Queen鈥檚 to discuss Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau鈥檚 concept of the 鈥淛ust Society鈥 and how it related to Indigenous lives. Each emphasized that any place for [...]
Gordon Brown (1969-1970)
Jan 30, 1970
鈥淎spects of the Interaction Between Technology and Society鈥 Gordon Brown was a professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an authority on servomechanisms 鈥 automatic feedback control systems 鈥 and their application to emerging computer [...]