TBA

Past Symposia

22 March 2011
Democracy and Expertise
Speakers: Munir Sheikh, Mel Cappe, Antonia Maioni
Moderated by Misha Glouberman

16 March 2010
Private Emotion, Public Policy
Speakers: David Pizarro, the Honourable Bob Rae, Christina Tarnopolsky
Moderated by Frances Lankin

10-11 March 2009
Rising Inequality in Canada: A Problem for Public Policy?
Speakers: Armine Yalnizyan, Roger Martin, John Helliwell
Moderated by Carolyn Tuohy

4 October 2007
Harnessing the Green Wave: Taking Action in an Era of Eco-Consciousness
Speakers: David Anderson, Adam Harmes, J. André Potworowski
Moderated by Jordan Poppenk

15 March 2006
Mr. Danger and the Socialism for the New Millennium
Speakers: Victor Rivas, Hal Klepak, Maria Páez Victor
Moderated by Bernie Lucht

16 March 2005
Eco Nightmare: Culpability, Responsibility and the Environmental Crisis
Speakers: Brock Fenton, Alan Drengson, Nawal Ammar, Stephen Scharper
Moderated by Bernie Lucht

30 March 2004
Living with the Group of One
Speakers: Lewis Lapham and Margaret MacMillan
Moderated by Wendy Dobson

27 March 2003
War and Health: the Personal and the Political
Speaker: James Orbinski

18 March 2002
Country or Colony? Canada’s Relations with the United States post-September 11
Speakers: David Malone, Margaret Wente, Stephen Clarkson,
Moderated by Evan Soloman

23 May 2001
Global Integration: Currents and Counter-Currents
Speaker: Sylvia Ostry

4 May 2000
Basic Income: The Unfinished Business of the Twentieth Century
Speakers: Charles Clark, Rod Dobell, Sally Lerner, Arthur Cordell, Michael McCracken,
Moderated by Charles Pascal

16 March 1999
Home and Homelessness
Speaker: Jean Bethke Elshtain

4 March 1997
The Uses of Controversy
Speaker: Robert Fulford

2 May 1995
The Future of Feminism
Speakers: Andrea Dworkin, “Remember; Resist; Do Not Comply,” and Sharon Capeling-Alakija, “Politics, Paradox and the International Women’s Movement”

16 May 1994
The Future of Public Broadcasting in Canada
Speakers: Michael Ignatieff, “Television for Citizens,” and David Ellis, “Redefining Public Broadcasting for the Age of Convergence”

23 September 1992
An Emerging North American Culture
Speakers: Carlos Fuentes, “The Importance of Recognizing the Other,” and Robertson Davies, “The Value of a Coherent Notion of Culture”

14 May 1991
The Economics of Peace
Speakers: Ivan L. Head, “Economics and Equity” and John Kenneth Galbraith, “Rhetoric and Reality”

Inaugural Symposium, 16 May 1990
Coping with the Environment: State Regulation or the Market
Speakers: W. R. O. Aitken and Adele Hurley