Spring 2023 - O Canada: Snapshots in Time

April 20, 2023: 10 Events that Shaped our National Character, by Dr. Adam Chapnick

April 27, 2023: Healing Canada’s Health System: from Band-Aid
Solutions to Resilience & Innovation, by Dr. Sara Allin

May 4, 2023: Navigating Canada’s Economic Landscape, How an Aging Population, Higher Interest Rates and Rising Costs Will Shape the Economy of 2023, by Dawn Desjardins

May 11, 2023:  Re-Imagining: the McMichael Canadian Collection in the 21st Century, by Sarah Milroy

May 18, 2023: Standing up to Hate in Canada: A Panel Discussion, moderated by Bernie Farber

May 25, 2023: Hot Issues in the Arctics:  Future Implications by Dr. Andrea Charron

Fall 2022- Making Sense of a Precarious World

Sept 15, 2022: Insights into the Evolving Food Industry  by Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

Sept 22, 2022: Understanding NATO and its Relevance Today, by Dr. Timothy Andrews Sayle

Sept 29, 2022: Russia in the World Now, by Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya

Oct 6, 2022: Managing Canada-U.S. Relations in Unpredictable Times by Dr. Adam Chapnick

Oct 13, 2022: The End of Travel: Time to Revisit Tourism, by Martin Regg Cohn

Spring 2022: China in the 21st Century

May 5, 2022: The Past Informs the Present: How China’s history is shaping its foreign policy, by Dr. Olivier Courteaux

May 12, 2022: Flexing its Muscle: China and the Indo-Pacific Region, by Dr. Olivier Courteaux

May 19, 2022: New Silk Road and Belt – Navigating China’s Global Project, by Dr. Olivier Courteaux

May 26, 2022: A New Cold War? China, the EU, the U.S. and Canada by Dr. Olivier Courteaux

June 2, 2022: From the Migrant Masses to the "Crazy Rich": The Faces of Contemporary China, by Dr. Diana Fu

Fall 2021: WTF?? (What’s the Future?)

Sept 23: The Good, Bad, and Ugly: 3 Possible Futures and Why (what a day in our lives will look like a decade from now) by Jesse Hirsh, Futurist

Sept 30: From Growth at all Costs to a Thriving and Just Society by Sam Bliss

Oct 7: The Future of Cryptocurrencies: From Capital Flows to Global Power by Mauro Guillén, Ph.D

Oct 14: Genetics Research: How it Affects You Today and Beyond by Amanda Moehring, Ph.D

Ph.DOct 21: What's on the Menu in Twenty Years? Trends and Trajectories in Sustainable Food by Ryan Katz-Rozene Ph.D

Oct 28: The Crisis of Democracy and the Future by Larry Garber

Spring 2021

Apr 8: Think You Don’t Have Biases? Think Again             

Apr 15: How a Global Pandemic Can Save Our Cities

Apr 22: Royalty in Popular Culture: Fact, Fiction and The Crown

Apr 29: China, a Power to be Reckoned with

May 6: Sleep and the Rhythm of Life

May 13: Critically Thinking About Conspiracy Theories

Winter 2021 - Escape to Italy

Jan 28: All roads lead to Rome: Italy, the "Grand Tour" and the birth of tourism        

Feb 4: The Palio and the Splendours of Siena

Feb 11: The Great Italian Pasta Journey

Feb 18: The Caravaggio Painter Who Changed The History of Art

Feb 25: Salute! Come Taste The Wines of Italy - an afternoon of wine appreciation and wine tasting

Bonus Webinar (cook along)

Mar 4: Learn To Make Fettucine Cacio E Pepe

Fall 2021

Oct 1: China, Surveillance and the West     

Oct 8: Canada’s Waste Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Oct 15: Come To The Table! How Major World Events Shaped Our Food and Dining Customs

Oct 22: Bats: Why We Will Love Them, Why We Need Them And How They Fit Into Covid-19 

Oct 29: The Next American President and the Future of World Order

Fall 2020 - Evolution of the Hollywood Musical

Nov 04: “Over the Rainbow”

Nov 11: “Trouble with a Capital T”

Nov 18: “In the Musicals”

Spring 2020 Lecture Archives

(offered in webinar format due to Covid-19)

Pilot Webinar April 2, 2020

The Opium Wars (1839-1860): When England and France Humiliated China

by Dr. Olivier Courteaux 

April 23 2020

O Brothers, Where Art Thou: The Films of Joel and Ethan Coen
by Adam Nayman

April 30, 2020

Spy vs. Spy

by Dr. Peter Vronksy

May 7, 2020

Moving Forward: the Future of Transportation

The future of ACES transportation: Automated, Connected, Shared and Electric mobility ahead
By Josipa Petrunic

May 14, 2020

COVID 19: How Canada Compares to The World

By Dr. Steven Hoffman

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Fall 2019 Lecture Archives

Oct 3, 2019

A Voyage into the Heart of Hate, presented by Bernie Farber

There are no slides for this lecture

Oct 10, 2019

You’ve Come a Long Way Baby - Or Have You?, presented by Dr. Sheila Ager

Oct 24, 2019

Understanding Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), presented by Judith Wahl, LLB

Oct 31, 2019

Brexit: The Lost Bet of David Cameron presented by Dr. Olivier Courteaux

Nov 7, 2019

Fake News, Real Conversation, presented by Suanne Kelman, journalist

Nov 14, 2019

Hollywood History: The Distorted Mirror, presented by Geoff Pevere

Spring 2019 Lecture Archives

May 2, 2019

Canadian Foreign Trade for Dummies, presented by Dr. Adam Chapnick

May 9, 2019   

Forensics in Crime Solving, presented by Dr. Myriam Nafte

May 16, 2019  

Italian Food: Pane, Amore e Fantasia (bread, love, dreams), presented by Dr. Franco Gallippi

May 30, 2019   

Small Country: Canada’s Under-Population Problem, presented by Doug Saunders

Jun 6, 2019      

How to Make Sure Your Brain Lasts a Lifetime, presented  by Dr. Aileen Burford-Mason

Fall 2018 Lecture Archives

Sept 27, 2018

Gut Health: The Inside Story, presented by Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe

Oct 4, 2018

How to be a Better Consumer, presented by Ellen Roseman

Oct 11, 2018

The Fab Four...From Inception to Beatlemania, presented by Dr. Mike Daley

Oct 18, 2018

A Canadian Genocide: Canada's Historical Treatment of its Indigenous People, presented by Bernie Farber, Dr. Michael Dan and Dr. Suzanne Stewart

Oct 25, 2018

Frank Lloyd Wright: First American Starchitect, presented  by Dr. Peter Harris

Nov 1, 2018

Russia, the West, Iran and Israel: Assessing the New Middle East Chessboard, presented by Dr. Aurel Braun

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Spring 2018 Lecture Archives

April 12, 2018

The Trouble with Terror, presented by Dr. Arne Kislenko

April 19, 2018

Canada in the World - Past, Present, Future, presented by Dr. Adam Chapnick

April 26, 2018

The Amazing Universe, presented by Dr. John Percy

Dr. Percy's outreach web page
The U of T astronomy outreach web page
The York web page

May 3, 2018 (evening Special Event)

An Evening with Daniel Dale: My Life as a Washington Correspondent, presented by Daniel Dale

May 10, 2018

Dance at the Movies, presented by Michael Crabb

May 17, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in Health Care, presented by Sally Bean

May 24, 2018  

Five Ways To A Better Brain: Separating the Science from Myth, presented  by Dr. Chris Patterson

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Fall 2017 Lecture Series

Oct 19, 2017  

Time to Protect Your Privacy, Before it’s Taken Away From You, presented by Dr. Ann Cavoukian

Oct 26, 2017  

Tomorrow's Weather: Warmer, Wetter, Wilder, presented by Dave Phillips

Nov 2, 2017

News and The Crisis of Legitimacy, presented by Dan Dunsky

Nov 9, 2017

Great Songs of the Folk Revival, presented by Dr. Mike Daley

Nov 16, 2017

The New World (Dis)Order: Conflict in Ukraine Ushers in New Cold War, presented by Dr. Larry Black

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Spring 2017 Lecture Series

Apr 20, 2017

How the Boomers are Reinventing Everything

Presented by:  David Cravit

May 4, 2017

The Brain, Longevity and Health Span

Presented by:  Dr. Guy Proulx

May 18, 2017

The History of Women in the Modern Middle East

Presented by: Sara Farhan

May 25, 2017

Wake-up call for the World: Four Challenges That will Define the 21st Century  (this lecture was changed to: Income Inequality and the Trump Presidency)

Presented by: David Olive

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