Author B.W. Powe and Literacy Theorist Barry Sanders on what it means to be literate in the digital age

Robert Fisk on September 11th Did Not Change the World. Fisk talks about American interests in the Middle East, Israel, and the treatment of Muslim countries in the post-September 11 media.

Gayle Gibson on Celtic Sexuality

University of Toronto Philosophy Professor, Mark Kingwell on his essay "Being Dandy" from his book Practical Judgment

Victor Mansfield, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Colgate University on Analytical Psychology and Science: Is Marriage Possible?

Francis S. Collins on The Genome and Your Future

Dr. Marion Woodman, a Jungian Analyst, gives lecture titled A New Paradigm of the Relations between the Masculine and the Feminine

Dr. Ross Woodman on Jung and Pauli: Analytical Psychology and Quantum Physics

Dr . Steven Pinker on Are we really born a blank slate? Dr. Pinker uses his book - "The Blank Slate" - to explore the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings Part 2 - lectures- Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass will address a fundamental philosophical question underlying these latest scientific advances: Why not immortality?

Jonathan Rudin, Toni Williams, Julian N. Falconer, Audrey Macklin, David Tanovich on Racial Profiling

Martin Daly, Joan McCord, Roy Baumeister and Grant Harris speak at the Crime and Knowledge Symposium

Saskia Sassen (Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago) discusses definition of citizenship and how the role of the citizen is changing in society.

Janice Stein, Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto, on the ethics of responsibility and accountability.

David Frum, speechwriter and journalist talks about his book The Right Man: The Surpise Presidency of George W. Bush

Cultural Critic and Broadcater Geoff Pevere and Writer and Social Critic Camille Paglia on Digital Literacy

Lewis Lapham on U.S. president George Bush and Iraq.

Walter Russell Mead - winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize for outstanding writing on international affairs on his book Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World. The book examines American foreign policy over the past two centuries, since the United States was a string of settlements on the edge of the known world.

Susan Sontag, one of America's best-known and most admired authors, on The Crisis in Literary Studies

What does it mean to be literate in the digital age? Philosopher Christopher Dewdney and Theorist Steve McCaffery.

The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney speaks at the 2003 Antisemtism Conference on Antisemtism: An Enduring Reality

Daniel Goldhagen, author of A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair

Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the ethical dilemmas surrounding stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses the philosophical question: Why not immortality?

John O'Leary - President of the Frontier College , Robert Logan - Professor of Physics at University of Toronto and George Steiner - Writer, scholar, critic.

John O'Leary is the president of Frontier College. In this talk, he looks back at the history of the college as well as the current challenges it faces in bringing literacy to the new frontier -- Canada's inner cities. Robert Logan is a noted physicist and author of The Alphabet Effect, a book which argues that one reason for the rise of Western science is our alphabet.

The Romance of the Persian Carpet: Art, History and Symbols by the Canadian expert on terrorist networks, Martin Rudner

Jordan Peterson, University of Toronto professor of psychology talks about fear of the unknown and fear of dealing with problems.

Taiaiake Alfred - Mohawk wirter and activist speaks about Canada's relationship with indigenous peoples

Bernard Lewis What has Changed? The Impact of "9/11" on the Middle East

Niall Ferguson Professor of Political and Financial History of Oxford and Visiting Professor in Economics at the Stern School of Business, Niall Ferguson, critically acclaimed author of the "Pity of War" and "House of Rothschild", brings us his latest work "Empire": The Rise and Demise of the British World Order". A grand narrative history of the world's first experiment in globalization.

Steven J. Zipperstein of Stanford University speaks on Antisemitism: The Politicization of Prejudice in the Contemporary World.

Todd M. Endelman of the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

Antisemitism Conference: Michael R. Marrus on The Politicization of Prejudice in the Contemporary World.

Richard C. Lewontin, Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology on The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment

Guy Proulx Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilition, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care - Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging Brain

Mark Kingwell of University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy on the Art of Procrastination

Gayle Gibson of the Royal Ontario Museum on "Nude, Naked and All Dressed Up" - a lecture on modesty

Naomi Morgenstern on Oedipus Complex Made Simple

Psychiatrist David Healy delivers a lecture entitled Gripped by a Python: How Pharmaceutical Companies Control the Medical Marketplace.

Angela Davis of the University of California on Punishement and Democracy

University of Toronto's John Frank on What Determines Health?

Elizabeth Abbott on her book A History of Mistresses.

Lesley Downer, author of Madame Sadayako - The Geisha Who Bewitched the West

Author and Journalist Ann Crittenden "The Price of Motherhood"

Heather Pringle on Mummies of the World

Illustrator and Teacher Anthony Harrison of ROM and Humber College taks about Mythic Heroes and Modern Comics

Michael Adams, President of Environics, author of "Fire and Ice", on differences between Canadians and Americans.

Journalist Robert MacNeil, Author of "Looking for My Country: Finding Myself in America"

Ian Buruma on Death of Metropolis: Why are Some Hostile to Cities?

Margaret MacMillan on her book Paris 1919.

The Hidden Pierre Trudeau: His Spirituality, His Faith, His Life, His Times. Speakers: Bruce Powe (York University) , Michale Higgins (St. Jerome's University), Stephen Clarkson (University of Toronto), Tom Axworthy (Historica Foundation of Canada).

Will life extension offer more benefits than harm? A debate between bioethicists James Hughes and Margaret Somerville.

Margaret Atwood on her novel, Oryx and Crake, which was a finalist for the 2003 Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize.

Robert Adams on Jonathan Franzen's novel The Corrections

Simon Duke of the European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands, on Now That Saddam's Gone - What Next?

June Carroll on Modern Genetics

Robert Adams explains the literary genius of this year's Nobel-prize winner J.M. Coatzee.

Margaret Sommerville and John Hughes debate: Should parents have the right to genetically engineer their children?

Theologian Hans Kung talks about his autobiography, My Struggle for Freedom

Robert Adams on Nuala's O'Faolain's book My Dream of You

David Sacks talks about his book "Language Visible: Unraveling of the Alphabet from A to Z"

Robert Fulford presents his 2003 lecture A World Reconfigured: Politics and Perceptions Since 9/11

Mark Abley talks about his new book Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages.

Robert Adams on Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway

Journalist Molly Ivins discusses her book Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America

Robert Adams on Helen Dunmore's novel The Siege

Bill Bryson on his book A Brief History of Nearly Everything

President of the Candian Tire Foundation for Families - Gordon Cressy - talks about kndness and mental health