Die Massey-Vorträge (frz. Conférences Massey; engl. Massey Lectures) oder Massey-Vorlesungen sind eine prestigeträchtige fünfteilige jährliche Vortragsreihe zu einem politischen, kulturellen oder philosophischen Thema, die jährlich am Collège Massey (Massey College) der Universität von Toronto in Kanada gehalten werden. Bekannte Gelehrte werden dazu an die größte Universität Kanadas eingeladen, um philosophische und kulturelle Themen zu diskutieren. Die Vortragsreihe wurde im Jahr 1961 zu Ehren des Generalgouverneurs Vincent Massey gegründet und zog Sprecher wie Northrop Frye, Michael Ignatieff, Noam Chomsky, Jane Jacobs, Claude Lévi-Strauss, John Ralston Saul und Martin Luther King, Jr. an. Die Vorträge werden im Rahmen von Ideas, einer Rundfunkreihe des CBC, gesendet. In einigen Jahren fanden sie nicht statt.
Vorträge 1961 – Barbara Ward, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations 1962 – Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination 1963 – Frank Underhill, The Image of Confederation 1964 – C. B. Macpherson, The Real World of Democracy 1965 – John Kenneth Galbraith, The Underdeveloped Country 1966 – Paul Goodman, The Moral Ambiguity of America 1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience for Change 1968 – R. D. Laing, The Politics of the Family 1969 – George Grant, Time as History 1970 – George Wald, Therefore Choose Life 1971 – James Corry, The Power of the Law 1972 – Pierre Dansereau, Inscape and Landscape 1973 – Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom 1974 – George Steiner, Nostalgia for the Absolute 1975 – J. Tuzo Wilson, Limits to Science
1977 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning 1978 – Leslie Fiedler, The Inadvertent Epic 1979 – Jane Jacobs, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association
1981 – Willy Brandt, Dangers and Options: The Matter of World Survival 1982 – Robert Jay Lifton, Indefensible Weapons 1983 – Eric Kierans, Globalism and the Nation State 1984 – Carlos Fuentes, Latin America: At War with the Past 1985 – Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
1987 – Gregory Baum, Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others 1988 – Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies 1989 – Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology 1990 – Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA 1991 – Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity 1992 – Robert Heilbroner, Twenty-First Century Capitalism 1993 – Jean Bethke Elshtain, Democracy on Trial 1994 – Conor Cruise O’Brien, On the Eve of the Millennium 1995 – John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
1997 – Hugh Kenner, The Elsewhere Community 1998 – Jean Vanier, Becoming Human 1999 – Robert Fulford, The Triumph of Narrative 2000 – Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution 2001 – Janice Stein, The Cult of Efficiency 2002 – Margaret Visser, Beyond Fate 2003 – Thomas King, The Truth About Stories 2004 – Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress 2005 – Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa 2006 – Margaret Somerville, The Ethical Imagination 2007 – Alberto Manguel, The City of Words 2008 – Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth 2009 – Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World 2010 – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What is to Become of Us 2011 – Adam Gopnik, Winter: Five Windows on the Season 2012 – Neil Turok, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos 2013 – Lawrence Hill, Blood: The Stuff of Life 2014 – Adrienne Clarkson, Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship 2015 – Margaret MacMillan, History's People: Personalities and the Past 2016 – Jennifer Welsh, The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century 2017 – Payam Akhavan, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey 2018 – Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward 2019 – Sally Armstrong, Power Shift. The Longest Revolution 2020 – Ronald Deibert, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society (Shortlist für den 2020 Donner Prize) 2021 – Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Art, Race and the Future 2022 – Tomson Highway, Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death and Accordions 2023 – Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart 2024 – Ian Williams, What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation in our Time
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