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Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit
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Available Episodes (73)
Microcredit expert and consultant, Eric Thurman, discusses the ideas behind his book, A Billion Bootstraps.
What killed the dinosaurs? And is humanity headed for a similar fate? These questions are addressed by H. Jay Melosh, a Professor of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Arizona,...
The irrepressible Robert Adams presents his review of Lauren B. Davis' The Stubborn Season. Set in Toronto, The Stubborn Season tells the story of a young woman growing up during the...
Robert Adams tackles Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winning author Saul Bellow and his critically acclaimed novel, Herzog.
Robert Adams gives his assessment of Brick Lane by Monica Ali. Short-listed for
the 2003 Man Booker Prize, the novel is a finely textured picture of Bangladeshi immigrants
in contemporary...
Award-winning architect, Bruce Kuwabara, discusses emerging models of urbanization and sustainability that are transforming Toronto and other major Canadian cities.
Psychotherapist and artist, Ariel Garten, explores the neuroscience of conflict.
Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Geography at the University of Toronto, explores issues of mixed race identity.
Harvard psychology professor, Steven Pinker, presents a talk on his latest book, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
Stephen Lewis, James Orbinski, and Stephanie Nolen present lectures as part of a recent symposium called "Hope in the Balance: Humanitarianism in the 21st Century".
Author Robert J. Sawyer explains how Hollywood's approach to science fiction, starting with George Lucas's Star Wars, has dulled the edge that made science fiction such a pertinent
World-famous neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his latest book, Musicophilia, a look at how music can impact on the brain. Sacks' love of music is well known, and now
Loyalist College professor John Schneeberger delivers his competition lecture entitled Creative Menu Design.
Brock University professor Tim Conley delivers a lecture entitled Coordinating the Self in Contemporary Poetry.
University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Marc Fournier delivers his competition lecture entitled Dominance and Depression.
Brock University psychology professor John Mitterer delivers his competition lecture entitled Truth and Humility in Professional Practice.
University of Waterloo Architecture professor Robert Jan van Pelt delivers his Best Lecturer competition lecture entitled Architecture After Auschwitz.
McMaster University Strategic Management professor Nick Bontis delivers his Best Lecturer competition lecture entitled Knowledge Worker Productivity.
University of Toronto (Scarborough) psychology professor Gerald Cupchik delivers his competition lecture entitled Two Faces of Emotion.
University of Windsor education professor Finney Cherian delivers his competition lecture entitled Unbinding Baby Elephants.
University of Windsor psychology professor Ken Cramer delivers his competition lecture entitled Alfred Adler: The Most Famous Personality Theorist You Likely Never Heard Of.
Michael Eric Dyson, the author of "April 4, 1968", discusses the life and death of Martin Luther King as they pertain to race issues in the U.S. and around the world. 40 years after...
In light of the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Canada, Ovide Mercredi, chief of the Misipawistic Cree nation and former chief of the Assembly of First Nations,...
Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., delivers this year's Donner Canadian Foundation lecture drawing upon his recently released book The Great...
Drawing on his experience with drug addicted patients from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Dr. Gabor Mate discusses how the medical and legal systems are failing in the so called "war...
Professor Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University delivers a lecture on the topic of The Co-evolution of Organisms and the Environment.
Dr. Guy Proulx, Director of Psychology and NeuroRehabilitation at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care delivers a lecture entitled, Wisdom Versus Dementia: A Walk Through the Aging...
Alberto Manguel on the duality of Pablo Picasso's artistic brilliance and personal evil.
Kay Redfield Jamison of Johns Hopkins University gives a lecture about suicide drawing on the research from her book, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide.
Jefferson Medical College professor Salman Akhtar discusses "The Trauma of Geophysical Dislocation", proposing that psychoanalysts need to pay special attention to their immigrant patients....
Benjamin Barber's books include Strong Democracy, Jihad vs. McWorld and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. Speaking at the Ontario...
"Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe" is the title of this exceptionally entertaining lecture. Phillips, who works with the National Institute of...
"No Educator Left Behind" is the title of this lecture by Mark Federman. In it Federman contends that, as a result of the changes the internet has brought to the way students communicate...
Ronald Wright, the author of What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order, examines the dichotomy between "America's ideals and the realities". Wright discusses how such...
Leanne Simpson of Athabasca University's Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research delivers a lecture entitled, "Can Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Survive in the Modern
University of Toronto Professor of Psychology Jordan Peterson discusses the nature of evil and its distinction from tragedy in this lecture presented at the 2008 Conference on Personal...
University of Toronto philosophy professor and author, Mark Kingwell, and journalist Malcolm Gladwell square off in a lively debate about social change and how best to achieve it.
Paul Collier, Professor of Economics at Oxford University, delivers the 2008 Lionel Gelber Public Lecture on his award-winning book, ?The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are...
Journalist Hamida Ghafour on her book "The Sleeping Buddha: Portraits of a Changing Afghanistan".
In his lecture entitled "Trudeau's World: The Making of an Internationalist", historian and author John English, discusses Trudeau's path to political prominence and influence, particularly...
Daniel Bell, Professor of Philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing presents a lecture on "China's New Confucianism".
Author Roy MacSkimming discusses his fictional take on the life of Canada's first Prime Minister John A. MacDonald.
Lee Smolin of Perimeter Institute delivers his lecture, Why Does Science Work?
Zach Hall - Dean of Research at the School of Medicine of University of Southern California discusses, Neuroethics: A Challenge for a New Age.
Clifford Will delivers a lecture entitled, "Was Einstein Right? Can Einstein?s Theories Survive Today?s Scientific Scrutiny?"
Mark Kingwell delivers a lecture on Representations of the Intellectual in Everyday Life. Has pop culture ruined the intellectual?
Dr. Leon Kass, Chair of the President's Council on Bioethics, examines the distinct ethical dilemmas that surround stem cell research. Dr. Kass addresses a fundamental philosophical...
Wendy Steiner, a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania presents a lecture based on her book The Trouble with Beauty.
Arthur I. Miller compares Einstein to Picasso. Miller is the author of a book entitled "Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc".
Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and best-selling author, Dr. Norman Doidge, discusses the findings in his latest book, The Brain that Changes Itself, an examination of brain neuroplas
A lecture by Marina Nemat, author of "Prisoner of Tehran".
John Stape, the author of "The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad", outlines the ways in which his book, released to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the novelist's birth, differs...
Business journalist Andrea Mandel-Campbell, author of "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson", discusses her views on why Canadian corporations have failed to take advantage of the benefits...
Political science professor Ron Deibert looks at the issue of internet censorship and surveillance around the world.
Best-selling author, Richard Florida, describes how the creative class is impacting cities, business and society at large.
Dr. Kirk Schneider explores therapeutic approaches to the mystery of being in a lecture delivered at an International Conference on Personal Meaning.
Dr. Ernesto Spinelli delivers a lecture "Exploring Death Anxiety" at an International Conference on Personal Meaning
Howard Gardner is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is the author of "Five Minds for the Future". In this lecture he discusses his latest theories on cognition...
Professor Neil Turok, Chair of Mathematical Physics at Cambridge University presents his lecture "What Banged?" which examines the possible causes of The Big Bang, the initial singularity...
Walter Benn Michaels is the author of "The Trouble with Diversity". In both his book and this lecture he discusses the need to re-examine the liberal focus on issues of race and gender...
Author and historian Margaret MacMillan delivers this year's Trinity College Larkin-Stuart Lecture. The topic of her 2-part lecture is "History: The Next Secular Religion?"
Author and historian Margaret MacMillan delivers this year's Trinity College Larkin-Stuart Lecture. The topic of her 2-part lecture is "History: The Next Secular Religion?"
Architect and author, Charles Jencks, presents a lecture based on his recent book "Critical Modernism: Where is Post-Modernism Going?"
Author and scholar, Thomas Homer-Dixon, explores the convergence of natural, social, and economic stresses that could lead to the breakdown of world economies and political systems
University of Ontario Institute of Technology professor Christopher diCarlo (Health Sciences and Criminology) delivers his competition lecture entitled The Relations of Natural Sys
World-famous neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, discusses his latest book, Musicophilia, a look at how music can impact on the brain. Sacks' love of music is well known, and now
Alberto Manguel, author of The City of Words, in his concluding lecture for the Massey Lecture series, addresses such topics as the commodification of the publishing industry, why authors...
State building in Afghanistan is the focus of this lecture by Rory Stewart, a former Coalition Deputy Governor in southern Iraq. Stewart's book The Places In Between chronicles his
Romeo Dallaire, Chimamanda Adichie, and Marilyn McHarg present lectures as part of a recent symposium called "Hope in the Balance: Humanitarianism in the 21st Century".
Psychoanalyst Darlene Ehrenberg addresses the impact of trauma on desire.
Deepak Chopra, renowned spiritual thinker and author, discusses the nature of human consciousness.
David Halperin is a Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. His lecture is entitled ?Tragedy Into Melodrama: Towards...
Author and activist Naomi Klein discusses the thesis of her latest book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism".
