1990s
Gwynne Dyer (1999-2000)
Oct 03, 1999
鈥淒emocratic Overdog: Strategy, Morality, and Etiquette for the New Masters of the Universe鈥 Gwynne Dyer is a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer, originally trained as a historian. He has served in the armed forces of three nations and has held [...]
Linda McQuaig (1998-1999)
Apr 08, 1999
鈥淩eviving Democracy鈥 Linda McQuaig is an activist, journalist, and author described by the National Post as 鈥淐anada鈥檚 Michael Moore.鈥 She is the author of numerous books that challenge free-market economic ideology and call for a more egalitarian distribution of wealth [...]
Charles Taylor (1997-1998)
Mar 13, 1998
鈥淕lobalization, Ethnicity, and the Future of Canada鈥 Charles Taylor is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. From 1976-1978, he held the Chichele Chair at Oxford University before returning to Canada to participate in the Quebec referendum campaign of [...]
John Ralston Saul (1996-1997)
Oct 09, 1996
鈥淏etween Corporatism and Democracy: Surviving as a Citizen in Modern Society鈥 John Ralston Saul is an award-winning Canadian essayist, humanist, and author of the best-selling book, Voltaire鈥檚 Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (1992), which examines Western [...]
Ruth Hubbard (1995-1996)
Oct 12, 1995
鈥淚n a Science Restructured on Feminist Lines, Would the Laws of Gravity Still Hold?鈥 Ruth Hubbard was a professor of biology at Harvard University, where she was the first woman to hold a tenured professorship in biology. From the 1940s to the 1960s, she made important [...]
Ursula Franklin (1994-1995)
Feb 15, 1995
鈥淭echnology and the Task of Civilization: A Perspective of the 20th Century鈥 Ursula Franklin was a scientist, activist, and public figure known for her peace and climate activism. Franklin received her Ph.D. in experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin in [...]
Barbara Kopple (1994-1995)
Jan 20, 1995
鈥淪hades of Grey: The Power and Passion of Documentary Film鈥 Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. She directs documentaries, as well as narrative television and film. Her recent work includes the film Running from Crazy (2013), about the life of [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
鈥淗istorical Experience and Multiculturalism鈥 Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]
Richard Lewontin (1992-1993)
Feb 09, 1993
鈥淕enetic Determinism and the Problem of Human Equality鈥 Richard Lewontin is Emeritus Professor of Biology and Emeritus Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. [...]
Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 (1991-1992)
Mar 26, 1992
鈥淎rt War with the State: The Writer and Politics in Africa鈥 Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 is an exiled and widely respected Kenyan playwright, critic and novelist who wrote the novel Matigari ma Njiruungi. He has been at the front of the struggle for democracy and social justice in [...]
Ariel Dorfmann (1991-1992)
Jan 20, 1992
鈥淭he Authoritarian State鈥 Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-Argentinian-American novelist, playwright, academic, and human rights activist. He is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile and the child of Holocaust refugees. At Duke University, Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page [...]
Anton Shammas (1991-1992)
Nov 07, 1991
鈥淢uffled Voices, Shifting Grounds: To Story-Tell the Middle East鈥 Anton Shammas is a noted Palestinian editor, TV producer, freelance journalist, author and poet. His book, Arabesques, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best novels of 1988 [...]