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Amy Lavender Harris

Imagining Toronto: Fictions, Figments, and the Factual City

JD Pipher

From God to Gates in 30 Minutes: Our Changing Myths and Changing Selves


Friday, September 8th

Julia Moulden

The New Radicals: How Boomers are Re-Inventing Their Work to Help Save The World

Scott Schieman

The Nature of Work and the Stress of Higher Status


Friday, September 22nd

Ian Crandall

Dos and Donts During an Epidemic

Nick Mount

The Return of Beauty to Art and Literature


Friday, October 6th

Joseph Lerner

The History of Classical Orchestra, its evolution and contemporary composition

Victor Rivas

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Hugo Chavez and the Media


Friday, October 20th

Megan Boler

Satire as Dissent: THE DAILY SHOW, blogs, and digital multimedia

Robert Davidson

The Modern Hotel - From Detente to Detention


Friday, November 10th

John Peever

The Mysteries of Sleep

Jeffrey Kopstein

From Empire to Empire: Transformation of Post-Communist Societies


Friday, November 17th

Brent Cordner

Biomimicry and the Future of Industrial Design

Anver Emon

Sharia Law: A Year in Review


Friday, December 8th

Gregory Woods

Director, SMC ALSOP North America: Not Architecture - Toronto At the Edge

Adam Vaughan

City Councillor Trinity-Spadina: Intense vs Dense - Urban Planning in Downtown Toronto


Wednesday, April 4th

Jillian Clare Cohen

Professor and Health Policy Specialist: The Morally Uncomfortable Global Drug Gap

Daryl Copeland

Canadian Diplomat: Guerrilla Diplomacy - International Policy in an Insecure World


Sunday, April 15th

Bruce Meyer

Best-Selling Author: What Makes a Hero?

Allan Hutchinson

Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School: If Plato Had Played Football


Sunday, April 29th

Judy Singer

Award-Winning Artist: The Visual Language of Art: How to Look at Paintings

Stephen Morris

Professor of Physics: Why is the Universe not Boring? Spontaneous Pattern Formation in Nature


Wednesday, May 16th

Ariel Garten

Playful psychotherapist & Artist: The neuroscience of conflict; understanding dissent in the brain

Minelle Mahtani

Professor & Journalist: Tricking the Border Guards: How Race is Performed Among Mixed Race Women


Tuesday May 29th

Anthony Watanabe

Entrepreneur and Global Expert in Sustainability: Sustainability for the Masses

Jonathan Ezer

Founder of Salon Voltaire: Does Truth Exist? Postmodern Reflections on an Ancient Debate


Sunday June 10th

Thomas McKaig

Professor & Business Guru: The Evolution of International Trade in the Post WW2 Era

Scott Schieman

Professor of Sociology: Divine Control: Beliefs about God


Tuesday, June 26

Patricia Rozema

Acclaimed Canadian film director


Monday, September 10th

Kirstine Layfield

Executive Director for Network Programming at the CBC

John Doyle

The Globe and Mail


Tuesday, October 2nd

Christine Sismondo

Best-selling author and lecturer in York University

Alan Young

Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School


Monday, November 5th

Matthew Blackett

Publisher, Creative Director of Spacing Magazine

Adam Giambrone

City Councillor, Chair of the TTC


Wednesday December 5th