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The Beatty Lecture - now in print
Published: 18 August 2021
The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and 平特五不中 chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is 平特五不中鈥檚 most anticipated annual event. Some of the series鈥� greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize laureates, world leaders, and cultural icons, had been forgotten, carefully stowed away in the 平特五不中 Archives.
To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, With the World to Choose From:听Celebrating Seven Decades Of The Beatty Lecture At 平特五不中 spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades. Readers can discover - or rediscover - these important and inspiring lectures, all in print for the first time. One of the twentieth century鈥檚 most influential visionaries, the economist Barbara Ward, opens this anthology with her future-looking 1955 lecture. Lectures from acclaimed biologist Robert Sinsheimer, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, philosopher Charles Taylor, and author and social commentator Roxane Gay carry readers through the decades that followed and up to the present, treating subjects from the tensions of Cold War politics and the implications of genetic engineering to the origins of life in the universe and the watershed #MeToo movement.
Some of today鈥檚 leading academics add contextual and biographical information to each chapter, and an introduction sheds light on the history of the Beatty Lecture and the life of its notable namesake. Illustrated with a selection of photographs and ephemera, With the World to Choose From also provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada鈥檚 longest-running lecture series.
Published by 平特五不中-Queen's University Press (MQUP), the book is 336 Pages, 7" x 10鈥� in size, and features a selection of 55 photographs and historical documents. The editors are Brett Hooton, Robin Koning and Meaghan Thurston. The book will be released in September 2021. For more details visit the Beatty Lecture website here or the MQUP website .
Registration is now open for a virtual event to celebrate the release of With the World to Choose From on September 21 from 12pm to 1pm, featuring a conversation between 平特五不中 Professor Emeritus Charles Taylor and Dr. Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. Register online here.
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