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Massey Lectures

For the William E. Massey Sr., Lectures at Harvard University, see Massey Lectures (Harvard University).

The Massey Lectures is an annual five-part series of lectures given in Canada by distinguished writers, thinkers and scholars who explore important ideas and issues of contemporary interest.[1] Created in 1961 in honour of Vincent Massey, the former Governor General of Canada, it is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed lecture series in the country.

Some of the most notable Massey Lecturers have included Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Jean Vanier, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, George Steiner, Claude Levi Strauss, and Nobel laureates Martin Luther King Jr., George Wald, Willy Brandt and Doris Lessing.[2] In 2003, novelist Thomas King was the first person of Cherokee descent to be invited as a lecturer.[3]

  1. ^ "Archives | CBC Massey Lectures | CBC Radio".
  2. ^ "The Massey Lectures | the Canadian Encyclopedia".
  3. ^ David, Daniel (19 July 2012). "Thomas King, still not the Indian you had in mind - The Globe and Mail". The Globe and Mail.

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