Massey Lectures

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

The Massey Lectures (advertised as the CBC Massey Lectures) is an annual five-part series of lectures given in Canada by distinguished writers, thinkers, and scholars who explore ideas and issues of contemporary interest. Created in 1961 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in honour of Vincent Massey, the founder of Massey College at the University of Toronto, a former Governor General of Canada and coordinator of the 1951 Massey Report, it is broadcast on CBC Radio One. It is widely regarded as one of the most acclaimed lecture series in the country.

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.

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