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With the World to Choose FromCelebrating Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill University |
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Now more relevant than ever, seven decades of McGill University’s Beatty Lectures, in print together for the first time.
The Beatty Lecture, established in 1952 in honour of former Canadian Pacific Railway president and McGill chancellor Sir Edward Beatty, is McGill University’s most anticipated annual event. Some of the series’ greatest lectures, delivered by Nobel Prize laureates, world leaders, and cultural icons, have been forgotten, carefully stowed away in the McGill Archives.
To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, With the World to Choose From 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’s 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’s 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 provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada’s longest-running lecture series.
To help us understand some of the most significant moments and discoveries of our time, With the World to Choose From 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’s 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’s 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 provides a historical and behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada’s longest-running lecture series.
Details
336 Pages, 7 x 10
55 photos
ISBN 9780228008002
September 2021
Formats: Cloth, eBook
Brett Hooton is director of communications and operations for Research and Innovation at McGill University.
Robin Koning is the digital marketing and outreach associate for Research and Innovation at McGill University and a professional archivist.
Meaghan Thurston is senior communications officer for Research and Innovation at McGill University and a freelance writer.
Robin Koning is the digital marketing and outreach associate for Research and Innovation at McGill University and a professional archivist.
Meaghan Thurston is senior communications officer for Research and Innovation at McGill University and a freelance writer.
Foreword xi
Suzanne Fortier
Acknowledgments xiii
Martha Crago
Introduction 3
Brett Hooton, Robin Koning, Meaghan Thurston
Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty: A Life of Service 27
Robin Koning
Past Beatty Lectures 41
A Note on the Selection of Lectures 45
The Interplay of East and West, Points of Conflict and Cooperation (1955) 47
Barbara Ward
Introduction by Glenda Sluga
Asia Today: Revolutionary Change in the Twentieth Century (1968) 59
Han Suyin
Introduction by Laifong Leung
How Long Have We Got? (1971) 79
Peter Ritchie-Calder
Introduction by Catherine Happer
Genetic Engineering: Ambush or Opportunity? (1972) 91
Robert Sinsheimer
Introduction by Françoise Baylis
The Emergence of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1975) 103
Fred Hoyle
Introduction by Victoria Kaspi
Interpretation in Music and in Life (1975) 113
Yehudi Menuhin
Introduction by Nora Chastain
A Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World (1981) 125
Ralf Dahrendorf
Introduction by Helmut K. Anheier
Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent? (1982) 141
Gwendolen Carter
Introduction by Shireen Hassim
The New World Order (1993) 157
Mikhail Gorbachev
Introduction by Kathryn Stoner
Right of Interference: Progress and Failure in Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety (1996) 175
Bernard Kouchner
Introduction by Payam Akhavan
Lessons in Living from the Dying (1997) 187
Cicely Saunders
Introduction by David Clark
Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead (2005) 201
Michael Ignatieff
Introduction by Christopher Sands
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs (2010) 213
Muhammad Yunus
Introduction by Dax Dasilva
The Challenge of Regressive Democracy (2017) 229
Charles Taylor
Introduction by Rowan Williams
Difficult Women, Bad Feminists, and Unruly Bodies (2018) 239
Roxane Gay
Introduction by Debra Thompson
Permissions 247
Suzanne Fortier
Acknowledgments xiii
Martha Crago
Introduction 3
Brett Hooton, Robin Koning, Meaghan Thurston
Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty: A Life of Service 27
Robin Koning
Past Beatty Lectures 41
A Note on the Selection of Lectures 45
The Interplay of East and West, Points of Conflict and Cooperation (1955) 47
Barbara Ward
Introduction by Glenda Sluga
Asia Today: Revolutionary Change in the Twentieth Century (1968) 59
Han Suyin
Introduction by Laifong Leung
How Long Have We Got? (1971) 79
Peter Ritchie-Calder
Introduction by Catherine Happer
Genetic Engineering: Ambush or Opportunity? (1972) 91
Robert Sinsheimer
Introduction by Françoise Baylis
The Emergence of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1975) 103
Fred Hoyle
Introduction by Victoria Kaspi
Interpretation in Music and in Life (1975) 113
Yehudi Menuhin
Introduction by Nora Chastain
A Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World (1981) 125
Ralf Dahrendorf
Introduction by Helmut K. Anheier
Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent? (1982) 141
Gwendolen Carter
Introduction by Shireen Hassim
The New World Order (1993) 157
Mikhail Gorbachev
Introduction by Kathryn Stoner
Right of Interference: Progress and Failure in Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety (1996) 175
Bernard Kouchner
Introduction by Payam Akhavan
Lessons in Living from the Dying (1997) 187
Cicely Saunders
Introduction by David Clark
Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead (2005) 201
Michael Ignatieff
Introduction by Christopher Sands
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs (2010) 213
Muhammad Yunus
Introduction by Dax Dasilva
The Challenge of Regressive Democracy (2017) 229
Charles Taylor
Introduction by Rowan Williams
Difficult Women, Bad Feminists, and Unruly Bodies (2018) 239
Roxane Gay
Introduction by Debra Thompson
Permissions 247
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