Editing Massey Lectures

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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.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/past-masseys-lectures-1.4439273| title = Archives {{!}} CBC Massey Lectures {{!}} CBC Radio}} </ref> Created in 1961 in honour of [[Vincent Massey]], a former [[Governor General of Canada]] and coordinator of the 1951 [[Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences|Massey Report]], 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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-massey-lectures|title=The Massey Lectures &#124; the Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref> In 2003, novelist [[Thomas King (novelist)|Thomas King]] was the first person of [[Cherokee descent|Cherokee]] descent to be invited as a lecturer.<ref>{{cite news| url = https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/thomas-king-still-not-the-indian-you-had-in-mind/article4426067/| title = Thomas King, still not the Indian you had in mind – The Globe and Mail| website = [[The Globe and Mail]]| date = 19 July 2012| last1 = David| first1 = Daniel}} </ref>

== Sponsorship ==
The event is co-sponsored by [[CBC Radio]], [[House of Anansi Press]] and [[Massey College]] in the [[University of Toronto]]. The lectures have been broadcast by the [[CBC Radio One|CBC Radio]] show ''[[Ideas (radio show)|Ideas]]'' since 1965.

Prior to 1989, the lectures were recorded for broadcast in a CBC Radio studio in Toronto. From 1989 to 2002, the lectures were delivered before a live audience at the University of Toronto. Since 2002, the lectures have been presented and recorded for broadcast at public events in five different cities across Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-massey-lectures|title=The Massey Lectures &#124; the Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref>

The lectures are broadcast each November on ''Ideas'' and published simultaneously in book form by House of Anansi Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-massey-lectures|title=The Massey Lectures &#124; the Canadian Encyclopedia}}</ref>

Many of the lectures can be listened to online on the Ideas website, while others can be purchased on various sites.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/past-masseys-lectures-1.4439273| title = Archives {{!}} CBC Massey Lectures {{!}} CBC Radio}} </ref>

In addition to the print version for each individual year, several of the earlier lectures are available in compilations, including The Lost Massey Lectures.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-lost-massey-lectures|title = The Lost Massey Lectures}}</ref>

==Massey lecturers==
[[Image:Barbara Ward.gif|thumb|150px|[[Barbara Ward]], the first Massey Lecturer]]

*1961 – [[Barbara Ward]], ''The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations''
*1962 – [[Northrop Frye]], ''The Educated Imagination''
*1963 – [[Frank Underhill]], ''The Image of Confederation''
*1964 – [[C. B. Macpherson]], ''The Real World of Democracy''
*1965 – [[John Kenneth Galbraith]], ''The Underdeveloped Country''
*1966 – [[Paul Goodman (writer)|Paul Goodman]], ''[[The Moral Ambiguity of America]]''
*1967 – [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], ''[[Conscience for Change]]''
*1968 – [[R. D. Laing]], ''The Politics of the Family''
*1969 – [[George Grant (philosopher)|George Grant]], ''Time as History''
*1970 – [[George Wald]], ''Therefore Choose Life''
*1971 – [[James Corry (academic)|James Corry]], ''The Power of the Law''
*1972 – [[Pierre Dansereau]], ''[[Inscape (disambiguation)|Inscape]] and Landscape''
*1973 – [[Stafford Beer]], ''Designing Freedom''
*1974 – [[George Steiner]], ''Nostalgia for the Absolute''
*1975 – [[J. Tuzo Wilson]], ''Limits to Science''
*1976 – No Lecture
*1977 – [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]], ''Myth and Meaning''
*1978 – [[Leslie Fiedler]], ''The Inadvertent Epic''
*1979 – [[Jane Jacobs]], ''Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association''
*1980 – No Lecture
*1981 – [[Willy Brandt]], ''Dangers and Options: The Matter of World Survival''
*1982 – [[Robert Jay Lifton]], ''Indefensible Weapons''
*1983 – [[Eric Kierans]], ''Globalism and the Nation State''
*1984 – [[Carlos Fuentes]], ''Latin America: At War with the Past''
*1985 – [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[Prisons We Choose to Live Inside]]''
*1986 – No Lecture
*1987 – [[Gregory Baum]], ''Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others''
*1988 – [[Noam Chomsky]], ''[[Necessary Illusions|Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies]]''
*1989 – [[Ursula Franklin]], ''The Real World of Technology''
*1990 – [[Richard Lewontin]], ''Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA''
*1991 – [[Charles Taylor (philosopher)|Charles Taylor]], ''The Malaise of Modernity''
*1992 – [[Robert Heilbroner]], ''Twenty-First Century Capitalism''
*1993 – [[Jean Bethke Elshtain]], ''Democracy on Trial''
*1994 – [[Conor Cruise O'Brien]], ''On the Eve of the Millennium''
*1995 – [[John Ralston Saul]], ''The Unconscious Civilization''
* 1996 – No Lecture (see '''Notes''' below)
* 1997 – [[Hugh Kenner]], ''The Elsewhere Community''
* 1998 – [[Jean Vanier]], ''Becoming Human''
* 1999 – [[Robert Fulford (journalist)|Robert Fulford]], ''The Triumph of Narrative''
* 2000 – [[Michael Ignatieff]], ''The Rights Revolution''
* 2001 – [[Janice Stein]], ''The Cult of Efficiency''
* 2002 – [[Margaret Visser]], ''Beyond Fate''
* 2003 – [[Thomas King (novelist)|Thomas King]], ''The Truth About Stories''
* 2004 – [[Ronald Wright]], ''[[A Short History of Progress]]''
* 2005 – [[Stephen Lewis]], ''[[Race Against Time (Lewis)|Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa]]''
* 2006 – [[Margaret Somerville]], ''The Ethical Imagination''
* 2007 – [[Alberto Manguel]], ''The City of Words''
* 2008 – [[Margaret Atwood]], ''[[Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth]]''
* 2009 – [[Wade Davis (anthropologist)|Wade Davis]], ''The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World''
* 2010 – [[Douglas Coupland]], ''[[Player One|Player One: What is to Become of Us]]''
* 2011 – [[Adam Gopnik]], ''[[Winter: Five Windows on the Season]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_subid=1268|title=Anansi.ca: TITLES|access-date=2011-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927164212/http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_subid=1268|archive-date=2011-09-27|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Neil Turok]], ''The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.houseofanansi.com/The-Universe-Within-P1853.aspx|title=House of Anansi: The Universe Within|access-date=30 May 2012|archive-date=29 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529052842/http://www.houseofanansi.com/The-Universe-Within-P1853.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2013 – [[Lawrence Hill]], ''Blood: The Stuff of Life''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.houseofanansi.com/Blood-P2155.aspx|title=House of Anansi:Blood|publisher=House of Anansi Press|access-date=5 October 2013}}</ref>
* 2014 – [[Adrienne Clarkson]], ''Belonging: The Paradox of Citizenship''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/massey-lectures/2014/11/10/the-2014-cbc-massey-lectures-belonging-the-paradox-of-citizenship/|title=The 2014 CBC Massey Lectures}}</ref>
* 2015 – [[Margaret MacMillan]], ''History's People: Personalities and the Past'' <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/2014/08/04/margaret-macmillan-to-deliver-the-2015-cbc-massey-lectures/|title=Margaret MacMillan to deliver the 2015 CBC Massey Lectures|access-date=2014-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://houseofanansi.com/collections/all/products/historys-people|title=Margaret MacMillan: History's People|access-date=2015-11-05}}</ref>
* 2016 – [[Jennifer Welsh]], ''The Return of History: Conflict, Migration and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://houseofanansi.com/products/the-return-of-history|title=The Return of History|website=House of Anansi Press|access-date=2016-07-11}}</ref>
* 2017 – [[Payam Akhavan]], ''In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://houseofanansi.com/products/in-search-of-a-better-world|title=In Search of A Better World|website=House of Anansi Press|language=en|access-date=2017-07-07}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mcgill.ca/law/about/profs/akhavan-payam|title=Payam Akhavan {{!}} Faculty of Law - McGill University|website=www.mcgill.ca|language=en|access-date=2017-07-07|archive-date=2017-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719141620/https://mcgill.ca/law/about/profs/akhavan-payam|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* 2018 – [[Tanya Talaga]], ''[[All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://site.houseofanansi.com/2018-cbc-massey-lectures|title=Toronto Star investigative journalist Tanya Talaga to deliver 2018 CBC Massey Lectures|website=House of Anansi Press|language=en|access-date=2018-04-27|archive-date=2018-04-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428181541/https://site.houseofanansi.com/2018-cbc-massey-lectures/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*2019 – [[Sally Armstrong (journalist)|Sally Armstrong]], ''Power Shift: The Longest Revolution''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/cbc-massey-lecturer-sally-armstrong-argues-gender-equality-is-crucial-to-a-thriving-future-1.5220275?cmp=newsletter-CBC+Books%3A+July+30|title=CBC Massey Lecturer Sally Armstrong argues gender equality is crucial to a thriving future|date=July 22, 2019|website=CBC|access-date=September 5, 2019}}</ref>
*2020 – [[Ronald Deibert|Ronald J. Deibert]], ''Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society''<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 7, 2020|title=2020 Massey Lectures: Renowned tech expert Ronald J. Deibert to explore disturbing impact of social media|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/2020-massey-lectures-renowned-tech-expert-ronald-j-deibert-to-explore-disturbing-impact-of-social-media-1.5640204|website=CBC News}}</ref> (shortlisted for the 2020 [[Donner Prize]])
*2021 – [[Esi Edugyan]], ''Out of the Sun: On Art, Race and the Future''<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/acclaimed-author-esi-edugyan-to-deliver-2021-massey-lectures-on-art-and-race-1.5965136 "Acclaimed author Esi Edugyan to deliver 2021 Massey Lectures on art and race"]. [[CBC Radio One]], March 29, 2021.</ref>
*2022 – [[Tomson Highway]], ''Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death and Accordions''<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 20, 2022 |title=Tomson Highway to explore life through laughter in 2022 CBC Massey Lectures |url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/2022-massey-lectures-tomson-highway-1.6492707 |access-date=June 20, 2022 |website=CBC.ca}}</ref>
*2023 – [[Astra Taylor]], ''The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart''
*2024 – [[Ian Williams (writer)|Ian Williams]], ''What I Mean To Say: Remaking Conversation in our Time''<ref>Vivian Rashotte, [https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/politeness-constrains-us-massey-lecturer-ian-williams-on-developing-our-own-opinions-amid-cancel-culture-1.7166702 "'Politeness constrains us': Massey lecturer Ian Williams on developing our own opinions amid cancel culture"]. [[CBC News]], April 10, 2024.</ref>

===Notes===
For [[Lawrence Hill]]'s Massey Lectures in 2013, the CBC Radio website featured a visual narrative to accompany that year's theme ''Blood: The Stuff of Life''. The story included full-screen images of blood, animations that visually demonstrated historical attitudes towards blood and videos of people affected culturally by it.

1996 did not feature a lecture because ''Ideas'' producers and the selected Lecturer [[Robert Theobald]] could not agree on an appropriate [[manuscript]] for the programme.<ref name=theobald>{{cite news| pages = A15| last = Valpy| first = Michael| title = The Massey Lectures you won't be hearing| work = Globe & Mail| location = Toronto, Canada| date = 1996-09-17}}</ref> The theme was to have been on the future of work. Theobald later published his manuscript as ''Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millennium'' (1997).<ref name=reworking>{{cite news| issn = 0319-0781| pages = –6| last = Smith| first = Cameron| title = The Massey Lecture we didn't hear| work = Toronto Star| location = Toronto, Ont., Canada| access-date = 2017-01-16| date = 1997-03-29| url = http://www.cameronsmith.ca/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=331; }}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Watts Lectures]]
* [[Massey Foundation]]
* [[Massey Medal]]
* [[Reith Lectures]] 
* [[Boyer Lectures]]

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas CBC Ideas site]
*[https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/past-masseys-lectures-1.4439273 CBC Massey Lectures Archive]
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