Big Ideas Video
Big Ideas offers lectures on a variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science.... By nature of its lecture format, pacing and inquisitive approach, it is the antithesis of the prevailing sound-bit
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Climate Reality
A panel discussion on climate science and climate justice with ...
A panel discussion on climate science and climate justice with the world's foremost climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen, as well as Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and Clayton Thomas-Muller, the Indigenous Environmental Network's Tar Sands Campaigner. The event moderator is Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux.
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S. James Gates, Jr. on Does Reality Have a Genetic Basis?
S. James Gates Jr., Director of the Center for String ...
S. James Gates Jr., Director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland, discusses the question "Does Reality Have a Genetic Basis?"
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Nick Mount on Sylvia Plath's Ariel
As part of the Literature for Our Time series, University ...
As part of the Literature for Our Time series, University of Toronto English Professor Nick Mount examines Ariel, Sylvia Plath's posthumously published collection of poems.
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Stephen J. Zipperstein on Antisemitism
Stephen J. Zipperstein of Stanford University speaks on Antisemitism: The ...
Stephen J. Zipperstein of Stanford University speaks on Antisemitism: The Politicization of Prejudice in the Contemporary World. The lecture was recorded on February 10, 2003.
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Todd Endelman on Antisemitism - 2003
Todd Endelman of the University of Michigan and Director of ...
Todd Endelman of the University of Michigan and Director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies speaks on Antisemitism: The Politicization of Prejusdice in the Contemporary World. The lecture was recorded on February 10, 2003.
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MichaelR. Marrus on Antisemitism - 2003
MichaelR. Marrus is Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at ...
MichaelR. Marrus is Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto. He spoke on Antisemitism: The Politicization of Prejudice in the Contemporary World. The lecture was recorded on February 10, 2003.
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Stewart Brand on his book Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand delivers a lecture focusing on his book Whole ...
Stewart Brand delivers a lecture focusing on his book Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto.
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Bhikhu Parekh on Secularism and the Role of Religion in Publ
Lord Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at ...
Lord Bhikhu Parekh is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at the Universities of Westminster and Hull and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of several books in political philosophy including Rethinking Multiculturalism and A New Politics of Identity. This lecture on Secularism and the Role of Religion in Public Life was hosted by the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto on April 6, 2010.
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John Mighton on The Ubiquitous Bell Curve
John Mighton of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical ...
John Mighton of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences delivers a lecture on The Ubiquitous Bell Curve. The talk focuses on JUMP Math and Mighton's work helping teachers learn how to excite students about mathematics.
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Robert Adams on The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Robert Adams discusses Mohsin Hamid's 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, ...
Robert Adams discusses Mohsin Hamid's 2007 novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was short listed for the Booker Prize.
