Description
Change Through Exchange:
Established in 1952, the Beatty Lecture is McGill’s most distinguished and endowed lectureship, and one of Canada’s longest running lecture series. The Beatty Lecture aims to foster the exchange of ideas by bringing the worlds leading thinkers to McGill to give a public lecture on a subject of their choice and spend one or two days engaging with McGill faculty and students. The Lecture takes place in the fall, on the Universitys downtown campus.
From the Nobel to the Pulitzer, from the Kremlin to Wimbledon, from Cambridge to Carnegie Hall, McGill has hosted a diverse range of prestigious voices under the Beatty Lecture banner. In recent years, our speakers have been conservation advocate Jane Goodall, authors Roxane Gay and Margaret Atwood, philosopher Charles Taylor, psychiatrist and bioengineer Dr. Karl Diesseroth, pianist Alfred Brendel, and social entrepreneur Muhammad Yunus. The topics that lecturers have covered are equally eclectic and provocative, including the environment, human rights, urbanization, evolution, comedy, philosophy, and much more.