Past Speakers
Select “View Event” from the listings below for details on the lecture topic, biography of the speaker and to view a video recording of the lecture. Lectures have been video recorded since June 2019.
Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell
Friday, October 10, 2025
Writing History: A Conversation Between Two Storytellers
Friday, September 26, 2025
Agatha Christie and Archaeology
Friday, June 6, 2025
Joseph Stalin and the Origins and Legacy of Stalinism
Friday, May 2, 2025
The Lives of Writers
Friday, April 4, 2025
The Irish in Canada: A Mildly Subversive History
Friday, March 7, 2025
The Music of Talk
Friday, February 7, 2025
Crawford Lake in Milton, Ontario and the Anthropocene
Friday, January 10, 2025
Sir John A. Macdonald in History and Fiction:
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
By The Ghost Light: Wars, Memory, and Families
Friday, November 8, 2024
Family business and the private sector’s role in Canadian prosperity
Friday, October 25, 2024
The State of our Politics
Friday, September 27, 2024
In conversation with former Ambassador and MP Chris Alexander
Friday, May 10, 2024
Park Bagger: Exploring Qausuittuq (Kow-soo-ee-took) National Park In the High Arctic
Friday, April 12, 2024
Modest Hopes: Homes and Stories of Toronto’s Workers from the 1820s to the 1920s
Friday, February 9, 2024
Bomb Girls: Trading Aprons for Ammo – Munitions Production in Scarborough during World War Two
Friday, January 12, 2024
‘It’ll never happen to me’ is happening to over 2.5 million Canadians relying on foodbanks
Friday, November 24, 2023
Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Holocaust Distortion as a new form of Holocaust Denial: The Case of Poland
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Uncovering the Past: Tales from a Passionate Genealogist
Wednesday, October 25, 2023