With the World to Choose From : Celebrating Seven Decades of the Beatty Lecture at McGill University

Now more relevant than ever, seven decades of McGill University’s Beatty Lectures, in print together for the first time. The Beatty Lecture (est. 1954) is McGill University’s most anticipated annual event. Offering insight to some of the most significant moments our time, this collection spotlights fifteen outstanding Beatty Lectures, spanning seven decades, and provides a historical, behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada’s longest-running lecture series. "The Beatty Lecture, established in 1954 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, had 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 together 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."-- Provided by publisher 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. Cover WITH THE WORLD TO CHOOSE FROM Title Copyright Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty: A Life of Service Past Beatty Lectures A Note on the Selection of Lectures The Interplay of East and West, Points of Conflict and Cooperation (1955) Introduction Asia Today: Revolutionary Change in the Twentieth Century (1968) Introduction How Long Have We Got? (1971) Introduction Genetic Engineering: Ambush or Opportunity? (1972) Introduction The Emergence of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1975) Introduction Interpretation in Music and in Life (1975) Introduction A Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World (1981) Introduction Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent? (1982) Introduction The New World Order (1993) Introduction Right of Interference: Progress and Failure in Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety (1996) Introduction Lessons in Living from the Dying (1997) Introduction Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead (2005) Introduction Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity’s Most Pressing Needs (2010) Introduction The Challenge of Regressive Democracy (2017) Introduction Difficult Women, Bad Feminists, and Unruly Bodies (2018) Introduction Permissions