Curated public lectures, author talks, philosophical debates, and intellectual events across 31 cities.
Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon · Mount Royal University · Saturday, June 20, 2026 · Calgary
A nuanced, evidence-based exploration of how Alberta navigates the tension between fossil fuel dependency and the global clean energy shift.
Panel: Yanis Varoufakis, Anne Applebaum · Roy Thomson Hall · Saturday, June 20, 2026 · Toronto
The world-class Munk Debates return. Two of the sharpest minds in global politics argue whether democratic institutions are resilient enough to withstand the ag…
Prof. Daniel Kahneman · Harvard Book Store · Thursday, July 9, 2026 · Boston
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman reflects on a lifetime of work understanding human cognition — System 1 and System 2 thinking, cognitive bias, and the unsettling…
Dr. Sylvia Earle · Royal Ontario Museum · Wednesday, July 15, 2026 · Toronto
The legendary oceanographer and National Geographic explorer takes audiences to the unexplored regions of the deep ocean — a frontier more alien than the surfac…
Philip Pullman · Royal Festival Hall · Saturday, July 18, 2026 · London
Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, argues that stories are not entertainment but a primary means by which we understand ethics, …
Neil deGrasse Tyson · Cooper Union Great Hall · Wednesday, July 22, 2026 · New york
Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson makes the case that cosmic perspective — understanding our true place in the universe — is not only …
Colm Tóibín · National Library of Ireland · Thursday, July 30, 2026 · Dublin
Novelist Colm Tóibín explores the women who haunt Irish literary imagination — Nora Barnacle, Molly Bloom, the mothers of O'Brien and Trevor — and argues that I…
Roxane Gay · 92nd Street Y · Thursday, August 6, 2026 · New york
Writer and cultural critic Roxane Gay explores the politics of body, appetite, and ambivalence — drawing on her memoir Hunger to examine how bodies become battl…