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- The Novel and the City: Writing Urban Lives — Ian Rankin · Edinburgh International Book Festival · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Prof. Shoshana Zuboff · San Francisco Main Library · Thursday, August 27, 2026
- Revisiting the Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell · Roy Thomson Hall · Thursday, September 10, 2026
- The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does — Prof. Brian Cox · Royal Albert Hall · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Between the World and Me: A Decade Later — Ta-Nehisi Coates · Brooklyn Academy of Music · Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist — Kate Raworth · SFJAZZ Center · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- Homo Deus: The Next Century — Yuval Noah Harari · Massey Hall · Friday, October 2, 2026
- The City and Its Discontents — Elif Shafak · Barbican Centre · Thursday, October 8, 2026
- Islamicate Cities: Memory, Migration and Material Culture — Lecture by Reza Aslan — Reza Aslan · Aga Khan Museum · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Margaret Atwood: New Work Reading and Q&A — Margaret Atwood · Toronto Reference Library — Appel Salon · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Writers & Company Presents: Roxane Gay on Memoir and Public Life — Roxane Gay · Harbourfront Centre (Theatre) · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- New Perspectives in Contemporary Sculpture: Curator's Tour with Anique Jordan — Anique Jordan · Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Ed Burtynsky — Photography, Industry, and the Environment — Ed Burtynsky · Art Gallery of Ontario (Audio/Visual Hall) · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Indigenous Futures: Curating Contemporary Indigenous Art — Wanda Nanibush · Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Decolonizing the Canon: Indigenous Voices in Contemporary Museums — Niigaan Sinclair, curator panel including Indigenous artists · Art Gallery of Ontario — Weston Family Learning Centre · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- Appel Salon: Margaret Atwood — New Work Reading & Q&A — Margaret Atwood · Toronto Reference Library (Appel Salon) · Tuesday, August 18, 2026