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"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]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty: A Life of Service / Robin Koning
• Past Beatty Lectures
• Note on the Selection of Lectures
• Interplay of East and West, Points of Conflict and Cooperation (1955) / Glenda Sluga
• Asia Today: Revolutionary Change in the Twentieth Century (1968) / Laifong Leung
• How Long Have We Got? (1971) / Catherine Happer
• Genetic Engineering: Ambush or Opportunity? (1972) / Francoise Baylis
• Emergence of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1975) / Victoria Kaspi
• Interpretation in Music and in Life (1975) / Nora Chastain
• Swing to the Right? Socio-political Changes in the Western World (1981) / Helmut K. Anheier
• Apartheid: Dying or Resurgent? (1982) / Shireen Hassim
• New World Order (1993) / Kathryn Stoner
• Right of Interference: Progress and Failure in Conflict Prevention in an Age of Global Anxiety (1996) / Payam Akhavan
• Lessons in Living from the Dying (1997) / David Clark
• Canada in the World: The Challenges Ahead (2005) / Christopher Sands
• Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs (2010) / Dax Dasilva
• Challenge of Regressive Democracy (2017) / Rowan Williams
• Difficult Women, Bad Feminists, and Unruly Bodies (2018) / Debra Thompson.

Contributors:

Hooton, Brett , editor

Koning, Robin (Digital marketing and outreach associate) , editor

Thurston, Meaghan , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Online version: With the world to choose from (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : Published for Research and Innovation, McGill University by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 — ISBN 0228008018; ISBN 9780228008019)

Subjects:

Beatty, Edward Wentworth, Sir, 1878-1943

McGill University

Speeches, addresses, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PN6121 .W58 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780228008019 (electronic bk.)
0228008018 (electronic bk.)
022800800X [Invalid]
9780228008002 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1261366970

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6679153 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302335092