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Mar 29, 2024
Nine Minutes that Changed the World
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In 1876, the poet Stéphane Mallarmé published a poem entitled "The Afternoon of a Faun." He doubted anyone could set it to music successfully. But composer Claude Debussy did exactly that. The music runs only about nine minutes long, but it helped give birth to the modern era as we know it. *This episode originally aired on May 30, 2017.
Mar 28, 2024
Putin Critic Garry Kasparov: Winter is Here
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Nearly a decade after Russia annexed Crimea, Russia’s war on Ukraine is entering its third year. As Putin is starting yet another term — Russian opposition activist Gary Kasparov’s warnings from his book, Winter is Coming, are playing out in real time. Nahlah Ayed speaks with Garry Kasparov.
Mar 27, 2024
Conflicted: a Ukrainian journalist covers her nation at war
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“We face a continual tension between holding the government to account, and not wanting the enemy to undermine us by exploiting bad news," says Ukrainian journalist Veronika Melkozerova. She delivered this year's Peter Stursberg Foreign Correspondents Lecture, focusing her talk on what Ukrainian journalists confront daily: patriotism versus journalism.
Mar 26, 2024
Kate Beaton: What's lost when working-class voices are not heard
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Kate Beaton and her family have deep roots in hard-working, rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In her 2024 Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture, the popular cartoonist points out what is lost when working-class voices are shut out of opportunities in the worlds of arts, culture, and media.
Mar 25, 2024
CBC Massey Lectures: Audience Q&A with Astra Taylor
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Insecurity has become a "defining feature of our time," says 2023 CBC Massey lecturer Astra Taylor. She explores how rising inequality, declining mental health, and the threat of authoritarianism, originate from a social order built on insecurity. In this episode, Astra Taylor answers audience questions from the cross-Canada tour. *This episode originally aired on Nov. 27, 2023.
Mar 18, 2024
CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow
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Human beings will never be totally secure, especially not on a planet that has been destabilized. In Astra Taylor's final Massey Lecture, she offers some hope and solutions. Taylor suggests cultivating an ethic of insecurity — one that embraces our existential insecurity. The experience of insecurity, she says, can offer us a path to wisdom — a wisdom that can guide not only our personal lives but also our collective endeavours.
Mar 18, 2024
CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift
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Insecurity has become a "defining feature of our time," says CBC Massey lecturer Astra Taylor. The Winnipeg-born writer and filmmaker explores how rising inequality, declining mental health, the climate crisis, and the threat of authoritarianism originate from a social order built on insecurity. In her first lecture, she explores the existential insecurity we can’t escape — and the manufactured insecurity imposed on us from above.
Mar 18, 2024
CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners?
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In Astra Taylor's second Massey Lecture, she argues our social order runs on insecurity. But we’re also guaranteed the right to “security of the person.” The wealthy barons of the past and present have defined what security means for themselves — but the rest of us, ordinary commoners, have fought for something else instead.
Mar 18, 2024
CBC Massey Lectures | #3: Consumed by Curiosity
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It’s a paradox — we live in the most prosperous era in human history, but it’s also an era of profound insecurity. Massey lecturer Astra Taylor suggests that history shows that increased material security helps people be more open-minded, tolerant, and curious. But rising insecurity does the reverse — it drives us apart.
Mar 18, 2024
CBC Massey Lectures | #4: Beyond Human Security
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The burning of fossil fuels causes the past, present and future to collide in destructive ways. In her fourth CBC Massey Lecture, Astra Taylor tells us that as the climate alters, evolved biological clocks erratically speed up or slow down, causing plants and animals to fall out of sync. In a world this out of joint, how could we possibly feel secure? But there is a path forward.
Mar 29 | 00:54:08
Nine Minutes that Changed the World
Mar 28 | 00:54:08
Putin Critic Garry Kasparov: Winter is Here
Mar 27 | 00:54:08
Conflicted: a Ukrainian journalist covers her nation at war
Mar 26 | 00:54:08
Kate Beaton: What's lost when working-class voices are not heard
Mar 25 | 00:54:07
CBC Massey Lectures: Audience Q&A with Astra Taylor
Mar 18 | 01:02:08
CBC Massey Lectures | #5: Escaping the Burrow
Mar 18 | 01:00:02
CBC Massey Lectures | #1: Cura’s Gift
Mar 18 | 00:58:34
CBC Massey Lectures | #2: Barons or Commoners?
Mar 18 | 01:04:07
CBC Massey Lectures | #3: Consumed by Curiosity
Mar 18 | 01:03:39
CBC Massey Lectures | #4: Beyond Human Security
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