# Conferências Massey

As Conferências Massey (em inglês: Massey Lectures) são palestras anuais que transcorrem durante uma semana, sobre tópicos políticos, culturais e filosóficos, no Canadá.
Surgiram em 1961, denominadas em memória de Vincent Massey., governador-geral do Canadá. Seu propósito é "habilitar autoridades competentes a reportar os resultado e de estudos originais sobre assuntos fundamentais de interesse contemporâneo". Dentre os mais destacados conferencistas incluem-se Northrop Frye, John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Margaret Atwood, Ursula Franklin, e os laureados com o Nobel Martin Luther King Jr., George Wald, Willy Brandt e Doris Lessing.

## Conferencistas Massey

* 1961 – Barbara Ward, The Rich Nations and the Poor Nations
* 1962 – Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination
* 1963 – Frank Underhill, The Image of Confederation
* 1964 – C. B. Macpherson, The Real World of Democracy
* 1965 – John Kenneth Galbraith, The Underdeveloped Country
* 1966 – Paul Goodman, The Moral Ambiguity of America
* 1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Conscience for Change
* 1968 – Ronald Laing, The Politics of the Family
* 1969 – George Grant, Time as History
* 1970 – George Wald, Therefore Choose Life
* 1971 – James Corry, The Power of the Law
* 1972 – Pierre Dansereau, Inscape and Landscape
* 1973 – Stafford Beer, Designing Freedom
* 1974 – George Steiner, Nostalgia for the Absolute
* 1975 – J. Tuzo Wilson, Limits to Science
* 1976 – No Lecture
* 1977 – Claude Lévi-Strauss, Myth and Meaning
* 1978 – Leslie Fiedler, The Inadvertent Epic
* 1979 – Jane Jacobs, Canadian Cities and Sovereignty Association
* 1980 – No Lecture
* 1981 – Willy Brandt, Dangers and Options: The Matter of World Survival
* 1982 – Robert Jay Lifton, Indefensible Weapons
* 1983 – Eric Kierans, Globalism and the Nation State
* 1984 – Carlos Fuentes, Latin America: At War with the Past
* 1985 – Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
* 1986 – Harry J. Boyle, Growing up with Canada
* 1987 – Gregory Baum, Compassion and Solidarity: The Church for Others
* 1988 – Noam Chomsky, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
* 1989 – Ursula Franklin, The Real World of Technology
* 1990 – Richard Lewontin, Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
* 1991 – Charles Taylor, The Malaise of Modernity
* 1992 – Robert Heilbroner, Twenty-First Century Capitalism
* 1993 – Jean Bethke Elshtain, Democracy on Trial
* 1994 – Conor Cruise O'Brien, On the Eve of the Millennium
* 1995 – John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
* 1996 – No Lecture
* 1997 – Hugh Kenner, The Elsewhere Community
* 1998 – Jean Vanier, Becoming Human
* 1999 – Robert Fulford, The Triumph of Narrative
* 2000 – Michael Ignatieff, The Rights Revolution
* 2001 – Janice Stein, The Cult of Efficiency
* 2002 – Margaret Visser, Beyond Fate
* 2003 – Thomas King, The Truth About Stories
* 2004 – Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
* 2005 – Stephen Lewis, Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa
* 2006 – Margaret Somerville, The Ethical Imagination
* 2007 – Alberto Manguel, The City of Words
* 2008 – Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
* 2009 – Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
* 2010 – Douglas Coupland, Player One: What is to Become of Us
* 2011 – Adam Gopnik, Winter: Five Windows on the Season
* 2012 – Neil Turok, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos