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The complete list of previous lectures provides more information about the scholars who have delivered Hagey Lectures and student colloquia over the years, and links to video archives of many of the events.
1970: "The Human Perspective" delivered by Dr. George Wald.
1971: "The Present Day Relation of Science and Society" & "Modern Developments in Cosmology" delivered by Dr. Fred Hoyle.
1972: "Genetics and the Destiny of Man" & "Stonehenge" delivered by Dr. David Suzuki.
1974: "A Critique of Historical Reason", "In It and At It: Knowledge", and "Getting Where? Purpose" delivered by Dr. Geoffrey Elton.
1975: "The Baroque Orchestra", "The Baroque Revival", and "Gilbert and Sullivan" delivered by Dr. Boyd Neel.
1976: "Canada in the Year 2000: Where are We Going?" delivered by Maxwell Henderson and Arthur Maloney.
1977: "Stress without distress" and "Creativity and science" delivered by Dr. Hans Selye.
1978: "The Nature and Sources of Peace", "The Evolution of Peace", and "A Policy for Peace" delivered by Kenneth E. Boulding and Elise Boulding.
1979: ""Beyond Realism: The Cult of Beauty" and "Beyond Realism: Twentieth Century Mystics" delivered by Sir Ernst Gombrich.
1982: "Writing the Male Character" delivered by Margaret Atwood.
One of two 1983 lectures: "The Concept of Justice in International Relations" delivered by Dr. Hedley Bull.
1985: "The Origins of Sex" delivered by Dr. Lynn Margulis.
1984: "Where the North Meets the South" delivered by Mr. Nani A. Palkhivala.
1987: "The Subsidence of Venice" delivered by Dr. Allan Freeze.
1988: "Dangerous Myths About Pain" delivered by Dr. Ronald Melzack.
1989: "Family Images and Sexual Problems in the French Revolution" delivered by Dr. Lynn Hunt.
1990: "Science, Fiction and Things In Between" delivered by Dr. Gregory Benford.
1992: "The Current Work of Frank Gehry" delivered by Mr. Frank O. Gehry.
1993: "Intellectual property in an age of information: what’s at stake for the academy" delivered by Dr. Andrea A. Lunsford.
1995: "The molecular dance in chemical reaction" delivered by Dr. John C. Polanyi.
1995: Can neurobiology teach us anything about consciousness?" delivered by Dr. Patricia Smith Churchland.
1996: "Power versus the public good: the conundrum of individualism and the citizen" delivered by Dr. John Ralston Saul.
1997: "The expanding prison: is there an alternative?" delivered by David Cayley.
1999: "The paradoxical Lewis Carroll" delivered by Dr. Morton Cohen.
2000: "Human rights and the rights of states - are they on a collision course?" delivered by Dr. Michael Ignatieff.
2002: "Environmental echoes - immunological learning from the environment" delivered by Dr. John Stanford.
2003: "In other words: poetic license and the incarnation of history" delivered by Atom Egoyan.
2005: “The curse and potential of greed: social and political issues arising from acquisitiveness” delivered by John Meisel.
2006: “U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib to today” delivered by Seymour Hersh.
2007: "When we get to Mars, will our legs be flippers? What space medicine teaches Canadians about life on Earth" delivered by Roberta Bondar.
Alternate poster for 2007 Roberta Bondar lecture.
2009: "Earth democracy: beyond dead democracy and killing economies" delivered by Vandana Shiva.
2010: "The high cost of intellectual poverty: how myths about intelligence and talent are slowing human progress" delivered by John Mighton.
2011: "How did mathematics become possible?" delivered by Ian Hacking.
2012: "Will Africa's resource scramble lead to development or disaster?" delivered by Paul Collier, Oxford Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and critically acclaimed author.
2014: "Fair Society, Healthy Lives" delivered by Sir Michael Marmot, President of the British Lung Foundation, and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
2015: "Love in the Time of Cholera: Canadian Edition" delivered by Dr. Thomas King, award-winning novelist, screenwriter, essayist and performer, and recipient of a 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award.
2017: "Memory & the Aging Brain," delivered by Dr. Carol A. Barnes, neuroscientist and Director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
2018: "Weapons of Math Destruction," delivered by Dr. Cathy O'Neil, author, data scientist, and founder of O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing.
2019: "Living Indigenous Law in Canada," delivered by Dr. John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School.
