The Hagey Lectures have been delivered by a wide range of celebrated scholars, artists, and change makers over the last 50+ years.
Recordings of many recent lectures are available in a playlist on the University of Waterloo's YouTube channel. Video archives of most earlier lectures are kept by Instructional Technologies & Multimedia Services (ITMS). See the table below for individual links.
| Date(s) | Title | Lecturer |
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| October 5, 2023 |
Tapestry Thinking |
Nalini Nadkarni Professor of Biology at the University of Utah |
| October 19, 2022 |
Holding the Mirror up to Nature |
Antoni Cimolino Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival |
| October 27, 2021 |
Emergency: The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success |
Dr. Mark Jaccard Director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University and an author with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| March 25, 2019 |
Living Indigenous Law in Canada |
Dr. John Borrows Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School |
| February 7, 2018 | Weapons of Math Destruction |
Dr. Cathy O'Neil Author, data scientist, and founder of O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing |
| March 22, 2017 |
Memory & the Aging Brain |
Dr. Carol A. Barnes Neuroscientist and Director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona, Tucson |
| November 17, 2015 | Love in the Time of Cholera: Canadian Edition |
Dr. Thomas King Award-winning novelist, screenwriter, essayist and performer, and recipient of a 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award |
| November 3, 2014 | Fair Society, Healthy Lives |
Sir Michael Marmot President of the British Lung Foundation, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians |
| September 29, 2013 |
Choice or Accident: The Outbreak of World War One |
Dr. Margaret MacMillan Officer of the Order of Canada, member of the Royal Society of Literature, and professor of history at Oxford University |
| November 22, 2012 |
Will Africa's resource scramble lead to development or disaster? |
Dr. Paul Collier Oxford Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, critically acclaimed author |
| October 3, 2011 |
Dr. Ian Hacking Internationally acclaimed, award-winning Canadian philosopher, author, and a Companion of the Order of Canada |
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| November 29, 2010 |
John Mighton Mathematician, best-selling author, award-winning playwright, and founder of Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies (JUMP) |
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| November 30, 2010 | Student colloquium (untitled) | |
| October 21, 2009 |
Earth democracy: beyond dead democracy and killing economies. |
Internationally renowned physicist, ecologist, activist, and author |
| October 22, 2009 |
Student colloquium |
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| November 14, 2007 | When we get to Mars, will our legs be flippers? What space medicine teaches Canadians about life on Earth |
Dr. Roberta Bondar Canada's first female astronaut |
| November 8, 2006 | U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: the road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib to today |
Seymour Hersh American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist, author and regular contributor to the New Yorker |
| November 28, 2005 |
The curse and potential of greed: social and political issues arising from acquisitiveness |
John Meisel, C.C., F.R.S.C. Internationally acclaimed political scientist, author and winner of numerous prestigious scholarly awards and a Companion of the Order of Canada |
| November 29, 2005 | Student colloquium (untitled) | |
| March 2, 2005 | Thinking about technology: defining technology as practice |
Dr. Ursula M. Franklin Internationally acclaimed physicist, engineer, feminist, peace activist, environmentalist, and humanist |
| November 3, 2003 | In other words: poetic license and the incarnation of history |
Atom Egoyan Internationally-renowned, award-winning, filmmaker |
| November 21, 2002 | Environmental echoes - immunological learning from the environment |
Dr. John Stanford Professor of Microbiology/ Vaccine Developer |
| January 24, 2001 |
Human rights and the rights of states - are they on a collision course? |
Dr. Michael Ignatieff Harvard University, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School of Government. Distinguished author, historian and journalist |
| January 25, 2001 |
Student colloquium |
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November 10, 1999 |
Optimal experience and the quality of life |
Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, California |
| March 31, 1999 |
Dr. Morton Cohen Professor Emeritus, City University of New York; Lewis Carroll expert |
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| April 1, 1999 |
Student colloquium The many faces of Lewis Carroll’s Alice |
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| November 19, 1997 | The expanding prison: is there an alternative? |
David Cayley Canadian writer |
| November 20, 1996 | Power versus the public good: the conundrum of individualism and the citizen |
Dr. John Ralston Saul Canadian writer |
| October 18, 1995 |
Dr. Patricia Smith Churchland Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego |
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Student colloquium Feeling reasons: What happens to free will if the brain is a causal mechanism? |
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| January 17, 1995 | The molecular dance in chemical reaction |
Dr. John C. Polanyi 1986 Nobel Prize Laureate; Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto |
| January 18, 1995 |
Student colloquium |
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| October 27, 1993 | Intellectual property in an age of information: what’s at stake for the academy |
Dr. Andrea A. Lunsford Professor of English, Vice Chair for Rhetoric and Composition, Ohio State University |
| October 28, 1993 | Discussion with A. Lunsford: Literacy and other topics | |
| November 1, 1992 | The current work of Frank Gehry |
Mr. Frank O. Gehry Architect, Principal-in-Charge, Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Santa Monica |
| October 22, 1991 | Biotechnology & Bioethics: collaboration or combat |
Dr. Abbyann Lynch Director, Bioethics Department, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto |
| October 21, 1991 |
Student colloquium Assessing bioengineering and biotechnology: the bioethical imperative |
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| October 3 & 4 1990 | Science, fiction, and things in between |
Dr. Gregory Benford Professor of Physics, University of California, Irvine |
| November 27, 1989 | Family images and sexual problems in the french revolution |
Dr. Lynn Hunt Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania |
| November 28, 1989 |
Student colloquium |
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| October 25 1988 | Dangerous myths about pain |
Dr. Ronald Melzack E.P. Taylor Professor of Psychology, McGill University |
| October 26 1988 |
Student colloquium |
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| October 20 1987 | The subsidence of Venice |
Dr. R. Allan Freeze Professor of Geological Sciences, University of British Columbia |
| October 21 1987 |
Student colloquium Groundwater contamination technical analysis and social decision making |
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| October 21, 1986 | Prospects for artificial intelligence |
Dr. Joseph Weizenbaum Professor of Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| October 22, 1986 |
Student colloquium |
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| October 28, 1985 | The origins of sex |
Dr. Lynn Margulis Professor of Biology, Boston University |
| October 29, 1985 |
Student colloquium Early life on Earth |
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| October 31, 1984 | Where the north meets the south |
Mr. Nani A. Palkhivala Noted Author, Teacher, Scholar and Lawyer, India |
| November 1, 1984 |
Student colloquium |
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| October 12, 1983 | The concept of justice in international relations |
Dr. Hedley Bull Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, Oxford University, Fellow of Balliol College |
| October 13, 1983 |
Student colloquium |
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| October 19, 1983 | The space between the stars |
Dr. Gerhard Herzberg Distinguished Research Scientist,National Research Council of Canada |
| October 20, 1983 |
Student colloquium |
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| February 9, 1982 | Writing the male character |
Ms. Margaret Atwood Canadian Writer (Novelist, poet and critic), Toronto, Ontario |
| February 10, 1982 | Answers to frequently asked questions | |
| October 22, 1979 | Beyond realism: the cult of beauty |
Sir Ernst Gombrich Director (Retired), Warburg Institute, London |
| October 23, 1979 | Beyond realism: twentieth century mystics | |
| October 17 & 18, 1978 | The african origin of mankind: current evidence |
Mr. Richard Leakey Director, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya |
| January 16, 1978 | Kenneth Boulding: The nature and sources of peace |
Professor Kenneth E. Boulding (Economics) and Professor Elise Boulding (Sociology) Institute of Behavioural Science, University of Colorado |
| January 17, 1978 | Elise Boulding: The evolution of peace | |
| January 18, 1978 | Kenneth and Elise Boulding: A policy for peace | |
| January 24, 1977 | Stress without distress |
Dr. Hans Selye Professor of Experimental Medicine and Surgery, University of Manitoba |
| January 25, 1977 | Creativity and science | |
| February 23, 1976 | Canada in the year 2000: where are we going? |
Mr. Maxwell Henderson Past Auditor General of Canada |
| January 27, 1976 |
Mr. Arthur Maloney Ontario Ombudsman |
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| January 27, 1975 | The Baroque Orchestra |
Dr. Boyd Neel Conductor and Musicologist, Retired Dean of Music, University of Toronto |
| January 28, 1975 | The Baroque Revival | |
| January 29, 1975 | Gilbert and Sullivan | |
| January 28, 1974 | A critique of historical reason |
Dr. Geoffrey Elton Professor of History,University of Cambridge |
| January 29, 1974 | In it and at it: knowledge | |
| January 30, 1974 | Getting where? Purpose | |
| February, 1972 | Genetics and the destiny of man |
Dr. David Suzuki Professor of Zoology, University of British Columbia |
| February 15, 1971 | Stonehenge |
Dr. Fred Hoyle Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy, and Director, Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Cambridge University |
| February 16, 1971 | The present day relation of science and society | |
| February 17, 1971 | Modern developments in cosmology | |
| January 30, 1970 | The human perspective |
Dr. George Wald Nobel Laureate in Medicine for 1967, Professor of Biology, Harvard University |