a painting of Ancient Greeks
What can Ancient Greece teach us about anti-intellectualism, and how we might guard against it? Dr. Jacqueline Feke looks back to Ancient Greece to pinpoint remarkable similarities of anti-intellectualism between then and now, and draws on what Ancient Greek philosophers and mathematicians had to say in defense of the intellectual.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Defending the Intellectuals: Lessons from Ancient Greece

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For the 2026 CBC-JHI Lecture, Dr. Jacqueline Feke, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo and Visiting Public Humanities Faculty Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute will speak about intellectual arguments in Ancient Greece. This talk will be recorded for an episode of CBC's Ideas. 

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