Notable Speakers at Media@McGill
Seymour Hersh
2006 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Report from Washington"
October 26th, 2006
John Durham Peters
Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar Lecture: 鈥淔ree Speech in a Global Era鈥�
March 12, 2007
Tariq Ali
2007 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "New Wars, New Media"
October 4, 2007
Amy Goodman
Keynote at CKUT conference: "Media democracy and community radio"
October 19, 2007
Gilberto Gil
2008 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Digital Culture: Re-inventing America鈥檚 New World Dream"
February 15-16, 2008
Sara Ahmed
"Killing Joy: Feminism and the History of Happiness"
March 20, 2009
Angela Davis
2009 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Media, Race and Power: The Case of Oscar Grant"
October 1, 2009
Preston Manning
In conversation with Darin Barney on the politics of science and technology in Canada
November 12, 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich
2010 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Reinforcing the Culture of Optimism"
November 18, 2010
Gore Vidal
2011 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Questioning Gore Vidal on the Media"
April 29, 2011
Miranda July
Book launch: It Chooses You
November 14, 2011
Lisa Gitelman
"New Media and Scholarly Communication: A History"
January 12, 2012
Al Gore
2013 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: Al Gore on Technology and the Future of Democratization
November 5, 2013
Walter Benn Michaels
Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Diversit茅, egalit茅 ou th茅芒tralit茅? From Mallarm茅 and Meillassoux to Arthur Ou and Mabou"
October 7, 2014
Glenn Greenwald
2014 Beaverbrook Annual Lecturer
October 23, 2014
Steven Salaita
Uncivil Rites: Academic Freedom and the Corporate University
March 13, 2015
Yes Men / Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno
The Yes Men Are Revolting!
April 8, 2015
Wendy Brown
2015 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Neoliberalism Contra Democracy: Ten Theses.鈥�
October 13, 2015
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
2016 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture
October 24, 2016
Edward Snowden
Public talk via videoconference
November 2, 2016
Alanis Obomsawin & Jarrett Martineau
2018 Beaverbrook Annual Lecture: "Insurgent and Resurgent Media"
April 4, 2018