Author Talks & Lectures
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Library Branch
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3 monthly speakers x 3 monthly topics = 1, 000 ideas! Discover new ideas, ways of thinking and styles of presentation. While our speakers appear to have nothing in common, Treehouse knows that where three ideas collide, count...
3 monthly speakers x 3 monthly topics = 1, 000 ideas! Discover new ideas, ways of thinking and styles of presentation. While our speakers appear to have nothing in common, Treehouse knows that where three ideas collide, count...
Professor Gillian McCann (Nipissing University) discusses her research revealing a surprising picture of Toronto in the Victorian/Edwardian period. Drawing from her book, Vanguard of the New Age: The Toronto Theosophical Soci...
Frederick Sweet, of the University of Toronto, presents Sophocles' brilliant play, where we are confronted by the critical issue of a prenatal curse which precipitates the breaking of two profound taboos. Is there any room in...
Find inspiration and hone your craft with some of the hottest writers in Toronto. For young writers 16-30. Dalton Higgins (Vibe, The Source). Dalton inhabits the worlds of digital culture, hip hop and popular culture - and co...
Dr John Greenwood of University of Toronto presents Plato's Symposium, a rousing philosophical discussion on the nature of love. In his characteristically challenging fashion, Socrates alerts the group to their own inadequate...
Join us for a special presentation by local historian and author Jane Pitfield. Come and learn about how Thornclife became the community it is today....
In Sri Lankan Buddhist mythology, if a person desires too much in life, they will be reborn as a peréthaya--an insatiable hungry ghost. "The peréthayas that appear to us are always our ancestors, and it is our duty to free th...
Find inspiration and hone your craft with some of the hottest writers in Toronto. For young writers 16-30. Sheila Heti's book How Should a Person Be? was chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2012. S...
Dr. Shabir Ally, president of the Islamic Information & Dawah Centre (Ph.D from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Qur'anic Exegesis) speaks on the rise of intellectual activity among Muslims during the Abbasi...