Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

Upcoming

Live Online Event • Mon Sep 21 • 7:30pm
Inheritance
with Kaie Kellough and Ian Williams
Podcast • Tue Sep 22
Confronting History
with Francesca Ekwuyasi and Shaena Lambert
Live Online Event • Tue Sep 22 • 7:30pm
National Launch for Burning Sugar
with Cicely Belle Blain
Podcast • Fri Sep 25
Neurodiversity and The Ever-Changing Brain
Featuring Sarah Kurchak and David Eagleman
Interview • Sun Sep 27
Commanding Hope
with Thomas Homer-Dixon
Live Online Event • Mon Sep 28 • 7:30pm
Among the Volunteers and Refugees on Lesvos
with Steven Heighton
Podcast • Wed Sep 30
Orange Shirt Day
with Michelle Good
Podcast • Fri Oct 2
The Art of the Short Story
with David Bergen, Frances Boyle and Souvankham Thammavongsa
Live Online Event • Fri Oct 2 • 7:30pm
One Good Reason
With Séan McCann and Andrea Aragon
Interview • Sun Oct 4
A Song for the Dark Times
with Ian Rankin
Live Online Event • Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm
Missing from the Village
with Justin Ling
Podcast • Tue Oct 6
Agency and Consent
Featuring Rebecca Watson and Annabel Lyon
Interview • Tue Oct 6
High School
with Tegan and Sara
Podcast • Fri Oct 9
Truth as Fiction and Fiction as Truth
Featuring Helen Humphreys and Will Ferguson
Interview • Sun Oct 11
Jack
with Marilynne Robinson
Podcast • Tue Oct 13
Lies That Tell Us Truth
Featuring Farzana Doctor, Shani Mootoo and Mona Awad
Live Online Event • Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm
Ending Inequality
with Thomas Phillipon
Podcast • Fri Oct 16
Crime and Punishment
Featuring Katie Tallo, Scott Thornley and Amy Stuart
Interview • Sun Oct 18
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
with Margaret MacMillan
Live Online Event • Sun Oct 18 • 7:00pm
Musical Language
with Martha Baillie, Stuart Ross, and Maria Reva
Live Online Event • Mon Oct 19 • 7:30pm
Jesse Thistle and David A. Robertson
with Jesse Thistle and David A. Robertson
Podcast • Tue Oct 20
Letting Go of Anxiety
with Tara Henley
Podcast • Fri Oct 23
Imagining Worlds (part 1)
Featuring David A. Robertson and Derek Kunsken
Podcast • Fri Oct 23
Imagining Worlds (part 2)
Featuring Lauren Beukes and MR Carey

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Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
History
Today • Watch Now
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 06 • Fri Sep 18
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 05 • Tue Sep 15
Living with Dying Part Two
with Sheree Fitch and Lorna Crozier
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Sep 14 • 7:30pm
The World as We Know It
with Catherine Hernandez and Saleema Nawaz
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 13
Magdalena: River of Dreams
with Wade Davis
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 04 • Fri Sep 11
Living with Dying Part One
with Dakshana Bascaramurty and Anita Lahey
Live Online Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Tue Sep 8 • 7:30pm
Nerve
with Eva Holland
Pre-Recorded Event
Politics
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 6
Twilight of Democracy
with Anne Applebaum
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Sep 6
The Glass Hotel
with Emily St. John Mandel
Podcast
Fiction
History
Episode 03 • Fri Sep 4
Living History
With Aislinn Hunter and Gil Adamson
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Aug 31 • 7:30pm
The Silver Arrow
with Lev Grossman
Pre-Recorded Event
Fiction
Sun Aug 30
Indians on Vacation
with Thomas King
Podcast
Memoir
Episode 2 • Fri Aug 28
Surviving and Thriving
With Elaina Martin and Joanne Vannicola
Live Online Event
Fiction
Mon Aug 24 • 7:30pm
The Pull of the Stars
With Emma Donoghue
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
History
Sun Aug 23
Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
with Gaia Vince
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Sun Aug 23
A History of My Brief Body
with Billy-Ray Belcourt
Podcast
Fiction
Episode 1 • Fri Aug 21
Fear itself
with Andrew Pyper, Craig Davidson and Stephen Graham Jones
Live Online Event
Fiction
Tue Aug 18 • 7:30pm
Virtual Book Launch: The Company We Keep
with Frances Itani
Podcast
Tue Aug 11
The Ottawa International Writers Festival Podcast Announced
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Thu Jun 4
Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics
With Dr. David Waltner-Toews