Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

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Live Online Event • Mon Nov 1 • 7:30pm
Between Certain Death and a Possible Future
With Alexander McClelland, Eddie Walker, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Ryan Conrad

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Wed Oct 27 • 7:30pm
My Best Mistake
with Terry O’Reilly
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Episode 19 • Fri Oct 22
Nice White Ladies
with Jessie Daniels
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Fiction
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Poetry
Wed Oct 20 • 6:00pm
THE OTTAWA BOOK AWARDS & PRIX DU LIVRE D’OTTAWA
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Mon Oct 18 • 7:30pm
The Class
with Chris Hedges
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History
Sun Oct 17 • 7:00pm
Books and Biryani: A Muslim History of the Americas
with Omar Mouallem
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Science
Episode 18 • Fri Oct 15
On the Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years
with Elaine Dewar
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Memoir
Thu Oct 7 • 7:30pm
An Embarrassment of Critch’s
with Mark Critch
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History
Memoir
Tue Oct 5 • 7:30pm
BOOK LAUNCH: Off the Record
with Peter Mansbridge 
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Mon Oct 4 • 7:30pm
Out of the Sun: On Art, Race, and the Future
with Esi Edugyan
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Politics
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History
Memoir
Wed Sep 29 • 7:30pm
Return
with Kamal Al-Solaylee
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Politics
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Memoir
Thu Sep 23 • 7:30pm
"Indian" in the Cabinet
with Jody Wilson Raybould
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Science
Episode 5 • Fri Sep 3
How to Be Animal
with Melanie Challenger
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History
Memoir
Episode 2 • Fri Aug 20
Better Not Bitter
with Yusef Salaam
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History
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Sun Jun 20 • 7:30pm
Gather
with Richard Van Camp
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Science
Fri Jun 18 • 7:30pm
The Menopause Manifesto
With Dr. Jen Gunter
Podcast
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Memoir
Episode 28 • Fri Jun 18
The Bright Side
with Cathrin Bradbury
Podcast
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Memoir
Episode 27 • Fri Jun 18
Likeness
with David Macfarlane
Podcast
Non-Fiction
Science
Episode 25 • Fri Jun 11
Change: How to Make Big Things Happen
with Damon Centola
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Thu May 27 • 7:00pm
One Page: The Window Seat
with Aminatta Forna 
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Poetry
Memoir
Thu May 13 • 7:00pm
One Page: Goodbye, Again
with Jonny Sun
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History
Episode 17 • Fri May 7
Elizabeth & Margaret
with Andrew Morton
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Science
History
Episode 16 • Fri Apr 30
On Time and Water
with Andri Snaer Magnason 
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Politics
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Mon Apr 26 • 7:30pm
Take Back the Fight
with Nora Loreto
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Science
Mon Apr 19 • 7:30pm
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
with Seth Klein
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Science
Mon Apr 12 • 7:30pm
The New Climate War
with Michael E. Mann
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Non-Fiction
History
Mon Mar 29 • 7:30pm
Peyakow: Reclaiming Cree Dignity
With Darrel J. McLeod
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Non-Fiction
History
Episode 10 • Fri Mar 26
Four Lost Cities
with Annalee Newitz
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Politics
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Mon Mar 22 • 7:30pm
Neglected No More: The Urgent Need to Improve the Lives of Canada's Elders
with André Picard
Podcast
Politics
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Episode 8 • Fri Mar 19
The Deficit Myth
with Stephanie Kelton
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Politics
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History
Mon Mar 8 • 7:30pm
White Feminism
with Koa Beck
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Politics
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History
Tue Mar 2 • 7:30pm
The New Age of Empire
with Kehinde Andrews
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Politics
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Thu Feb 25 • 7:30pm
Can You Hear Me Now?
with Celina Caesar-Chavannes
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Politics
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History
Mon Feb 22 • 7:30pm
On Property
with Rinaldo Walcott