Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997

Upcoming

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
Live Online Event • Mon Oct 5 • 7:30pm
Missing from the Village
with Justin Ling
Live Online Event • Tue Oct 13 • 7:30pm
Ending Inequality
with Thomas Phillipon
Interview • Sun Oct 18
War: How Conflict Shaped Us
with Margaret MacMillan
Podcast • Tue Oct 20
Letting Go of Anxiety
with Tara Henley

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Podcast
Non-Fiction
History
Memoir
Episode 06 • Fri Sep 18
Marathon of Hope
with Darrell Fox
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
History
Sun Sep 13
Magdalena: River of Dreams
with Wade Davis
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
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
Pre-Recorded Event
Non-Fiction
Science
Thu Jun 4
Virtual Book Launch: On Pandemics
With Dr. David Waltner-Toews