Mark your calendars: The 2017 Massey Lectures are coming to Vancouver.

The five-part lecture series starts its cross-Canada tour in mid-September and stops in Vancouver on September 15, 2017. This year's lecturer is renowned UN prosecutor and human rights scholar Payam Akhavan.

A call to action for our times, Payam Akhavan's In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey, is a powerful survey of some of the major human rights struggles of our times — and what we can do about it.

Akhavan is a Professor of International Law at McGill University in Montreal, a Member of the International Court of Arbitration, and a former UN prosecutor at The Hague.

Payam Akhavan. Photo by Peter Bregg CM.

When: Friday, September 15 - Lecture 2: In Pursuit of Global Justice

Where: York Theatre, Vancouver

Tickets: $30, students/seniors $5 discount

ABOUT THE 2017 MASSEY LECTURES

The CBC Massey Lectures is a partnership between CBC, House of Anansi Press and Massey College in the University of Toronto and named in honour of Vincent Massey,​ the first Canadian-born​ governor general of Canada. Since their creation in 1961 by the CBC, the Massey Lectures have established their place as a Canadian institution and become an annual highlight of our cultural life. The five lectures provide a forum on radio where contemporary thinkers can explore ​important​ issues of our time. Former lecturers include Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Atwood and Stephen Lewis. These days, the lecturers are all Canadian, and the series is recorded on a cross-Canada tour. The book of the Massey Lectures is published by House of Anansi Press.



In Search of a Better World is published by House of Anansi Press. The 2017 CBC Massey Lectures will be broadcast on IDEAS November 6 - 10, 2017.