Former Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival Jackie Maxwell is interviewed by Sheila McCook about moving from Ireland into the heart of Canadian theatre, her fascinating family, and why she directs Shaw instead of Shakespeare.Coffee at 9:30amSpeakers at 10:15amInnis College Town, 2 Sussex Ave. at St. George St., one block south of Bloor St. WestRSVP

Fans of book banning are enjoying their moment and they're not all who you think they are. In his new book, On Book Banning, University of Toronto Professor Ira Wells blames both progressives and conservatives.Coffee at 9:30amSpeakers at 10:15amInnis College Town, 2 Sussex Ave. at St. George St., one block south of Bloor St. WestRSVP

Never have so many people been displaced from their home countries and denied a place to settle. Award winning author, journalist and international affairs columnist for the Globe and Mail, Doug Saunders has spent two years tracking these “road people” on the world’s busiest migration paths using their stories to describe the origins of the…

Professor of English Randy Boyagoda on the importance and challenges of civil discourse on and off campus, by way of his experiences as the University of Toronto's advisor on civil discourse, the first such position in Canada.Coffee at 9:30amSpeakers at 10:15amInnis College Town, 2 Sussex Ave. at St. George St., one block south of Bloor…

Eleanor Wachtel, former host of CBC Radio’s Writers & Company, will talk about the relationship between writers and their work. She'll discuss the appetite for literary biography and how greater knowledge of the life of an author may affect the reader’s appreciation of their work; how writers reveal themselves in their writing; and the self-proclaimed…