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- The Architecture of Happiness — Alain de Botton · Harbourfront Centre · Friday, August 14, 2026
- The Novel and the City: Writing Urban Lives — Ian Rankin · Edinburgh International Book Festival · Tuesday, August 18, 2026
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Prof. Shoshana Zuboff · San Francisco Main Library · Thursday, August 27, 2026
- Revisiting the Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell · Roy Thomson Hall · Thursday, September 10, 2026
- The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does — Prof. Brian Cox · Royal Albert Hall · Tuesday, September 15, 2026
- Between the World and Me: A Decade Later — Ta-Nehisi Coates · Brooklyn Academy of Music · Thursday, September 17, 2026
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist — Kate Raworth · SFJAZZ Center · Tuesday, September 29, 2026
- Homo Deus: The Next Century — Yuval Noah Harari · Massey Hall · Friday, October 2, 2026
- Climate Crisis, Economic Justice: A Conversation with Naomi Klein — Naomi Klein · Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) — Lecture Hall · Tuesday, August 11, 2026
- Public Lecture: National Identity and Global Citizenship — Michael Ignatieff · Massey College, University of Toronto · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Satellite Archaeology and Cultural Heritage — Sarah Parcak — Sarah Parcak · Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) — Public Lecture · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- AGO Artist Talk: Kent Monkman — Reconsidering Historical Narratives — Kent Monkman · Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Islamic Art, Memory, and Modernity — Lecture by Leila Ahmed — Leila Ahmed · Aga Khan Museum · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Stories and Identity — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Harbourfront Centre — Writers & Company series · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Writers & Company: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Conversation — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · Harbourfront Centre (Writers & Company) · Wednesday, August 12, 2026
- Madeleine Thien — New Novel Reading — Madeleine Thien · Toronto Reference Library (Appel Salon) · Wednesday, August 12, 2026