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President's Lecture Series

The President's Lecture Series (PLS) is a faculty initiative of the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences that is sponsored by the Office of the President. The lecture series is planned, organized, and administered by a committee of faculty volunteers who are guided by the PLS Mission Statement.

Mission Statement

PLS Mission Statement: By welcoming public intellectuals to a dynamic educational environment, The President's Lecture Series strives to provide a forum for critical discourse that is responsive to the interests of the Humber community. In fulfilling this goal, we commit to the values of free speech, diversity, and academic and social engagement. 


Explore our archive!

We have a video archive of speakers going back to 2006 available as a resource to faculty, staff and students.

Get Involved!

Come to one of our upcoming talks. Here are the speakers for the Winter 2023 term:

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Dr. Britt Wray
Understanding Climate Anxiety, Grief, and the Hidden Mental Health Emergency Within the Climate Crisis

Tues, Jan 23rd, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Q&A + Reception to Follow North Campus, B101 Boardroom

Dr. Britt Wray is the director of CIRCLE, a research and action initiative focused on Community-minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership and Emotional wellbeing at the Stanford School of Medicine. The author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, she was the recipient of the 2023 Canadian Eco-Hero Award and a top winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications.


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Dr. Avery Slater
Prompting Creativity: Multimodality and Generative AI

Wed, Feb 14th, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Q&A + Reception to Follow North Campus, B101 Boardroom

Dr. Avery Slater is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her research investigates the re-conceptualization of human and nonhuman forms of language following the rise of information and computational technologies, with specific attention to the history of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Her book project, Apparatus Poetics, explores how mid-twentieth-century poets revise and reinvent modernist theories of poetic process in response to emerging technologies of language.


Suggest a Speaker

The PLS Committee strives to be responsive to the entire college community. To generate as much interest as possible, the committee looks for speakers who will have broad appeal among the great diversity of students who attend the college. We actively seek feedback and suggestions from faculty, staff, and students.

PLS speakers are chosen on the basis of five criteria. PLS speakers must be 1) high profile 2) intellectually accessible 3) thought-provoking 4) Canadian- and/or internationally-focused, and 5) must not be sitting or campaigning elected politicians nor have already appeared at the college within the past three years. Do you know of a suitable speaker? If so, please forward your suggestion(s) to pls@humber.ca. Be sure to let us know what topics the speaker could address, their areas of academic specialization, their publications, and especially send us any links to interviews or talks available online.