2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture ft Armine Yalnizyan - Progress vs 2023: A Guide to the Fight Ahead

The 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Tuesday, May 23rd at an event in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left's foremost theorists on democracy and history, and often promoted the idea that democracy always has to be fought for and secured from below, never benevolently conferred from above. The Institute founded the annual Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize & Lecture to honour Professor Wood’s legacy as an internationally renowned scholar and to bring her work to new generations of Canadians. The Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize is given annually to an academic, labour activist or writer and recognizes outstanding contributions in political theory, social or economic history, human rights, or sociology. Each year’s recipient also delivers the Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture. The 2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by economist Armine Yalnizyan—a leading voice on Canada’s economic scene. Her lecture, entitled Progress vs. 2023: A Guide to the Fight Ahead, presented her sweeping vision of what it means to be a progressive in 2023, taking us on a tour of the evolution of progressive ideas, and its constancy. She showed how context has shaped strategy, and lay out the push and the pull of the moment: the challenges facing the progressive agenda and the momentum building for it. You are invited to listen to an energizing take on what and who is at stake in this fight for our collective wellbeing. Introduction by Jen Hassum, Broadbent Institute, Executive Director 00:00 Remarks by Pamela Sugiman, Dean of Arts, Toronto Metropolitan University 03:02 Introduction by Clement Nocos, Broadbent Institute, Director of Policy 09:45 Lecture Start by Armine Yalnizyan 12:35

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