Lectures and talks

October 26, 2017 @ York University, Toronto

The John Eleen Annual Lecture in Global Labour at York University, Toronto. In this lecture, Professor Henry A. Giroux posits that the modern loss of faith in the marriage of education and democracy needs to be reclaimed, but that will only happen if the long legacy of struggle over education is once again brought to life as part of a more comprehensive understanding as education being central to politics itself.

October 1, 2017 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

A talk by Dr. Henry A. Giroux at at the Gandhi Peace Festival’s “Education for our Times: Towards a Culture of Peace, Nonviolence and Social Justice” conference.

June 13, 2017 @ The University of Montana

From the Bring Your Own Brain: Free Us from Climate Chaos Symposium at the University of Montana 6/13/17

July 5, 2017 @ The University of the West of Scotland

In July 2017, Henry Giroux came to Scotland to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland. Following this event, he engaged in a public conversation with UWS colleagues Diarmuid McAuliffe (School of Education) and Graham Jeffery (School of Media, Culture and Society). That conversation took place in front of a capacity audience on the UWS Paisley Campus and covered a wide range of critical issues within Education, Culture and Society.

July 4, 2017

Powerful address given by Prof. Henry Giroux on receiving his honorary doctorate at the University of the West of Scotland graduation ceremony.

March 2, 2017 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

A talk by Dr. Henry Giroux, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies & McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest to celebrate the donation of his archives to McMaster University Library. Henry Giroux, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies & McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest to celebrate the donation of his archives to McMaster University Library

October 14, 2015 @ Santa Fe, New Mexico
Henry Giroux speaks at the Lannan Foundation on justice, equality, the fundamentalisms taking root in American society, and the possibility of hope for the future.

September 24, 2015 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

Henry Giroux’s lecture at the MacPherson Institute addresses the larger corporate and market driven forces now shaping all aspects of education, politics, culture, and everyday life in North America. In this talk, there will be a special emphasis on the role that critical pedagogy plays in defining not only traditional spheres of schooling but also a crucial form of public pedagogy that is at the heart of contemporary politics. In this sense, Giroux’s lecture explores what might be called the educative nature of culture and politics. At the same time, the lecture considers a number of related educative and pedagogical concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy including the notion of teachers as public intellectuals, pedagogy and the project of a substantive democracy, a politics of responsibility, and finally, pedagogy as a form of resistance and educated hope.

December 4, 2014 @ Fanshawe College, Ontario

Henry GIroux outlines the conditions of the present and the need to reclaim the radical imagination against the predominance of market and exchange values

August 19, 2013

Highlights from keynote address. Full video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPDRoTkKfU.

January 16, 2013 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

With the rise of market fundamentalism and the ensuing economic and financial meltdown, youth are facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation. Young people, especially low income and poor minority youth, are no longer seen as a social investment but are increasingly interpreted as a social problem and burden. This talk raises important questions regarding the role that educators, in particular, might play in challenging the plight of young people while deepening and extending the promise of an aspiring democracy.

October 4, 2012 @ The University of Western Ontario
Henry Giroux’s lecture investigates how market-driven ideology has increasingly pressured universities to forego their commitment to dynamic forms of learning, and to instead provide students with a watered-down, commercialized form of workplace training (i.e. “let’s get you a job!”). Throughout his talk, Giroux explores and illuminates the various ways in which this pressure works to corrode and destroy higher education’s moral commitment to democratic values, civic responsibility, and critically engaged forms of citizenship.

March 14, 2008 @ McGill University

Public address at the official launch of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy.