IDEAS Schedule for the week of July 15

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Trouble viewing? Add us to your address book or view online Update Preferences     Unsubscribe     Questions/Feedback Friday, July 12th 2019 Monday, July 15 YUVAL HARARI: HACKING HUMANITY Global intellectual Yuval Harari is worried our brains are getting hacked. Artificial intelligence, biotechnology and ever-sophisticated algorithms are tapping into our values, habits, desires and the very thought patterns that define us ⁠— all to control how we shop, what we read, and whom we vote for. The notion of free will is defunct. And the grand project of liberalism, with its focus on the individual, is worn out. In this exclusive interview with Paul Kennedy, he explains why he remains cautiously optimistic about humanity's future. Tuesday, July 16 FIVE FREEDOMS: FREEDOM FROM OPPRESSION Oppression takes many forms. It can be political or cultural, or even social. There's the weight of inherited oppression, and there's the question of how oppression shapes who we are — both individually and collectively. This episode features a discussion with Bhutila Karpoche an Ontario politician of Tibetan heritage, Eloge Butera  a government lawyer and a refugee from Rwanda, and Christina Gray a Dene-Metis lawyer. Wednesday, July 17 THE NERVE, Part 3 From the team behind the Peabody-Award-winning documentary The Wire, another sonic adventure series exploring the beauty and mysteries of our relationship with music.  Episode 3 of The Nerve: Music & the Human Experience looks at music and war. The Nerve first aired in 2008, and is presented by Jowi Taylor. Thursday, July 18 HOW THE KILLAM FAMILY 'INVENTED' CANADIAN CULTURE Once upon a time, Izaak Walton Killam was the richest man in Canada, although he guarded his privacy even more carefully than he stockpiled his profits. He died in 1955. His wife Dorothy was almost the opposite — an American, a bit of a social butterfly, and even more keen, in the decade after her husband's death, to expand the family wealth. In the end, the Killams basically bankrolled the Canada Council, and created the Killam Trusts. To this day, very few people know much about them, although their considerable fortune was fundamental for the mid-20th century flowering of the arts and sciences in this country. Friday, July 19 PUSHING THE FRONTIERS OF KNOWLEDGE: The 2018 Killam Prize Each year, up to five Killam Prizes of $100,000 each are awarded to Canadian scholars who have made "substantial and significant" contribution to their field of studies in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences or engineering. The 2018 recipients come from across Canada. Their areas of study include linguistics to physics, medicine to film. Meet the five brilliant Canadian thinkers who are setting the standard for their fields both in Canada and internationally. Ideas in the Afternoon - Monday, July 15 at 2 pm Is it too late to find hope in the Anthropocene? In Paul Kennedy's final week at IDEAS, he looked back at his four decades with the program. He began with an episode inspired by the Muskoka Summit on the Environment, an event Paul has moderated since 2010. Paul invited three guests to join him onstage at the Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto to answer two basic questions about our collective future: are we doomed? And what inspires hope? MORE ON IDEAS Documentary series The Nerve explores how music informs the human experience 'We're an oral culture': Saving an endangered language through Gwich'in storytelling Learning to Listen: Paul Kennedy's takeaway lesson You received this email at brothermike...@googlegroups.com because you opted-in. If you want to unsubscribe from this email, log in to the CBC Member Centre where you can update your email subscriptions. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Mailing Address P.O. Box 500, Station "A" Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6 For all other questions and inquiries, contact us at www.cbc.ca/contact