Talks – Todd Dufresne https://todddufresne.com Professor, Author Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:54:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 151786514 Book Launch – Winnipeg: ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’ https://todddufresne.com/writing/book-launch-winnipeg-the-future-belongs-to-those-who-fight/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:54:56 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=247 Join Todd at McNally Robinson Bookstore, Grant Park, for the launch of his new book, ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners’, on Thursday, May 7 at 7pm.

]]> 247 Book Launch – Thunder Bay: ‘The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight’ https://todddufresne.com/writing/book-launch-the-future-belongs-to-those-who-fight/ Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:39:59 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=245 Join Todd as he launches his new book, “The Future Belongs to Those Who Fight: Climate Revolution for Beginners”, at Entershine Bookshop, Thursday April 9 from 7-8:30PM

]]> 245 CBC Ideas Series: Lecture 3 https://todddufresne.com/talks/cbc-ideas-series-lecture-3/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 16:12:00 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=203 Todd’s final lecture in a three-part series produced for CBC Ideas called “The Unborn Future: How COVID-19 can help us shape our fight against climate change.”

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-unborn-future-how-climate-change-is-driven-by-economics-1.6067861

]]> 203 CBC Ideas Series: Lecture 2 https://todddufresne.com/talks/cbc-ideas-series-lecture-two/ Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:46:00 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=187 More]]> Todd’s second lecture in a three-part series for CBC Ideas called “The Unborn Future: How Western philosophy helped propel us toward a climate catastrophe”

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-unborn-future-how-western-philosophy-helped-propel-us-toward-a-climate-catastrophe-1.6069290

]]> 187 CBC Ideas Series: Lecture 1 https://todddufresne.com/talks/cbc-ideas-series-lecture-1/ Wed, 16 Jun 2021 15:50:00 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=189 Todd’s first of three lectures produced for CBC Ideas, called “The Unborn Future: How climate change is driven by economics.”

Listen to Lecture 1:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-unborn-future-how-climate-change-is-driven-by-economics-1.6067861

]]> 189 TedEd Video: History vs. Sigmund Freud https://todddufresne.com/talks/teded-history-vs-sigmund-freud/ Fri, 21 May 2021 15:52:00 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=191 In this animated TedEd video, Todd provides a snappy overview of how Freud’s theories and methods are being reassessed 100 years later.

]]> 191 Empathy, Eco-Anxiety, and Activism: Radical Humanism in the Face of Climate Change and Social Upheaval https://todddufresne.com/interviews/empathy-eco-anxiety-and-activism-radical-humanism-in-the-face-of-climate-change-and-social-upheaval/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 04:12:00 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=178 More]]> Todd, Dr. Carol-Ann Farkas, and Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square discuss the role of scholarship in addressing the climate emergency and COVID-19 in a four-part video series.

A Conversation with Dr. Todd Dufresne, Dr. Carol-Ann Farkas, and Dr. Shoshannah Bryn Jones Square, Part One: Empathy, Eco-Anxiety, and Activism: Radical Humanism in the Face of Climate Change and Social Upheaval, Part One
]]> 178 ‘The Democracy of Suffering’ Book Launch: October 22, 2019 https://todddufresne.com/writing/the-democracy-of-suffering-book-launch-october-22-2019/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:45:05 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=129 More]]> Book launch for Todd’s ‘The Democracy of Suffering: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe, Philosophy in the Anthropocene” and Mark Kingwell’s “Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface” on Tuesday, October 22nd, 4-6:30PM at the Centre for Social Innovation (192 Spadina Ave, Toronto, Ontario).

Poster of "The Democracy of Suffering" Book Launch

Featuring a reading and Q&A with Alia Abaya. Refreshments provided. Sponsored by Alterna Savings and the Centre for Social Innovation.

]]> 129 Ideas at Stratford: Freud and After https://todddufresne.com/interviews/ideas-at-stratford-freud-and-after/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:26:12 +0000 https://todddufresne.com/?p=121 More]]> On August 10, 2019, Todd participated in a CBC Radio ‘Ideas’ panel discussion on the contemporary influence of Sigmund Freud’s thought, moderated by Nahlah Ayed.

From the Stratford website: “Freud started a revolution with the idea that we have an internal emotional life and unconscious drives that shape us and our actions in profound ways. Much of Freud’s clinical practice is sidestepped today, but his basic principles survive – what’s the current state of self-knowledge, and what good has all this done us?”

Panellists:
Todd Dufresne, professor of philosophy at Lakehead University and internationally acclaimed critic of Freud and psychoanalysis
David Goldbloom, professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto and Senior Medical Advisor at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Zindel Segal, distinguished professor of psychology in Mood Disorders at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Listen to the audio:

Ideas: Freud and After at the Stratford Festival website

]]> 121 Caught Together, Hanged Together: Freud, Christianity, & Moses & Monotheism https://todddufresne.com/talks/caught-together-hanged-together-freud-christianity-moses-monotheism/ Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:34:41 +0000 http://eleven-seventeen.com/todddufresne/?p=90 More]]> In this Keio University workshop devoted to The Late Sigmund Freud, Dufresne delivered a lecture on the role that biology plays in Freud’s thinking in his final book, Moses and Monotheism, and then received three responses by the Japanese scholars Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio), Fuhito Endo (Seikei), and Yoshiko Uzawa (Keio).  

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