{"id":345621,"date":"2020-10-16T15:32:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/?page_id=345621"},"modified":"2026-04-23T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:51:22","slug":"vico-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/vico-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Vico Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The annual Vico lecture promotes themes of city-building, urban development, and cultural evolution, and Toronto and its outskirts have been shaped by immigration. The series features speakers whose work address principles related to how immigrant and minority groups have affected the development of the Greater Toronto Area, including via culture, labour, business, and more. The Vico lecture honours the cultural and historic contributions of minority communities to civil society and the development of urban space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading text-uppercase h5\">Quick Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list list-unstyled\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/avie-bennett-historica-lecture\/\">Avie Bennett Historica Lecture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/kitty-lundy-memorial-lecture\/\">Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/events\/\">Upcoming LA&amp;PS Events<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/newsroom\/\">LA&amp;PS Newsroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group grey-bg-block has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2025 Vico Lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.3%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full img-thumbnail rounded-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/2025-Vico-Lecture-Web-Graphic-3.png\" alt=\"2025 Vico lecture banner\" class=\"wp-image-385850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/2025-Vico-Lecture-Web-Graphic-3.png 550w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/2025-Vico-Lecture-Web-Graphic-3-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/2025-Vico-Lecture-Web-Graphic-3-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/2025-Vico-Lecture-Web-Graphic-3-500x500.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.6%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading h5 text-uppercase text-primary\">The Block by Block Project: Activating Memories of Migration, Settlement and Community Life in Four Toronto Neighbourhoods<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Tuesday October 21, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Dr. Maggie Hutcheson, who directed Block by Block, will reflect on the project\u2019s co-creative approach and the relationships between critical memory work, placekeeping and urban futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-developed by ten community partners and involving over 100 storytellers, the Toronto Ward Museum\u2019s Block by Block Project preserved and activated community memories in four rapidly changing Toronto neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button bg-primary-2 text-white rounded-0 learnmore-block p-2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qs-nv1YJpSk\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#810001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Now <i class=\"fas fa-chevron-right small pl-2\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dr. Maggie Hutcheson<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Dr. Maggie Hutcheson is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. She is a seasoned museum professional, artist, curator and educator who has worked with a wide range of arts and cultural heritage organizations. Maggie co-founded the longstanding community-engaged art collective \u2018Department of Public Memory\u2019 and authored the Ontario Arts Council\u2019s handbook on best practices in community-engaged art. She holds a PhD from 快播视频, where her doctoral research focused on place-based memory practices and where she taught in the Community Arts Practice certificate program. Maggie was the Lead Curator and Program Director for the Toronto Ward Museum\u2019s multiyear Block by Block program, for which the museum received the Lieutenant Governor\u2019s Ontario Heritage Award for Excellence in Conservation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"538\" height=\"303\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/Maggie-Hutcheson-538x303-1.png\" alt=\"Maggie Hutcheson profile photo\" class=\"wp-image-385802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/Maggie-Hutcheson-538x303-1.png 538w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2025\/09\/Maggie-Hutcheson-538x303-1-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photo Gallery<\/h2>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group grey-bg-block has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading h5 text-uppercase text-primary\">Why Vico?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Vico lecture fosters exchange between 快播视频 and the wider community, in particular the Italian-Canadian community. The settlement of Italian immigrants fundamentally shaped the nature and development of Toronto and its suburbs over that last 100 years. The Vico lecture\u2019s themes are a nod to these contributions and aim to engage other minority groups, descendants of these groups, and the public in a conversation about space, place, culture, and so much more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In 2000, Canadian Senator Jerry Grafstein donated two rare Italian volumes of Vico\u2019s works, initially published in 1746, to 快播视频. Senator Grafstein garnered the support of Elvio DelZotto (LLB Osgoode and senior partner of DelZotto, Zorzi), who rallied Italian-Canadian business leaders to fund an annual lecture at York in memory of his law partner Fred Zorzi.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) was an Italian philosopher and author. Vico\u2019s writings sought to understand human history and knowledge and are considered the predecessors of many Enlightenment thinkers. He has been referred to as the father of social science and the first modern historian. &nbsp;The Vico Lecture is organized in collaboration with the Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian-Canadian Studies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Events<\/h2>\n\n\n<style>.kt-accordion-id345621_4564e5-ea .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{column-gap:var(--global-kb-gap-md, 2rem);row-gap:8px;}.kt-accordion-id345621_4564e5-ea .kt-accordion-panel-inner{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-sm, 1.5rem);}.kt-accordion-id345621_4564e5-ea > .kt-accordion-inner-wrap > .wp-block-kadence-pane > .kt-accordion-header-wrap > .kt-blocks-accordion-header{padding-top:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-right:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 1rem);padding-bottom:var(--global-kb-spacing-xxs, 0.5rem);padding-left:var(--global-kb-spacing-xs, 1rem);}@media all and (max-width: 767px){.kt-accordion-id345621_4564e5-ea .kt-accordion-inner-wrap{display:block;}.kt-accordion-id345621_4564e5-ea .kt-accordion-inner-wrap .kt-accordion-pane:not(:first-child){margin-top:8px;}}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-accordion alignnone\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-wrap kt-accordion-id345621_4564e5-ea kt-accordion-has-21-panes kt-active-pane-0 kt-accordion-block kt-pane-header-alignment-left kt-accodion-icon-style-arrow kt-accodion-icon-side-right\" style=\"max-width:none\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-inner-wrap\" data-allow-multiple-open=\"false\" data-start-open=\"none\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-21 kt-pane345621_4c1a4e-09\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2024 | Dr. Stefano Agnoletto<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong><strong>The Italians Build Houses: Ethnicity vs. Structural Factors in Mass Migrations History \u2013 The Case Studies of Italian Economic Niches in 1890s-1920s USA and Post-WW2 Toronto<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This lecture was dedicated to the memory of Dr. Gabriele Scardellato.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>October 7, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Stefano Agnoletto,&nbsp;Project Leader of the Via Querinissima international project; Italian historian, economist and activist explored the formation of ethnic economic niches through the case studies of Italian communities in the USA and Canada during the early 20th century and the post-WW2 construction industry in Toronto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"text-uppercase text-primary\"><i class=\"fa fa-video-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BYRN0a7Msh8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-13 kt-pane345621_2a716a-34\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2023 | Dr. Angelica Pesarini<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong><strong>Italy and the Black Mediterranean: Race, identity and citizenship<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>March 21, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Angelica Pesarini's lecture explored the presence of Italy within the Black Mediterranean, considered a racialised physical and symbolic space marked by histories of colonialism and diasporic memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"text-uppercase text-primary\"><i class=\"fa fa-video-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/fnuEN2mh75k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-16 kt-pane345621_a6d1db-d0\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2022 | Professor Marcello Musto<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong><strong>Vico &amp; Marx: Comparing two interpretations of history<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>January 27, 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor Marcello Musto\u2019s engaging talk, covered Giambattista Vico\u2019s and Karl Marx\u2019 personal histories and their influence on their times; it encapsulated and expanded on each philosophers\u2019 concepts of history and society, including humanity\u2019s role in construction of history, ideas of providence, colonization, and nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"text-uppercase text-primary\"><i class=\"fa fa-video-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R8ghJ0kCZW4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-14 kt-pane345621_af79c6-83\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2019 | Hon. Maurizio Bevilacqua<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Amore in the City: A purpose driven approach to public life<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>November 7, 2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2019's keynote address was given by Mayor of Vaughan, Maurizio Bevilacqua. During this lecture, he discussed his commitment to public service and the role of political leaders in shaping society. Over his 30-year career in politics, Bevilacqua has occupied several prominent positions at the federal level and municipal level, which gives him a unique perspective on public life, and political philosophy in action.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-15 kt-pane345621_2a5998-dd\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2017 | Dr. RJ Cusimano<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Matters of the Heart: Is there hope?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>September 25, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>快播视频 welcomed internationally renowned cardiac surgeon, Dr. Robert James \u201cRJ\u201d Cusimano, for his special lecture on life, death, faith and the wonders of the living, beating human heart.\u202fDr. Cusimano\u2019s engaging talk looks the importance of hope and compassion while engaging patients and their families. The full lecture can be viewed on YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/2017\/12\/06\/renowned-cardiac-surgeon-speaks-on-hope-and-the-human-heart-for-2017-vico-lecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about the event in YFile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-17 kt-pane345621_a46797-9e\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2011 | Professor Emeritus George Fallis<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Democratic Deficit: Universities and the Future of Democracy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>February 15, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Universities can play a critical role in confronting the democratic deficit pervading politics at every level, York\u2019s George Fallis argued in the 2011 Giambattista Vico Lecture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his presentation, he argued that the problem must be confronted not just by political parties and parliaments but by universities. Universities are not just institutions of teaching and books, not just institutions of the economy, but institutions of democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"text-uppercase text-primary\"><i class=\"fa fa-video-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/J6PQUHe12E0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-18 kt-pane345621_cfd39e-9c\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2009 | Professor Nancy Fraser<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>November 19, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her lecture, Nancy Fraser advocated for a reconceptualization of academic analyses of capitalist economies and how society \u2013 or, more specifically, her intellectual contemporaries \u2013 should engage in critical discussions of this subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a launching-off point for her talk, she referred to the classic 1944 book by Karl Polanyi, <em>The Great Transformation<\/em>, which she characterized as an account of capitalist crisis, an intricate, historical process beginning with the laws of enclosure and the Industrial Revolution in Britain that, over the course of a century, transformed the entire world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/2009\/12\/21\/vico-lecturer-nancy-fraser-explores-the-global-economy-in-a-different-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about the event in YFile.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"text-uppercase text-primary\"><i class=\"fa fa-video-camera\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IuZDZ0RjFTs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch the Video<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-19 kt-pane345621_97d4a2-15\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2008 | Professor Robert Pippin<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Political Psychology, American Myth and Hollywood Westerns: Politics and Truth in John Ford\u2019s <em>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>November 5, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2008 Vico Lecture was delivered by Robert Pippen, the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor of Social Thought, Philosophy, at the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pippin suggested that the deception in Ford\u2019s classic western was necessary in order for the new order to supplant the old. He characterized the conflict in the movie as typical of great westerns, a struggle between heroic and marshal virtues, and bourgeois virtues \u2013 especially the domestic ones \u2013 of compromise, peace and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/2009\/01\/08\/vico-lecturer-reveals-philosophical-truths-about-hollywood-westerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about this event in YFile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-pane kt-accordion-pane kt-accordion-pane-20 kt-pane345621_160b67-d5\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-header-wrap\"><button class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-header kt-acccordion-button-label-show\" type=\"button\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title-wrap\"><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-title\">2006 | Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta<\/span><\/span><span class=\"kt-blocks-accordion-icon-trigger\"><\/span><\/button><\/div><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel kt-accordion-panel-hidden\"><div class=\"kt-accordion-panel-inner\">\n<p><strong>Vico and The New Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>November 1, 2006<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2006 Vico Lecture was delivered by Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor in the Humanities for Italian at Yale University. Author of groundbreaking books on Dante, Boccaccio, Vico and other literary figures of the Renaissance, Mazzotta's passion and enthusiasm were unmistakable as he delivered his presentation. Guests listened carefully as Mazzotta brought them back in time into the mind of this great 18th-century author. 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