What is a World Order?

The International Issues Discussion (IID) series at Toronto Metropolitan University is proud to present its second talk of the Winter 2026 series, “What is a World Order?".

Our guest will be Dr. Margaret MacMillan, emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford. Her award winning books include Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2001, 2002); Nixon in China: Six Days that Changed the World (2006, 2007); and The War that Ended Peace (2014). Her most recent book is War: How Conflict Shaped Us (2020). She gave the CBC’s Massey lectures in 2015 and the BBC’s Reith lectures in 2018.  She has been awarded numerous honorary degrees, including from Ryerson University, and is a fellow or honorary fellow of many institutions including the Royal Society of Canada,  the British Academy, Trinity College at the University of Toronto, and Lady Margaret Hall, St. Hilda's College, and St. Anthony's College, at the University of Oxford. She is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the Institute of Human Sciences (Vienna). She contributes to and comments frequently on the media both in Canada and abroad.

Her talk will be held in-person on Wednesday, February 4th between 6:30 and 8:30 pm in ENG 103 (the Vari Engineering Building, 245 Church Street, Toronto). Attendance is free and everyone is welcome.  

Founded in 2005, the IID is a non-partisan, student-led forum designed to engage all members of the TMU community on major events and issues in contemporary global affairs through reasoned, objective, and scholarly discourse. For further details about the IID and our series please see http://iid.kislenko.com (external link)   or contact the IID student leaders at iidseries@gmail.com