CBC Massey Lectures 2024 || What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversation in our Time

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At a time when we're more connected than ever, why does it seem like we can barely talk to each other?

That’s one of the questions driving Ian Williams’ new Massey Lectures, What I Mean to Say: Remaking Conversations in Our Time.

“It seems incredibly urgent these days, with increasing polarization and online forms of talking," Williams said in an interview with Q host Tom Power.

In Williams’ series of lectures, which he delivered across Canada this past fall, the award-winning author and poet explores what makes a good conversation, and how to connect with strangers even when you disagree with them — leaving space to maybe even change your mind. He also explains why sometimes the most important part of a conversation is silence.