Media Room | Munk Debates

Today, the Munk Debates announced a second series of MUNK DIALOGUES, live, hour-long conversations with some of the world’s sharpest minds and brightest thinkers.  The autumn 2020 Munk Dialogues will focus on the big issues transforming our world, from the U.S. election to the continuing fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic to geopolitics and international relations. The series will air weekly for ten weeks launching Wednesday, September 30^th, 8 pm ET with New York Times’ White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman, in dialogue with Munk Debates Chair, Rudyard Griffiths.    

The Munk Debates, one of the world’s leading forums for top thinkers to debate the pressing issues of our time, today announced the launch of the second season of its weekly radio program and podcast featuring civil and substantive one-on-one debate.  

Today the Munk Foundation has extended a second $200,000 grant to the Munk Dialogues to organise a second series of ten online town halls to explore how the pandemic is changing our politics, society, and international relations.

To encourage a conversation about the long-term impact of COVID-19, the Munk Debates is launching a new “dialogues” series in partnership with The Globe and Mail.

The Munk Debates announced today the resolution and speakers for its Autumn 2019 debate, to be held at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto on Wednesday, December 4^th. The motion for the Autumn 2019 Munk Debate: The capitalist system is broken. It’s time to try something different.