Our hybrid format allows you the choice of attending lectures in person at Harcourt United Church in Guelph or watching the livestream lecture, from home.
Join us for our Winter 2026 series. AM: Agents of Change. PM: Shadow Worlds. Details are now posted on our lectures page. Registration begins November 24.
TALG offers four lecture series annually, two in the fall session, two in the winter. Each series includes eight lectures, over eight Wednesdays (one series in the morning, another in the afternoon).
All lectures are held at Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Avenue in Guelph and simultaneously streamed online. Registrants can choose which way they want to attend.
TALG is a volunteer run organization which has been offering lecture series over a broad range of topics, since 1988. If you’re looking for stimulating opportunities to learn, question, and share knowledge in a friendly, social environment, we hope you’ll join us. We are mostly retirement age, but all are welcome.
Third Age Learning Guelph offers four lecture series each year, two in the Fall and two in the Winter. Each series comprises of 8 individual lectures given by experts in their various fields. All lectures are held at Harcourt United Church, 87 Dean Avenue in Guelph and simultaneously streamed online.
The Winter Session runs from January 21 to March 11, 2026.
The cost is $55 for an 8-lecture series.
AM Series
Are we confronting change or confronted by it? What triggers these tsunamis of change that sweep us off our places of familiarity and comfort and leave us floundering? What sweeps us back on our feet with waves that reposition us in new places of comfort or growth?
This eight week-series of lectures will introduce you to some of these Agents of Change. Some you will recognize and others will leave you saying “why didn’t I know that name before?” Some of these Agents of Change are individuals the youth of today would call “influencers” and other Agents of Change are movements of people and ideas that capture the hearts and minds of considerable numbers of people and bring about social and cultural change.
Come and allow your heart and mind to be captivated and captured by these “Agents of Change”.
PM Series
Today digital communications are fast and convenient. But make no mistake, our digital lives are being monitored. Often by bad actors, intent on doing us harm. This eight-week series will examine how the emerging world of digital deception and cyber surveillance is impacting our world. Among the subjects the series will deal with: How do you protect yourself and your family? How do governments “harden” vital infrastructure against cyber-attack? What new cyber-perils will the coming wave of AI (artificial intelligence) bring? How do Canada’s military cyber warriors prepare themselves for future conflicts that will be fought in cyber-space? Crucially, how do we do all this while ensuring our civil liberties remain intact? The series will explore the psychological mechanisms that explain why we are so easily taken in by digital manipulators. We will also look at little-known digital warriors like the Toronto’s Citizen Lab who bravely lurk in the dark places to expose malign states and digital crooks who combine to undermine our democratic way of life. Join us for this exciting speaking series in which Canada’s top experts explore the challenges and increasing dangers of cyber-surveillance in all our lives.
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