The Poster Collection

For many years, posters and newspaper ads created by designers in McGill's Graphic Services unit served as the primary marketing tool for the Beatty Lecture. The oldest Beatty promotional poster held in the McGill Archives dates back to 1972 when the British socialist journalist Peter Richie Calder delivered a series of three rousing lectures. Here are 16 standouts from the poster collection including this one.

Jane Goodall poster with chimpanzee image
Jane Goodall, 1979. Listen to the lecture here.
 

Jonathan Miller poster
Jonathan Miller, 2000.
 

Francis Crick poster
Francis Crick, 1985. Listen to the lectures here.
 

Deepak Chopra poster
Deepak Chopra, 2006.
 

Bernard Kouchner poster
Bernard Kouchner, 1996. Read the lecture here.
 

Sandra Steingraber
Sandra Steingraber, 2002.
 

Sally Falk Moore poster
Sally Falk Moore, 1989.
 

Peter Ritchie Calder
Peter Ritchie-Calder, 1972. Listen to the lectures here.


Kirk Varnedoe poster
Kirk Varnedoe, 1988. Watch the lecture here.
 

Cicely Saunders
Cicely Saunders, 1997. Read the lecture here.
 

John Mortimer
John Mortimer, 1987.
 

Queen Noor
Queen Noor of Jordan, 2002.
 

Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay, 2018. Watch the lecture here.
 


Norman Myers, Francis Bretherton, Daniel Boorstin, 1990.
 

Vartan Gregorian
Vartan Gregorian, 2000. Read the lecture here.


Anna Tibaijuka, 2007. Watch the lecture here.

All images: McGill University Archives.

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