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The Social Science programme is once again offering a week of talks on a variety of topics that will be of interest to the entire college community. Social Science Week will take place between February 12-16. Please review the line-up for the week in the programme. Social Science Week is an opportunity for students to see what contemporary Social Scientists are up to and to learn more about the many pathways Social Science study can lead to. It is also a moment to reflect deeply on the most meaningful questions we face at this point in history, questions about climate catastrophe, our rapidly changing media landscapes, art-making and race-relations, and how to think about conflict, both locally and abroad. These talks invite students and faculty to step out of the constraints of the traditional classroom, and into conversations about the world that is and the world that is to come.

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2024 Schedule

Monday, February 12

8:30 a.m.

Coron膩 Dev墨 has Entered the Chat: Online Media Discourse and South Asian Goddesses Associated with Covid-19

Thomas Seibel

*Sponsored by Social Science

10:00 a.m.

“We made the Church our relative”: M茅tis Religion and Relationality

Ellen Dobrowolski

*Sponsored by Social Science

11:30 a.m.

GAY 4 DATA: The Questions we ask reveal what we value

Sarah Mangle

*Sponsored by Social Science

1:00 p.m.

Teaching in Community-Pedagogies for Social Change and Solidarity

Tesfa Peterson

2:30 p.m.

Social Media and Polarization: War at Our Fingertips

Brian Redekopp and Joseph Rosen

4:00 p.m.

The Fungal Imaginary: Monster Mushrooms in Contemporary Media

Elliot Mason

*Sponsored by Social Science

6:30 p.m.

Cinema Politica Screening

Invasion and The Klabona Keepers

followed by conversion with Tamo Campos, director of The Kablona Keepers

Tuesday, February 13

8:30 a.m.

No Reconciliation before Truth: Learning the Colonial History of 星空传媒视频

Ben Lander

10:00 a.m.

Afro-Bubble Gum: Rest is Radical

Ash Marshall

*Sponsored by Living Campus

12:00p.m.

Overview of the World Bank institutions and how they work

Juliette d’Hollander

2:30 p.m.

Canada as a Refuge: Immigration and Multiculturalism in twentieth century Canada

James Volemsky

4:00 p.m.

A Measure of UNCERTAINTY

Andrew Katz and Joel Trudeau from S.P.A.C.E.

6:30 p.m.

Cinema Politica Screening

Our Bodies are your Battlefields

followed by Q&A with Ana茂s Zeledon Montenegro

Wednesday, February 14

8:30 a.m.

Cities as Systems of Diversity: Why Jane Jacobs Matters for the Future Economy

Charles-Albert Ramsay

10:00 a.m.

Designing Streets: Safety, Universal Accessibility & Sustainability

Bartek Komorowski

11:30 a.m.

A Reading from Edward Said鈥檚 Culture and Resistance

Abeer Esber

*Sponsored by Social Science

1:00 p.m.

The Pathways and Protocols of Indigenous Storytelling

Roxann Whitebean

*Sponsored by Living Campus

2:30 p.m.

Stella 101

Stella, l’amie de Maimie

*Sponsored by Social Science

4:00 p.m.

Eco-Anxiety

Cristina Cugliandro, Imago Theatre

*Sponsored by Social Science

6:30 p.m.

Cinema Politica Screening

5 Broken Cameras

with Oula Hajjar as guest speaker

Thursday, February 15

8:30 a.m.

Religion and Genocide in Rwanda in the early 1990s

Spyridon (Spiros) Loumakis

10:00 a.m.

ENVIRONMENTAL SEMINAR

Making Change in the Food System: The George Brown College Honours Bachelor of Food Studies

Lori Stahlbrand

11:30 a.m.

The Global Challenge of Electronics: a perspective

Pierre-Jean Alarco

1:00 p.m.

Land and Relations Through the Art of Norval Morrisseau

Carmen Robertson

*Sponsored by Living Campus

2:30 p.m.

Psychedelics for the treatment of psychological disorders

Rajesh Malik

4:00 p.m.

Jazz, Art, and the Second World War in Montreal

Sean Mills

*Sponsored by the Montreal History Group

6:30 p.m.

Cinema Politica Screening

We are Guardians

followed by a Q&A with Carlee Loft

*Sponsored by Living Campus

Friday, February 16

1:00 p.m.

Peace & Self Panel

Panelists Susan Finch, Lisa Steffen and Amanda Beattie

Note All talks will take place in room 5B.16


Last Modified: February 2, 2024