What's on at the Big Thinking Summit
Explore nearly 100 keynotes, panels, workshops, and conversations across disciplines. Use the schedule to plan your Summit experience and register today.
Please note that the Summit calendar is currently available in English only, while the French version is being finalized through ongoing technical development. To support planning, visitors are encouraged to review the current calendar and check back regularly for updates.
Be advised that all events are subject to change.
| Title | Date and time | Session format | Stream | Session Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening ceremony and welcome | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 9:15 - 10:15am MDT | Special event | Other | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| The Winnipeg Free Press Media Literacy and Learning Platform | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| Information First Responders: Public Library Staff and the Fight Against Science and Health Misinformation | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| Knowledge in Transformation: the future of academic libraries as a driver of transdisciplinary HSS research | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| Boundary Objects as Pedagogical Infrastructure for Critical AI Literacy and Agency in AI | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 8/9 |
| A Meeting of Beautiful Minds: Collaborative curriculum development between researchers, educators, and community | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Lightning talk (5 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization: A Roundtable for Co-creating Ideas and Solutions for Sustainable Practice and Change | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 5 |
| Listening Across Empires: The Thomas Christian Diaspora and the Art of Storytelling | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Empowering Racialized Communities: HSS-Driven Media Literacy to Combat Misinformation | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| The UBC SHARE Project: Student knowledge mobilization with Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Changing Responsibilities of Data Management through role-playing workshop | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 6 |
| Linkr: Communities of practice | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Salon 11 | ||
| Productive pandemonium: Navigating interdisciplinary research, art, creativity, and design thinking for social innovation. | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Creative, arts-based, or multimedia contribution (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Drawing Darkness . . . and Light: Emerging Questions from an Arts-Based Research Project with Survivors of Genocide and Mass Atrocity | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10 - 11:45am MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Navigating the Epistemic Crisis: Imagining Futures for the Social Sciences and Humanities | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Rules, Routines, and Realities: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study of Gym Expectations Among Chinese and Canadian Teacher Education Students | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Co-Design in Motion: Reimagining Research Ethics and Knowledge Creation across Health | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 10 |
| Rebuilding Public Trust in the Age of Algorithms: Love-Informed Approaches to Digital Resilience for Children, Families, and Society | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Inventive Infrastructures for Collaborative University Ecosystems | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| The Rhetoric of Transness as a Corruption of the Body Politic | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| Abundant Intelligences: what about the data? | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Rooted in Care: Building Inclusive and Emotionally Resilient School Communities Through Caregiver-Informed Practice | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Capacity-building lab (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 6 |
| Learning through the Threads of Indigenous Pedagogies | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Vers un écosystème de recherche renouvelé : alliances intersectorielles et savoirs autochtones en action | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 8/9 |
| Paratopian Design Futures: Speculating Queer Aftermaths of Generative Artificial Intelligence. | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| Knowledge experiments that honour relational renewal | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Market-making networks: AI companies and the reconfiguration of higher education | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Voices in the Silence: Métis in Saskatchewan’s K-12 system of education | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| An Inquiry into Curriculum Change: Exploring Science Teachers’ Experiences | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Métis Dream-Work as a Methodological Practice | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Harnessing heterogeneity to uncover the truth about detransitioning | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| The Inflection Point of Truth Paradigms: Philosophical Mindfulness and Multi-valued Discernment for Restoring Legitimacy in the Humanities | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Will the guardrails hold? Lessons from Russian Civil Society, 1917-1922 | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Facing An Impossible Choice Of Either Plutocracy Or Corporatocracy, What AI Has To Say About Doubling Down On Redistribution To Give Democracy A Fighting Chance | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| For All of Us: the Impact of Humanities and Social Sciences Research | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| To better confront its challenges, what could Canada learn from its minority francophone communities? | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 2 - 3pm | Special event | Networks of change | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| Interfacing Dirty Data and Algorithmic Policing: The Reproduction of Anti-Black Surveillance through Facial Recognition in Canada | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| In Reach as a Network of Change: Cross-Sector Collaboration, Research Findings, and Pathways Forward in FASD-Informed Justice Work | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 12 |
| Sense of belonging as ‘being at home': Narratives of forced migrant youth in Southeast Asia" | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 12 |
| After Bill C-27: Toward a New Vision of Privacy Law in Canada | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| CROWN PHOTOGRAPHY OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN: A SOCIAL SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF THE ETHICS OF IMAGE CHOICE IN CURRICULA AND RESEARCH | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| Imagining Urban Water Justice for Precarious Futures | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Integrating Imagination into Higher Education: Designing Assignments for Future-Ready Thinkers | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| From Isolation to Intergenerational Solidarity: Non-Familial Networks of Change for Human and Cultural Sustainability | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 12 |
| From Research to Practice: Community-Led Applications of nêhiyaw Experiences of Speech-Language Pathology | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 10 |
| Researching Our Relations: When Do Community Partnerships Unite our Diversity or Divide and Conquer? | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Methods and Ideations for Ecological Justice: Sensing, Creating, Co-researching with Women and Children in Andean Ecuador | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 5 |
| Reconceptualizing Research Methods Education with a focus on Social Justice Issues Through Community Engaged Research | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 12 |
| Lived experiences of wildfire evacuees in Alberta, Canada | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 5 |
| Allying Environmental, Indigenous and Arts-Based Approaches to Improve Relationships with the Earth and Her First Peoples | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 5 |
| Redesigning Written Assessments in the AI-Aware University Classroom | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Presentation (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| Beyond Fact or Fake: Rebuilding Trust in Science and Democracy | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 8/9 |
| Where We Hesitate: Ethical Pause, Credibility, and Institutional Life | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| “Real” Talk - Authentic Conversations About Social Justice in the Age of Hyperreality and GenAI | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Creative Encounters: Bringing research-creation communities together | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 11 |
| AISH: Lineage, Structure, and Ideals from Historical Britain to Settler-Colonial Alberta | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| Tanya Talaga on the power of storytelling | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Special event | Methods in motion | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| Community Gathering | Tue, Jun 9 2026, 6:15 - 7:30pm MDT | Special event | Other | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| Erobotic Futures: Feminist Ethnography and Autoethnography | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Countering online anti-democratic disinformation with anti-racist lesson planning: A teacher education mentorship project | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| From Curiosity to Consequences at the Inflection Point: Why Youth Vape and How Schools Can Respond Effectively | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 5 |
| Public Transformations: Reimagining Graduate Education in the Social Sciences and Humanities | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 8/9 - Plenary |
| Ethics Bowl Canada: Inspiring Change through Ethical Dialogue | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Lightning talk (5 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 15/16 |
| Brain Smoothies as Knowledge Mobilization: How Art-Based Meditations Promote Student Well-Being | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| A Communitarian Approach to Public Trust in Science | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| How we “see” and make sense of visual data: An interdisciplinary international exploration | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Lightning talk (5 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 13/14 |
| Public Transformations: Reimagining Graduate Education in the Social Sciences and Humanities | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | |
| Decolonizing Academia Via A Non-Violent, Globally Indigenous Approach | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| We Are What We Eat: How A Campus-newsroom Partnership Fed An Investigation Into Lax Inspection Standards At Edmonton Restaurants | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| The roots of epistemic fragility: Habits of segregation, grief, and fear | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 6 |
| Literacies Across Canada: A systematic review of scientific research on literacy | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Is All Fair in Love and the (Reading) Wars? Weaponizing Science and Human Rights in Literacy Debates | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 6 |
| Addressing Governance Challenges for Regenerative Medicine: a Critical Role for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Collaborating to Chart a Path Forward | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 6 |
| Indigenous Written Culture History: a new approach in Europe’s Nordic framework | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| Relating to Indigenous Law: Research Methods that Centre Indigenous Law and Knowledge | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Capacity-building lab (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 12 |
| Co-Creating the Future of Higher Education: A Systems Change Game | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 10 |
| Following the River: An Innovative Framework to Support Professional Learning of Prairie-based Literacies Educators | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| The Ethics of wici-pimohtemin in Practice: Mentorship and Methodology in Community-Based Research | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Humanities and Social Sciences Digital Research Infrastructure in Canada: Where Are We Now, and Where Could We Go? | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 11 |
| The Ethics of Ethics | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Lightning talk (5 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 15/16 |
| Enjeux de la transition aux études postsecondaires dans les communautés autochtones: l'exemple des étudiants naskapis de Kawawachikamach | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Democratic resilience | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Special event | Networks of change | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| Creation of Interdisciplinary and Cross-Sectoral Partnerships in Post-Secondary Education: Informing the Creation and Implementation of Accessibility Related Programs and Policy | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 13/14 |
| Sex Worker Diaries - Spoken and Sung: Altering societal perceptions of sex work through audience engagement with a musical play | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Creative, arts-based, or multimedia contribution (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 17/18 |
| Gouvernance, pluralisme et cohésion sociale : des enjeux d’intégration des groupes religieux à la vie collective | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Workshop (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| Productivity, But Make It Inclusive: Introducing Crip Time | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 13/14 |
| Advancing Inclusion through Community-driven Research: Ontario Summit for Students with Disabilities | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 13/14 |
| Inclusive Leadership: Beyond Policy for Intentional Change | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 6 |
| Exploring current and future avenues for fostering intersectoral collaboration and career readiness for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers. | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 8/9 |
| Citation Justice to Advance Equity in Academic Education and Scholarship Practices | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Capacity-building lab (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 5 |
| Building Trust Through Inclusion: First-Generation Immigrant Women’s Voices in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples of Canada | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 12 |
| How Can We Nurture and Scale up Future-oriented Innovative Universities? | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 11 |
| Relearning Data as Pedagogical Kin: A Creation-Centred Praxis for Transformative Methodological Futurities | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 15/16 |
| University Disability Service Offices: Staff Perspectives | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 13/14 |
| Beyond the Algorithm: Reclaiming Human Creativity and Equity in the Age of AI | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 15/16 |
| Reclaiming scholarly publishing: Canada’s path forward for non-commercial infrastructures and diamond open access journals | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 11 |
| From Compliance to Context: Co-creating User-Validated Standards for Alternative Text | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| From Good Intentions to Real Impact: Power Intelligence for Cross-Sector Leadership | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 5 |
| Institutional supports for knowledge mobilization enhance research partnerships leading to positive impact for society. | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 17/18 |
| Partnership as Leadership: Scaling Interdisciplinary Graduate Innovation to Meet Global Challenges | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Other | Salon 8/9 |
| Collaborating with Community: Forward Thinking for Restorative Justice | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 6 |
| Podcasting as Pedagogy and Practice in Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 13/14 |
| Only Connect | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 2 - 3pm | Skills-building workshop (60 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 10 |
| Nēhiyawak (Plains Cree) Medicinal Plants & Traditional Healing Practices in Northwest Saskatchewan: A Historical Study from 1900-1980 | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Lightning talk (5 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Rethinking evaluations in the AI era : insights from the standpoint of CEGEPS teachers in Québec | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| The Perfect Match: A documentary feature on stem cell donation in Black Canadian Communities | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Creative, arts-based, or multimedia contribution (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 8/9 |
| Indigenous Fathers & the CFS System in Manitoba | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| The Ethics of Ethics: Relationships, Knowledge, and Indigenous Partnership | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Workshop (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 5 |
| Centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Land-Based Learning in Post-Secondary Humanities and Social Science Spaces to Support Multi-Eyed Seeing Among Learners | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Relational Research in Indigenous Teacher Education: Fostering Connection, and Care | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 12 |
| Beyond the Band-Aid: Social Innovation Across Systems | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 13/14 |
| Tisser l’agentivité : le geste textile comme savoir situé et puissance féminine décoloniale | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Illuminating Hope in Higher Education: A Dialogue with Luminaries at an Inflection Point | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 11 |
| Building Public and Scholarly Trust in Research: A Publications Facts Label | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 10 |
| Community Knowledge in Motion: Experiences of Indigenous Midwifery in Calgary, Alberta | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 15/16 |
| Entre recherche et pratique : PERSÉIS comme écosystème favorisant l’entrepreneuriat innovant dans les régions | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 3 - 4:15pm MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| “Doing the Work?” Examining How White Women Social Workers Navigate Anti-Racist Action in Personal and Professional Contexts | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Networks of change | Concourse |
| Back to the 90s: Investigating Engagement, Interaction, and Thinking in a Screenless First-Year Writing Class | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Methods in motion | Concourse |
| Re-teaching the State: Decolonizing Knowledge Production in Canadian Policing Curricula | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Methods in motion | Concourse |
| Navigating verification and credibility: How Canadian students negotiate trust in the digital news environment | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Methods in motion | Concourse |
| Drawing, Writing, and Be(com)ing: An Arts-Based Exploratory Study of Asian Identity in Prairie Canadian Higher Education | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Methods in motion | Concourse |
| Lexical Development in Multilingual Immigrant Children: Cognitive and Sociocultural Influences on English Vocabulary Acquisition | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Networks of change | Concourse |
| Assessment co-design in online Higher Education: Mapping an emerging practice for equity | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Methods in motion | Concourse |
| Micro-influencers in Canada's immigration ecosystem | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| The separation of science and the state: a pedagogy of equality against the policing of information | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| Overcoming Challenges in Responding to Misinformation About Animal Agriculture | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| Exploring Frontline Staff Perspectives on Trauma-Informed Care in Group Care Settings | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| The Situationist Challenge in the Algorithmic Age: Virtue, Invisible Infrastructures, and the Soft Impacts of AI | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| Root Stories & Napi A.I. | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| Between the Pipes: Creating a Graphic Novel to Support Youth Mental Health | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Leading with evidence | Concourse |
| Repenser la légitimité : laïcité renforcée de l’État, polarisation et recul démocratique au Québec | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Leading with evidence | Concourse |
| Toward A Decolonial Framework for Artificial Intelligence | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Legitimacy at the edge | Concourse |
| Can Systems-Thinking help us overcome the AI hype in education? | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Leading with evidence | Concourse |
| Poster sessions | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Other | Salon 10 |
| Do we really all play, learn and live in harmony? Access Friction and Accessibility | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Methods in motion | Concourse |
| Free to Be Faithful: Building Networks of Civic Renewal through Faith, Scholarship, and Public Imagination | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 4:30 - 5:45pm MDT | Poster | Networks of change | Concourse |
| 30th Anniversay Gala and Canada Prizes | Wed, Jun 10 2026, 7 - 9:30pm MDT | Special event | Other | Fairmont Macdonald |
| Generative AI as a Tool for Supporting Student Feedback Literacy | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| Using Artificial Intelligence to Illuminate Hidden Governance Processes in University Admissions | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| Fire Inside the Screen: Indigenous Women, AI, and the Transformation of Digital Learning Spaces | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 15/16 |
| Global ethnography and the (digital) archive: qualitative methods for transnational social justice | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Disinformation and misinformation about international students in Canada: Centering the voices of racialized international students | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 15/16 |
| AI Literacy and the Role of AI in Education | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 15/16 |
| AI and the Future of Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Towards Greater Societal and Community Impact | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| A Community-Oriented, Technology-Enabled, Certificate Program: Now at Capacity at Champlain College | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 15/16 |
| Generative AI and the Reinvention of Academic Practice | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Other | Salon 12 |
| playing at roles | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Creative, arts-based, or multimedia contribution (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 10 |
| Decolonizing Collaboration: Building Ethical Networks of Change through Indigenous Partnership Development | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Networks of change | Salon 13/14 |
| Restoring Legitimacy: Natural Law, Indigenous Legal Orders, and Curriculum Innovation from Health to Law | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Talk Treaty to Me: Building Understanding for Renewed Relationships | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 17/18 |
| Teaching in Good Relation: A Collaborative Learning Series in Indigenous Psychology for Faculty Members | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 17/18 |
| Revolutionary Ideas for Research Universities | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Presentation (75 minutes) | Other | Salon 8/9 |
| Imagination Before Innovation: An Inside Job for (healthy!) Research Collaborations | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Capacity-building lab (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 11 |
| Rethinking Teaching and Assessment in the Age of Generative AI: Building AI-Ready Learners and Educators | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| A Right to Visual Modes of Learning? Dyslexia, Multimodal Argumentation, and Democratic Legitimacy | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 9 - 10:15am MDT | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 5 |
| Inclusive AI futures | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 10:30 - 11:45am MDT | Special event | Legitimacy at the edge | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| Knowledge Under Siege Charting a Future for Universities | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 13/14 |
| Decolonial Rage | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 6 |
| Canada Prizes Roundtable | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Other | Salon 8/9 |
| Beyond Fact or Fake: Rebuilding Trust in Science and Democracy | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Roundtable or dialogue (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 11 |
| Piloting a Toolkit for Intersectional Community-Based Research in Housing | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Workshop (75 minutes) | Leading with evidence | Salon 12 |
| The Abundant Soils Project | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Multiple formats | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 15/16 |
| Senses and Sensemaking: Participatory Zine Workshop | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Workshop (75 minutes) | Methods in motion | Salon 10 |
| What Does it Mean to be a Community-Based Researcher? Reflections on moving between community and academic spaces, from a Black woman scholar | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 17/18 |
| Envisioning the future for an equitable and inclusive social economy ecosystem in Canada | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Leading with evidence | Salon 17/18 |
| By Strength, We Are Still Here: Genocide, Indigenous Strength, and Northern Futures | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Legitimacy at the edge | Salon 17/18 |
| From Hidden Crisis to Concrete Solutions: Leveraging Partnerships to Address Post-Secondary Student Homelessness (PSSH) | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 12:45 - 2pm | Individual presentation (15 minutes + Q and A) | Networks of change | Salon 17/18 |
| Federation Strategic Plan: Presentation and discussion | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 2 - 3pm | Special event | Other | Plenary - Salon 8/9 |
| Closing Session: Collective Reflections and Call to Action | Thu, Jun 11 2026, 2 - 3pm | Special event | Other |