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Re-imagining Black Futures
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 Discover Haiti’s role as a symbol of possibility and self-governance for people of African descent in the Americas in this Big Thinking lecture with The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean. The only formerly enslaved society...
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Petrocultures: Reflections on 10 years of research and advocacy for a world in crisis
Big Thinking at Congress 2022 Petrocultures: Reflections on 10 years of research and advocacy for a world in crisis Just what is a petroculture? The term captures the deep and abiding impact of fossil fuels on the character of society. To see...
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Beyond “crimes of insolidarity”: Considerations for a transition based on economic and social rights
Big Thinking at Congress 2022 Beyond “crimes of insolidarity”: Considerations for a transition based on economic and social rights The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the interrelationship between civil and political rights, and economic and social...
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Yáázǫ Kéorat’ı̨ (We see the daylight) - The Honorable Ethel Blondin-Andrew
Blondin-Andrew discusses how clean water, good jobs, and active participation in diverse local economies through Indigenous-led conservation are pathways to healthy futures for land and for people.
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Canada’s hidden cooperative system: The legacy of the Black Banker Ladies
Black diaspora women, known as Banker Ladies, lead solidarity economics through a form of mutual aid called Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs). Drawing on ancient African traditions, this financial exchange system holds the key to...
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Care is on the ballot: Why COVID-19 should push American voters to pay greater attention to the care economy
Donald Trump and Joe Biden present American voters with a stark choice when it comes to policies about the care economy. COVID-19 has underscored the importance of health care, child and elder-care, and education. While President Trump’s second term...
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Networked bodies, AI, and our future digital lives
Will bodies become computer platforms? Disruptive embodied computing technology is being proposed, and it will change how people live in vastly different ways in our evolving post-Internet society. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is seeping into all...
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Public policy and knowledge dissemination in the digital age - Vincent Larivière
This presentation outlines the way knowledge dissemination has evolved, with particular emphasis on the impact of digital technologies.
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The social implications of artificial intelligence
This panel explored the potential social impacts of artificial intelligence and the role humanities and social sciences will play in identifying the legal, ethical and policy issues we should start considering today.