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Universities and Reconciliation: Conversations from the Building Reconciliation Forum
Four years after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Final Report, how are universities responding? This session builds on insights from the 2018 Building Reconciliation Forum, an annual gathering to discuss reconciliation at Canada’s...
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33 Years after the Employment Equity Act: Why are we still having this conversation?
Watch leading experts as they discuss equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the post-secondary sector, including what role do institutions play in change, how does intersectionality fit into this conversation, what is the path forward, and how can...
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What is the price of reconciling freedom and responsibility in a changing democracy?
Join Simon Brault in a discussion on cultural citizenship, inclusiveness, equality and the price of change.
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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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In conversation with Esi Edugyan
Watch two-time Giller Prize winner Esi Edugyan in conversation with Dr. Minelle Mahtani as they discuss Edugyan’s fiction and issues of history, race, creativity, the nature of freedom, and voice.
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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.
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The social implications of emerging technologies: Are the most important questions the least studied?
Rapid development of transformative new technologies – such as social media, artificial intelligence, and new health technologies – is creating important opportunities and challenges for governments, businesses, the research community and society at...
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Work in a warming world - Carla Lipsig-Mummé
Can Canadian work and labour help slow global warming? As its complexity, destructiveness and speed all increase, climate change has become an urgent social issue.
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The responsibilities of scholars in public debate: Challenging intuitive ethical considerations - Françoise Baylis
Traditionally, the university’s mission has been to produce and transmit knowledge. For some, the push to increase media presence — and to have university professors inform current affairs — is antithetical to this mission. In sharp contrast...