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What skills are needed at the interface between the social sciences, humanities and the arts (SSHA) and society?
by Erika Dilling, Global Health and the Environment Honours Major, 3rd year at York University “What are the needs of prospective non-academic employers of SSHA talent in the industry as well as social and public sectors? More importantly, whose...
Reckonings and Re-imaginings: Confronting the legacy of colonialism and envisioning a more equitable future
By Eric J. Van Giessen, PhD Student in Sociology at York University Throughout history, the currents of societal change have always held the potential for destruction and rebirth. Examining the path to reconciliation, decolonization, and envisioning...
Treaty Relations and Decolonization: Indigenous Community and Academic Perspectives
By Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University Jeffrey Denis wonders why treaty-making is not studied in sociology. “Until recently, sociologists have paid very little attention to treaties,” Denis, Associate...
Beautifully Seen: how the arts can deepen relationships in re-imagining a different world
by Kimberly Duong, Criminology Honours Major, 4th year at York University Music is the “vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expressions of emotion.” Music’s visual qualities, the...
This Land Acknowledgement...
This Land Acknowledgement… Has become a check box… Do you know who these Nations are…? Is it not just performative… These statements/questions/ponderings are common, and now more than ever it is important to engage in deeper conversation and dialogue...
Reflections from Teachings with Elder Aimee Bailey
The Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted Elder Aimee Bailey to share teachings at Congress 2022. Elder Bailey is a Knowledge Keeper from the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, the Spokesperson for The Circle of Turtle Lodge...
‘Unworlding’ – Jack Halberstam Keynote
In a keynote address to the Canadian Communication Association, Dr. Jack Halberstam (Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University) gave a detailed examination of the concept of ‘unworlding.’ Halberstam considered the Congress 2022...
Education in Canada: The American Dream or the New Inequality?
The Canadian Sociological Association welcomed Dr. Terry Wotherspoon of the University of Saskatchewan to Congress 2022, for a presentation entitled Education in Canada: The American Dream or the New Inequality ? Throughout the last two decades...
Shift in thinking: It all begins with decolonization
Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva's Big Thinking lecture challenges us to consider a shift in thinking, to transform how we understand and address global catastrophes.