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Seeds of the future: Climate justice, racial justice, and Indigenous resurgence
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, but it cannot be separated from issues of racial justice and Indigenous futures. In this Big Thinking lecture, discover the importance of Indigenous...
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...
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...
Reimagining the World through Disability Arts and Justice
Congress 2021 blog edition In the fourth panel of the Big Thinking series at Congress, audience members were treated to an invigorating lecture-performance by Alice Sheppard, the Artistic Director of Kinetic Light. Kinetic Light is a project-based...
Art as a Ceremony
Congress 2021 blog edition The Canadian Association of University Teachers of German’s “ Decolonizing Begins with Spirit” open event webcast featured a powerful presentation, organised around visual stories, by Lana Whiskeyjack, Assistant Professor...
The Art of Make Believe: A Panel on Make Believe: The Secret Library of M. Prud’homme – A Rare Collection of Fakes
Congress 2021 blog edition The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) hosted the “ Creative Writing Panel: Make Believe” open event, a roundtable discussion centered around Make Believe: The Secret Library of M...
Notes from A Celebration of Northern Authors
Congress 2021 blog edition Tlicho author Richard Van Camp led a celebration of northern authors in a reading session at Congress. Here, leading Indigenous writers and artists discussed the inspirations for their work and shared excerpts from their...
Performing Narratives of Black Racial Identity in the Digital-Era
Congress 2021 blog edition Playwright, Canadian television broadcaster, and social activist Rita Deverell, from Mount Saint Vincent University, takes her audience through an exploration and reflection of her award-winning play “Who you Callin’ Black...
Choral Singing at the Forefront of Pandemic Adaptability
Congress 2021 blog edition We know that the arts sector has been hit particularly hard by the global COVID-19 pandemic, but as Laurier Fagnan, Professor at Campus Saint-Jean, explains, choral singing has been almost completely silenced. Near the...