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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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A call to action: Rethinking leadership in the global response to forced migration - Allan Rock

What place should refugees and internally displaced persons have in the upcoming federal election? How can universities help inform public policy and the general public on the issue?

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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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Leadership and sustainable peacebuilding - Alaa Murabit

Big Thinking at Congress 2018 Leadership and sustainable peacebuilding In an era when insecurity is a daily reality for people in many parts of the world, what is the role women have in peacebuilding and in political processes? Alaa Murabit will...

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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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Thinking about War

Reflections on the Congress 2018 Big Thinking lecture entitled Thinking about war with Margaret MacMillan, C.C. organized by the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Regina. In a country like ours, it can be easy to...

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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...

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