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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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Perceptions of humanity and of membership: Two challenges of inclusion and exclusion in Canada

Various groups in Canada are stigmatized in ways that make them vulnerable to discrimination. In some cases, this takes the form of dehumanization: a perception that members of the group are somehow deficient in humanity, and hence not owed the...

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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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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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