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Redefining the Canadian housing paradigm - Part II
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description The intersection of climate change and housing crisis in Canada forms a pressing challenge, as extreme weather events become more frequent. Recent...
She-cession: unveiling the pandemic’s impact on women in the workforce
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description Historically, most recessions have been described as being "he-cessions"; most jobs lost were male dominated industries, and the women...
Re-imagining Black Futures
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 Discover Haiti’s role as a symbol of possibility and self-governance for people of African descent in the Americas in this Big Thinking lecture with The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean. The only formerly enslaved society...
Thinking across differences: Queer, Two-Spirit, and critical disability perspectives
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 What would a commitment to knowing and caring for each other across our differences look like? How can we engage deeply with and make visible queer, Two-Spirit, and critical disability perspectives for a more just...
Thinking across differences: Decolonial, anti-racism, and feminist perspectives
Big Thinking at Congress 2023 What is needed to live in non-hierarchical relationships that can truly honour our human differences? Can we re-imagine a new set of social relationships grounded in decoloniality, anti-racism, and feminism today for a...
Toolkits for equity, diversity and inclusion in scholarly communications
By Dave Hazzan, writer and academic, completing his PhD in History at York University Many of the various avenues of communicating scholarly ideas, including lectures, classes, and seminars, disappear into the ether in time. Our theses – with the...
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...
EDID Progress Update April 2023_EN
From the Jheri curl to TikTok: Canada and the global business of Black beauty
← Big Thinking Podcast homepage Next episode → Description | About the guest | Transcript | Follow us Description Every day we are bombarded by words and images telling us what we should find beautiful, and what we should aspire to look like. Black...