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Simon Brault: The role of arts in protecting democracy
At Congress 2019, the Big Thinking lecture series considers how the arts function as a platform to engage with scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Organizers were inspired by three big questions: Who speaks for whom? Whose stories get...

What is the price of reconciling freedom and responsibility in a changing democracy?

Public policy and knowledge dissemination in the digital age - Vincent Larivière

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

The social implications of artificial intelligence

The social implications of emerging technologies: Are the most important questions the least studied?

Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture
When someone asks you where the idea for a research project came from, there’s a right and a wrong answer. The right one is about debates in the field and gaps in the literature, and it presupposes what you eventually discovered. I find the wrong one...

On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Otto Von Bismark once famously remarked that: “If you like laws and sausages, you should never watch either one being made.” I respectfully disagree. I first decided to write On the Side of the Angels: Canada and the United Nations Commission on...

Canada needs to confront the causes of a post-truth world
This op-ed was originally published by Canadian Science Policy Centre on October 10, 2017. One day, the U.S. president is taunting North Korea, treating nuclear conflict like it’s WrestleMania. The next, he glibly dismisses racial injustice in...